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• - An eminent Spanish sculptor and architect; b. at Madrid (date not known); d. there 19 May, 1567.
  
• - Tribunals for the trial of children charged with crimes or offences.
  
• - Article examines the name Jesus and Christ separately.
  
• - A Spanish painter and poet, born at Seville c. 1570, or, according to some, as late as 1583; died at Madrid c. 1640-1.
  
• - The author is commonly identified with the Lord's brother, the Bishop of Jerusalem; the view that the Lord's brother must be identified with James, the son of Alpheus, is by far the most probable.
  
• - Priest and martyr, b. in the Diocese of St. Asaph, Wales, date unknown; d. in London, 6 May 1590.
  
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• - Reigned 705-707.
  
• - An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a common language with dialectic variants, and together constituting a distinct linguistic stock.
  
• - A Roman surnamed Catelinus, d. 13 July, 574.
  
• - Founded at Le Puy, in Velay, France, by the Rev. Jean-Paul Médaille of the Society of Jesus.
  
• - French philosopher; b. at Martignac (Dordogne), 7 May, 1754, d. at Villeneuve-le-Roi (Yonne), 4 May 1824.
  
• - Called in the language of the country Nihon or Nippon (Land of the Rising Sun), and Dai Nihon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan), situated north-west of the Pacific Ocean and east of the Asiatic continent.
  
• - Priest, tortured for refusing to break the seal of confession, and died in prison in 1620.
  
• - The last of nine London Carthusians to die of starvation in prison in 1537.
  
• - An Australian statesman, b. at Newry, Ireland, 1831; d. July, 1897.
  
• - Old Testament prophet.
  
• - Ascetic writer, b. near Ravenna about the beginning of the eleventh century; d. at Fécamp, Normandy, 22 February, 1079.
  
• - Brother of James and son of Zebedee.
  
• - Biography of the widowed baroness, mother, founder of the Congregation of the Visitation, who died in 1641.
  
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• - English priest, tortured and martyred on completely fabricated charges of conspiracy to murder the queen. Executed in 1582.
  
• - A Greek name adopted by many Jews whose Hebrew designation was Joshua (Jesus). In the Old Testament, it is applied to three or four persons connected with the period of the Machabees.
  
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• - English martyr (suffered 1587), born and educated in Cornwall, and converted by reading one of Father Persons' books in 1582.
  
• - An ecclesiastical person who possesses ecclesiastical jurisdiction either in general or in the strict sense.
  
• - One of the so-called antilegomena; but, although its canonicity has been questioned in several Churches, its genuineness has never been denied.
  
• - Several groups detailed.
  
• - Or Storey. Member of Parliament, was arrested but escaped and became a Spanish subject. Kidnapped in Flanders, he was carried to the Tower, where he was tortured repeatedly. Died a martyr in 1571.
  
• - A pious King of Juda (639-608 B.C.), who ascended the throne when he was only eight years of age. He was the son of Amon and the grandson of Manasses.
  
• - Bishop of Beneventum, martyr, believed to have died in the Diocletian persecution, c. 305. Article has a lengthy discussion of the liquefaction of the saint's blood.
  
• - Educator, author, b. 8 March, 1822, at Powellton, Georgia, U.S.A.; d. at Baltimore, Maryland, 23 September, 1898.
  
• - English Augustinian friar, martyred probably in 1539.
  
• - Diocese in the Philippine Islands, formerly a part of the Diocese of Cebú, was made a separate diocese on 27 May, 1865.
  
• - General of the Dominican order, born at Gerbevilliers (Lorraine), 18 July, 1810; died at Rome, 11 December, 1872.
  
• - Roman Emperor (527-65).
  
• - A Franciscan and founder of the Catholic mission in China, b. at Montecorvino in Southern Italy, in 1246; d. at Peking, in 1328.
  
• - Lengthy biographical article on the last of the Greek Fathers.
  
• - Details of several who held the position.
  
• - A biblio-ecclesiastical term; which denotes the transforming of the sinner from the state of unrighteousness to the state of holiness and sonship of God.
  
