(AGUSTÍN)
A native of the City of Mexico, b. 1562; d. 1604. At the age of sixteen he ...
( men or people , in most of their dialects)
An aboriginal race of North America, also ...
Spanish navigator and explorer, b. about 1470 at Lebrija (Seville), or, according to some ...
(Corruption of Bernardo), Spanish historian, one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of ...
Missionary, b. at Lupedo, Diocese of Toledo, Spain, in 1546; d. in Mexico, 12 Jan., 1618. Though ...
A historian and theologian, born at Bamberg, Bavaria, 28 February, 1799; died at Munich, 10 ...
Historian and theologian, b. between 1390 and 1400, at Kyritz, in Brandenburg ; d. there 24 ...
Celebrated painter and engraver, born at Nuremberg, Germany, 21 May, 1471; died there, 6 ...
Poet and dramatist, b. Feb., 1605-6, at Oxford, England ; d. in London, 7 April, 1668. He was ...
Poet, b. at Cenada, Italy, 1749; d. in New York, 17 Aug., 1838. He was the son of a Jew and was ...
Jesuit missionary, born at Dieppe, France, in February, 1618; died at Quebec, 3 May, 1697. At ...
Founder of the Sts. Cyril and MethodiusSeminary, Detroit, Michigan, b. at Zoltance, Russian ...
DIOCESE OF DACCA (DACCHENSIS)
Diocese in Bengal, India. By the Constitution "Æquam ...
A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722. He was a Huguenot ...
( Née Lefèvre)
The wife of André Dacier, born at Saumur in 1651; died ...
A Philistine deity. It is commonly admitted that the name Dagon is a diminutive form, hence ...
(Also rendered d'Aguesseau).
Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at ...
The Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, in West Africa, is territorially identical with the French ...
Prince-Abbot of Fulda and founder of the university in the same city, born 29 May, 1678; died ...
(In religion F ATHER B ERNARD ).
Born in the island of Guernsey, 21 Oct., 1818; d. 6 April, ...
(Or Dalila ).
Samson, sometime after his exploit at Gaza ( Judges 16:1-3 ), " loved a ...
DIOCESE OF DALLAS (DALLASCENSIS).
The Diocese of Dallas, created 1890, comprises 108 counties ...
Lawyer and statesman, born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1831; died there 28 October, 1888. He was ...
A part of the Kingdom of Croatia according to a convention entered into between Croatia and ...
PRESENT USAGE
The dalmatic is the outer liturgical vestment of the deacon. It is worn at Mass ...
Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, ...
DIOCESE OF DAMÃO (DAMAU, DAMAUN)
Suffragan to Goa, and situated in Portugese India ...
The middle part of the German colony, German Southwest Africa, between 19° and 23° S. ...
Damascus, in Syria, is one of the oldest cities in the world. According to Flavius Josephus it ...
Born about 304; died 11 December, 384. His father, Antonius, was probably a Spaniards ; the name ...
(Previously called POPPO)
A native of Bavaria and the third German to be elevated to the See ...
Church historian, born 1 March, 1795, at Passau, Bavaria ; died 1 April, 1859, at ...
Early Christian physicians and martyrs whose feast is celebrated on 27 September. They were ...
Missionary priest, born at Tremeloo, Belgium, 3 January 1840; died at Molokai, Hawaii, 15 ...
(Greek Tamiathis , Arabic Doumiât ).
An Egyptian titular see for the Latins and ...
( Hebrew dn , Sept. Dán ),–(1) The fifth son of Jacob, being the elder of the two ...
A titular see of Phænicia Secunda. Danaba is mentioned by Ptolemy (V, xv, 24) as a town in ...
(French, Dance Macabre , German Todtentanz )
The "Dance of Death" was originally a ...
The origin of dancing is to be sought in the natural tendency to employ gesture either to ...
Doge of Venice from 1192 to 1205; died, aged about a hundred years, in 1205. He belonged to one ...
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The hero and traditional author of the book which bears his name.
This name ( Hebrew dnyal ...
Friars Minor and martyrs ; dates of birth unknown; died 10 October, 1227. The martyrdom of ...
(Danihel), Bishop of the West Saxons, and ruler of the See of Winchester from 705 to 744; died ...
Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois at Teanaostae, ...
In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to ...
Born 31 December, 1818, at Beauvais, France ; died 1 January, 1893, at Paris. He joined the ...
Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, ...
Born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October, 1823; son of Edward Daniel of Durton, Lancashire, and ...
A titular see in Osrhoene. Stephanus Byzantius mentions Dansara as a town near Edessa (Orfa). ...
Italian poet, born at Florence, 1265; died at Ravenna, Italy, 14 September, 1321. His own ...
Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at Alatri, 19 Oct., 1586. As a ...
Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576. He also enjoyed some ...
Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, ...
Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Fayl-Billot, near Langres, 1813; ...
A titular see in the province of Hellespont, suffragan of Cyzicus. Four or five bishops are ...
Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, ...
St. Darerca, of Ireland, a sister of St. Patrick. Much obscurity attaches to her history, and ...
Historian and professor, b. in Paris, 25 October, 1820; d. at Lucenay-lès-Aix, 6 August, ...
Roman martyrs, buried on the Via Salaria Nova, and whose tombs, according to the testimony of ...
A metropolitan titular see of Libya, in Egypt. Ptolemy (IV, 4, 2; 5; 6) and Ammian. Marcell., ...
Church historian, b. at Troyes, France, 1825; d. at Paris, Nov. 8, 1878. He completed his ...
Theologian, b. 1651, in Buckinghamshire, England ; d. 28 Feb., 1721, at St. Omer's, France. ...
In classical Latin even before the time of Christ it was usual for correspondents to indicate ...
