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  • - English martyr (suffered 1587), born and educated in Cornwall, and converted by reading one of Father Persons' books in 1582.
  • - Daughter of Hereric and Beorhtswith and sister of St. Hilda of Whitby.
  • - Priest, philosopher, theologian and preacher. Born in London 26 Sept., 1821, of Anglican parents, his father being a merchant of good means in the City; d. 29 Aug., 1893.
  • - The name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity.
  • - German novelist, poet, and dramatist; b. at Breslau, 24 January, 1798; d. in that city, 12 February, 1880.
  • - An English martyr, b. 1600 at Sutton, Lancashire; martyred at Tyburn, 12 December, 1642.
  • - A decree of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences dated 18 December, 1885, and confirmed the following day by Leo XIII.
  • - Seer and prophet, Sibyl of the Rhine, d. 1179. Never formally canonized, but she is listed in the Roman Martyrology.
  • - King of France, founder of the Capetian dynasty, b. about the middle of the tenth century; d. about 996, probably 24 October.
  • - Located in England.
  • - The son of an Arian Visigothic king. His mother and wife were Catholic, and he converted to Catholicism, and resisted Arianism. He was beheaded in 585.
  • - Missionary, author, founder of the Paulists; b. in New York, 18 December, 1819; d. there, 22 Dec., 1888.
  • - An Austrian Jesuit missionary in China; born at Graz, Styria, 25 June, 1625; d. 18 July, 1684.
  • - An exempt see, comprising the Prussian province of Hanover east of the Weser, besides the Duchy of Brunswick.
  • - The Emperor Francis I of Austria, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and the Tsar Alexander I of Russia, signed a treaty on 26 September, 1815, by which they united in a "Holy Alliance."
  • - A Tyrolese priest and patriot; b. at Gries, Tyrol, 28 October, 1776; d. in the imperial palace of Mirabell, Salzburg, 12 January, 1858.
  • - In Christian antiquity there existed an important category of vessels used as receptacles for holy oil.
  • - German missionary; b. at Munich, of a noble Bavarian family, 28 May, 1692; d. in Chile, 7 April, 1767.
  • - Chronicler, mathematician, and poet. (1013-1054)
  • - One of the suffragan sees of the Archdiocese of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
  • - English priest. (1558-1583)
  • - Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 653.
  • - Landgrave of Thuringia (1190-1217), famous as a patron of medieval German poets.
  • - Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, it has been numbered among the most famous shrines of Italy.
  • - A religious order of women founded in Paris, France, 1856, with the object of assisting the Holy Souls, by [Blessed] Eugénie Smet (in religion, Marie de la Providence).
  • - Alleged author of an imperial and papal chronicle of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
  • - Medieval philosopher, theologian, and mystical writer; b. 1096, at the manor of Hartingham in Saxony; d. 11 March, 1141.
  • - A theologian, born in the Barony of Islands, Co. Clare, Ireland, in 1586; died in Rome, 26 June, 1641.
  • - Derived from a Greek word connected with the name of the god Hermes, the reputed messenger and interpreter of the gods.
  • - Roman Emperor, d. 25 August, 423.
  • - Archbishop of Canterbury (1193-1205); died 13 July, 1205.
  • - The general opinion is that of St. Jerome, that the word originated from two Hebrew words of Psalm cxvii (cxviii), 25. This psalm, was recited by one of the priests every day during the procession round the altar, during the Feast of Tabernacles, when the
  • - A derivative of the Latin hymnus, which comes from the Greek hymnos, derived from hydein, to sing.
  • - A Belgian Orientalist, domestic prelate, canon of the cathedral of Liège, member of the Academic Royale of Belgium; b. at Liège, 21 August, 1832; d. at Louvain, 14 July, 1899.
  • - Theologian and mathematician; b. about 1325 at the villa of Hainbuch (Hembuche), near Langenstein in Hesse; d. at Vienna, 11 Feb., 1397.
  • - First or second century, author of the book called "The Shepherd" (Poimen, Pastor), a work which had great authority in ancient times and was ranked with Holy Scripture.
  • - Franciscan Fathers, who with lay brothers keep watch over the Holy Sepulchre and the sanctuaries of the basilica.
  • - Jesuit theologian, b. at Oporto, 1536; d. at Tivoli, 28 January, 1608.
  • - A Middle High German epic poet and minnesinger; died between 1210 and 1220.
  • - From early times, hunting, in one form or another has been forbidden to clerics.
  • - A provost at Solothurn, in Switzerland, born at Zurich, in 1388 or 1389; died about 1460.
  • - A Benedictine monk; born in 840; died in 930 or 932.
  • - The foremost Western champion of orthodoxy in the early anti-Arian struggle; born about 256; died about 358.
  • - The name of a legendary sacred vessel, variously identified with the chalice of the Eucharist or the dish of the Pascal lamb, and the theme of a famous medieval cycle of romance.
  • - The triangular candlestick used in the Tenebrae service.
  • - An Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, 385.
  • - Biography of this German Dominican mystic, d. 1366.
  • - Earl of Arundel, martyred in 1595.
  • - Consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition the staircase leading once to the prætorium of Pilate at Jerusalem, hence sanctified by the footsteps of Our Lord during his Passion.
  • - By Communion is meant the actual reception of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • - Viscount Stafford, martyr; born 30 November, 1614; beheaded Tower-Hill, 29 December, 1680.
