(Greek aer , "the air").
The largest and outer-most covering of the chalice and paten in ...
A friend and fellow ascetic of Eustathius, who became Bishop of Sebaste (355), and who ...
A Roman general, patrician, and consul, b. towards the end of the fourth century; d. 454.
He ...
Born at Chachapoyas (Peru) in 1550; died at Asuncion, Paraguay, 1605. His father was Pedro de ...
(In French, Aix-la-Chapelle , the name by which the city is generally known; in Latin Aquae ...
(ARUSIA, ARUSIENSIS).
The diocese included the provinces (amter) of Aarhus and Randers, ...
Brother of Moses, and High Priest of the Old Law.
I. LIFE
Altogether different views are ...
All martyred at Rome in 270. Maris and his wife Martha, who belonged to the Persian nobility, ...
A Hebrew word signifying:
ruin, destruction ( Job 31:12 );
place of destruction; the ...
(More properly, S ELF -A BANDONMENT )
A term used by writers of ascetical and mystical ...
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Theologian, born in Aragon in 1619; died 1 October, 1693, at Palencia. He entered the Society ...
( Hebrew har ha'abharim, hare ha'abharim ; Septuagint to oros to Abarim, en to peran tou ...
A French word meaning primarily and strictly an abbot or superior of a monastery of men. It came ...
Abba is the Aramaic word for "father." The word occurs three times in the New Testament ( Mark ...
Antoine d'Abbadie
Astronomer, geodetist, genographer, physician, numismatist, philologian, born ...
(Magheranoidhe is also rendered Murneave or Murnevin).
Nephew of St. Ibar, the apostle of ...
St. Abban of New Ross -- also known as St. Ewin, Abhan, or Evin, but whose name has been locally ...
Though he lived in Abingdon ( England ), he was certainly an Irishman. He is commemorated on ...
Orientalist, born 15 January, 1836, at Goyck, Belgium; died 25 February, 1906. He was educated ...
The female superior in spirituals and temporals of a community of twelve or more nuns. With a few ...
A monastery canonically erected and autonomous, with a community of not fewer than twelve ...
("The crooked").
French Benedictine monk of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, sometimes ...
(Or ABBO.)
Born near Orléans c. 945; died at Fleury, 13 November, 1004, a monk of ...
A title given to the superior of a community of twelve or more monks. The name is derived from abba ...
An ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey in commendam, that is, who draws its ...
Layman, martyred at York, 4 July, 1597, pronounced Venerable in 1886. His acts are thus related ...
( abbatocomes, abbas laicus, abbas miles ).
A name used to designate a layman on whom a king ...
The use of abbreviations is due, in part, to exigencies arising from the nature of the materials ...
The words most commonly abbreviated at all times are proper names , titles (official or ...
( Abbreviare = "shorten", "curtail").
Abbreviators are those who make an abridgment or ...
A titular see in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra. ...
(A Minor Prophet).
This name is the Greek form of the Hebrew `Obhádhyah , which means ...
An apocryphal writer, said to have been one of the seventy-two Disciples of Christ, and first ...
Abdication, ecclesiastically considered, is the resignation of a benefice or clerical dignity. ...
(Variously written in early calendars and martyrologies Abdo, Abdus; Sennes, Sennis, Zennen.)
...
Abduction may be considered as a public crime and a matrimonial diriment impediment. Viewed as a ...
Complete or partial lists of letters of the alphabet, chiefly Greek and Latin, inscribed on ...
A sect of Anabaptists who affected an absolute disdain for all human knowledge, contending ...
(From the Hebrew word for Vanity , "probably so called from the shortness of his ...
("Meadow")
Name of several places distinguished by additional words:
(1) Abel-Beth-Maacha ...
(Also ABLE, or ABELL.)
Priest and martyr, born about 1497; died 30 July, 1540. He was ...
Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian, born 1079; died 1142. Peter Abelard (also spelled ...
Louis Abelly (1603-91) was Vicar-General of Bayonne, a parish priest in Paris, and ...
(Or IBN 'EZRA).
A celebrated Spanish Rabbi, born at Toledo in 1092; died on his journey from ...
A confederation of Algonquin tribes, comprising the Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, Norridgewocks, ...
A Greek hagiographical text, which has, however, undergone alterations, and a Greek inscription ...
Died 1561. During the Scottish Reformation we know that the Catholic clergy were treated with ...
(Sometimes known as Sanders and as Robertson).
A Jesuit missionary in Scotland in the time ...
(Scotland).
A see was founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Bl. Beyn. The earliest mention of the old ...
The founder of this, one of the three universities established in Scotland in Catholic times, ...
Catholic theologian, b. at Rottum, near Biberach, in Swabia, 25 April, 1819; d. at Tübingen, ...
The historian Eusebius records a tradition (H.E., I, xii), which he himself firmly believes, ...
St. Abban of New Ross -- also known as St. Ewin, Abhan, or Evin, but whose name has been locally ...
( Hebrew ebhyathar , Father of plenty, or, the great one is father).
Descendant of ...
A titular see of Phoenicia, in the region of Mt. Libanus, now Suk Wady Barada, near Damascus, ...
This abbey, located in the County of Berkshire, England, was founded A.D. 675, by Cyssa, ...
(Or HABINGTON).
An English antiquarian, b. 1560; d. 1647. His father, who was treasurer to ...
According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life. Biogenesis is ...
This Indian tribe, linguistically of Guaycuru stock, formerly roaming the east side of the ...
( Abhishay, abhshay ; Septuagint Abessa, Abisai ).
Son of David's sister Sarvia, and ...
A denial, disavowal, or renunciation under oath. In common ecclesiastical language this term ...
A son of Ner, a cousin of Saul, and commander-in-chief of Saul's army ( 1 Samuel 14:50 ; 17:55 ; ...
The importance of this Scriptural expression is chiefly derived from the fact that in Matthew ...
Abortion (from the Latin word aboriri , "to perish") may be briefly defined as "the loss of a ...
Definition
The expulsion of the human ovum occurring during the first three months of pregnancy, ...
A French bishop, born at the Château de Raconis in 1580 of a Calvinistic family ; died ...
(Also: Abravanel, Abarbanel).
Jewish statesman, apologist and exegete, born in Lisbon ...
The original form of the name, Abram , is apparently the Assyrian Abu-ramu . It is doubtful ...
While of peculiar interest to the liturgiologist (especially in the classification of the ...
A Discalced Augustinian friar, preacher, and author of popular books of devotion, b. at ...
A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in ...
In the Holy Bible , the expression "the Bosom of Abraham " is found only in two verses of St. ...
(1) Syrian heretics of the ninth century. They were called Brachiniah by the Arabs, from the ...
Jesuit theologian, born in 1589, at Xaronval, in Lorraine; died 7 September, 1655. He taught ...
The study of Abrasax is, at first sight, as discouraging as it is possible to imagine. The name ...
( Abhshalom in Hebrew; Abessalom, Apsalomos in Greek).
The name of several distinguished ...
Also known as AXEL, a famous Danish prelate, b. in 1128, at Finnestoë in Seeland; d. 21 ...
( Hebrew la'anah .)
Wormwood, known for its repulsive bitterness ( Jeremiah 9:15 ; 23:15 ; ...
A term employed in modern philosophy with various meanings, but applied generally speaking to ...
( Ab = from; solvere = to free)
Absolution is the remission of sin, or of the punishment ...
An abstemius is one who cannot take wine without risk of vomiting. As, therefore, the ...
Inasmuch as abstinence signifies abstaining from food, the Bible narrative points to the first ...
The effects on the human system of abstinence from flesh meats divide themselves naturally and ...
( Latin abs , from trahere , to draw).
Abstraction is a process (or a faculty) by which the ...
(Or ABTHANE).
An English or Lowland Scotch form of the middle-Latin word abthania (Gaelic, ...
A bishop of Caria in Syria ; d., probably, in 770. In his anti-heretical dialogues (P.G., ...
An Italian bishop, b. at Thessalonica early in the fifth century; d. 469. He was the fourth ...
(ABYDOS).
A titular see of Troas in Asia Minor , suffragan of Cyzicus in the ...
(Greek abyssos ).
Abyss is primarily and classically an adjective, meaning deep, very deep ...
Geography
Abyssinia, extending from the sixth to the fifteenth degree of north latitude, and ...
(In Hebrew shíttah , plural shíttîm ; Theod. pyxos ; Vulgate, spina ...
Known also as the HOMOEANS, an Arian sect which first emerged into distinctness as an ...
Bishop of Beroea. Born in Syria c. 322; died c. 432. While still very young he became a monk ...
Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, disciple and biographer of Eusebius, the historian, whose ...
Patriarch of Constantinople; Schismatic ; d. 489. When Acacius first appears in authentic ...
Bishop of Melitene in the third century. The Greeks venerate him on different days, but ...
The Italian Renaissance at its apogee [from the close of the Western Schism (1418) to the ...
The French Academy was founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635. For several years a number of ...
The precise location and extent of Acadia was a subject of constant dispute and consequent ...
A titular see of Macedonia, on the Strymonic Gulf, now known as Erisso. Its inhabitants were ...
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A plant, indigenous to middle Europe, the leaf of which has served in all ages as an ornament, or ...
(Greek akathistos ; a privative, kathizo "sit"; i.e. not sitting; standing).
The title ...
Bishop of Hexham, and patron of learning (c. 660-742). Acca was a Northumbrian by birth and ...
( Ekron ).
The most northern of the five principal Philistine cities ( Joshua 13:3 ; 15:11 ...
The counterpart of concentus . In the ancient Church music all that portion of the liturgical ...
Acceptance, in canon law, the act by which one receives a thing with approbation or ...
Those Jansenists who accepted without any reserve or mental restriction the Bull Unigenitus ...
(From Latin accedere , to go to; hence, to be added to).
Accession is a method of acquiring ...
A term applied to the voting in conclave for the election of a pope, by which a cardinal ...
Name of three cardinals belonging to an illustrious Florentine family of this name.
ANGELO, ...
[Latin accidere , to happen what happens to be in a subject; any contingent, or nonessential ...
( Latin ad , to, clamare , to cry out).
IN CIVIC LIFE
The word acclamatio (in the plural, ...
One of the forms of papal election . The method of electing the Roman Pontiff is contained in ...
We shall consider (1) what is meant by biblical accommodation; (2) its use in Sacred Scripture; ...
A term generally employed to designate a partner in some form of evildoing. An accomplice is one ...
( Italian Accorso ).
(1)FRANCESCO ACCURSIUS (1182-1260)
A celebrated Italian jurisconsult of ...
A term applied to the Eutychians who withdrew from Peter Mongus, the Monophysite Patriarch of ...
(ACHERONTIA.)
This archdiocese, in the provinces of Lecce and Potenza, Italy, has been ...
French Benedictine (Maurist), born 1609 at Saint Quentin in Picardy; died in the monastery of ...
( 'A'h'abh, Achaab in Jeremiah 29:22 , 'Ehabh, Achiab )
Son of Amri and King of Israel, ...
(Ægialeia).
The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 B.C., of a strip of land between ...
A Corinthian Christian, who, together with Fortunatus and Stephanas, carried a letter from the ...
(AHAZ).
King of Juda, placed variously, 741-726 B.C., 744-728, 748-727, 724-709, 734-728. It ...
Achiacharus is mentioned only once in the Vulgate version of Tobias ( 11:20 , under the form ...
The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the Church on 12 May, in common, and ...
(1) Father of Achinoam, wife of Saul ( 1 Samuel 14:50 ).
(2) Son of Sadoc, the priest. He was ...
(1) The priest of Nobe who extended hospitality to David during his flight from the court of ...
Achitopel was an able and honoured counsellor of David, who joined the rebellion of Absalom. ...
(Gaelic, Achadh-Chonnaire , Connary's Field).
In Ireland, suffragan to the Archdiocese of ...
The scene of the death of the "troubler" Achan, with whom its name is associated ( Joshua 7:26 ). ...
A titular see in Upper Albania, the famous metropolis and capital of the medieval kingdom of ...
Theologian, b. at Wesel, 17 June, 1788; d. at Bonn, 11 May, 1877. He was appointed professor of ...
A German sculptor, was born in 1799, at Munster in Westphalia, of poor parents. After working on ...
(JACA REGALIS).
Located in the island of Sicily ; includes fourteen communes in the civil ...
( German, Havekenthal ).
Philologist, Latin poet, and convert to the Catholic Church, b. ...
A Catholic professor of exegesis, b. in Vienna, 17 November, 1771; d. in the same city, 9 ...
A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, now known as Ahat-Keui. It is mentioned by ...
(Greek akoimetai , from privative a and koiman , to rest).
Sometimes, an appellation ...
(From the Greek akoloutheo , to follow.)
In ecclesiastical terminology signifies the ...
(Greek akolouthos ; Latin sequens, comes , a follower, an attendant).
An acolyte is a ...
A native of Colombia in South America, who served in the Colombian army and in 1834 attempted a ...
The son of well-to-do and respected parents, born at Medina del Campo in Spain, 1540; died at ...
A diocese in Italy under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See, comprising seven towns ...
Name of several Italian cardinals.
FRANCESCO, b. 1665 at Naples, of the family of the ...
Name of several Italian cardinals.
FRANCESCO, b. 1665 at Naples, of the family of the ...
Fifth General of the Society of Jesus , born October, 1543; died 31 January, 1615. He was the ...
A diocese suffragan of Turin, Italy, which contains ninety-three towns in the Province of ...
(SAINT-JEAN-D'ACRE).
In Hebrew Accho , in the Books of MachabeesPtolemais , in Greek ...
(SAINT-JEAN D'ACRE)
Ptolemais, a titular metropolis in Phoenicia Prima, or Maritima. The ...
( Akros stichos , "at the end of a verse".)
A poem the initial or final letters (syllables or ...
In 1662 an act was passed by the Irish Parliament, the privileges of which were restored on the ...
(Or the Gospel of Nicodemus.)
This work does not assume to have written by Pilate, but to have ...
A Roman monthly publication containing the principal public documents issued by the Pope, ...
The abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan ...
(THE ACTS OF A WONDER-WORKING TRIAD)
The lives of St. Patrick, St. Brigid, and St. Columba; ...
An English cardinal, born at Naples, 6 March, 1803; died at Naples, 23 June, 1847. He was the ...
An English canonist, after 1329 canon of Lincoln; born 1350. His name is spelled variously, ...
Baron Acton, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1895-1902, born at Naples, 10 January, ...
Sixth Baronet of the name, son of a Shropshire physician, born at Besançon, 3 June, 1736; ...
A term used to designate the documents (called also decrees) issued by the Roman Congregations in ...
In the accepted order of the books of the New Testament the fifth book is called The Acts of the ...
In a strict sense the Acts of the Martyrs are the official records of the trials of early ...
According to the old Roman jurisprudence, acts are the registers ( acta ) in which were ...
Acts are termed human when they are proper to man as man; when, on the contrary, they are ...
A human act may be considered in the abstract ( in specie ) or in the concrete ( in ...
Grace ( gratia, Charis ), in general, is a supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures ...
A technical expression in scholastic phraseology.
I. The terms actus and potentia were ...
A technical expression used in scholastic philosophy. Actus means determination, complement, ...