• - The Catholic doctrine of the particular judgment is this: that immediately after death the eternal destiny of each separated soul is decided by the just judgment of God.
  
• - Preacher and Doctor of the Church. (347-407)
  
• - Theologian and canonist, born of poor parents near Jüterbogk, Brandenburg, Germany, 1381; died at Erfurt in 1465.
  
• - A Syrian whose father was one Cyriacus; when he was born is not known; d. 2 August, 686.
  
• - Sometimes called Scholasticus or the Sinaita. Sixth-century Syrian abbot of Mt. Sinai. He is called "Climacus" because he wrote the spiritual classic "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," "Klimax" being the Greek for "ladder.&
  
• - Born at Broadstairs on the Kentish coast, 15 Mar., 1867; died 4 Oct., 1902.
  
• - Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (481-482) at the time of the Monophysite troubles.
  
• - Founder of the Society of the Divine Word.
  
• - Historian, b. at Como, Italy, 9 April, 1483, d. at Florence, 11 Dec., 1552.
  
• - Historian, born about 1300 atWinterthur (Switzerland); died subsequently to 1348, probably at Zurich.
  
• - Founded in 634 by St. Philibert, who had been the companion of Sts. Ouen and Wandrille at the Merovingian court.
  
• - There are four persons commonly known by this name.
  
• - Cistercian, born at Brünn, Moravia, 13 October, 1827; died 23 July, 1898, at Baden, near Vienna.
  
• - Fourth-century martyrs.
  
• - Also called James Hudson. Priest who was imprisoned and then martyred at York in 1582.
  
• - Born at Eichstätt, Bavaria, 5 January, 1642;d, at Ellwangen, 8 February, 1704. Entering the Society of Jesus, 19 January, 1663, he became a most successful popular missionary at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg, near Ellwangen in Swabia.
  
• - Chronicler, born in Portugal, probably about the middle of the sixth century; died after 621.
  
• - The earlier Hebrew term rendered in English versions by the word "tribe" is shebet, while the term matteh, prevails in the post-exilic writings.
  
• - Her brief life, her trial and death, swift rehabilitation, and her beatification in 1909.
  
• - Special form of devotion to Jesus. Discussion of what it is and what distinguishes it, its object, its foundations, and its proper act.
  
• - French educator, b. at Dijon, March, 1770; d. at Paris, 30 July, 1840.
  
• - The fable about a female pope, who afterwards bore the name of Johanna (Joan), is first noticed in the middle of the thirteenth century.
  
• - French missionary and founder of the Eudists and of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity; author of the liturgical worship of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; b. at Ri, France, 14 Nov., 1601; d. at Caen, 19 Aug., 1680.
  
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• - A form of religion intermediate between Brahminism and Buddhism, originated in India in pre-Christian times.
  
• - Born at Bologna; died in the same city in 1460.
  
• - Martyred in the Diocletian persecution. The oldest notice says that she died near Naples; the notion that she lived in Nicomedia is strictly legendary.
  
• - Italian Franciscan priest, had the gift of miracles, d. 1739.
  
• - Bishop and ecclesiastical writer, born in Aquitaine; died in 843 or 844.
  
• - French preacher and spiritual father; born at Rouen, about 20 December, 1661; died at Paris, 11 March, 1735.
  
• - Rigby, an unmarried layman, appeared in court on behalf of his employer's daughter and admitted that he was himself a Catholic. He was martyred in 1600.
  
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• - Resurrection is the rising again from the dead, the resumption of life.
  
• - Enthroned in 1024; d. 1032.
  
• - Theologian and controversialist, born at Monzón, Spain; dates of birth and death unknown.
  
• - The immemorial cultus of Blessed John was approved by Leo XIII in 1880, and his feast is kept in the Order of Friars Minor on 9 August.
  
• - On account of its alkaloids, is the most celebrated specific remedy for all forms of malaria.
  
• - Historian and politician, b. 23 Dec., 1819 at Immenstadt (Ahgau); d. at Landshut, 18 Nov., 1901.
  
