Catholic Encyclopedia on Vocations
Filial Church
(Latin filialis , from filia , daughter), a church to which is annexed the cure of souls , but which remains dependent on another church. As this dependence on the mother church may be of various degrees, the term
Lay Brothers
Religious occupied solely with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary. They have been known, in various places and at various times, as fratres conversi, laici barbati, illiterati , or idiotæ , and, though members of their respective orders, are ...
Parochial Mass
The parish is established to provide the parishioners with the helps of religion, especially with Mass. The parochial Mass is celebrated for their welfare on all ...
St. Agnes of Assisi
Younger sister of St. Clare and Abbess of the Poor Ladies, born at Assisi, 1197, or 1198; died 1253. She was the younger daughter of Count Favorino Scifi. ...
Odo of Glanfeuil
(Saint-Maur-sur-Loire)
Abbot, ninth-century hagiographer. He entered Glanfeuil not later than 856 and became its abbot in 861. In 864 he issued a "Life of
Santander
(SANCTI ANDERII, SANTANDERIENSIS).
This diocese in Spain takes its name not from St. Andrew as some, misled by the sound of the ...
Malmesbury
A small decayed market town in Wiltshire, England, ninety-five miles west of London, formerly the seat of a mitred parliamentary abbey of Benedictine monks. It owed its origin to Maildubh or Maildulf, an Irish
St. Paul-without-the-Walls
( San Paolo fuori le mura ).
An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the great Apostle in the Via Ostia was ...
Kimberley
(KIMBERLIENSIS)
Vicariate apostolic ; suffragan of Adelaide, erected by Leo XIII , 5 May, 1887. The Vicariate of Kimberley embraces the whole district of that name, and is under the Apostolic ...
Ancient See of Ratzeburg
(RACEBURGUM, RACEBURGENSIS.)
In Germany, suffragan to Hamburg. The diocese embraced the Duchy of Lauenburg (Holstein) in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, the Principality of Ratzeburg ...
Helena Tarabotti
Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652. Obliged by her father, who was descended from a family of Bergamo, to enter the Convent of Sta.
Marienberg
A Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of St. Joseph near Mals, Tyrol (in Vintschau). The history of the founding goes back to Charlemagne, who established ...
Blessed Richard Whiting
Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr, parentage and date of birth unknown, executed 15 Nov., 1539; was probably educated in the claustral school at Glastonbury, whence he proceeded to Cambridge, graduating as M.A. ...
Easterwine
(Or Eosterwini).
Abbot of Wearmouth, was the nephew of St. Benedict Biscop ; born 650, died 7 March, 686. Descended from the noblest stock of Northumbria, as a young
Adam of Perseigne
A French Cistercian, Abbot of the monastery of Perseigne in the Diocese of Mans, b. about the middle of the twelfth century. He is thought to have been ...
La Trappe
This celebrated abbey of the Order of Reformed Cistercians is built in a solitary valley surrounded by forests, and watered by numerous streams which ...
Blessed Margaret Colona
Poor Clare, born in Rome, date uncertain; died there, 20 September, 1284. Her parents died in Rome when she was still a young girl, and she was left ...
St. Angilbert
Abbot of Saint-Riquier, died 18 February, 814. Angilbert seems to have been brought up at the court of Charlemagne, where he was the pupil and friend of the great English scholar Alcuin. He was intended for the ecclesiastical state and must have received
Abbey of Saint Remy
Founded at Reims before 590. Its early history is very obscure; at first a little chapel dedicated to St. Christopher, it obtained great renown when ...
St. Ado of Vienne
Born about 800, in the diocese of Sens ; d. 16 December, 875. He was brought up at the Benedictine
St. Samson
Bishop and confessor, born in South Wales ; died 28 July, 565 (?). The date of his birth is unknown. His parents whose names are given as Amon of ...
Troyes
(TRECENSIS).
Diocese comprising the Department of Aube. Re-established in 1802 as a suffragan of Paris, it then comprised the Departments of Aube and Yonne, and its bishop had the titles of Troyes, ...
Pforta
A former Cistercian monastery (1137-1540), near Naumburg on the Saale in the Prussian province of Saxony. The monastery was at first situated in Schmölln on the Sprotta, near Altenburg. Count Bruno of Pleissengau founded there, in 1127, a Benedictine monastery and endowed it ...
Samson
Abbot of St. Edmunds, b. at Tottington, near Thetford, in 1135; d. 1211. After taking his M.A. in Paris, Samson returned to Norfolk and taught in the school at Bury. In 1160 the monks of St. Edmunds sent him to
Rotuli
Rotuli, i.e. rolls — in which a long narrow strip of papyrus or parchment, written on one side, was wound like a blind about its staff — formed the earliest kind of "volume" ( volumen from volvere , to roll up) of which we have knowledge. Many such rolls have been ...
