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  • - Canonist, born at Rome, 11 July, 1744; died there 18 Sept., 1820.
  • - Theologian of the modern Catholic German school and author of the "Enchiridion" universally used, b. 10 Oct., 1819, at Liege; d. 19 June, 1883.
  • - Situated in the north of Egypt and comprises four of the six provinces forming Lower Egypt, namely: Gharbieh, Charkieb, Menufieh, and Kalyiubieh.
  • - Moral theologian, born of a noble family at Palermo, Sicily, in 1586; died at Rome, 20 July, 1663.
  • - Martyr (1567-1607), was born of a good Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English College at Reims, 1 April, 1588.
  • - These words form the introductory prayer to every Hour of the Roman, monastic, and Ambrosian Breviaries, except during the last three days of Holy Week, and in the Office of the Dead.
  • - Italian poet. (1265-1321)
  • - A Martyr, probably a grandson of Venerable James Duckett, born at Underwinder, in the parish of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1603; died 7 September, 1644.
  • - The use of the dolphin as a Christian symbol is connected with the general ideas underlying the more general use of the fish. The particular idea is that of swiftness and celerity symbolizing the desire with which Christians, who are thus represented as b
  • - Son of a Roman called Mauricius; he was consecrated Bishop of Rome 2 Nov., 676, to succeed Adeodatus II, after an interval of four months and seventeen days; d. 11 April, 678.
  • - Publisher and bookseller, b. at Monmouth, England, 20 Sept., 1807; d. in Paris, 31 December, 1863.
  • - This term is commonly applied to one who is learning any art or science from one distinguished by his accomplishments.
  • - An official in secular deaneries and in certain religious orders.
  • - Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Breslau, b. 6 January, 1798, at Boeholt in Westphalia; d. at the castle of Johannisberg in Upper Silesia, 20 January, 1853.
  • - Located in the north of the state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, South America; created under the Brazilian Empire, 10 Aug., 1853, and confirmed by the Holy See, 6 June, 1854.
  • - French painter, b. at Charenton-St-Maurice, near Paris, 26 April, 1798; d. 13 August, 1863.
  • - Spanish historian, one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, b. at Medina del Campo, Spain, c. 1498; d. after 1568.
  • - Founded at Maria-Martental near Kaisersesch, in 1903 by Josepth Tallmanns.
  • - The word means literally a public worker, demioergós, demiourgós, and was originally used to designate any craftsman plying his craft or trade for the use of the public. Soon, however, technítes and other words began to be used to designate the common
  • - Welsh bishop and confessor, d. 612. Also called St. Dubricius or Dyfrig.
  • - Born 17 March, 1809; died 5 March, 1878.
  • - Born about 304; died 11 December, 384.
  • - Chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May, 1863.
  • - Founder of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit. (d. 1903)
  • - Lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor, date of birth uncertain; died at Alcalá, Spain, 12 Nov., 1463.
  • - Martyr, priest who suffered under Queen Elizabeth.
  • - Moravian historian, b. at Kojetein near Kremsier, Moravia, 29 January, 1815; d. as abbot and titular bishop at the monastery of Raigern, 18 January, 1890.
  • - A booklet published annually at Rome, with papal authorization, giving the routine of feasts and fasts to be observed in Rome and the ecclesiastical functions to be performed in the city.
  • - Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.
  • - Theologians continue to admit the possibility of dreams supernatural in their origin, and consequently the possibility of dream-interpretation depending on supernatural communications.
  • - Includes several orders by this name.
  • - Founded at Rome, 8 Dec., 1881, by Johann Baptist Jordan (b. 1848 at Gartweil im Breisgau), elected superior general as Father Francis Mary of the Cross.
  • - Ascetical writer, b. at Tourcoing, France, 23 Dec., 1828; d. 23 July, 1898.
  • - Benedictine monastery in Switzerland.
  • - Religious houses comprising communities of both men and women, dwelling in contiguous establishments, united under the rule of one superior, and using one church in common for their liturgical offices.
  • - The name means only minister or servant, and is employed in this sense both in the Septuagint (though only in the book of Esther, and in the New Testament.
  • - Carthusian monk. (1415-1484)
  • - A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth century, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope; died at sea, 29 May, 1500.
  • - A state in which the mind is suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.
  • - Tenth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Montreal, 20 July, 1743; d. at Longueuil in 1806.
  • - An Egyptian titular see for the Latins and the Catholic Melchite Greeks, in Augustamnica Prima.
  • - Bishop and Confessor, patron of Wales.
  • - Founded in the city of New York, USA, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Stanislaus Preston.
  • - The name of a class of French parish priests.
  • - Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 Nov., 1670; d. 5 May, 1752.
  • - Missionary, b. at Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Belgium, 28 Oct., 1792; d. at Ghent, 20 Aug., 1869.
  • - Born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye about 1640; died at Montreal, 26 Feb., 1710. He first served in the French army, becoming a lieutenant in 1657 and a gendarme of the King's Guard in 1664.