French geologist, b. at Metz, 25 June, 1814; d. at Paris, 29 May, 1896. He studied mining ...
A titular see of Greece. Daulis, later Daulia, Dauleion, often Diauleia, even Davalia, was a ...
German poet and philosopher, b. at Nuremberg, 5 March, 1800; d. at Wurzburg, 14 December, 1875. ...
DIOCESE OF DAVENPORT (DAVENPORTENSIS)
The Diocese of Davenport, erected 8 May, 1881, embraces ...
Also known as FRANCISCUS À SANCTA CLARA and sometimes by the alias of FRANCIS HUNT and ...
(DE AUGUSTA).
Medieval German mystic, b. probably at Augsburg, Bavaria, early in the ...
A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century. Very little ...
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A medieval Irish chronicler, date of birth unknown; d. 1139. Early in the twelfth century ...
Missionary priest and zoologist, b. 1826; d. 1900. He entered the Congregation of the Mission ...
Son of John David, painter and illuminator, b. at Oudewater, South Holland, c. 1450, d. 13 ...
In the Bible the name David is borne only by the second king of Israel, the great-grandson of ...
(DEGUI, DEWI).
Bishop and Confessor, patron of Wales. He is usually represented standing on ...
Martyr, one of the most illustrious of the priests who suffered under Queen Elizabeth, b. in ...
Author, b. in Scotland, 30 July, 1810; d. in Ottawa, Canada, 29 Dec., 1894. He studied at the ...
An ancient French diocese which was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory now ...
( Hebrew Yom Hakkippurim . Vulgate, Dies Expiationum , and Dies Propitiationis — ...
Bishop of Chichester ; b. in Shropshire, England, c. 1501; d. 2 August, 1556. He was graduated ...
Jurist, b. near Bath, England, 1826; d. 13 June, 1908, at Newbury. He was educated at Rome and ...
Celebrated architect of the French Renaissance, born at Lyons, c. 1515 or a little later; died at ...
Missionary, b. at Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Belgium, 28 Oct., 1792; d. at Ghent, 20 Aug., 1869. He ...
Born 17 March, 1809; died 5 March, 1878. He was the son of Charles March Phillipps of Garendon ...
DePaul University, Chicago, is the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., ...
("Out of the depths"). First words of Psalm 129. The author of this Psalm is unknown; it was ...
A distinguished Christian archaeologist , best known for his work in connection with the Roman ...
Missionary among the North American Indians , b. at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 30 Jan., ...
Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, 1496 or 1500; died on the ...
Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland, 10 January, 1814; died ...
We cannot be sure that any formal recognition of deaconesses as an institution of consecrated ...
The name deacon ( diakonos ) means only minister or servant, and is employed in this sense ...
The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine. The Old Testament ...
This subject will be treated under the following three heads:
I. General Statement and Proof of ...
Education essentially includes the process of encouraging, strengthening, and guiding the ...
(Gk. déka , ten; Latin decanus ).
One of the principal administrative officials of ...
Born in Yorkshire, England, date uncertain, martyred 28 August, 1588. He studied at Reims and ...
Born in Ireland, 1568; died at Galway, 1651. He sprang from an ancient Irish family at one ...
The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.
The ...
(French, Dance Macabre , German Todtentanz )
The "Dance of Death" was originally a ...
The basic preparation for death
When should a priest be called?
Winding up our earthly affairs ...
Prophetess and judge: she was the wife of Lapidoth and was endowed by God with prophetic gifts ...
( debitum )
That which is owed or due to another; in general, anything which one person is ...
(Greek deka , ten and logos , word).
The term employed to designate the collection of ...
(From Greek Deka , ten, and polis , city)
Decapolis is the name given in the Bible and ...
Belgian statesman and publicist, brother of Cardinal Dechamps, born at Melle near Ghent, 17 ...
Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium ; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., ...
(C AIUS M ESSIUS Q UINTUS T RAJANUS D ECIUS ).
Roman Emperor 249-251. He was born, ...
A German sculptor of the middle of the fifteenth century. Very little is recorded concerning ...
This is the name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation of Catholicity which, in ...
Pontifical decorations are the titles of nobility, orders of Christian knighthood and other ...
( Latin decretum , from decerno , I judge).
In a general sense, an order or law made by a ...
I. DEFINITION AND EARLY HISTORY (1)
In the wide sense of the term decretalis (i.e. epistola ...
A term which, though sometimes used of persons who are consecrated to God's service, is more ...
Also called the Feast of the Machabees and Feast of Lights ( Josephus and Talmudic ...
( Latin de ducere , to lead, draw out, derive from; especially, the function of deriving truth ...
A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple ...
( Defensor matrimonii )
The Defender of the Matrimonial Tie is an official whose duty is to ...
The Vatican Council (Sess. iv, cap. iv) solemnly taught the doctrine of papal infallibility ...
An official in secular deaneries and in certain religious orders. Among regulars, a definitor is ...
Generally speaking, the governing council of an order. Bergier describes them as those chosen to ...
Historical painter, born in Bockenem, Hanover, 15 April, 1809; died in Düsseldorf, 27 ...
( Latin degradatio ).
A canonical penalty by which an ecclesiastic is entirely and ...
Theologian, catechist, b. at Straburg, Alsace, 11 April, 1800; d. at Maria-Laach, 8 November, ...
( By the grace of God; By the grace of God and the Apostolic See )
A formulæ added ...
(DICHUIL)
Elder brother of St. Gall, b. in Leinster, Ireland, c. 530; d. at Lure, France, 18 ...
( Latin Deus , God ).
The term used to denote certain doctrines apparent in a tendency ...