  • - Martyr and King of Norway. (995-1030)
  • - Archaeological and historical aspects.
  • - The name given to Origen's edition of the Old Testament in Hebrew and Greek.
  • - Prioress of the Premonstratensian convent of Mehre, d. around 1200. Also known as Hedwig or Hadewig.
  • - The doctrine according to which all matter possesses life.
  • - Titular see of Tunis.
  • - Theologian and controversialist, b. in Lancashire, England, 9 April, 1662; d. in London, 23 April, 1735.
  • - English martyr. (1556-1583)
  • - Osee (Hôsheá'-Salvation), son of Beeri, was one of the Minor Prophets.
  • - This organization grew up gradually among the Catholics of Ireland owing to the dreadful hardships and persecutions to which they were subjected.
  • - This see takes its name from the city of Halifax which has been the seat of government in Nova Scotia since its foundation by Lord Cornwallis in 1749.
  • - English martyr; b. probably at Faringdon, Berkshire, date unknown; d. at Reading, 15 November, 1539.
  • - A Middle High German poet, author of a narrative poem "Reinhart Fuchs".
  • - German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1081-1125)
  • - A prelate, writer, orator; born at Paris, 10 Oct., 1841; died there, 6 Nov., 1896.
  • - Confessor, thirty-first Bishop of Maastricht, first Bishop of Liège, and Apostle of the Ardennes, born about 656.
  • - Two documents of the twelfth century, preserved in the British Museum, and printed by the Bollandists, give its history, with the earliest record of the miraculous cures effected by its waters.
  • - An English priest; born 1596; died March, 1662.
  • - Philosopher and theologian. (1775-1831)
  • - A German painter; b. at Augsburg about 1460; d. at Isenheim, Alsace, in 1524.
  • - Benedictine writer, provost of the Monastery of Afflighem, Belgium; born at Utrecht, 1588; died 31 July, 1648.
  • - A religious order which in the thirteenth century combined several monastic societies into one, under this name.
  • - A Franciscan theologian, b. at Verviers, 1589; d. at Liège 12 November, 1676, for many years professor of theology.
  • - All the fixed portion of the Divine Office which the Church appoints to be recited at the different hours.
  • - A titular see of Palestina Tertia, suffragan of Petra.
  • - Better known, on account of his long sojourn in France, as Abbé Hogan. (1829-1901)
  • - A titular Bishop of Sardica, famous for his many supposedly miraculous cures. (1794-1849)
  • - Order primarily means a relation. It is used to designate that on which the relation is founded and thus generally means rank. In this sense it was applied to clergy and laity.
  • - Grammarian and lexicographer; of uncertain date, but assigned by most authorities to the later fourth or earlier fifth century.
  • - A Cistercian of the Spanish Congregation; b. at Madrid, 1594; d. 23 December, 1632, at Louvain.
  • - An ancient imperial abbey of the Benedictine Order.
  • - A titular see of Syria Secunda, suffragan of Apamea.
  • - A titular Bishop of Phiomelia, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, England; born 19 February, 1706; died at Longbirch, Staffordshire, 26 December, 1778.
  • - Titular see of Northern Africa.
  • - Dominican and cardinal, commonly called the "Cardinal of Norfolk"; born at Arundel House, London, 21 September, 1629; died at Rome, 17 June, 1694.
  • - Reigned 625-638.
  • - The feast of Maundy (or Holy) Thursday solemnly commemorates the institution of the Eucharist and is the oldest of the observances peculiar to Holy Week.
  • - A painter, architect, sculptor and etcher; born in Madrid, 1611 or 1619; died there, 1671.
  • - Date of birth unknown, elected to the Holy See, 514; d. at Rome, 6 August, 523.
  • - A titular see in the province of Osrhoene, suffragan of Edessa.
  • - The scientific investigation and the methodical description of the temporal development of the Church.
  • - Jesuit; b. At Artane, Dublin, in 1559; d. 4 September, 1626.
  • - Founder of the sect of Adrianists; born at Dordrecht, 1524; died at Bruges, 1581.
  • - The name given to that branch of learning which has the saints and their worship for its object.
  • - King of England. (1491-1547)
  • - Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of God and Jesus.
  • - Diocese in Pennsylvania.
  • - Jasper Heywood, poet and translator; born 1535 in London; died 1598 at Naples. John Heywood, father of Jasper, dramatist and epigrammatist; born probably c. 1497; died about 1580.
  • - A theologian and liturgical writer, born about 1525, at Cologne; died there in 1584.
  • - "The mother of the orphans", as she was familiarly styled, b. in Cavan, Ireland, about 1814; d. at New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 February, 1882.
  • - Duchess of Silesia. (1174-1243)
  • - Archbishop of St. Andrews; b. 1511; d. at Stirling, 1571; a natural son of James, first Earl of Arran.
  • - Friar Minor, lector in theology and exegete; b. at Rethy, in Campine (Belgium); d. at Antwerp, in 1793.
  • - The Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Rome was the cradle of an order, which, beginning in the thirteenth century, spread throughout all the countries of Christendom, and whose incalculable services have been recognized by every historian of medicine.
  • - A medieval theologian and historian; born about 925; died 31 October, 1007.
  • - A titular see of Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.
  • - English martyr, executed at Durham, 27 May, 1590.
