The names of two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines, which include the ...
Born in Mondejar, Guadalajara, Spain, in 1547; died at Alcalá, 27 May, 1593. He entered ...
Born at Benyfayro, Valenciz, Spain, in 1513 or 1515; died at Madrid, 1590. His name Coello is ...
Born at Robledillo, Old Castile, Spain, 7 September, 1778; d. at San Gabriel, California, 15 ...
(S. CAROLI PINHALENSIS).
Diocese ; suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil, ...
(SANCTI ALOYSII DE CACERES).
Diocese in Brazil, suffragan of Cuyabá, from which ...
(SANCTI LUDOVICI DE MARAGNANO).
Diocese ; suffragan of Belém de Pará, comprises ...
(S. PAULI IN BRASILIA).
The ecclesiastical province of São Paulo, in the Republic of ...
(SANCTI SALVATORIS OMNIUM SANCTORUM).
A Brazilian see erected by Julius III, 25 Feb., 1551, ...
(S. SEBASTIAN FLUMINIS JANUARII).
The ecclesiastical province of Rio de Janeiro, the third ...
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(SANCTI JACOBI CAPITIS VIRIDIS).
This diocese has the seat of its bishopric on the Island ...
(SAGIUM.)
Diocese embracing the Department of Orne. Re-established by the Concordat of 1802, ...
Prelate and French apologist, born 15 April, 1820, in Paris ; died 9 June, 1881, in the same ...
Born 1797; died 1874. Her father was General Rostopchine who ordered the city of Moscow to be ...
Cistercian monastery and cradle of the modern Cistercians of the Immaculate Conception, ...
(Marie de Rabutin-Chantal).
Writer, b. at Paris, 6 Feb., 1626; d. at Grignan, 18 April, 1696. ...
Portuguese theologian and exegete, b. at Villa do Conde (Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro), 1530; d. ...
Spanish poet and statesman, b. at Cordova, 10 March, 1791; d. at Madrid, 22 June, 1865. He ...
Statesman and author, b. at Algezares, Murcia, Spain, in 1584; d. at Madrid in 1648. He made his ...
This Saba (Sheba) must not be confounded with Saba (Seba) in Ethiopia of Is., xliii, 3; xlv, 14. ...
(In Hebrew, plural form of "host" or "army"). The word is used almost exclusively in conjunction ...
( Also spelled Sabas).
Hermit, born at Mutalaska near Caesarea in Cappadocia, 439; died in ...
(Hebrew Shabot rest).
The name, as appears from its origin, denotes those individuals or ...
( Hebrew shabbath , cessation, rest; Greek Sabbaton ; Latin Sabbatum ).
The seventh day ...
( Shenath shabbathon , "Year of rest"; Septuagint eniautos anapauseos ; Vulgate annus ...
The name Sabbatine Privilege is derived from the apocryphal Bull "Sacratissimo uti culmine" ...
Widow of Valentinus and daughter of Herod Metallarius, suffered martyrdom about 126. According to ...
The date of his birth is unknown, but he was consecrated pope probably 13 Sept., 604, and ...
Jesuit ; born in Paris, 1 March, 1652; died at Rome, 22 Jan., 1732. His father, afterwards a ...
A titular see in Tripolitana. Sabrata was a Phoenician town on the northern coast of Africa, ...
(Reiner.)
A learned and zealous Dominican, born at Piacenza about he beginning of the ...
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of the Feast of the Holy Family. The Holy See ...
The practice of preserving after the celebration of the Liturgy a portion of the consecrated ...
In instituting the sacraments Christ did not determine the matter and form down to the ...
Sacraments are outward signs of inward grace, instituted by Christ for our sanctification ...
The treatment of this subject is divided into two parts:
I. Doctrinal Explanations;II. Historical ...
(Issoudun).
A religious congregation of priests and lay brothers with the object of ...
A religious congregation having its general mother house at Rome, founded in 1880 by Mother ...
(PACCANARISTS).
This society was founded by two young seminarists of Saint-Sulpice who had ...
An institution of religious women, taking perpetual vows and devoted to the work of education, ...
A congregation founded in 1821 by Père André Coindre, of the Diocese of Lyons, ...
Better known as the Congregation of Picpus, was founded by Father Coudrin, b. at Coursay-les-Bois, ...
(Latin sacrificium; Italian sacrificio; French sacrifice .)
This term is identical with ...
The word Mass ( missa ) first established itself as the general designation for the ...
(Latin sacrilegium , robbing a temple, from sacer , sacred, and legere , to purloin.)
...
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of Corpus Christi and of the Votive Office of the ...
An officer who is charged with the care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents. In ...
(Latin sacrastia , vestry).
A room in the church or attached thereto, where the vestments, ...
A politico-religious sect of the Jews during the late post-Exile and New-Testament period. The ...
Born 1604; died at Dieulward, Flanders, 19 Jan., 1680-1. He was received into the Church at the ...
Authoress, b. at Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, 30 Dec., 1820; d. at Montreal, Canada, 5 April, ...
Cardinal, humanist, and reformer, b. at Modena, 1477; d. at Rome, 1547. His father, a ...
A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch. Sagalassus was one of the chief towns of ...
Recollect lay brother, missionary, and historian, b. in France at the end of the sixteenth ...
Missionary and Aztec archeologist, b. at Sahagún, Kingdom of Leon, Spain, in or before ...
A prominent tribe formerly holding a considerable territory in Western Idaho and adjacent ...
The Sahara is a vast desert of northern Africa, measuring about 932 miles from north to south ...
Professor of theology and Bishop of Ratisbon, b. at Aresing in Upper Bavaria 17 October, ...
French controversialist, b. at Perche, 1525; d. at Crèvecoeur, 1591. At the age of fifteen ...
Located in Hertfordshire, England ; founded about 793 by Offa, king of the Mercians. Venerable ...
(SANCTI ALBERTI).
The immense territories, known today as the Provinces of Manitoba, ...
(S. A NDREAE ET E DINBURGENSIS ). Archdiocese.
The exact date of the foundation of the ...
The Priory of Saint Andrews priory was one of the great religious houses in Scotland and ...
The germ of the university is to be found in an association of learned ecclesiastics, formed in ...
(ASSAVENSIS, originally ELVIENSIS)
This diocese was founded by St. Kentigern about the ...
A Benedictine monastery, originally dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul, founded in 605 outside of ...
This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the ...
A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
One ...
At Quaracchi, near Florence, Italy, famous as the centre of literary activity in the Order of ...
(SANCTI BONIFACII)
Archdiocese ; the chief ecclesiastical division of the Canadian West, ...
(SANCTI CLODOALDI).
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota , comprises the ...
(Properly Saint François de Sales, Quebec)
A noted Catholic Indian mission village ...
The University of St. Francis, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was founded in 1885, under the name of ...
(The Diocese of Saint Gall; S ANGALLENSIS )
A Swiss bishopric directly subject to the Holy ...
(SANCTI GEORGII)
Diocese in Newfoundland. Beginning at Garnish it takes in the western ...
Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as ...
(SANCTI HYACINTHI)
Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of Montreal. In answer to a ...
The College of Saint Isidore, in Rome, was originally founded for the use of Spanish ...
(SANTIAGO DE LA ESPADA).
Founded in the twelfth century, owes its name to the national patron ...
(SANCTI JOANNIS)
Diocese in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. The diocese includes the ...
The legal title of a Catholic boarding-school at Collegeville, Minnesota, conducted by the ...
Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada
Founded in 1864 by Rev. Camille Lefebvre, C.S.C. The ...
(S ANCTI J OSEPHI )
The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a ...
(SANCTI LUDOVICI)
Created a diocese 2 July, 1826; raised to the rank of an archdiocese 20 ...
The University of St. Louis, probably the oldest university west of the Mississippi River, was ...
(LUZI)
Located in Chur, Switzerland. The Church of St. Lucius was built over the grave of ...
The highest institution of learning in Peru, located at Lima, under the official name of ...
The well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer -- oftener spoken of under the anglicized form of ...
(SANCTI PAULI)
Archdiocese comprising the counties of Ramsey, Hennepin, Chisago, Anoka, Dakota, ...
( San Paolo fuori le mura ).
An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the ...
TOPOGRAPHY
The present Church of St. Peter stands upon the site where at the beginning of the ...
The history of the relics of the Apostles Peter and Paul is one which is involved in ...
Saint Petersburg, the imperial residence and second capital of Russia, lies at the mouth of the ...
The Order of Saint Sylvester is neither monastic nor military but a purely honorary title ...
(GUAYANA; DE GUAYANA).
Diocese ; suffragan of Caracas, erected by Pius VI on 19 Dec., 1791, ...
DIOCESE OF SAINT THOMAS OF MYLAPUR (SANCTI THOMAE DE MELIAPOR).
Suffragan to the primatial See ...
(SANCTI THOMAE IN INSULA)
The Diocese of Saint Thomas, comprising the Islands of São ...
(SANTO TOMÁS)
University in Manila, founded in 1619 by the Dominican Miguel de ...
An international association of Catholic laymen engaging systematically in personal service of ...
(B RIOCUM )
Diocese ; comprises the Department of the Côtes du Nord. Re-established by ...
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(S ANCTI C LAUDII ).
The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only ...
(Or JEAN-FRANÇOIS BISSON DE SAINT-COSME)
Born in Quebec, Canada, February, 1667; ...
Diocese erected in 1850 as suffragan of Bordeaux, includes the Island of Réunion in the ...
The Abbey of Saint-Denis is situated in a small town to which it has given its name, about four ...
(SANCTI DEODATI)
Diocese comprising the Department of the Vosges. Suppressed by the Concordat ...
(F LOROPOLIS )
Diocese comprising the Department of Cantal, and is suffragan of the ...
(DIOCESE OF MAURAMANENSIS)
Includes the arrondissement of Saint Jean-de-Maurienne in the ...
Oratorian; b. 1815; d. at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 24 May, 1875; son of Henry St. John, descended ...
Located in Rouen, France, this abbey was a Benedictine monastery of great antiquity dating ...
(INSULARUM S. PETRI ET MIQUELONENSIS).
Prefecture apostolic comprising the only French ...
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, 17 Oct., 1760; died there, 19 ...
Born 16 January, 1675; died in Paris, 2 March, 1755. Having quitted the military service in 1702, ...
Founded at Paris by M. Olier (1642) for the purpose of providing directors for the seminaries ...
Second Bishop of Quebec, b. at Grenoble, France, 14 Nov. 1653; d. at Quebec, Canada, 26 Dec., ...
In the year 1108, the famous William of Champeaux , archdeacon of Notre-Dame in Paris, who ...
Canon regular, Abbot of St-Victor, Paris, and Bishop of Avranches, b. about 1100; d. 1172. By ...
A little village three miles from the town of Auray (6,500 inhabitants), in the Diocese of ...
Devotion to Saint Anne , in Canada, goes back to the beginning of New France, and was brought ...
Geologist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 26 February, 1814; d. in Paris 10 October, 1876. Going ...
Chemist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 11 March, 1818; d. at Boulogne, 1 July, 1881; brother of ...
The Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris, was founded by King Clovis who established there ...
(TRIUM FONTIUM AD AQUAS SALVIAS, TRE FONTANE, or THREE FOUNTAINS).
Located near Rome. ...
HISTORY
According to some writers the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic ...
( communo sanctorum , a fellowship of, or with, the saints).
The doctrine expressed in the ...
Under the term legend the modern concept would include every untrue tale. But it is not so ...
Journalist, b. in London, 24 Nov., 1828; d. at Brighton, 8 Dec., 1895, having been received into ...
(SALMANTICENSIS, SALMANTINA, SALMANTICAE).
Diocese in Spain ; comprises the civil Provinces ...