St. Romuald
Born at Ravenna, probably about 950; died at Val-di-Castro, 19 June, 1027. St. Peter Damian, his first biographer, and almost all the Camaldolese ...
Ven. Edward Ambrose Barlow
( Alias R ADCLIFFE and B RERETON .)
Priest and martyr, b. at Barlow Hall, 1585; d. 10 September, 1641. He was the fourth son of Sir Alexander Barlow, Knight of Barlow Hall, near Manchester, by Mary, daughter of Sir Uryan Brereton, Knight of Handforth Hall, Co. ...
Heinrich Brewer
A German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place about 1713. He was educated at the Gymnasium Tricoronatum in Cologne and was ordained
Archdiocese of Albi (Albia)
Comprises the Department of the Tarn. An archiepiscopal see from 1678 up to the time of the French Revolution Albi had as suffragans the
Dom François Armand Gervaise
Discalced Carmelite, b. at Paris, 1660; d. at Reclus, France, 1761. After completing his humanities with brilliant success, he joined the Discalced ...
Evesham Abbey
Founded by St. Egwin, third Bishop of Worcester, about 701, in Worcestershire, England, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. The founder's charter of endowment, dated 714, records that a herdsman of the bishop, named ...
Order of Gilbertines
Founded by St. Gilbert, about the year 1130, at Sempringham, Gilbert's native place, where he was then parish priest. His wish originally had been to found a monastery, but finding this impossible, he gave a rule of
St. Isabel of France
Daughter of Louis VIII and of his wife, Blanche of Castille, born in March, 1225; died at Longchamp, 23 February, 1270. St. Louis IX, King of France (1226-70), was her brother. When still a child at court, Isabel, or ...
Teresa Lalor
Co-foundress, with Bishop Neale of Baltimore, of the Visitation Order in the United States b. in
Waltham Abbey
The Abbey of Waltham Holy Cross stood in Essex, some ten miles to the northeast of London, on the Middlesex border. In the reign of Kent, one Tofig, a wealthy landowner, built a church at Waltham for the reception of a ...
St. Bercharius
(BERERUS).
Abbot of Hautvillers in Champagne, b. 636; d. 28 March, 696. Descended from a distinguished Aquitanian family, he received his instruction from St. Nivard (Nivo),
Montreuil Abbey
A former convent of Cistercian nuns in the Diocese of Laon, now Soissons, France. ...
Langheim
A celebrated Cistercian abbey situated in Upper Franconia (Bavaria), not far from Mein, in the Diocese of Bamberg. Three brothers of the city of
Séez
(SAGIUM.)
Diocese embracing the Department of Orne. Re-established by the Concordat of 1802, which, by adding to it some parishes of the dioceses of Bayeux, Lisieux, Le Mans, and Chartres, and ...
Cuthbert
Abbot of Wearmouth ; a pupil of the Venerable Bede (d. 735). He was a native of Durham, but the dates of his birth and death are unknown. Becoming a
Fargo
(FARGUS; FARGENSIS)
Diocese ; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A., embracing the whole of the State of North Dakota, an area of 70,195 square miles. It was established in 1889.
The first Mass, in the territory now comprised in the
Jacques Bouillart
A Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur, b. in the Diocese of Chartres, 1669; professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux, 1687; d. 11 ...
Dominic of Prussia
A Carthusian monk and ascetical writer, born in Poland, 1382; died at the monastery of St. Alban near Trier, 1461. According to the account he ...
Ludwig Engel
Canonist, b. at Castle Wagrein, Austria ; d. at Grillenberg, 22 April 1694. He became a Benedictine in the monastery of Molk (Melk), 10 September, 1654, and, at the order of his abbot, applied himself to the study of
François Delfau
Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France ; died 13 Oct., 1676, at Landevenec in Normandy. He joined the Order of St. Benedict when he was ...
Stanbrook Abbey
An abbey of Benedictine nuns, midway between Malvern and Worcester, England. The
Gelasius O'Cullenan
(Or GLAISNE O'CULLENAN). Cistercian, Abbot of Boyle, Ireland, b. probably near Assaroe Abbey, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal; martyred, 21 Nov., 1580. Three of his brothers were Cistercian abbots, and a fourth
Abbey of Vadstena
Motherhouse of the Brigittine Order, situated on Lake Wetter, in the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden. Though the abbey was founded in 1346 by St. ...
Society of the Divine Word
(S OCIETAS V ERBI D IVINI )
The first German Catholic missionary society established. It was founded in 1875 during the ...
Baldwin of Canterbury
Thirty-ninth Archbishop, a native of Exeter, date of birth unknown; d. 19 Nov., 1190. He was ordained priest and made archdeacon by Bartholomew,
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