  • - Parliamentary barrister, Q.C.; b. 15 July, 1812, at Great Marlow, Berkshire, England; d. in London, 29 April, 1873.
  • - Poet and priest; born at Mercken, West Flanders, in 1596; died at Tongres in 1653.
  • - Twenty-second Bishop of Cebú, Philippine Islands, b. at Penn Yan, New York, U.S.A., 29 Oct., 1849; d. at Cebú, 29 Nov., 1909.
  • - Provincial of the German province of Dominicans; b. at or near Minden on an unknown date; d. shortly after 1294.
  • - A suppressed nunnery, situated on the Odilienberg, the most famous of the Vosges mountains in Alsace.
  • - St. Augustine first applied the pagan title of hero to the Christian martyrs.
  • - St. Thomas defines heresy: "a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas".
  • - Preacher; b. at Coblenz, 14 August, 1810; d. at Paris, 5 July, 1876.
  • - French novelist. (1848-1907)
  • - A celebrated Benedictine monastery in Würtemberg, Diocese of Spires.
  • - Titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - An American portrait and historical painter, b. at Boston, 15 July, 1808; d. at Chicago, 14 June 1894.
  • - The name given to the group of ethical systems that hold, with various modifications, that feelings of pleasure or happiness are the highest and final aim of conduct; that, consequently those actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constitu
  • - English authoress and philanthropist. (1822-1911)
  • - A fifteenth century Franciscan of the Strict Observance and a distinguished writer on mysticism.
  • - Historian; born 14 October, 1834, at Fügen, Zillerthal (Tyrol); died 23 November, 1898, at Vienna.
  • - Abbess, born 614; died 680.
  • - Born at Rottweil, in Würtemberg, 13 January, 1787; died 31 July, 1836.
  • - Benedictine monk and ecclesiastical writer; d. not before 1118.
  • - Belgian geologist, b. at Liège, Belgium, 16 February, 1783; d. at Brussels, 15 January, 1875.
  • - Edmund Hay, jesuit, and envoy to Mary Queen of Scots, b. 1540?; d. at Rome, 4 Nov., 1591. John Hay, kinsman and contemporary of Edmund, of the family of Hay of Dalgetti; b., 1546; d. at Pont-à-Mousson, 1608; a well-known scholar, professor, and writer.
  • - Countess, convert and authoress, born 22 June, 1805; died 12 January, 1880.
  • - Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as "a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to fol
  • - Bishop and writer, b. at Edinburgh, 24 Aug., 1729; d. at Aquhorties, 18 Oct., 1811.
  • - English Jesuit priest and educator; b. at Bath, 13 Sept., 1829; d. at Stonyhurst, 20 June, 1896.
  • - A flexible, conical, brimless head-dress, covering the entire head, except the face.
  • - Jesuit, and historian; b. at Quimper, Brittany, 23 Dec., 1646, son of a bookseller of that town; d. at Paris, 3 Sept., 1729.
  • - Augustinian and later a Carthusian, d. 1200, canonized 1220.
  • - Hegel's philosophy is an attempt to reduce to a more synthetic unity the system of transcendantal idealism bequeathed to him by Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.
  • - Special form of devotion to Jesus. Discussion of what it is and what distinguishes it, its object, its foundations, and its proper act.
  • - Details of various groups by this name.
  • - An important family of parliamentarians and bishops, who deserve a place in religious history.
  • - An association for giving special honour to the mental sufferings of Christ during His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemani.
  • - A Spanish lyric poet; born 1537; died 1597.
  • - Benedictine bishop. (d. 853)
  • - A children's association for the benefit of foreign missions.
  • - King of Juda, son and successor of Achaz.
  • - Usually called "Frauenlob" (Woman's praise), a Middle High German lyric poet; b. at Meissen about 1250; d. at Mainz, 1318.
  • - A penitential order dating back, according to some authorities, to the beginning of the eleventh, but more probably to the beginning of the twelfth century, to the reign of Emperor Henry V, who, after quelling a rebellion in Lombardy, led the principal no
  • - Martyr, Bishop of Salano (Spalato) in Dalmatia.
  • - French theologian and controversialist; b. at Olivet, near Orléans, in 1499; d. at Reims, 12 September, 1584.
  • - In the Holy Bible the term heaven denotes, in the first place, the blue firmament, or the region of the clouds that pass along the sky. Gen., i, 20, speaks of the birds "under the firmament of heaven". In other passages it denotes the region of
  • - Born at Husinetz in Southern Bohemia, 1369; died at Constance 6 July, 1415.
  • - Catholic priest and the inventor of the horizontal pendulum, b. at Reichenhofen, Würtemberg, 3 Feb., 1806; d. at Tigerfeld, 1858.
  • - A Déné tribe which shares with the Loucheux the distinction of being the northernmost in America, their habitat being immediately south of that of the Eskimos.
  • - Mathematician, born at Dieuze, Lorraine, 24 December, 1822; d. at Paris, 14 January, 1901;
  • - A titular see of Thracia Prima.
  • - Discussion of the Jewish rabbi and philosopher from a traditional Catholic perspective.
  • - Archbishop of Mainz; b. of a noble Swabian family, c. 850; d. 15 May, 913.
  • - Protomartyr of the persecution under Henry VIII, b. in Essex, 1487; d. at Tyburn, 4 May, 1535.
  • - French philosopher and essayist. (1828-1885)
  • - German philosopher and educationist. (1776-1841)
  • - Humanist; b. probably in 1433, at Heeck (Westphalia); d. 7 December, 1498.