( French déité ; Late Latin deitas ; Latin deue , divus , "the divine ...
French painter, b. at Charenton-St-Maurice, near Paris, 26 April, 1798; d. 13 August, 1863. He was ...
(Known also as P AUL )
Painter, born at Paris, 17 July, 1797; died 4 November, 1856. A pupil ...
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( Latin for DENOUNCERS)
A term used by the Synod of Elvira (c. 306) to stigmatize those ...
Delaware, one of the original thirteen of the United States of America. It lies between ...
An important tribal confederacy of Algonquian stock originally holding the basin of the Delaware ...
A titular see of Thrace, suffragan of Philippopolis. The Greek name of the place was Delkos or ...
( Latin delegare )
A delegation is the commission to another of jurisdiction, which is to be ...
Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France ; died 13 Oct., 1676, at Landevenec in ...
A theologian, born at Venice in 1444; died 16 Jan., 1525. He entered the Camaldolese ...
(Or Dalila ).
Samson, sometime after his exploit at Gaza ( Judges 16:1-3 ), " loved a ...
French abbé and litterateur , born at Aigueperse, 22 June, 1738; died at Paris, 1 May, ...
Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris ; died there 25 January, 1726. His ...
A member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in Provence, France, in 1284; died 26 ...
Scholar, statesman, Jesuit theologian, born at Antwerp, 17 May, 1551; died at Louvain, 19 ...
The Prefecture Apostolic of the Delta of the Nile is situated in the north of Egypt and ...
Deluge is the name of a catastrophe fully described in Genesis 6:1 - 9:19 , and referred to in the ...
An apostle of the Pacific Coast of North America, and the first Catholic missionary among most ...
The name of two Syrian kings mentioned in the Old Testament and two other persons in the ...
Bishop of Alexandria from 188 to 231. Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the time of ...
The word means literally a public worker, demioergós, demiourgós, and was ...
In Christian Democracy , the name and the reality have two very different histories, and ...
(Greek daimon and daimonion , Latin daemonium ).
In Scripture and in Catholic ...
( See also DEMONOLOGY, EXORCISM, EXORCIST, POSSESSION.)
(Greek daimonikos, daimonizomenos, ...
As the name sufficiently indicates, demonology is the science or doctrine concerning demons. ...
Savant, professor, author; b., as he himself states at Cliftbog, Scotland, 23 August, 1579; d. at ...
Tenth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Montreal, 20 July, 1743; d. at Longueuil in 1806. After studying ...
( Baptized JOSEPH.)
Paleographer and historian, born at Imst in the Austrian Tyrol, 16 Jan., ...
Bibliographer and poet, b. at Schärding, Bavaria, 27 September, 1729; d. at Vienna, 29 ...
( Baptized JACQUES).
Born 6 November, 1657, at Three Rivers , Canada ; died 25 January, ...
Bishop of Paris, and martyr. Born in Italy, nothing is definitely known of the time or place, ...
Publisher, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 March, 1784; d. in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. 12 ...
( Latin Dania ).
This kingdom had formerly a much larger extent than at present. It once ...
(JACQUES-RENE DE BRISAY, SEIGNEUR AND MARQUIS DE DENONVILLE)
Born in 1638 at Denonville in the ...
Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, 1690; d. at Mechlin, 15 February, ...
Denunciation ( Latin denunciare) is making known the crime of another to one who is his ...
(D ENVERIENSIS ).
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fé, erected in 1887 and ...
(D ENYS VAN L EEUWEN, also L EUW or L IEUWE ).
Born in 1402 in that part of the ...
Italian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Naples, 7 June, 1834; d. at Rome, 14 December, 1894. ...
One of the leading theologians of the modern Catholic German school and author of the ...
("Thanks be to God "). An old liturgical formula of the Latin Church to give thanks to God ...
A deposition is an ecclesiastical vindictive penalty by which a cleric is forever deprived of ...
Diminutive of "Joseph"; latinized Josquinus Pratensis .
Born probably c. 1450 at ...
A titular see of Lycaonia, Asia Minor. This city was the fortress of a famous leader of ...
(Known also as THADDAEUS A S. ADAMO).
Born at Fahr in Franconia, 3 February, 1757; died at ...
(Latin derogatio ).
The partial revocation of a law, as opposed to abrogation or the ...
DIOCESE OF DERRY (DERRIENSIS).
Includes nearly all the County Derry, part of Donegal, and a ...
This was the first foundation of St. Columba, the great Apostle of Scotland, and one of the three ...
Physicist, b. at St-Quentin, France, 12 July, 1817; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1885. He made his literary ...
Surgeon and anatomist, b. at Magny-Vernois a small town of Franche-Comté, France, in ...
(Renatus Cartesius), philosopher and scientist, born at La Haye France, 31 March, 1596; died at ...
Also called M OREL , on account of his dark complexion; b. at Vertus in Champagne between 1338 ...
Polemical writer, born at Villefranche (Rhône), France, 1797; died at Aix-en-Provence, ...
Henri (1830-); Jules (1828-1911).
Natives of Belgium, founders of a monastery and a ...
Desecration is the loss of that peculiar quality of sacredness, which inheres in places and ...
The Hebrew words translated in the Douay Version of the Bible by "desert" or "wilderness", and ...
The culpable abandonment of a state, of a stable situation, the obligations of which one had ...
Priest of the Congregation (or Institute) of St. Paul the Apostle , b. at New London, Conn., ...
(DAUFERIUS or DAUFAR).
Born in 1026 or 1027 of a non-regnant branch of the Lombard dukes of ...
Bishop, b. at Obrege (perhaps Antobroges, name of a Gaulish tribe), on the frontier of the ...
A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676. Early in life he held ...
