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  • - Described as a spiritual and self-denying priest, an eminent scholar and theologian. (1767-1850)
  • - The Diocese of Cienfuegos (Centumfocensis), includes all the Province of Santa Clara in the central part of Cuba.
  • - Includes the Collectorate of Coimbatore (except the Taluk of the Collegal), the Nilgiris with the south-eastern Wynaad, the Taluks of Palgat, Collancodoo, Tamalpuram, and part of Wallavanad, the Chittur Taluks, and the Nelliampathy Hills in the Cochin ter
  • - Diocese suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico, comprises the state of Guerrero, in the south of Mexico.
  • - Italian anatomist and discoverer of the pulmonary circulation, b. at Cremona in 1516; d. at Rome, 1559.
  • - This heretical doctrine is an attempt to hold the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist without admitting Transubstantiation.
  • - Vicariate apostolic, coextensive with the Empire of Corea; it was created a distinct vicariate Apostolic, 9 September, 1831.
  • - As approved in amplified form at the Council of Constantinople (381), it is the profession of the Christian Faith common to the Catholic Church, to all the Eastern Churches separated from Rome, and to most of the Protestant denominations.
  • - Architectural term for a supporting pillar.
  • - Missionary among the Huron Indians, born at Senlis, France, in 1606; died at Quebec, 14 August, 1684.
  • - The word coemeterium or cimiterium (in Gr. koimeterion) may be said in early literature to be used exclusively of the burial places of Jews and Christians.
  • - Suffragan of Siena.
  • - Founded at Vannes in Brittany, in 1803, by Madame Molé, née de Lamoignan, for the education of poor girls, at the suggestion of Bishop de Pancemont, of Vannes, who was her director.
  • - A small table of wood, marble, or other suitable material placed within the sanctuary of a church and near the wall at the Epistle side, for the purpose of holding the cruets, acolytes' candles, and other utensils required for the celebration of the Holy
  • - A person legally appointed to administer the property of another, who is unable to undertake its management himself, owing to age or physical incompetence, bodily or mental.
  • - Designates in the Old Testament a certain city and its adjacent territory in the tribe of Juda.
  • - Doctrinal judgments by which the Church stigmatizes certain teachings detrimental to faith or morals.
  • - French missionary to Canadian Indians. (1641-1723)
  • - Poet, dramatist and novelist, b. at Paris, 26 January, 1842; d. 23 May, 1908.
  • - The name given to the religious romance in two forms as composed by Pope St. Clement I.
  • - A joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century.
  • - Diocese in France. Comprises the department of Eure-et-Loir.
  • - Early Christian physicians and martyrs whose feast is celebrated on 27 September.
  • - In the Irish language the word was written Ceile-De, meaning companion, or even spouse, of God, with the Latin equivalent in the plural, Colidei, anglicized into Culdees; in Scotland it was often written Kelidei.
  • - Diocese created, 28 May, 1878, a part of the civil and ecclesiastical Province of Quebec.
  • - The canonical and moralist doctrine on this subject is a development of that contained in the Roman civil law. In civil law, a contract is defined as the union of several persons in a coincident expression of will by which their legal relations are determ
  • - Situated in the province of Treviso, in former Venetian territory, on a declivity of the Rhaetian Alps.
  • - Located in Portugal.
  • - In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians.
  • - The word candle (candela, from candeo, to burn) was introduced into the English language as an ecclesiastical term, probably as early as the eighth century.
  • - Particular council held in A.D. 754.
  • - A titular see of Armenia.
  • - Epic poet, born in 1524 or 1525; died 10 June, 1580.
  • - Generally, an unreasonable desire for what we do not possess.
  • - Date of birth unknown; died 13 December, 1124.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - Apostolic prefecture situated in South America on the southern border of the Republic of Colombia.
  • - Archbishop of New Orleans, U.S.A., b. at Runes Lozère, France, 28 August, 1842; d. at New Orleans, 9 August, 1905.
  • - French historian of music, b. at Bailleul, department of Nord, France, 19 April, 1805; d. at Lille, 10 January, 1876.
  • - Second Bishop of New York, U.S.A., b. at Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland, 1750; d. New York, 6 February, 1825.
  • - Six people with this name are described.
  • - The Diocese comprises the department of Marne, exclusive of the arrondissement of Reims.
  • - Moral theologian and author. (1613-1684)
  • - The secular priests and the religious who were murdered in Paris, in May 1871, on account of their sacred calling.
  • - Includes information concerning the laws in the United States and Canada.
  • - Philologist, b. at LePuy, France, 1821; d. at Oka near Montreal, 1898.
  • - Lists of Biblical words arranged alphabetically with indications to enable the inquirer to find the passages of the Bible where the words occur.
  • - Beatified in 1675 by Clement X, but not canonized till 1737, by Clement XII. Her writings were examined by the Holy Office and pronounced to contain doctrine that would be enough, in itself, to prove her sanctity.
  • - The Ancient Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558.
  • - English missionary priest, b. 5 October, 1720; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 January, 1791.