• - Poet, pedagogue, philologist, and historian, b. at Paris, 14 September, 1643; d. at Rome, 29 May, 1719.
  
• - Formed at a point about five and a half miles below Banias, by the junction of three streams, the Jordan enters Lake Hûleh about nine and a third miles lower down.
  
• - Thirteenth Archbishop of Canterbury; died at Canterbury 11 or 12 August, 791.
  
• - Capuchin missionary, confessor, d. 1612.
  
• - The seventh book of the Old Testament, second of the Early Prophets of the Hebrew canon.
  
• - The most difficult part of the history of the Society.
  
• - Biographical article on this fourteenth-century English anchoress, mystic, author.
  
• - Dominican, a renowned preacher, provincial, and Archbishop of Genoa. He died in about 1298. Biographical article.
  
• - Biography of the vicar general of the Archdiocese of Prague, who was tortured and then thrown into the Moldau and drowned, by order of King Wenceslaus IV, in 1393.
  
• - French Jesuit missionary to Canada, martyred in 1646.
  
• - A titular see in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
  
• - Exegete, born at Hulst, Flanders, 1510; died at Ghent, 11 April, 1576.
  
• - A layman and martyr.
  
• - Name given to the fifth Sunday of Lent, and derived from the first words of the Introit of that day.
  
• - John Holywood, 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 Lyons, France, in October, 1818, by Claudine Thevenet, in religion, Mother St. Ignatius.
  
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• - Born 10 November, 1801, at Danzig, Prussia; died 27 December, 1852, at Vienna. He belonged to a Protestant merchant family. He took up the study of jurisprudence, and became at an early age professor of criminal law at Bonn and later in Berlin.
  
• - Seneschal of Champagne, historian, b in 1225; d. at Joinville, 1317.
  
• - French mathematician and physicist, born at Vitry-le-Francois, 7 June, 1711; died at Rome, 3 July, 1788.
  
• - The accusations brought against the Society have been exceptional for their frequency and fierceness.
  
• - Born at Paris in 1645; died at Chantilly in 1696. He was the son of a comptroller general of municipal revenue.
  
• - Benedictine bishop of Hexham and later of York, monastic founder, d. 721.
  
• - Diocese in Southern Spain.
  
• - The Latin dominion over Jerusalem really came to an end on 2 October, 1187, when the city opened its gates to Saladin (Yusuf ibn Ayyub, Salah-ed-din, Emir of Egypt, 1169-93); although fragments of the Latin kingdom in Palestine lasted into another century
  
• - All that is known for certain concerning him is derived from the canonical Gospels.
  
• - Patriarch of Constantinople (John IV, 582-595), famous chiefly through his assumption of the title "Âœcumenical patriarch"; d. 2 September, 595.
  
• - Three canonical books of the New Testament written by the Apostle St. John.
  
• - St. Giovanni Melchior Bosco, commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.
  
• - An Egyptian chronicler who flourished in the latter part of the seventh century.
  
• - Curé of Ars, born at Dardilly, near Lyons, France, on 8 May, 1786; died at Ars, 4 August, 1859.
  
• - Franciscan alchemist, date of birth unknown; d. probably at Avignon, 1362.
  
• - Franciscan, professor of theology, Minister General, peacemaker, d. 1289.
  
• - The name of one of the Patriarchs, the name of the tribe reputed to be descended from him, the name of the territory occupied by the same, and also the name of several persons mentioned in the Old Testament.
  
• - The subject of this article lived three-quarters of a century later than his namesake. He was born 28 October, 1585, of a Catholic family, in the village of Accoi, near Leerdam, Holland; died at Ypres, 6 May, 1638.
  
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• - Founded at Vienna, 24 November, 1889, by Father Anton Maria Schwartz for all works of charity, but especially the apostolate among workingmen.
  
• - Author, b. at Falkenberg, Pomerania, Prussia, date unknown; d. about 1418 in Italy.
  
• - A biography with references of the London-born architect who drew his inspiration from the Classical forms of Italy.
  
• - This article deals with the destruction by the Romans after it had become the scene of the Redemption.
  