  • - Monk of the Order of St. Benedict; b. at Farington Hall, Lancashire, 15 April, 1608; exact date of death unknown; buried at London, 13 September, 1698.
  • - Vessels intended for the use of holy water.
  • - Martyr; b. at Wyn, in Derbyshire, England, of a yeoman family about 1557; d. 5 October, 1588.
  • - As compared with the Latin Vulgate, the Hebrew Bible includes the entire Old Testament with the exception of the seven deuterocanonical books, Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, I and II Machabees, and the deuterocanonical portions of Esther
  • - These sisters are established in religion under the Rule of St. Augustine (q. v.), the institute being dependent on the pope represented by the bishop.
  • - Born at Lisbon, 28 March, 1810; died near Santarem, 13 Sept., 1877.
  • - Friar and chronicler; date of birth unknown; died at Minden, 9 Oct., 1370.
  • - Founded by Alfonso VIII at the instance of his consort, Doña Leonor of England, about the year 1180.
  • - Martyr; b. in Northamptonshire; executed 31 July, 1581.
  • - Oil is a product of great utility the symbolic signification of which harmonizes with its natural uses. It serves to sweeten, to strengthen, to render supple; and the Church employs it for these purposes in its rites.
  • - Jurisdiction of the See of Havana comprises the two provinces of Havana and Matanzas.
  • - A Discalced Carmelite; born at Limoges, 4 July, 1651 ; died at Lille, 1729.
  • - Chronicler and bishop. (d. 468)
  • - A poet-author of the Austrian national anthem; b. at Vienna, 1 Sept. 1749, d. there 3 Aug., 1827, was in his youth a member of the Society of Jesus.
  • - Medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer.
  • - Hell (infernus) in theological usage is a place of punishment after death.
  • - The name adopted by Varius Avitus Bassianus, Roman emperor (218-222), born of a Syrian family and a grandnephew of Julia Domna, the consort of Emperor Septimus Severus.
  • - Swiss painter. (1564-1609)
  • - A Bavarian secular priest, of the fourteenth century, date of death unknown; the spiritual adviser of Margaretha Ebner (died 1351), the mystic of Medingen.
  • - Priest and martyr; b. in the Diocese of Lichfield, England, date unknown; d. at York, 22 March, 1602.
  • - The science that treats of the composition and delivery of a sermon or other religious discourse.
  • - Son of Noe and progenitor of one of the three great races of men whose ethnographical table is given by Genesis 10.
  • - In the earliest Christian times, water was used for expiatory and purificatory purposes, to a way analogous to its employment under the Jewish Law.
  • - Born at Rome about 1210; died at Rome, 3 April, 1287.
  • - Background information relating to the Jubilee.
  • - A Cistercian, historical investigator and writer. (1690-1754)
  • - John Henton, Biblical exegete, born 1499 at Nalinnes Belgium; died 10 Oct., 1566.
  • - The primary meaning of this term in all the leading European languages seems to involve the notion of good fortune, good chance, good happening.
  • - Erected from the Vicariate of Montana, 7 March, 1884.
  • - Benedictine chronicler. (d. 1364)
  • - Mexican patriot. (1753-1811)
  • - Several members of this family detailed.
  • - Biography of the twelfth-century Swedish widow and martyr, killed in perhaps the year 1160.
  • - Jesuit missionary in the East Indies: b at Ostercappeln, near Osnabruck, in Hanover, 1681; d. in Malabar, 20 March, 1732.
  • - The doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning the Holy Ghost forms an integral part of her teaching on the mystery of the Holy Trinity.
  • - German Jesuit; b. at Cologne, 27 February, 1714; died at Münster after 1778.
  • - King of France and Navarre. (1553-1610)
  • - Botanist and schoolmaster. (1773-1844)
  • - The art of distinguishing the true from the false concerning facts of the past.
  • - Historian, b. at Volkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria, 25 April, 1683; d. at Vienna, 5 September, 1766.
  • - A medieval historian; b. 1200 or 1201; d. 31 July, 1275.
  • - A Benedictine historian; born at Spörl near Belgrade, 25 June, 1718; died at the monastery of Rheinau, near Schaffhausen in Switzerland, 18 December, 1795.
  • - The paintings in the catacombs permit the belief that the early Christians simply followed the fashion of their time. The short hair of the men and the waved tresses of the women were, towards the end of the second century, curled, frizzed with irons, and
  • - Archbishop of Cologne; born at Worms, c. 970; died at Cologne, 16 March, 1021.
  • - Cardinal, Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács in Hungary; b. at Szécsény, 3 October, 1816; d. at Kalocsa, 3 July, 1891.
  • - A society of flagellants existing among the Spanish of New Mexico and Colorado.
  • - A Spanish historian; born at Cuellar, in the province of Segovia, in 1559; died at Madrid, 27 March, 1625.
  • - Poet; b. in Suffolk about 1474; d. about 1523.
  • - Signifies, in general, the killing of a human being. In practice, however, the word has come to mean the unjust taking away of human life, perpetrated by one distinct from the victim and acting in a private capacity.
  • - German philologist, b. at Hamburg, 1596; d. at Rome, 2 February, 1661.
  • - An auxiliary Bishop of Trier; born at Trier, 27 January, 1701; died at Montquentin, near Orval, 2 Sept., 1790.