  • - The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church. Also called the alter rail.
  • - A titular see of Africa Proconsularis.
  • - Florentine painters, brothers, usually grouped under the Spanish School.
  • - The popular name is a corruption of Ojibwa, a name of uncertain etymology, but generally supposed to refer to the "puckered up" appearance of the seam along the front of the tribal moccasin.
  • - A vessel suspended by chains, and used for burning incense at solemn Mass, Vespers, Benediction, processions, and other important offices of the Church.
  • - Established under the Merovingian Kings, a school, scola palatina, the chroniclers of the eighth century styled it for the training of the young Frankish nobles in the art of war and in the ceremonies of the court.
  • - Includes the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman captivities.
  • - By Communion is meant the actual reception of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • - The Diocese comprises the northern half of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, i.e., the counties of Gloucester, Madawaska, Northumberland, Restigouche, Victoria, and the part of Kent north of the Richibucto River.
  • - Hagiographer and historian, b. in County Donegal, Ireland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century; d. probably in 1657.
  • - A title of honour to designate of the Faith who had confessed Christ publicly in time of persecution and had been punished with imprisonment, torture, exile, or labour in the mines, remaining faithful in their confession until the end of their lives.
  • - The discoverer of Canada, b. at Saint-Malo, Brittany, in 1491; d. 1 September, 1557.
  • - Born in the chateau de la Plesse in Avrille, Angers, France, 1 September, 1662; d. at Paris, 11 June 1717.
  • - Patristic scholar and theologian, born December, 1629, at Nîmes; died 19 August, 1686.
  • - Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland, b. near Mallow, Co. Cork, 24 May, 1824; d. at Thurles, 22 July, 1902.
  • - The place of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  • - Born in Dalaradia, c. 450; date of death uncertain. He founded the See of Dromore, of which he is patron and over which he presided as bishop.
  • - Jesuit missionary in Canada and vicar Apostolic for the Montagnais Indians; b. at Arras, France, 16 March, 1638; d. at Quebec in 1702.
  • - French Canadian statesman, son of Jacques Cartier and Marguerite Paradis, b. at St. Antoine, on the Richelieu, 16 Sept., 1814; d. in London 20 May, 1873.
  • - French agriculturist, b. at Caen, France, 1731; d. at Sarcelles, near Paris, 1813.
  • - Canonist, b. in Bordogna, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy, 13 January, 1841; d. at Rome, 29 December, 1906.
  • - A Roman officer commanding a century or company, the strength of which varied from fifty to one hundred men.
  • - The name given by later generations to Charles, King of the Franks, first sovereign of the Christian Empire of the West; born 2 April, 742; died at Aachen, 28 January, 814.
  • - Italian poet, born at Marino, 1490; died at Rome, February 25, 1547.
  • - Date of birth uncertain; d. 27 March, 1746.
  • - Meetings of clerics for the purpose of discussing, in general, matters pertaining to their state of life, and, in particular, questions of moral theology and liturgy.
  • - An autonomous branch of the first Franciscan Order.
  • - Philosopher. (1832-1884)
  • - Controversialist, b. 1577 of Yorkshire stock in London; d. about 1623.
  • - Marquis de Seignelay, statesman, b. at Rheims, France, 1619; d. at Paris, 1683.
  • - University in Portugal.
  • - Founder and abbot of the Irish monastery at Bangor. (520-602)
  • - Information on the history and uses.
  • - Carlo, Felice, and Paolo, Bolognese painters.
  • - Governor of Maryland. (1607-1647)
  • - Etymologically any form of ruse or fraud employed to deceive another, particularly in judicial proceedings.
  • - According to V. Gambon this statue is probably the one which, together with the church in which it stood, was given to the Franciscans when the Jesuits were expelled (1767) from the country by Charles III.
  • - A titular see of Crete.
  • - A medieval French master-builder and son of a master-builder of the same name.
  • - Italian composer. (1811-1898)
  • - Details include days, weeks, months, years, and eras.
  • - A legal act through which a person, by mandate of the judge, is called before the tribunal for trial.
  • - Friar Minor and leader of the Cæsarines. (d. 1239)
  • - Commemorated on 11 October, born in 515 or 516, at Glengiven, in what is now County Derry, Ireland; died at Aghaboe in 600.
  • - Diocese includes all Prince Edward Island (formerly called St. John's Island), the smallest province of the dominion of Canada.
  • - Writer, born 12 April, 1808, in London; died in Paris, 1 April, 1891.
  • - Italian astronomer. (1625-1712)
  • - Comprises the northern half of County Cork.
  • - The city of the same name in the province of Palermo, in Sicily (Italy), is situated nearly in the centre of the northern coast of the island.
  • - More accurately, Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Poor, founded in Montreal, Canada, by Bishop Bourget and Madame Jean Baptiste Gamelin (Marie Emélie Eugénie Tavernier), 25 March, 1843.
  • - German city and archbishopric.
  • - Spanish bishop. (1847-1904)
  • - The term originated in the fourteenth century, though the art designated by it had been practiced for several centuries previous.