This university had its beginning in the Cathedral School under the direction, from the ...
A titular see in Cyprus. Salamis was a maritime town on the eastern coast of Cyprus, situated ...
Born at Besanduk, near Eleutheropolis, in Judea, after 310; died in 403. While very young he ...
Bishop of Saint-Flour ; b. at Carpentras, 22 Oct., 1759; d. at Saint-Flour, 11 June, 1829. ...
Born in La Rioja, in the village of La Bastida on the banks of the Ebro, 1512; died in Madrid, 4 ...
(SALIENSIS)
Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland. ...
(SALMANSWEILER)
Also called Salomonis Villa on account of the resemblance of its primitive ...
Diocese in Campania, Southern Italy. The city is situated on the gulf of the same name, backed by ...
The Salesian Society, founded by Saint John Bosco, takes its distinctive name from its patron, ...
(SALFORDIENSIS)
The Diocese of Salford comprises the Hundreds of Salford and Blackburn, in ...
(OGNIBENE).
Chronicler, b. at Parma, 9 Oct., 1221; d. probably at Montefalcone about 1288. He ...
(SARUM, SARISBURIENSIS).
The diocese was originally founded by Birinus, who in 634 ...
The principal of a small group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock (the Salivan), ...
Founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools , educational reformer, and ...
These names designate the authors of the courses of Scholastic philosophy and theology, and of ...
A Chaldean see, included in the ancient Archdiocese of Adhorbigan, or Adherbaidjan; we know ...
Jesuit Biblical scholar, born at Toledo, 8 Sept., 1515; died at Naples, 13 Feb., 1585. He ...
(1) The daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias ( Matthew 14:6-8 : Mark 6:22 ; cf. Josephus, ...
Salt, always used for the seasoning of food and for the preservation of things from corruption, ...
(LACUS SALSIS).
Includes the State of Utah, and slightly more than half of the State of ...
(SALTENSIS).
Comprises the civil Provinces of Salta and Jujuy in the northern part of the ...
(SALTILLENSIS).
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Linares, or Monterey. Its ...
(SALTENSIS).
Diocese in Uruguay, suffragan to Montevideo. This diocese with that of Melo ...
Italian Humanist b. in Tuscany, 1331; d. 4 May, 1406. He studied at Bologna and went to Rome ...
(SALUCLIAE, SALUTIENSIS)
Diocese in the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Upper Italy. The city of ...
Born at Milan, 15 November, 1648; died at Guadalajara, 17 July, 1717. His family was of ...
(Greek soteria ; Hebrew yeshu'ah ).
Salvation has in Scriptural language the general ...
A poem in honour of the various members of Christ on the Cross. A fifteenth-century manuscript ...
The opening words (used as a title) of the most celebrated of the four Breviary anthems of the ...
The Roman Breviary hymn at Lauds of the feast of the Most Precious Blood, is found in the ...
A Latin writer of Gaul, who lived in the fifth century. Born of Christian parents, he married a ...
(SALISBURGENSIS)
The Archdiocese of Salzburg is conterminous with the Austrian crown-land of ...
Founder of St. Francis Provincial Seminary (St. Francis, Wisconsin ) known as the "Salesianum", ...
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A titular see, suffragan of Cæsarea in Palestine Prima. In the sixth year of his reign ...
I. LANGUAGE
The original language of the Samaritans was the vernacular of Palestine, that is ...
Theologian, b. at Walldorf near Heidelberg, 9 June; 1752; d. at Nymphenburg near Munich 5 June, ...
(Or NAVIGATORS' ISLANDS).
A group of islands situated in latitude 13§30' and 14§30' ...
(SAMOGITIENSIS)
A Russian diocese, also called Telshi (Telshe), including the part of ...
Titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades. The island, called in Turkish Soussan-Adassi ...
a titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis, capital of Commagenum, whose ...
Bishop of Chichester and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield ; d. at Eccleshall, ...
(Derived from the Hebrew for "sun").
The last and most famous of the Judges of Israel. The ...
Abbot of St. Edmunds, b. at Tottington, near Thetford, in 1135; d. 1211. After taking his M.A. ...
Bishop and confessor, born in South Wales ; died 28 July, 565 (?). The date of his birth is ...
(Zamuco).
The collective name of a group of tribes in southwestern Bolivia, speaking dialects ...
(Also know as the F IRST AND S ECOND B OOKS OF S AMUEL.
For the First and Second Books of ...
(Sancti Antonii).
Comprises all that portion of the State of Texas between the Colorado and ...
(Sancti Caroli Ancudiæ).
The most southern of the Chilian dioceses. It extends from the ...
(SANCTI FRANCISCI)
Archdiocese established 29 July 1853 to include the Counties of San ...
A celebrated family of architects, sculptors, painters, and engravers, which flourished in ...
(SANCTI JOSEPHI DE COSTARICA).
The Republic of Costa Rica , Central America, constitutes this ...
(SANCTI JOANNIS DE CUYO).
Diocese in the Argentine Republic at the foot of the Cordillera of ...
Prefecture Apostolic in Peru. Though the section of Peru lying on the eastern side of the Andes ...
(SANCTI LUDOVICI POTOSIENSIS)
Diocese in Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1854. It includes the ...
(SANCTI MARCI ET BISINIANENSIS)
Diocese in the Province of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy. San ...
An independent republic lying between the Italian Provinces of Forli, Pasaro, and Urbino, having ...
A prelature nullius in the territory of the Diocese of Viterbo, Province of Rome. The district ...
A city and diocese in the Province of Florence, Central Italy. It is first mentioned in the ...
The name given by Columbus to his first discovery in the New World . It is one of the Bahama ...
(SANCTI SALVATORIS IN AMERICA CENTRALI)
Diocese. The Republic of Salvador, often incorrectly ...
Painter, b. at Borgo San-Sepolcro, about 1420; d. there, 1492. The most usual form of his name is ...
(SANCTI SEVERINI)
San Severino is a small town and seat of a bishopric in the Province of ...
(SANCTI SEVERINI)
Diocese in the Province of Foggia (Capitanata), Southern Italy, situated in ...
One of the eight missions founded by the Spanish Padres between 1687 and 1720 in the Pimeria Alta, ...
Born at Cordova, 1550; died in the college of Granada , 19 May, 1610. In 1567 he entered the ...
Grace ( gratia, Charis ), in general, is a supernatural gift of God to intellectual ...
( Latin sancire , same root as sanctus ).
Sanction signifies primarily the authoritative ...
( pragmatica sanctio , lex , jussio , also pragmatica or pragmaticum )
Pragmatic ...
The term " sanctity " is employed in somewhat different senses in relation to God, to ...
The hymn at First and Second Vespers in the Common of the Martyrs in the Roman Breviary. Its ...
A consecrated place giving protection to those fleeing from justice or persecution ; or, the ...
The space in the church for the high altar and the clergy. It is variously designated apsis ...
I. HISTORY
The Sanctus is the last part of the Preface in the Mass, sung in practically every ...
FORM AND PRESENT USE
Unlike the ancient sandals, which consisted merely of soles fastened to the ...
An English form of the Scottish sect of Glassites, followers of John Glas (b. 1695; d. 1773) ...
Often quoted under the name of Felinus, Italian canonist of the fifteenth century, b. at Felina, ...
Historian, b. at Antwerp, 1586; d. at Afflighem, Belgium, 10 Jan., 1664. Having become master ...
(SANDERS).
Born at Charlwood, Surrey, in 1530; died in Ireland, 1581. Educated at ...
(SANDHURSTENSIS).
Diocese in Victoria, Australia ; suffragan of Melbourne. The cathedral ...
(Polish, Sandomierz ; Latin, Sandomiriensis ).
The city is very ancient, with still ...
Benjamin F. Sands
Rear-admiral United States Navy, b. at Baltimore, Md., 11 Feb., 1812; d. at ...
(H AWAII )
Vicariate Apostolic comprising all the islands of the Hawaiian group. They lie ...
English martyr, born in the Diocese of Chester ; executed at Gloucester, 11 August, 1586. He ...
A sub-tribe of the Songish Indians . They speak a dialect of the Cowichan language of Salishan ...
The supreme council and court of justice among the Jews. The name Sanhedrin is derived ...
Diocese in Lower Austria, derives its name and origin from Fanum Sancti Hippolyti , a ...
(Latin, ACTIUS SINCERUS SANNAZARIUS).
Italian and Latin poet, b. at Naples, 28 July, 1458; d. ...
Restorer of the Scholastic philosophy in Italy, b. at Naples, 1811; d. there of cholera, 16 ...
Born at Monte San Sovino, Arezzo, 1460; died 1529. He was a sculptor of the transition period at ...
(SANCTI ANGELI LOMBARDORUM ET BISACCIENSIS).
Diocese in the Province of Avellino, Southern ...
(SANCTI ANGELI IN VADO ET URBANIENSIS).
Diocese ; S. Angelo in Vado is a city in the Marches, ...
(S. AGATHAE GOTHORUM)
In the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy ; the city, situated on ...
(The Holy House of Loreto).
Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, the "Holy ...
(FLORIANOPOLIS; FLORIANOPOLITANA).
Diocese ; suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre ...
(SANCTAE CRUCIS DE SIERRA).
Diocese in Bolivia, erected on 6 July, 1605, as suffragan of ...
(SANCTAE FIDEI).
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires, comprising the ...
(SANCTAE FIDEI IN AMERICA).
Archdiocese in New Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1850 and ...
Prelature nullius within the territory of the Archdiocese of Messina , Sicily, now governed ...
(SANCTAE MARIAE).
A Brazilian see, suffragan of Porto Alegre. The latter, formerly known as ...
(BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS DE MONTSERRATO).
An abbey nullius in Brazil.
When it was ...
(SANCTA MARTHAE).
Diocese in Colombia, erected in 1535, its first bishop being Alfonso do ...
(SANCTA SEVERINAE)
Diocese in the Province of Catanzaro in Calabria, Southern Italy. Situated ...
(SANCTI ANDERII, SANTANDERIENSIS).
This diocese in Spain takes its name not from St. Andrew ...
Prelature nullius created in 1903, in the ecclesiastical Province of Belem do Pará, with ...
(SANCTI JACOBI DE ESTERO)
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, erected 25 March, 1907, ...
It has been asserted by some historians that as early as the ninth century a course of general ...
Astronomer, b. at Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. at Padua, 26 June, 1877. He received his ...
(SANCTI DOMINICI)
Erected on 8 August, 1511, by Julius II who by the Bull "Pontifex ...
Dominican missionary in India and Africa, b. at Evora, Portugal ; d. at Goa in 1622. His ...
(SAPPENSIS, SAPPATENSIS, ZAPPATENSIS).
Diocese in Albania, established in 1062, by Alexander ...
Sara (Hebrew for "princess"; another form, Sarai, the signification of which is doubtful, is ...
A class of monks widely spread before the time of St. Benedict. They either continued like the ...
(CAESARAUGUSTANA)
Diocese in Spain ; comprises a great part of the civil Province of ...
This university was not definitively established until 1585 its real founder being Don Pedro ...
(SERAIUM).
The healthy growth of the Church in Bosnia was blighted and stunted by ...
The chief Franciscan mission of the Ucavali river country, Department of Loreto, north-east ...
The Horace of Poland, b. near Plonsk, in the Duchy of Masovia, 24 February, 1595; d. 2 April, ...
A titular see of Lydia, in Asia Minor probably the ancient Hyde of Homer (Iliad, II, 844; XX, ...
A titular metropolitan see of Dacia Mediterranea. The true name of the city (now Sophia, the ...
One of the series of councils called to adjust the doctrinal and other difficulties caused by ...
The second largest Italian island in the Mediterranean, lying between 41°15' and 38°51' ...