  • - A titular see of Bithynia Prima, suffragan of Prusa.
  • - A theologian, born at Helmond, North Brabant, 1621; died 17 Aug., 1678.
  • - Originally, hospital meant a place where strangers or visitors were received; in the course of time, its use was restricted to institutions for the care of the sick.
  • - History from the pre-Reformation period to the modern period.
  • - The most important of all the military orders, both for the extent of its area and for its duration.
  • - Antoine Dadin d'Hauteserre, born 1602, died 1682; a distinguished French historian and canonist, dean of the faculty of law at the University of Toulouse. Flavius Hauteserre, younger brother of the above, died about 1670; professor of law at Poitiers.
  • - Born 4 March, 1394; died 13 November, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal, by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt.
  • - Carthusian writer, b. at Kalkar in the Duchy of Cleves in 1328; d. at Cologne, 20 December, 1408.
  • - Article on these children, and the commemoration of their martyrdom.
  • - Layman and martyr, born at Grantley, Yorkshire, England, date of birth unknown; died at Smithfield, 4 March, 1590.
  • - A Spanish painter, etcher, medallist, and architect; born in Seville, 1576; died in Madrid, 1656.
  • - Son of King Gorm the Old of Denmark. (911-986)
  • - American novelist. (1861-1905)
  • - Preacher and writer on ascetics; b. 23 January, 1631, at Tours; d. 21 March, 1729, at Paris.
  • - A bishop of Laon, died 879.
  • - An Austrian statesman, born 26 Nov., 1811; died 30 July, 1892.
  • - Both judge and high-priest, whose history is related in I Kings.
  • - Reverence for the name of Jesus is not optional for believers. Article highlights the Scriptural reasons, and describes some customary ways of showing reverence.
  • - Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Ermland; born of German parents at Cracow, 5 May, 1504; died at Capranica, near Rome, S August, 1579.
  • - The ruins of this monastery are situated on the right bank of the River Suir, about three miles south-west of the cathedral town of Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
  • - This term, when used in an eleemosynary sense, covers all institutions that afford the general comforts of domestic life to persons who are defective and dependent.
  • - Vicariate Apostolic of New Hebrides; in Oceania.
  • - Does not give the text of the litany itself, but mentions many of the titles of Jesus Christ.
  • - Catholic educator and priest; born at Windsor, Vermont, in 1799; died at Lorette, near Quebec, Canada, in 1852.
  • - One of David's wives (II Kings, iii,4).
  • - A term derived from the enthronement-ceremony of the bishops of Rome.
  • - A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance.
  • - With this name are connected two works on mysticism written in German.
  • - German theologian; b. at Friemar, a small town near Gotha in Thuringia, about the end of the thirteenth century; d. probably at Erfurt about 1355.
  • - Moral theologian. (1839-1900)
  • - A biographer of St. Thomas Becket, dates of birth and death unknown.
  • - English martyr; son of William Hewett of York; date of birth unknown; executed at Mile End Green, 6 October, 1588.
  • - The word humility signifies lowliness or submissiveness an it is derived from the Latin humilitas or, as St. Thomas says, from humus, i.e. the earth which is beneath us.
  • - The sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty.
  • - The most popular German preacher of the early part of the eighteenth century, b. 31 March, 1691, at Siegen; d. 12 September, 1746, at Trier.
  • - A distinguished theologian of Louvain; born 1522; died 1566.
  • - Augustinian mystic. (d. 1396)
  • - Founded in England in 1840 by Mrs. Cornelia Connelly, née Peacock, a native of Philadelphia, U.S.A., who had become a convert to the Catholic Faith in 1835.
  • - Founder of anchoritic life in Palestine. (291-371)
  • - The conglomeration of religious beliefs and practices existing in India that have grown out of ancient Brahminism.
  • - A writer of the second century.
  • - Canadian physician and surgeon, b. at Hinchinbrook near Huntingdon, Quebec, June 29, 1829; d. at Montreal, 19 February, 1907.
  • - The name of the son of Cain (Gen., iv, 17, 18), of a nephew of Abraham (Gen., xxv, 4), of the first-born of Ruben (Gen., xlvi, 9), and of the son of Jared and the father of Mathusala (Gen., v. 18 sq.).
  • - Confessor, the third Abbot of Cîteaux, was born at Sherborne in Dorsetshire, England, about the middle of the eleventh century; died 28 March, 1134.
  • - The oldest complete work of German literature.
  • - A medieval German poet of knightly rank; b. near Maastricht in the Netherlands about the middle of the twelfth century.
  • - Baron, French magistrate, historian, and journalist; b. at Metz, 19 June, 1805; d. at Aix, September, 1862.
  • - French historical painter, b. near Belfort, 1787, d. in Paris, 1865.
  • - In the early Church this was the only Saturday on which fasting was permitted (Constit. Apost., VII, 23), and the fast was one of special severity.
  • - Bishop of Alexandria from 231 or 232; to 247 or 248.
  • - Hesychasts (hesychastes -- quietist) were people, nearly all monks, who defended the theory that it is possible by an elaborate system of asceticism, detachment from earthly cares, submission to an approved master, prayer, especially perfect repose of bod
  • - Dominican, called the Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowacz; born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia); died 15 August, 1257.
  • - Roman martyrs.
