(Roman Breviary: Antiphonæ majores, "greater antiphons").
The seven antiphons to the ...
The first line of two Latin lyrics sometimes attributed to St. Francis Xavier, but of uncertain ...
The first line of a hymn celebrating the mystery of Easter. As commonly found in hymnals ...
(O Saving Host).
The first line of the penultimate stanza of the hymn, "Verbum supernum ...
Irish annalist and Abbot of Roscommon and Clonmacnoise, died 1088. Little is known of his ...
Born at Limerick, 1600; died there, 31 October, 1651. He joined the Dominicans, receiving the ...
An Irish poet, b. about 1625, most probably in the barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork, but according ...
Physician, publicist, and historian, b. at Mallow, Cork, 29 February, 1797; d. at New York, 29 ...
( Irish, Toirdhealbhach O Cearbhalláin ).
Usually spoken of as the "last of the ...
Daniel O'Connell was born at Carhen, near Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 1775; died at Genoa, ...
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Charles O'Conor was born in the city of New York, 22 January, 1804; died at Nantucket, ...
Often called "the Venerable", b. at Belanagare, Co. Roscommon, 1710; d. 1791, was descended from ...
(Or GLAISNE O'CULLENAN). Cistercian, Abbot of Boyle, Ireland, b. probably near Assaroe Abbey, ...
(EOGHAN O COMHRAIDHE)
An Irish scholar, born at Dunaha near Carrigaholt, Co. Clare, 1796; ...
A diplomatist and historian, born in Kerry, Ireland, 1595; died at Lisbon, 30 June, 1662. On his ...
(In Irish Donnchadh Mór O Dálaigh )
A celebrated Irish poet, d. 1244. About ...
(Conchobhar O'Duibheannaigh)
Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland, b. about 1532; d. at ...
The first Jesuit executed by the English government; b. at Limerick in 1542, executed at ...
Irish historian and antiquarian, b. at Atateemore, County Kilkenny, Ireland, 1806; d. at ...
(Seághan "mor" O Dubhagáin)
Died in Roscommon, 1372. His family were for ...
Physician, inventor of intubation; b. at Cleveland, 1841; d. in New York, January 7, 1898. He was ...
Archbishop of Tuam, born about 1460; died at Galway, 1513. He was, according to Dr. Lynch, a ...
Priest, patriot, and scholar, b. 25 August, 1863, at Ballyfallon, County Meath ; d. at Los ...
Lawyer and man of letters, b. at Newry, County Down, Ireland, 19 March, 1822; d. near Dublin, ...
First Baron of Tullyhogue, b. at Belfast, 29 May, 1812; d. 1 February, 1885. Called to the Irish ...
Born at Stradbally, Queen's County, Ireland, 1821; died at Sandymount, Dublin, 1905. He entered ...
Born in Danville, Kentucky, U.S.A. 11 February, 1822; died in Guerryton, Alabama, 6 June, 1867. ...
Bishop of Mayo, Ireland ; d. At Kilmallock, September, 1579. He was a native of Connaught, and ...
(O' H I ARLAITHE ).
Bishop of Ross, Ireland, d. 1579. Consecrated about 1560, he was one ...
Ambrose Bernard O'Higgins
Born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1720; died at Lima, 18 March, 1810. ...
Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland ; died 19-29 June, 1584. His father, William O'Hurley of ...
(Irish, Maol Brighde ua Heodhusa ; Latin, Brigidus Hossæus ).
Known also as ...
Franciscan, preacher, polemical writer, b. at Faniobbus, Iveleary, Co. Cork, Ireland, 1729; d. ...
Born at Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, in 1789; died 1846. Educated at Ennis Academy, and Trinity ...
Novelist and biographer, b. in Dublin, 1839; d. in Paris, 10 Nov., 1888; daughter of Dennis ...
Earl of Tyrone, b. 1550, d. Rome, 1616; he was the youngest son of Mathew, of questionable ...
