Philip von Wörndle
Of Adelsfried and Weierburg, major of a Tyrolese rifle-corps, commandant ...
In area the third and in population the fourth of the states of the German Empire. It is situated ...
See also DIOCESE OF WÜRZBURG and UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG ABBEYS ;
The city of ...
(HERBIPOLENSIS).
See also UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG and WÜRZBURG ABBEYS ;
Located ...
See also DIOCESE OF WÜRZBURG and WÜRZBURG ABBEYS ;
John I of Egloffstein ...
Geologist, and palæontologist, born at Munich, 23 June, 1841; died at Vienna, 24 March, ...
Poet, born at Jersey, about 1100; died at Bayeux, 1174. His maternal grandfather, Toustein, was a ...
Painter, born at Stuttgart, 29 February, 1762; died at Stuttgart, 14 August, 1852. He studied ...
Historian and theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland, 16 October, 1588; died at St. Isidore's ...
(GODINEZ).
Mystical theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland, in 1591; died in Mexico, Dec. ...
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English friar and martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at St. Thomas Waterings in Camberwell (a ...
(VÄCZ or VACIENSIS).
Located in Hungary ; suffragan of Gran ; probably founded by King ...
A linguistic family inhabiting the western coast of British Columbia from 50° 30' to Garden ...
(Walahfrid; surnamed Strabo -- "the Squinter").
German poet and theologian of the ninth ...
(WALTPURDE, WALPURGIS; at Perche GAUBURGE; in other parts of France VAUBOURG, FALBOURG).
Born ...
(Or WALDECK-PYRMONT).
A former state of the German Empire , with an area of 433 square miles; ...
An heretical sect which appeared in the second half of the twelfth century and, in a ...
("Settlement in the woods").
Located on the River Wondreb, Upper Palatinate, near the border ...
(Graecized ILACOMILUS).
Learned Humanist and celebrated cartographer, born at Wolfenweiler ...
Auxiliary bishops of Cologne and celebrated controversial theologians, born at Rotterdam at the ...
Wales is that western portion of Great Britain which lies between the Irish Sea and the River ...
Formerly one of the most celebrated Cistercian abbeys of Germany, situated in the Duchy of ...
Martyr, born in Lancashire, 1620; suffered near Worcester, 22 August, 1679; known at Douay and ...
A Shahaptian tribe dwelling on the Walla-Walla (i.e. rushing water) River and the Columbia in ...
(WALDSTEIN).
Born at Hermanic, Bohemia, 24 September, 1583; died at Eger, Bohemia, 24 ...
Historian and statesman, born at Valenciennes (Nord), in 1812); died at Paris, in 1904. Fellow of ...
Bishop of Rama, Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, England, b. 13 Jan., 1722; d. at Bath, ...
English Jesuit martyr, born at Docking, Norfolk, 1558; martyred at York, 7 April, 1595. He was ...
Irish poet, born at Derry actually Doire, near Kiskeam in County Cork in 1805; died at Cork, ...
Journalist, United States senator; born at Ballingary, Co. Limerick, Ireland, 1 January, 1840; ...
Irish Franciscan, born at Mooretown, County Kildare, about 1608; died in London, 15 March, 1688. ...
Publicist, diplomat, born at Baltimore, MD., 1785; died at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859. He was one of the ...
Born in London, October, 1777; d. there, 18 February, 1849. His father, an Irish merchant, ...
Bishop of Meath, Ireland (1554-77); b. at Dunboyne, Co. Meath, about 1512; d. at Alcalá ...
Walsingham Priory stood a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk, England. ...
Benedictine historian, died about 1422. He is supposed to have been a native of Walsingham, ...
(GAUTIER DE LILLE, GUALTERUS DE INSULIS; also GAUTIER DE CHATILLON, GAULTERUS DE CASTILLIONE).
...
Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford, b. probably at Merton in Surrey or ...
A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, and theologian, b. at Mortagne in Flanders in the ...
Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelth century. Nothing is known about Walter except ...
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An English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, theologian, b. in the thirteenth ...
Jurist, born at Wetzlar, 30 November, 1794; died at Bonn, 13 December, 1879. After studying at the ...