  • - The vicar-general of the pope, as Bishop of Rome, for the spiritual administration of the city, and its surrounding district, properly known as Vicarius Urbis.
  • - Martyr, suffered at Aquileia, probably during the persecution of Diocletian, was buried there, and publicly venerated by the faithful of that region.
  • - Its centre being Christchurch, the Capital of Canterbury, New Zealand. Diocese comprises the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, a small portion of the Province of Nelson, and the Chatham Islands.
  • - One of the Ionian Islands, at the entrance of the Adriatic, opposite the Albanian coast, from which it is separated by a narrow channel.
  • - Patrologist, b. November, 1605, at Marmande in Guyenne; d. at Paris, 23 March, 1679.
  • - Confessor of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and papal inquisitor, b. at or near Marburg, Germany, in the second half of the twelfth century; d. 30 July, 1233.
  • - Venetian painter whose real name was Scarpazza, b. at Venice about 1455; d. in the same city between 1523 and 1526.
  • - Miniature-painter, born in Florence, Italy, 1759; died at Lodi, 5 January, 1535.
  • - The Diocese, established 23 April, 1847, comprises all that part of Ohio lying north of the southern limits of the Counties of Columbiana, Stark, Wayne, Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Wyandot, Hancock, Allen, and Van Wert, its territory covering thirty-six
  • - A collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and discipline of the Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions.
  • - A voluntary association of the faithful, established and guided by competent ecclesiastical authority for the promotion of special works of Christian charity or piety.
  • - German Catholic philosopher, b. 4 October, 1815, at Coblenz; d. 24 February, 1862, at Rome.
  • - French writer, b. at Saint-Malo, Brittany, 4 September, 1768; d. at Paris, 4 July, 1848.
  • - Comprises that part of Kentucky, U. S. A., lying east of the Kentucky River, and of the western limits of Carroll, Owen, Franklin, Woodford, Jessamine, Garrard, Rockcastle, Laurel, and Whitley Counties.
  • - Brazilian poet. (1740-1800)
  • - A Discalced Carmelite (Augustin-Marie of the Blessed Sacrament, generally known as Father Hermann), born at Hamburg, Germany, 10 November, 1820; died at Spandau, 20 January, 1871.
  • - Called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy.
  • - A fraternal and beneficent society of Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • - A mountain looking out on the Atlantic ocean from the southern shore of Clew Bay, in the County Mayo, and called "the Sinai of Ireland."
  • - An association recognized by civil law and regarded in all ordinary transactions as an individual. An artificial person.
  • - French missionary among the Indians of Canada, born at Carentoir, France, November 1633; died at Quebec, 27 July, 1726.
  • - Born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
  • - Angelic beings or symbolic representations thereof, mentioned frequently in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament.
  • - Friar Minor, b. at Offida, a little town in the March of Ancona, c. 1241; d. at Bastia in Umbria, 12 December, 1306.
  • - Proto-martyr of Oceanica, born at Cuet, dep. of Ain, France, 1803, died at Futuna, Friendly Islands, Oceanica, 28 April, 1841.
  • - Particular councils held in 1639 and 1672.
  • - The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - A titular see of Cyprus, suppressed in 1222 by the papal legate, Pelagius.
  • - A branch of the Order of Saint Clare, founded by Beatriz de Silva.
  • - A former castle of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the foothills of the Apennines.
  • - Located in Italy, suffragan of Venice.
  • - A diriment impediment introduced by the Church to safeguard the sanctity of the Sacrament of Marriage.
  • - A (partly) ecumenical council held at Constance, now in the Grand Duchy of Baden, from 5 Nov., 1414, to 22 April, 1418.
  • - Like other words of the same ending, the term creation signifies both an action and the object or effect thereof. Thus, in the latter sense, we speak of the "kingdoms of creation", "the whole creation", and so on.
  • - The chief singer (and sometimes instructor) of the ecclesiastical choir, called also precentor.
  • - The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century.
  • - Flemish Jesuit and exegete, b. at Bocholt, in Flemish Limburg, 18 December, 1567; d. at Rome, 12 March, 1637.
  • - Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, b. at Compiègne, France, 30 April, 1654; d. at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, 18 October, 1721.
  • - The book which contains the Collects.
  • - Composer. (d. 1558)
  • - Suffragan of Milan.
  • - More commonly called in England, the girdle is an article of liturgical attire which has been recognized as such since the ninth century.
  • - Flemish painter. (1520-1570)
  • - American statesman. (1737-1832)
  • - The four principal virtues upon which the rest of the moral virtues turn or are hinged.
  • - French-Canadian priest. (1807-1881)
  • - Cardinal and Papal Nuncio, born at Venice, 17 March, 1523; died at Padua, 26 Dec., 1584.
  • - Martyrs of the Early Church who were beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of their execution is given as 25 October, 285 or 286.
  • - Italian painter, sculptor, and architect; b. at Gandino, in the Valle Seriana, in the territory of Bergamo, in 1509 (some writers state 1500 or 1506); d. at Madrid in 1579.