Born 1582; died near Cavan, 6 Nov., 1649, the son of Art O'Neill and nephew of Hugh, the great ...
(Maolsheachlainn O Cadhla).
Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, b. in Thomond, date unknown; d. at ...
Historian, b. 20 Sept., 1820, in County Mayo, Ireland ; d. in New York, U.S.A. 26 April, ...
Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dublin, 1616; d. at Saumur, France, 1669, was educated in Dublin ...
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Theologian, b. in London, 30 April, 1811; d. at Dublin, 10 November, 1878. Educated at ...
Archbishop of Armagh, head of the Confederates of Kilkenny, b. 1580; d. on Trinity Island in ...
Poet, novelist, and editor, b. at Douth Castle, Drogheda, Ireland, 24 June, 1844; d. at Hull, ...
Soldier, publicist, littérateur , b. near Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, Ireland, 13 March, ...
Soldier, b. in County Cavan, Ireland, 25 March, 1837; killed at the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., ...
Born in Ireland, c. 1590; died in Spain, 1660, son of Dermot O'Sullivan and nephew of Donal ...
(L ORCAN UA T UATHAIL ; also spelled Laurence O'Toole)
Confessor, born about 1128, in the ...
Born 5 September, 1802, at Shrewsbury ; died 30 Jan., 1880, at Islington, the youngest son of ...
A term conventionally used to designate a "Popish Plot" which, during the reign of Charles II of ...
I. NOTION AND DIVISIONS
An oath is an invocation to God to witness the truth of a statement. ...
The English Reformation having been imposed by the Crown, it was natural that submission to the ...
(Or ANTEQUERA).
Situated in the southern part of the Republic of Mexico, bounded on the north ...
Located in the Diocese of Tulle ; founded by St. Stephen of Obazine about 1134. After his ...
Titular see in Byzacena, northern Africa of unknown history, although mentioned by Polybius ...
Obedience (Lat. obêdire, "to hearken to", hence "to obey") is the complying with a command ...
Religious obedience is that general submission which religious vow to God, and voluntarily ...
A name commonly used in medieval times for the lesser officials of a monastery who were ...
A congregation of negro nuns founded at Baltimore, Maryland, by the Rev. Jacques Hector ...
I. NAME AND ORIGIN
The first members of this society, founded in 1816, were known as ...
A congregation of priests founded originally by Saint Francis de Sales at the request of Saint ...
Oblati (Oblatæ, Oblates) is a word used to describe any persons, not professed monks or ...
A term derived from the Roman civil law , defined in the "Institutes" of Justinian as a "legal ...
(Or Poor Infirmarians)
A small congregation of men, who professed the Rule of the Third Order ...
( Latin ob and repere , "to creep over").
A canonical term applied to a species of fraud ...
The Vatican Observatory now bears the official title, "Specola Astronomica Vaticana". To ...
Fourteenth-century Scholastic philosopher and controversial writer, born at or near the village ...
Occasionalism (Latin occasio ) is the metaphysical theory which maintains that finite things ...
Occasions of Sin are external circumstances--whether of things or persons --which either ...
(Or Hoccleve)
Little is known of his life beyond what is mentioned in his poems. He was b. ...
Under this general term are included various practices to which special articles of the ...
(IN LITURGY)
I. DEFINITION
Occurrence is the coinciding or occurring of two liturgical offices ...
The whole of Oceania had at first been entrusted by the Propaganda to the Society of the Sacred ...
Fourteenth-century Scholastic philosopher and controversial writer, born at or near the village ...
The Octavarium Romanum is a liturgical book which may be considered as an appendix to the Roman ...
I. ORIGIN
It is the number seven, not eight, that plays the principal rôle in Jewish ...
(OTHINIA, OTHONIENSIS.)
The diocese included the islands of Fünen, Langeland, Taasinge, ...
Cardinal, prince, archbishop, and Jesuit, b. at Rome, 5 March, 1786; d. at Modena, 17 August, ...