  • - Sculptor. (1817-1882)
  • - Joined the Benedictine Order and became a zealous promoter of ecclesiastical reforms in the latter half of the eleventh century.
  • - Bishop of the West Saxons, and ruler of the See of Winchester from 705 to 744; died in 745.
  • - The first German Catholic missionary society established. It was founded in 1875 during the period of the Kulturkampf at Steyl, near Tegelen, Holland, by a priest, Rev. Arnold Janssen (d. 15 January, 1909), for the propagation of the Catholic religion amo
  • - The Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, in West Africa, is territorially identical with the French colony of the same name.
  • - Missionary, b. at Lupedo, Diocese of Toledo, Spain, in 1546; d. in Mexico, 12 Jan., 1618.
  • - Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France; died 13 Oct., 1676.
  • - Also called the Feast of the Machabees and Feast of Lights.
  • - In Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; a Cistercian house founded in 1142 by King David I and Fergus Lord of Galloway for monks brought from Rievaulx in Yorkshire.
  • - A heretical sect dating back to Apostolic times.
  • - Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland, 10 January, 1814; died there, 21 January, 1902.
  • - Signifies, in the writings of the ancient classical authors, sometimes, an opinion or that which seems true to a person; sometimes, the philosophical doctrines or tenets, and especially the distinctive philosophical doctrines, of a particular school of ph
  • - Includes nearly all the County Derry, part of Donegal, and a large portion of Tyrone, Ireland; it is a suffragan of Armagh.
  • - Directorium simply means guide, but in the later Middle Ages it came to be specially applied to guides for the recitation of Office and Mass.
  • - Abbot of Iona, confessor, d. 717. Also known as St. Dunichad, Duncad, or Donatus.
  • - The voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one's soul and of having the means required for that end.
  • - The earliest document giving an account of liturgical services in the Diocese of Durham is the so-called "Rituale ecclesiæ Dunelmensis".
  • - Theologian, b. 1651, in Buckinghamshire, England; d. 28 Feb., 1721, at St. Omer's, France.
  • - A Carthusian monk and ascetical writer, born in Poland, 1382; died at the monastery of St. Alban near Trier, 1461.
  • - A Greek silver coin.
  • - A member of a chapter, cathedral or collegiate, possessed not only of a foremost place, but also of a certain jurisdiction.
  • - Benedictine. (1682-1771)
  • - Belgian statesman and publicist, brother of Cardinal Dechamps, born at Melle near Ghent, 17 June, 1807, died at Manage, 19 July, 1875.
  • - The name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through which the Jews were dispersed, and secondarily to the Jews living in those countries.
  • - French geologist, b. at Metz, 25 June, 1814; d. at Paris, 29 May, 1896.
  • - A general name for a group of philosophical views concerning the nature of matter.
  • - Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, born at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, in 1806; died at Armagh, 29 April, 1866.
  • - Information on several places by this name.
  • - A medieval Irish chronicler, date of birth unknown; d. 1139.
  • - Irish immigrant to New York. (1774-1848)
  • - Irish teacher and poet, Bishop of Fiesole, about 829-876.
  • - In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its d
  • - Reigned 260-268.
  • - Jesuit theologian. (1584-1653)
  • - The territory or churches subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop.
  • - The name given to the record of the great survey of England made by order of William the Conqueror in 1085-86.
  • - Jesuit missionary, born at Dieppe, France, in February, 1618; died at Quebec, 3 May, 1697.
  • - Founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.
  • - An altar having a double front constructed in such a manner that Mass may be celebrated on both sides of it at the same time.
  • - Bishop, b. at Obrege, of a noble Frankish family from Aquitaine; d. 15 Nov., 655.
  • - Offers history and functions.
  • - Painter, born in Florence, Italy, 25 May, 1616; died 17 January, 1686.
  • - Missionary, born in France, 11 October, 1693; date of death uncertain.
  • - A term applied to those religious congregations of men and women, the members of which go entirely unshod or wear sandals, with or without other covering for the feet.
  • - The gratuitous transfer, or gift, of ownership of property.
  • - A Philistine deity.
  • - Born near Enniscorthy, Ireland, 7 June, 1791; died at Utica, New York, 29 Dec., 1855, was the youngest brother of John C. Devereux.
  • - A part of the Kingdom of Croatia according to a convention entered into between Croatia and Hungary.
  • - The definition of the term duty given by lexicographers is: "something that is due", "obligatory service"; "something that one is bound to perform or to avoid".
  • - A Christian poet of the fifth century.
  • - A titular see of Phyrgia in Asia Minor.
  • - Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs. (1822-1894)
  • - Philosopher and theologian. (d. 1332)
  • - Titular see of Libya.
  • - A theologian, born at Venice in 1444; died 16 Jan., 1525.
  • - Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at Alatri, 19 Oct., 1586.
  • - A title applied to the pope, which was in most frequent use between the sixth and the eleventh centuries.
  • - Bishop of Alexandria. (188-231)
  • - Tunkers, a Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite.