A term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God. In all ...
One of the first to spread Manicheism in the Christian Orient. He was probably a Mesopotamian, ...
Apostolic letter issued against Emperor Frederick II by Pope Innocent IV (1243-54), during the ...
An ecclesiastical term meaning a pilgrimage to the sepulchres of St. Peter and St. Paul at ...
(Sc. Apostolorum )
The visit ad limina means, technically, the obligation incumbent on ...
This letter was issued by Alexander VII , and is dated at Rome, 16 October, 1656, the second ...
A papal constitution dealing with the conditions for admission to religious orders of men in ...
Born c. 751; d. 2 January, 827. Bernard, son of Charles Martel and half-brother of Pepin, was ...
Archbishop of Hamburg - Bremen ; born about 1000; died 1072 at Goslar; son of Count Friedrich ...
(Or ALBERT).
Archbishop of Mainz (Mayence) 1111 to 1137. He was of the family of the Counts ...
Apostle of the Slavs, probably a native of Lorraine, d. 981. He was a German monk who was ...
Born 939 of a noble Bohemian family ; died 997. He assumed the name of the Archbishop Adalbert ...
The first man and the father of the human race.
ETYMOLOGY AND USE OF WORD
There is not a ...
Adam's importance to the Fathers and to the authors of the many apocryphal writings of the ...
A German historian and geographer of the eleventh century. The dates of his birth and death are ...
Born about 1450, died after 1537, one of the most learned musicians of his age. He was a monk of ...
An English chronicler of about the middle of the fourteenth century. He was a canon of St. ...
A French Cistercian, Abbot of the monastery of Perseigne in the Diocese of Mans, b. about the ...
A prominent and prolific writer of Latin Hymns, born in the latter part of the twelfth century, ...
An English priest, canonist, and chronicler, born at Usk, in Monmouthshire, between 1360 and ...
(Or THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN).
A theologian and Church historian of the latter part of the ...
A distinguished preacher and a strenuous opponent of Calvinists and Jansenists, born at Limoges ...
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Linguist and writer, b. in Paris, 1716; d. 1792. He achieved distinction by a peculiar grammar of ...
The Book of Adam, or "Contradiction of Adam and Eve", is a romance made up of Oriental fables. It ...
An Italian musician b. at Bolsena, 1663; d. in Rome, 1742. Through the influence of Cardinal ...
An obscure sect, dating perhaps from the second century, which professed to have regained Adam's ...
(Or Eunan).
Abbot of Iona, born at Drumhome, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 624; died at the ...
Professor of humanities at St. Omers , born in England in 1737; died at Dublin, 6 December, ...
Priest, martyred at Tyburn, 8 October, 1586. He had been a Protestant minister, but being ...
A diocese of Armenian rite in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey). This ancient Phoenician colony ...
(1) A frontier town in the South of Chanaan ( Numbers 34:4 ; Joshua 15:3 ). It has not been ...
Martyrs at Rome, 303, under Diocletian and Maximian. The Acts, first published in Ado's ...
Cardinal and Papal Legate, b. at Milan, 1649; d. at Rome, 1719. He was made Cardinal-Priest ...
( Latin Doctrina Addoei ).
A Syriac document which relates the legend of the conversion ...
One of the three original disciples of Manes, who according to the Acts of Archelaus introduced ...
This is an Oriental liturgy, sometimes assigned to the Syrian group because it is written in the ...
It is from Italy that we derive rules as to what is fitting and customary in the matter of ...
Centred in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It comprises all the territory of South ...
Abbess, born in the tenth century; died at Cologne, 5 February, 1015. She was daughter of ...
(ADELHEID).
Born 931; died 16 December, 999, one of the conspicuous characters in the struggle ...
A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, b. about 1100. Adelard was probably an Englishman by ...
(Or ADLAND).
A Protestant minister, born in Wiltshire, who became a Catholic and joined ...
Bishop of Brescia in the eleventh century. Of unknown parentage and nationality, he was ...
( Adelos = secretly, and phalo = I eat).
A sect mentioned by the anonymous author known ...
(ADANE).
It comprises all Arabia, and is properly known as the Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia ...
Son of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo , b. 372; d. 388.
St. Augustine was not converted to ...
(Reigned 672-676).
A monk of the Roman cloister of St. Erasmus on the Coelian Hill. He was ...
(Adeodatus I).
Date of birth unknown; consecrated pope, 19 October (13 November), 615; d. 8 ...
A hymn used at Benediction at Christmastide in France and England since the close of the ...
(Latin adjurare , to swear; to affirm by oath ).
An urgent demand made upon another to do ...
The term Administrator in its general sense signifies a person who administers some common ...
One charged with the care of church property . Supreme administrative authority in regard to all ...
A preliminary means used by the Church towards a suspected person, as a preventive of harm or a ...
A Benedictine abbey in Styria, Austro-Hungary, on the river Enns, about fifty miles south of ...
Born about 800, in the diocese of Sens ; d. 16 December, 875. He was brought up at the ...
Adonai (Hebrew meaning "lord, ruler") is a name bestowed upon God in the Old Testament. It is ...
(Hebrew: Adoniyah, Adoniyahuh , Yahweh is Lord; Septuagint : Adonias .)
Fourth son of ...
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Adoption, as defined in canon law, is foreign to the Bible . The incidents ...
In a legal sense, adoption is an act by which a person, with the cooperation of the public ...
( Latin adoptare , to choose.)
Adoption is the gratuitous taking of a stranger as one's own ...
Adoptionism, in a broad sense, a christological theory according to which Christ, as man, is the ...
In the strict sense, an act of religion offered to God in acknowledgment of His supreme ...
A term broadly used to designate the practically uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed ...
A celebrated Italian preacher, b. 1531; d. at Genoa, 13 January, 1586. He was a member of the ...
("I adore Thee devoutly").
A hymn sometimes styled Rhythmus , or Oratio, S. Thomæ ...
An Italian bishopric, suffragan to Venice, which comprises 55 towns in the Province of Rovigo, ...
From about 1 February, 772, till 25 December, 795; date of birth uncertain; d. 25 December, 795. ...
(Reigned 867-872.)
After the death of St. Nicholas I , the Roman clergy and people ...
Pope St. Adrian III, of Roman extraction, was elected in the beginning of the year 884, and ...
Born 1100 (?); died 1 September, 1159. Very little is known about the birthplace, parentage, or ...
An African by birth, died 710. He became Abbot of Nerida, a Benedictine monastery near ...
Also called D E C ORNETO from his birthplace in Tuscany ; an Italian prelate distinguished ...
(OTTOBUONO FIESCHI).
A Genoese, and nephew of Innocent IV. He was elected at Viterbo 12 July ...
The last pontefice barbaro ( Guicciardini, XIV, v), and the only pope of modern times, except ...
A city of Turkey in Europe. According to legend, Orestes, son of Agamemnon, built this city at ...
(Christianus Crucius Adrichomius).
Catholic priest and theological writer, b. at Delft, 13 ...
Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Moutier-en-Der, d. 992, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; one of ...
Missionary and historian, b. 1566, at Saragossa, in Spain ; d. at Nueva Segovia, in the ...
(Hebrew Adhullam , Vulgate Odollam , but Adullam in Joshua 15:35 .)
(1) A Chanaanite ...
( Latin adulterare , to pollute, to adulterate).
This act is defined as the addition of any ...
It is the purpose of this article to consider adultery with reference only to morality. The study ...
(Latin ad-venio , to come to).
According to present [1907] usage, Advent is a period ...
A group of six American Protestant sects which hold in common a belief in the near return of ...
A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, ...
Advocates of Roman Congregations are persons, ecclesiastical or lay, versed in canon and civil ...
A body of jurists constituting a society whose statutes were confirmed by a brief of Leo ...
("Advocate of the Devil" or "Devil's Advocate").
A popular title given to one of the most ...
A name applied, in the Middle Ages , to certain lay persons , generally of noble birth, whose ...
( Latin, advocatio ; Old French, avoëson ).
In English law the right of patronage ...
(From adyton ; sc. a privative + dyo =enter).
A secret chamber or place of retirement in ...
( 'Aedh-og or Mo-Aedh-og ).
Bishop and patron of Ferns, in Ireland, b. at Inisbrefny, near ...
King of Leinster, and an Irish saint, commemorated by Colgan under date of 4 January; but ...
One of the original companions of St. Francis. He is also known as Blessed Giles, and holds the ...
Cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist, and poet, born at Viterbo, Italy ; died at Rome, 12 ...
( Also Ælfred).
King of the West-Saxons, born Wantage, Berkshire, England 849; died ...
Also known as "the Grammarian", the author of the homilies in Anglo-Saxon, a translator of Holy ...
Monk and biographer, of whom nothing is known except his Life of St. Canute the Martyr, written in ...
Abbot of Rievaulx, homilist and historian (1109-66). St. Ælred, whose name is also written ...
A Neo-Platonic philosopher, a convert to Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the ...
An Irish saint who flourished in the last quarter of the eighth century, and is held in ...
(Greek Ainon ; Vulgate, Ænnon ; Douay, Ennon ).
Mentioned in John 3:23 , as the ...
The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved ...
Æsthetics may be defined as a systematic training to right thinking and right feeling in ...
The Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, by which he summoned the Vatican Council. It is dated Rome, ...
An encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII (issued 4 August, 1879); not to be confused with the ...
A relationship arising from the carnal intercourse of a man and a woman, sufficient for the ...
Scripture recognizes affinity as an impediment to wedlock. This is evident from the ...
A solemn declaration accepted in legal procedure in lieu of the requisite oath.
In England, ...
A Benedictine abbey near Alost in Brabant, Belgium. It was founded by a party of six knights ...
Archbishop of Paris, b. at St. Rome-de-Tam, in the Department of Tam, 27 September, 1793; d. in ...
(Also D ALBOQUERQUE ; surnamed "T HE G REAT ").
Died at Goa 16 December, 1515. He was ...
MARTYR.
The city of Augusta Vindelicorum (the present Augsburg ) was situated in the northern ...
This name, which is of Phoenician origin, was at first given by the Romans to the territory ...
The name, Early African Church, is given to the Christian communities inhabiting the region ...
This liturgy was in use not only in the old Roman province of Africa of which Carthage was the ...
There was no general council of the entire Church held at any time in North Africa. There ...
Mentioned in Acts 11:28 , and 21:10 , as a prophet of the New Testament. Most probably both ...
The celebration of funeral feasts in honour of the dead dates back almost to the beginnings ...
( agapetai , beloved).
In the first century of the Christian era, the Agapetae were virgins ...
A deacon of the church of Sancta Sophia at Constantinople (about 500), reputed tutor of ...
(Also AGAPITUS.)
Reigned 535-536. Date of birth uncertain; died 22 April, 536. He was the son ...
A Roman by birth, elected to the papacy 10 May, 946; he reigned, not ingloriously, for ten ...
An English Canon, born at York, 25 December, 1815; died 23 August, 1872. He was educated at ...
One of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of Christian antiquity, put to death for her ...
A supposed secretary of Tiridates II, King of Armenia, under whose name there has come down a ...
A Byzantine historian and man of letters, born at Myrina in Asia Minor about 536; died at ...
Born towards the end of the sixth century in Sicily ; died in Rome, 681. It is generally ...
(Today ST. MAURICEEN-VALAIS).
Agaunum, in the diocese of Sion, Switzerland, owes its fame to ...
A musical composer, born 2 December 1578, of a noble family of Sienna; died probably 10 April, ...
Held in 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the presidency of St. Caesarius of Arles . ...
The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally ...
The word age , taken in its widest meaning, may be described as "a period of time ". The ...
(AGINNUM.)
Comprises the Department of Lot and Garonne. It has been successively suffragan to ...
Persons whose business it is to look after the affairs of their patrons at the Roman Curia. The ...
Name and personal life
Aggeus, the tenth among the minor prophets of the Old Testament, is ...
According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is lawful, in the defense of life or limb, ...
( Or AGUILERS.)
A chronicler and canon of Puy-en-Velay, France, toward the close of the ...
Abbot of Stavelot, Bishop of Cologne and Martyr, 750. We know but little of this Saint. The ...
(O Holy God).
The opening words in Greek of an invocation, or doxology, or hymn –for ...
Sculptor and architect, b. at Pisa, probably in 1238; d. probably in 1313. He was a pupil of ...
Chiefly known for his catechetical and devotional works, b. at Naples, 1621; d. in Rome, 17 ...
Friar Minor and founder of the English Franciscan Province, born at Pisa c. 1195, of the noble ...
Historian of that church, b. 805; the date of his death is unknown, but was probably about 846. ...
Younger sister of St. Clare and Abbess of the Poor Ladies, born at Assisi, 1197, or 1198; died ...
(Also called Agnes of Prague). Born at Prague in the year 1200; died probably in 1281. She was the ...
Born in the neighbourhood of Montepulciano in Tuscany about 1268; died there 1317. At the age ...
(Also called Agnes of Prague). Born at Prague in the year 1200; died probably in 1281. She was the ...
Of all the virgin martyrs of Rome none was held in such high honour by the primitive church, ...
Born at Milan, 16 May, 1718; died at Milan, 9 January, 1799, an Italian woman of remarkable ...
(Latin, agnus , lamb), the Slavonic word for the square portion of bread cut from the first ...
( agnoetai ) from agnoeo , to be ignorant of)
The name given to those who denied the ...
A philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, professing doubt of or disbelief in some ...
The name Agnus Dei has been given to certain discs of wax impressed with the figure of a lamb ...
A name given to the formula recited thrice by the priest at Mass (except on Good Friday and ...
( Agon ="struggle").
One of the names given by the Donatists to those of their followers who ...
(From agonia , a struggle; particularly, in profane literature, the physical struggle of ...
An association for giving special honour to the mental sufferings of Christ during His Agony ...
Born at Vallerano in 1593; died 1629, famous composer and pupil of the celebrated Nanini, whose ...
(Matteo Di Termini), born in the first half of the thirteenth century, at Termini, a village of ...
A French prelate, born at Grenoble, 1747; died at Paris, 1824. He studied at the Seminary of ...
Archdiocese ; it is situated in British India, and lies between 25°30' and 32' N. lat., and ...
(Also ZAGRAB; Latin Zagrabia ).
Archiepiscopal see of the ancient kingdom of Croatia, in ...
A name first used, in 1776, by J.G. Körner, for the Sayings of Jesus that have come down to ...
The Latin word agrarius was applied historically to laws or their partisans, favoring the ...
(Or, according to her conventual title, Maria of Jesus)
A discalced Franciscan nun ; born ...
(ERLAU, EGER, JAGER).
An archiepiscopal see of Hungary, founded in 1009, and made an ...
Bishop of Trier (Trèves), in the fourth century (332 or 335). A local ninth-century ...
A celebrated composer of the fifteenth century, and pupil of Okeghem, was, according to some, of ...
(BAUER, latinized into AGRICOLA).
Physician, mineralogist, historian, and controversialist, b. ...
A distinguished humanist of the earlier period, and a zealous promoter of the study of the ...
Born 14 September, 1486, at Cologne ; died at Grenoble or Lyons in 1534 or 1535. One of the ...
Bishop of Carthage at the close of the second and beginning of the third century. During his ...