• - An apocryphal writing, so called from the fact that the narratives and stories contained in it are arranged throughout in a fanciful chronological system of jubilee-periods of forty-nine years each; each event is recorded as having taken place in such a w
  
• - Founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, missionary to Africa and South America, d. 1851.
  
• - Very brief biographical profile of the English priest, martyred in 1581.
  
• - Titular see in the province of Bithynia Secunda, suffragan of Nicaea.
  
• - A dogmatic theologian and ecclesiastical historian, born at Münster in Westphalia, 1 March, 1833; died at Louvain, 12 Jan., 1895.
  
• - Bishop of Bath and Wells, d. 19 Nov., 1242.
  
• - Patriarch of Constantinople, the author of an important collection of ecclesiastical laws; b. at Sirimis near Antioch; d. 577.
  
• - Founded as a result of the First Crusade, in 1099. Destroyed a first time by Saladin in 1187, it was re-established around Saint-Jean d'Acre and maintained until the capture of that city in 1291.
  
• - Priest, founder of the Piarists, d. 1648.
  
• - Name of several persons mentioned in the Old Testament.
  
• - In 1850 he entered the German College at Rome, and was ordained priest in 1855. He afterwards joined the Society of Jesus.
  
• - Chronicler, b. probably between 1270 and 1280; d. at Victring, Austria, 12 November, 1347.
  
• - Reigned 931-935.
  
• - Grammarian; born at Genoa, date unknown; died there about 1298.
  
• - Martyrs of Antioch. (d. 304)
  
• - The eleventh son of Jacob, the firstborn of Rachel, and the immediate ancestor of the tribes of Manasses and Ephraim.
  
• - Born about 386; died in Sicily, 454; the most learned among the leaders of the Pelagian movement and Bishop of Eclanum near Beneventum.
  
• - Born in 1563 and not, as is mistakenly stated in the "Biographic Michaud", in 1567; died at Rivoli, 28 Sept., 1608. He was the third son of Maréchal Guillaume de Joyeuse, and was a brother of the Admiral Anne de Joyeuse and of the prelate FranÃ
  
• - English Franciscan, served as confessor to Queen Catherine, was burned at the stake at Smithfield in 1538.
  
• - A Greek, the date of whose birth is unknown; d. 11 January, 705.
  
• - Roman Emperor, 363-4.
  
• - Alias John Jones. Welsh Franciscan priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1598.
  
• - Lengthy article on the Precursor.
  
• - Article about four historians of the Middle Ages who bear this name.
  
• - Martyr, date and place of birth unknown, was executed in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 8 August, 1570, for having, about eleven o'clock at night on the previous 24 May, affixed a copy of the Bull of St. Pius V excommunicating the queen to the gates of th
  
• - Diocese in Rumania.
  
• - Situated in the northern portion of Ceylon, Jaffna comprises the northern and north-central provinces of the island.
  
• - Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, martyr, d. 1535.
  
• - Surnamed Gangala, civil lawyer, Franciscan priest, d. 1476.
  
• - The name of eight persons in the Old Testament, and of one of the Sacred Books.
  
• - Dominican theologian. (1380-1443)
  
• - An Averroistic philosopher, theologian, and political writer of the fourteenth century.
  
• - Benedictine monk, dispensed from his vows, never formally beatified.
  
• - German Emperor (reigned 1765-90), of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, son and successor of Maria Theresa and Francis I.
  
• - A discoverer and the son of a wagon-maker, was born at Quebec, Canada, on 21 September 1645; d. in Canada, May 1700.
  
• - One of the judges of Israel. The story of Jephte is narrated in chapters xi and xii of the Book of Judges.
  
• - Vincentian priest, missionary to China, where he was tortured and martyred in 1840.
  
• - Antipope 997-998; d. probably in 1013.
  
• - A Tuscan warmly received in Constantinople, but upon his return to Rome, was imprisoned by King Theodoric. He died in prison in 526.
  
• - Born on 5 December, 1443, at Albissola near Savona; crowned on 28 November, 1503; died at Rome, in the night of 20-21 February, 1513.
  
