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• Wealth, Use of: The term "wealth" is not used here in the technical sense in ...
• Wearmouth Abbey: Located on the river Wear, in Durham, England ; a ...
• Weathers, William: Titular Bishop of Amyela; born 12 November, 1814; died at ...
• Webb, Benjamin Joseph: Editor, historian, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, 25 February, ...
• Webbe, Samuel: English composer, born in England in 1742; died in London, 29 ...
• Weber, Beda: Benedictine professor, author, and member of the National ...
• Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm: Physician, member of the Prussian House of Deputies, and poet, ...
• Weber, Heinrich: German Church historian, born at Euerdorf in the Diocese of ...
• Weber, Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von: Composer, born at Eutin, Lower Saxony, 18 December, 1786; died ...
• Weedall, Henry: Born in London, 6 September, 1788; died at Oscott, 7 November, ...
• Week, Liturgical: The week as a measure of time is a sufficiently obvious ...
• Wegg-Prosser, Francis Richard: Only son of Rev. Prebendary Francis Haggit, rector of Newnham ...
• Weingarten: (MONASTERIUM VINEARUM, AD VINEAS, or WEINGARTENSE). A ...
• Weis, Nicolaus von: Bishop of Speyer, born at Rimlingen, Lorraine, 8 March, 1796; ...
• Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus: Polemical writer, born at Puttlingen in German Lorraine, 1691; ...
• Weiss, Johann Baptist: Born at Ettenheim, Baden, 17 July, 1820; died at Graz, 8 ...
• Weissenau, Monastery of: (Originally OWE_AUGIA, then MINDERLAU-AUGIA MINOR, and finally ...
• Weitenauer, Ignatius von: Litterateur, exegete, and Orientalist, born at Ingolstadt, ...
• Welbourne, Ven. Thomas: Martyred at York, 1 August, 1605. Nothing is known about ...
• Weld: The name of an ancient English family (branches of which are ...
• Weld, Frederick Aloysius: Youngest son of Humphrey Weld, born at Chidcock Manor, Dorset, ...
• Welle, Prefecture Apostolic of: Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa, ...
• Wellington, Archdiocese of: (WELLINGTONIENSIS). Located in New Zealand, originally ...
• Wells in Scripture: It is difficult for inhabitants of a more humid climate to ...
• Wells, Ven. Smithin: English martyr, born at Brambridge, Hampshire, about 1536; ...
• Welser, Bartholomeus: German merchant prince, born at Augsburg, 1488; died at Amberg, ...
• Welsh Church: In giving separate consideration to the Church of Wales, we ...
• Welsh Monastic Foundations: Few saints of the early British Church, as it existed before ...
• Welte, Benedict: Exegete, born at Ratzenried in Würtemberg, 25 November, ...
• Wenceslaus, Saint: ( Also Vaclav, Vaceslav.) Duke, martyr, and patron of ...
• Wendelin of Trier, Saint: Born about 554; died probably in 617. His earliest biographies, ...
• Weninger, Francis Xavier: Jesuit missionary and author, born at Wildhaus, Styria, ...
• Wenrich of Trier: German ecclesiastico-polical writer of the eleventh century. He ...
• Werburgh, Saint: (WEREBURGA, WEREBURG, VERBOURG). Benedictine, patroness of ...
• Werden: (WERTHINA, WEERDA, WERDENA). A suppressed Benedictine ...
• Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias: Convert, poet, and pulpit orator, born at Konigsberg, ...
• Wessel Goesport, John: (GANSFORT). A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at ...
• Wessenberg, Ignaz Heinrich von: Vicar-General and Administrator of the Diocese of Constance, ...
• Wessobrunn: (WESSOGONTANTUM, AD FONTES WESSONIS). A suppressed ...
• West Syrian Rite: The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the ...
• West Virginia: A state of the American Union, bounded on the northeast by ...
• Westcott, Sebastian: English organist, born about 1524, was a chorister, under ...
• Westeraas, Ancient See of: (AROSI, AROSIENSIS). Located in Sweden. The Catholic ...
• Western Schism: This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs ...
• Westminster Abbey: This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the ...
• Westminster Cathedral: As a national expression of religious faith given by Roman ...
• Westminster, Archdiocese of: (WESTMONASTERIENSIS). Erected and made metropolitan in ...
• Westminster, Matthew of: The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English ...
• Weston, William: Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone, 1550 (?); died ...
• Westphalia: A province of Prussia situated between the Rhine and the ...
• Wettingen-Mehrerau, Abbacy Nullius of: A Cistercian abbey near Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. The ...
• Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph: Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel, 19 ...

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