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• Nabo: ( Septuagint, Nabau ). A town mentioned in several ...
• Nabor and Felix, Saints: Martyrs during the persecution of Diocletian (303). The ...
• Nabuchodonosor: The Babylonian form of the name is Nabu-kudurri-usur, the ...
• Nacchiante, Giacomo: (Naclantus). Dominican theologian, born at Florence ; died ...
• Nacolia: (Nacoleia). A titular metropolitan see in Phrygia ...
• Nagasaki: (Nagasakiensis). Nagasaki, capital of the prefecture ( ken ...
• Nagpur: (Nagpurensis) Diocese in India, suffragan to Madras. ...
• Nahanes: "People of the Setting Sun", a tribe of the great Dene family ...
• Nahum: One of the Prophets of the Old Testament, the seventh in the ...
• Nails, Holy: The question has long been debated whether Christ was ...
• Naim: (NAIN). The city where Christ raised to life the widow's ...
• Name of Jesus, Religious Communities of the: (1) Knights of the Name of Jesus, also known as Seraphim, ...
• Name of Mary, Feast of the Holy: We venerate the name of Mary because it belongs to her who is ...
• Names of Jesus and Mary, Sisters of the Holy: A religious congregation founded at Longueuil, Quebec, 8 ...
• Names, Christian: " Christian names", says the Elizabethan antiquary, Camden, ...
• Names, Hebrew: To the philosopher a name is an artificial sign consisting in ...
• Namur: Diocese of Namur (Namurcensis), constituted by the Bull of ...
• Nancy: DIOCESE OF NANCY (NANCEIENISIS ET TULLENSIS). Comprises the ...
• Nantes: Diocese of Nantes (Nanceiensis). This diocese, which ...
• Nanteuil, Robert: French engraver and crayonist, b. Reims, 1623 (1626, or 1630) ...
• Naples: The capital of a province in Campania, southern Italy, and ...
• Napoleon I (Bonaparte): Emperor of the French, second son of Charles Marie Bonaparte ...
• Napoleon III: (Charles-Louis-Napoléon). Originally known as ...
• Napper, Venerable George: (Or Napier). English martyr, born at Holywell manor, Oxford, ...
• Nardò: (NERITONENSIS) Diocese in southern Italy. Nardò was ...
• Nardi, Jacopo: Italian historian; born at Florence, 1476; died at Venice, 11 ...
• Narni and Terni: UNITED DIOCESES OF NARNI AND TERNI (NARNIENSIS ET INTERAMNENSIS) ...
• Narthex: In early Christian architecture a portion of the church at the ...
• Nashville: The Diocese of Nashville comprises the entire territory of the ...
• Nasoræans: Sometimes called M ANDÆANS, S ABIANS, or C HRISTIANS ...
• Natal: (Vicariate Apostolic of Natal) The history of the Catholic ...
• Natal Day: Both the form natalis (sc. Dies ) and natalicium were ...
• Natalis, Alexander: (Or NOEL ALEXANDRE). A French historian and theologian, of ...
• Natchez: DIOCESE OF NATCHEZ (NATCHESIENSIS) Established 28 July, ...
• Natchitoches: Diocese of Natchitoches Former title of the present Diocese ...
• Nathan: Nathan (God-given), the name of several Israelites mentioned ...
• Nathanael: One of the first disciples of Jesus, to Whom he was brought by ...
• Nathinites: Or N ATHINEANS ( hnthynym , the given ones; Septuagint ...
• National Union, Catholic Young Men's: This association was organized on 22 February, 1875, at a ...
• Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast of the: The earliest document commemorating this feast comes from the ...
• Natural Law: I. ITS ESSENCE In English this term is frequently employed as ...
• Naturalism: Naturalism is not so much a special system as a point of view or ...
• Nature: Etymologically (Latin natura from nasci , to be born, ...
• Naturism: Naturism is the term proposed by Réville to designate the ...
• Nausea, Frederic: (Latinized from the German Grau .) Bishop of Vienna, ...
• Navajo Indians: Navajo Indians, numbering about 20,000, constitute the largest ...
• Navarre: The territory formerly known as Navarre now belongs to two ...
• Navarrete, Domingo Fernández: Dominican missionary and archbishop, born c. 1610 at ...
• Navarrete, Juan Fernández: Spanish painter, b. at Logrono, 1526 and died at Segovia, 1579 ...
• Navarrete, Martín Fernández: Spanish navigator and writer, b. at Avalos (Logrono), 8 ...
• Nave: Architecturally the central, open space of a church, west of ...
• Nazarene: ( Nazarenos, Nazarenus ). As a name applied to Christ, ...
• Nazareth: The town of Galilee where the Blessed Virgin dwelt when the ...
• Nazareth, Sisters of Charity of: Founded Dec., 1812, by the Rev. B.J.M. David (see D IOCESE ...
• Nazarite: (Hebrew, " consecrated to God "). The name given by the ...
• Nazarius and Celsus, Saints: The only historical information which we possess regarding these ...
• Nazarius and Companions, Saint: In the Roman Martyrology and that of Bede for 12 June ...
• Nazarius, John Paul: Dominican theologian, b. in 1556 at Cremonia; d. in 1645 at ...
• Nazarius, Saint: Fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, probably ...
• Nazianzus: A titular metropolitan see of Cappadocia Tertia. Nazianzus was ...

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