• - English priest, tortured and twice imprisoned, martyred in 1594.
  
• - Lived at the close of the seventh and in the first part of the sixth century before Christ; a contemporary of Draco and Solon of Athens.
  
• - A congregation devoted to the Christian education of youth, founded in the Diocese of Ghent (Belgium) by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817.
  
• - Catholic theologian, b. at Maeseyck, Belgium, 7 Dec., 1783; d. at Engis, 23 May, 1853.
  
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• - Born at Cahors in 1249; enthroned, 5 September, 1316; died at Avignon, 4 December, 1334.
  
• - Parish priest and friend of St. Thomas More. Martyred at Tyburn in 1543/4, along with another priest (Bl. John Ireland) and the layman Bl. German Gardiner.
  
• - Flemish painter, b. at Antwerp about 1573; d. probably in the same place about 1631.
  
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• - Biography of this Jesuit who died in 1621 at the age of 22.
  
• - Spanish canon, became an Augustinian hermit, d. 1479.
  
• - Franciscan, missionary, date and place of birth unknown; died in France, 1625; an important figure in the early history of the Church in Canada.
  
• - Brief biography of this English Carthusian priest and martyr, d. 1537.
  
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• - Enthroned 985; d. April, 996.
  
• - In its ordinary and proper sense, signifiies the most important of the cardinal virtues.
  
• - A medieval ecclesiastical author, born in the fourteenth century in Bohemia; died at Prague, 30 Nov., 1394.
  
• - Details include days, weeks, months, years, and eras.
  
• - Fourth King of Juda after the schism of the Ten Tribes.
  
• - "Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we know about Jesus Christ, but a survey of the intellectual endowment of Christ.
  
• - Italian Minorite, b. at Giano in the Valley of Spoleto, c. 1195; d. after 1262.
  
• - Third son of the priest Mathathias who with his family was the centre and soul of the patriotic and religious revolt of the Jews against the King of Syria (I Mach., ii, 4).
  
• - Or John Boast. Priest, martyred at Durham in 1594. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
  
• - The right to guide and rule the Church of God.
  
• - Lawyer, governor, ambassador, became a Franciscan priest and a renowned preacher, died in 1456.
  
• - Name of several Old Testament figures.
  
• - The name conventionally applied to a family of Italian sculptors, whose real name was Betti, originally from San Martino a Mensola, near Florence.
  
• - Information on the entire life of St. Joseph.
  
• - Patriarch of Alexandria. (550-616)
  
• - The Apostle who betrayed Jesus.
  
• - This organization began its labours in 1871, when four young priests from Mill Hill were put in charge of St. Francis Xavier's church, with a large congregation of black Catholics, in Baltimore. Other black missions were soon begun at Louisville, Charlest
  
• - Born of Irish parents in Cornwall, studied for the priesthood at Reims. For 10 years he worked as a missionary in England till he was martyred in 1594 for being a Catholic priest, and three companions were also martyred for aiding him.
  
• - One of the books of the Old Testament, and the chief personage in it.
  
• - Portuguese Jesuit missionary to India, martyr, d. 1693.
  
• - German physicist, born at Mannheim, 26 September, 1809; died at Munich, 24 December, 1884.
  
• - Dutch painter, b. at Calcker, or Calcar, about 1460; d. at Haarlem in 1519.
  
• - A society of priests and laymen whose object is to labour for the conversion of heathens in foreign countries.
  
• - Historian, born 10 April, 1829, at Kanten, Germany; died 24 December, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
  
• - Studied under St. Benen, founded a college at Cloonfush, was noted for his fasting, d. about 540. Feast day: 6 June.
  
• - A man of the tribe of Issachar, and the father of Igal who was one of the spies sent by Moses to traverse Chanaan and report on the country (Numbers 13:8).
  
• - A French theologian and professor in the University of Paris; b. most likely at Brachy, Caux, in Normandy, and certainly in the Diocese of Rouen, about 1360; d. 15 July, 1411.
  
• - What we can know of St. James, son of Zebedee and brother of John, from Scripture. Also discusses the tradition that St. James preached in Spain and that his body was translated to Compostela.
  