  • - Spanish Jesuit and famous philologist; b. at Horcajo, 1 May, 1735; d. at Rome, 24 August, 1809.
  • - Bishop of Rottenburg, b. at Unterkochen, Würtemberg, 15 March, 1890; d. at Rottenburg, 5 June, 1893.
  • - The Hail Mary (sometimes called the "Angelical salutation", sometimes, from the first words in its Latin form, the "Ave Maria") is the most familiar of all the prayers used by the Universal Church in honour of our Blessed Lady.
  • - Historiographer of the Norbertine Order. (1667-1739)
  • - A titular see of Ægyptus Prima, suffragan of Alexandria.
  • - During the early centuries of Christianity the hospice was a shelter for the sick, the poor, the orphans, the old, the travellers and the needy of every kind.
  • - Catechist, born in the Diocese of Ratisbon, 16 February, 1784; died 7 January, 1873.
  • - Founder of the famous monastery at Lérins, Archbishop of Arles, d. 429.
  • - Also known as James Thompson. Martyr, born in or near York; having nearly all his life in that city, died there, 28 November, 1582.
  • - One of three tribes of South Africa which may be divided Bantus, Hottentots, and Bushmen.
  • - Died 22 November, 840.
  • - As suggested by its Greek origin (holos "whole", and kaustos "burnt") the word designates an offering entirely consumed by fire, in use among the Jews and some pagan nations of antiquity. [Definition from 1910.]
  • - The highest order of Bavaria, founded in 1444 or 1445 by Gerhard V, Duke of Jülich, in commemoration of a victory gained on St. Hubert's day (3 Nov.); some, however, date the establishment as late as 1473 and 1475.
  • - King of Norway, 935 (936) to 960 (961), youngest child of King Harold Fair Hair and Thora Mosterstang.
  • - Diocese embracing parts of the province of Huesca in north-eastern Spain, seven parishes in the Broto valley and three within the limits of the Archdiocese of Saragossa, one parish being situated in the city of Saragossa itself.
  • - A former Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
  • - The ninth Bishop of Quebec, born at Quebec, 23 February, 1739; died 17 October, 1799.
  • - German prelate and Orientalist of the nineteenth century, b. At Tanne near Kempten, Bavaria, 16 June, 1816.
  • - Fourth-century bishop.
  • - The former Kingdom of Hanover has been a province of the Prussian monarchy since 20 September, 1866.
  • - Jesuit missionary in China, born in Germany, died in China, probably about 1777.
  • - Marquis de Sainte-Mesme and Comte d'Entremont, French mathematician; b. at Paris, 1661; d. at Paris, 2 February, 1704.
  • - The opening words (used as a title) of the most celebrated of the four Breviary anthems of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • - The word hierarchy is used here to denote the three grades of bishop, priest, and deacon (ministri).
  • - Suffragan of Lima in Peru.
  • - A French Lazarist missionary and traveller; born at Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne), 1 June, 1813; died at Paris, 26 March, 1860.
  • - English Carthusian martyr, date of birth uncertain; d. at Tyburn, London, 19 June, 1535.
  • - A celebrated nun-poetess of the tenth century, whose name has been given in various forms, Roswitha, Hrotswitha, Hrosvitha, and Hrotsuit; born probably between 930 and 940, died about 1002.
  • - Usually known as Hippolyte, his name in religion. Born at Paris, in 1660; died there 5 January, 1716.
  • - A historian, born in the first half of the twelfth century; died about 1177.
  • - Details on several congregations under this name.
  • - Mother House, St. Mary's of the Immaculate Conception, Notre Dame, Indiana.
  • - Founded in 1841, in the parish of Holy Cross near Le Mans, Sarthe, France, by a priest of the same city, Basile-Antoine Moreau.
  • - In the fourth century, certain Roman ladies, following St. Paula, embraced the religious life in Bethlehem, putting themselves under the direction of St. Jerome, who had founded a monastery in that city.
  • - Archdiocese comprises Tasmania, Bruni Island, and the Cape Barren, Flinders, King, and other islands in Bass Straits.
  • - A city supposed to be identical with the Marionis of Ptolemy, was founded by a colony of fishermen from Lower Saxony.
  • - Controversialist, orator, and writer, b. 28 October, 1617, at Oudenarde in the Netherlands; entered the Society of Jesus, 24 Sept., 1634; d. 25 October, 1690, at Antwerp.
  • - The followers of Jan Hus did not of themselves assume the name of Hussites. Like Hus, they believed their creed to be truly Catholic; in papal and conciliar documents they appear as Wycliffites, although Hus and even Jerome of Prague are also named as the
  • - A religious congregation founded in Paris early in the fourteenth century by Jeanne, wife of Etienne Haudry, a private secretary of St. Louis, King of France.
  • - A tribe of Pueblo Indians of Shoshonean stock.
  • - Scottish poet, born probably 1420-1430; died about 1500.
  • - Article covering the nature and the history of the devotion.
  • - A German poet of the fifteenth century, d. at Strasburg in 1460; he was a priest in Freiburg (Breisgau), and later dean of the cathedral.
  • - This expression signifies etymologically a duty accomplished for God; in virtue of a Divine precept it means, in ecclesiastical language, certain prayers to be recited at fixed hours of the day or night by priests, religious, or clerics, and, in general,
  • - Instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year. The vigil of this feast is popularly called "Hallowe'en" or "Hal
  • - A lawman and martyr; date and place of birth unknown; d. at Tyburn, 10 Dec., 1591.