The importance of this Scriptural expression is chiefly derived from the fact that in Matthew ...
(Latin desperare , to be hopeless.)
Despair, ethically regarded, is the voluntary and ...
Chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May, 1863. He ...
The name of a class of French parish priests. Under the old regime, a priest who performed the ...
Ascetical writer, b. at Tourcoing, France, 23 Dec., 1828; d. 23 July, 1898. He attended first the ...
Determinism is a name employed by writers, especially since J. Stuart Mill, to denote the ...
Missionary, b. in France in 1668, d. in South America, at an advanced age, date uncertain. ...
(From Latin detrahere , to take away).
Detraction is the unjust damaging of another's good ...
(Detroitensis)
Diocese established 8 March, 1838, comprises the counties of the lower ...
"Deus in adjutorium meum intende," with the response: "Domine ad adjuvandum me festina," first ...
Born at Todi, Italy ; died between 1097 and 1100. He was a friend of St. Gregory VII and ...
(Adeodatus I).
Date of birth unknown; consecrated pope, 19 October (13 November), 615; d. 8 ...
A native of Wessex, England, whose Saxon name was Frithona, and of whose early life nothing is ...
This term occurs in Deuteronomy 17:18 and Joshua 8:32 , and is the title of one of the five ...
Philosopher and religious writer, b. in Langenpreising, Bavaria, 24 March, 1815; d. at ...
Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of Protestant parents, 26 August, ...
Born at his father's farm, The Leap, near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 5 Aug., 1774; died ...
Born near Enniscorthy, Ireland, 7 June, 1791; died at Utica, New York, 29 Dec., 1855, was the ...
(Greek diabolos ; Latin diabolus ).
The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are ...
The meaning of this compound term is sufficiently obvious, for all must be familiar with the ...
("Advocate of the Devil" or "Devil's Advocate").
A popular title given to one of the most ...
( Latin devolutio from devolvere )
Devolution is the right of an ecclesiastical ...
Canonist, born at Rome, 11 July, 1744; died there 18 Sept., 1820. At the age of twenty he ...
Devotion, in the language of ascetical writers, denotes a certain ardour of affection in the ...
Born at Klein-Stavern, Oldenburg, Germany, 24 June, 1844; died at Phoenix, Arizona, U. S. A., 4 ...
Theologian, archbishop, patron of Christopher Columbus, b. at Toro, 1444; d. 1523. Entering the ...
Wife of Bernard, Duke of Septimania. The only source of information on her life is her "Liber ...
(Greek diakonikon )
The Diaconicum in the Greek Church is the liturgical book specifying ...
(Croatian, Djakovo ).
See of the Bishop of the united Dioceses of Bosnia or ...
[Greek dialektike ( techne or methodos ), the dialectic art or method, from dialegomai ...
DIOCESE OF DIAMANTINA (ADAMANTINA).
Located in the north of the State of Minas Geraes, Brazil, ...
Moral theologian, born of a noble family at Palermo, Sicily, in 1586; died at Rome, 20 July, ...
(D IANENSIS )
Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy ; the ancient ...
( Italian for "Roman Daybook")
A booklet published annually at Rome, with papal ...
Born in Ireland, date unknown; d. in 851 or 852. He was made Archbishop of Armagh in 834, but ...
A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth century, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope; ...
(Or DISPERSION).
Diaspora was the name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through ...
A titular see in Palæstina Tertia. Dîbîn (Septuagint, Daibon or Debon ) ...
Theologian, b. of Spanish parents at Naples, 28 December, 1584; d. at Ingolstadt 6 March, 1653. ...
Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 ...
Dean of St. Paul's, London, and chronicler. The name "Dicetum" cannot be correctly connected with ...
The son of an Ulster chieftain, was the first convert of St. Patrick in Ireland. Born in the ...
Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death ...
(D OCTRINE OF THE T WELVE A POSTLES )
A short treatise which was accounted by some of the ...
[Spanish = San Diego .]
Lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor, date of birth uncertain; ...
A treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of ...
Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isère), France ; d. 13 ...
Name of a family of French printers and publishers.
François Didot
Son of Denis Didot, ...
Also called Didron aîné ; archaeologist; together with Viollet-le-Duc and Caumont, ...
Didymus the Blind, of Alexandria, b. about 310 or 313; d. about 395 or 398, at the age of ...
First bishop of California, b. 17 Sept., 1785, at Lagos in the state of Jalisco, Mexico; d. 30 ...
Historian, b. at Geldern, 13 May, 1854; d. at Rome, 25 Dec., 1885. Soon after his birth the ...
Diemoth, an old German word for the present "Demuth", the English " humility ", was the name of ...
An erudite and accomplished painter of the Flemish School, b. at Bois-le-Duc in the ...
Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Breslau, b. 6 January, 1798, at Boeholt in Westphalia ; d. at the ...
Catholic theologian, b. 22 August, 1811, at Rangeningen (Hohenzollern-Hechingen); d. 8 September, ...
This name by which the sequence in requiem Masses is commonly known. They are the opening words of ...
Theologian, b. about 1475 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, d. 4 Sept., 1537, at Mainz. He was educated ...
Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. about 1412; d. 7 May, 1482, at Aschaffenburg. He studied at ...
(N IEM ).
Born in the Diocese of Paderborn , between 1338 and 1340; d. at Maastricht, 22 ...
Second Earl of Bristol, b. at Madrid, Spain, where his father, the first earl, was ambassador, ...
Miscellaneous writer, b. in Ireland, 1800; d. at Kensington, Middlesex, England, 22 March, 1880. ...
Born 16 May, 1578, died 30 Jan., 1606. Everard Digby, whose father bore the same Christian name ...