The Abbey of Waltham Holy Cross stood in Essex, some ten miles to the northeast of London, on ...
Minnesinger and old poet, born about 1170; died in 1228. Only one old document mentions the name ...
Biblical scholar, editor of Walton's Polyglot Bible, born at Seymour, or Seamer, near York, in ...
Benedictine monk and theological writer, born in 813; died at Prüm after 850. Little is ...
(WAGNERECK).
Theologian, preacher, author, born at Munich in July, 1595; died at Dillingen, ...
War, in its juridical sense, is a contention carried on by force of arms between sovereign states, ...
( Irish, ÆDH BUIDH MAC-AN-BHAIRD).
Hagiographer, born in Donegal, about 1590; died 8 ...
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1806; killed in attack on Matthias Point, Virginia, 27 June, ...
Martyr, born at Congleton, Cheshire; executed at Tyburn, London, 30 Aug., 1588. Nothing is known ...
Foundress, born 23 January, 1585; died 23 January, 1645; eldest daughter of Marmaduke Ward and ...
Born at Danby Castle near Guisborough, Yorkshire, 13 April, 1652; d. at St-Germain, France, ...
(Real name WEBSTER).
Born at Thornby in Westmoreland, about 1560; martyred at Tyburn, 26 ...
An English writer and convert, eldest son of William Ward, Esq., born in London, 21 March, ...
Born at Belbrook House, Mountrath, Queen's County, Ireland, 1810; died at Manchester, N.H., 17 ...
Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Church Oakley, Hampshire, about 1450; died at Hackington, ...
(VARSAVIENSIS).
Warsaw (Polish, Warszawa ), on the western bank of the Vistula, is the ...
Bishop of Osnabrück and cardinal, eldest son of Duke Ferdinand of Bavaria and his ...
Owing to the general use of sandals in Eastern countries the washing of the feet was almost ...
(DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA)
Washington, the capital of the United States, is situated on the left ...
One of the Pacific coast states, popularly known as the "Evergreen State", the sixteenth in size ...
The use of holy water in the earliest days of the Christian Era is attested by documents of ...
Vessels intended for the use of holy water are of very ancient origin, and archaeological ...
Besides the holy water which is used by the Church in so many of her rites of blessing, and ...
(Waterfordiensis et Lismorensis), suffragan of Cashel. This diocese is almost coterminous with ...
Born at London ; martyred at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 7 January 1594 (1593 old style). A romantic ...
Naturalist and explorer, born in Walton Hall near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, in 1782; died ...
Born at St. Helen's, Lancashire, 1806; d. at Old Hall, Newark, 28 March, 1876. Educated at ...
French painter, and founder and leader of the school usually known as that of the painters of Les ...
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Situated in Surrey, near Farnham, founded by William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, on 24 Nov., ...
(Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa). These names are used to signify ...
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. It may be ...
( Alias MAY, alias FLOWER).
English priest and martyr, born in Exeter Diocese ...
The term "wealth" is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on ...
Located on the river Wear, in Durham, England ; a Benedictine monastery founded in 674 by St. ...
Titular Bishop of Amyela; born 12 November, 1814; died at Isleworth, Middlesex, 4 March, 1895. ...
Editor, historian, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, 25 February, 1814; died at Louisville, Kentucky, ...
English composer, born in England in 1742; died in London, 29 May, 1816. He studied under ...
Benedictine professor, author, and member of the National German Parliament, born at Lienz in the ...
Physician, member of the Prussian House of Deputies, and poet, born at Alhausen, near Driburg, ...
German Church historian, born at Euerdorf in the Diocese of Würzburg , 21 June, 1834; died ...
Composer, born at Eutin, Lower Saxony, 18 December, 1786; died in London, 5 June, 1826. His ...
Born in London, 6 September, 1788; died at Oscott, 7 November, 1859. Both his parents died ...
The week as a measure of time is a sufficiently obvious division of the lunar month, and the ...
Only son of Rev. Prebendary Francis Haggit, rector of Newnham Coutney, born at Newnham Courtney, ...
(MONASTERIUM VINEARUM, AD VINEAS, or WEINGARTENSE).
A suppressed Benedictine abbey, near ...