• - Florentine Servite. (1270-1341)
  
• - Martyrs in the Diocletian persecution. According to later legends, Julitta fled from persecution in Lycaonia, but was martyred in Tarsus, along with her three-month-old child Quiricus.
  
• - A Roman and the son of Projectus; if not born in the second region (Coelimontium) he had at least been a priest of St. Clement's Basilica.
  
• - The father of Christian chronography.
  
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• - Polish priest, professor of Sacred Scripture, d. 1473.
  
• - Includes absolute and relative chronologies.
  
• - Jesuit priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1577/8.
  
• - Reigned 872-82.
  
• - Foundress of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary, born at Lyons, 22 July, 1799; died there, 9 January, 1862.
  
• - After the death of Benedict VII, Bishop Peter Campanora of Pavia, earlier imperial chancellor of Italy, was elected pope with the consent of Emperor Otto II, and took the name of John.
  
• - A titular see of Armenia Prima, suffragan of Sebaste.
  
• - Offers the geneology according to Saint Matthew and Saint Luke.
  
• - Biography of St. Jeanne, also known as Jéhanne de France or Jane of Valois, queen, founder of the Annonciades. She died in 1505.
  
• - A Welsh Benedictine, the first prior of Downside, was arrested six times, exiled four times, and finally martyred at Tyburn in 1610.
  
• - Located in the Spanish province of Huesca. Jaca, the chief town of the mountain district of Sobrarbe.
  
• - To it the prophets of the Old Testament refer when they speak of the "Day of the Lord" (Joel 2:31; Ezekiel 13:5; Isaiah 2:12), in which the nations will be summoned to judgment. In the New Testament the second Parusia, or coming of Christ as Jud
  
• - According to the traditional order, the Gospel of St. John occupies the last place among the four canonical Gospels.
  
• - Lived about 1176. Author of a treatise written against the doctrine of Abelard.
  
• - Date of birth unknown; enthroned on 1 Oct., 965; d. 6 Sept., 972.
  
• - An index of articles on the subject.
  
• - A Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. probably in 1458.
  
• - Cistercian monk and Bishop of Glasgow; d. at Melrose Abbey in 1199.
  
• - Theologian, born at Hirschau, in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria), 4 Feb., 1836; died 1 November, 1895.
  
• - The surpassing eminence of the character of Jesus has been acknowledged by men of the most varied type.
  
• - According to apocryphal literature, the father of Mary.
  
• - Includes details of activities in various countries.
  
• - A Roman, anti-Arian, supporter of St. Athanasius. Julius died in 352.
  
• - Husband and wife, of whom little is known except that he was martyred in the Diocletian persecution. According to later legend, Basilissa was the founder of a monastery.
  
• - Priest, preacher, author, d. 1569.
  
• - French painter, b. at Rouen in 1644, d. at Paris, 5 April, 1717.
  
• - Mystic from a very young age, priest, d. 1663.
  
• - The derivation of the name is uncertain. By some it is translated "Yahweh is he". Several by this name are noted in the article.
  
• - Theologian of the fifteenth century.
  
• - Monk and hagiographer, b. about the close of the sixth century at Sigusia (Susa) in Piedmont; d. after 659.
  
• - Article on the life and teaching of this Discalced Carmelite associated with St. Teresa of Avila. Mystic, Doctor of the Church, d. 1591.
  
• - Date of birth unknown; d. 6 Nov., 1003.
  
• - Proper name of God in the Old Testament.
  
• - Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire.
  
• - Priest, canon, preacher, d. 1764.
  
• - Date of birth unknown; reigned 955-64.
  
• - Reigned 898-900.
  
• - Jesuit priest and missionary, d. 1640.
  
• - Roman emperor 361-63, b. at Constantinople in 331, d. 26 June, 363, son of Julius Constantius, the half-brother of Constantine the Great.
  
• - Biographical article on the founder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
  
• - Theologian and controversialist; born at Paris, date unknown; died at Bordeaux, 22 September, 1306.
  