Patroness of Alsace, born at the end of the seventh century; died about 720. According to a ...
Fifth Abbot of Cluny (q.v.), v.c. 962; d. 31 December, 1048. He was descended from the nobility ...
Lazarist missionary, first Bishop of Galveston and second Archbishop of New Orleans, b. 25 ...
An English Benedictine, also known as WALTER OF EVESHAM, by some writers confounded with WALTER ...
Bishop and confessor, also called ODOARDUS; born at Orléans, 1050; died at Anchin, 19 ...
Abbot of Battle, d. 1200, known as Odo Cantianus or of Kent. A monk of Christ Church, he ...
Preacher and fabulist, d. 1247. He visited Paris, and it was probably there that he gained the ...
(Saint-Maur-sur-Loire)
Abbot, ninth-century hagiographer. He entered Glanfeuil not later than ...
Second Abbot of Cluny, born 878 or 879, probably near Le Mans ; died 18 November, 942. He ...
(Oda)
Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 2 June, 959 (not in 958; recent researches showing that he ...
Journalist, born at Ansbach, Bavaria, 27 April, 1811; died at Jamaica, New York, 21 August, 1882. ...
(ALTÖTTING, OETINGA)
Oettingen, during the Carlovingian period a royal palace near the ...
Offa, King of Mercia, died 29 July, 796. He was one of the leading figures of Saxon history, as ...
(OBLATIONS)
I. THE WORD OBLATION
The word oblation , from the supine of the Latin verb ...
(Offertorium.)
The rite by which the bread and wine are presented (offered) to God before ...
I. COMPOSITION OF THE OFFICE
This office, as it now exists in the Roman Liturgy, is composed of ...
("Liturgy of the Hours"
I. THE EXPRESSION "DIVINE OFFICE"
This expression signifies ...
(Ogdensburgdensis).
Comprises the northern towns of Herkimer and Hamilton counties, with the ...
Milanese painter, b. at Oggionno near Milan about 1470; d. probably in Milan, 1549. This ...
Eldest son of Walter Ogilvie, of Drum, near Keith, Scotland, b. 1580; d. 10 March, 1615. Educated ...
DIOCESE OF OGLIASTRA (OLEASTRENSIS)
Diocese in the Province of Cagliari, Sardinia. It was ...
The seventeenth state of the American Union, admitted on 19 Feb., 1803. It is bounded on the north ...
Educationist, born at Mainz, 2 January, 1817; died there, 24 August, 1889. He attended the ...
(Manna Oil of Saints).
An oily substance, which is said to have flowed, or still flows, from ...
(OLEA SACRA).
Liturgical Benediction
Oil is a product of great utility the symbolic ...
That the use of oily, fragrant materials to anoint the body is a custom going back to remote ...
Explorer; b. at Cuenca, Spain, about 1466; d. on the island of Santo Domingo , about 1508. He ...
Also called Okekem, Okenghem, Okegnan, Ockenheim. Contrapuntist, founder and head of the second ...
I. GEOGRAPHY
Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state to be admitted to the Union, is bounded on the north ...
(OLAHUS)
Archbishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary, a distinguished prelate, born 10 ...
Martyr and King of Norway (1015-30), b. 995; d. 29 July, 1030. He was a son of King Harald ...
A titular see in Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia. It was a city of Cetis in Cilicia Aspera, ...
The sect organised in German-speaking countries to combat the dogma of Papal Infallibility. ...
The origin of the body, fomerly known as the Old Chapter, dates from 1623, when after a period of ...
Located near Ware, Hertfordshire, England ; founded in 1793 after the fall of the English ...
I. NAME
The word "testament", Hebrew berîth , Greek diatheke , primarily signifies the ...
Overview
The word canon as applied to the Scriptures has long had a special and consecrated ...
Martyr, b. 1561; d. 1606. His father was a Protestant, and his mother a Catholic. He was ...