  • - Located in Swabia, a district of Bavaria. Its founder was Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg (1543-1573).
  • - An ecclesiastical vindictive penalty by which a cleric is forever deprived of his office or benefice and of the right of exercising the functions of his orders.
  • - Spoken of in St. Matthew, xxiv, 15, and St. Mark, xiii, 14.
  • - It is mentioned in the Bible at the time of Abraham (Gen., xiv, 15; xv, 2); also on the pylons of Karnak, among the Syrian cities captured by the Pharaoh Touthmes III.
  • - Prophetess and judge, wife of Lapidoth and endowed by God with prophetic gifts which secured for her the veneration of the divided Israelitic tribes and gave her great authority over them.
  • - An argument or reasoning process, that kind of mediate inference by which from truths already known we advance to a knowledge of other truths necessarily implied in the former; the mental product or result of that process. Also a method, the deductive me
  • - A French theologian and Jesuit, b. at Bordeaux in 1558; d. at Paris, 25 September, 1624.
  • - Historian, b. at Geldern, 13 May, 1854; d. at Rome, 25 Dec., 1885.
  • - Bishop of Corinth about 170.
  • - Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, adviser and confessor to King Leo V (or VI) of Armenia.
  • - Savant, professor, and author. (1579-1625)
  • - Born in the Diocese of Paderborn, between 1338 and 1340; d. at Maastricht, 22 March, 1418, a medieval German historian, best known for his contributions to the history of the Western Schism.
  • - French anatomist and surgeon. (1777-1835)
  • - Suffragan to Goa, and situated in Portugese India and the British Government of Bombay.
  • - A diriment impediment introduced by the Church to safeguard the sanctity of the Sacrament of Marriage.
  • - Canonically termed disturbtiones quotidianae, are certain portions of the revenue of a church, distributed to the canons present at Divine service.
  • - Benedictine theologian, born 24 October, 1753, at Schwandorf, Bavaria; died 21 December, 1805.
  • - The outer liturgical vestment of the deacon.
  • - A member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in Provence, France, in 1284; died 26 November, 1358.
  • - The "Patriarch-priest of Kentucky", born 1 February, 1800; died in 1887.
  • - Archdiocese established, 28 July, 1837, created an archbishopric, 1893, comprises that part of Iowa, U.S.A., north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Scott, and east of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster, and Boone Counties.
  • - A French prelate, b. at St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, 1721; d. in London, 1806.
  • - In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898.
  • - Diocese in Bengal, India.
  • - Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., 1810; died 29 Sept., 1883, at Mechlin.
  • - History, aids, and alphabets are discussed.
  • - An eminent medieval Polish historian, b. at Brzeznica, 1415; d. 19 May, 1480, at Cracow.
  • - A canonical penalty by which an ecclesiastic is entirely and perpetually deprived of all office, benefice, dignity, and power conferred on him by ordination; and by a special ceremony is reduced to the state of a layman, losing the privileges of the cleri
  • - Author, b. in Scotland, 30 July, 1810; d. in Ottawa, Canada, 29 Dec., 1894.
  • - Diocese comprises the provincial district of Otago (including the Otago part, Southland, and Stewart Island, as well as other adjacent islands).
  • - See of the Bishop of the united Dioceses of Bosnia or Diakovár and Syrmia.
  • - A French cardinal and statesman, born at Brive, in Limousin, 1656; died at Versailles, 1723.
  • - Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy; the ancient Tegianum and seat of the Tegyani, a tribe of Lucania.
  • - Controversialist, b. at Orleans about 1500; d. at Paris, 19 May, 1559.
  • - Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, 1728.
  • - Ascetic writer, b. at Sierady in Poland, 1589; entered the Society of Jesus, 20 August 1609; d. at Posen, 2 April, 1662.
  • - Followers of Dositheus, a Samaritan who formed a Gnostic-Judaistic sect, previous to Simon Magus.
  • - Bishop of Chichester; b. in Shropshire, England, c. 1501; d. 2 August, 1556.
  • - Poet and dramatist, b. Feb., 1605-6, at Oxford, England; d. in London, 7 April, 1668.
  • - Diocese comprising the entire department of Côte-d'Or and is a suffragan of Lyons.
  • - A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676.
  • - Theologian, b. 1598, at Coventry, England, d. 31 May, 1680.
  • - The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine.
  • - Founder and first Abbot of Bangor Iscoed (Flintshire); flourished between 500 and 542.
  • - Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science, b. on the island of Arbe, off the coast of Dalmatia, in 1566; d. in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, Rome, September, 1624.
  • - Priest and philanthropist, b. at Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland, 15 August, 1816; d. in New York, 28 March, 1888.
  • - Date of birth uncertain; d. about A.D. 392. He was of noble family, probably of Antioch. St. Basil calls him a "nursling" of Silvanus, Bishop of Tarsus, but whether this discipleship was at Antioch or at Tarsus is not known.
  • - Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isère), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse.
  • - Governor of New France, born in 1638 at Denonville in the department of Eure-et-Loir, France; died 1710.
