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• Oracle: ( oraculum; orare , to speak). A Divine communication ...
• Oran: (ORANENSIS). Diocese in Algiers, separated from the ...
• Orange Free State: The Orange Free State, one of the four provinces of the Union of ...
• Orange River: (also the PREFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF GREAT NAMAQUALAND) Located ...
• Orange, Councils of: Two councils were held at Orange (Arausio), a town in the ...
• Orans: (Orante) Among the subjects depicted in the art of the ...
• Orate Fratres: The exhortation (" Pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours ...
• Oratorio: As at present understood, an Oratorio is a musical composition ...
• Oratory: (Latin oratorium , from orare , to pray ) As a ...
• Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, The: Under this head are included the Italian, Spanish, English, and ...
• Oratory, French Congregation of the: Founded in Paris at the beginning of the seventeenth century ...
• Orbellis, Nicolas d': Franciscan theologian and philosopher, Scotist ; born about ...
• Orcagna: (The conventional name in art history of A NDREA DI C IONE ...
• Orcistus: Titular see in Galatia Secunda. It is only mentioned in ...
• Ordeals: ( Iudicium Dei ; Anglo-Saxon, ordâl ; German Urteil ...
• Ordericus Vitalis: Historian, b. 1075; d. about 1143. He was the son of an English ...
• Orders, Holy: Order is the appropriate disposition of things equal and ...
• Orders, The Military: Including under this term every kind of brotherhood of knights, ...
• Ordinariate: (From Ordinary ). This term is used in speaking ...
• Ordinary: ( Latin ordinarius , i. e., judex ) An Ordinary in ...
• Ordines Romani: The word Ordo commonly meant, in the Middle Ages, a ritual ...
• Oregon: One of the Pacific Coast States, seventh in size among the ...
• Oregon City: (OREGONOPOLITAN). Includes that part of the state of Oregon ...
• Oremus: Invitation to pray, said before collects and other short ...
• Orense: (AURIENSIS) A suffragan of Compostela, includes nearly all ...
• Oresme, Nicole: Philosopher, economist, mathematician, and physicist, one of ...
• Organ: (Greek organon , "an instrument") A musical instrument ...
• Organic Articles, The: A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 ...
• Oria: (URITANA) Oria, in the Province of Lecce [now the Province ...
• Oriani, Barnaba: Italian Barnabite and astronomer, b. at Carignano, near ...
• Oriental Study and Research: In the broadest sense of the term, Oriental study comprises the ...
• Orientation of Churches: According to Tertullian the Christians of his time were, by ...
• Orientius: Christian Latin poet of the fifth century. He wrote an elegiac ...
• Oriflamme: In verses 3093-5 of the "Chanson de Roland" (eleventh century) ...
• Origen and Origenism: I. LIFE AND WORK OF ORIGEN A. BIOGRAPHY Origen, most modest of ...
• Original Sin: I. Meaning II. Principal Adversaries III. Original Sin in ...
• Orihuela: DIOCESE OF ORIHUELA (ORIOLENSIS, ORIOLANA). The Diocese of ...
• Oriol, Saint Joseph: Priest, "Thaumaturgus of Barcelona", b. at Barcelona, 23 ...
• Oristano: Diocese of Oristano (Arborensis) in Sardinia. Oristano ...
• Orkneys: A group of islands situated between 58° 41' and 59° 24' ...
• Orléans: (AURELIANUM) This Diocese comprises the Department of ...
• Orléans, Councils of: Six national councils were held at Orléans in the ...
• Orlandini, Niccolò: Born at Florence, 1554; died 1606 at Rome, 17 May. He entered ...
• Orley, Barent Van: (Bernard) Painter, b. at Brussels, about 1491; d. there 6 ...
• Orme, Philibert de l': An architect, born about 1512; died 1570. His style, classical ...
• Oropus: Titular see, suffragan of Anazarbus in Cilicia Secunda. It ...
• Orosius, Paulus: Historian and Christian apologist ; b. probably at Bracara, ...
• Orphans and Orphanages: The death of one or both parents makes the child of the very ...
• Orsi, Giuseppe Agostino: A cardinal, theologian, and ecclesiastical historian, born at ...
• Orsini: One of the most ancient and distinguished families of the ...
• Orsisius: ( Arsisios , Oresiesis-Heru-sa Ast) Egyptian monk of the ...
• Ortelius, Abraham: (OERTEL) A cartographer, geographer, and archeologist, ...
• Orthodox Church: The technical name for the body of Christians who use the ...
• Orthodoxy: Orthodoxy ( orthodoxeia ) signifies right belief or purity ...
• Orthodoxy, Feast of: (or SUNDAY) The first Sunday of the Great Forty days ( ...
• Orthosias: A titular see of Phœnicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre. ...
• Ortolano Ferrarese: Painter of the Ferrara School, b. in Ferrara, about 1490; d. ...
• Orval: (Aurea Vallis, Gueldenthal). Formerly a Cistercian abbey ...
• Orvieto: DIOCESE OF ORVIETO (URBEVETANA) Diocese in Central Italy. ...
• Ory, Matthieu: Inquisitor and theologian, b. at La Caune, 1492; d. at Paris, ...

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