  • - Queen of the Franks. (474-545)
  • - A member of the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Maur and historian; born at Bèze in the department of Côte-d'Or, France, 1714; died at Paris, 29 March, 1793.
  • - Titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - An index of articles on the subject.
  • - The Diocese comprises almost the entire state of that name in the Republic of Mexico. San Cristobal Las Casas, formerly called Ciudad Real, is the episcopal seat, and is the principal city of the state.
  • - An order of mendicant friars who went to England in the thirteenth century from Italy.
  • - A learned French Benedictine of the Congregation of the Saint-Vannes, b. at Yvoi-Varignan in the present department of Ardennes, France, 22 September, 1695; d. at the monastery of St-Arnold in Metz, 21 October, 1771.
  • - English confessor. (1500-1579)
  • - Dominican missionary to the New World. (d. 1549)
  • - The Coptic language is now recognized in four principal dialects, Bohairic (formerly Memphitic), Fayumic, Sahidic (formerly Theban), and Akhmimic.
  • - Dominican preacher. (1687-1756)
  • - Italian miniaturist, called by Vasari "the unique" and "little Michelangelo", b. at Grizani, on the coast of Croatia, in 1498; d. at Rome, 1578.
  • - The municipal law deals with this status only as a civil institution.
  • - Titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - Cardinal, b. 1455, at Plasencia in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome 16 Dec., 1523.
  • - Reigned 1592-1605.
  • - The discussion and adjustment of mutual differences by employers and employees or their representatives.
  • - Italian historian of literature, chronicler, and poet, b. in Macerata, 9 Oct., 1663; d. 8 March 1728.
  • - Theologian and Biblical scholar, born at Côte-Saint-André, in Dauphiné, France, 29 August, 1737; died on the scaffold during The Terror, 1793.
  • - The sign of the cross, represented in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly antedates, in both the East and the West, the introduction of Christianity.
  • - Sculptor born in Verona, 1552; died about 1623 or 1625.
  • - French archaeologist, b. at Paris, in 1692; d. in 1765.
  • - A life ordered in view of contemplation; a way of living especially adapted to lead to and facilitate contemplation, while it excludes all other preoccupations and intents.
  • - Bishop of Aquileia, died about 406-407.
  • - A cemetery, church, and hospice for Germans on the south side of St. Peter's, Rome.
  • - A general confession of sins; it is used in the Roman Rite at the beginning of Mass and on various other occasions as a preparation for the reception of some grace.
  • - Italian anatomist and physiologist. (1725-1813)
  • - The third island of the Mediterranean in point of size, only Sicily and Sardinia being of greater extent.
  • - Reigned 1758-69.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - Dutch Jesuit priest, d. 1597.
  • - The word court, in the English Bible, corresponds to the Hebrew haçer enclosed space. Also, in the English Bible the word court is occasionally used to mean the retinue of a person of high rank and authority.
  • - A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.
  • - Called in Latin casula planeta or pænula, and in early Gallic sources amphibalus, the principal and most conspicuous Mass vestment, covering all the rest.
  • - A canonical term applied to various kinds of ecclesiastical synods. The word itself, derived from the Latin plenarium (complete or full), indicates that the council to which the term is applied represents the whole number of bishops of some given territor
  • - Dominican Tertiary, born at Siena, 25 March, 1347; died at Rome, 29 April, 1380.
  • - Diocese in Spain.
  • - A fraternal assessment life-insurance society organized in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 5 September, 1881.
  • - Twelfth-century Benedictine abbot and Cistercian monk.
  • - Irish-American astronomer. (1796-1889)
  • - An Irish bishop who flourished in the second half of the fifth century and ruled over the church of Drum, County Roscommon.
  • - The Society of Our Lady of the Cenacle was founded in 1826, at La Louvesc in France, near the tomb of St. John Francis Regis.
  • - Byzantine historian, eldest daughter of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Constantinople (1081-1118).
  • - Located in the Philippine Islands. Cebú, the diocesan city, spelled also Sebú and Zebú, in the province of the same name.
  • - Discusses the history and practice.
  • - The endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of choir member in a collegiate churc
  • - The name is often taken as synonymous with plain chant, comprising not only the Church music of the early Middle Ages, but also later compositions (elaborate melodies for the Ordinary of the Mass, sequences, etc.) written in a similar style down to the si
  • - In baptism, Alessandra Lucrezia Romola, a Dominican nun, of the Third Order, though enclosed, born in Florence, 23 April, 1522; died 2 February, 1590.
  • - A famous city of Spain, situated on an eminence between the Sar (the Sars of Pomponius Mela) and Sarela.
  • - An ornamental covering of cloth, stone, wood, or metal, used to crown an altar, throne, pulpit, or statue.
  • - Burgundian chronicler, born in the County of Alost, Flanders, in 1403; died at Valenciennes in 1475.