  • - Certain ecclesiastical writers have received this title on account of the great advantage the whole Church has derived from their doctrine.
  • - A title given to an officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, established in 1587, by Sixtus V, to deal juridically with processes of beatification and canonization.
  • - Martyr, date of birth unknown; executed for his faith at Exeter, England, 20 September, 1600.
  • - Diocese comprising the entire department of the Basses Alpes; suffragan of the Archbishopric of Aix.
  • - Antoine, chancellor of France and Cardinal, b. at Issoire in Auvergne, 17 January, 1463; d. 1535. Guillaume, son of the foregoing, b. at Issoire, 1507; d. at Beauregard, 1560. Appointed Bishop of Clermont in 1529.
  • - The doxology in the form in which we know it has been used since about the seventh century all over Western Christendom, except in one corner.
  • - An aboriginal race of North America, also called Athapaskans and known earlier among earlier ethnologists as Tinne or Tinneh.
  • - Missionary priest, born at Tremeloo, Belgium, 3 January 1840; died at Molokai, Hawaii, 15 April 1889.
  • - American anatomist. (1843-1911)
  • - The middle part of the German colony, German Southwest Africa.
  • - German poet and philosopher, b. at Nuremberg, 5 March, 1800; d. at Wurzburg, 14 December, 1875.
  • - French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, 1566.
  • - An architectural term often used synonymously with cupola.
  • - Archbishop of Cologne, born 21 Jan., 1773, at Münster, Germany; died 19 Oct., 1845, in the same city.
  • - Archdiocese located in north-western Mexico.
  • - A titular see in Osrhoene.
  • - Third Bishop of New York, educator and missionary, b. in Paris, 24 August, 1764; d. in New York, 20 December, 1842.
  • - Priest and professor, Born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October, 1823.
  • - Born 1256, in Borgo San Sepolero, Tuscany, Italy; d. there 31 August, 1315.
  • - Spanish navigator and explorer, b. about 1470.
  • - A term which, though sometimes used of persons who are consecrated to God's service, is more properly applied to the "setting aside" of places for a special and sacred purpose.
  • - An Italian painter, b. about 1479; d. at Ferrara in 1542.
  • - Defined in jurisprudence as "the dissolution or partial suspension by law of the marriage relation".
  • - Roman Emperor and persecutor of the Church, b. of parents who had been slaves, at Dioclea, near Salona, in Dalmatia, A.D. 245; d. at Salona, A.D. 313.
  • - In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the implications of the truth, God is All-Perfect, this infinite Perfection is viewed, successively, under various aspects, each of which is treated as a separate perfection
  • - Medieval German mystic, b. probably at Augsburg, Bavaria, early in the thirteenth century; d. at Augsburg, 19 November, 1272.
  • - French missionary in India, b. in 1765 at St. Remèze (Ardèche); d. in Paris, 17 Feb., 1848.
  • - A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the "Proprium de Tempore" to the "Proprium Sanctorum" w
  • - Fathers and theologians explain the matter as, the fallen angels besides tempting and assailing men in other ways have, by working on their fears or exciting their cupidity, brought them to give worship to themselves under the guise of idols.
  • - A most solemn fast, on which no food could be taken throughout the day, and servile works were forbidden.
  • - Irish bishop; b. near New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, 1786; d. at Carlow, 1834.
  • - A feast in commemoration of the missionary work of the Twelve Apostles.
  • - A French cardinal, b. at Bourg-Argental (Loire), 1795; d. at Bordeaux, 1882.
  • - Elder brother of St. Gall, b. in Leinster, Ireland, c. 530; d. at Lure, France, 18 January, 625.
  • - Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle's Creed.
  • - Publisher, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 March, 1784; d. in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 12 September, 1870.
  • - Missionary among the North American Indians, b. at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 30 Jan., 1801; d. at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., 23 May, 1873.
  • - Physicist, naval commander and diplomatist, b. at Gayhurst (Goathurst), Buckinghamshire, England, 11 July, 1603; d. in Covent Garden, Westminster, 11 June, 1665.
  • - Detailed article broken into time periods.
  • - The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.
  • - Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death unknown.
  • - One of the principal administrative officials of a diocese.
  • - Born 16 May, 1578, died 30 Jan., 1606. Succeeded in his fourteenth year to large properties in the Counties of Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland.
  • - A titular see of Palestina Prima.
  • - A titular see of Phænicia Secunda.
  • - Or Mission San Francisco De Asis De Los Dolores.
  • - French mathematician and economist. (1784-1873)
  • - That which is owed or due to another; in general, anything which one person is under an obligation to pay or render to another.
  • - A delegation is the commission to another of jurisdiction, which is to be exercised in the name of the person delegating. Jurisdiction is defined as the power of anyone who has public authority and pre-eminence over others for their rule and government.
  • - In Christian antiquity the dove appears as a symbol and as a Eucharistic vessel.