Bishop of Speyer, born at Rimlingen, Lorraine, 8 March, 1796; died at Speyer, 13 December, ...
Polemical writer, born at Puttlingen in German Lorraine, 1691; died at Kappel-Rodeck in Baden, 29 ...
Born at Ettenheim, Baden, 17 July, 1820; died at Graz, 8 March, 1899. After completing his ...
(Originally OWE_AUGIA, then MINDERLAU-AUGIA MINOR, and finally WEISSEN AU-AUGIA ALBA or CANDIDA). ...
Litterateur, exegete, and Orientalist, born at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, 1 November, 1709; died at ...
Martyred at York, 1 August, 1605. Nothing is known about about this martyr except the scanty ...
The name of an ancient English family (branches of which are found in several parts of England ...
Youngest son of Humphrey Weld, born at Chidcock Manor, Dorset, 1823; died there, 1891. He was ...
Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa, separated by a Decree of the Propaganda ...
(WELLINGTONIENSIS).
Located in New Zealand, originally formed part of the Vicariate of ...
It is difficult for inhabitants of a more humid climate to realize the importance which a country ...
English martyr, born at Brambridge, Hampshire, about 1536; hanged at Gray's Inn Lane, London, ...
German merchant prince, born at Augsburg, 1488; died at Amberg, near Turkheim, Swabia, 1561. His ...
In giving separate consideration to the Church of Wales, we follow a practice common among ...
Few saints of the early British Church, as it existed before the Saxon invasion, are known to ...
Exegete, born at Ratzenried in Würtemberg, 25 November, 1825; died 27 May, 1885. After ...
( Also Vaclav, Vaceslav.)
Duke, martyr, and patron of Bohemia, born probably 903; died at ...
Born about 554; died probably in 617. His earliest biographies, two in Latin and two in German, ...
Jesuit missionary and author, born at Wildhaus, Styria, Austria, 31 October, 1805; died at ...
German ecclesiastico-polical writer of the eleventh century. He was a canon at Verdun, and ...
(WEREBURGA, WEREBURG, VERBOURG).
Benedictine, patroness of Chester, Abbess of Weedon, ...
(WERTHINA, WEERDA, WERDENA).
A suppressed Benedictine monastery near Essen in Rhenish ...
Convert, poet, and pulpit orator, born at Konigsberg, Prussia, 18 November, 1768; died at ...
(GANSFORT).
A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Gröningen in 1420; died there ...
Vicar-General and Administrator of the Diocese of Constance, born at Dresden, 4 November, 1774; ...
(WESSOGONTANTUM, AD FONTES WESSONIS).
A suppressed Benedictine abbey near Weilheim in Upper ...
The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin ...
A state of the American Union, bounded on the northeast by Pennsylvania and Maryland, on the ...
English organist, born about 1524, was a chorister, under Redford, at St. Paul's Cathedral, ...
(AROSI, AROSIENSIS).
Located in Sweden. The Catholic diocese included the lands of ...
This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs in all points from the Eastern ...
This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the precincts of the Royal Palace of ...
As a national expression of religious faith given by Roman Catholics to England since the ...
(WESTMONASTERIENSIS).
Erected and made metropolitan in 1850, comprises the Counties of ...
The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English chronicle, the "Flores Historiarum". ...
Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone, 1550 (?); died at Valladolid, Spain, 9 June, ...
A province of Prussia situated between the Rhine and the Weser. It is bounded on the northwest ...
A Cistercian abbey near Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. The Cistercian monastery of Wettingen ...
Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel, 19 March, 1801; died at Freiburg in ...
Born at Middleton, Yorkshire, before 1546; martyred at York, 28 March, 1600. He was the second ...
(WHELINGENSIS).
Comprises the State of West Virginia except the following counties, which are ...
Military engineer and soldier, born at Greenwich, Massachusetts, 1818; died at Washington, D.C., ...
Born at Burnley, Lancashire, 1614; martyred at Lancaster, 7 August, 1646. Son of Thomas ...
( Alias HARCOURT).
Born in Essex, 1618; martyred at Tyburn, 30 June, 1679. He was ...
(Formerly called Streoneshalh). A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, ...
The Christianizing of Britain begun by St. Augustine in A.D. 597 was carried on with varying ...
(MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA OF ALGERIA).
This society, known under the name of ...
Missionary, b. at London, 1579; d. at or near London, 27 Dec., 1656 (O.S.). He entered St. ...
Editor, historian, born at Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 1 February, 1807; died at Washington, ...
Grandfather of Stephen Mallory White , born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the latter part of ...
Martyr, born at Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1560; suffered at the London Tyburn, 10 December, 1591. ...
( Vere GWYN).
Martyr, born at Llanilloes, Montgomeryshire, about 1537; executed at Wrexham, ...
English composer, b. about 1530; d. Nov., 1574; was educated by his father, and graduated Mus. ...
Antiquarian and polyhistor; b. at Clonmel, Ireland, in 1574; d. in Galway, 1646. He belonged to a ...
American statesman; born at San Francisco , California, 19 January, 1853; died at Los Angeles ...
( Alias BLACKLOW, BLACLOE, ALBIUS, ANGLUS).
Born in Essex, 1593; died in London, 6 July, ...
Located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, founded about the middle of the twelfth century, in the reign ...
Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr, parentage and date of birth unknown, executed 15 Nov., ...
A feast of the universal Church which commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the ...
In religion Mary Vincent, born at Pouldarrig near Oylgate, a village seven miles form the town of ...
Born at Pouldarrig near Oylgate, 7 January, 1817; died 1 September, 1895. In 1830 he entered ...
Born at Dublin, Ireland, 24 November, 1831; died 4 May, 1911. Of her two sisters one became a ...
Abbot of Stavelot ( Stablo ), Malmedy, and Corvey, b. near Stavelot in Belgium in 1098; d. ...
A confederacy of Caddoan stock, formerly dwelling between the Arkansas River, Kansas, and the ...
(WICHITENSIS).
Erected in 1887, from the Diocese of Leavenworth . The territory of the new ...
In religion AUGUSTINE, born at Antwerp, 1596; died 1661. Having finished his classical studies, ...
Catholic theologian, born at Hohenraim, Lucerne, Switzerland, 15 Aug., 1779; died at ...
I. Canonical prescriptions concerning widows in the Old Testament refer mainly to the question ...
Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility. He was the moving spirit in the ...
Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany. He was a ...
(NEOSTADTIENSIS).
A suppressed see in Lower Austria. Upon the request of Frederick III it was ...
Member of the Order of Cistercians, b. at Teisbach in Lower Bavaria, 7 March, 1748; d. at ...
( Also rendered VENANTIUS).
Three saints of this name are mentioned in the Roman ...
Companion of St. Boniface, born in England about 675; died at Hersfeld about 746. Positive ...
(WICBODUS, WIGBOLD, WIGBALD).
Theological writer of the eighth century. Of his works there is ...
Died in Rome, 20 January, 1866. By profession he was an architect, but subsequently devoted ...
Born at Clapham, 22 September, 1807; died at Stroud, Gloucestershire, 23 April, 1873. He was third ...
Born at Clapham, 19 December, 1802; died at Albano, near Rome, 3 Feb. 1857. He was the second son ...
(WILCANIENSIS).
Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney; consists ...
English martyr, born at Chester, 1558; suffered at Canterbury, 1 October, 1588. He arrived at ...
Scriptural commentator and preacher, better known by his Latin name FERUS, b. in Swabia, 1497; d. ...
Bishop of York, son of a Northumbrian thegn, born in 634; died at Oundle in Northamptonshire, ...
A fabulous female saint known also as UNCUMBER, KUMMERNIS, KOMINA, COMERA, CUMERANA, HULFE, ...
Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century; time and ...
Son of Duke Albrecht V. Born at Munich, 29 September, 1548; died at Schlessheim, 7 February, ...
(HILARIA).
Situated on the right bank of the Danube, in the Diocese of Linz, Austria. Ulric ...
(Latin voluntas, Greek boúlesis, "willing" German Wille, French volonté ). ...
Roman law allowed clerics to dispose of their property by will or otherwise. Bishops, however, ...
RELATION OF THE QUESTION TO DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY
Free Will in Ancient ...
Composer and founder of the Venetian school, b. at Bruges, or, according to other authorities, ...
