Volume U in the Catholic Encyclopedia

Ubaghs, Casimir - Born at Bergélez-Fauquemont, 26 November, 1800; died at Louvain, 15 February, 1875, was for ...
Ubaldus, Saint - Confessor, Bishop of Gubbio, born of noble parents at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, towards the ...
Ubanghi - (UPPER FRENCH CONGO.) Vicariate Apostolic ; formerly part of the Vicariate of French Congo, ...
Ubanghi, Belgian - In Belgian Congo, separated on 7 April, 1911, from the Vicariate of the Belgian Congo and ...
Ubanghi-Chari - Prefecture Apostolic in Equatorial Africa, lies west of the Bahr-el-Ghazal territory and south ...
Uberaba - (DE UBERABA.) Suffragan diocese of Marianna, in Brazil, created by the Consistorial ...
Ubertino of Casale - Leader of the Spirituals, born at Casale of Vercelli, 1259; died about 1330. He assumed the ...
Ubiquitarians - Also called Ubiquists , a Protestant sect started at the Lutheran synod of Stuttgart, 19 ...
Ucayali - (SAN FRANCISCO DE UCAYALI.) Prefecture Apostolic in Peru. At the request of the Peruvian ...
Uccello - Painter, born at Florence, 1397; died there, 1475. His real name was Paolo di Dono, but from his ...
Udine - (UTINENSIS) The city of Udine, the capital of a province and archdiocese in Friuli, northern ...
Ugento - (UXENTIN) The city of Ugento, with its small harbour, is situated in the Province of Leece, in ...
Ughelli, Ferdinando - Historian, born at Florence, 21 March, 1595; died 19 May, 1670. Having entered the Cistercian ...
Uhtred - (Also spelled: Uhtred or Owtred ), an English Benedictine theologian and writer, born at ...
Ujejski, Cornelius - Polish poet, born at Beremiany, Galicia, 1823; died at Cholojewie, 1897. His father was a ...
Ulenberg, Kaspar - Convert, theological writer and translator of the Bible , born at Lippstadt on the Lippe, ...
Ulfilas - (Also: Ulphilas ), apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible , and inventor ...
Ullathorne, William Bernard - English Benedictine monk and bishop, b. at Pocklington, Yorkshire, 7 May, 1806; d. at Oscott, ...
Ullerston, Richard - Born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England ; d. in August or September, 1423. Having been ordained ...
Ulloa, Antoine de - Naval officer and scientist, born at Seville, Spain, 12 Jan., 1716; died near Cadiz, Spain, 5 ...
Ulloa, Francisco de - Died 1540. It is not known when he came to Mexico nor if he accompanied Hernan Cortés in ...
Ulrich of Bamberg - (Udalricus Babenbergensis), a cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg, of whom nothing more ...
Ulrich of Richenthal - Chronicler of the Council of Constance , date of birth unknown; died about 1438. Ulrich was ...
Ulrich of Zell - (Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of Ratisbon ), born at Ratisbon, at the beginning of 1029; ...
Ulrich, Saint - Bishop of Augsburg, born at Kyburg, Zurich, Switzerland, in 890; died at Augsburg, 4 July, ...
Ultan of Ardbracca - St. Ultan of Ardbraccan, Ireland, was the maternal uncle of St. Brigid, and collected a life of ...
Ultramontanism - A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as its spiritual ...
Unam Sanctam - (Latin the One Holy , i.e. Church ), the Bull on papal supremacy issued 18 November, 1302, ...
Unclean and Clean - The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to moral, cleanness and uncleanness ...
Unction, Extreme - A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give spiritual aid and comfort and perfect ...
Ungava - A Canadian territory lying north of the Province of Quebec, detached (1876) from the Great ...
Uniformity Acts - These statutes, passed at different times, were vain efforts to secure uniformity in public ...
Unigenitus - A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, condemning 101 propositions of Pasquier ...
Union of Brest - Brest -- in Russian, Brest-Litovski; in Polish, Brzesc; in the old chronicles, called Brestii, or ...
Union of Christendom - The Catholic Church is by far the largest, the most widespread, and the most ancient of ...
Unions of Prayer - A tendency to form unions of prayer among the faithful has recently manifested itself in the ...
Unitarians - A Liberal Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet the belief in a uni-personal ...
Unitas Fratrum - (MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or UNITAS FRATRUM). DEFINITION AND DOCTRINAL POSITION "Bohemian Brethren" ...
United States of America, The - BOUNDARIES AND AREA On the east the boundary is formed by the St. Croix River and an arbitrary ...
Unitive Way - The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. It may be ...
Unity - The marks of the Church are certain unmistakeable signs, or distinctive characteristics which ...
Universalists - A Liberal Protestant sect -- found chiefly in North America -- whose distinctive tenet is the ...
Universals - The name refers on the one hand to the inclination towards uniformity ( uni-versus ) existing in ...