  • - Statistics and other information about Dutch immigrants.
  • - Professor of moral theology and catechetics at the University of Freiburg in the Breisgau.
  • - Capital and seat of Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as of the (civil) Province of South Holland.
  • - Priest, b. at Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 29 June, 1811; d. at Ratcliffe, Leicestershire, England, 2 Sept., 1880.
  • - A distinct Jewish-pagan sect which flourished from about 200 B.C. to about A.D. 400, mostly in Asia Minor (Cappadocia Bithynia, Pontus) and on the South Russian coasts of the Euxine Sea.
  • - Archdeacon of Bologna. Died at Rome, 14 February, 1130.
  • - A collection of homilies, or familiar explanations of the Gospels.
  • - Located in Edinburgh, Scotland; founded in 1128 by King David I for the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, probably brought from St. Andrews.
  • - Layman and martyr, born in Hampshire, England, 1571; died at Winchester, 1591.
  • - A poetess; born at Schloss Hülshoff near Münster in Westphalia, 10 January, 1797; died 24 May, 1848.
  • - A theologian, born about 1425; died at Basle, 12 March, 1496.
  • - The nervous sleep, induced by artificial and external means, which has been made the subject of experiment and methodical study by men of science, physicians or physiologists.
  • - This archconfraternity owes its origin to Henri Belletable, an officer in the Engineers' Corps, Liege, Belgium.
  • - A twelfth-century abbess, author of the "Hortus Deliciarum"; born about 1130, at the castle of Landsberg, the seat of a noble Alsatian family; died 1195.
  • - A theologian, philosopher, and encyclopedic writer who lived in the first half of the twelfth century.
  • - A name by which the French Protestants are often designated.
  • - Clergyman, novelist; born 20 January, 1815, in New York City; died 10 March, 1862, at Pau, France.
  • - During the Middle Ages, among the hospitals established throughout, religious of both sexes lived under one roof, following the Rule of St. Augustine.
  • - Historian; b. probably near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, between 1080 and 1085; d. 1155.
  • - An English martyr (March, 1601).
  • - A monk of English origin, lived in the first half of the thirteenth century as professor of astronomy at Paris; died in that city, 1256.
  • - Founded at Dommartin-sous-Amance, France, in 1855, by John Joseph Begel (b. 5 April, 1817; d. 23 Jan., 1884), pastor of the two villages of Laitre and Dommartin.
  • - A titular see of Thebais Prima, suffragan of Antinoe, in Egypt.
  • - Abbot of Cluny. (1024-1109)
  • - The possession of the seamless garment of Christ, for which the soldiers cast lots at the Crucifixion, is claimed by the cathedral of Trier and by the parish church of Argenteuil.
  • - The pretension to qualities which one does not possess, or, more cognately to the scope of this article, the putting forward of a false appearance of virtue or religion.
  • - French physicist, b. at Orléans, 20 March, 1647; d. there, 18 October, 1724.
  • - Suffragan of Lima. It comprises the entire department of Ancachs in the Republic of Peru.
  • - English martyr; b. 1566; d. 18 February, 1594.
  • - Mineralogist; b. at Saint-Just (Oise), 28 Feb., 1743; d. at Paris, 3 June, 1822.
  • - Irish Franciscan and historical writer, d. at Rome, 18 March, 1685.
  • - This name indicates the unknown author of some small mystical treatises, written about the beginning of the fourteenth century at the Cistercian Abbey of Heilsbronn.
  • - Derived from the Greek word homilia (from homilein), which means to have communion or hold intercourse with a person.
  • - A concord of sounds, several tones of different pitch sounded as a chord; among the Greeks, the general term for music.
  • - Controversialist; b. at Combe Martin, Devon, 1516 d. at Louvain, Sept., 1572.
  • - The name of several Latin writers.
  • - 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.
  • - An island of the Greater Antilles.
  • - Popularly known as Sospis, hermit, d. 581.
  • - Younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn. (1737-1806)
  • - Church historian and canonist, first Cardinal-Prefect of the Vatican Archives, b. at Würzburg, 15 Sept., 1824; d. at Mehrerau (Bodensee), 3 Oct., 1890.
  • - A professor of constitutional law, b. 1 August, 1768, at Berne, d. 21 May, 1854, at Solothurn, Switzerland.
  • - Also called anchorites, men who fled the society of their fellow-men to dwell alone in retirement.
  • - A prefect Apostolic under the Bishop of Macao was nominated by Gregory XVI (1846); a vicariate Apostolic was created in 1874.
  • - Oratorian, one of the ablest Biblical scholars of his time. Born in Paris, 1686; died there 31 October, 1783.
  • - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • - Aaron being the first high-priest and Eleazar his successor; so that, though the Scripture does not say so explicitly, the succession of the eldest son to the office of high-priest became a law.
  • - Martyr, presbyter and antipope. (d. 236)
  • - Layman and martyr, b. probably at Broughton, near Preston, Lancashire, England, date unknown; d. at Lancaster, 29 August, 1628.
  • - Martyr, died about the year 306.
  • - One of the most famous explorers in the wilds of North America during the seventeenth century.
  • - A patriot and soldier, born at St. Leonhard in Passeyrthale, Tyrol, 22 Nov., 1767; executed at Mantua, 20 Feb., 1810.