A grand duchy, one of the twenty-six federated states of the German Empire. It consists of three ...
Bishop of Exeter, b. in Lancashire, either at Crumpsell or Oldham; d. 25 June, 1519.
Having ...
Historian and bibliographer, b. 6 Jan., 1612; d. at Perugia, 23 March, 1683. He came from La ...
A titular see and suffragan of Patras, in Achaia Quarta, one of the twelve primitive cities of ...
(Sbigneus)
A Polish cardinal and statesman, b. in Poland, 1389; d. at Sandomir, 1 April, ...
Founder of the seminary and Society of St-Sulpice, b. at Paris, 20 Sept., 1608; d. there, 2 ...
Diocese in the north-east of Brazil, suffragan of San Salvador de Bahia. Erected into a vicariate ...
A suppressed Cistercian abbey near Danzig in Pomerania, founded with the assistance of the ...
Born at Genoa, 4 October, 1600; died at Rome, at Sant' Andrea Quirinale, 26 November, 1681. In ...
Pierre Olivaint was born in Paris, 22 Feb., 1816. His father, a man of repute but an unbeliever, ...
Born at Newington in Surrey in 1781; died at Exeter in 1861. After studying for some years at ...
(Latin, Mons Olivertus .)
Occurring also in the English Bibles as the Mount of Olives ( ...
A branch of the white monks of the Benedictine Order, founded in 1319. It owed its origin to ...
(PETRUS JOHANNIS)
A Spiritual Franciscan and theological author, born at Sérignan, ...
Chronicler and poet, b. 1426, at the Chateau de la Marche, in Franche-Comté; d. at ...
French Catholic philosopher, b. in 1839; d. at Paris, 19 Feb., 1898. Under the influence of the ...
(OLOMUCENSIS)
Archdiocese in Moravia. It is probable that Christianity penetrated into ...
Born 360-5; died 25 July, 408, probably at Nicomedia. This pious, charitable, and wealthy ...
A titular see of Lycia in Asia Minor. It was one of the chief cities of the "Corpus Lyciacum", ...
(OMAHENSIS)
The Diocese embraces all that part of the State of Nebraska north of the southern ...
Titular see and suffragan of Ptolemais in Thebais Secunda. The city is located by Ptolemy (IV, ...
Born of a distinguished family towards the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh ...
(Latin omittere , to lay aside, to pass away).
"Omission" is here taken to be the failure to ...
(Latin omnipotentia , from omnia and potens , able to do all things).
Omnipotence is ...
( ’Onías ).
Name of several Jewish pontiffs of the third and second centuries ...
Ontario, the most populous and wealthy province of Canada, has an area of 140,000,000 acres, ...
(from on, ontos , being, and logos , science)
Ontologism is an ideological system which ...
( on, ontos , being, and logos , science, the science or philosophy of being).
I. ...
A miraculous shrine of the Blessed Virgin, and place of pilgrimage from Belgium, Holland, and ...
The name now used only for short prayers before the Epistle in the Mass, which occur again at ...
Ophir, in the Bible , designates a people and a country.
The people, for whom a Semitic ...
(Portucalensis)
Diocese in Portugal ; comprising 26 civil concelhos of the districts of ...
(Oppenord)
Born in Paris, 1672; died there, 1742; a celebrated rococo artist, known as "the ...
Diocese ; suffragan of Reggio Calabria, Italy, famous for its prolonged resistance to Roger ...
Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century. He was a convert, as we gather from St. ...
Optimism (Latin optimus , best) may be understood as a metaphysical theory, or as an emotional ...
In canon law an option is a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new ...
( oraculum; orare , to speak).
A Divine communication given at a special place through ...
(ORANENSIS).
Diocese in Algiers, separated from the Archdiocese of Algiers, 26 July, 1866, to ...
The Orange Free State, one of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa, lies between ...
(also the PREFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF GREAT NAMAQUALAND)
Located in South Africa. The vicariate was ...