  • - The name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation of Catholicity which, in accordance with provisions of the "Bill of Rights" (1689) and of "the Act of Succession" (1700), every sovereign succeeding to the throne of Great Britain
  • - Latin for rich. The word is not used in the Bible as a proper noun; but in the Middle Ages it came to be employed as the name of the rich man in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Luke, XVI, 19-31.
  • - The titles of nobility, orders of Christian knighthood and other marks of honour and distinction which the papal court confers upon men of unblemished character who have in any way promoted the interests of society, the Church, and the Holy See.
  • - The term employed to designate the collection of precepts written on two tables of stone and given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.
  • - Cardinal, statesman, and writer. (1356-1420)
  • - Founder of the Salesian Society. (1815-1888)
  • - A name employed by writers, especially since J. Stuart Mill, to denote the philosophical theory which holds, in opposition to the doctrine of free will, that all man's volitions are invariably determined by pre-existing circumstances.
  • - Catholic theologian, b. 22 August, 1811, at Rangeningen (Hohenzollern-Hechingen); d. 8 September, 1876, at Veringendorf.
  • - Missionary, b. in France, 29 September, 1610; d. at Quebec, 8 April, 1681.
  • - The subject is treated here under two distinct heads: First, divorce in moral theology; second, divorce in civil jurisprudence.
  • - Reigned 615-618.
  • - Suffragan of Armagh, Ireland.
  • - Polemical writer, born at Villefranche (Rhône), France, 1797; died at Aix-en-Provence, 1872.
  • - An erudite and accomplished painter of the Flemish School, b. at Bois-le-Duc in the Netherlands, 1599; d. at Antwerp, 1675.
  • - Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576.
  • - An ancient form of devout salutation, incorporated in the liturgy of the Church, where it is employed as a prelude to certain formal prayers.
  • - Dean of St. Paul's, London, and chronicler.
  • - Offers information for two saints by this name.
  • - Poet, dramatist, critic, and translator; b. 9 August, 1631, at Oldwinkle All Saints, Northamptonshire, England; d. at London, 30 April, 1700.
  • - Painter, and founder of the Sienese School, b. about 1255 or 1260, place not known; d. 3 August, 1319.
  • - Painter, born at Paris, 17 July, 1797; died 4 November, 1856.
  • - The word katechesis means instruction by word of mouth, especially by questioning and answering. The Apostle insists upon "doctrine" as one of the most important duties of a bishop.
  • - Suppressed French diocese.
  • - Generally speaking, the governing council of an order.
  • - In the Bible the name David is borne only by the second king of Israel, the great-grandson of Boaz and Ruth.
  • - A titular see in Arabia.
  • - This term occurs in Deut., xvii, 18 and Jos., viii, 32, and is the title of one of the five books of the Pentateuch.
  • - An old liturgical formula of the Latin Church to give thanks to God for graces received.
  • - A member of the Passionist Congregation and theologian, b. near Viterbo, Italy, 22 June, 1792; d. near Reading, England, 27 August, 1849.
  • - Thirtieth Abbot of Parc near Louvain, Belgium, b. at Cumptich, near Tirlemont; d. 25 March, 1635.
  • - Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Fayl-Billot, near Langres, 1813; killed by Communists at Paris, 24 May, 1871.
  • - Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at Paris, 5 February, 1751.
  • - Irish-born abbot and bishop, d. 700.
  • - Surgeon and anatomist, b. at Magny-Vernois a small town of Franche-Comté, France, in 1744; d. 1 June, 1795.
  • - The science or doctrine concerning demons.
  • - Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet who flourished about 820.
  • - Martyr, prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, found guilty of high treason 28 April, 1539, and beheaded on Tower Hill, 9 July, together with the Blessed Sir Adrian Fortescue.
  • - This word, as used both in the ecclesiastical and civil criminal codes, generally signifies every contest with deadly weapons which takes place by agreement between two persons on account of some private quarrel.
  • - A titular see of Greece.
  • - The gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing.
  • - An irrevocable decision, by which the supreme teaching authority in the Church decides a question appertaining to faith or morals, and which binds the whole Church.
  • - A theological term signifying the honour paid to the saints, while latria means worship given to God alone, and hyperdulia the veneration offered to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • - Diocese created in 1890, comprising 108 counties in the northern and north-western portion of the State of Texas, U.S.A.
  • - The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the conference at Carthage in 411, after which its importance waned.
  • - Missionary in Mexico, b. at Munich, Bavaria. of French parents, 10 June 1721; d. there 30 March, 1779.
  • - A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century.
  • - Missionary, b. in Graz, Styria, 7 Sept., 1717; d. in Vienna, 17 July 1791.
  • - Contrapuntist, composer, and head of the Second Netherland School. (1450-1521)
  • - Distraction (Lat. distrahere, to draw away, hence to distract) is here considered in so far as it is wont to happen in time of prayer and in administering the sacraments.
  • - That branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government of a diocese.
  • - Prince-Abbot of Fulda and founder of the university in the same city, born 29 May, 1678; died 3 November, 1737.