  • - Theologian, flourished during the latter half of the thirteenth century.
  • - German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1165-1197)
  • - Archbishop of Milan. (1018-1045)
  • - Greek by birth, the successor of Pope Telesphorus. Died in about 142.
  • - A river of Mesopotamia in Asiatic Turkey, an important eastern affluent of the Euphrates.
  • - Formerly the second Sunday after Epiphany, no longer on the Roman Calendar. Article's value is mostly historical.
  • - Emperor of the Romans; born 24 January, A. D. 76 at Rome; died 10 July, 138.
  • - All attempts to establish as historical a personality corresponding to the Hierotheus who appears in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius are rendered abortive by the fact, now definitely proven, that those writings, with intent to mislead, weave into their n
  • - Born at Versailles, 1741; died 16 July, 1828; the most distinguished sculptor of France during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
  • - Poet and historian; born at Hindlip, Worcestershire, 1605; died 1654; son of Thomas Habington the antiquarian.
  • - Historian and publicist; b. at Paris, 1812; d. there, 1896.
  • - An editor, historian; b. in New York, U.S.A., 4 September, 1836; d. in that city, 18 April, 1888.
  • - Hebrew was the language spoken by the ancient Israelites, and in which were composed nearly all of the books of the Old Testament.
  • - Located in Norway.
  • - This word has been used to denote the totality of ruling powers in the Church, ever since the time of the Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita (sixth century), who consecrated the expression in his works, "The Celestial Hierarchy" and "The Ecclesias
  • - Born at Dublin in 1716; died at St. Cloud, Paris, 16 April, 1796, son of Nathaniel Hooke the historian.
  • - A Carmelite, opponent of the Reformation in Denmark, born at Warberg (in the Laen of Halland), about 1480; died after 1534.
  • - The Roman Martyrology sets down for 18 August (XV Kal. Septembris) the feast of the holy martyrs Hermas, Serapion, and Polyaenus, with the statement that they suffered death in Rome for the Faith.
  • - Premonstratensian monk and mystic. (1150-1241)
  • - Known in religion as Sister Mary; b. 26 April, 1813; d. 24 March, 1884.
  • - Astronomer, b. at Schemnitz in Hungary, 15 May, 1720; d. at Vienna, 14 April, 1792.
  • - Born at Rome, date of birth unknown; died at Rome, 18 March, 1227.
  • - Wife of Herod Philip, and mistress of Herod Antipas.
  • - The chief altar in a church, raised on an elevated plane in the sanctuary, where it may be seen simultaneously by all the faithful in the body of the church.
  • - Founded at Dublin, in 1857, by Margaret Aylward, under the direction of Rev. John Gowan, C.M., for the care of Catholic orphans.
  • - A German missionary in China, born at Reiningen, near Mülhausen, in Alsace, 21 Sept., 1668; died 24 Aug., 1744.
  • - The mother of Constantine the Great, d. about 330.
  • - A theological term used with reference to the Incarnation to express the revealed truth that in Christ one person subsists in two natures, the Divine and the human.
  • - Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours, and celebrated medieval poet; b. about 1056, at the Castle of Lavardin near Montoir on the Loire; d. 8 December, 1133 or 1134.
  • - A secular confraternity which gradually grew up around the most august of the Holy Places.
  • - English Franciscan and schoolman, b. at Faversham, Kent; d. at Anagni, Itlay, in 1243, according to the most probable opinion; Wadding gives 1244.
  • - Of the Society of the Sacred Heart, who established all the convents of her order, up to the year 1883, in the eastern part of the United States, Canada, and Cuba; b. at Piscataway, Maryland, 1809; d. at Paris, France, 17 June. 1886.
  • - Cardinal, born of a noble family, probably in Lorraine, died soon after 1098.
  • - A group of mountains forming the southern extremity of Anti-Lebanon, and marking on the east of the Jordan the northern boundary of Israel.
  • - An historian and jurist; born 24 March, 1830, at Münster in Westphalia; died at Bonn, 15 March, 1905.
  • - In general, a vehement aversion entertained by one person for another, or for something more or less identified with that other.
  • - St. Thomas and the scholastics in general regard only the free and deliberate acts of the will as human.
  • - The name given by the people to the potter's field, purchased with the price of the treason of Judas.
  • - An anchorite of the seventh century, who dwelt for many years on the little island still known as St. Herbert's Isle, in the Lake of Derwentwater.
  • - Merchant and philanthropist; b. in King's County, Ireland, 1754; d. at Brooklyn, U.S.A., 3 May, 1848.
  • - Fourth bishop and first Archbishop of New York, born at Annaloghan, Co. Tyrone, Ireland, 24 June, 1797 of Patrick Hughes and Margaret McKenna: died in New York, 3 January, 1864.
  • - History of the country.
  • - Hymnody means exactly "hymn song", but as the hymn-singer as well as the hymn-poet are included under (hymnodos), so we also include under hymnody the hymnal verse or religious lyric. Hymnology is the science of hymnody or the historico-philogic
  • - Name of various martyrs.
  • - Missionary to China and zoologist. (1836-1902)
  • - Soldier, convert, b. at Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., 1817, d. at Wytheville, Virginia, 6 Nov., 1873.
  • - The name of the council by which the Church of Russia and, following its example, many other Orthodox Churches are governed.
  • - Famous composer. (1732-1809)
  • - A Spanish Je