A titular see in Phoenicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre. It is mentioned for the first time in ...
Martyr of the seal of confession, born at Skotschau in Austrian Silesia, 20 Dec., 1576; died at ...
One of S. Alphonsus's earliest companions, fourth son of Baron Angelo Sarnelli of Ciorani, b. in ...
A Servite and anti-papal historian and statesman, b. at Venice, 14 August, 1552; d. there 14 or ...
Born at Lucan near Dublin, about 1650; died at Huy in Belgium, 1693. On his mother's side he ...
DIOCESE OF SARSINA (SARSINATENSIS)
Located in Aemilia, Province of Forli, Italy. Besides ...
(ANDREA D'AGNOLO)
Born at Florence in 1486; d. there in 1531. He received the surname Sarto ...
(More accurately S ARUM U SE )
The manner of regulating the details of the Roman Liturgy ...
A titular see in Cappadocia. Sasima is mentioned only in three non-religious documents: "Itiner. ...
The twin provinces of the Canadian West, so called because they were formed on the same day (1 ...
(TURRITANA)
Archdiocese in Sardinia, Italy, situated on the River Rossello in a fertile ...
Born at Sassoferrato in the Rome, 1689, where he had passed the greater part of his life. His ...
A titular see in Armenia Prima, suffragan of Sabastia. Satala according to the ancient ...
(Greek diabolos ; Latin diabolus ).
The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are ...
Theologian, cardinal, first Apostolic delegate to the United States, b. 21 July, 1839, at ...
St. Saturninus was, says Tillemont, one of the most illustrious martyrs France has given to the ...
A titular see of Lycaonia, suffragan or Iconium. Nothing is known of the history of this town, ...
Hebrew for postulatus , referring probably to the petition mentioned in 1 Samuel 8:5 .
The ...
(SANCTAE-MARIAE-ORMENSIS)
Diocese erected by Decree of 16 September, 1904. It embraces the ...
Or SAULT ST. LOUIS.
An Iroquois reservation, situated on the south bank of the St. Lawrence, ...
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH (SAVANENSIS)
The Diocese of Savannah comprises the State of Georgia and ...
Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, and cousin of the Emperor Henry VI, date of birth unknown, d. ...
A noble French family of the seventeenth century especially devoted to trade and to the ...
Situated on the confines of Normandy and Brittany, Diocese of Coutances, France. Founded by ...
Diplomatist, born at Berlin, 19 Sept., 1814; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 11 Feb., 1875. He ...
(SAVONENSIS ET NAULENSIS)
Province of Genoa, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small but safe ...
Born at Ferrara, 21 September, 1452; died at Florence, 23 May, 1498. The Dominican reformer ...
(Italian S AVOJA ; French S AVOIE )
A district in the south-eastern part of France that ...
For a long time two astronomers of the Middle Ages were confounded under this name.
(1) ...
One of the Saxon duchies in the east of Thuringia ; situated on the west frontier of the Kingdom ...
One of the Saxon-Thuringian duchies; has an area of 751 sq. miles and two chief divisions, the ...
A Saxon-Thuringian duchy. It has an area of 953 sq. miles, and 278,792 inhabitants (1910). In 1905 ...
A grand duchy in Thuringia, also known in recent times as the Grand duchy of Saxony.
It has ...
Danish historian of the thirteenth century, author of the "Gesta Danorum". The scanty information ...
I. THE SAXON TRIBE
There arose in Germany during the third and fourth centuries after Christ ...
(Albert of Helmstädt)
Fourteenth-century philosopher ; nicknamed Albertus Parvus, ...
Consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition ...
(It., DELLA SCALA).
Humanist, b. at Riva on Lake Garda in 1484; d. at Agen, France, 21 Oct., ...
Theologian, better known by his religious name, ANDREA DI CASTELLANA, from his place of origin in ...
Educator, b. at Whitefield, Maine, U.S.A. 27 Dec., 1816; d. at New York, 7 Dec., 1894. Having ...
I. NOTION OF SCANDAL
According to St. Thomas (II-II, Q. liii, a. 1) scandal is a word or action ...
[DALMASIO; LIPPO DI DALMASIO; LIPPO DALLE MADONNE; MURATORI(?)].
Bolognese painter, born about ...
I. NAME, MEANING, AND ORIGIN
The scapular (from Latin, scapula , shoulder) forms a part, and ...
Ascetical writer, b. at Rome, 24 Nov., 1687; d. at Macerata, 11 Jan., 1752. He entered the ...
Oratorian, Papal envoy, b. of a noble and ancient family in the Duchy of Monferrato, Piedmont, ...
Born in Sicily, either at Trapani or at Palermo, in 1659; died at Naples 24 Oct., 1725; ...
French poet and dramatist, b. in Paris, 4 July, 1610; d. 7 October, 1660. His father was a judge ...
(Gr. sképsis , speculation, doubt ; sképtesthai, to scrutinize or examine ...
Formerly a Premonstratensian, now a Benedictine, abbey, situated on the Isar not far from ...
(Known also as Scheuffelin, Schauffelein, and Scheyffelin).
A German wood engraver, pupil of ...
Theologian, b. at Ratisbon, 7 May, 1827; d. at Interlaken, 9 September, 1880. By birth and ...
Publisher and printer, b. at Gernsheim on the Rine about 1425; d. at Mainz in 1503. As a cleric ...
The name of a German noble family, many members of which were prelates of the Church.
(1) ...
The publishing house of Ferdinand Schöningh at Paderborn was founded by Ferdinand Friedrich ...
Painter, b. at Berlin, 1789; d. at Düsseldorf, 1862. He was the son of the sculptor, ...
Orator, poet, and statesman, b. at Tubbergen, Holland, 2 March, 1844; d. at Rome, 21 Jan., 1903. ...
An especially prominent figure among the missionaries to China, b. of an important family at ...
German historian, b. at Luxemburg, 23 July, 1683; d. at Heidleberg, 6 March, 1739. He studied at ...
A foremost opponent of the Protestant Reformers ; b. at Landshut in 1463 or 1464; d. at Munich, ...
A German principality, surrounded by the Prussian province of Westphalia Hanover, and an exclave ...
German Humanist and historian, b. at Nuremberg, 13 February, 1440; d. there on 28 November, ...
Theological writer of acknowledged merit, born at Meckenheim near Bonn, 1 March, 1835; died at ...
Jesuit theologian b. at Kientzheim, Alsace, 27 April, 1668; d. at Strasburg, 18 August, 1733. ...
German astronomer, b. at Wald, near Mindelheim, in Swabia, 25 July, 1575; d. at Niesse, in ...
Musician, b. 16 May, 1789, at Huffingen in the Black Forest; d. there 6 Aug., 1837. At the age of ...
Theologian, b. at Antwerp, 1649; d. at Rome, 6 April, 1692. While he was a canon of the ...
Benedictine theologian and canonist, b. at Auerbach in Bavaria, 4 January 1749; d. at Amberg, 14 ...
(SCHENUDI, SCHNUDI, SINUTHIUS).
A Coptic abbot. The years 332-33-34 and 350 are mentioned as ...
Pulpit orator and controversialist, b. at Schwaz, in the Tyrol, 1540, according to Duhr; d. at ...
A Swiss Catholic journalist and politician; b. at Dornach in the canton of Solothurn, 12 May, ...
Bishop, cardinal, and statesman, b. at Muhlbach in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, about ...
I. GENERAL IDEAS, MORAL CHARACTER, AND PENAL SANCTIONS
Schism (from the Greek schisma , rent, ...
From the time of Diotrephes ( 3 John 1:9-10 ) there have been continual schisms, of which the ...
This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs in all points from the Eastern ...
Ascetical writer, b. at Vienna, 17 June, 1805; d. at Graz, 2 Nov., 1852. After completing his ...
Poet, writer on æsthetics, and literary historian, the "Messias" of the Romantic School, b. ...
Formerly a duchy and diocese of northwestern Germany, now a part of the Prussian Province of ...
Jurist, b. at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 30 December, 1780; d. there 22 January, 1851. He studied ...
Canonist, b. at Griesbach, Bavaria, 9 Oct., 1663; d. at Dillingen 7 Nov., 1735. Entering the ...
Writer of children's stories and educator, b. at Dinkelsbuehl, in Bavaria, 15 Aug., 1768; d. at ...
Born at Frickenhofen, 1825; died at Vienna, 1891, After studying at the technical high school ...
Born at Wesel, Lower Rhine, 12 Feb., 1829; d. at Kerkrade, Holland, 20 Nov., 1885. After studying ...
Author, b. at Ehingen, in the Diocese of Constance, 9 Nov., 1732; d. at Munich, 20 Apr., 1792. Of ...
A place for the teaching and practice of ecclesiastical chant, or a body of singers banded ...
Scholasticism is a term used to designate both a method and a system. It is applied to theology ...
Theologian and historian, b. at Freising in Bavaria, 15 January, 1722; d. at Welchenberg, 16 ...
Born of Catholic parents at Maastriche, Holland, 28 March, 1849; died at Delft 17 March, 1897. ...
An erudite German Orientalist and exegete, b. at Kapsdorf, near Breslau, 8 Feb., 1794; d. at ...
(Also known as SCHON).
German painter and engraver, b. at Colmar between 1445 and 1450; ...
In the Church I. The Christian Church
By virtue of her Divine charter, "Going, teach ye all ...
Where the Church is normally organized the recruitment of the secular clergy is provided for ...
Called also Piarists, Scolopli, Escolapios, Poor Clerks of the Mother of God, and the Pauline ...
Social reformer, b. at Heringhausen, Westphalia, 21 Oct., 1825; d. at Alst, 17 March, 1895. He ...
German physicist, b. 5 Feb., 1608, at Königshofen; d. 12 or 22 May, 1666, at Augsburg. He ...
(Scotch Monasteries).
A name applied to the monastic foundations of Irish and Scotch ...
Jesuit theologian, b. at Itzum, in Hanover, Nov., 1820; d. at Poitiers 23 Feb., 1875. He studied ...
(SCHRAMM).
A Benedictine theologian and canonist, b. at Bamberg, 24 October 1722; d. in the ...
Naturalist, b. at Varnbach near Schärding on the Inn, 21 August, 1747; d. at Munich, 22 ...
Historical painter, b. at Obersdorf in the Allgau, 1808; d. 31 May, 1879. As pupil and assistant ...
Composer, b. at Vienna, 31 January, 1797; d. there 19 November, 1829. He studied under his ...
A theological writer, b. at Dorsten in Westphalia, 2 Aril, 1824; d. at Münster, 6 June, ...
German physiologist and founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms; b. at ...
Founder of the modern Romantic school of sculpture, b. at Munich in 1802; d there, 1848. He ...
(Schwartz).
A German friar, reputed the inventor of gunpowder and firearms. There has been ...
Two small principalities of Central Germany, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and ...
Cardinal and Prince- Archbishop of Prague, b. at Vienna, 6 April, 1809; d. there, 27 March, ...
The name of a Protestant sect founded by the nobleman Caspar von Schwenckfeld (b. at Ossig in ...
Born at Vienna, 1804; died at Munich, 1871. A painter possessing an inexhaustible wealth of ...
The words "science" and "Church" are here understood in the following sense: Science is not taken ...
A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. Perhaps the name should be ...
In the year 180 six Christians were condemned to death by the sword, in the town of Scillium, ...
(SCUPI; SCOPIENSIS).
Archdiocese, ancient residence of the early Servian rulers is the modern ...
I. SCOTISM
This is the name given to the philosophical and theological system or school ...
The term as at present used includes the whole northern portion of the Island of Great Britain, ...
The religious organization which has for three centuries and a half claimed the adherence of the ...
