(Called LAI in Chinese).
Along with Father Adam Schall the most important of the fifty German ...
Theologian and exegete, born at Hausen on the Aach, District of Hegau, Grand Duchy of Baden, 7 ...
(REGINAE HRADECENSIS).
This Bohemian see owes its origin to Emperor Ferdinand III, who, soon ...
More properly JACOB TWINGER VON KÖNIGSHOFEN.
Chronicler, b. in 1346 at Königshofen, a ...
The term is now used as a technical name for the system of esoteric theosophy which for many ...
(KADLUBO, KADLUBKO).
Bishop of Cracow, chronicler, b. at Karnow, Duchy of Sandomir, Poland, ...
Created (1887) by Leo XIII in the extreme North of India. As regards India proper, the ...
A term popularly to nearly all the natives of South Africa. It was originally imposed by the Arab ...
German historical painter, born at Munich, 1566; died at Augsburg, 1634. He was originally a ...
Chemist, born at Kelheim on the Danube (Bavaria), 5 January, 1803; died at Munich, 28 August, ...
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(Der Keiser und der Kunige buoch.)
A German epic poem of the twelfth century. It is at once a ...
Comprises the German part of the island of New Guinea, area about 460,000 sq. miles; about ...
(Kalandbrüder, Fratres Calendarii.)
The name given to religious and charitable ...
(GIOVANNI DA CALCAR and JOANNES STEPHANUS CALCARENSIS.)
Flemish painter, native of the Duchy ...
Polish historian, born near Cracow in 1826; died at Jaroslaw in 1886. He fled from Poland in ...
Popularly known under the French name of Pend d'Oreilles, "ear pendants", an important tribe of ...
(Colocensis et Bachiensis.)
This archdiocese embraces within its territories an archdiocese ...
(Cameroons; Cameroon.)
Located in German West Africa, between British Nigeria and French ...
Separated from the Northern Kan-su mission in 1905, and committed to the Belgian Congregation of ...
This vicariate includes the territory of Ku-ku-nor, northern part of Tibet, and the five ...
(Kandiensis.)
Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which ...
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Geography
Kansas, one of the United States of America , is the central ...
(Kansanopolitana.)
Established 10 September, 1880, to include that part of the State of ...
Kant's philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism tending ...
(CARANTANUM; Slovene, KOROSKO; German KÄRNTEN).
A crownland in the Austrian Empire , ...
(Karncovious.)
Archbishop of Gnesen and Primate of Poland, born about 1526; died at Lowicz,in ...
Formerly chief tribe of the confederacy of Illinois Indians (q.v.). The name is of uncertain ...
Erected as a simple mission in 1901, and detached, as a prefecture Apostolic, from the Vicariate ...
(Also known as Catherine Tegakwitha/Takwita.)
Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks", and the ...
Born at Coire, in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, 30 October, 1741; died at Rome, 5 November, ...
Poet and folklorist, born at Bonn, 14 May, 1817; died at Wertheim, 1 May, 1893. He came of a ...
Chief Burgomaster of Bonn, brother of the poet and folklorist Alexander Kaufmann, born 13 March, ...
Scriptural scholar, born 20 March, 1827, at Düsseldorf; died at Bonn, 11 July, 1907. He ...
An Austrian prince and statesman, born at Vienna 2 February, 1711; died there 27 June, 1794. ...
American statesman and diplomat, born at Newcastle, Maine, 27 April, 1795; died there, 21 Jan., ...
Novelist and biographer, born 7 Jan., 1824, at Thurles, Ireland ; died 28 October, 1877, at ...
(KEARNEYIENSIS).
By Decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 8 March, 1912, Pius X ...
Irish theologian, historian, and poet, b. at Burgess in the parish of Tubbrid, Co. Tipperary, ...
The Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin includes the northern half of the Province of Saskatchewan, ...
Educator, philologist, and historian of German literature, born at Heidesheim, near Mainz, 20 ...
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Controversialist, born at Sackingen, Baden, Germany, in 1568; died at Munich, Bavaria, 23 ...
Educationist, born at Kalteneber in the district of Eichsfeld, 29 January, 1811; died at Trier, ...