(Lat. AQUAE CALIDAE).
A Mexican see dependent on Guadalajara; erected by Leo XIII, Decree ...
Cardinal, and learned Spanish Benedictine ; born at Logro o, in Old Castile, 24 March, 1630; ...
("My brother has risen").
A high court official under Josias and his two sons, who protected ...
(More correctly ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN.)
The modern Persian forms of Anro-Mainyus and Ahura ...
Composer, born 23 February, 1779, at Wasserburg, Bavaria ; died at Munich, 6 May 1867. In his ...
Organist and composer of sacred music , born probably at Ratisbon in 1565; died at Augsburg, ...
An Irish monk who had studied under St. Senan, at Iniscathay (Scattery Island). He is placed as ...
Marie de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Marquise of Combalet and Duchesse d'Aiguillon; niece of ...
Foundress of the Irish Sisters of Charity, born in Cork, 19 January, 1787; died in Dublin, 22 ...
Bishop of Emly in Munster ( Ireland ); d. about 527, or 541. It is very difficult to sift out ...
An Irish saint, generally known as "Sapiens" (the Wise), one of the most distinguished professors ...
(1) Louis d'Ailleboust
Sieur de Coulanges, third Governor of Canada, date of birth unknown; ...
(PETRUS DE ALLACO).
French theologian and philosopher, bishop and cardinal, born 1350 at ...
A learned philologist, born at Bordil, in Spain, 1715; died at Ferrara, 1799. He entered the ...
(Abram).
Comprises the territory of the Department of Landes. It was a suffragan of Auch ...
( Also Ayroli).
A Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator; born at Genoa, 1660; ...
( Latin ala ; Old Fr. aile ), sometimes written Isle, Yle, and Alley; in architecture one of ...
(Also Aistulf, Astulph, Astulf, and Astolph).
King of the Lombards; died 756. He succeeded his ...
( Aquae Sextiae ). Full title, the Archdiocese of Aix, Arles, and Embrun.
Includes the ...
Councils were held at Aix in 1112, 1374, 1409, 1585, 1612, 1838, and 1850. In that of 1612 the ...
(ADJACENSIS).
Comprises the island of Corsica. It was formerly a suffragan of the ...
(Greek akathistos ; a privative, kathizo "sit"; i.e. not sitting; standing).
The title ...
A city of Upper Egypt, situated on the banks of the Nile. Of late years it has attained great ...
Michael (d. 1215) and Nicetas (d. 1206); also known as Choniates, from their native city, Chonia ...
The twenty-second State admitted into the Federal Union of America. It lies north of the Gulf of ...
A titular see of Caria in Asia Minor, supposed to be the present Arab-Hissar. A list of its ...
(Greek alabastros , -on ; Latin alabaster , -trum ; of uncertain origin).
The ...
A South American diocese, in eastern Brazil, dependent on Bahia. By a decree of Leo XIII , ...
Theologian, born at Syracuse, 1549; died in Rome, 19 October, 1624. He entered the Society of ...
(Also called ALAIN OF LILLE, ALANUS AB INSULIS, or DE INSULIS, ALAIN VON RYSSEL etc.).
Monk, ...
(ALALIUS).
A titular see of Phoenicia ( Palmyra ), whose episcopal list is known from 325 ...
A Mexican statesman and historian of great merit, b. at Guanajuato in Mexico, of Spanish parents, ...
A Roman antiquary of Greek origin, b. at Ancona, 12 January, 1583; d. in Rome, 1626. He was ...
A Benedictine abbot and writer, d. 1202. Alan is stated by Gervase of Canterbury, a ...
Died c. 1364; a celebrated architect, first heard of in 1314 as a junior monk at Ely, ...
( Sometimes DE LA ROCHE).
Born about 1428; died at Zwolle in Holland, 8 September, 1475. ...
Novelist and poet, b. at Guadix, Spain, in 1833; d. at Valdemoro, near Madrid, in 1891. After ...
I. HISTORY
The first definite knowledge of Alaska was acquired in 1741 through the expedition ...
An Italian bishopric under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See, comprising seven towns ...
A white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured ...
Comprises eighty towns in the province of Cuneo and two in the province of Alexandria, in Italy. ...
First martyr of Britain, suffered c. 304. The commonly received account of the martyrdom of ...
Manichæan heretics who lived in Albania, probably about the eighth century, but concerning ...
A distinguished Italian family, said to be descended from Albanian refugees of the fifteenth ...
The ancient Epirus and Illyria, is the most western land occupied by the Turks in Europe. Its ...
A suburban see, comprising seven towns in the Province of Rome. Albano (derived from Alba Longa ...
Diocese comprising the entire counties of Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, ...
Diocese comprising seventy-nine towns in the province of Port Maurice and forty-five in the ...
Cardinal and Bishop of Bologna, b. at Bologna in 1357; d. at Sienna, 9 May, 1443. He entered ...
Died 1088; cardinal since 1057. He was (perhaps) a native of Trier, and became a Benedictine. ...
A Benedictine monk, and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia from 1138-47. Born in 1080, at Beauvais in ...
Archbishop of Trier, b. near Toul, in Lorraine, about 1080; d. at Coblenz, 18 January, 1152. ...
Cardinal and statesman; b. 30 May, 1664, at Firenzuola in the duchy of Parma ; d. 26 June, ...
Franciscan Friar and missionary, born at Sarteano, in Tuscany, 1385; died at Milan, 15 August, ...
(Albrecht II.)
Eighteenth Archbishop of Magdeburg in Saxony, date of birth unknown; d. ...
(ALBERTUS AQUENSIS).
A chronicler of the First Crusade . His "Chronicon Hierosolymitanum de ...
Cardinal and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, born 28 June, 1490; died 24 September, 1545. As ...
Historian, born about 1460; died 1522. He entered the Order of St. Dominic at an early age in ...
(Albert of Helmstädt)
Fourteenth-century philosopher ; nicknamed Albertus Parvus, ...
A chronicler of the thirteenth century. He was born before the close of the twelfth century. It is ...
(ALBRECHT.)
Bishop of Riga, Apostle of Livonia, d. 17 January, 1229. After the inhabitants of ...
Patriarch of Jerusalem, one of the conspicuous ecclesiastics in the troubles between the Holy ...
Cardinal, Bishop of Liège, d. 1192 or 1193. He was a son of Godfrey III, Count of ...
The twin provinces of the Canadian West, so called because they were formed on the same day (1 ...
Historian, born at Bologna in 1479; died same place, probably in 1552. In early youth he ...
Born 18 February, 1404; died April, 1472, a Florentine ecclesiastic and artist of the fifteenth ...
(AUBERTINI)
Medieval statesman, b. at Prato in Italy, c. ú d. at Avignon, 27 April, ...
(Also called Jan Chrzciciel, or Christian.)
A Polish Jesuit, of Italian extraction, born at ...
Known as Albert the Great; scientist, philosopher, and theologian, born c. 1206; died at ...
Comprises the Department of the Tarn. An archiepiscopal see from 1678 up to the time of the ...
The Council of Albi was held in 1254 by St. Louis on his return from his unlucky Crusade, ...
(Also, Alba ). A Spanish Carthusian of the Convent Val-Christ, near Segovia, date of birth ...
Archbishop of Prague, a Moravian, born at Mährisch-Neustadt in 1347; died in Hungary, ...
(From Albi, Latin Albiga , the present capital of the Department of Tarn).
A ...
A scholarly English monk, pupil of Archbishop Theodore, and of Abbot Adrian of St. Peter's, ...
Master of musical theory, and teacher of Hummel and Beethoven, b. at Klosterneuburg in Lower ...
(Known as the EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION).
"A body of American Christians chiefly of German ...
Alcántara, a town on the Tagus (here crossed by a bridge-- cantara , whence the name), is ...
This university may be said to have had its inception in the thirteenth century, when Sancho IV, ...
Soldier, born at Quito ( Ecuador ), 1755, where his father was President of the Royal Audiencia ...
(From Arabic al , the, and Greek chemia or chemeia , which occurs first in an edict of ...
An Italian jurist, born at Alzano, near Milan, 8 May, 1492; died at Pavia, 12 June 1550. He ...
( Alkimos , "brave," probably a Græcized form of the Hebrew Eliacim ).
High-priest, ...
Bishop of Hexham ; died 781. Though we know practically nothing of the life of St. Alcmund, ...
Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely, b. at Beverley, 1430; d. at Wisbeach Castle, 1 ...
The term alcoholism is understood to include all the changes that may occur in the human ...
( Alhwin, Alchoin ; Latin Albinus , also Flaccus ).
An eminent educator, scholar, and ...
Virgin and abbess (c. 639-684), variously written Adelgundis, Aldegonde, etc. She was nearly ...
A former Cistercian Abbey in the valley of the Vils in Lower Bavaria. It was founded in 1127 ...
A Northumbrian king, son of King Oswin; d. 14 December, 705. He succeeded his brother, Ecgfrith. ...
Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and ecclesiastical writer (c. ...
Bishop of Le Mans in the time of Louis le Debonnaire, born c. 800; died at Le Mans, 7 ...
Italian naturalist, b. at Bologna, 11 Sept., 1522; d. there 10 Nov., 1607. He was educated in ...
A French polemical writer of the early years of the nineteenth century, b. in Paris, date ...
A Jesuit historiographer, born in Brussels, 22 January, 1592; died in Rome, 6 September, ...
Historian, born at Vera Cruz, in Mexico, or New Spain, 12 November, 1729; died at Bologna, 16 ...
First Archbishop of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. b. at Vich in Spain, 3 July, 1814; ...
Chinese missionary and scholar, born at Brescia, in Italy, in 1582; died at Fou-Tcheou, China, in ...
Armenian Rite Archdiocese in Syria. The city of Aleppo is situated in the plain that stretches ...
Diocese made up of 42 communes in the province of Cagliari, Archbishopric of Oristano, Italy. ...
Diocese in Piedmont, Italy, a suffragan of Vercelli. It was made a see in 1175 by Alexander ...
A famous Italian architect, b. 1500; d. 1572. He showed an inclination for mathematics and ...
( Lissus, Alexiensis ).
Diocese in European Turkey, since 1886 suffragan of Scutari. It is ...
(1) ALEXANDER THE GREAT
King of Macedon, 336-323 B.C. He is mentioned in 1 Mach., i, 1-10; vi, 2. ...
ALEXANDER OF ANTIOCH
Thirty-eighth bishop of that see (413-421), praised by Theodoret (Hist. ...
English Jesuit and martyr, born in Somersetshire of a yeoman family about 1556; executed at ...
St. Irenaeus of Lyons, writing in the latter quarter of the second century, reckons him as the ...
Reigned 1061-1073
As Anselm of Lucca, he had been recognized for a number of years as one of ...
Pope from 1159-81 (Orlando Bandinelli), born of a distinguished Sienese family ; died 3 August, ...
Pope from 1254-61 (Rinaldo Conti), of the house of Segni, which had already given two illustrious ...
(Or NOEL ALEXANDRE).
A French historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic, b. at ...
The most notorious imposter of the second century of the Christian era. His life is fully ...
Franciscan, theologian, and philosopher, one of the greatest of the scholastics, born at Hales, ...
The writer of a short treatise, in twenty-six chapters, against the Manichæans (PG., ...
Apostle of Corsica, b. at Milan, 1533, of an illustrious Lombard family ; d. at Pavia, 11 ...
Pietro Philarghi, born c. 1339, on the island of Crete (Candia), whence his appellation, Peter of ...
Rodrigo Borgia, born at Xativa, near Valencia, in Spain, 1 January, 1431; died in Rome, 18 ...
Fabio Chigi, born at Sienna, 13 February, 1599; elected 7 April, 1655; died at Rome, 22 May, ...
Pietro Ottoboni, born at Venice, April, 1610; elected 5 October, 1689; died at Rome, 1 February, ...
St. Alexander, known as "The charcoal burner", was Bishop of Comana, in Pontus. Whether he was ...
St. Alexander, who died in chains after cruel torments in the persecution of Decius, was first ...
Patriarch of Alexandria, date of birth uncertain; died 17 April, 326. He is, apart from his ...
A learned Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur, b. at Orléans, France, 24 ...
An important seaport of Egypt, on the left bank of the Nile. It was founded by Alexander the ...
In 231 a council of bishops and priests met at Alexandria, called by Bishop Demetrius for the ...
The Church of Alexandria, founded according to the constant tradition of both East and West by ...
Suffragan of Kingston, Ontario. It comprises the counties of Glengarry and Stormont, and was ...
The Great Library of Alexandria, so called to distinguish it from the smaller or "daughter" ...
The tradition of the Church of Egypt traces its origin to the Evangelist St. Mark, the first ...
A most valuable Greek manuscript of the Old and New Testaments, so named because it was ...
Early in the fifteenth century religious women began to be affiliated to the Alexian Brotherhood. ...
Or CELLITES.
A religious institute or congregation, which had its origin at Mechlin, in ...
Born in Florence, 1200; died 17 February, 1310, at Mount Senario, near Florence. He was the son ...
CONFESSOR.
According to the most recent researches he was an Eastern saint whose veneration ...
(AUFIELD, ALPHILDE, HAWFIELD, OFFELDUS; alias BADGER).
Priest, born at Gloucestershire; ...
The greatest tragic poet of Italy ; b. at Asti (Piedmont), 17 January, 1749; d. at Florence, 8 ...
A priest and at one time a Camaldolese monk, b. at Rome, June, 1801; d. there 12 June, 1863. ...
A converted Spanish Rabbi, baptized 1506; died 1531. He revised the Hebrew text for Ximenes's ...
Born of a noble family, in the city of that name ; died at Palencia, 8 December, 1489. He was ...
A Jesuit missionary in England during the persecution, b. in London 1587; d. at St. Omers, ...
( Also Ælfred).
King of the West-Saxons, born Wantage, Berkshire, England 849; died ...
Virgin, and recluse, c. 795. This saint, whose name is variously written Elfthritha, ...
Bishop of Sherborne, in Dorsetshire; d. 1058. Alfwold, or Ælfwold, is a rather obscure ...
A learned French priest, b. at Liège, about 1055; d. at Cluny, 1132. He studied at ...
An Italian diocese comprising twenty-two communes in the province of Sassari, and four in that ...
(I COSIUM )
Archdiocese comprising the province of Algeria in French Africa. Its suffragans ...
The Indians known by this name were probably at one time the most numerous of all the North ...
A diocese made up of twelve communes in the province of Caserta, Archbishopric of Benevento, ...
Italian poet, born at Florence, 1265; died at Ravenna, Italy, 14 September, 1321. His own ...
Support or maintenance. Aliment in a broad sense means whatever is necessary to sustain human ...
(Latin, alimonia , nutriment, from alere , to nourish)
In the common legal sense of the ...
This term, though not recognized by any English dictionary has lately come into use as a ...
An institution devoted to the preparation of priests for the missions in English-speaking ...
[ The vigil of this feast is popularly called "Hallowe'en" or "Halloween".]
Solemnity ...
The commemoration of all the faithful departed is celebrated by the Church on 2 November, or, if ...
The name of God in Arabic.
It is a compound word from the article, 'al , and ilah , ...
Diocese ; suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agra, India ; is included between 28° and 30° ...