Physicist, naval commander and diplomatist, b. at Gayhurst (Goathurst), Buckinghamshire, England, ...
(D INIA ; D INIENSIS )
Diocese comprising the entire department of the Basses Alpes; ...
An Ecclesiastical Dignitary is a member of a chapter, cathedral or collegiate, possessed not only ...
The Diocese of Dijon comprises the entire department of Côte-d'Or and is a suffragan of ...
Located in Swabia, a district of Bavaria. Its founder was Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, ...
A French prelate, b. at St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, 1721; d. in London, 1806. The fifth son ...
( Latin litteræ dimissoriales , from dimittere ), letters given by an ecclesiastical ...
Martyr, prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, found guilty of high treason 28 April, ...
(DINOTHUS, DUNAWD, DUNOD).
Founder and first Abbot of Bangor Iscoed (Flintshire); flourished ...
(SEPPHORIS)
(1) A titular see in Palestina Secunda. Diocaesarea is a later name of the town ...
That branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government ...
( Latin diœcesis)
A Diocese is the territory or churches subject to the jurisdiction of ...
Pope Pius X, recognizing how necessary it is for the Church to develop in proportion to the ...
A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor . Diocleia is mentioned by Ptolemy (V, ii, 23), where ...
(V ALERIUS D IOCLETIANUS ).
Roman Emperor and persecutor of the Church, born of parents ...
A titular see of Palaestina Prima. This city is mentioned by Hierocles (Synecdemus, 719, 2), ...
Date of birth uncertain; d. about A.D. 392. He was of noble family, probably of Antioch. St. Basil ...
(EPISTOLA AD DIOGNETUM).
This beautiful little apology for Christianity is cited by no ...
A titular see in Arabia. This city, which figures in the "Synecdemos" of Hierocles (723, 3) and ...
The surname E XIGUUS , or "The Little", adopted probably in self-deprecation and not because he ...
(Bishop from 247-8 to 264-5.)
Called "the Great" by Eusebius, St. Basil, and others, was ...
By "Dionysius the Areopagite" is usually understood the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 26 or 27 December, 268. During the pontificate of Pope Stephen ...
Bishop of Corinth about 170. The date is fixed by the fact that he wrote to Pope Soter (c. ...
Antipope, b. at Alexandria, date unknown; d. 14 October, 530. Originally a deacon of the ...
(Also written Dioscorus; Dioscurus from the analogy of Dioscuri ).
Bishop of Alexandria ...
The word diplomatics , following a Continental usage which long ago found recognition in ...
(Or diptychon , Greek diptychon from dis , twice and ptyssein , to fold).
A ...
In the technical sense of the term, spiritual direction is that function of the sacred ministry by ...
The ecclesiastical sense of the word directory , as will be shown later, has become curiously ...
( Latin dis , without, and calceus , shoe).
A term applied to those religious congregations ...
All moral conduct may be summed up in the rule: avoid evil and do good. In the language of ...
This term is commonly applied to one who is learning any art or science from one distinguished by ...
A sect founded in the United States of America by Alexander Campbell. Although the largest ...
(Latin Disciplina Arcani ; German Arcandisciplin ).
A theological term used to express ...
Etymologically the word discipline signifies the formation of one who places himself at school ...
(CONFERENCES, DISPUTATIONS, DEBATES)
Religious discussions, as contradistinguished from ...
Irish bishop and patron of Disenberg (Disibodenberg), born c. 619; died 8 July, 700. His life was ...
( Disparitas Cultus )
A diriment impediment introduced by the Church to safeguard the ...
( Disparitas Cultus )
A diriment impediment introduced by the Church to safeguard the ...
( Latin dispensatio )
Dispensation is an act whereby in a particular case a lawful superior ...
( Latin Divisio Apostolorum ), a feast in commemoration of the missionary work of the Twelve ...
Born 18 Oct., 1415, at Osnabrück, in Westphalia ; died at Cologne, 26 Nov., 1484. After ...
A Benedictine monastery in the Canton Grisons in eastern Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of ...
Distraction ( Latin distrahere , to draw away, hence to distract) is here considered in so far ...
Distributions (from Lat. distribuere ), canonically termed disturbtiones quotidianae , are ...
(Thietmar).
Bishop of Merseburg and medieval chronicler, b. 25 July, 975; d. 1 Dec., 1018.He ...
(Latin for rich ).
The word is not used in the Bible as a proper noun; but in the Middle ...
The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden things by inadequate means. The means being ...
In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the ...
Founded at Vienna, 21 November, 1868, by Franziska Lechner (d. 1894) on the Rule of St. ...
Founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of ...
(SOCIETAS DIVINAE CHARITATIS).
Founded at Maria-Martental near Kaisersesch, in 1903 by Josepth ...
Founded in the City of New York, USA, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Stanislaus Preston. On 8 September ...
I. As Known Through Natural ReasonA. Infinity of GodB. Unity or Unicity of God C. Simplicity of ...
("Liturgy of the Hours"
I. THE EXPRESSION "DIVINE OFFICE"
This expression signifies ...
I. SISTERS OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
Founded at Molsheim, in Diocese of ...
Motherhouse at Oedenburg, Hungary ; founded in 1863 from the Daughters of the Divine Saviour of ...
Founded at Rome, 8 Dec., 1881, by Johann Baptist Jordan (b. 1848 at Gartweil im Breisgau), ...
(S OCIETAS V ERBI D IVINI )
The first German Catholic missionary society established. ...
Premonstratensian, b. at Senftenberg, Bohemia, 26 March, 1698; d. at Prenditz, Moravia, 21 ...
Divorce is defined in jurisprudence as "the dissolution or partial suspension by the law of ...