A convenient term under which to include the monastic institutions which were founded during the ...
Clement VIII gave Scotland its college at Rome. The Bull of foundation, dated 5 December, ...
English martyr, b. in Norfolk, England ; martyred at Fleet Street, London, on 2 July, 1591. He ...
Surnamed DOCTOR SUBTILIS, died 8 November, 1308; he was the founder and leader of the famous ...
(Scrantonensis).
A suffragan see of Philadelphia, U.S.A. established on 3 March, 1868, ...
The Caerem. Episc (I, xii, n. 13) says that if the High Altar is attached to the wall (or is not ...
(Greek grammateis, nomodidaschaloi , teachers of the law).
In the New-Testament period the ...
A scriptorium is commonly a large room set apart in a monastery for the use of the scribes or ...
Sacred Scripture is one of the several names denoting the inspired writings which make up the Old ...
(Latin Scrupulus , "a small sharp, or pointed, stone", hence, in a transferred sense, ...
(Latin scrutinium from scrutari to search, to investigate)
A term variously employed in ...
In the widest sense of the term, sculpture is the art of representing in bodily form men, animals, ...
(SCUTARENSIS)
The first known bishop was Bassus (387). The bishops of Scutari were at ...
A titular metropolitan of Palaestina Secunda. It is the ancient Bethsan so often mentioned in ...
Indian missionary and philologist, b. at Barcelona, Spain, about 1590; d. at Guarambare, ...
Born at Barcelona, Spain, 3 March, 1760; died at Mission San Buenaventura on 24 Aug., 1823; ...
The use of a seal by men of wealth and position was common before the Christian era. It was ...
In the "Decretum" of the Gratian who compiled the edicts of previous councils and the principles ...
DIOCESE OF SEATTLE (SEATTLENSIS).
The Diocese of Seattle (Seattlensis) comprises the entire ...
A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea. Sebaste is known to us, apart from ...
(SIVAS). An Armenian Catholic diocese.
The city, which existed perhaps under another name in ...
Executed at Tyburn, 19 June, 1535. A younger son of John Newdigate of Harefield Place, Middlesex, ...
Roman martyr ; little more than the fact of his martyrdom can be proved about St. Sebastian. ...
A titular see in Armenia Prima, suffragan of Sebastia. The primitive name of this city was ...
(SIBINICENSIS).
Suffragan of Zara. Sebenico was the seat of a bishop before the ...
Astronomer, b. at Reggio in Emilia, Italy, 18 June, 1818; d. 26 Feb., 1878. He was the son of a ...
(Properly SICIATL).
A small tribe speaking a distinct language of Salishan linguistic stock, ...
(Secundinus.)
Bishop and confessor, b. 372 or 373; d. at Dunshaughlin, 27 Nov., 457. Son of ...
DIOCESE OF SECKAU (SECOVIENSIS)
Diocese in Styria, Austria, suffragan of Salzburg. The See ...
The Secret ( Latin Secreta, sc. oratio secreta ) is the prayer said in a low voice by the ...
(Latin Disciplina Arcani ; German Arcandisciplin ).
A theological term used to express ...
I. ETYMOLOGY AND MEANING
The word "sect" is not derived, as is sometimes asserted, from secare , ...
( Latin clerus sæcularis )
In the language of religious the world (sæculum) is ...
A term used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote "a form of opinion ...
( Latin sæcularizatio )
Secularization, an authorization given to religious with solemn ...
Regius professor of divinity at Cambridge, 1557, rector of Stanhope, Durham, and vicar of ...
The Italian name of the portable papal throne used on certain solemn occasions in the pontifical ...
(Plural of Latin sedile , a seat.)
The name given to seats on the south side of the ...
( Latin seducere , to lead aside or astray)
Seduction is here taken to mean the inducing of ...
Christian poet of the fifth century. The name of Cælius, which at times precedes that of ...
An Irish teacher, grammarian and Scriptural commentator, who lived in the ninth century. ...
An obscure Puritan sect which arose in England in the middles of the seventeenth century. They ...
Born at Füssen, Bavaria, 11 January, 1819; died at New Orleans, La., 4 Oct., 1867. When a ...
Seerth, a Chaldean see, appears to have succeeded the See of Arzon in the same province, several ...
Bishop of Vancouver Island (today Victoria ), Apostle of Alaska. b. at Ghent, Belgium, 26 ...
Italian Jesuit, preacher, missionary, ascetical writer, b. at Nettuno, 21 March (cf. Massei) ...
(SIGNINSIS).
Located in the Province of Rome. The city, situated on a hill in the Monti ...
(Also CASTELLÓN DE LA PLANA; SEGOBIENSIS; CASTETELLIONENSIS)
Diocese in Spain, bounded ...
DIOCESE OF SEGOVIA (SEGOVIENSIS, SEGOVIAE).
Diocese in Spain ; bounded on the north by ...
(SIHNAH or SEHANENSIS).
A Chaldean see, governed by a patriarchal administrator with episcopal ...
Poet, author of the present Austrian national hymn, b. at Vienna, 21 June 1804; d. there, 17 ...
Painter, b. at Munich, 1811; d. at Rome, 1888. He studied under Cornelius, and two early ...
(AUGUSTÓWO; SEJNESIS, or AUGUSTOVIENSIS).
A diocese in the northwestern part of ...
(Or more properly, Tshé-'kéh-ne, "People on the Rocks", i.e., the Rocky Mountains). ...
Titular metropolis of Syria Prima. The city was founded near the mouth of the Orontes, not far ...
Metropolitan see of Isauria in the Patriarchate of Antioch. The city was built by Seleucus I, ...
A Gnostic sect who are said to have flourished in Galatia. They derived their name from ...
The name given to the Macedonian dynasty, which was founded by Seleucus, a general under Alexander ...
Ethically the subject of self-defense regards the right of a private person to employ force ...
Poet and novelist, b. at Lorca, Murcia, Spain, 1824; d. at Madrid, 5 Feb., 1882, he received his ...
A titular see in Pamphylia Prima, suffragan of Side. Situated in a fertile plain on the south ...
A titular see in Isauria, near the Gulf of Adalia. Selinus, mentioned by Ptolemy, V, 8, 2, ...
Canonist and archaeologist, b. at Naples, 10 August, 1728; d. there, November, 1772. He entered ...
A titular see in Thracia Prima, suffragan of Heraclea. Selymbria, or Selybria, the city of ...
( Hebrew "name", "fame", "renown"; in Septuagint, Sem ; A.V., Shem .)
Son of Noah ; ...
A name frequently given to the conservative majority in the East in the fourth century as ...
I. TERMINOLOGY
The word seminary (Fr. séminaire, Ger. Seminar ) is sometimes used, ...
A doctrine of grace advocated by monks of Southern Gaul at and around Marseilles after 428. ...
The term Semites is applied to a group of peoples closely related in language, whose habitat is ...
Semitic epigraphy is a new science, dating only from the past fifty years. At the beginning of ...
Physician and discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever, b. Ofen (Buda), 1 July, 1818; d. at ...
Naval officer, b. in Charles County, Maryland, U.S.A. 27 September, 1809; d. at Point Clear, ...
Bishop and confessor, b. at Magh Lacha, Kilrush, Co. Clare, c. 488; d. 1 March, 560, his ...
The westernmost and largest of the five tribes of the celebrated Iroquois Confederacy of central ...
Principally known as the inventor of lithography, b. at Prague, 6 Nov., 1771; d. at Munich, 26 ...
(SENEGAMBLE).
Vicariate Apostolic, to which is joined the Prefecture Apostolic of Senegal ...
(Variously written in early calendars and martyrologies Abdo, Abdus; Sennes, Sennis, Zennen.)
...
(S ENONIS )
Archdiocese comprising the Department of the Yonne. It was suppressed by the ...
A number of councils were held at Sens. The first, about 600 or 601, in conformity with the ...
(Latin sententia , judgment).
In canon law, the decision of the court upon any issue brought ...
Located in the Diocese of Moulins in France, it was founded (1132) by Guichard and Guillaume de ...
Founder of the African dynasty of Roman emperors, b. at Leptis Magna in Africa, 11 April, 146; d. ...
( Latin septuagesima , the seventieth).
Septuagesima is the ninth Sunday before Easter, ...
The first translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, made into popular Greek before the Christian ...
Holy Sepulchre refers to the tomb in which the Body of Jesus Christ was laid after His death ...
I. DEFINITION AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Sequence ( Sequentia )–or, more accurately as ...
(SERAIUM).
The healthy growth of the Church in Bosnia was blighted and stunted by ...
( Or Seraphic Rosary.)
A Rosary consisting of seven decades in commemoration of the seven ...
The name, a Hebrew masculine plural form, designates a special class of heavenly attendants of ...
Born at Montegranaro, 1540; died at Ascoli, 12 October 1604. Felix de Nicola was born of a poor, ...
Born at Urbino about 1434; died at Pesaro, 8 September, 1478. Her parents were Guido Antonio ...
Bishop of Antioch (190-211). Known principally through his theological writings. Of these ...
(De Serena, Serenopolitana).
Embracing Atacama and Coquimbo provinces (Chile), suffragan of ...
Born at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, in 1623; died in 1710, not, as Dodd asserts, in 1707 ...
English martyr, executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1586. He was probably a younger son of Thomas ...
A titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis. Under its native name Rhesapha, ...
Martyrs, d. in the Diocletian persecution in Coele-Syria about 303. Their martyrdom is well ...
(Reigned 687-701), date of birth unknown; consecrated probably on 15 Dec., 687; d. 8 Sept., ...
Date of birth unknown; consecrated in 844, apparently in January; d. 27 Jan., 847. He was of ...
Date of birth unknown; consecrated 29 Jan., 904; d. 14 April, 911. He was a Roman of noble birth ...
Date of birth unknown; consecrated about 31 July, 1009; d. 12 May, 1012. Peter Pig's Snout ( ...
Italian theologian and cardinal, b. at Troja (Apulia), 6 May, 1493; d. at Trent 17 March, ...
Born at Beauvais, 5 April, 1730; died at Rome, 24 September, 1814. He was a descendant of the ...
Born at S. Giovanni in Marignano, near Rimini, 31 Oct., 1823; died at Fiesole, 22 Feb., 1885. His ...
Born at Petra, Island of Majorca, 24 November, 1713; died at Monterey, California, 28 August, ...
Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus ...
This order was founded on the feast of the Assumption, 1233 when the Blessed Virgin appeared to ...
An order of nuns, founded by the Venerable Pierre-Julien Eymard in 1858, assisted by Mother ...
(S ERBIA )
A European kingdom in the north-western part of the Balkan peninsula.
I. ...
(SERVANTS OF MARY).
The Order of Servites is the fifth mendicant order, the objects of which ...
(SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD.)
A title given by the popes to themselves in documents of ...
(SUESSANA).
Diocese in Campania, Province of Caserta (Southern Italy ). The city is situated ...
Astronomer, mathematician, b. at Florence, Italy, 20 March, 1816; d. at Frederick, Maryland, 17 ...
A considerable tribe of Panoan linguistic stock formerly centering about the confluence of the ...
Foundress and first superior of the Sisters of Charity in the United States ; born in New York ...
Author, b. in New York, 28 Jan., 1835; d. there, 15 Mar., 1905. His father was William Seton, ...
Born at Settignano, Tuscany, 1428; died at Florence, 1463. He is said to have been the son of a ...
In 1662 an act was passed by the Irish Parliament, the privileges of which were restored on the ...
The seven men elected by the whole company of the original Christian community at Jerusalem and ...
(Septem Latrones), martyrs on the Island of Corcyra (Corfu) in the second century. Their ...
The story is one of the many examples of the legend about a man who falls asleep and years after ...