• - Identifies James the Less with James the Apostle, son of Alpheus, and with James the brother of the Lord.
  
• - An opponent of Christian asceticism in the fourth century, condemned as a heretic (390).
  
• - Founder of the Christian Brothers.
  
• - Born in Shropshire, entered the German College, Rome, 1 October, 1571. Brief biography.
  
• - The third Sunday after Easter.
  
• - Three cities of this name have successively occupied sites in the same neighbourhood.
  
• - Background information relating to the Jubilee.
  
• - Fourth-century Christian Latin poet.
  
• - Celebrated martyrs of the Coptic Church.
  
• - Franciscan missionary. (1713-1784)
  
• - Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races; the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity and others.
  
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• - A party of Jewish Christians in the Early Church, who either held that circumcision and the observance of the Mosaic Law were necessary for salvation and in consequence wished to impose them on the Gentile converts, or who at least considered them as stil
  
• - English Benedictine abbot and martyr; date of birth unknown; d. at Colchester, England, l December, 1539.
  
• - Italian, a Lazarist priest, titular bishop of Nilopolis, d. 1860.
  
• - A list without details of the Jesuits. Does include links to articles when there is one about the person.
  
• - A celebrated Syrian writer, b. most likely in A.D. 633; d. 5 June, 708.
  
• - Pius VII had resolved to restore the Society during his captivity in France; and after his return to Rome he did so with little delay.
  
• - Diocese in the Province of Ancona, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.
  
• - Founder of the Order of Somascha; b. at Venice, 1481; d. at Somascha, 8 Feb., 1537; feast, 20 July.
  
• - Christian apologist. (A.D. 100-165)
  
• - The code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  
• - Sienese husband and father whose life was transformed by reading the life of St. Mary of Egypt. Founder of the Jesuati. He died in 1367.
  
• - History in several periods to the first crusade.
  
• - The main characters of a seventh-century Christian legend. Barlaam, a hermit, converted the prince Josaphat to Christianity, despite the efforts of Josaphat's father Abenner to prevent such a thing. Although Barlaam and Josaphat are included in the Roman
  
• - The execution of the Brief of Suppression having been largely left to local bishops, there was room for a good deal of variety in the treatment the Jesuits might receive in different places.
  
• - Judaism designates the religious communion which survived the destruction of the Jewish nation by the Assyrians and the Babylonians.
  
• - Syriac historian, born at Amida (Diarbekir, on the upper Tigris), about 505; d. about 585.
  
• - Born at Rome, 10 September, 1487; died there, 23 March, 1555.
  
• - Historian of the crusades, cardinal Bishop of Acre, later of Tusculum, b. at Vitry-sur-Seine, near Paris, probably about 1160; d. at Rome, 1240.
  
• - Founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834, for the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls.
  
• - Belgian nun. (1193-1258)
  
• - Lithuanian martyr. (1580-1623)
  
• - An Indian pueblo situated upon the north bank of the river of the same name about twenty miles north-west of Bernalillo, New Mexico.
  
• - Reverence for the name of Jesus is not optional for believers. Article highlights the Scriptural reasons, and describes some customary ways of showing reverence.
  
• - According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle).
  
• - A native of Dalmatia, and the son of the scholasticus (advocate) Venantius.
  
• - It designates the part of Palestine adjacent to Jerusalem and inhabited by the Jewish community after their return from captivity.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - Theologian, born in Shropshire, c. 1656; died in December, 1714.
  
• - Fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 627)
  
• - Mechanician, b. at Abbans, near Besançon, 30 Sept., 1751; d. at Paris, 18 July, 1832.
  
• - Linguist, philosopher, author, b. at Berlin, 14 June, 1818, d. at New York, 10 June, 1899.
  
• - Theological and Biblical writer. (1550-1622)
  
• - An English chronicler, of the late twelfth century.
  
• - A famous composer, poet, and historian of the thirteenth century, b. at Speyer, d. at Paris about 1250.
  
• - More properly called Jacopo Benedetti. Lawyer, widower, Franciscan poet sympathetic to the Spirituals, died about 1306.
  