Bishop at Bremen, born in Northumberland before 745; died at Blecazze (Blexen) on the Weser, 8 ...
Philologist, born at Maastricht, 6 January, 1840; died at Louvain, 23 February, 1898. Following ...
Born in Brittany, died at Marmoutiers, 23 May, 1124. For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, ...
Abbot of Saint-Bénigne at Dijon, celebrated Cluniac reformer, b. on the Island of ...
English martyr, born in London, 1548; suffered for treason at Tyburn, 11 January, 1584. Son of ...
Carthusian monk and martyr ; suffered at Tyburn, 19 June, 1535. He studied at Christ's ...
Blessed William Filby
Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and 1560; suffered at Tyburn, 30 May, ...
Born at Wells, 1558; suffered at York, 15 March, 1583. Elected Trappes Scholar at Lincoln ...
Born at "Hanton", Yorkshire (probably Houghton or Tosside, West Riding); suffered at York, 22 ...
Bishop of Paris, medieval philosopher and theologian. Born at Aurillac in Auvergne towards ...
A thirteenth-century theologian and professor at the University of Paris . William's name ...
A twelfth-century Scholastic, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Champeaux, near Melun, in the ...
A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher and theologian, b. about the year 1100. After having ...
(DEGULLEVILLE).
A French poet of the fourteenth century. Nothing is known of his life, except ...
(Also called WILLIAM OF PARIS and WILLIAM OF THE PARACLETE.)
Died on Easter Sunday, 1203, and ...
Born 755; died 28 May, c. 812; was the second count of Toulouse, having attained that dignity in ...
(Surnamed CALCULUS.)
Benedictine historian of the eleventh century. Practically nothing seems ...
(or ST. WILLIAM THE GREAT).
Died 10 February, 1157; beatified in 1202. His life, written ...
Born 30 November, about 1090; died about 1143. He was educated at Malmesbury, where he became a ...
Scholar, Orientalist, philosopher, and one of the most distinguished men of letters of the ...
(GUILHELMUS).
A medieval chronicler, who takes his name from the City of Nancy, France. ...
Historian, b. at Bridlington, Yorkshire, 1136; d. at Newburgh, Yorkshire, 1198, where he went as ...
Born 1132; died 22 March, 1144. On Holy Saturday, 25 March, 1144, a boy's corpse showing signs of ...
Fourteenth-century Scholastic philosopher and controversial writer, born at or near the village ...
Abbot of Eskill in Denmark, born 1105; died 1202. He was born of a noble French family, and ...
(Or ST. WILLIAM OF ROCHESTER).
Martyr, born at Perth ; died about 1201. Practically all that ...
Norman historian, born of a noted family, at Préaux near Pont Audemer, Normandy, about 1020. ...
Flourished about 1219. Nothing is known of his life except that he was a monk of Crowland Abbey ...
A twelfth-century French architect, supposed to have been born at Sens. He is referred to in ...
( Or de Schorham.)
An English religious writer of the Anglo-Norman period, born at ...
A thirteenth century theologian and controversialist, born in Burgundy in the first decades of ...
Theologian and mystic, and so called from the monastery of which he was abbot, b. at ...
(TURBE, TURBO, or DE TURBEVILLE).
Bishop of Norwich (1146-74), b. about 1095; d. at Norwich ...
Archbishop of Tyre and historian, born probably in Palestine, of a European family which had ...
(Or WILLIAM OF MONTE VERGINE.)
The founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine, or Williamites, ...
(William de Warre, Guard, Guaro, Varro or Varron.)
Born at Ware in Herts; the date of his ...
Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England, b. towards the end of the fourteenth century; ...
Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and founder of Winchester College ; b. between ...
(PERAULD, PERALDUS, PERALTUS).
Writer and preacher, b. at Perault, France ; d. at Lyons ; ...
French poet of the thirteenth century. Nothing is known of his life except that he was a clerk of ...
King of England and Duke of Normandy.
William was the natural son of Robert, Duke of ...
Date of birth unknown; d. (probably) 22 Dec., 1089. He became Abbot of St. Arnoul at Metz in ...
Abbot of Hirschau, monastic reformer, born in Bavaria ; died at Hirschau, 5 July 1091. He ...
(WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, also called WILLIAM OF THWAYT).
Archbishop of York. Tradition ...
Bishop of St-Brieuc, born in the parish of St. Alban, Brittany, between 1178 and 1184; died ...
There were two minor religious orders or congregations of this name: (1) a Benedictine ...
(WUNIBALD, WYNNEBALD).
Members of the Order of St. Benedict, brothers, natives probably of ...
Bishop of Utrecht, Apostle of the Frisians, and son of St. Hilgis, born in Northumbria, 658; ...
Archbishop of Mainz, d. 23 Feb., 1011. Feast, 23 February or 18 April. Though of humble birth ...
(WALTRAM, WILTRAM).
Scriptural scholar, b. in Franconia (near Worms), Germany ; d. in 1085 at ...
Professor of philosophy and theology, b. at Boke in Westphalia, 30 January, 1817; d. at ...
(WILMINGTONIENSIS).
Erected 3 March, 1868. It includes what is known as the Delmarvia ...
A Benedictine convent in Wiltshire, England, three miles from Salisbury. A first foundation was ...
Died December 21, 1239. He was a medieval scholar of whom little is known except that he was an ...
( Also WIMBURN or WINBURN).
Located in Dorsetshire, England. Between the years 705-23 a ...
Archabbot, b. at Thalmassing, Bavaria, 14 January, 1809; d. at St. Vincent Archabbey, Beatty, ...
Humanist and theologian, b. at Schlettstadt, Alsace, 25 July 1450; d. there, 17 Nov., 1528. He ...
(WIMINAE, WIMINESIS).
Theologian, b. at Buchen in Baden, about 1465; d. at Amorbach in Lower ...
(WINTONIA, WINTONIENSIS).
This diocese came into existence in 635 when the great ...
Archaeologist and historian of ancient art, born at Stendal near Magdeburg, in 1717; assassinated ...
An Augustinian monastery situated about four miles south of Zwolle on the Issel, in the Kingdom ...
In 1206 one of the (supposed) Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to ...
Orientalist and exegete, b. at Aschaffenburg, 13 December, 1811; d. at Munich, 23 August, ...
Philosopher, b. at Mainz, 25 August, 1775; d. at Bonn, 23 April, 1839. He attended the gymnasium ...
A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the centre, and filled ...
From the beginning Christian churches, in contrast to the ancient temples, were intended to be ...
A town of great antiquity, on the Thames, in Berkshire, England ; quaintly rendered Ventus ...
Born near Osnabrück, 17 January, 1812; died 14 March, 1891. He came from a family of ...
Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid ...
Born at Holywell, Wales, about 600; died at Gwytherin, Wales, 3 Nov., 660. Her father was ...
Born in London, 5 January, 1846; died there, 24 March, 1893. He studied music at Wylde's London ...
A tribe of Siouan stock closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more ...
(WUNIBALD, WYNNEBALD).
Members of the Order of St. Benedict, brothers, natives probably of ...
Abbot or Prior or Wormhoult, died 716 or 717. Three lives of this saint are extant: the best of ...
(WINONENSIS).
Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, comprises the following counties in ...
(WINSLOW).
Physician and anatomist, b. at Odense, Denmark, 27 April, 1669; d. in Paris, 3 ...
Abbot of Landevennec; d. 3 March, probably at the beginning of the sixth century, though the ...
Benedictine abbot and controversial writer, b. at Renfrew, Scotland, 1518; d. at Ratisbon, 21 ...
(WIPPO).
Apparently a native of Burgundy, lived in the first half of the eleventh century. He ...
Satirist, lived about 1190. He describes himself as old in the "Speculum Stultorum", which was ...
Theologian, born at Frankfort about 1460; died at Steyer, 30 June, 1519. He entered the ...
Known as the "Badger State", admitted to the Union on 29 May, 1848, the seventeenth state ...
One of the deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament, placed in the Vulgate between the ...
(LES FILLES DE LA SAGESSE).
Founded at Poitiers by Blessed Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort ...
(Plural of Latin magus ; Greek magoi ).
The "wise men from the East" who came to adore ...
Cardinal, first Archbishop of Westminster ; b. at Seville, 2 Aug., 1802; d. in London, 15 ...