An Irish manuscript containing the Four Gospels, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the Eusebian ...
Kells (in Gaelic Cenannus ) was the chief of the Irish Columban monasteries. It was founded ...
Martyr, b. at Rhydicar Farm, St. Weonard's, Herefordshire, 1599; d. at Widemarsh Common, ...
Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor of England ; b. at Wye, Kent, about 1380; ...
Coextensive with the civil province of Kenia (Kenya) in British East Africa, to which the ...
(A.V. Kenites).
A tribe or family often mentioned in the Old Testament, personified as ...
Bishop of St. Andrews, Scotland. Born about 1406; died 10 May, 1466. Of the ancient house of ...
(Or KENNY).
Commemorated on 11 October, born in 515 or 516, at Glengiven, in what is now ...
(Or KENNY).
Commemorated on 11 October, born in 515 or 516, at Glengiven, in what is now ...
A term derived from the discussion as to the real meaning of Phil. 2:6 sqq.: "Who being in the ...
(KIMRACHA, KINRECHTIN, or MAKENRACHTUS; in Irish MACIONNRACHTAIGH, anglicized HANRATTY and ...
Archbishops respectively of Baltimore, Maryland, and of St. Louis, Missouri. They were sons of ...
Born probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; called the "Nun of Kent." The career of ...
(Or M UNGO )
Bishop, founder of the See of Glasgow, b. about 518; d. at Glasgow, 13 ...
A state situated between the parallels of latitude 36° 30 and 39°6' N., and between the ...
Journalist, novelist, colonial secretary, lecturer, last descendent of the Keons, of Keonbrooke, ...
(CHERCHENSIS).
A Chaldean Catholic diocese. The ancient name of the city was Karka of ...
Lawyer, statesman; born in Steuben County, New York, 14 January, 1816; d. at Utica, New York, 7 ...
The Diocese of Kerry and Aghadoe (Kerriensis Et Aghadoensis), suffragan of Cashel, Ireland, is ...
(KERSSENBROICK).
A teacher and historian, b. at Monchshof, near Barntrup (Lippe), about 1520; ...
Belgian statesman and historian, b. at Saint-Michel-lez-Bruges, 17 August, 1817; d. there, 3 ...
Sculptor, b. at Maastricht, 1784; d. at Rome, 3 March, 1836. He was first apprenticed to a ...
Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster, in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, ...
Abbot of Glendalough, Ireland, b. about 498, the date being very obscure; d. 3 June, 618; son ...
Soldier, convert, b. at Brimfield, Massuchusetts, U.S.A. 29 May, 1810; d. at Nice, France, ...
The expression "power of the keys" is derived from Christ's words to St. Peter (in Matthew ...
Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850. The city of Kharput, Armenian Kharpert, which means ...
(Vicariate Apostolic)
The present Vicariate comprises the two provinces of Kiang-su and ...
(Vicariate Apostolic)
The mission of Eastern Kiang-si was separated from the mission of ...
(Vicariate Apostolic)
Father Matteo Ricci of the Society of Jesus was the first missionary ...
(Vicariate Apostolic)
Southern Kiang-si was separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in ...
Apparently corrupted from a longer term signifying "roamers", a tribe of Algonquian stock, ...
Patriot, novelist, and poet, b. at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1828; d. at Blackrock, Co. ...
(Russian K IELTZY ; Latin K IELCENSIS )
Diocese in the sourthern part of Russian Poland, ...
There are many Irish saints of this name, but the most celebrated is St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise ...
(KILDARENSIS ET LEIGHLINENSIS)
One of the four suffragans of Dublin, Ireland. These two ...
Kildare (Irish: Cill-Dara ), originally known as Druim Criaidh , or the Ridge of Clay, ...
(Killena, Cillíne).
Apostle of Franconia and martyr, born about 640 of noble parents ...
(ALLADENSIS).
Diocese. It is one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province ...
(LAONIA)
A suffragan diocese of Cashel ; it comprises the greater part of County Clare, a ...
(KILMORENSIS)
Diocese in Ireland, includes almost all Cavan and about half of Leitrim. It ...
Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina ; died at Viterbo, 11 ...
Located in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of the same name, where a church was said to have been ...
(KIMBERLIENSIS)
Vicariate apostolic ; suffragan of Adelaide, erected by Leo XIII , 5 May, ...
(KYMBERLEYENSIS IN ORANGIA).
The portion of South Africa which at the present day forms the ...
(In Matthew, generally, Kingdom of Heaven ).
In this expression the innermost teaching of the ...
The name of two abbots who ruled Glastonbury in the seventh and eighth centuries respectively.
...
(Plural of Latin magus ; Greek magoi ).
The "wise men from the East" who came to adore ...
First, we append a table in which the data of the Bible are put together. For the kings of Juda, ...
(Also know as the F IRST AND S ECOND B OOKS OF S AMUEL.
For the First and Second Books of ...
The historical book called in the Hebrew Melakhim, i.e. Kings, is in the Vulgate, in imitation ...
(KINGSTONIENSIS or REGIOPOLITANA)
The Archdiocese of Kingston comprises the territory from the ...
(Gaelic ceann-loch , "head of the loch").
Cistercian abbey on the coast of Morayshire, ...
A famous Jesuit missionary of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. 10 August, 1644, in ...
(Pronounced Kai-o-wa , Latin spelling. Spanish form: Caygua ; Comanche form: Kaiwa , from ...
Blessed William Filby
Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and 1560; suffered at Tyburn, 30 May, ...
Celebrated for the versatility of his knowledge and particularly distinguished for his ...
A parish, also a royal and parliamentary burgh and chief or county town of Orkney, in the north ...
Sándor Kisfaludy
Born at Suemeg, Hungary, 27 Sept., 1772; died at Suemeg, 28 October, ...
Four times in the Epistles of St. Paul we meet the injunction, used as a sort of formula of ...
Polish author, b. at Vilna, 6 November, 1825, of Jewish parents ; d. at Cracow, 26 November, ...
German theologian and exegete, b. at Münstermaifeld, in the Rhine province, 20 April, ...
A cardinal and Austrian statesman, b. at Vienna, 19 February, 1552; d. at Wiener-Neustadt, 18 ...
German theologian and philosopher, b. at Dortmund, Westphalia, 9 April, 1811; d. at St. Anton ...
Friedrich August von Klinkowström
Artist, author and teacher; b. at Ludwigsburg in Swedish ...
Historian, b. on 9 October, 1822, at Leer (East Friesland); d. at Vienna, 9 August 1903. After ...
A master of religious plastic art, b. at Fliess, Tyrol, in 1819; d. at Munich in 1881. He was ...
To genuflect [ Latin genu flectere , geniculare (post-classic), to bend the knee; Greek ...
Bavarian priest and hydrotherapist, b. at Stephansreid, Bavaria, 17 May, 1821; d. at ...
Put to death for the Faith at York, on 29 November, 1596; with him also suffered Venerables ...
Chivalry (derived through the French cheval from the Latin caballus ) as an institution is ...
(CNITTHON)
A fourteenth-century chronicler. Nothing is known of his career except that he was ...
A military order which sprang out of the famous Order of the Temple (see Knights Templars ). ...
A fraternal and beneficent society of Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, 2 ...
(Also known as K NIGHTS OF M ALTA ).
The most important of all the military orders, both ...
(Ordo Militaris Crucigerorum cum Rubea Stella.)
A religious order famous in the history of ...
The Knights Templars were the earliest founders of the military orders, and are the type on which ...
Catholic missionary in Central Africa, born 6 July, 1819, at St. Cantian in Lower Carniola; died ...
Dogmatic theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, born at Bruneck in northern Tyrol, ...
I. Essentials of Knowledge
II. Kinds of Knowledge
III. The Problem of Knowledge
Knowledge, ...
" Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we know ...
This was a name applied to a movement in American politics which attracted a large share of public ...
Scotch Protestant leader, b. at Haddington, Scotland, between 1505 and 1515; d. at Edinburgh, ...
German canonist and pedagogist, b. of simple countryfolk on 6 March, 1821, at Warthausen, ...
(KOBURGER, COBERGER).