• - The fifth of the Minor Prophets.
  
• - The Rite of Jerusalem is that of Antioch.
  
• - Canonist and bishop, born in 1349 at Teramo in Italy; died in 1417 in Poland.
  
• - John Hesychastes, monk, runaway bishop of Colonia, hermit, d. 558.
  
• - Diocese created by Pius X, 27 January, 1904 by division of the Archdiocese of Montreal; comprises three counties, Joliette, Berthier, and Montcalm, with four parishes of L'Assomption County.
  
• - Cistercian abbot and mystic; b. at Celico, near Cosenza, Italy, c. 1132; d. at San Giovanni in Fiore, in Calabria, 30 March, 1202.
  
• - Augustinian abbey, in the town of the same name, established as a priory by David I, King of Scots, in 1118, and colonized by Canons Regular of St. Augustine from the Abbey of St-Quentin, at Beauvais, France.
  
• - Jewish historian, born A.D. 37, at Jerusalem; died about 101.
  
• - Mentioned in only one passage of the Bible (Joel, iii-Heb. text, iv).
  
• - Divine judgment (judicium divinum), as an immanent act of God, denotes the action of God's retributive justice by which the destiny of rational creatures is decided according to their merits and demerits.
  
• - Wife of Achab, King of Israel.
  
• - Name of five French botanists.
  
• - Taken to be synonymous with envy.
  
• - Missionary writer, born at Toulouse in 1566; d. at Saintes, 2 March, 1617.
  
• - A titular see of Caria, and suffragan of Aphrodisias.
  
• - A twelfth-century Lain poet; b. at Exeter, England.
  
• - Antipope. (1370-1419)
  
• - Born about 1115; died 1180; a distinguished philosopher, historian, churchman, and scholar.
  
• - A writer of the Syrian Church.
  
• - Portuguese shepherd, soldier, bookseller, finally found his niche caring for the health of the poor in Granada, became de facto founder of a religious order, d. 1550.
  
• - Divided into three classes: pagan sources, Jewish sources, and Christian sources.
  
• - Moralist and satirical poet of the twelfth century (flourished about 1184).
  
• - A claim, exercised in the Middle Ages, of succession to the property of deceased clerics, at least such as they had derived from their ecclesiastical benefices.
  
• - A religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola.
  
• - A poem ranging from forty two to fifty three stanzas (in various manuscripts), to form the three hymns of the Office of the Holy Name.
  
• - English saint. (1319-1379)
  
• - Theologian, born at Lisbon, 9 June, 1589; died at Fraga, Spain, 17 June, 1644.
  
• - Princess, Dominican, d. 1490.
  
• - Successor of John XVII, consecrated Christmas, 1003; d. June, 1009.
  
• - Knight, born in Grenada, 1849; died in London, 29 August, 1908.
  
• - The son of Isaac and Rebecca, third great patriarch of the chosen people, and the immediate ancestor of the twelve tribes of Israel.
  
• - The largest of the British West Indian islands, situated in the Caribbean Sea.
  
• - A Monophysite Byzantine chronicler of the sixth century.
  
• - Franciscan theologian, b. at La Rochelle (Rupella), towards the end of the twelfth century.
  
• - Born at Lisbon between 1210 and 1220; enthroned, 1276; died at Viterbo, 20 May, 1277.
  
• - The book exists in distinct Greek and Latin versions, of which the former contains at least eighty-four verses more than the later.
  
• - French engraver, b. at Vermenton, near Auxerre, 1688; d. at Paris, 1738.
  
• - Lengthy article on the life and works of St. Jerome.
  
• - Born at Tossignano, Romagna; enthroned, 914; died at Rome, 928.
  
• - Spanish statesman and man of letters, at Gijon, Asturias, 5 Jan., 1744, d. at Puerto de Vega on the borders of Asturias, 27 Nov., 1811.
  
• - French prelate and statesman; b. at Luxeuil (Franche-Comté) about 1412; d. at the priory of Rulli, in the Diocese of Bourges, 24 November, 1473.
  
• - Name of two Israelitish kings.
  
  

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