Archaeologist and historian, b. at Rouen 15 September, 1841, admitted to the bar and practised ...
(Alacci).
A learned Greek of the seventeenth century, b. on the island of Chios in 1586, and ...
A Milanese Dominican who won distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary, b. 16 ...
Born in Correggio, a small Lombard town near Mantua, 1494; died 5 March, 1534. His name in ...
A member of the same family which produced the painter Correggio, born at Rome c. 1580; died ...
The liturgical mystic expression is found
in the Book of Tobias, xiii, 22; then
in the ...
A French priest and Orientalist, born 19 November, 1799; died 9 August, 1833. After his ...
Fifth Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, U.S. ; born at Lowell, Massachusetts, 17 March, 1853. He made ...
The first woman of New England birth to become a nun, born 13 November, 1784, at Sunderland, ...
Educator, born at Milton, Vermont, 17 December, 1808; died in Worcester, Massachusetts, 28 May, ...
(1476-1534)
Archbishop of Dublin, canonist, and Chancellor of Ireland. He was educated at ...
Priest and martyr. He was executed at Tyburn in the beginning of the year 1538, because he ...
Cardinal ; b. England, 1522; d. Rome, 16 Oct., 1594. He was the third son of John Allen of ...
(Or Hallerstein).
Jesuit missionary in China, born in Germany, died in China, probably about ...
The Emperor Francis I of Austria, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and the Tsar Alexander I ...
An English writer b. 12 February, 1813; d. 17 June, 1903. He was one in whom the poetical vein ...
Born at Sulzbach, 10 August, 1793; died at Augsburg, 22 May, 1873. He studied theology at ...
One of the English priests who were victims of the plots of 1679-80, and died a prisoner in ...
Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on ...
(1) Angiolo di Cosimo
Called I L B RONZINO , an exceptionally able painter and poet, b. at ...
A student of the University of Cambridge ; retired to Louvain on the accession of Elizabeth ...
One of the most famous of the early Jesuit missionaries and explorers of what is now the western ...
A Hebrew signifying a "young woman ", unmarried as well as married, and thus distinct from ...
(Kindly Mother of the Redeemer).
The opening words of one of the four Antiphons sung at ...
D IEGO, THE E LDER
Date and place of birth not satisfactorily established as yet, generally ...
Virgin and martyr, flourished c. 490. According to Bishop Challoner (Britannia Saneta, London, ...
A Jesuit missionary, born in London, of Catholic parents, 1571; died at Rio de Janeiro, 24 ...
A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Granada in Spain. It is said to have been founded by ...
A priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, born 2 November, 1714; died 30 December, 1779. He ...
Cistercian, Confessor of the Faith; died in Hull Castle, 18 April, 1585. His name has been ...
English priest and martyr, born about 1577; died at Tyburn, 5 December, 1612. He passed his ...
Priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to have been the ...
(Greek eleemosyne , "pity," "mercy").
Any material favour done to assist the needy, and ...
Hermit and martyr ; died c. 700. We know very little of St. Alnoth. Neither does he appear to ...
( a privative and logos , "word"; sc. "Deniers of the Word"). St. Irenæus (Adv. ...
Born in the castle of Castiglione, 9 March, 1568; died 21 June, 1591. At eight he was placed in ...
In Jewish Theology
When God passed before the face of Moses on Sinai the great Law-giver of ...
Alpha and Omega are the first and the last letters, respectively, of the Greek alphabet. They ...
The Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets have been variously made use of in Christian liturgy. ...
(Or ALPHEGE).
Born 954; died 1012; also called Godwine, martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, ...
Born at Marianella, near Naples, 27 September, 1696; died at Nocera de' Pagani, 1 August, 1787. ...
(Also Alonso).
Born at Segovia in Spain, 25 July, 1532; died at Majorca, 31 October, 1617. ...
Physician and botanist, born at Marostica, in the Republic of Venice, 23 November, 1553; died at ...
The German Imperial Territory so known, and divided for State purposes into three civil districts. ...
Jesuit, b. at Madrid, 26 October, 1625; d. Lima, 22 December, 1715. He wrote "Historia de la ...
An exempt archipresbyterate in the province of Bari, in southern Italy. Altamura was ...
In the New Law the altar is the table on which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is offered. Mass may ...
A small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side ...
These are made of wood, tin, britannia, silver, or other metal. In order that the breads may not ...
Bread is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. It ...
For mystical reasons the Church prescribes that the candles used at Mass and at other ...
An altar-candlestick consists of five parts: the foot, the stem, the knob about the middle of the ...
The "Caeremoniale Episcoporum" (I, xii, 13), treating of the ornaments of the altar, says that ...
To assist the memory of the celebrant at Mass in those prayers which he should know by heart, ...
The sanctuary and altar-steps of the high altar are ordinarily to be covered with carpets. If ...
This is a small square or oblong chamber in the body of the altar, in which are placed, according ...
The use of altar-cloths goes back to the early centuries of the Church. St. Optatus of Mileve ...
The crucifix is the principal ornament of the altar. It is placed on the altar to recall to the ...
Formerly, in most basilicas, cathedrals, and large churches a large structure in the form of a ...
The frontal ( antipendium, pallium altaris ) is an appendage which covers the entire front of ...
On the Jewish altar there were four projections, one at each corner, which were called the horns ...
In the Old Testament God commanded that a lamp filled with the purest oil of olives should ...
Lanterns are used in churches to protect the altar candles and lamp, if the latter for any ...
Originally the altar was made in the shape of an ordinary table, on which the crucifix and ...
The altar-linens are the corporal, pall, purificator, and finger- towels. The Blessed Sacrament ...
From the beginning of Christianity special veneration was paid to the Mother of God, which in ...
(Sometimes called less properly sepulchre or tomb, more frequently repository).
The altar ...
A cover made of cloth, baize or velvet which is placed on the table of the altar, during the ...
The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church. It ...
The Caerem. Episc (I, xii, n. 13) says that if the High Altar is attached to the wall (or is not ...
That part of the altar which faced the congregation, in contradistinction to the side at which ...
In the beginning altars were not erected on steps. Those in the catacombs were constructed on the ...
An ornament, having the shape of the ends of a stole, which in the Middle Ages was attached to ...
A solid piece of natural stone, consecrated by a bishop, large enough to hold the Sacred Host ...
A tomb, or monument, over a grave, oblong in form, which is covered with a slab or table, having ...
Vase to hold flowers for the decoration of the altar. The Cæremoniale Episcoporum (I, xii, ...
The chalice is the cup in which the wine and water of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is contained. ...
Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid ...
An altar having a double front constructed in such a manner that Mass may be celebrated on ...
(ALTARE SUMMUM or MAJUS.)
The high altar is so called from the fact that it is the chief altar ...
The Christian altar consists of an elevated surface, tabular in form, on which the Sacrifice of ...
A portable altar consists of a solid piece of natural stone which must be sufficiently hard to ...
An altar is said to be privileged when, in addition to the ordinary fruits of the Eucharistic ...
On Holy Thursday the celebrant, having removed the ciborium from the high altar, goes to the ...
From the low Latin altaragium , which signified the revenue reserved for the chaplain ...
A picture of some sacred subject painted on the wall or suspended in a frame behind the altar, ...
The English word altar , if the commonly accepted etymology be adopted -- alta ara -- does ...
The word altar (sometimes spelled oltar ) is used in the Old Slavonic and Russian ...
The friend of Gregory VII and Anselm, conspicuous in the contest of the Guelphs and ...
Recluse and missionary in Bavaria, c. 750. Alto has been variously described as an Anglo-Saxon ...
The Diocese of Alton includes that part of Illinois lying south of the northern limits of the ...
A suffragan see of the province of Philadelphia. The city of Altoona is situated on the eastern ...
A term formed by Auguste Comte in 1851, on the Italian adjective altrui , and employed by him to ...
(Alumbrados.)
The name assumed by some false mystics who appeared in Spain in the sixteenth ...
(From Latin alo , "to nurse", or "feed").
Alumnus signifies in ecclesiastical usage, a ...
(Real name Niccolò di Liberatore)
Notable Umbrian painter in distemper, born c. 1430, ...
A Friar Minor of the Strict Observance, and a voluminous writer on theological subjects, ...
(FERNANDO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO)
Born 1508, of one of the most distinguished Castilian families, ...
A Knight of Santiago, b. at Secadura de Trasmura, near Burgos, date unknown; d. 1559. He came to ...
A native of Mexico, where he entered the Dominican order 25 July, 1574. He was vicar of ...
Of the companions of Cortez, and among the superior officers of his army, Pedro de Alvarado ...
A famous mystic of the Society of Jesus , born at Toledo in 1560; died at Potosi, 17 January, ...
A Spanish mystic, who was the spiritual director of St. Teresa, b. At Cervera, in Spain, in ...
Spanish theologian, b. At Medina de Rio-Seco, Old Castile, about 1550; d. At Trani, Kingdom of ...
Educator, b. on the island of Madeira, 1526; d. at Evora, 30 December 1582. In 1546 he entered ...
(ALVARO PELAYO.)
Celebrated writer, b. in Spain about 1280; d. at Seville, 25 Jan., 1352. ...
The bosom friend of St. Augustine, though younger than he, was, after studying under Augustine at ...
Born at Ozumba, Mexico, in 1738; died in 1799. Alzate, who was a priest, was one of the most ...
A Catholic church historian, born 29 June, 1808, at Ohlau in Silesia ; died 1 March, 1878, at ...
( Or Amma.)
A Semitic term meaning mother, adopted by the Copts and the Greeks as a title of ...
( Also spelled Omodeo).
An Italian architect and sculptor, born near Pavia in 1447; died ...
This double title designates two Catholic dioceses of the Chaldean Rite in Kurdistan, Turkey in ...
A liturgical writer, b. at Metz, in the last quarter of the eighth century; d. about 850. He was ...
St. Amalberga, otherwise Amelia, was related in some way to Pepin of Landen. Whether she was ...
A virgin, very much revered in Belgium, who is said to have been sought in marriage by Charles, ...
(A MALECITES in Douay Version ; or A MALEK, A MALEKITES ).
A people remembered chiefly ...
The Archdiocese of Amalfi, directly dependent on the Holy See, has its seat at Amalfi, not far ...
( Latin, Almarici, Amauriani ).
An heretical sect founded towards the end of the twelfth ...
A church-historian of the fourteenth century, and member of the Augustinian Order. He was a ...
One of the great apostles of Flanders ; born near Nantes, in France, about the end of the ...
(AMASEA.)
A titular see and metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the river Iris, now ...
(Now AMASSERAH or SAMASTRO.)
A titular see of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor, on a peninsula ...
Second Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, California, U.S., b. 31 December, 1810, at ...
Name of two titular sees, one in Syria, suffragan of Apameia, with an episcopal list known from ...
(Or MANÃOS.)
A South American diocese, dependent on San Salvador of Bahia. Amazonas, the ...
(Also called BENEDICTUS and BENEDETTI, these names being the equivalents of the Arabic ambarak ...
The undue craving for honour. Anciently in Rome the candidates for office were accustomed to ...
(Pl. Ambos, or Ambones.)
A word of Greek origin, supposed to signify a mountain or elevation; ...
Its use has now practically disappeared in the Roman Rite and the only reminder of it in modern ...
French cardinal, archbishop, and statesman, b. at Chaumont-sur-Loire in 1460; d. at Lyons, 25 ...
A sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin at Ambronay, France, regarded as one of the two candles of ...
Historian of music and art critic, one of the greatest in modern times, b. at Mauth, near Prague, ...
An Italian theologian and writer, b. at Portico, near Florence, 16 September, 1386; d. 21 ...
Born at Sienna, 16 April, 1220, of the noble family of Sansedoni; d. at Sienna, in 1286. When ...
Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons ; died 4 ...
This basilica was erected at Milan by its great fourth-century bishop, St. Ambrose, and was ...
The question as to what constitutes Ambrosian chant in the sense of chant composed by St. ...
The names of St. Hilary of Poitiers (died 367), who is mentioned by St. Isidore of Seville as ...
The Ambrosian Library is one of the famous libraries of the world, founded between 1603 and 1609 ...
The liturgy and Rite of the Church of Milan, which derives its name from St. Ambrose, Bishop of ...
St. Ambrose cannot be counted among the founders of religious orders, although, like the great ...
The name given to the author of a commentary on all the Epistles of St. Paul , with the ...
A cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, for exercise in walking; ...
The Diocese of Amelia comprises seven towns in the province of Perugia, Italy, and is under the ...
Born at Saintes, 1609; died in Paris, 7 October, 1678. He was ordained in 1631, was a Doctor of ...
The word Amen is one of a small number of Hebrew words which have been imported unchanged into ...
An obsolete form of honorary satisfaction, customary in the Church in France as late as the ...
Born at Wembdinden in 1503; died at Ingolstadt, 13 Sept., 1557, humanist, convert from ...
America, also called the Western Continent or the New World, consists of three main divisions: ...
Of all the alleged discoveries of America before the time of Columbus, only the bold voyages of ...
An institution for the education of priests. Its official title is "The American College of the ...
The American College in Rome, or to give the legal title, "The American College of the Roman ...
(Legal title, COLLEGIO PIO-LATINO-AMERICANO PONTIFICIO).
The Rev. Ignatius Victor Eyzaguirre, ...
Usually known as "the A.P.A.," a secret proscriptive society in the United States which became ...
A famous Italian navigator, born at Florence, 9 March, 1451; died at Seville, 22 February, 1512. ...
Bishop of Northampton ; b. at London, 21 March, 1819; d. 21 August 1883. He was the eldest son ...
An English Martyr ; b. at Wakefield; d. at York, 16 March, 1589. He exercised the trade of a ...
The most celebrated manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible, remarkable as the best witness to ...
A short linen cloth, square or oblong in shape and, like the other sacerdotal vestments, needing ...
Canon of Palermo, and ecclesiastical historian of Syracuse and Messina, (d. 1641). He wrote ...
One of the greatest theologians of his time, b. at Cosenza, in Naples, 2 April, 1578. He entered ...
(DIARBEKIR.)
An Armenian Rite diocese located in Mesopotamia, Asiatic Turkey.- The ...
(AMBIANUM).
Comprises the department of Somme. It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of ...
A missionary to China, born at Toulon, 8 February, 1718; died at Pekin, 8 or 9 October, 1793. He ...
A titular see of Pontus in Asia Minor . It was a rich commercial centre under the kings of ...
American naval officer and author, b. in Brown County, Ohio, 15 May, 1820; d. in Washington, D.C., ...
(Egyptian Amun or Amen , "the hidden one". Hebrew Amon , Greek Ammon ).
The ...
Sometimes called AMUN or AMUS, born about 350; an Egyptian who, forced into marriage when ...
Divisions of the four Gospels indicated in the margin of nearly all Greek and Latin manuscripts ...
ORIGIN AND RACE
The Ammonites were a race very closely allied to the Hebrews. One use of their ...
Former Benedictine abbey in Lower Franconia (Bavaria), about twenty-five miles south of ...
(Also A MORIUM ), a titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor, now known as Hergen Kaleh. It was a ...
A name of doubtful origin and meaning, used to designate an ancient people often mentioned in ...
Philosopher and theologian, b. at Bibermuehle in Bavaria, 15 November, 1692; d. at Polling, 5 ...