  • - Martyrs of Antioch. (d. 304)
  • - Preacher and controversialist, born 1574, at Château-du-Loir, province of Maine, France; died Paris, 21 April, 1623.
  • - St. Stephen Harding, third Abbot of Cîteaux (1109-33), was an Englishman and his influence in the early organization of the Cistercian Order had been very great. It was natural therefore that, when, after the coming of St. Bernard and his companions in 1
  • - Reigned 1700-1721.
  • - The second founder of the Redemptorist Congregation, called "the Apostle of Vienna", born at Tasswitz in Moravia, 26 December, 1751; died at Vienna 15 March, 1821.
  • - Rite regarding the blessing and laying of the Foundation Stone for the building of a church.
  • - An adaptation of the sanctuary guard or altar rail.
  • - Literally, one who has the cure (care) or charge of souls, in which sense it is yet used by the Church of England, "All Bishops and Curates".
  • - Historian, b. in Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1590; d. probably in 1672.
  • - Proprietary Governor of Maryland in 1660-1661.
  • - By this term is understood an account of how the universe (cosmos) came into being (gonia - gegona = I have become). It differs from cosmology, or the science of the universe, in this: that the latter aims at understanding the actual composition and gover
  • - Designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies, said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book, which it was the custom to read in the assemblies of monks.
  • - Celebrated martyrs of the Coptic Church.
  • - Musical term, the strictest of all contrapuntal forms.
  • - Popular hero of the chivalrous age of Spain, born at Burgos c. 1040; died at Valencia, 1099. He was given the title of seid or cid (lord, chief) by the Moors and that of campeador (champion) by his admiring countrymen.
  • - The renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the Sacrament of Orders in any of the higher grades.
  • - The Catholic was smaller in extent than the present Anglican diocese, which was enlarged in 1856.
  • - Flemish painter, b. at Antwerp, 1582; d. at Ghent, 1669.
  • - Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor. (1601-1667)
  • - Astronomer, born at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 10 February, 1842; died in London, 20 January 1907.
  • - The name designates in Holy Writ the ravine on the east of Jerusalem, between the Holy City and the Mount of Olives.
  • - A work in four books (120 or 121 chapters), purporting to be the composition of Charlemagne, and written about 790-92.
  • - English Jesuit martyr-priest. (1598-1644)
  • - Suffragan of Seville.
  • - French historian and statesman, b. in Flanders probably before 1447; d. at the Château d'Argenton, France, about 1511.
  • - An account is given of Christianity as a religion, describing its origin, its relation to other religions, its essential nature and chief characteristics, but not dealing with its doctrines in detail nor its history as a visible organization.
  • - The word katechesis means instruction by word of mouth, especially by questioning and answering.
  • - Distinguished as MacCathbad, whence Kilmackevat, County Antrim, was Bishop of Kilroot, a minor see afterwards incorporated in the Diocese of Connor.
  • - The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person.
  • - A commission established by Pope Clement VIII to settle the theological controversy regarding grace which arose between the Dominicans and the Jesuits towards the close of the sixteenth century.
  • - An archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See. A city in the province of Calabria, Southern Italy, at the confluence of the Crati and the Busento.
  • - Minister General of the Friars Minor and cardinal. (d. 1528)
  • - Biblical criticism in its fullest comprehension is the examination of the literary origins and historical values of the books composing the Bible, with the state in which these exist at the present day.
  • - Convent education is treated here not historically but as it is at the present day. (Article written in 1908.)
  • - Theologian. (1472-1543)
  • - Also known as Sault St. Louis. An Iroquois reservation, situated on the south bank of the St. Lawrence, about ten miles above Montreal.
  • - The recital of a part of the Office or Mass assigned to a certain feast or day when the whole cannot be said.
  • - Flemish novelist, b. at Antwerp, 3 December, 1812; d. at Brussels, 10 September, 1883.
  • - A term which originated in Immanuel Kant's ethics.
  • - Suffragan to Milan.
  • - A monk and ascetic writer of Southern Gaul, b. probably in Provence about 360; d. about 435, probably near Marseilles.
  • - Formerly known as Portland University, located on the east bank of the Willamette River in northern Portland, and is conducted by the Congregation of Holy Cross, whose mother-house is at Notre Dame, Indiana.
  • - Franciscan friar and author, b. at Athlone, Ireland, in 1605; d. at Dublin, 1666.
  • - An association of Catholic laymen formed in England to perpetuate the movement which had found expression in the "Declaration and Protestation" signed by the Catholic body in 1789.
  • - This article does not deal with confession by laymen but with that made to laymen, for the purpose of obtaining the remission of sins by God.
  • - The principal ornament of the altar.
  • - The last in the group of the four great uncial manuscripts of the Greek Bible, received its name from the treatises of St. Ephraem the Syrian (translated into Greek) which were written over the original text.
  • - The capital of the province of that name in Southern Italy.
  • - The Latin title of the ecclesiastical heralds or pursuivants pertaining to the papal court.
  • - The uppermost division of the entablature, the representative of the roof, of an order, consisting of projecting mouldings and blocks, usually divisible into bed-moulding, corona, and gutter.