Two councils were held at Orange (Arausio), a town in the present department of Vaucluse in ...
(Orante)
Among the subjects depicted in the art of the Roman catacombs one of those most ...
The exhortation (" Pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours be acceptable to God the Father ...
As at present understood, an Oratorio is a musical composition for solo voices, chorus, orchestra, ...
(Latin oratorium , from orare , to pray )
As a general term, Oratory signifies a place ...
Under this head are included the Italian, Spanish, English, and other communities, which follow ...
Founded in Paris at the beginning of the seventeenth century by Cardinal Pierre de ...
Franciscan theologian and philosopher, Scotist ; born about 1400; died at Rome, 1475. He seems ...
(The conventional name in art history of A NDREA DI C IONE , also called A RCAGNUOLO or A ...
Titular see in Galatia Secunda. It is only mentioned in Peutinger's "Table". An inscription of ...
( Iudicium Dei ; Anglo-Saxon, ordâl ; German Urteil ).
Ordeals were a means of ...
Historian, b. 1075; d. about 1143. He was the son of an English mother and a French priest who ...
Order is the appropriate disposition of things equal and unequal, by giving each its proper place ...
Including under this term every kind of brotherhood of knights, secular as well as religious, ...
(From Ordinary ).
This term is used in speaking collectively of all the various organs ...
( Latin ordinarius , i. e., judex )
An Ordinary in ecclesiastical language, denotes any ...
The word Ordo commonly meant, in the Middle Ages, a ritual book containing directions for ...
One of the Pacific Coast States, seventh in size among the states of the Union (1910). It received ...
(OREGONOPOLITAN).
Includes that part of the state of Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains, ...
Invitation to pray, said before collects and other short prayers and occurring continually in ...
(AURIENSIS)
A suffragan of Compostela, includes nearly all of the civil Province of Orense, ...
Philosopher, economist, mathematician, and physicist, one of the principal founders of modern ...
(Greek organon , "an instrument")
A musical instrument which consists of one or several sets ...
A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 articles relative to Catholicism, ...
(URITANA)
Oria, in the Province of Lecce [now the Province of Brindisi -- Ed. ], Apulia, ...
Italian Barnabite and astronomer, b. at Carignano, near Milan, 17 July, 1752; d. at Milan, 12 ...
In the broadest sense of the term, Oriental study comprises the scientific investigation and ...
According to Tertullian the Christians of his time were, by some who concerned themselves with ...
Christian Latin poet of the fifth century. He wrote an elegiac poem ( Commonitorium ) of 1036 ...
In verses 3093-5 of the "Chanson de Roland" (eleventh century) the oriflamme is mentioned as a ...
I. LIFE AND WORK OF ORIGEN A. BIOGRAPHY
Origen, most modest of writers, hardly ever alludes to ...
I. Meaning II. Principal Adversaries III. Original Sin in ScriptureIV. Original Sin in ...
DIOCESE OF ORIHUELA (ORIOLENSIS, ORIOLANA).
The Diocese of Orihuela comprises all the civil ...
Priest, "Thaumaturgus of Barcelona", b. at Barcelona, 23 November, 1650; d. there, 23 March, ...
Diocese of Oristano (Arborensis) in Sardinia.
Oristano was the capital of the giudicatura ...
A group of islands situated between 58° 41' and 59° 24' N. lat. and 2° 22' and 3° ...
(AURELIANUM)
This Diocese comprises the Department of Loiret, suffragan of Paris since 1622, ...
Six national councils were held at Orléans in the Merovingian period.
I. — At the ...
Born at Florence, 1554; died 1606 at Rome, 17 May. He entered the Jesuit novitiate 7 Nov., ...
(Bernard)
Painter, b. at Brussels, about 1491; d. there 6 January, 1542. He studied under ...
An architect, born about 1512; died 1570. His style, classical and of the more severe Italian ...