I. NAME
The third among the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament is called, in the Hebrew ...
A term applied to the condition of certain ecclesiastics in regard to their benefices or ...
Located in China, created in 1883, and entrusted to the care of the Dominicans. It includes the ...
Physicist and mathematician, b. 22 January, 1775, at Lyons, France ; d. at Marseilles, 10 ...
A Christian bishop of the fourth century, son of a Cappadocian family of distinction, b. ...
(Or Side , located in Pamphylia.)
A bishop of the first half of the fifth century, member ...
Vessels generally made of clay, and furnished with ears or handles. Amphoræ were used for ...
Ampleforth, located in the county of Yorkshire, England, belongs to the English Congregation of ...
Among the smaller objects discovered in the catacombs are a number of fragments of vessels ...
(or CASTELSARDO and TEMPIO)
An Italian diocese in Sardinia, suffragan of Sassari. The Right ...
The name of certain ancient Irish elegies or panegyrics on native saints. The most famous of ...
Central Syria has preserved for us an unequalled series of Christian monuments. From an early ...
King of Sennaar (Shinar), or Babylonia, one of the four Mesopotamian kings—the other three ...
Amsterdam, the capital, and second residential city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, lies, in ...
See also USE AND ABUSE OF AMULETS
(Greek, phylakterion Latin, amuleta ).
An object ...
The origin of the word amulet does not seem to have been definitely established. ( See ...
A titular see of Peloponnesus in Greece, in the ecclesiastical province of Hellas, a suffragan ...
Bishop of Auxerre, Grand Almoner of France, and man of letters, b. 30 October, 1513; d. 6 ...
(From Greek a , privative, and aisthesis , feeling).
A term in medicine, and the allied ...
(Greek ana , again, and baptizo , baptize ; rebaptizers).
A violent and extremely ...
The title which was taken by Cardinal Pietro Pierleone at the contested papal election of the ...
The second successor of St. Peter . Whether he was the same as Cletus, who is also called ...
The Diocese of Anagni
An Italian diocese in the province of Rome under the immediate ...
A philosophical term used to designate, first, a property of things; secondly, a process of ...
Analysis ( ana ="up" or "back", and lyein , "to loose") means a separation; it is the taking ...
(Greek, ànaphorá, offering, sacrifice).
A liturgical term in the Greek Rite. ...
( a privative, and arche , rule)
Anarchy means an absence of law. Sociologically it is ...
This martyr enjoys the distinction, unique in the Roman liturgy, of having a special ...
Name of four ancient episcopal sees located respectively in Galatia (suffragan of Ancyra ), in ...
Librarian of the Roman Church, b. about 810; d. 879. He was a nephew of Bishop Arsenius of ...
A pontiff who is remembered chiefly for his condemnation of Origenism. A Roman by birth, he ...
A native of Rome, elected 24 Nov., 496; d. 16 Nov., 498. His congratulatory letter to Clovis, on ...
The one hundred and twenty-third occupant of the Holy See, elected September, 911; d. November, ...
Crowned 12 July, 1153; d. in Rome, 3 December of the following year. It was during his ...
A Greek ecclesiastical writer, b. at Alexandria in the first half of the seventh century; d. ...
Bishop of Antioch, A.D. 559, distinguished for his learning and austerity of life; excited the ...
St. Anastasius, once a magician, became a convert of the Holy Cross and was martyred in 628. He ...
(Greek anathema -- literally, placed on high, suspended, set aside).
A term formerly ...
Possibly plural of Anath , a feminine Chaldean deity, worshiped in Chanaan [Enc. Bib. s.v. ...
St. Anatolia, Virgin and Martyr in the time of Decius, was put to death in the city of Thyrum, or ...
St. Anatolia, Virgin and Martyr in the time of Decius, was put to death in the city of Thyrum, or ...
Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, one of the foremost scholars of his day in the physical sciences ...
Patriarch of Constantinople in the time of Theodosius the Younger. The heretic Dioscurus had ...
(Greek, anatome ).
Literally, cutting up, or dissection; now used to signify the science of ...
A titular metropolitan see of Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), suffragan of Antioch, known also to the ...
A famous Jesuit missionary, commonly known as the Apostle of Brazil, born on the Island of ...
The anchor, because of the great importance in navigation, was regarded in ancient times as a ...
( `anachoréo, I withdraw), also hermits ( èremîtai, desert -dwellers, ...
A name given to God by the Prophet Daniel (7:9, 7:13, 7:22), in which he contrasts His eternal ...
In early Christian inscriptions the title ancilla Dei is often given to a deceased woman. ...
An Italian diocese in the Archdiocese of Ancona, comprising ten towns in the province of Ancona. ...
An Italian antiquary whose family name was Pizzicolli, born at Ancona about 1391; died about ...
Or R EGULA I NCLUSARUM.
The name given to a thirteenth-century code of rules for the life of ...
The modern A NGORA , a titular see of Galatia in Asia Minor, suffragan of Laodicea. It was ...
Three councils were held in the former capital of Galatia (now Angora) in Asia Minor, during the ...
This appellative is derived from the Al-Andulus , the name given by the Arabs to the portion ...
A Benedictine monastery and famous place of pilgrimage on a hill about two miles east of the ...
English Jesuit and writer, born in London, 26 December, 1816; died 28 July, 1890. After three ...
General of the Society of Jesus, b. in Berisal, Canton Valais, Switzerland, 3 June, 1819; d. at ...
Scientist and educator, b. in New York City, 6 February, 1799; d. at Lahore, India, 19 October, ...
An English Dominican, b. about 1620; d. 21 October, 1710. The son of a Lincolnshire gentleman, he ...
A Scottish Jesuit, b. at Elgin in Morayshire in 1575; died in London, 24 September, 1624. he ...
An English Catholic, b. 1557; d. 1618. He belonged to the well-known Catholic family of Lostock ...
A Catholic layman, son of Christopher Anderton of Lostock, brother of James and uncle of Lawrence ...
An English Benedictine, b. in Lancashire in 1611; d. 9 October, 1671. He as the sixth son of ...
English priest and martyr, b. in the Isle of Wight about 1560; d. 25 April, 1586. He ...
A famous Catholic statesman of the nineteenth century, b. 20 August, 1803, at Freiburg im ...
Martyred at York 4 July, 1597. He was born at Etton in Yorkshire of a well-known gentle family. ...
(Andreas.)
Native of Toulouse, Austin friar, poet laureate of England and chronographer of ...
Mathematician, b. 22 May, 1675, at Chateaulin, in Lower Brittany; d. at Caen, 25 February, 1764. ...
Littérateur and historian, b. at Planes, Valencia, Spain, in 1740; d. in Rome in 1817. ...
A celebrated Portuguese theologian of the sixteenth century, b. at Coimbra 26 July 1528; d. 1 ...
Biographer and ascetic writer, b. at Toledo, Spain, 1590; d. at Madrid, 20 June, 1672. Before ...
The pioneer missionary and explorer of Thibet in the seventeenth century, b. at Oleiros, ...
Born 1256, in Borgo San Sepolero, Tuscany, Italy ; d. there 31 August, 1315. He was of noble ...
Or ANDREA DA PISA (the name by which Andrea da Pontadera is known).
An Italian sculptor and ...
Canonist, b. at Mugello, near Florence, about 1275; d. 1348. He was educated by his father and at ...
Bishop of that see in Cappadocia, assigned by Krumbacher to the first half of the sixth ...
(Or REGENSBURG.)
Historian of the later fourteenth and earlier fifteenth century. All that is ...
(Sometimes called Andreas in English biography), theologian, homilist, hymnographer, b. at ...
First superior of the Congregation of the Mission ( Lazarists ) in the United States and ...
A Spanish canonist, born at Xativa, or San Felipe, in Valencia. Of Moorish extraction, he ...
Born 1521 at Castronuovo, a small town in Sicily ; died 10 November, 1608. His baptismal name ...
Martyr, born of an old and illustrious Polish family, in the Palatinate of Sandomir, 1590; ...
Of the illustrious Corsini family ; born in Florence, in 1302; died 1373. Wild and dissolute in ...
(Sometimes called Andreas in English biography), theologian, homilist, hymnographer, b. at ...
Dominican missionary and papal ambassador, born in the diocese of Paris ; died c. 1253. He ...
(Sometimes, of COLOSSUS)
Theologian, d. 1440. He was Greek by birth, and born of schismatic ...
Archdeacon of Fiesole, born probably at the beginning of the ninth century; died about 877. St. ...
The name "Andrew" (Gr., andreia , manhood, or valour), like other Greek names, appears to have ...
A martyr of the Faith in Lampsacus, a city of Mysia, in the persecution of Decius. He and two ...
Editor and author, born at Norwich, England, 6 December, 1773; died London, 7 April, 1837. His ...
Comprises three towns in the Province of Bari and one in the Province of Potenza, Archdiocese of ...
Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution (about 304). The "Martyrologium Hieronymian." contains the ...
Now ESTENMURE, a titular see of Cilicia, situated in antiquity on a high bluff knob that marks ...
An eminent Roman composer, b. c. 1560; d. c. 1630. From 1575 he was for four years a boy-soprano ...
Born in Rome c. 1567; died c. 1620. He spent four years as a chorister at St. Peter's, under ...
An Italian Dominican, b. at Taggia, in the province of Genoa ; d. in Rome, 14 May, 1825. Pius ...
French missionary friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, b. at Toulouse, 1636; d. at ...
French genealogist and friar of the house of the Petits-Pères of the Discalced ...
(Latin angelus ; Greek aggelos ; from the Hebrew for "one going" or "one sent"; messenger). ...
( See also FEAST OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELS .)
That every individual soul has a guardian angel ...
Foundress of the Ursulines, born 21 March, 1474, at Desenzano, a small town on the southwestern ...
Umbrian penitent and mystical writer. She was born at Foligno in Umbria, in 1248, of a rich ...
( Also Angelis).
Missionary to Ethiopia, born at Sorrento, Italy, 1567; died at Colela in ...
An eminent pioneer missionary of Japan ; born at Castro-Giovanni, Sicily, 1567; died 4 December, ...
A congregation of women founded at Milan about 1530 by Countess Luigia Torelli of Guastalla ...
A famous painter of the Florentine school, born near Castello di Vicchio in the province of ...
Moral theologian of the order of Friars Minor ; born at Chivasso in Piedmont, in 1411; and died ...
One of the leaders of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, b. at Fossombrone about 1247; d. at ...
St. John in the Apocalypse is shown seven candlesticks and in their midst, the Son of Man ...
Angels were seldom represented in Christian art before Constantine. The oldest fresco in which ...
PRESENT USAGE
The Angelus is a short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation ...
The triple Hail Mary recited in the evening, which is the origin of our modern Angelus, was ...
(Johannes Scheffer)
Convert, poet, controversialist, the son of a Lutheran Polish Nobleman, ...
The desire of vengeance. Its ethical rating depends upon the quality of the vengeance and the ...
(Andegavum)
Comprises the territory embraced in the department of Maine and Loire. It was a ...
The University of Angers is, probably, a development of the cathedral school of that city. Early ...
(OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS)
A miraculous shrine near Lur, France, containing a crypt (Sainte ...
Abbot of Saint-Riquier, died 18 February, 814. Angilbert seems to have been brought up at the ...
A noted scholar, b. at Piacenza, Italy, 1750; d. at Polotsk, 21 February, 1788. He entered the ...
The Priory of Anglesea, Cambridgeshire, England, was founded in honour of the Blessed Virgin ...
In the creed of the Catholic Church, Holy Order is one of the Seven Sacraments instituted by ...
A term used to denote the religious belief and position of members of the established Church ...
Canadian journalist and member of Parliament, born in the town of Cloankilty, County Cork, ...
I. ANGLO-SAXON OCCUPATION OF BRITAIN
The word Anglo-Saxon is used as a collective name for ...
An Italian diocese comprising twenty-seven towns and three villages in the province of Potenza ...
Also known as SANTA CRUD DE REINO DE ANGOLA, and as SAO PAOLO DE LOANDA, diocese of Portuguese ...
Armenian rite diocese in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey).
The Europeans now call Angora, and ...
(ENGOLIEIMA).
Diocese ; comprises the Department of the Charente in France, and has always ...
The episcopal see of the Azores, suffragan of Lisbon, known as Angra do Heroismo, created in ...
Native of Burgos in Spain, came to America in 1524 as a soldier, but joined the Dominican ...
Vicariate Apostolic comprising the territory of the German Duchy of Anhalt, with an area of 860 ...
The Roman Pontiff who succeeded Pius towards the year 157, and reigned till about 168. ...
This well-known prayer dates its origin from the first half of the fourteenth century and was ...
S. Maria dell' Anima, the German national church and hospice in Rome, received its name, ...
In Christian art animal forms have always occupied a place of far greater importance than was ...
The Bible makes no pretensions to science ; we must not therefore expect to meet in its pages ...
Pagan antiquity
The first ethical writers of pagan antiquity to advocate the duty of kindness ...
( Latin, Anima, Soul)
Animism is the doctrine or theory of the soul. In current language ...
An Italian composer, born at Florence about 1500; died 1571. He was a pupil of Claude Goudimel. ...
Anise ( Matthew 23:23 ) has been, since Wyclif, the rendering of anethon in the English ...
(Septuagint Anna ; some versions have Hannah which is nearer to the original Hebrew. The ...
Byzantine historian, eldest daughter of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Constantinople (1081-1118). ...
The historical literature of the Middle Ages may be classed under three general heads: ...
(According to Blass and Wescott-Hort, Annas ; Josephus, Ananos ). Name (cf. Hebrew ...
French Jesuit, theologian, writer, and one of the foremost opponents of Jansenism, b. 5 ...
The first fruits, or first year's revenue of an ecclesiastical benefice paid to the Papal ...
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 ...
Foundress of the Society of the Sisters of St. Ursula of the Blessed Virgin , born at Dijon, 21 ...
English martyr, d. 27 Feb., 1601. She was the daughter of William Heigham of Dunmow, Essex, a ...
Anne (Hebrew, Hannah , grace; also spelled Ann, Anne, Anna ) is the traditional name of the ...
Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, born at Chamblanc, Diocese of Dijon, 11 ...
(A NNECIENSIS )
Diocese comprising the Department of Haute-Savoie in France, with the ...
Catholic theologian and popular writer, b. 13 October, 1794, at Ostbevern in Westphalia ; d. 8 ...
Theologian, b. of a Roman senatorial family early in the thirteenth century; d. at Rome, 1 ...
Cardinal, theologian, b. at Borbona in the Diocese of Rieti, 22 September, 1815; d. at the same ...
(Giovanni Nanni).
Archeologist and historian, born at Viterbo about 1432; died 13 November, ...
(Or HANNO).
Archbishop of Cologne in 1055. When very young he entered the ecclesiastical ...
The fact of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is related in Luke 1:26-38 . The ...
The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (25 March), also called in old ...
I. ANNUNCIADES
A penitential order founded by St. Jeanne de Valois (b. 1464; d. 4 February, ...
A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give spiritual aid and comfort and perfect ...
A French historian, b. in Paris, 21 Feb., 1723; d. 6 Sept., 1806. He entered the Congregation of ...