  • - Charlemagne's interest in church music and solicitude for its propagation and adequate performance throughout his empire, have never been equalled by any civil ruler either before or since his time.
  • - Born at Ghent, 1500; died at Yuste, in Spain, 1558; was a descendant of the house of Hapsburg, and to this descent owed his sovereignty over so many lands that it was said of him that the sun never set on his dominions.
  • - The Arachite, i.e. the native of Archi, a place south of the portion of Ephraim, near Bethel.
  • - Founder of the Abbey and Diocese of Mayo, born in Connacht, c. 605; died 8 August, 676.
  • - King of the English, Danes, and Norwegians, b. about 994; d. at Shaftesbury, 12 November 1035.
  • - This feast is celebrated in the Latin Church on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday to solemnly commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist.
  • - Lat. contritio, a breaking of something hardened.
  • - On Monday, 25 July, 1583 (N.S.), the village of Cuncolim in the district of Salcete, territory of Goa, India, was the scene of the martyrdom of five religious of the Society of Jesus: Fathers Rudolph Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, and Anthony
  • - Journalist and novelist, b. at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 1840; d. in London, 2 March 1906.
  • - English Jesuit controversialist. (1676-1743)
  • - A mixture of oil of olives and balsam, blessed by a bishop in a special manner and used in the administration of certain sacraments and in the performance of certain ecclesiastical functions.
  • - Capital, formerly of the Byzantine, now of the Ottoman, Empire. (As of 1908, when the article was written.)
  • - Third-century Christian author.
  • - A term formerly applied to any window or traceried opening in a church, e. g. in an aisle, tower, cloister, or screen, but now restricted to the windows in an aisled nave, or to the range of wall in which the high windows are set.
  • - In almost every country and every order of the clergy, the clothing has its own distinctive features.
  • - Benedictine abbot. (642-716)
  • - One of the Sporades in the Ægean Sea.
  • - Refers to a moral change, a turning or returning to God and to the true religion.
  • - In its widest sense it includes all sensations, thoughts, feelings, and volitions, in fact the sum total of mental life.
  • - French monarchist. (1832-1911)
  • - Flemish painter, imitator of Raphael, known as the Flemish Raphael; b. at Mechlin, 1499; d. there 1592.
  • - French theologian, born at Amiens, 1572; died at Paris, 1663.
  • - Dominican philosopher and writer, b. 5 Sept. 1568 at Stilo in the province of Calabria, Italy; d. at Paris, 21 May, 1659.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor. Kaunos was said to have been founded by Kaunos, son of Miletos and Kyane, on the southern coast of Caria, opposite Rhodes, and was known as Rhodian Peraea, at the foot of Mount Tarbelos.
  • - President of the College of Physicians and tutor to St. Thomas More's children, born in Yorkshire about 1500; died 1 July, 1572.
  • - Gallo-Roman theologian and the brother of St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne, d. about 473.
  • - A titular see of Thessaly.
  • - A military order which sprang out of the famous Order of the Temple.
  • - Friar Minor, date of birth unknown; d. at Velletri in 1480.
  • - In the beginning of the sixteenth century they occupied what is now the departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca with, possible, a few outlying settlements.
  • - The family name of several generations of painters.
  • - French musician and teacher of music. (1772-1834)
  • - The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew.
  • - A term applied to various manual acts, liturgical or devotional in character, which have this at least in common: that by the gesture of tracing two lines intersecting at right angles they indicate symbolically the figure of Christ's cross.
  • - The name, according to the Vulgate and the Septuagent, of three, or probably four cities mentioned in Scripture.
  • - Jesuit economist and exegete. (1573-1635)
  • - A comparatively narrow strip of coast-land in South America between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Andes Mountains on the east, including the watershed.
  • - A town in the Province of Rome, on the Treia.
  • - Bishop and martyr.
  • - A congregation founded in 1803 by Canon Triest, who was known as "the St. Vincent de Paul of Belgium", for he was the founder as well of the Brothers of St. John of God, and the Sisters of the Infant Jesus.
  • - Members of the College of Cardinals, 1913.
  • - The term is sometimes employed as a substitute for socialism.
  • - French historian, b. at Paris, 28 December, 1659; d. there 12 October, 1737.
  • - Bishop of the Isle of Man, died January, 684; an Irish missionary, also known as Mochonna.
  • - From caputium, hood - So named from the headgear which was one of their distinctive marks.
  • - Diocese established 9 August, 1887.
  • - Cardinal and statesman. (1757-1824)
  • - Treated under three headings: I. Period of French domination, from the discovery of Canada to the Treaty of Paris, in 1763; II. Period of British rule, from 1763 to the present day; III. Present conditions.
  • - A congregation begun by five young women in Dublin, Ireland, 8 December, 1831, with the purpose of devoting themselves to the service of God in the education of children.
  • - The city from which this diocese takes its name is the capital of the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
  • - Titular see of North Africa.