One of the three chief furnishings of the Holy of the Tabernacle and the Temple ( Exodus ...
Bishop of Gabala in Syria, flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries. Concerning his life ...
The date of his birth is not known. He was consecrated seemingly on 28 May, 640, and died 2 ...
Christian rhetorician and poet of the fourth century. It is possible that his true name was ...
Roman emperor, b. at Acco in Palestine, 208, murdered by his mutinous soldiers at Sicula on the ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF SEVILLE (HISPALENSIS).
Archdiocese in Spain, is bounded on the north by ...
In the middle of the thirteenth century the Dominicans, in order to prepare missionaries for work ...
( Latin sexagesima , sixtieth) is the eighth Sunday before Easter and the second before ...
Died about 699. Her sisters, Sts. Ethelburga and Saethrid, were both Abbesses of Faremontier in ...
I. MEANING, SYMBOLISM, AND ORIGIN
The hora sexta of the Romans corresponded closely with our ...
(Old English Sexestein, sextein , through the French sacristain from Latin sacrista ).
...
Prince-abbot of St. Gall and cardinal, b. at Milan, 10 January, 1644, d. at Rome, 4 September, ...
Born at Urbino about 1434; died at Pesaro, 8 September, 1478. Her parents were Guido Antonio ...
Of both Milton and Shakespeare it was stated after their deaths, upon Protestant authority, that ...
(From Shaman or Saman , a word derived by Bantzaroff from Manchu saman , i.e., an excited ...
(Called ha-Zekan , "the Elder").
A famous Jewish scribe who together with Hillel made ...
The Faith was carried for the first time into the Province of Shan-si. Norhter China, by the ...
Erected in 1890; there are about 6,000,000 inhabitants; the mission is entrusted to the Franciscan ...
This mission was separated in 1894 from Northern Shan-Tung and erected into a vicariate ...
Erected by Gregory XVI in 1839. The first vicar Apostolic was Louis de Besi, formerly ...
On 2 Jan., 1882, the then vicar Apostolic of Shan-tung, Rt. Rev. Mgr. D. Cosi, elected as ...
(Alias POLLARD).
Born at York, 1577; died at Lincoln, 1630. Converted when young, he made ...
Historian, born in New York, 22 July, 1824; died at Elizabeth, New Jersey , 22 February, 1892. ...
Born in Newfoundland, 17 Sept., 1815; d. in London, 30 July, 1905. At the age of twenty-two he ...
Dramatist, prose writer, and politician, b. at Drumdowny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, 17 August, ...
Translator, b. at Beoley, 23 April, 1599; d. in London, 27 March, 1687. He was the third son of ...
English confessor ; d. in Marshalsea prison, London, probably in February or March, 1585-6. ...
( Hebrew "name", "fame", "renown"; in Septuagint, Sem ; A.V., Shem .)
Son of Noah ; ...
(V ICARIATE A POSTOLIC ).
In 1640 the Christian religion was preached for the first time ...
The southern part of Shen-si was entrusted in 1885 to the Seminary of Sts. Peter and Paul, ...
Musical composer, born about 1512; died about 1563; one of the great English musicians who rank ...
Located in Dorsetshire, England ; founded in 998. Sherborne ( scir-burne , clear brook) was ...
(S HERBROOKIENSIS ).
Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of the Archdiocese of ...
Born at Albany, N.Y., U.S.A. 6 March, 1831; died at Nonquitt, Mass, 5 August, 1888. His family ...
English priest and confessor, one of the Dilati (see ENGLISH MARTYRS), b. 1563; d. 1588. A ...
A native of Cheshire; took the degree of B.A. at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1566. Successively ...
English martyr, born 1550 at Rodesley, near Longford, Derbyshire; died at Tyburn, 1 December, ...
Martyr, born in London, 1551; died at Tyburn, London, 7 February, 1578. His parents also ...
Bishop of Meath, d. at Dublin, 3 Dec. 1482. He was an English ecclesiastic who obtained the ...
Heb. "bread of the faces", i.e. "bread of the presence (of Yahweh )" ( Exodus 35:13 ; 39:35 , ...
One of the four great islands of Japan, has all area of 7009 square miles, not counting the ...
Military officer, b. in Dungannon County Tyrone, Ireland, 12 Dec., 1810; d. at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1 ...
(SHIRENENSIS).
Vicariate apostolic in Nyassaland Protectorate, Africa. The Nyassaland ...
Poet and dramatist, b. in London, 18 Sept., 1596; d. there Oct., 1666. As a boy he attended the ...
(SALOPIENSIS).
One of the thirteen English dioceses created by Apostolic Letter of Pius IX ...
I. SANCTUARIES OF OUR LADY A. England
(1) Abingdon -- St. Edward the Martyr and St. Dunstan, ...
This name is primarily given to a relic now preserved at Turin, for which the claim is made that ...
Shrovetide is the English equivalent of what is known in the greater part of Southern Europe as ...
(Properly SU-KHAPMUH, a name of unknown origin and meaning).
A tribe of Salishan linguistic ...
Siam, "the land of the White Elephant" or the country of the Muang Thai (the Free), is situated ...
Sculptor, b. at Dulmen, 7 June, 1850; d. in New York, 10 July, 1907. As a boy he evinced the ...
A Russian possession in Asia forming the northern third of that continent; it extends from the ...
Born at Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux (Drome, France ), 4 August, 1792; died in Paris, 3 January, ...
The name given to certain collections of supposed prophecies, emanating from the sibyls or ...
Bishop of Cremona ( Italy ) in the twelfth century, a member of one of the principal families ...
A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. Sicca was an ancient important ...
(A.V. Shechem ).
An Israelite city in the tribe of Ephraim, the first capital of the ...
The traditional name given to the insurrection which broke out at Palermo on Easter Tuesday, 31 ...
The largest island in the Mediterranean. It is triangular in shape and was on that account called ...
A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give spiritual aid and comfort and perfect ...
That part of the altar which faced the congregation, in contradistinction to the side at which ...
The seat of a Melchite and a Maronite see in Syria. Sidon is the oldest city of the ...
Titular metropolis of Pamphylia Prima. Sidon, situated on the coast of Pamphylia, was a colony ...
(CAIUS SOLLIUS MODESTUS APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS).
Christian author and Bishop of Clermont, b. ...
A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra ; mentioned by Ptolemy, V, 3, 5; Pliny, V, 28; ...
(SENENSIS)
Archdiocese in Tuscany (Central Italy ). The city is situated on three gently ...
The earliest notices of an advanced school (of grammar and medicine ) at Siena go back to ...
(Better known as CYRIL OF BARCELONA).
Missionary bishop, b. in Catalonia, date of birth ...
(SIERRAE LEONIS, SIERRA-LEONENSIS).
Comprises the English colony of that name and the ...
(SEGUNTINA, SEGONTIAE).
Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Toledo; bounded on the north by Soria, ...
Benedictine historian, b. near Gembloux which is now in the Province of Namur, Belgium, about ...
Indisputably the leader of Latin Averroism during the sixth and seventh decades of the ...
King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, b. 15 February, 1361, at Nuremberg ; d. ...
A term applied to various manual acts, liturgical or devotional in character, which have this at ...
Italian painter, b. at Cortona about 1441; d. there in 1523. He was a son of Egidio Signorelli, ...
The religion of a warlike sect of India, having its origin in the Punjab and its centre in the ...
A titular see in Lydia, suffragan of Sardis. It is not mentioned by any ancient geographer or ...
All writers on the spiritual life uniformly recommend, nay, command under penalty of total ...
I. PRUSSIAN SILESIA
Prussian Silesia, the largest province of Prussia, has an area of 15,557 ...
The collective designation for the rapidly dwindling remnant of some thirty small tribes, ...
(SILOAH, SILOAM).
A pool in the Tyropoean Valley, just outside the south wall of Jerusalem, ...
Pioneer missionary of South Africa, b. 23 Feb, 1526, at Almeirim, about forty miles from Lisbon ...
(Reigned 536-37).
Dates of birth and death unknown. He was the son of Pope Hormisdas who had ...
(F ERRARIENSIS ).
Theologian, b. at Ferrara about 1474; d. at Rennes, 19 Sept., 1526. At ...
(Also spelled "Sylvia").
Mother of Pope St. Gregory the Great , born about 515 (525?); died ...
The second son of Jacob by Lia and patronymic ancestor of the Jewish tribe bearing that name. ...
(Symeon).
Chronicler, d. 14 Oct., between 1130 and 1138. As a youth he had entered the ...
St. Simeon was the first and probably the most famous of the long succession of stylitoe , or ...
Born at Antioch in 521, died at the same place 24 May, 597. His father was a native of Edessa, ...
(The Canticle of Simeon).
Found in St. Luke's Gospel (2:29-32) , is the last in historical ...
The "just and devout" man of Jerusalem who according to the narrative of St. Luke, greeted the ...
Archdiocese in India, a new creation of Pius X by a Decree dated 13 September, 1910 formed ...
According to the testimony of St. Justin ("First Apolog.", xxvi), whose statement as to this ...
(SIMEONE FIDATI)
Italian preacher and ascetical writer, b. at Cascia, Italy ; d at ...
Cardinal, b. near Rochechouart in the Diocese of Limoges before 1360; d. at Poitiers 14 Dec., ...
A theological writer and celebrated preacher belonging to the Order of St. Augustine, date of ...
Archbishop of Canterbury, b. at Sudbury, Suffolk, England, of middle-class parents, date of ...
Professor in the University of Paris at the beginning of the thirteenth century, dates of birth ...
The life of St. Peter may be conveniently considered under the following heads:
I. Until the ...
Born in the County of Kent, England, about 1165; died in the Carmelite monastery at Bordeaux, ...
The name of Simon occurs in all the passages of the Gospel and Acts, in which a list of the ...
A Lombard architect and builder of the fourteenth century whose memory is chiefly connected with ...
A Gnostic, Antinomian sect of the second century which regarded Simon Magus as its founder and ...
(From Simon Magus ; Acts 8:18-24 )
Simony is usually defined "a deliberate intention of ...
Martyrs at Rome during the Diocletian persecution (302 or 303). The brothers Simplicius and ...
Reigned 468-483; date of birth unknown; died 10 March, 483. According to the "Liber ...
Born 1820; died near Rome, 5 April, 1876. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and took ...
The subject is treated under these heads:
I. Nature of sin II. Division III. Mortal Sin IV. Venial ...
The mountain on which the Mosaic Law was given.
Horeb and Sinai were thought synonymous by ...
(The symbol is the Hebrew character Aleph , though Swete and a few other scholars use the ...
DIOCESE OF SINALOA (SINALOENSIS)
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the ...
In his Instruction on sacred music , commonly referred to as the Motu Proprio (22 Nov., 1903), ...
(SENIGALLIA), DIOCESE OF SINIGAGLIA (SENOGALLIENSIS)
Diocese in the Province of Ancona in the ...
A titular see in Armenia Secunda, suffragan of Melitene. The catalogue of titular bishoprics ...
A titular see in Asia Minor, suffragan of Amasea in Helenopontus. It is a Greek colony, ...
A titular see in Asia Minor, suffragan of Ephesus. No civil document mentions it. It is ...
(Sedunensis)
A Swiss bishopric, depending directly on the Holy See.
HISTORY
The Diocese of ...
DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY (SIOPOLITAN).
Erected 15 Jan., 1902, by Leo XIII . The establishment of ...
DIOCESE OF SIOUX FALLS (SIOUXORMENSIS).
Suffragan of St. Paul , comprises all that part of ...
The largest and most important Indian tribe north of Mexico, with the single exception of the ...
A numerous tribe of Panoan linguistic stock, formerly centring about the Pisqui and Aguaitia ...