Theologian and archaeologist, b. at Piacenza, in Italy, 7 March, 1710; d. at Turin, in 1780. ...
(Sometimes called GIORDANO DI SAN STEFANO.)
Born at San Angelo in Sicily early in the ...
(Or ANSGARIUS.)
Called the Apostle of the North, was b. in Picardy, 8 September, 801; d. 5 ...
Several medieval councils were held in this French town (near Lyons ). That of 994 decreed, ...
Archbishop of Sens ; d. 25 November 879, or 883. He was a Benedictine monk, Abbot of St. ...
Born about 770, of noble parentage; died 20 July, 833, or 834. At the age of eighteen he entered ...
(ANSELMUS LAUDINENSIS.)
Died 15 July, 1117, one of the famous theologians of the Middle ...
A Belgian chronicler of the eleventh century, b. 1008; d. about 1056. He was educated at the ...
Born at Mantua c. 1036; d. in the same city, 18 March, 1086. He was nephew of Anselm of Lucca, ...
Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church ; born at Aosta a Burgundian town on the ...
Abbot, Duke of Forum Julii, the modern Friuli, in the northeastern part of Italy. Wishing to ...
A celebrated French preacher, b. at l'Isle-Jourdain in the Comté d'Armagnac, 13 January, ...
Dutch poet and convert, b. at Amsterdam in 1622; d. at Perugia in 1669. His parents were ...
Lawyer and politician, son of one of the first settlers in Tasmania, b. in London, England, ...
(From Latin ante =before, and diluvium =flood; people who lived before the Flood ).
IN ...
(ANTEROS.)
(Reigned 21 November, 235-3 January, 236). We know for certain only that he ...
A French ecclesiastical historian , b. at Fréjus, 25 July, 1648; d. in the same city, 21 ...
A Byzantine official of the fourth and fifth centuries, of high rank and fine character. He was ...
Franciscan Thaumaturgist, born at Lisbon, 1195; died at Vercelli [actually Arcella -- Ed. ], ...
A Dominican theologian, so called because of his great veneration for St. Catharine of Sienna, b. ...
Founder of Christian monasticism .
The chief source of information on St. Anthony is a Greek ...
(A. DE OLIVERA).
A Spanish Carmelite, b. at Leon in Old-Castile; d. 1641. He taught ...
Religious communities or orders under the patronage of Anthony the Hermit, father of monasticism, ...
( anthropos , man, and morphe , form).
A term used in its widest sense to signify the ...
(Greek Antichristos ).
In composition anti has different meanings: antibasileus denotes ...
An Eastern sect which flourished about A. D. 200 to 400, and which was so designated as ...
(Greek, anti , instead of; doron , a gift; i.e. a gift instead of)
The remains of the ...
(Micmac, nalagitkooneech , "where the branches are torn off")
Antigonish is the shiretown ...
Also ANTIMINSION (Greek antimension , from anti , instead of, and mensa , table, altar). ...
(or ANTINOPOLIS)
A titular see of the Thebaid, now Esneh or Esench, a city in Egypt, built ...
( anti , against, and nomos , law )
The heretical doctrine that Christians are ...
I. ANTIOCH OF SYRIA
It is difficult to realize that in the modern Antakieh (28,000 inhab.), we ...
( Antiocheia, Antiochia )
I. ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE CITY
Of the vast empire conquered by ...
The family of liturgies originally used in the Patriarchate of Antioch begins with that of the ...
A monk of the seventh century, said to have been born near Ancyra ( Asia Minor ), lived first ...
(In Arabia ) in the fifth century, one of the foremost Greek prelates of the Roman Orient ; ...
A titular see of Palestine, whose episcopal list is known from 449 to 451 ( Gams,( 452). It ...
Now ANTEPHELO, or ANDIFILO, a titular see of Lycia, on the south coast of Asia Minor, at the head ...
(From the Greek antiphonon , sounding against, responsive sound, singing opposite, alternate ...
The Greek Liturgy uses antiphons, not only in the Office, but also in the Mass, at Vespers, and ...
( antiphonon )
Socrates, the church historian (Hist. Eccl., VI, viii), says that St. ...
The term Communion ( Communio ) is used, not only for the reception of the Holy Eucharist, but ...
(Latin antiphonarium, antiphonarius, antiphonarius liber, antiphonale ; Greek ...
It is no longer possible to reconstruct completely a primitive Christian antiphonary ; by a ...
Speculations concerning the rotundity of the earth and the possible existence of human beings ...
A false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected. At various ...
This department of archæology has been variously defined and classified. Some scholars have ...
( Antibarium )
So called from its position opposite to Bari in Italy ; the Catholic ...
Vicariate Apostolic in Chile, dependent on the Sacred Congregation of Ecclesiastical Affairs. By ...
A French theologian, born at Lunéville, 10 January, 1678; died at Pont-à-Mousson, ...
D UKE OF B RUNSWICK — L ÜNEBURG — W OLFENBÜTTEL
A convert to the ...
Cardinal ; Secretary of State to Pius IX, b. at Sonnino, in the Papal States, 2 April 1806; d. in ...
Cardinal, b. at Sinigaglia, 6 November 1730; d. 23 January, 1811, nephew of Cardinal ...
Cardinal, learned canonist, ecclesiastical historian, and Orientalist, b. at Sinigaglia, 8 July, ...
Patrologist, b. at Nimeguen, in Holland, early in the sixteenth century; d. same place, in 1588. ...
Cardinal, writer on education, b. 31 December 1540 in Rome ; d. there 16 August 1603. He was ...
(Botoz.)
A Polish Jesuit and missionary, born in Lwów (Lemberg), 6 November 1807; ...
(T ITUS Æ LIUS H ADRIANUS A NTONINUS P IUS ).
Roman Emperor (138-161), born 18 ...
Archbishop of Florence, b. at Florence, 1 March, 1389; d. 2 May, 1459; known also by his ...
Founder of the Clerks Regular of St. Paul, commonly known as the Barnabites ; b. in Cremona, ...
A Reformed Minorite, b. at Vicenza, 1 March, 1834; d. at Rovigno, 22 June, 1884. After his ...
A supposed Latin Christian poet of the third century, under whose name there is printed in ...
Born 1790, at Muenster, Westphalia ; d. there, 1837. He received Holy Orders, and in 1819 became ...
(ANVERS, ANTVERPEN, Spanish AMBERES)
A city of Belgium, in the archdiocese of Mechlin, ...
Dominican missionary, b. at Fuenteovejuna, 1510; d. in Mexico, 1591. In the world his name was ...
Born at Granada in Spain, probably 1514; died 1594. He went to Mexico, where he joined the ...
An Italian diocese, suffragan of Turin, and comprising 73 towns in the province of Turin. ...
A tribe of North American Indians belonging linguistically to the Athapascan stock whose ...
A titular metropolitan see of Syria, in the valley of the Orontes, whose episcopal list dates ...
Parliamentary orator, jurisconsult, Catholic controversialist, and Spanish litterateur, b. in ...
Founder of a Gnostic sect ; died at an advanced age late in the second century. What little is ...
St. Aphian (or Apian), an illustrious martyr, under the Emperor Maximian, c. 306. He was only ...
(Greek, Aphraates ; Syriac Aphrahat or Pharhad ).
The long list of Syriac writers ...
A priest of the diocese of Sicca, in proconsular Africa. Interest attaches to him only ...
Apocalypse, from the verb apokalypto , to reveal, is the name given to the last book in the ...
(Greek, apokatastasis ; Latin, restitutio in pristinum statum , restoration to the original ...
(Gr. apochrisis , an answer; cf. Lat. responsalis , from responsum ). This term indicates ...
Overview
The scope of this article takes in those compositions which profess to have been ...
(Greek apodosis , a giving back)
A usage of the Greek Church corresponding somewhat to the ...
A Christological theory, according to which Christ had a human body and a human sensitive ...
One of the first great martyrs of the church. He was made Bishop of Ravenna by St. Peter ...
A Christian grammarian of the fourth century, first at Berytus in Phoenicia, then at Laodicea ...
A Christian apologist, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia in the second century. He became ...
The most illustrious of the Bishops of Valence, b. at Vienne, 453; d. 520. He lived in the ...
A holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the ...
Anti- Montanist Greek ecclesiastical writer, between 180 and 210, probably from Asia Minor, ...
A theological science which has for its purpose the explanation and defence of the Christian ...
(Greek, apolysis , dismissal)
The dismissal blessing said by the Greek priest at the end ...
A dismissal prayer or hymn said or sung at the end of the Gree Mass and at other times during ...
( apo , from; phtheggomai , to cry out; pater , father)
Sayings of the Fathers of the ...
An educator and theologian, born at San Martino dell'Argine, province of Mantua, Italy, 20 ...
( apo , from, and stasis , station, standing, or position).
The word itself in its ...
The name given by the Greek Church to the Epistle of the Divine Liturgy, which is invariably of ...
A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of ...
By this designation are meant twelve holy Irishmen of the sixth century who went to study at the ...
A formula containing in brief statements, or "articles," the fundamental tenets of Christian ...
In the accepted order of the books of the New Testament the fifth book is called The Acts of the ...
The earliest fresco representing Christ surrounded by the Apostles dates from the beginning of ...
Under this title it may be sufficient to supply brief and essential information,
I. on the name ...
A pious association otherwise known as a league of prayer in union with the Heart of Jesus. It ...
The solemn blessing ( urbi et orbi ) which, before 1870, the Holy Father himself gave from the ...
The former central board of finance in the papal administrative system, which at one time was of ...
A third-century pseudo-Apostolic collection of moral and hierarchical rules and instructions, ...
The epithet Apostolic ( apostolikos ) occurs as far back as the beginning of the second ...
This term designates The Twelve Apostles as the body of men commissioned by Christ to spread the ...
A fourth-century pseudo-Apostolic collection, in eight books, of independent, though closely ...
A cleric who puts into execution a papal rescript, completing what is necessary in order ...
(Latin Expeditionarius literarum apostolicarum, Datariae Apostolicae sollicitator atque ...
Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had ...
( Litterae apostolicae ).
1. The letters of the Apostles to Christian communities or those ...
A title given to the Kings of Hungary, and used, since the time of Maria Theresa, by the King ...
( Soles apostolica, cathedra apostolica ).
This is a metaphorical term, used, as happens in ...
Apostolicity as a note of the true Church being dealt with elsewhere, the object of the present ...
An association of secular priests who observe a simple rule embodying the common duties of ...
A Bull of Pius IX (1846-78) which regulates anew the system of censures and reservations in ...
A Bull issued by Benedict XIV, 23 February, 1741, against secular pursuits on the part of the ...
Note: An English translation of Apostolicae Curae is available here.
A Bull of Leo XIII ...
The name of four different heretical bodies.
I. Heretics of the third century
The sect of ...
A Bull issued 23 May, 1724, by Innocent XIII, for the revival of ecclesiastical discipline in ...
A Bull issued 19 December, 1513, by Leo X, in defence of the Catholic doctrine concerning the ...
Apostolicity is the mark by which the Church of today is recognized as identical with the ...
A Bull issued by Clement XIII, 12 January, 1765, in defense of the Society of Jesus against ...
(From Greek, apotassomai , to renounce).
The adherents of a heresy which sprang up in the ...
(Greek apotheosis , from, and theos , deify).
Deification, the exaltation of men to the ...
This article will deal not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to ...
The official name given to an officer in ecclesiastical courts designated to serve the summons, ...
( Appel comme d'abus )
Appeal was originally a recourse to the civil forum against the ...
The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive view of the positive legislation of the ...
( ad , to + petere , to seek)
A tendency, an inclination, or direction. As it is used by ...
Approbation is an act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an ecclesiastic ...
In general, consists in the attribution to a person or thing of a character or quality which ...
(Latin, apsis or absis , Ionic Greek, apsis , an arch).
The semicircular or polygonal ...
A chapel radiating tangentially from one of the bays or divisions of the apse, and reached ...
(Also written ABSIDIALE).
A small or secondary apse, one of the apses on either side of the ...
Held 14 May, 1365, in the cathedral of that city by the archbishops and bishops of the ...
(Greek, Hydroparastatai ; Latin, Aquarii ).
A name given to several sects in the ...
An Italian archdiocese in the Abruzzi, directly dependent on the Holy See. The See of ...
( Or Prisca.)
Jewish tentmakers, who left Rome (Aquila was a native of Pontus ) in the ...
A former city of the Roman Empire, situated at the head of the Adriatic, on what is now the ...
A council held in 381, presided over by St. Valerian of Aquileia, and attended by thirty-two ...
The See of Aquileia fell into schism during the quarrel of the Three Chapters (under Bishop ...
Philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church ( Angelicus Doctor ), patron of Catholic ...
An Italian diocese immediately subject to the Holy See. It comprises 29 towns in the province ...
A learned Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist, born 23 July, 1747. at Companario in ...
A learned Spanish bishop. b. 1404, in the diocese of Segovia ; d. 4 October, 1470. After ...
Arabia is the cradle of Islam and, in all probability, the primitive home of the Semitic race. ...
In 246 and 247 two councils were held at Bostra in Arabia against Beryllus, Bishop of the see, ...
Arabia formerly belonged to the mission of Galla ( Africa), but was made a separate prefecture ...
Until the eighth century the Arabians, although they expressed their religious feelings in a ...
A small sect of the third century, whose founder is unknown, and which is commonly named from ...
A titular see of Armenia, suffragan of Melitene ; its episcopal list is known from 381 to ...
A titular see of Palestine, said to be identical with the eminence of Tell' Arad on the way from ...
The united kingdom which came into existence by the marriage (1469) of Isabella, heiress of ...
The three islands of Aran stretch across the mouth of Galway Bay, forming a kind of natural ...
Held at Aranda in the province of Burgos in Spain, in 1473, by Alfonso Carillo, Archbishop of ...
Jesuit theologian, born at Moneva, Aragon, 3 February 1642; died at Saragossa, 3 June, 1695. He ...
The last Catholic bishop of Iceland before the introduction of Protestantism, b. 1484; d. 7 ...
A Christian poet of the sixth century, probably of Ligurian origin. He studied at Milan under ...
Located in Chile, established by Leo XIII in 1901, and confided to the Capuchins, It has ...
( Also Araucans, Moluches, Mapuches).
The origin of the word is not yet fully ascertained. A ...
Brazilian missionary, born at St. Michael's in the Azores ; died 1632. He entered the Society ...
Spanish theologian, b. at Verin, Galicia, 1580; d. Madrid, 19 March, 1664. In 1601, he entered the ...
( Also Aruacans).
The first American aborigines met by Columbus -- not to be confounded ...
Jesuit, born at Madrid, February, 1585; died at Lima, Peru, 7 August 1670. He joined the Society ...
Arbitration in a general sense, is a method of arranging differences between two parties by ...
(Gaelic Arascach ).
St. Arbogast has been claimed as a native of Scotland, but this is ...
This monastery was founded on the east coast of Scotland (1178) by William the Lion, for ...
A manuscript Scottish missal or mass-book, written in 1491 by James Sibbald, priest of ...
A box in which the Eucharist was kept by the primitive Christians in their homes. St. Cyprian ( ...
A miraculous image venerated at Arcachon, France, and to all appearances the work of the ...