  • - Samson, sometime after his exploit at Gaza (Judges, xvi, 1-3), "loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Delilah" (verse 4).
  • - Jurist, b. near Bath, England, 1826; d. 13 June, 1908, at Newbury.
  • - In the south-west of Fife, Scotland. Founded by King Malcolm Canmore and his queen, Margaret, about 1070, it was richly endowed by him and his sons, and remodelled as a Benedictine abbey by his successor, David I, who brought an abbot and twelve monks fro
  • - Covers the Order of the Friars Preachers, Dominican Sisters, and Brothers of Penitence of St. Dominic.
  • - Any fact connected with a dogma and on which the application of the dogma to a particular case depends.
  • - Diocese established 8 March, 1838. Suffragan of Cincinnati.
  • - Philosopher and religious writer, b. in Langenpreising, Bavaria, 24 March, 1815; d. at Pfäfers, Switzerland, 9 Sept., 1864.
  • - Fifth-century Bishop of Alexandria.
  • - Letters given by an ecclesiastical superior to his subjects to have effect in territory outside his jurisdiction.
  • - Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois.
  • - Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris; died there 25 January, 1726.
  • - The town of Douai, in the department of Nord, France, is on the River Scarpe, some twenty miles south of Lille.
  • - An important tribal confederacy of Algonquian stock originally holding the basin of the Delaware River, in Eastern Pennsylvania.
  • - A summery of diocese that were too new to have articles about them as of 1914.
  • - Also called Dionysius the Great, bishop, d. 264 or 265. Feast day: 17 November.
  • - Writer, Bishop of Santo Domingo. A native of the City of Mexico, b. 1562; d. 1604.
  • - Franciscan missionary. (1776-1846)
  • - A sister of St. Patrick.
  • - Small Mohammedan sect in Syria, notorious for their opposition to the Marionites, a Catholic people dwelling on the slopes of the Lebanon.
  • - The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden things by inadequate means.
  • - Includes the steps taken, such as calling a priest, winding up earthly affairs, and confession.
  • - Historical painter, born in Bockenem, Hanover, 15 April, 1809; died in Düsseldorf, 27 Jan., 1885.
  • - The canon law has no independent and original theory of domicile; both the canon law and all modern civil codes borrowed this theory from the Roman law; the canon law, however, extended and perfected the Roman theory by adding thereto that of quasi-domici
  • - Covered as natural reason and faith.
  • - The fifth son of Jacob, being the elder of the two sons born to him by Bala, the handmaid of Rachel, and the eponymous ancestor of the tribe bearing the same name.
  • - Name by which the sequence in requiem Masses is commonly known.
  • - French chemist and senator, b. at Alais, department of Gard, 14 July, 1800; d. at Cannes, 10 April, 1884.
  • - The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the Church on 12 May, in common, and all four are named in the Proper of the Mass as martyrs.
  • - A Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600.
  • - Patron of Columbus. (1444-1523)
  • - The eastern, and much larger political division of the island now comprehensively known as Haiti, which is the second in size of the Greater Antilles.
  • - An official whose duty is to defend the marriage-bond in the procedure prescribed for the hearing of matrimonial causes which involve the validity or nullity of a marriage already contracted.
  • - The right of an ecclesiastical superior to provide for a benefice, when the ordinary patron or collator has failed to do so, either through negligence or by the nomination of an improper candidate.
  • - A sort of notebook, formed by the union of two tablets, placed one upon the other and united by rings or by a hinge.
  • - German artist. (1471-1528)
  • - The origin of dancing is from the natural tendency to employ gesture either to supplement or to replace speech.
  • - Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isère), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse.
  • - Also called Morel, on account of his dark complexion; b. at Vertus in Champagne between 1338 and 1340; d. about 1410.
  • - Poet, b. at Cenada, Italy, 1749; d. in New York, 17 Aug., 1838.
  • - Paleographer and historian. (1844-1905)
  • - Details of two saints by this name.
  • - Because of its analogy with the dower that a woman brings to her husband when she marries, the name "religious dower" has been given to the sum of money or the property that a religious woman, or nun (religiosa) brings, for her maintenance, into
  • - Article concerned with the demonic possession in the New Testament.
  • - Missionary priest and zoologist, b. 1826; d. 1900.
  • - Bishop of Merseburg and medieval chronicler, b. 25 July, 975; d. 1 Dec., 1018.
  • - A line drawn from Whitehouse on Belfast Lough due west to the Clady River, thence by the river itself to Muckamore and Lough Neagh, marks the boundary between the Diocese of Down and the Diocese of Connor.
  • - Date of birth unknown; died 14 Jan., 1811. He was a native of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, where he entered the Franciscan Order.
  • - Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, 1496 or 1500; died on the banks of the Mississippi the latter part of June, 1542.
  • - A titular see of Palaestina Prima.
  • - Greek dialektike (techne or methodos), the dialectic art or method, from dialegomai I converse, discuss, dispute; as noun also dialectics; as adjective, dialectical.
  • - An act whereby in a particular case a lawful superior grants relaxation from an existing law.