See also DIVORCE IN CIVIL JURISPRUDENCE .
The term divorce ( divortium , from ...
Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, born at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, in 1806; died at Armagh, 29 ...
( Latin LONGINUS).
An eminent medieval Polish historian, b. at Brzeznica, 1415; d. 19 May, ...
A distinguished Benedictine theologian, born 24 October, 1753, at Schwandorf, Bavaria ; died 21 ...
Missionary, b. in Graz, Styria, 7 Sept., 1717; d. in Vienna, 17 July 1791. He became a Jesuit ...
(Greek Doketai .)
A heretical sect dating back to Apostolic times. Their name is ...
A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor. This city, as appears from its coins where the ...
( Latin docere , to teach)
The title of an authorized teacher. In this general sense the term ...
( Latin Doctores Ecclesiae ) -- Certain ecclesiastical writers have received this title on ...
It was customary in the Middle Ages to designate the more celebrated among the doctors by ...
( Latin Doctrina Addoei ).
A Syriac document which relates the legend of the conversion ...
Taken in the sense of "the act of teaching" and "the knowledge imparted by teaching", this term ...
I. DEFINITION
The word dogma (Gr. dogma from dokein ) signifies, in the writings of the ...
(1) Definition
By a dogmatic fact , in wider sense, is meant any fact connected with a dogma ...
Dogmatic theology is that part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith ...
The imposing edifice of Catholic theology has been reared not by individual nations and men, ...
Recollect friar, born in the Province of Anjou, France, 12 March, 1586; died at ...
Painter, born in Florence, Italy, 25 May, 1616; died 17 January, 1686. The grandson of a ...
A titular see of Commagene (Augusto-Euphratesia). It was a small city on the road from ...
Publisher and bookseller, b. at Monmouth, England, 20 Sept., 1807; d. in Paris, 31 December, ...
(Or Mission San Francisco De Asis De Los Dolores)
In point of time the sixth in the chain of ...
( Latin delphinus ).
The use of the dolphin as a Christian symbol is connected with the ...
( Latin domus , a house).
An architectural term often used synonymously with cupola. ...
Abbé, missionary and author, b. at Lyons, France, 4 November, 1826; d. in France, June, ...
Properly DOMENICO ZAMPIERI.
An Italian painter, born in Bologna, 21 Oct., 1581; died in ...
The name given to the record of the great survey of England made by order of William the ...
( Latin jus domicilii , right of habitation, residence).
The canon law has no independent ...
A Carthusian monk and ascetical writer, born in Poland, 1382; died at the monastery of St. ...
(Called in secular life D OMENICO B ARBERI )
A member of the Passionist Congregation and ...
Founder of the Order of Preachers , commonly known as the Dominican Order ; born at Calaroga, ...
A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the ...
(SAN DOMINGO, SANTO DOMINGO).
The Dominican Republic is the eastern, and much larger ...
As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we ...
(BANCHINI or BACCHINI was his family name).
Cardinal, statesman and writer, born at ...
Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science, b. on the island of Arbe, off the coast ...
An ancient form of devout salutation, incorporated in the liturgy of the Church, where it is ...
(T ITUS F LAVIUS D OMITIANUS ).
Roman emperor and persecutor of the Church, son of ...
The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the Church on 12 May, in common, and ...
A titular see of Isauria in Asia Minor. The former name of this city is unknown; it was called ...
(DOMINUS APOSTOLICUS)
A title applied to the pope, which was in most frequent use between the ...
( Or St. John Bosco; Don Bosco.)
Founder of the Salesian Society. Born of poor parents in ...
Publisher, born at Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March, 1811; died at Boston, U.S.A., 18 ...
(DONATO DI NICOLÒ DI BETTO BARDI)
One of the great Tuscan sculptors of the ...
(IN CANON LAW)
Donation , the gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing. When it ...
(IN CIVIL JURISPRUDENCE)
Donation, the gratuitous transfer, or gift ( Latin donatio ), of ...
( Latin, Donatio Constantini ).
By this name is understood, since the end of the Middle ...
The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the ...
Irish teacher and poet, Bishop of Fiesole, about 829-876. In an ancient collection of the ...
Missionary among the lepers, b. at Tilburg in Holland, 27 Oct., 1807; d. 14 Jan., 1887. He ...
Second Earl of Limerick, b. 1634, at Castletown Kildrought, now Celbridge, County Kildare, ...
Educator, b. in 1694, probably in Sligo, Ireland ; date and place of death uncertain. Little ...
There were apparently three or four saints of this name who flourished about the seventh century. ...
Austrian sculptor, b. at Essling, Austria, 25 May, 1692; d. at Vienna, 15 February, 1741. It is ...
A French cardinal, b. at Bourg-Argental (Loire), 1795; d. at Bordeaux, 1882. He studied in the ...
Marquess of Valdegamas, author and diplomat, born 6 May, 1809, at Valle de la Serena in the ...
(Or D OMNUS ).
Son of a Roman called Mauricius; he was consecrated Bishop of Rome 2 Nov., ...
(Also called DOORKEEPER. From ostiarius , Latin ostium , a door.)
Porter denoted among ...
(AURATUS)
Controversialist, b. at Orléans about 1500; d. at Paris, 19 May, 1559. He ...
A titular see of Palestina Prima. The name ( Dôr ) in Semitic languages means ...
Founded in 1140 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, for Canons of the Order of St. Augustine (or ...
Genoese admiral and statesman, b. at Oneglia, Italy, 1468; d. at Genoa, 1560. His family ...
Theologian, b. at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, date uncertain; d. at Tournai, 1572 or ...
First publisher in the United States of distinctively Catholic books, b. in Ireland, 1761; d. ...