Titular see, suffragan of Anazarbus in Cilicia Secunda. It never really depended on Anazarbus ...
Historian and Christian apologist ; b. probably at Bracara, now Braga, in Portugal, between 380 ...
The death of one or both parents makes the child of the very poor a ward of the community. The ...
A cardinal, theologian, and ecclesiastical historian, born at Florence, 9 May, 1692, of an ...
One of the most ancient and distinguished families of the Roman nobility, whose members often ...
( Arsisios , Oresiesis-Heru-sa Ast)
Egyptian monk of the fourth century; was a disciple ...
(OERTEL)
A cartographer, geographer, and archeologist, born in Antwerp, 4 April, 1527; died ...
The technical name for the body of Christians who use the Byzantine Rite in various languages ...
Orthodoxy ( orthodoxeia ) signifies right belief or purity of faith. Right belief is not ...
(or SUNDAY)
The first Sunday of the Great Forty days ( Lent ) in the Byzantine Calendar ...
A titular see of Phœnicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre. The city is mentioned for the first ...
Painter of the Ferrara School, b. in Ferrara, about 1490; d. about 1525. His real name was ...
(Aurea Vallis, Gueldenthal).
Formerly a Cistercian abbey in Belgian Luxemburg, Diocese of ...
DIOCESE OF ORVIETO (URBEVETANA)
Diocese in Central Italy. The city stands on a rugged mass of ...
Inquisitor and theologian, b. at La Caune, 1492; d. at Paris, 1557. Entering the Dominican ...
(Osachensis).
Osaka ( Oye , great river; saka , cliff), one of the three municipal ...
King of Northumbria, d. 799. Symeon of Durham (Historia Regum) tells us that when Ecfwald, a ...
English martyr, b. about 1560; hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 16 November, 1594. Son of ...
Hagiographer, sometimes confused with Osbert de Clare alias Osbern de Westminster, b. at ...
In 1793, a number of the Catholic nobility and gentry of England formed a committee for the ...
NAME AND COUNTRY
Osee (Hôsheá‘– Salvation ), son of Beeri, was one of ...
DIOCESE OF OSIMO (AUXIMANA).
Diocese in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy. Osimo was ...
(ASLOIA, ASLOENSIS.)
Oslo occupied part of the site of Christiania (founded 1624). After the ...
(OXOMENSIS)
The Diocese borders Burgos and Logroño on the north, Soria and Saragossa ...
Bishop of Salisbury, died 1099; his feast is kept on 4 December. Osmund held an exalted ...
(OSNABRUGENSIS)
This diocese, directly subject to the Holy See, comprises, in the Prussian ...
French cardinal, diplomat, and writer, b. at Larroque-Magnoac (Gascony), 20 July, 1537; d. at ...
(Ossoriensis.)
In the Province of Leinster, Ireland, is bounded on the south by the Suir, on ...
(From ostendere , "to show").
Ostensorium means, in accordance with its etymology, a ...
SUBURBICARIAN DIOCESE OF OSTIA AND VELLETRI (OSTIENSIS ET VELITERNENSIS).
Near Rome, central ...
Surname of LEO MARSICANUS, Benedictine chronicler, b. about 1045; d. 22 May, 1115, 1116, or ...
Titular see and suffragan of Pelusium in Augustamnica prima. Pliny (Hist. naturalis, V, xiv) ...
Inscriptions on clay, wood, metal, and other hard materials. Like papyri, they are valuable ...
One of the two chief tribes of the Goths, a Germanic people. Their traditions relate that the ...
Archbishop of York, d. on 29 February, 992. Of Danish parentage, Oswald was brought up by his ...
King and martyr ; b., probably, 605; d. 5 Aug., 642; the second of seven brothers, sons of ...
King and martyr, murdered at Gilling, near Richmond, Yorkshire, England, on 20 August, 651, ...
He is the oldest German poet known by name, author of the "Evangelienbuch", a rhymed version of ...