  • - Second Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, Archbishop of Besançon. (1766-1833)
  • - Name given in the Bible and by ancient writers to a region in Palestine lying to the east and south of the Sea of Galilee.
  • - A provision for support during life accorded by law to a wife surviving her hustand.
  • - Various meanings discussed.
  • - Sometimes called the last of the Schoolmen, devoted to prayer, avid reader whose favorite author was Pseudo-Dionysius. Author of commentaries, sermons, and theological and philosophical treatises. He died in 1471.
  • - Bibliographer and poet, b. at Schärding, Bavaria, 27 September, 1729; d. at Vienna, 29 Sept., 1800.
  • - French abbé and litterateur, born at Aigueperse, 22 June, 1738; died at Paris, 1 May, 1813.
  • - Diocese erected 8 May, 1881, in the four southern tiers of counties in Iowa.
  • - Lists the principal surnames with the dates of death.
  • - Abbe, missionary and author, b. at Lyons, France, 4 November, 1826; d. in France, June, 1886.
  • - Denoted among the Romans the slave whose duty it was to guard the entrance of the house.
  • - In Scripture and in Catholic theology this word has come to mean much the same as devil and denotes one of the evil spirits or fallen angels.
  • - French missionary. (b. 1668)
  • - Historian and professor, b. in Paris, 25 October, 1820; d. at Lucenay-lès-Aix, 6 August, 1882.
  • - Theologian, catechist, b. at Straburg, Alsace, 11 April, 1800; d. at Maria-Laach, 8 November, 1871.
  • - The hero and traditional author of the book which bears his name.
  • - Born in Yorkshire, England, date uncertain, martyred 28 August, 1588.
  • - Founded at Vienna, 21 November, 1868, by Franziska Lechner (d. 1894) on the Rule of St. Augustine, and approved by the Holy See in 1884 and definitively confirmed 22 July, 1891.
  • - Near Bath, Somersetshire, England, was founded at Douai, Flanders, under the patronage of St. Gregory the Great, in 1605 by the Venerable John Roberts.
  • - The wife of André Dacier, born at Saumur in 1651; died 17 April 1720.
  • - Soldier, b. at Reims, France, 8 September, 1738; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 11 September, 1777.
  • - The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons. With the article (ho) it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, "the Devil and his angels".
  • - A treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts, xv), but is really a composition of the third century.
  • - Lawyer and statesman, born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1831; died there 28 October, 1888.
  • - Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1797; died in London, 2 January, 1868; English portrait-painter and caricaturist.
  • - That part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and His works.
  • - The partial revocation of a law, as opposed to abrogation or the total abolition of a law.
  • - Diocese, established 3 Oct., 1889, suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. Paul.
  • - The loss of that peculiar quality of sacredness, which inheres in places and things in virtue of the constitutive blessing of the Church.
  • - A French scientist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Vire, Normandy, 11 June, 1624; d. at Paris, 6 August, 1706.
  • - Convert to Catholicism, publisher and bookseller, martyred in 1601.
  • - Theologian, b. at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, date uncertain; d. at Tournai, 1572 or 1577.
  • - Politician and author, b. at Monaghan, Ireland, 12 April, 1816; d. at Nice, France, 9 Feb., 1903.
  • - French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089.
  • - A titular see of Lycaonia, Asia Minor.
  • - A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple Drostan, and others, went from Hy (Iona) into Buchan and established an important missionary centre at Deer on the banks of the Ugie on lands given him by the morm
  • - Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896.
  • - Irish Dairmagh, Plain of the Oaks. Situated in the King's County, a few miles from the town of Tullamore.
  • - Writer, b. in Ireland, 1800; d. at Kensington, Middlesex, England, 22 March, 1880.
  • - Denotes the religious or theological system which would explain the universe as the outcome of two eternally opposed and coexisting principles.
  • - A theologian and diplomat, born 25 Nov., 1556, at St-Lô (Normandy), France; died 5 Sept., 1618.
  • - English artist and caricaturist, b. in London, September, 1824; d. there 11 December, 1883.
  • - Canonist and writer. (1237-1296)
  • - Convert from Judaism, b. at Strasburg, 6 March, 1791; d. end of January, 1868, at Rome.
  • - The title of an authorized teacher.
  • - Discalced Carmelite, born at Fahr in Franconia, 3 February, 1757; died at Breslau, 15 or 16 June, 1807.
  • - Layman, one of the principal opponents of Arianism. Born about 310-313; died about 395-398.
  • - Bishop of Meath, born in Ireland, 1568; died at Galway, 1651.
  • - Bishop of Paris, and martyr.
  • - A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor.
  • - A term used by the Synod of Elvira (c. 306) to stigmatize those Christians who appeared as accusers of their brethren.
  • - Founder in America of the first houses of the society of the Sacred Heart, born at Grenoble, France, 29 August, 1769; died at St. Charles, Missouri, 18 October, 1852.