(Abbrev. Ecclus.; also known as the Book of Sirach.)
The longest of the deuterocanonical books ...
(384-99).
Born about 334; died 26 November, 399, Siricius was a native of Rome ; his father's ...
Cardinal and scholar, born at Guardavalle near Stilo in Calabria, 1514; died at Rome, 6 October, ...
(SZERÉM, SIRMIENSIS)
Sirmium, situated near the modern town of Mitrovitz in Slavonia; ...
One of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century, born at Riom in the Department of ...
Date of birth unknown; died 4 February, 708, Successor of John VII, he was consecrated probably ...
On 27 October, 1829, at the request of Bishop Fenwick of Cincinnati, several sisters from Mother ...
A congregation founded in 1877 in England to honour in a particular manner the maternal Heart ...
Although it is known that the Church, from her earliest days, employed music in her cult, it was ...
(Sitifensis).
Titular see in Mauretania Sitifensis. Sitifis, situated in Mauretania ...
Born at Porrera, Island of Majorca, 9 December, 1739; died at San Antonio, California, 3 Sept., ...
A titular see, suffragan of Sebastia in Armenia Prima. Siunia is not a town, but a province ...
Hexaemeron signifies a term of six days, or, technically, the history of the six days' work of ...
Pope St. Sixtus I (in the oldest documents, Xystus is the spelling used for the first three ...
(XYSTUS).
Elected 31 Aug., 257, martyred at Rome, 6 Aug., 258. His origin is unknown. The ...
(XYSTUS).
Consecrated 31 July, 432; d. 440. Previous to his accession he was prominent among ...
(FRANCESCO DELLA ROVERE)
Born near Abisola, 21 July, 1414; died 12 Aug., 1484. His parents ...
(FELICE PERETTI).
Born at Grottamare near Montalto, 13 December, 1521; elected 24 April, ...
(SCARAE; SKARONENSIS, SCARENSIS).
Located in Sweden ; suffragan to Hamburg (990-1104), to ...
Theologian and missionary, b. at Grojec, 1536; d. at Cracow, 27 Sept., 1612. He began his ...
Celebrated clinical lecturer and diagnostician and, with Rokitansky, founder of the modern ...
Slander is the attributing to another of a fault of which one knows him to be innocent. It ...
How numerous the slaves were in Roman society when Christianity made its appearance, how hard ...
In Greek and Roman civilization slavery on an extensive scale formed an essential element of the ...
(Déné "Men").
A tribe of the great Déné family of American ...
Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is ...
The Slavic races have sent large numbers of their people to the United States and Canada, and ...
I. NAME A. Slavs
At present the customary name for all the Slavonic races is Slav . This name ...
Bishop of Lavant, in Maribor, Styria, Austria, noted Slovenian educator, born 1800; died 24 ...
(SCHLOTTANUS, VAN DER SLOOTIEN), (JOHN GEFFEN)
Polemical writer; born at Geffen, Brabant; died ...
One of the seven capital sins. In general it means disinclination to labour or exertion. As a ...
English confessor, born in Berkshire; died in the Tower of London, 1560. He was B.A. Oxon, ...
A politico-religious alliance formally concluded on 27 Feb., 1531, at Smalkalden in Hesse-Nassau, ...
Hagiographer, died at the Benedictine monastery of Aniane, Herault, in Southern France, March, ...
Journalist, b. at Skolland, in the Shetland Isles, about 1790; d. Jan., 1866. He spent his boyhood ...
Bishop of Chalcedon, second Vicar Apostolic of England ; b. at Hanworth, Lincolnshire, Nov., ...
Born in Worcestershire, 1500; died at Douai, 9 July, 1563. He was educated at Merton College, ...
Born at Boston, Mass., 23 Sept., 1820; died at New York, 14 Dec., 1887; eldest son of Captain ...
Orientalist and exegete, b. at Kevelaer in the Duchy of Geldern, 1704; d. 1 Dec., 1770. He ...
LATIN ARCHDIOCESE OF SMYRNA (SMYRNENSIS), in Asia Minor.
The city of Smyrna rises like an ...
Historian, born at Hvammr, 1178; died 1241. Snorri, who was the son of Sturla Thortsson (d. 1182), ...
English martyr, suffered at York, 15 June, 1598. He was born at or near Ripon and arrived at the ...
Once an important tribe of the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean linguistic stock, occupying ...
Born at Olesko in 1629; died at Wilanow, 1696; son of James, Castellan of Cracow and descended by ...
Du Contrat Social, ou Principes du droit politique , is the title of a work written by J.J. ...
A system of social and economic organization that would substitute state monopoly for private ...
This title comprehends those societies which maintain common ownership of the means of ...
Catholic societies are very numerous throughout the world; some are international in scope, some ...
An organization of the Catholic laity, parishes, and societies under the guidance of the ...
A designation of which the exact meaning has varied at different times.
I. DEFINITION
"By a ...
Society implies fellowship, company, and has always been conceived as signifying a human relation, ...
The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris was established in 1658-63, its chief founders being ...
(Company of Jesus, Jesuits)
See also DISTINGUISHED JESUITS , JESUIT APOLOGETIC, EARLY JESUIT ...
A congregation of priests founded by Venerable Pierre-Julien Eymard in Paris, 1 June, 1856. ...
An institution of religious women, taking perpetual vows and devoted to the work of education, ...
IN THE UNITED STATES
The first active agitation for a church extension or home mission society ...
The body of doctrine held by one of the numerous Antitrinitarian sects to which the ...
The claims of sociology ( socius , companion; logos , science ) to a place in the hierarchy ...
(DE SUCCURSU.)
Established in 1895 as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bogota, in the ...
A historian of the Early Church, b. at Constantinople towards the end of the fourth century. ...
Greek philosopher and educational reformer of the fifth century B.C.; born at Athens, 469 ...
I
The sodalities of the Church are pious associations and are included among the ...
( Latin confraternitas , confratria )
A confraternity or sodality is a voluntary ...
Sodom, a city of Pentapolis ( Wisdom 10:6 ; Genesis 14:2 ): Sodom, Gomorrha, Adama, Seboim, and ...
(GIOVANNI ANTONIO BAZZI, or DE'BAZZI, often miscalled RAZZI, more usually known by his nickname, ...
(SODORENSIS).
The early history of this see is extremely obscure. The Scandinavian diocese, ...
Diocese of Soissons (Suessionensis)
Includes, with the exception of two hamlets, the entire ...
South American missionary of the Order of Friars Minor ; b. at Montilla, in the Diocese of ...
(SOLARIO)
A family of Milanese artists, closely connected with the cathedral and with the ...
(From Latin solet and annus -- a yearly celebration).
The word solemnity is here used ...
A Benedictine monastery in Department of Sarthe, near Sablé, France. It was founded in ...
A titular see in Cyprus, suffragan of Salamis. Soli was an important port on the Clarius, on ...
( Latin sollicitare )
Technically in canon law the crime of making use of the Sacrament of ...
A prefecture Apostolic in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, erected by a decree of the Sacred ...
Our sources for the study of the life, reign, and character of Solomon are 1 Kings 1-9 ; and 2 ...
(PREFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF THE NORTHERN SOLOMON ISLANDS)
Established on 23 May, 1898, by ...
PREFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF THE SOUTHERN SOLOMON ISLANDS (INSULARUM SOLOMONIARUM).
The Solomon ...
Eighteen apocryphal psalms, extant in Greek, probably translated from a Hebrew, or an Aramaic ...
DIOCESE OF SOLSONA (CELSONENSIS).
Diocese in Lérida, Spain, suffragan of Tarragona, ...
A triangular-shaped territory in the north-eastern extremity of Africa, projecting into the ocean ...
Name of a charitable religious congregation of regular clerics, founded in the sixteenth century ...
Confessor, born about 1530; died in the Tower of London, 27 May, 1587; second son of Henry, second ...
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
The title "son of God" is frequent in the Old Testament. The word "son" was ...
In the Old Testament "son of man " is always translated in the Septuagint without the article ...
(Sacred Song)
Religious song is the general designation given to the numerous poetical and ...
A tribe of some importance formerly holding the south coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., in the ...
Theologian, b. at Zon in Brabant, 12 August, 1506; d. at Antwerp, 30 June, 1576. His real name ...
(DE SONORA)
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico ; suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durango. Its ...
A titular see, suffragan of Melitene in Armenia Secunda. In the sixth century "Notitiæ ...
A group of Greek teachers who flourished at the end of the fifth century B.C. They claimed to be ...
The ninth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Canon of the Old Testament ; preached and wrote ...
Sophronius, Bishop of Constantina or Tella in Osrhoene, was a relative of Ibas, Bishop of ...
A titular see in Paphlagonia, suffragan of Gangra. Sora must have been an insignificant town; ...
Physician, b. in Hainault, 1624; d. at Vienna, 19 April, 1691. He went to school at Paderborn, ...
This name is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of ...
The founder of Notre Dame, Indiana ; b. 6 Feb., 1814, at Ahuillé, near Laval, France ; ...
Archdiocese in the Province of Naples, with one suffragan, Castellamare. The city is situated on ...
There are two such days:
Friday before Palm Sunday, major double;
third Sunday in ...
They have their feast together on 22 April, on which day they appear in most of the ...
Dominican, renowned theologian, b. at Segovia, 1494; d. at Salamanca, 15 Nov., 1560. His first ...
(Greek psyche ; Latin anima ; French ame ; German Seele ).
The question of the ...
I. MEANING
Whatever doctrine one may hold concerning the nature of the human soul and its ...
(Legal title, COLLEGIO PIO-LATINO-AMERICANO PONTIFICIO).
The Rev. Ignatius Victor Eyzaguirre, ...
One of the thirteen original colonies of the United States, has an area of 30,570 square miles ...
The thirty-ninth state, admitted to the Union on 2 November, 1889, is officially bounded as ...
English martyr, suffered at Newcastle-under-Lyme, 30 April, 1618. An alumnus and priest of the ...
DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK (SOUTHWARCENSIS)
Suffragan of Westminster, England, comprises the ...
Poet, Jesuit, martyr ; born at Horsham St. Faith's, Norfolk, England, in 1561; hanged at ...
English martyr, b. in Lancashire, 1592, martyred at Tyburn, 28 June, 1654. A member of a junior ...
DIOCESE OF SOVANA AND PITIGLIANO (SUANENSIS ET PITILIANENSIS).
The two towns, Sovana and ...
One of the famous historians of the early Church, born at Bethelia, a small town near Gaza in ...
Titular see in the Balkans, suffragan of Adrianopolis. The town, at first called Antheia, was ...
A titular see of Palestina Prima, suffragan of Cæsarea. The town, at first called ...
( Latin spatium ).
The idea of space is one of the most important in the philosophy of ...
Educator and author, born at Florence, 8 Aug., 1716; died at Rome, 16 Sept., 1788. He entered the ...
This name properly signifies the whole peninsula which forms the south-western extremity of ...
DIOCESE OF SPALATO-MACARSCA (SPALATENSIS ET MACARSCENSIS).
Suffragan of Zara. Salona is the ...
Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore, b. Bardstown, Kentucky, 23 May, 1810; d., at Baltimore, 7 ...
A distinguished eighteenth-century scientist, b. at Scadiano in Modena, Italy, 10 January, 1729; ...
The Spanish Armada, also called the Invincible Armada ( infra ), and more correctly La Armada ...
Spanish, a Romance language, that is, one of the modern spoken forms of Latin, is the speech of ...
The literature produced by the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, Central America, Cuba and ...
The University of St. Mark's at Lima enjoys the reputation of being the oldest in America; ...
A celebrated town of the Peloponnesus, mentioned several times under this name or under that of ...