Universe - Universe (or "world") is here taken in the astronomical sense, in its narrower or wider ...
Universe, Relation of God to the - 1. Essential Dependence of the Universe on God (Creation and Conservation) In developing the ...
Universities - The principal Catholic foundations have been treated in special articles; here the general ...
University College (Dublin) - A constitutional college of the National University of Ireland. By its charter, granted 2 Dec., ...
Unjust Aggressor - According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is lawful, in the defense of life or limb, ...
Unyanyembe - Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated from the Vicariate Apostolic of Nyanza ...
Upper Nile - Vicariate apostolic ; separated from the mission of Nyanza, 6 July, 1894, comprises the eastern ...
Upper Rhine - Ecclesiastical province; includes the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of ...
Upsala, Ancient See of - When St. Ansgar, the Apostle of the North, went to Sweden in 829 the Swedes were still heathen ...
Upsala, University of - The oldest and most celebrated university of Sweden. Even today the arrangement of its ...
Uranopolis - A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ancyra in Galatia Prima. It is vainly sought in any ...
Urban I, Pope Saint - Reigned 222-30, date of birth unknown; died 23 May, 230. According to the "Liber Pontificalis," ...
Urban II, Pope Blessed - (Otho, Otto or Odo of Lagery), 1088-1099, born of a knightly family, at Châtillon-sur-Marne ...
Urban III, Pope - Reigned 1185-87, born at Milan ; died at Ferrara, 19 October, 1187. Uberto, of the noble ...
Urban IV, Pope - Reigned 1261-64 (Jacques Pantaléon), son of a French cobbler, born at Troyes, probably in ...
Urban V, Pope Blessed - Guillaume de Grimoard, born at Grisac in Languedoc, 1310; died at Avignon, 19 December, 1370. ...
Urban VI, Pope - Bartolomeo Prignano, the first Roman pope during the Western Schism, born at Naples, about ...
Urban VII, Pope - Giambattista Castagna, born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1521; elected pope, 15 September, 1590; died at ...
Urban VIII, Pope - Maffeo Barberini, born at Florence in April, 1568; elected pope, 6 August, 1623; died at Rome, 29 ...
Urbi et Orbi - The term Urbi et Orbi (which means "for the city and for the world") signifies that a papal ...
Urbino - (URBINATENSIS) Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy. The city of Urbino is situated on a ...
Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio - The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas ...
Urdaneta, Andrés - Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, ...
Urgel - (U RGELLENSIS ). Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona ; bounded on the N. by France ...
Urim and Thummim - The sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the ...
Urmiah - A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia. The primitive name of this ...
Urráburu, Juan José - Scholastic philosopher, born at Ceanuri, Biscay, 23 May, 1844; died at Burgos, 13 August, 1904. ...
Ursperger Chronicle - A history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninius and extends to the year ...
Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, Society of the Sisters of Saint - Religious congregation of women founded in 1606 at Döle (then a Spanish possession), ...
Ursula, Saint, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins - The history of these celebrated virgins of Cologne rests on ten lines, and these are open to ...
Ursulines of Quebec, The - The Ursuline monastery of Quebec is the oldest institution of learning for women in North ...
Ursulines, The - A religious order founded by St. Angela de Merici for the sole purpose of educating young ...
Ursus, Saint - Patron of the principal church of Solothurn (Soleure) in Switzerland, honoured from very early ...
Urubamba - (MISIONES DE SANTO DOMINGO DE URUBAMBA Y MADRE DE DIOS) This prefecture apostolic was created ...
Uruguay - (REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY). The smallest independent state in South America, extending ...
Uruguayana - (URUGUAYANESIS) Diocese ; suffragan of Porto Alegre, Brazil. By a Decree dated 15 August, ...
Ushaw College - (College of St. Cuthbert) A combined college and seminary for the six dioceses that were ...
Usilla - A titular see of Byzacena in Africa. Nothing is known of the history of this city; it is ...
Usuard, Martyrology of - Usuard was a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prxs, Paris. He seems to have ...
Usury - In the article INTEREST we have reserved the question of the lawfulness of taking interest on ...
Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris - The first line of a hymn in honour of St. John the Baptist. The Roman Breviary divides it ...
Utah - Utah, the thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an Indian tribe known ...
Uthina - A titular see of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. Uthina is mentioned by Ptolemy ...
Utica - A titular see in Africa Proconsularis. The city was founded by Tyrian colonists at the mouth ...
Utilitarianism - ( Latin utilis , useful). Utilitarianism is a modern form of the Hedonistic ethical theory ...
Utopia - (Greek ou no or not, and topos place), a term used to designate a visionary or an ideally ...
Utraquism - The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or Hussites . It was first ...
Utrecht, Archdiocese of - Situated in the Netherlands, includes the Provinces of Utrecht, Friesland, Overyssel, Drenthe, ...