(1) Virgin and martyr, suffered during the persecution of Diocletian, 6 February, 311, at ...
Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A. 1815; died at Washington, 26 ...
A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor. This city already existed under the kings ...
Followers of Dositheus, a Samaritan who formed a Gnostic - Judaistic sect, previous to Simon ...
Fourth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Liège, Flanders, 1691; d. at Paris, 1777. He studied at ...
Actually named GIOVANNI DI NICOLO DI LUTERO, but also called Dosso Dossi.
An Italian painter, ...
Born 1256, in Borgo San Sepolero, Tuscany, Italy ; d. there 31 August, 1315. He was of noble ...
(Town and University of Douai)
(D OUAY, D OWAY )
The town of Douai, in the department of ...
The original Douay Version, which is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic ...
An altar having a double front constructed in such a manner that Mass may be celebrated on ...
Religious houses comprising communities of both men and women, dwelling in contiguous ...
(Latin dubium, Greek aporí, French doute, German Zweifel ).
A state in which the ...
Scottish prelate and poet, born about 1474; died 1522; he was the third son of Archibald, Fifth ...
Missionary, born in France, 11 October, 1693; date of death uncertain. He became a Jesuit ...
(Latin columba ).
In Christian antiquity the dove appears as a symbol and as a Eucharistic ...
Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in 1487; d. at London, 15 August, ...
Martyr, date of birth unknown; executed for his faith at Exeter, England, 20 September, 1600. ...
( Latin doarium ; French douaire )
A provision for support during life accorded by law ...
( Latin dos religiosa ).
Because of its analogy with the dower that a woman brings to ...
Diocese of Down and Connor (Dunensis et Connorensis)
A line drawn from Whitehouse on Belfast ...
Near Bath, Somersetshire, England, was founded at Douai, Flanders, under the patronage of ...
In general this word means a short verse praising God and beginning, as a rule, with the Greek ...
Irish bishop ; b. near New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, 1786; d. at Carlow, 1834. He belonged ...
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1797; died in London, 2 January, 1868; English portrait-painter and ...
English artist and caricaturist, b. in London, September, 1824; d. there 11 December, 1883. The ...
Convert from Judaism, b. at Strasburg, 6 March, 1791; d. end of January, 1868, at Rome. ...
(Gr. drachmé ), a Greek silver coin. The Greeks derived the word from drássomai, ...
A Christian poet of the fifth century. Dracontius belonged to a distinguished family of ...
In religion MOTHER FRANCIS RAPHAEL, O.S.D.; b. at Bromley near London, in 1823; d. at Stone, ...
There is in sleep something mysterious which seems, from the earliest times, to have impressed ...
( Also Drexelius or Drexel.)
Ascetic writer, b. at Augsburg, 15 August, 1581; entered the ...
The capital of the Kingdom of Saxony and the residence of the royal family, is situated on both ...
Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870. The famous ...
The Drevets were the leading portrait engravers of France for over a hundred years. Their fame ...
Banker, b. at Philadelphia, U.S.A. 20 June, 1824; d. there 15 Feb., 1885. He was the oldest son ...
( Also Drexelius or Drexel.)
Ascetic writer, b. at Augsburg, 15 August, 1581; entered the ...
A professor of theology at the University of Tübingen, born 16 Oct., 1777, at Killingen, in ...
(DROMORENSIS, and in ancient documents DRUMORENSIS)
Dromore is one of the eight suffragans of ...
(DRUSTAN, DUSTAN, THROSTAN)
A Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600. All that is ...
Archbishop of Cologne, born 21 Jan., 1773, at Münster, Germany ; died 19 Oct., 1845, in ...
The etymology of this word from the Greek drous , "oak", has been a favorite one since the ...
(Or DREUILLETS)
Missionary, b. in France, 29 September, 1610; d. at Quebec, 8 April, 1681. ...
Priest and philanthropist, b. at Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland, 15 August, 1816; d. in New ...
Martyr (1567-1607), was born of a good Buckinghamshire family and was received into the ...
Drusilla, daughter of Herod Agrippa I , was six years of age at the time of her father's death ...
A titular see in Thracia Prima. Nothing is known of the ancient history of this town, which, ...
( Latin DRUSIUS)
Thirtieth Abbot of Parc near Louvain, Belgium, b. at Cumptich, near ...
Ascetic writer, b. at Sierady in Poland, 1589; entered the Society of Jesus, 20 August 1609; d. ...
Small Mohammedan sect in Syria, notorious for their opposition to the Marionites, a Catholic ...
A monastery belonging to the canons of the Premonstratensian Order (Norbertine or White ...
Poet, dramatist, critic, and translator; b. 9 August, 1631, at Oldwinkle All Saints, ...
Historian and philologist, b. at Amiens, France, 18 Dec., 1610; d. at Paris, 1688. His father, ...
Soldier, b. at Reims, France, 8 September, 1738; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A. 11 September, ...
(DULUTH).
Born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye about 1640; died at Montreal, 26 Feb., 1710. He first ...
(From Latin duo , two).
Like most other philosophical terms, has been employed in different ...
(DUBLINIUM; DUBLINENSIS).
Archdiocese ; occupies about sixty miles of the middle eastern coast ...
A French cardinal and statesman, born at Brive, in Limousin, 1656; died at Versailles, 1723. ...
French missionary in India, b. in 1765 at St. Remèze (Ardèche); d. in Paris, 17 ...
Third Bishop of New York, educator and missionary, b. in Paris, 24 August, 1764; d. in New ...
Second Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, Archbishop of ...
(DYFRIG, DUBRICIUS)
Bishop and confessor, one of the greatest of Welsh saints ; d. 612. He ...