In scholastic terminology, Species is the necessary determinant of every cognitive process. ...
A Tyrolean patriot of 1809, born at Gnadenwald, near Hall, in the Tyrol, 13 July, 1767; died at ...
A term used with reference to business transactions to signify the investing of money at a risk of ...
A priest, theologian, and philosopher, born at Bronte in the Province of Catania, Sicily, 6 ...
A poet, opponent of trials for witchcraft, born at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, 25 February, 1591; ...
[ alias Spence]
English martyr, executed at Durham, 4 Feb., 1593-4, for assisting the ...
( In religion , Ignatius of St. Paul).
Passionist, b. at the Admiralty, London, 21 Dec., ...
( alias HATCLIFFE and TYRRWHIT)
John Spenser, born in Lincolnshire, 1601; died at Grafton, ...
English martyr, b. at Ghisburn, Yorkshire; executed at York, 24 September, 1589. His maternal ...
DIOCESE OF SPEYER (SPIRA)
Diocese in Bavaria. The city dates back to the stronghold of ...
German printers in Venice from 1468 to 1477. They were among the first of those who, after 1462, ...
Author, b. at Zug, Switzerland, 22 April, 1842; d. at Luxembourg, 20 February, 1905. He attended ...
Spanish Franciscan, date of birth unknown; died about 1491. A convert from Judaism, he was for ...
Scholastic theologian, born at Pisa about 1475; died at Rome, 1546. He joined the Dominican ...
Bishop of Wiener-Neustadt, born of a noble Spanish family, near Roermond in Gelderland in ...
(d'Espinosa, Despinoza).
Born at Amsterdam, 24 Nov., 1632; died at The Hague, 21 Feb., ...
(From the Anglo-Saxon word spir , meaning "a stalk" or "shoot").
A tapering construction ...
( Latin spiritus , spirare , "to breathe"; Gk. pneuma ; Fr. esprit ; Ger. Geist ). As ...
I. SYNOPSIS OF THE DOGMA
The doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning the Holy Ghost forms ...
Spiritism is the name properly given to the belief that the living can and do communicate with ...
(SPIRITUS SANCTI)
Suffragan of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro , established in ...
In the technical sense of the term, spiritual direction is that function of the sacred ministry by ...
A short work composed by St. Ignatius of Loyola and written originally in Spanish.
THE TEXT
...
The term "spiritualism" has been frequently used to denote the belief in the possibility of ...
A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the ...
An important tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely cognate with the Colville, Coeur ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF SPOLETO (SPOLETANO).
Archdiocese in the province of Umbria, Italy. The city is ...
(DE SPONDE)
A convert from Calvinism, Bishop of Pamiers, and one of the continuators of ...
Composer, born at Magolati, near Jesi, Ancona, 14 Nov., 1774; died there, 14 Jan., 1851. He was ...
A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of ...
Moral theologian, born at Passau, Bavaria ; died there, 29 May, 1683. In 1637 he entered the ...
Born at Nola in Bari, Italy, 29 March, 1702; died at Pagani, 19 April, 1750. His mother, who ...
Diocese of Springfield (Campifontis) in Massachusetts, erected in June, 1870. It comprises five ...
(Spratt)
English martyr, b. at Skelsmergh, near Kendal, Westmoreland; suffered at Lincoln with ...
A considerable tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, speaking a distinct language, holding the ...
Army officer and diplomatist; b. at Madoc, Canada, 20 April, 1859; d. at London, 19 Oct., 1911. ...
(Squillacensis).
Suffragan diocese of Reggio, in Calabria, Southern Italy. The city of ...
An island (266 1/2 miles long and 140 1/2 miles broad), to the south-east of India and separated ...
A neo-Scholastic philosopher and theologian, born at Möhren, near Freuchtlingen, in Middle ...
The opening words of two companion hymns, one of which (Stabat Mater Dolorosa) is in liturgical ...
A Bavarian hagiographer, b. at Parkstetten, in the Diocese of Ratisbon, 24 Dec., 1804; d. at ...
(Or PASTORAL STAFF).
The crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops ...
The popular name for the glass used in the making of coloured windows. The term is a misnomer, as ...
Stalls — seats in a choir, wholly or partly enclosed on the back and sides — are ...
An abbey of Benedictine nuns, midway between Malvern and Worcester, England. The abbey and ...
English painter, b. at Sunderland, 1793; d. at Hampstead, near London, 1867. He became a sailor, ...
Born at Rostkovo near Prasnysz, Poland, about 28 October, 1550; died at Rome during the night of ...
Bishop and martyr, born at Szczepanów (hence called Szczepanowski), in the Diocese of ...
Diocese of Stanislawow (Stanislaopoliensis)
Diocese of the Greek-Ruthenian Rite, in Galicia, ...
Vicariate Apostolic in the Belgian Congo. It is bounded on the east by the meridian 30° E. ...
Astronomer, b. at Olmütz, Moravia, 1621; d. at Bahia, Brazil, 18 Dec., 1705. He entered the ...
Catholic controversialist, historian, and devotional writer, born at Dublin, 1547; died at ...
An Italian word signifying room, chamber, apartment. In English the term is chiefly used for ...
Theologian, born at Fliess in the valley of the Upper Inn in the Tyrol, Austria, 15 August, 1785; ...
Theologian, born at Osnabrück, 27 Aug., 1512; died at Ingolstadt, 5 March, 1564. His father, ...
Theobald Stapleton was born in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, but was English by descent, though not ...
Controversialist, born at Henfield, Sussex, July, 1535; died at Louvain, 12 Oct., 1598. He was the ...
Born at Stara Wola, near Cracow, 1585; died at Cracow, 1656; studied at Louvain, but took his ...
Born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, 29 August, 1824; died at Durand, Illinois, 8 September, 1901. ...
The Church and the State are both perfect societies, that is to say, each essentially aiming ...
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. It may be ...
By civil allegiance is meant the duty of loyalty and obedience which a person owes to the State ...
( Italian Lo Stato della Chiese )
Consists of the civil territory which for over 1000 years ...
( Italian Lo Stato della Chiese )
Consists of the civil territory which for over 1000 years ...
Days on which in the early Church fast was observed until the Hour of None (between twelve and ...
(Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa). These names are used to signify ...
I. DEFINITION
This study concerns itself with religious bodies, the number of their members, and ...
In dealing with statistics, both theoretically and practically, it is unimportant whether the men, ...
Jesuit theologian, born at Kötzting, Bavaria ( Diocese of Ratisbon ), 30 Jan., 1728; died ...
A theologian, born at Donzdorf, Würtemberg, 11 Sept., 1800; died at Freiburg im Breisgau, ...
Abbot, born at Motterwitz near Leisnig (or Moderwitz near Meustadt an der Orla) about 1460; died ...
A titular metropolitan see of the Province of Caria. The city, founded by the Leleges, was at ...
(STAVANGRIA; STAVANGRENSIS)
Located in Norway ; included the Provinces of Stavanger, Lister ...
(A word meaning "those living along a shore")
A tribe of Frisian peasants in Northern Germany ...
A cardinal-deacon, born at Rome, about 1270; died at Avignon, 23 June, 1343. He was the son of ...
A titular Bishop of Spiga, diplomatist and musician, born at Castelfranco in the Province of ...
(SZOMBATHELY)
Located in Hungary, suffragan of Gran, founded in 1777 under Queen Maria ...
An historical painter, born at Vienna, 2 July, 1810; died at Frankfort, 19 Sept., 1886. Steinle ...
(FARMER)
Ferdinand Steinmeyer, Jesuit missionary, born in Swabia, Germany, 13 Oct., 1720; ...
(Niels Steensen)
An eminent Danish anatomist and geologist, convert and saintly bishop, ...
Unanimously elected in St. Mary Major's and consecrated on 26 March (or 3 April), 752; d. 26 ...
Born about 720; died 1 or 3 August, 772. Paul I was not dead when trouble began about the ...
(816-17)
Date of birth unknown; died 24 Jan., 817. Stephen, the son of Marinus, was of the same ...
Born probably about the beginning of the eleventh century; died at Florence, 29 March, 1058. ...
(885-91)
Date of birth unknown; died in Sept., 891. His father, Hadrian, who belonged to the ...
(896-7)
Date of birth unknown; died about August, 897. Stephen was a Roman, and the son of ...
(929-31)
Date of birth unknown; died in February or March, 931. He became pope either at the ...
(939-942)
Date of birth unknown; he became pope about 14 July, 939, and died about the end of ...
Confessor, the third Abbot of Cîteaux, was born at Sherborne in Dorsetshire, England, ...
Although there is some doubt as to the dates connected with the pontificate of Stephen, it is ...
On the death of Zachary, a certain priest Stephen was unanimously elected to succeed him ...
Bishop, liturgical writer, b. at Bangé (hence surnamed Blagiacus or de Balgiaco) in ...
Illustrious writer and preacher, especially noted as a historian of medieval heresies, b. at ...
Born 1045; died at Muret, 8 February, 1124, founder of the Abbey and Order of Grandmont. Serious ...
Stephen of Tournai, canonist, born at Orléans, 1128; died at Tournai, September, 1203. He ...
One of the first deacons and the first Christian martyr ; feast on 26 December. In the Acts ...
First King of Hungary, b. at Gran, 975; d. 15 August, 1038.
He was a son of the Hungarian ...
Belgian theologian, born of English parentage at Liège, 5 August, 1665; died there, 15 ...
(Also known in India as PADRE ESTEVÄO or ESTEVAM; less familiarly PADRE BUSTEN, BUSTON, or DE ...
In the beginning altars were not erected on steps. Those in the catacombs were constructed on the ...
(STEUCHUS)
Exegete, born at Gubbio, Umbria, 1496; died at Venice, 1549. At the age of ...
Archivist, born at Berwick-on-Tweed, 27 Nov., 1806; died in London, 8 Feb., 1895. Though his ...
Born at Bruges in 1548; died at Leyden in 1620. He was for some years book-keeper in a business ...
Poet and pedagogue, b. at Oberplan in Bohemia, 23 October, 1805; d. at Linz, 28 October, 1868. ...
To decide merely the facts without deciding whether or not they may be explained by supernatural ...
[ Latin stipendium , a tax, import, tribute; in military use, pay, salary; contraction for ...
Stockholm, the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden, is situated on Lake Maelar at the spot where it ...
An American author, born 7 August, 1843, at Rochester, N. Y.; died 23 April, 1909, at Monterey, ...
The Stoic School was founded in 322 B.C. by Zeno of Cittium and existed until the closing of the ...
1. Friedrich Leopold, Count zu Stolberg
Born at Brammstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark ...
A liturgical vestment composed of a strip of material from two to four inches wide and about ...
An ornament, having the shape of the ends of a stole, which in the Middle Ages was attached to ...
Catholic theologian and popular author, b. at Bühl, Baden, 3 Feb., 1808; d. at Freiberg, ...
A solid piece of natural stone, consecrated by a bishop, large enough to hold the Sacred Host ...
(Foundation Stone)
A rite entitled "De benedictione et impositione Primarii Lapidis pro ...
English martyr, executed at the Dane-John, Canterbury, probably in December, 1539, for denying ...
Jesuit, b. at Draycot, 28 Nov., 1748; d. at St. Helens, 22 Aug., 1834. He was educated at St. ...
Born at Brighton, Sussex, in 1853; died at Battle, Sussex, 3 May, 1908. She was educated at a ...
Precious stones are stones remarkable for their colour, brilliancy, or rarity. Such stones have at ...
Palestine being a very rocky country, the abundance of stones made it natural to use them as ...
English priest, b. 1513; d. after 1585. He was ordained at Durham by Bishop Tunstall in 1539. ...
The history of Stonyhurst as a school dates back to a period considerably prior to its ...