(Also ARCHADELT, ARKADELT, HARCADELT)
A distinguished musician, b. in Holland at the close of ...
A titular see of Asia Minor. Its episcopal list (431-879) is given in Gams (p. 444); there is ...
Also ARCA, now TEL-ARKA.
A titular see on the coast of Phoenicia, between Tripolis and ...
An Encyclical Letter on Christian marriage, issued 10 February, 1880, by Leo XIII. Its scope ...
A structure composed of separate pieces, such as stone or bricks, having the shape of truncated ...
Christian archaeology is that branch of the science of archaeology the object of which is the ...
An official pontifical board founded in the middle of the nineteenth century for the purpose of ...
A preacher of the Capuchin order whose name was Michael Desgranges, b. at Lyons, 2 March, 1736; ...
( Archiepiskopos , archiepiscopus ).
I. IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
An archbishop or ...
A confraternity empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and ...
( Latin archidiaconos ; Greek archidaikonos ).
The incumbent of an ecclesiastical ...
An Irish Jesuit, whose name is sometimes given as Archdekin or Arsdekin, b. at Kilkenny, 30 ...
( Archidioikesis , archidioecesis ).
This term does not designate an ecclesiastical ...
A titular see of Palestine, twelve miles west of the Jordan. Its episcopal list is given in ...
Christian archaeology is that branch of the science of archaeology the object of which is the ...
An English missionary priest, born in London, 17 November, 1751; died 22 August, 1832. While ...
The Court of Arches, so called from the fact that it was anciently held in the Church of St. ...
(Russian, arkhierei ).
A Greek word for bishop, when considered as the culmination of the ...
(Greek archo , I command, and mandra , a sheepfold).
In the Greek Rite the superior of ...
An Italian theologian and diplomatist, born 1500 at Milan of the distinguished family of that ...
The best definition of architecture that has ever been given is likewise the shortest. It is "the ...
The term Gothic was first used during the later Renaissance, and as a term of contempt. Says ...
Ecclesiastical archives may be described as a collection of documents, records, muniments, and ...
(From archon , prince, ruler).
A Gnostic sect which existed in Palestine and Armenia ...
Just as among the deacons of the bishop's church one stood out as the special assistant and ...
This controversy arose in England on the appointment of George Blackwell as archpriest with ...
This word is derived from arcus "arch" and solium , a term sometimes used by Latin writers ...
A Frankish Bishop of the latter part of the seventh century. According to some, e.g. Alexis de ...
(High Field).
Ardagh, an Irish diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, takes its ...
(Hill of Braccan, or Brecan)
Site of an ancient abbey, now a parish and village in the county ...
An Argyllshire house, one of the three in Scotland belonging to the Order of Vallis Caulium, or ...
An English Catholic, executed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, b. 1542 (?); d. 1583. He was ...
(Latin argilla , French argile , colloquial ardille , clay).
A statue, fountain, and ...
Definitor-general and Commissary of the Capuchins ; died at Brussels, 5 June, 1669. He is the ...
(Rabbath-Moab).
A titular see of Palestine. Its episcopal list (449-536) is given in Gams ...
Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima, Peru , was erected by Gregory XIII , 15 April, 1577, at ...
Born at Patrae, Greece, about 860; was, like all the eminent men of that time, a disciple of ...
A titular see of Syria near Apameia. Its episcopal list (325-680) is given in Gams (p. ...
A diocese of Tuscany, in Italy, which is directly dependent on the Holy See. It has 40 towns in ...
Governor of California, born at San Francisco, 1784; died there in 1830. His family was one of ...
Called the vicomte d'Argenson, chevalier, vicomte de Mouzé, seigneur de Chastres, was the ...
(Argentine Republic).
A South American confederation of fourteen provinces, or States, united ...
A titular see of Peloponnesian Greece, from the fifth to the twelfth century, about twenty miles ...
The Diocese of Argyll, founded about 1200, was separated from the Diocese of Dunkeld ; it ...
Humanist, and translator of Aristotle, born at Constantinople, 1416; died at Rome about 1486. It ...
Martyred at Milan in 1065, for his attempt to reform the simoniacal and immoral clergy of ...
A heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
...
Diocese in the Archdiocese of Beneventum, comprising seven towns in the province of Avellino, ...
(Also known as Pedrarias Davila).
A Spanish knight from Segovia, b. about the middle of the ...
Orientalist, exegete, and editor of the "Antwerp Polyglot", born at Frejenal de la Sierra in ...
Writer of ascetical treatises, born at Seville in Spain, 1533, died in that place, 15 May, ...
A titular see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor, whose episcopal list (381-458) is given in Gams (p. ...
Archbishop of Mainz ; date of birth unknown; d. 6 April, 1032; son of Arbo, Count Palatine in ...
A titular see of Palestine, whose episcopal list (431-536) is given in Gams (page 454).
Called "The Italian Homer". He was the son of Nicolo Ariosto, Governor of Reggio, and Daria ...
A name given in Josephus (Ant. XII, ii passim ) to the author of a letter ascribing the Greek ...
A Christian apologist living at Athens in the second century. According to Eusebius, the ...
The greatest of heathen Philosophers, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Thracian ...
An heresiarch, born about A.D.ú died 336. He is said to have been a Libyan by descent. His ...
Said to have been, probably in the original form of the word, Arizonac , and in this form a Pima ...
The Hebrew aron , by which the Ark of the Covenant is expressed, does not call to the mind, as ...
The Hebrew name to designate Noah's Ark, the one which occurs again in the history of Moses' ...
One of the United States of America , bounded on the north by the State of Missouri, on the ...
A Spaniards from Biscay, first attached to the Franciscan province of Cantabria, then ...
The first Council of Arles was held in 314, for the purpose of putting an end to the Donatist ...
The Spanish Armada, also called the Invincible Armada ( infra ), and more correctly La Armada ...
Archdiocese founded by St. Patrick about 445, as the primatial and metropolitan see of ...
Technically known as LIBER AR(D)MACHANUS.
A celebrated Irish-Latin manuscript preserved in ...
The School of Armagh seems to have been the oldest, and down to the time of the Anglo-Norman ...
French cardinal and diplomatist, b. c. 1501; d. 2 June, 1585. He belonged to the illustrious ...
Benedictine historian, b. in Rome (according to others, at Ancona ) in 1657; d. at Foligno in ...
A mountainous region of Western Asia occupying a somewhat indefinite area to the southeast of ...
( Hungarian, Szamos-Ujvar , Latin, Armenopolis ).
A city in the Transylvanian county of ...
Bishop of La Paz (capital of Bolivia, South America), appointed 22 October, 1901; b. at ...
A diocese situated in New South Wales (Australia), with its cathedral at Armidale, 335 miles ...
The popular designation of the doctrines held by a party formed in the early days of the ...
(A RNAUT, or A RNAULT .)
A celebrated family, the history of which is intimately ...
English composer, b. 12 March 1710, at London ; d. 5 March, 1778. Although of Catholic ...
An Icelandic bishop, b. in Iceland, 1237; d. at Bergen, 1297. While a deacon, he visited ...
A Christian apologist, flourished during the reign of Diocletian (284-305). St. Jerome says, in ...
Name of several medieval personages.
Arnold Amalricus
Cistercian monk, Abbot of ...
(ARNALDUS, ARNOLDUS, ERNALDUS)
Born at Brescia towards the end of the eleventh century, ...
(Or di Arnoldo).
Italian sculptor and architect, b. at Florence, fourteenth century. In 1364, ...
Usually called Usingen, after his birthplace, an Augustinian friar, teacher of Luther, and with him ...
Sometimes called di Lapo, the principal master of Italian Gothic, b. at Florence, about 1232; d. ...
( Also: Aernoudt, Arnold).
Jesuit writer on spiritual subjects, born at Moere Belgium, 17 ...
Bavarian historian, b. at Landshut in 1440; d. at the same place about the year 1505. He was ...
Son of Luitpold of the Agilulfing family and of Kunigunde, and Duke of Bavaria from 907 to 937. ...
(Lexoviensis or Luxoviensis).
In France ; d. 31 August, 1184. He was educated by his ...
Statesman, bishop under the Merovingians, born c. 580; died c. 640. His parents belonged to a ...
(Atrebatum).
Diocese comprising the Department of Pas-de-Calais in France. On the occasion of ...
In 1025 a council was held at Arras against certain (Manichaean) heretics who rejected the ...
Born at Vergara, in Biscay, 1564, entered the Society of Jesus in 1579, and in 1585 went to ...
A native of Mexico in the eighteenth century. Little more is known of his life than that he was ...
A professor of natural philosophy at Spoleto, Prato, and Sienna, b. at Florence, 17 March, 1709; ...
Mathematician, b. at Florence and died there in 1639. He was distinguished as a litterateur, but ...
English martyr, born in 1585 at Haddock; executed at Lancaster, 23 August, 1628. He is of great ...
It was under the Dynasty of the Arsacids, who ruled the Persian empire from the year 256 B.C. ...
Patriarch of Constantinople, in the thirteenth century; died 1273. He entered a monastery in ...
Anchorite; born 354, at Rome ; died 450, at Troe, in Egypt. Theodosius the Great having ...
A titular see of Egypt, now Medinet el Fayum, capital of the district of that name, and ...
" Christian art" is a term which, while it always applies to the fine arts and their creations ...
Before speaking in detail of the developments of Christian art from the beginning down to the ...
(Or Artemas).
Mentioned as the leader of an Antitrinitarian sect at Rome, in the third ...
(Didacus Arturus).
A Dominican friar, and a theologian of note, b. at Limerick, Ireland, ...
A celebrated Catholic physician of the seventeenth century, born at Limerick, 1593, died c. ...
(Greek, arthron ; Latin, articulus , joint).
Certain revealed supernatural truths such ...
A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 articles relative to Catholicism, ...
(Greek artos = bread, klao = to break; the breaking of bread).
A peculiar service in the ...
A degree marking the completion of the traditional curriculum of the college. In the medieval ...
An academic degree higher than that of Bachelor. The conferring of the degree of Master of Arts, ...
One of the four traditional divisions of the teaching body of the university. It is impossible to ...
The expression artes liberales , chiefly used during the Middle Ages, does not mean arts as we ...
Artvin, a Russian city in the trans-Caucasian province of Kutais, is situated near Turkish ...
Sixtieth Archbishop of Canterbury, second son of Robert, Earl of Arundel and Warren, b. 1353; ...
Thomas, first Lord Arundell of Wardour
Born 1560; died at Oxford, 7 November, 1639. He was the ...
(Or Asa).
First Bishop of the Welsh See of that name (second half of the sixth century). ...
A titular see of Palestine whose episcopal list (351-930 or 40) is given in Gams (p. 453). It ...
Ambassador of Innocent IV (1243-54) to the Tartars. He entered the Dominican Order, probably at ...
A Bull issued by Gregory XIII, 24 May, 1584, in favor of the Society of Jesus, to confirm the ...
See also The Feast of the Ascension .
The elevation of Christ into heaven by His own power ...
See also The Fact of the Ascension .
The fortieth day after Easter Sunday , commemorating ...
Ascetics, as a branch of theology, may be briefly defined as the scientific exposition of ...
The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and ...
German historian, b. at Hochst, in Hesse-Nassau, 29 April, 1801; d. at Vienna, 25 April, 1882. In ...
An Italian diocese, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Beneventum, comprising six towns and two ...
Diocese comprising sixteen towns in the Province of Ascoli-Piceno, two in that of Aquila, and two ...
Aseity (Latin a , from; se , itself: ens a se ) is the property by which a being exists ...
The daughter of Putiphare (Poti-phera), priest of On. The Pharaoh of Egypt gave her to wife ...
Though the form Aser uniformly appears in the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Douay versions, an ...
Asgaard (from As , plural Aeser , or in English, "Ases"--Norwegian for the gods--and gaard ...
The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday , which is the first day of the Lenten fast.
The ...
Monk of the Cistercian Monastery of Jervaulx in Yorkshire, executed after the Pilgrimage of ...
Suffered at Tyburn, 29 March, 1544. His name was originally contained in the process of the ...
It is not easy to arrive at the fundamental conception of the liturgical use of ashes. No doubt ...
Martyr and Jesuit lay-brother; first heard of, it seems, as cook at Douay College, which he ...
An early Jesuit missionary in Maryland ; born in Ireland, 1742; died in Maryland, 1814, or ...
Martyr, third son of Richard Ashton of Croston, in Lancashire. He was hanged, drawn, and ...
In the present article it is intended to give a rapid survey of the geography, ethnography, ...
The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running ...
More properly Ezion-geber, a city of Idumea, situated on the northern extremity of the ...
An English gentleman, and nominal leader of the 30,000 Northern Catholics who rose in defence ...
The name of the demon mentioned in the Book of Tobias (iii, 8). The name is most probably ...
A titular see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor, situated along the Eurymedon, on a lofty hill that ...
(Latin, aspergere, to wash, sprinkle).
The rite of sprinkling the congregation with holy ...
(Also AZPILCOETA.)
Generally known as Navarrus, or Doctor Navarrus, a famous Spanish canonist ...
The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, ...
A Prefecture Apostolic in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta, India, established in 1889. ...
(Arabic, Sam'an , i.e. Simeon )
The name of an illustrious Maronite family of Mount ...
Quinquennial representative meetings of the Clergy of France for the purpose of apportioning ...
(Or Asserius Menevensis).
A learned monk of St David's, Menevia, b. in Pembrokeshire; d. ...
The celebration of the "Festum Asinorum" in medieval and ecclesiastical circles was a pastime ...
An official of the Congregation of the Inquisition. The Holy Office is better known as the ...
Assessors, in ecclesiastical law, are learned persons who function is to counsel a judge with ...
Bishop and Patron of Elphin, in Ireland, one of St. Patrick's converts, and his worker in ...
Assideans (Hebrew, chasidim , saints; Greek, Asidaioi ), men endowed with grace ( Psalm 39:5 ; ...
In this sense the word may be defined as that vital function by which an organism changes nutrient ...
As applied to a mental process, assimilation derives all its force and meaning from the analogy ...
Diocese located in the civil province of Umbria, Italy. The town of Assisi ( Assisium ), ...
(ASSISTENS THRONO PONTIFICIO.)
Bishops-assistant at the pontifical throne are those prelates ...
The signification of the word assizes in this connection is derived from the French verb ...
An Austrian musician, born at Salzburg, 11 February, 1790; died in Vienna, 31 August, 1862. ...
(1) A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states;
(2) the basis ...
A sacerdotal association founded in 1868 at Vienna, and at first confined to that Archdiocese. ...
I. LEGAL RIGHT
A voluntary association means any group of individuals freely united for the ...
Under this term are comprehended all those organizations, approved and indulgenced by Church ...
The name of two different persons in the Bible :
I. In Ezra 4:6 , and Esther 1:17 , it ...
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August; also called in old liturgical ...
(Also called the Assumptionists .)
This congregation had its origin in the College of the ...
A congregation whose work is the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes. This labour they ...
A congregation of French nuns devoted to the teaching of young girls. It was founded in 1839 by ...
(Also called the Assumptionists .)
This congregation had its origin in the College of the ...
(Septuagint Assour .)
(1) The name used in the Old Testament to designate the Assyrian land ...