  • - A noted London midwife, who came into prominence through the pretended "Meal-Tub Plot" of 1680.
  • - Jesuit missionary to China. (1655-1709)
  • - Certain rules or norms of conduct or belief prescribed by the Church.
  • - Second Bishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A., b. at Moneymore, County Derry, Ireland, in 1745; d. at Philadelphia, 22 April, 1842.
  • - Prince of Poland, born in the royal palace at Cracow, 3 October, 1458; died at the court of Grodno, 4 March, 1484.
  • - Details of the Morgan and the British Museum's collections.
  • - The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of sacraments and for various blessings, sacramentals, and exorcisms, of the Church of Constantinople.
  • - Erected and constituted a suffragan of the Diocese of Goa, of which it had previously formed a part, by the Bull "Pro excellenti praeeminentia" of Paul IV, 4 February, 1558.
  • - Milanese painter, b. at Caravaggio in 1569, d. at Porto d' Ercole in 1609.
  • - A sea-coast city in the province of Venice. In antiquity it was known as Fossa Clodia; in the Middle Ages as Clugia.
  • - The proper support of church edifices and church institutions.
  • - Born at Kamien in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia), about 1184; died at Breslau about 1242.
  • - Celebrated exegetist. (1672-1757)
  • - Preacher and Doctor of the Church. (347-407)
  • - Jesuit missionary to the Hurons. (1613-1649)
  • - Ethiopian queen.
  • - The chief church of a diocese.
  • - Canonist and historian, born at Nymwegen in Geldern.
  • - A community founded at Newark, in 1859, by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, who for twelve years previously had been a member of the Sisters of Charity, of St. Vincent de Paul in New York.
  • - Suffragan of Taranto.
  • - Also called the Hermits of St. Damian or Hermits of Murrone.
  • - Fifth-century Doctor of the Church.
  • - Chiara Agolanti, of the order of Poor Clares, born at Rimini in 1282; died there 10 February, 1346.
  • - One of three books of Solomon, contained in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Christian Canon of the Scriptures.
  • - Belongs to the general category of test acts, designed for the express purpose of restricting public offices to members of the Church of England.
  • - Includes authority and methods.
  • - Nullifies marriage according to ecclesiastical law, and arises from adultery and homicide separately or together.
  • - In 1847 Carrera was, by a kind of election, made President of Guatemala, and seven years later he became dictator, that is, president for life with the right to designate his successor.
  • - A community founded by Geert De Groote, born at Deventer in Gelderland in 1340; died 1384.
  • - Article divided into four sections: (I) Name and place of the Canon; (II) History of the Canon; (III) The text and rubrics of the Canon; (IV) Mystical interpretations.
  • - Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires.
  • - French artist. (1646-1695)
  • - Motherhouse at Mt. St. Vincent-on Hudson, New York; not to be confused with the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul founded earlier.
  • - Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part, of the use of certain spiritual goods, until he recover from his contumacy.
  • - A titular see of Egypt.
  • - Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, born at Prospect, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 29 April, 1803; died at Dublin, 24 October, 1878.
  • - Polish priest, professor of Sacred Scripture, d. 1473.
  • - Italian painter of the Lombard School, b. at Cremona, 1522; d. at Reggio, about 1590.
  • - One of the three separate bodies, forming with the Friars Minor and the Capuchins what is commonly called the First Order of St. Francis.
  • - King of Northumbria and monk of Lindisfarne, date and place of birth not known; died at Lindisfarne, 764.
  • - (1) In the widest sense, the doctrine that the material of the universe was created by God out of no pre-existing subject. (2) Less widely, the doctrine that the various species of living beings were immediately and directly created or produced by God, an
  • - French monarch, born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741.
  • - Connacht saint, and has been confounded with the patron of Kilmacduagh, but he lived somewhat earlier, and the sphere of his ministry lay in the present County Wexford.
  • - A titular see of Lower Egypt.
  • - Fifteenth-century Italian sculptor and architect.
  • - Diocese; suffragan of São Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.
  • - For mystical reasons the Church prescribes that the candles used at Mass and at other liturgical functions be made of beeswax.
  • - The surpassing eminence of the character of Jesus has been acknowledged by men of the most varied type.
  • - A group of Lutheran scholars who had gathered at Magdeburg, and who are now known to history as the "Centuriators of Magdeburg" because of the way in which they divided their work (century by century) and the place in which the first five volume
  • - Strictly speaking, the ensemble of departments or ministries which assist the sovereign pontiff in the government of the Universal Church.
  • - Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal-Priest of the Title of St. Prassede, Papal Secretary of State under Pius IV, and one of the chief factors in the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
  • - Jewish High Priest.
  • - Journalist and historian; b. at Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendee, France, 23 Sept., 1803; d. at Vincennes near Paris, 1 Jan., 1875.
  • - Archbishop of Canterbury, born in the parish of St. Martin's, Exeter, England, c. 1342; died at Maidstone, 31 July, 1396.