( Or Storey.)
Martyr ; born 1504; died at Tyburn, 1 June, 1571. He was educated at ...
Sculptor, b. at Nuremberg in 1438; d there in 1533. In 1477 he established a large work shop at ...
Vessels intended for the use of holy water are of very ancient origin, and archaeological ...
The name Stradivari goes back to the Middle Ages ; we find it spelt in various ways, Stradivare, ...
The famous Cremonese violin-maker, b. in 1649 or 1650; d. at Cremona, 18 or 19 Dec., 1737. He ...
A Premonstratensian abbey at Prague, Bohemia, founded in 1149 by Bishop Henry Zdik of ...
Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, born at Edinburgh, 8 December, 1810; died there, 2 July, ...
English martyr, born at Oxford about 1554; suffered at Tyburn, 21 January, 1586. He was educated ...
(ARGENTINENSIS)
A German diocese immediately dependent on the Papal See . According to ...
A titular see in Caria ( Asia Minor ) suffragan of Stauropolis. Stratoniceia or Stratonicea ...
Numismatist and theologian, born at Reisbach, Lower Bavaria, 11 Feb., 1758; died at Munich, 26 ...
Numismatist and nephew of Franz Ignaz von Streber, born at Deutenkofen, Lower Bavaria, 26 Feb., ...
Son of Franz Seraph Streber, b. at Munich, 27 Sept., 1839; d. at Tölz, 9 Aug., 1896. He ...
(STRENGAE, STRENGENSIA; STRENGENESIS).
Located in Sweden. The diocese consisted of the ...
Striking of the breast as a liturgical act is prescribed in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ...
On Holy Thursday the celebrant, having removed the ciborium from the high altar, goes to the ...
(Josip Juraj), Bishop of Diakovár [Djakovo], born at Essegg [Osijek] in ...
Cardinal, Duke of York, known by the Jacobites as "Henry IX, King of Great Britain, France, ...
(Latin Studium ), the most important monastery at Constantinople, situated not far from the ...
DIOCESE OF STUHLWEISSENBURG (ALBAE REGALENSIS)
Diocese in Hungary, and Suffragen of Gran. It ...
Historian, born at Hvammr, 1178; died 1241. Snorri, who was the son of Sturla Thortsson (d. 1182), ...
Stylites were solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar ( stylos ), chose ...
( German Steiermark)
A duchy and Austrian crownland, divided by the River Mur into Upper and ...
Doctor Eximius , a pious and eminent theologian, as Paul V called him, born at Granada, 5 ...
The subdiaconate is the lowest of the sacred or major orders in the Latin Church. It is defined ...
(SUBLACUM, SUBLACEUM, SUBLAQUEM).
A city in the Province of Rome, twenty-five miles from ...
( Latin subreptio ).
In canon law the concealment or suppression of statements or facts that ...
( Latin subsidia , tribute, pecuniary aid, subvention)
Since the faithful are obliged to ...
( Latin sub-stare, substantia )
Substance, the first of Aristotle's categories, signifies ...
A name applied to the dioceses nearest Rome, viz. Albano, Frascati (Tusculum), Palestrina, ...
The Vicariate Apostolic of Sudan or Central-Africa (S UDANENSIS SEU A FRICÆ C ...
A titular see of North Africa. Sufetula seems to be Suthul where Jugurtha had deposited his ...
(Suker).
Born at Wombourn, Staffordshire, 1558; suffered at Warwick, 16 July, 1604. He ...
Abbot of St-Denis, statesman and historian, b. probably at or near St-Denis, about 1081; d. ...
This article will treat the subject under the following three heads:
I. The notions and ...
( Souidas, Soudas )
Author of, perhaps, the most important Greek lexicon or encyclopedia. ...
(Suidbert [or Swithbert]).
Apostle of the Frisians, b. in England in the seventh century; d. ...
Irish politician, lawyer and journalist, b. at Bantry in 1830; d. at Dartry Lodge, Rathmines, ...
Soldier, lawyer, born at Cork, Ireland, 15 March, 1821; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 2 March 1883. ...
Bishop of Paris, born of humble parents at Sully-sur-Loire (Soliacum), near Orléans, at ...
The Sulpicians came to the United States at the very rise of the American Hierarchy. When the ...
An ecclesiastical writer, born of noble parents in Aquitaine c. 360; died about 420-25. The ...
Two bishops of Bourges bore this name.
(1)
The first, St. Sulpitius the Severe, wrongly ...
Sumatra, erected by a Decree of 30 June, 1911, and entrusted to the Dutch Capuchins. Previously ...
(SUMMULÆ)
Summæ are compendiums of theology, philosophy, and canon law which ...
A Catholic summer school is an assembly of Catholic clergy and laity held during the summer ...
Sunday (Day of the Sun), as the name of the first day of the week, is derived from Egyptian ...
(SUPERIORENSIS)
Situated in the northern part of Wisconsin, Superior comprises the following ...
( Latin adoptare , to choose.)
Adoption is the gratuitous taking of a stranger as one's own ...
A supernatural gift may be defined as something conferred on nature that is above all the ...
The Supernatural Order is the ensemble of effects exceeding the powers of the created universe ...
[From supersisto , "to stand in terror of the deity " (Cicero, "De Nat. deorum", I, 42, 117); ...
The meal held by Christ and His disciples on the eve of His Passion at which He instituted the ...
Under this title will be treated only the suppressions of religious houses (whether monastic in ...
From any point of view the destruction of the English monasteries by Henry VIII must be ...
Motu Proprio of Pius X, promulgated 2 July, 1911, relating to Holy Days of obligation. On Holy ...
Titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis. Sura, situated on the banks of the ...
Born 1600; died at Bordeaux, 1665. He belonged to the Society of Jesus , and enjoyed great ...
Hagiologist, born at the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, 1522; died at Cologne, 23 May, 1578. It ...
A large-sleeved tunic of half-length, made of fine linen or cotton, and worn by all the clergy. ...
(Greek Sousan, Sousa )
The capital of the Kingdom of Elam, and from the time of Cyrus, or ...
(SEGUSIN; SEGUSIENSIS)
Diocese in the Province of Turin, Piedmont, Northern Italy. The city ...
Roman martyrs, feast 11 August. The story is related in the legend of St. Sebastian that ...
(Also called Amandus , a name adopted in his writings). German mystic, born at Constance on ...
Suspension, in canon law, is usually defined as a censure by which a cleric is deprived, ...
Co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford, date of birth unknown; d. September or October, 1524. ...
Priest, martyr, b. at Burton-on-Trent; quartered at Stafford, 27 July, 1587. He is not to be ...
A pious confraternity, indulgenced by the pope, which arose in 1440 in the Electorate of ...
The largest of the three Scandinavian countries and the eastern half of the Scandinavian ...
The believers in the religious doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. As an organized body they ...
See also KONRAD SWEYNHEIM .
Both printers; Pannartz died about 1476, Sweinheim in 1477. ...
Writer, b. at Moscow, 22 Nov., 1782; d. in Paris, 10 Sept., 1857. She was a member of a noble ...
See also ARNOLD PANNARTZ AND KONRAD SWEINHEIM .
(SCHWEINHEIM)
Printer, b. at Schwanheim, ...
A tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely connected with the Skagit. They formerly held the ...
(SWITHUN).
Bishop of Winchester ; died 2 July, 862.
Very little is known of this saint's ...
(Confederatio Helvetica)
A confederation in the central part of Western Europe, made up of ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY (SYDNEYENSIS).
The vast territories formerly known as New Holland and Van ...
A titular see in Thebian Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais. Syene (Egyptian, Souanou, Coptic, ...
Born at Leeds ; martyred at York Tyburn 23 March, 1586-7; was a student at the College at ...
( syllabos , "collection")
The name given to two series of propositions containing modern ...
Founder of the Sylvestrines, b. of the noble family of the Gozzolini at Osimo, 1177; d. 26 ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 31 December, 335. According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, ...
Reigned 999-1003; also called Gerbert. Born at or near Aurillac, Auvergne, France, about 940-950, ...
( More properly , of Tours.)
A twelfth-century philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies. ...
The Order of Saint Sylvester is neither monastic nor military but a purely honorary title ...
A minor monastic order or, strictly speaking, congregation following in general the Rule of St. ...
(Also spelled "Sylvia").
Mother of Pope St. Gregory the Great , born about 515 (525?); died ...
Theologian, born at Braine-le-Comte, Hainault, Belgium, 1581; died at Douai, 22 February, ...
Symbolism may for our present purpose be defined to be the investing of outward things or actions ...
Author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament included by Origen in his Hexapla ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 19, July, 514. According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, ...
Martyrs whose feast is observed on 22 August. During the pontificate of Melchiades (311-13), ...
Martyred with her seven sons at Tibur (Tivoli) towards the end of the reign of Emperor Hadrian ...
The place of assemblage of the Jews. This article will treat of the name, origin, history, ...
(SYNAITANSIS)
A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea. Nothing is known ...
( synaxarion , collection)
The name of a liturgical book of the Byzantine Church. The ...
Synaxis ( synaxis from synago ) means gathering, assembly, reunion. It is exactly equivalent ...
( sygkelloi , from syn , with, and kellion , the Græcized form of the Latin cella ...
From sygkretizein (not from sygkerannynai .)
An explanation is given by Plutarch in a ...
Synderesis , or more correctly synteresis , is a term used by the Scholastic theologians to ...
A layman, who in the name, and by the authority, of the Holy See assumes the care and civil ...
The term Syndicalism has been derived from the French syndicats , associations of workingmen ...
Bishop of Ptolomais, neo-Platonist, date of birth uncertain; d. about 414. He was a younger ...
Titular metropolis in Phrygia Salutaris. Synnada is said to have been founded by Acamas who went ...
(Greek synodos , an assembly).
A general term for ecclesiastical gatherings under ...
According to the recent canon law, national councils are the deliberating assemblies at which all ...
The name given since Griesbach's time (about 1790) to the first three canonical Gospels. It is ...
A canonical collection made in 1335 by Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing ...
Syon Monastery, Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth. ...
DIOCESE OF SYRA (SYRENSIS).
A Latin diocese, suffragan of Naxos, comprising the Island of ...
Archdiocese of Syracuse (Syracusana) in Sicily. The city is situated upon a peninsula extending ...
(Syracusensis)
The Diocese of Syracuse, in the State of New York, comprises the counties of ...
GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS, ANCIENT AND MODERN
A country in Western Asia, which in modern ...
To the general consideration set forth in the article HYMNODY AND HYMNOLOGY must be added some ...
Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic. In the time ...
Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
History and Origin
This rite is used by ...
The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin ...
Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
History and Origin
This rite is used by ...
The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin ...
An ancient body of Christians on the east and west coasts of India, claiming spiritual descent ...
Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
History and Origin
This rite is used by ...
Born in the Diocese of Raab, Hungary, 1541; died at Olmütz in 1612. On finishing his ...
DIOCESE OF SZATMAR (SZATMARIENSIS)
Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Eger, from which it was ...
Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Sze-Ch'wan
The mission of Eastern Sze-ch'wan was separated from ...
Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-Ch'wan
The mission of North-eastern Sze-ch'wan includes ...
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Sze-Ch'wan
On 24 January, 1860, the mission of Southern ...
Born at Szentivàn, 20 October, 1633; died at Nagy-Szombàt (Tyrnau), 5 March, 1708. ...
(SZEPES; SCEPUSIENSIS).
A diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Agria (Eger), founded by Maria ...
Born at Tarnow, 1835; d. at Cracow, 1883. He studied at Tarnow, then at Cracow (1854) and at ...
Known also by the Latin name of Somonides, b. at Lemberg, 1558; d. 1629. He studied first at ...