  • - Italian painter. (1581-1641)
  • - The judge of the Areopagus who was converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul, and according to Dionysius of Corinth was Bishop of Athens.
  • - Devotion, in the language of ascetical writers, denotes a certain ardour of affection in the things of God, and even without any qualifying prefix it generally implies that this ardour is of a sensible character.
  • - This article is confined to the non-Christian notion of the Deity.
  • - Italian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Naples, 7 June, 1834; d. at Rome, 14 December, 1894.
  • - Ascetic writer, b. at Augsburg, 15 August, 1581; entered the Society of Jesus 27 July, 1598; d. at Munich, 19 April, 1638.
  • - The first Canadian to join the Recollects of the Friars Minor. (1657-1736)
  • - Originally a species of spectacular play akin to the English moralities. It has been traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century.
  • - Died 1328, canonist, nephew of the famous ritualist and canonist of the same name.
  • - This was the first foundation of St. Columba, the great Apostle of Scotland, and one of the three patron saints of Ireland.
  • - Austrian sculptor, b. at Essling, Austria, 25 May, 1692; d. at Vienna, 15 February, 1741.
  • - Scottish poet, sometimes styled the "Chaucer of Scotland", born c. 1460.
  • - A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722.
  • - Archdiocese in Albania.
  • - An old German word for the present "Demuth", the English "humility", was the name of a pious recluse at the monastery of Wessobrunn in Upper Bavaria, b. about 1060 of a noble Bavarian or Swabian family; d. 30 March, probably in 1130.
  • - Leading portrait engravers of France for over a hundred years, beginning with Pierre, and sustained by his son, Pierre-Imbert, and by his nephew, Claude.
  • - Marquess of Valdegamas, author and diplomat, born 6 May, 1809, at Valle de la Serena in the province of Estremadura, Spain; died 3 May, 1853, at Paris.
  • - The name of two Syrian kings mentioned in the Old Testament and two other persons in the New Testament.
  • - Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870.
  • - Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham. Owing to its geographical position on the Scottish border, the successive bishops were led to assume constitutional and political functions in addition to their spiritual office.
  • - Nineteenth-century Belgian monks.
  • - A titular see in Thracia Prima.
  • - Recollect friar, born in the Province of Anjou, France, 12 March, 1586; died at Orléans, 9 June, 1652.
  • - Second Earl of Bristol, b. at Madrid, Spam, where his father, the first earl, was ambassador, l612; d. at Chelsea, England, 1677.
  • - Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874.
  • - Premonstratensian, b. at Senftenberg, Bohemia, 26 March, 1698; d. at Prenditz, Moravia, 21 December, 1765.
  • - Probably the best-substantiated derivation of the word is from the root vid, "to know", and the intensive prefix dru. According to this etymology, the druids would be the "very wise and learned ones".
  • - Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in 1487; d. at London, 15 August, 1558.
  • - A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor.
  • - Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. about 1412; d. 7 May, 1482, at Aschaffenburg.
  • - A titular see of Isauria in Asia Minor.
  • - In religion Mother Francis Raphael; b. At Bromley near London, in 1823; d. at Stone, Staffordshire, 19 April, 1894.
  • - A formulæ added to the titles of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
  • - Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, born 11 Nov., 1774, in the village of Wat near the city of Rawa, Poland; died 26 Dec., 1842.
  • - Genoese admiral and statesman, b. at Oneglia, Italy, 1468; d. at Genoa, 1560.
  • - Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical "Graves de communi" declared it to be the same as "popular Catholic action".
  • - Also called Didron aîné; archaeologist; together with Viollet-le-Duc and Caumont, one of the principal revivers of Christian art in France; b. 13 March, 1806, d. 13 November, 1867.
  • - Scottish prelate and poet, born about 1474; died 1522.
  • - Historian and philologist, b. at Amiens, France, 18 Dec., 1610; d. at Paris, 1688.
  • - Church historian, born 1 March, 1795, at Passau, Bavaria; died 1 April, 1859, at Schäftlarn.
  • - The word wilderness, which is more frequently used than desert of the region of the Exodus, more nearly approaches the meaning of the Hebrew.
  • - Missionary among the lepers, b. at Tilburg in Holland, 27 Oct., 1807; d. 14 Jan., 1887.
  • - Second Earl of Limerick, b. 1634, at Castletown Kildrought, now Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland; d. at London, 1715.
  • - A French-Canadian journalist and patriot, born at Verchères, Quebec, 22 January, 1799; died 28 November, 1852.
  • - In classical Latin even before the time of Christ it was usual for correspondents to indicate when and where their letters were written.
  • - In the wide sense the term decretalis signifies a pontifical letter containing a decretum, or pontifical decision. In a narrower sense it denotes a decision on a matter of discipline. In the strictest sense of the word, it means a rescript, an answer of t
  • - Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of Protestant parents, 26 August, 1848; d. 6 November, 1906.
  • - Banker, b. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 20 June, 1824; d. there 15 Feb., 1885.
  • - Fourth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Liège, Flanders, 1691; d. at Paris, 1777.