(OTLOH)
A Benedictine monk of St. Emmeran's, Ratisbon, born 1013 in the Diocese of ...
(Audomar.)
Died 16 Nov., 759, on the island of Werd in the Rhine, near Echnez, Switzerland. ...
Roman emperor, successor, after Galba, of Nero, b. in Rome, of an ancient Etruscan family ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF OTRANTO (HYDRUNTINA).
Otranto is a city of the Province of Lecce, Apulia, ...
Archdiocese of Ottawa (Ottawiensis).
The Archdiocese of Ottawa, in Canada, originally ...
Conducted by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate ; founded in 1848. It was incorporated in 1849 under ...
Roman emperor and German king, b. in 912; d. at Memleben, 7 May, 973; son of Henry I and his ...
King of the Germans and Emperor of Rome, son of Otto I and Adelaide, b. 955; d. in Rome, 7 ...
German king and Roman emperor, b. 980; d. at Paterno, 24 Jan., 1002. At the age of three he was ...
German king and Roman emperor, b. at Argentau (Dept. of Orne), c. 1182; d. 19 May, 1218; son of ...
Bishop and historian, b. between 1111 and 1114, d. at Morimond, Champagne, France, 22 ...
All we know of him is in the preface of his work, in which he calls himself a member of the ...
Chronicler, b. about the middle of the twelfth century; d. 23 July, 1223, at St. Blasien in the ...
Bishop of Bamberg, b. about 1060; d. 30 June, 1139. He belonged to the noble, though not ...
(OTTOBURA, MONASTERIUM OTTOBURANUM)
Formerly a Benedictine abbey, now a priory, near ...
(OWEN; DADON, Latin Audaenus ).
Archbishop of Rouen, b. at Sancy, near Soissons about ...
Although the Latin term oratio dominica is of early date, the phrase "Lord's Prayer" does not ...
The aim of this institute is to provide a shelter for girls and women of dissolute habits, who ...
Records dating from the reign of Paul II (1464-71) relate that the picture of Our Lady, at ...
( Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)
The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is painted ...
( Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)
The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is painted ...
A Canadian congregation founded in 1902 at St-Damien de Buckland in the Diocese of Quebec by ...
("Dedicatio Sanctæ Mariæ ad Nives").
A feast celebrated on 5 August to ...
The invocation Auxilium Christianorum (Help of Christians ) originated in the sixteenth ...
Convert and painter of religious subjects, b. at Lübeck, 3 July, 1789; d. at Rome, 12 ...
A German ecclesiastic and educator, born 1 May, 1754; died 9 November, 1826. Of poor parents in ...
Down to the end of the eighteenth century, very little attention was given to the relation between ...
(OVETENSIS)
This diocese comprises the civil province of the same name (the ancient Kingdom ...
(OWEN; DADON, Latin Audaenus ).
Archbishop of Rouen, b. at Sancy, near Soissons about ...
A Jesuit lay-brother, martyred in 1606. There is no record of his parentage, birthplace, date ...
Dramatist, critic, translator, and song-writer, b. in London, 12 Aug., 1812; d. there 21 Feb., ...
An English controversialist and poet, born at Harrow, 15 Nov., 1829; died at Kensington, 23 ...
Oxford, one of the most ancient cities in England, grew up under the shadow of a convent, said to ...
The Oxford Movement may be looked upon in two distinct lights. "The conception which lay at its ...
I. ORIGIN AND HISTORY
The most extraordinary myths have at various times prevailed as to the ...
Titular archdiocese of Heptanomos in Egypt. It was the capital of the district of its name, the ...
Great grand-nephew of Jacques Ozanam . Born at Milan, 23 April, 1813; died at Marseilles, 8 ...
A French mathematician, born at Bouligneux (Ain), 1640; died in Paris, 3 April, 1717. He came of a ...
" Yahweh is my strength", name of six Israelites mentioned in the Bible .
(1) Ozias, King ...