It is not easy to draw a clear distinction between magic and witchcraft. Both are concerned with ...
One who is present, bears testimony, furnishes evidence or proof. Witnesses are employed in ...
Reformer of church music, founder of the St. CeciliaSociety for German-speaking countries, ...
The city is in Prussian Saxony and was founded by Albert the Bear (d. 1170). He had conquered ...
Bishop-elect of Ratisbon, b. near Pleistein, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, 22 (23?) Jan., 1760; d. at ...
Catholic journalist, b. at Ellwanger, Würtemberg, 4 January, 1818; d. at Munich, 3 ...
(WICELIUS).
Theologian, b. at Vacha, Province of Hesse, 1501; d. at Mainz, 16 Feb., 1573. He ...
(Polish WLOCLAWEK; Latin VLADISLAVIENSIS ET POMERANLAE).
The historical origin of this ...
Editor, b. at Martinsburg, West Virginia , 25 Aug., 1822; d. at Norristown, Pennsylvania, 29 ...
Bishop of Ratisbon (972-994), born about 934; died at the village of Pupping in upper Austria, ...
Generally regarded as the greatest of Middle-High-German epic poets, date of birth unknown; d. ...
Painter and engraver, b. at Nuremberg, 1434; d. there, 1519. He was the most prominent artist of ...
Born at Warsaw, 31 Aug., 1810; d. at Gisors, Eure, 15 Aug., 1876. His father, a member of the ...
Cardinal, Archbishop of York, b. at Ipswitch, the usually accepted date, 1471, being probably ...
Benedictine, and Bishop of Worcester, b. at Long Itchington, Warwickshire, England, about 1008; ...
Of late years the position of woman in human society has given rise to a discussion which, as part ...
Priest and confessor, b. about 1499; d. in Wisbech Castle before 1588. After being prebendary ...
In general, the production from wood of objects of trade or art by means of sharp instruments, as ...
English Franciscan martyr, b. at Leyland, Lancashire, 1603; suffered at Lancaster, 7 August, ...
Born at Almonbury, Yorkshire, about March, 1609; died at Hoxton, Middlesex, 4 May, 1678. This ...
Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573, being disembowelled alive. Ordained in Mary's ...
Priest and scientist, b. at Southwark, London, 15 Nov., 1832; d. at Sydney, New South Wales, 7 ...
(WIGORNIENSIS.)
Located in England, created in 680 when, at the Synod of Hatfield under ...
To give the right value to words is a very important factor in the proper interpretation of ...
Various attempts have been made to establish the age of the world. Two groups of scientists have ...
( Hebrew la'anah .)
Wormwood, known for its repulsive bitterness ( Jeremiah 9:15 ; 23:15 ; ...
NOTION AND CHARACTERISTICS
The word worship (Saxon weorthscipe , "honour"; from worth , ...
Born in Lancashire, England, 1605; died at Antwerp, 2 Sept., 1676. He is said to have been ...
Third President of Douai College , b. 1549 at Blainscough Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire; d. at ...
Devotion
The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of St. Bernard and St. ...
Historian, b. at Oostham, Belgian Limburg, 3 May, 1802; d. 5 January, 1872. In 1829 he became ...
Martyr, b. at Slipton, Northamptonshire, 1603; suffered at Tyburn, 19 May, 1651. After spending ...
Born at York, 1562; died 18 Jan., 1639. Though he came late (23) to his studies, he then made ...
Botanist, b. at Belgrade, 5 November, 1728; d. at Klagenfurt, 17 March, 1805. He was the son of ...
(VULFRAMNUS.)
Bishop of Sens, missionary in Frisi, born at Milly near Fontainebleau, probably ...
(In religion DOM SEBASTIAN).
Abbot of Cîteaux and Abbot-General of the Order of ...
Bishop and confessor, b. about 1197 at Droitwich, Worcestershire, from which his surname is ...
(WYCLIFFE, or WICLIF, etc.).
Writer and "reformer", b. probably at Hipswell near Richmond, ...
Scottish chronicler, born (as we know from the internal evidence of his writings) in the reign ...
Wyoming, the forty-fourth state admitted to the American Union, derives its name from the Delaware ...