  • - As Christ wished to fulfil the law and to show His descent according to the flesh from Abraham. He, though not bound by the law, was circumcised on the eighth day (Luke, ii, 21), and received the sublime name expressive of His office, Jesus, i.e. Saviour.
  • - French statesman, b. 28 June, 1719; d. in Paris 8 May, 1785.
  • - Consists of two parts: the first was probably called by Eusebius the "Chronograph" or "Chronographies"; the second he terms the "Canon", or "Canons", and also the "Chronological Canons".
  • - French painter, etcher, and engraver, b. in Orléans about 1601; d. at Paris, 1664.
  • - This feast was instituted by the Carmelites between 1376 and 1386.
  • - Discusses the origin of the Chinese.
  • - English poet. (1340-1400)
  • - Author of French Canadian literature. (1831-1904)
  • - German theologian, preacher and ascetic writer, born at Cochem, a small town on the Moselle, in 1630; died in the convent at Waghäusel, 10 September, 1712.
  • - 1) An under-sacristan. (2) A superior or an official in the Franciscan order.
  • - Archdiocese in the state of Ohio.
  • - Florentine painter, b. near Florence, 1390; d. at Florence, 9 August, 1457.
  • - First Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. (1799-1857)
  • - Florentine painter, b. at Florence, 1459; d. there, 1537.
  • - Spanish prelate and missionary, born at Sallent, near Barcelona, 23 Dec., 1807; d. at Fontfroide, Narbonne, France, on 24 Oct., 1870.
  • - A Roman liturgist of the eighteenth century, member of the Oratory of San Girolamo della Carita (Hieronymite), famous for his correct editions of the chief liturgical books of the Roman Church, which are still in habitual use, and which he enriched with s
  • - An important confederacy of Indian tribes and tribal remnants, chiefly of Muskogian stock, formerly holding the greater portion of Central and Southern Georgia and Alabama.
  • - Journalist, essayist, critic, b. at Albany, New York, U.S.A., 12 Aug., 1815; d. there 23 Jan., 1873.
  • - Poor Clare and mystical writer, born at Bologna, 8 September, 1413; died there, 9 March, 1463.
  • - Fourth superior of Saint-Sulpice, Montreal, Canada, b. near Nantes, France, 1636; d. in 1701.
  • - A square white linen cloth, now usually somewhat smaller than the breadth of an altar, upon which the Sacred Host and chalice are placed during the celebration of Mass.
  • - Ecclesiastical archæologist. (1633-1698)
  • - Notable as the place at which were held several councils of the Anglo-Saxon Church.
  • - Includes history, government, education, and religion.
  • - A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest's absolution to those who with true sorrow confess their sins and promise to satisfy for the same.
  • - Spanish poet and dramatist. (1550-1607)
  • - Spanish bishop, b. at Castellon de la Plana (Valencia), 1706; d. there 25 Nov., 1781.
  • - The term church is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which the New Testament writers denote the society founded by Jesus Christ.
  • - Ferrarese painter, b. at Ferrara in 1460; d. at Mantua in 1535.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - Defined as abstinence from even the licit gratifications of marriage.
  • - Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694.
  • - Catholic divine, chiefly known for his attempt to introduce into England the "Institute of Secular Priests Living in Community", founded in Bavaria by Bartholomaus Holzhauser.
  • - Discussed as (I) The Emperors at Constantinople; (II) Visigothic and Celtic Elements; (III) The English Coronation Orders; (IV) The Western Empire and the Roman Pontifical; and (V) Other Ceremonials.
  • - Born of a Spanish father and Indian mother soon after 1521; died at a very advanced age, the exact date unknown.
  • - The fourth child of St. Bridget and her husband, Ulf Gudmarsson, born 1331 or 1332; died 24 March, 1381. At the time of her death St. Catherine was head of the convent of Wadstena, founded by her mother; hence the name, Catherine Vastanensis, by which she
  • - Florentine painter. (1240-1301)
  • - Nom de plume of Cecilia Böhl von Faber, a noted Spanish novelist. (1796-1877)
  • - Swiss Catholic priest. (1816-1889)
  • - English Divine. (d. 1670)
  • - Mathematician and physicist; b. at Perugia, Italy, 1577; d. at Rome, 1644.
  • - Professor, author, and preacher, born at Venice, 29 Sept., 1822; d. at Rome, 18 Jan., 1892.
  • - Cardinal and monastic reformer, b. 1483 at Modena; d. 21 Sept., 1548.
  • - The name given to the Epistle of St. James, to that of St. Jude, to two Epistles of St. Peter and the first three of St. John, because, unlike the Epistles of St. Paul, they were addressed not to any particular person or church, but to the faithful genera
  • - Martyr, died c. 223.
  • - The ancient Cæsena is a city of Emilia, in the province of Forli (Italy), in the former States of the Church.
  • - Founder and patron of the See of Cloyne, born in Munster, c. 510; died 24 November, 601.
  • - This catechism differs from other summaries of Christian doctrine for the instruction of the people in two points: it is primarily intended for priests having care of souls (ad parochos), and it enjoys an authority equalled by no other catechism.