(Or Assuræ.)
A titular see of Proconsular Africa, now Henchir-Zenfour. Its episcopal ...
In treating of Assyria it is extremely difficult not to speak at the same time of its sister, ...
Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
History and Origin
This rite is used by ...
(From the Greek aster , a star).
This is a utensil for the Liturgy according to the Greek ...
Name of several prominent persons in early Christian history.
(1) Asterius of Petra, a ...
One of the divisions of the province of Alexandria, and suffragan of Turin. Asti is a very old ...
The name of several English Catholics of prominence.
Sir Arthur, member of an ancient and ...
(ASTURIGA AUGUSTA.)
Suffragan of Valladolid in Spain, dates it is said, from the third ...
The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older ...
(From Greek astron , star; nemein , to distribute).
A science of prehistoric antiquity, ...
No systematic observations of the heavenly bodies were made by the Jews. Astral worship was rife ...
A French cardinal, b. At Tourves (Var.) in 1772; d. 29 September, 1851. He was a nephew of ...
Born At Sauves, 19 March, 1684; died At Paris, 5 May, 1766. He was the son of a converted ...
Properly ATAU-HUALLPA (etymology usually given as from huallpa , the name of some indigenous ...
An Indian from Cuzco who, being in the service of a Jesuit, went to Spain with his master. ...
(Latin, atavus , a great-grandfather's grandfather, an ancestor).
Duchesne introduced the ...
(Northwest Territories).
Suffragan of Saint Boniface ; erected 8 April, 1862, by Pius IX. ...
One of the symbols of the Faith approved by the Church and given a place in her liturgy, is a ...
Bishop of Alexandria ; Confessor and Doctor of the Church ; born c. 296; died 2 May, 373. ...
( a privative, and theos , God, i.e. without God ).
Atheism is that system of thought ...
The Abbey of Athelney, established in the County of Somerset, England, was founded by King Alfred, ...
A Christian apologist of the second half of the second century of whom no more is known than ...
A small inland town in the county Galway, Ireland, anciently called Athnere, from Ath-na-Riagh ...
Christianity was first preached in Athens by St. Paul. He came to Athens from Berœa of ...
The Greeks have long regarded their religion as a national affair. This notion is so deep-rooted ...
Born in Spain, probably in Cordova, at the beginning of the seventeenth century; died at ...
Athos is a small tongue of land that projects into the Aegean Sea, being the eastern-most of the ...
Born at Tordehumos, near Valladolid, in Spain, in the year 1546, eldest son of the royal ...
Catholic confessor, tortured to death in Bridewell prison in 1595. His pathetic and romantic ...
Priest and martyr, probably to be identified with Venerable Thomas Atkinson. Dodd, who mentions ...
One of the notable confessors of the English Church during the age which succeeded the ...
Philanthropist and biographer, born at Athlone, Ireland, 13 October, 1823; died Dublin 8 July ...
Martyred at York, 11 March, l6l6. He was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was ordained ...
(Gr. a privative, and temno , cut; indivisible). Primarily, the smallest particle of ...
Atomism [ a privative and temnein to cut, i.e. indivisible] is the system of those who hold ...
( Hebrew Yom Hakkippurim . Vulgate, Dies Expiationum , and Dies Propitiationis — ...
The word atonement , which is almost the only theological term of English origin, has a ...
A titular see of Lower Egypt (Athribites) whose episcopal list (325-479) is given in Gams ...
I. An open place or court before a church. It consisted of a large quadrangle with colonnaded ...
A bill of attainder may be defined to be an Act of Parliament for putting a man to death or for ...
Born in the sixth century in Burgundy ; died 627. He first became a monk at Lérins, but, ...
(Also ATTALEIA.)
A titular metropolitan see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor. Its episcopal list ...
Byzantine statesman and historian, probably a native of Attalia in Pamphylia, whence he seems ...
Patriarch of Constantinople (406-425), born at Sebaste in Armenia ; died 425. He was ...
In 765, St. Chrodegang of Metz and thirty-seven other bishops mutually promised in an ...
King and general of the Huns; died 453. Succeeding in 433 to the kingship of Scythian hordes ...
Painter, born at Dole, France, 31 July, 1702; died at Pekin, 8 December, 1768. He made serious ...
A faithful follower of Gregory VII in his conflict with the simoniac clergy, born probably at ...
Born at Badajoz in Spain, 1070; died 22 May, 1155. He became Abbot of Vallombrosa, (Tuscany) in ...
A learned theologian and canonist of the tenth century, son of the Viscount Aldegarius and ...
(Or ST. ARAGHT).
A contemporary of St. Patrick from whom she received the veil. She is known ...
In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the ...
Attrition or Imperfect Contrition (Latin attero , "to wear away by rubbing"; p. part. ...
A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor whose episcopal list (431-879) is given in Gams (446).
Canon regular, and Vicar Capitular of Pamiers, born 1639; died 4 August, 1692. He was educated ...
Theologian of Bois-le-Duc ; died 22 November, 1686. He joined the Dominicans in 1633, taught ...
Jesuit missionary in Canada, born at Gisors in Normandy, 10 May, 1673; died at St. ...
Grammarian, poet, preacher, archeologist, philologist. Born at Paris, 4 August, 1604; died at ...
Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem , born 1423; died 1503. He made his first ...
(Augusta Auscorum).
Archdiocese ; comprises the Department of Gers in France. Before the ...
Diocese comprising the Provincial District of Auckland (New Zealand), with its islets, and the ...
A Bull issued by Pius VI, 28 August, 1794, in condemnation of the Gallican and Jansenist acts ...
Pontifical Audiences are the receptions given by the pope to cardinals, sovereigns, princes, ...
All martyred at Rome in 270. Maris and his wife Martha, who belonged to the Persian nobility, ...
Born at Saorgio, near Nice, in 1734; died at Rome, July, 1794. He entered the Dominican Order, ...
Born at Lyons in 1793; died in Paris, 21 February, 1851. He first studied theology in the ...
Born at Bra, Piedmont, Italy, 1801; died in Rome, 27 September, 1882. He was professor of ...
The designation of certain officials of the Roman Curia, whose duty it is to hear ( Latin ...
The family name of four generations of distinguished French artists, natives of Paris and Lyons, ...
( Or von Auenbrugg).
An Austrian physician, born 19 November, 1722; died 17 May, 1807. He ...
Canon of Bamberg and Würzburg, born 28 March, 1671, on the family estate of Mengersdorf; ...
Born 1530, near Troyes ; died at Como, Italy, 31 January, 1591, one of the great figures in ...
( Or Augila).
A titular see of Cyrenaica in Northern Africa. It was situated in an oasis ...
Diocese in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, ...
From the time of St. Boniface (d. 754), especially during periods of earnest revival of ...
A titular see of Cilicia in Asia Minor, whose episcopal list (363-434) is given in Gams (435). ...
(Alveldt, or Alveldianus)
One of the earliest and most aggressive opponents of Luther, born in ...
First Archbishop of Canterbury, Apostle of the English; date of birth unknown; d. 26 May, ...
( See also WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE and TEACHING OF SAINT AUGUSTINE .)
The great St. ...
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is "a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, ...
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was one of the most prolific geniuses that humanity has ever ...
The title, Rule of Saint Augustine , has been applied to each of the following documents:
...
(Also called REGULAR CLERICS, RELIGIOUS CLERICS, CLERIC-CANONS, AUGUSTINIAN CANONS, BLACK CANONS, ...
(Generally called Augustinians and not to be confounded with the Augustinian Canons ).
A ...
(Also called the Assumptionists .)
This congregation had its origin in the College of the ...
Historian of canon law and Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, born at Saragossa 26 February, ...
An association organized in 1878 to promote the interests of the Catholic press, particularly the ...
A titular see of Palestine, suffragan of Petra. Its episcopal list (431-536) is given in Gams ...
The name by which Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, the first Roman emperor, in whose reign Jesus ...
St. Benedict's Abbey, at Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, is at present the only monastery for ...
(Alna).
A former Cistercian monastery near Landelies on the Sambre in the Diocese of ...
Variously written AMBRY, or AUMBRYE, is a derivative through the French of the classical ...
(Or Aunacharius).
Bishop of Auxerre in France, born 573, died 603. Being of noble birth, he ...
(Golden).
A title given to certain works and documents:
Bulla, the charter of emperor ...
(Lucius Dominius Aurelianus).
Roman Emperor, 270-275, born of humble parents, near Sirmium in ...
A titular see of Lydia in Asia Minor, whose episcopal list (325-787) is given in Gams (p. 447).
Archbishop of Carthage from 388 to 423. From the title of St. Cyprian, Carthage was one of the ...
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180, born at Rome, 26 April, 121; died 17 March, 180.
HIS EARLY LIFE ...
(Aureolus, D'auriol, Oriol).
A Franciscan philosopher and theologian, called on account of ...
The site of the Mohawk village, Montgomery County, New York, U.S.A. in which Father Issac Jogues, ...
A famous ltalian humanist and collector of Greek manuscripts, born about 1369 at Noto, in ...
This is one of the Ambrosian hymns , but its author is unknown. It has been revised and ...
A letter addressed 5 December 1301, by Pope Boniface VIII to Philip the Fair, King of France. ...
A professor and poet born about A. D. 310; died, probably, about A.D. 394. The son of a physician ...
An English lawyer and writer, born 1613 at Walpole, in Norfolk; died London, 1669. He was a ...
(Also known as N EW H OLLAND till about 1817).
Australia is geographically the world's ...
Apostle and Bishop of Auvergne (c. 314). All that is certainly known of Austremonius is deduced ...
By this name is designated the European monarchy whose dominions have for their main ...
The term is used in two senses. It is applied first to a book or document whose contents are ...
The authenticity or authority of Holy Writ is twofold on account of its twofold authorship. ...
Civil Authority is the moral power of command, supported (when need be) by physical coercion, ...
Name given to the English translation of the Bible produced by the Commission appointed by James ...
(Greek, autokephaloi , independent).
A designation in early Christian times of certain ...
(Spanish auto , act or ordinance; sacramental , sacramental, pertaining to a sacrament)
...
An early medieval writer and abbot of the Benedictine Order, born in France, early in the ...
French poet, born at Marseilles 20 June, 1813; died in the same city, 6 March, 1877. He pursued ...
THE DIOCESE OF AUTUN
(Augustodonum).
Comprises the entire Department of Saone et Loire in ...
Native of Cappadocia, ordained (343) to the priesthood by Gregory, the intruded Bishop of ...
(360)
Baronius places this bishop in the Roman martyrology, because of the story told by ...
Auxentius, Junior — originally Mercurinus, a Scythian, and a disciple of Ulfilas, or ...
In 585 (or 578) a Council of Auxerre held under St. Annacharius formulated forty-five canons, ...
A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is ...
The name (probably fictitious, according to Hefele ) of an ecclesiastic to whom we owe a series ...
A German poetess, the first woman known to have written in German and probably identical with a ...
Chiefly known as an ascetical writer, born in the Tyrol, 1612; died 6 December, 1686. He entered ...
Avarice (from Latin avarus , "greedy"; "to crave") is the inordinate love for riches. Its ...
An Anglicized form of the Sanskrit, avatara , "descent", from the root tr , "pass" (cf. ...
The Baron d'Avaugour (d. 1664) was sixth Governor General of Canada. Born of an ancient family in ...
The Hail Mary (sometimes called the "Angelical salutation", sometimes, from the first words in its ...
(Hail, thou Star of Ocean.)
The first verse of an unrhymed, accentual hymn, of seven stropes of ...
An antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven ). It ...
An Italian diocese in the Province of Naples, suffragan to Benevento. Avellino was founded by ...
Born 1521 at Castronuovo, a small town in Sicily ; died 10 November, 1608. His baptismal name ...
(Ibn Badsha, or Ibn Badja, called by the Scholastics Aven-Pace and Avempace).
Arabian ...
Priest born at Lima, Peru, either towards the end of sixteenth or in the beginning of the ...
A Premonstratensian abbey belonging to the circary of Brabant and situated near Diest in the ...
(Abul Walid Mahommed Ibn Achmed, Ibn Mahommed Ibn Roschd).
Arabian philosopher, astronomer, ...
Comprising twenty-one towns in the Province of Caserta and twelve in the Province of Naples, it ...
The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning ...
I. GOD
The name of the Supreme God of the Avestic system is Ahura Mazda (in the Achaemenid ...
Salamo Ben Jehuda Ben Gebirol (or Gabirol), whom the Scholastics, taking him for an Arabian, ...
(ABN ALI AL HOSAIN IBN ABDALLAH IBN SINA, called by the Latins AVICENNA).
Arabian physician ...
Avignon, written in the form of Avennio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, takes its name ...
Nothing is known of the council held here in 1060. In 1080 a council was held under the ...
The University of Avignon (1303-1792), developed from the already existing schools of the city, ...
(ABULA)
Diocese ; suffragan of Valladolid in Spain. Its episcopal succession dates at least ...
Curate or vicar in the province of Huarochiri of Peru, later curate at Huánaco, ...
Born at Avila of the Kings, in Old Castile, 1546, and named after the place of his birth; died at ...
(Alcimus Ecdicius).
A distinguished bishop of Vienne, in Gaul, from 490 to about 518, ...
A military body of Portuguese knights.
The Kingdom of Portugal, founded in 1128, was not ...
In 1172 (September 27-28) a Council was held at Avranches in France, apropos of the troubles ...
Jesuit, born at Angoulême, France, 16 September, 1654; died in a shipwreck in 1698. He was ...
(A UXUME .)
A titular metropolitan see of ancient Christian Ethiopia. Its episcopal ...
( Or Guamanga).
A Peruvian diocese, suffragan to Lima. The See of Guamanga was erected by ...
A Spanish Franciscan of the seventeenth century, and (while time and place of his birth and ...
Spanish discoverer of Chesapeake Bay, and the first of those daring navigators who tried to find a ...
Theologian and poet, born at Leeds, 4 April, 1813; died at Hinckley (England), 5 October, 1872. ...
Also Aymara (etymology unknown as yet).
A numerous tribe of sedentary Indians inhabiting the ...
A learned Dominican, b. at Piacenza, Italy ; d. at Bologna, 19 August, 1327. Soon after his ...
Spanish naturalist, b. at Barbunales in Aragon, 18 May, 1746; d. 1811. He first embraced the ...
A Catholic Armenian abbot and archbishop, b. at Constantinople, 18 July, 1782; d. at Vienna, 6 ...
(Patrick Francis Mullany).
Educator, essayist, littérateur, and philosopher, b. near ...
An Ethiopic missionary and scholar, born, according to probable narration of Franco (Imogem da ...
Born at Lorca, province of Murcia, Southern Spain, in 1535; entered the Society of Jesus, 18 ...
(Portuguese Acores , "Falcons")
An archipelago situated in that tract of the Atlantic Ocean ...
( Hebrew Ashdodh ; in Septuagint Azotos )
(1) One of the five great cities of the ...
Probably from Aztatl (heron), and Tlacatl (man),"people of the heron", in the Nahuatl, or ...
(Greek azymos , without leaven; Hebrew maççoth ).
Unfermented cakes used by ...
(A privative, and zyme , leaven).
A term of reproach used by the schismatic Greeks since ...