Archdiocese of Dubuque (Dubuquensis), established, 28 July, 1837, created an archbishopric, ...
(Called in Latin Ducæus.)
A French theologian and Jesuit, b. at Bordeaux in 1558; ...
Painter, and founder of the Sienese School, b. about 1255 or 1260, place not known; d. 3 August, ...
Founder in America of the first houses of the society of the Sacred Heart, born at Grenoble, ...
A Martyr, probably a grandson of Venerable James Duckett , born at Underwinder, in the parish ...
Martyr, b. at Gilfortrigs in the parish of Skelsmergh in Westmoreland, England, date uncertain, ...
Missionary in Mexico, b. at Munich, Bavaria. of French parents, 10 June 1721; d. there 30 March, ...
Moravian historian, b. at Kojetein near Kremsier, Moravia, 29 January, 1815; d. as abbot and ...
( Duellum , old form of bellum ).
This word, as used both in the ecclesiastical and ...
Politician and author, b. at Monaghan, Ireland, 12 April, 1816; d. at Nice, France, 9 Feb., ...
A French scientist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Vire, Normandy (now in the department of ...
(Greek doulia ; Latin servitus ), a theological term signifying the honour paid to the ...
DIOCESE OF DULUTH (DULUTHENSIS)
Diocese, established 3 Oct., 1889, suffragan of the ...
Distinguished French chemist and senator, b. at Alais, department of Gard, 14 July, 1800; d. at ...
Date of birth unknown; died 14 Jan., 1811. He was a native of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, where he ...
Belgian geologist, b. at Liège, 15 Feb., 1809; d. in the same city, 28 Feb., 1857. When ...
(Or DUMOLIN; latinized MOLINAEUS).
French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, ...
Scottish poet, sometimes styled the " Chaucer of Scotland ", born c. 1460; died c. 1520(?). He ...
(DUNICHAD, DUNCAD, DONATUS)
Confessor, Abbot of Iona ; date of b. unknown, d. in 717. He ...
In Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland ; a Cistercian house founded in 1142 by King David I and ...
(DUNEDINENSIS)
Dunedin comprises the provincial district of Otago (including the Otago part, ...
In the south-west of Fife, Scotland. Founded by King Malcolm Canmore and his queen, Margaret, ...
Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet who flourished about 820. He is mentioned in 811 as an ...
Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, born 11 Nov., 1774, in the village of Wat near the city of Rawa, ...
(DUNKELDENSIS)
Located in Scotland, constituted, as far back as the middle of the ninth ...
( German tunken , to dip)
A Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite. ...
Surnamed DOCTOR SUBTILIS, died 8 November, 1308; he was the founder and leader of the famous ...
Archbishop and confessor, and one of the greatest saints of the Anglo-Saxon Church ; b. near ...
Bishop of Orléans, France, b. at Saint-Félix; Savoie, 2 June, 1802; d. at ...
A theologian and diplomat, born 25 Nov., 1556, at St-Lô (Normandy), France ; died 5 ...
(also DU PIN)
A theologian, born 17 June, 1657, of a noble family in Normandy ; died 6 ...
Known as BARON CHARLES DUPIN.
A French mathematician and economist, b. at Varzy, ...
A jurist and linguist, b. at St-Martin de Ré, France 3 June, 1760; d. at Philadelphia, ...
Sculptor, b. of remote French ancestry at Siena, 1 Mar., 1817; d. at Florence, 10 Jan., 1882. ...
(1) Antoine Duprat
Chancellor of France and Cardinal, b. at Issoire in Auvergne, 17 January, ...
French anatomist and surgeon, born 6 October, 1777, at Pierre-Buffière, a small town in ...
(Called also FRANÇOIS FLAMAND, and in Italy IL FLAMINGO).
Born at Brussels, Belgium, ...
Born 16 December, 1776, at Castellon de Ampurias, Catalonia, Spain ; died 1 June, 1846. He ...
A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation, b. 20 May, 1682, at Tours ; d. 31 Aug., 1771, at ...
Philosopher and theologian, b. at Saint-Pourçain, Auvergne France ; d. 13 September, ...
French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux ; d. ...
(Also: Duranti or Durantis). Canonist and one of the most important medieval liturgical writers; ...
Died 1328, canonist, nephew of the famous ritualist and canonist of the same name (with whom he is ...
(DURANGUM)
Archdiocese located in north-western Mexico. The see was created 28 Sept., 1620, ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF DURAZZO (DYRRACHIENSIS).
The Archdiocese of Durazzo in Albania, situated on the ...
The "Patriarch-priest of Kentucky ", born 1 February, 1800, in Madison County, in that State, of ...
Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham (Dunelmensis).
This diocese holds a unique position among ...
The earliest document giving an account of liturgical services in the Diocese of Durham is the ...
( Irish Dairmagh , Plain of the Oaks)
The Durrow is delightfully situated in the King's ...
The definition of the term duty given by lexicographers is: "something that is due", ...
(Or D U V ERGER ), J EAN ; also called S AINT -C YRAN from an abbey he held in ...
A French-Canadian journalist and patriot, born at Verchères, Quebec, 22 January, 1799; ...
Anatomist, b. at Boston, 1843; d. at Nahant, 8 Sept., 1911. The son of Thomas Dwight and of Mary ...
Usually known as S IR A NTHONY V AN D YCK .
Flemish portrait-painter, b. at Antwerp, ...
Confessor of the Faith, date of birth uncertain; d. at Lincoln, England, 11 Sept., 1580. He ...
(Also known as Dympna and Dimpna).
Virgin and martyr.
The earliest historical account of ...
Dynamism is a general name for a group of philosophical views concerning the nature of matter. ...