German printer, publisher, and bookseller, b. about 1445; d. at ...
An historian, b. at Muhldorf in Bavaria, 22 June, 1816; d. at Klagenfurt, 15 November, 1892. He ...
Born at Sycyna, 1530, died at Lublin, 22 August, 1584. He was inscribed in 1544 as a student in ...
Born at Sandomir ?, 1633; died at Krakow, 1699. He received his education at the Jesuit ...
Educator and missionary, b. 13 July, 1771, at Kaiserberg, Alsace; d. at Rome, 11 April, 1836. He ...
Scientist and educator, b. at Feistritz in Carniola, Austria, 31 October, 1792; d. of cholera at ...
Born in 1700; died in 1773. This great reformer of Polish schools was a Piarist who, during a ...
Born at Helmond, Diocese of Bois-1e-Duc, Holland, 24 August, 1821; died 30 June, 1884. After a ...
Surnamed DER PFAFFE ("The Priest").
A German epic poet of the twelfth century, author of the ...
A medieval German chronicler, d. at Ursperg, in the year 1240. He descended from a noble Swabian ...
(KUNRAT).
Scholar and writer, b. probably at Mainberg, near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, 2 February, ...
A Middle High German poet, b. about 1230; d. at Basle, 1287. He was the most important of the ...
A German missionary of the eighteenth century, b. 2 December, 1703, at Warasdin, Croatia ; d. 10 ...
The sacred book of the Muslims, by whom it is regarded as the revelation of God. Supplemented by ...
Polish patriot and soldier, b. near Novogrudok, Lithuania, Poland, 12 February, 1746; d. at ...
Born at Rostkovo near Prasnysz, Poland, about 28 October, 1550; died at Rome during the night of ...
Located on the Malabar Coast, India. This vicariate forms part of the territory of the ancient ...
Two brothers who took part in the Polish insurrection of 1831, and subsequently fled the country. ...
(Also called INSTITOR, the Latin form of his name).
Born about the end of the fourteenth ...
Sculptor, b. about 1440 at Nuremberg ; d. Jan., 1509 at Schwabach. He carved at Nuremberg the ...
(Or CARNIOLA; Slov. KRANJSKO)
A duchy and crownland in the Austrian Empire, bounded on the ...
Born in 1735; died at Berlin, 1801. He took orders in early youth, and soon after became a canon, ...
Count, son of a Polish general, b. at Paris, 19 Feb., 1812; d. there, 23 Feb., 1859. He lost his ...
An ecclesiastical and art historian, b. at Trier, 18 September, 1840; d. at San Remo, 28 ...
Austrian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Ried, Upper Austria, 4 Nov., 1798; d. at Vienna, 21 ...
Literary critic and poet, b. 21 June, 1847, at Gangelt near Aschen; d. 6 June, 1902, at Kerkrade ...
A Benedictine abbey in Austria, on the little river Krems, about twenty miles south of Linz, ...
A distinguished Polish bishop and historian; b. at Biecz in Galicia in 1512; d. at Heilsberg, ...
Date of birth uncertain; d. in 1535. — A typical humanistic poet, a most supple courtier ...
Theologian, b. at Waeschenbeuren in Wuertemberg, 19 Feb., 1806; d. at Tübingen, 8 May, 1887. ...
The name given to the political struggle for the rights and self-government of the Catholic ...
(KUMBAKONENSIS).
Kumbakonam, signifying in English the "Jug's Corner," is a town of 60,000 ...
Martyr, born in the little town of Volodymyr in Lithuania (Volyn) in 1580 or -- according to ...
An important tribe of south-eastern British Columbia and the adjacent portions of Montana and ...
(Prefecture Apostolic)
The mission of Kwang-si comprises the entire province of that name. As ...
(Prefecture Apostolic)
This prefecture comprises the whole province of that name except the ...
(Prefecture Apostolic)
Kwango is the name of a river which flows into the Kassai, which itself ...
(Vicariate Apostolic)
The mission of Kwei-chou embraces the entire province of that name. The ...
Kyrie Eleison (Greek for "Lord have mercy"; the Latin transliteration supposes a pronunciation as ...