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• - The Diocese of Rodez was united to the Diocese of Cahors by the Concordat of 1802, and again became an episcopal see by the Concordat of 1817 and Bull of 1822.
  
• - Spanish theologian. (1562-1632)
  
• - Prefecture Apostolic in Switzerland.
  
• - Martyrs whose feast is observed in the Latin Church on 10 November.
  
• - Jesuit chaplain and writer. (1701-1763)
  
• - Record of the ten saints named Rufus in the Roman Martyrology.
  
• - The north-west arm of the Indian Ocean, some 1400 miles long and lying between Arabia on the east and Africa on the west.
  
• - Theological concept of God demanding satisfaction for the injuries which man had done Him.
  
• - Bishop of Vizéu in Portugal. (1630-1693)
  
• - A titular see in Bulgaria, suffragan of Sardica.
  
• - French abbot and reformer. (1626-1700)
  
• - French poet, dramatist, and philologist. (1761-1836)
  
• - Protestant bodies which adopted the tenets of Zwingli and, later, the doctrinal principles of Calvin.
  
• - Jesuit who devoted himself to the service of the needy and suffering. (1611-1649)
  
• - German painter. (1816-1859)
  
• - Belgian historian and rector of the Catholic University of Louvain. (1804-1865)
  
• - Count of Toulouse. (1156-1222)
  
• - Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Eger, established by Maria Theresa, in 1775-76.
  
• - Italian diocese and suffragan of Modena.
  
• - German abbot. (d. 915)
  
• - Bishop of Neutra in Hungary, doctor of philosophy and theology. (1807-1892)
  
• - Director of the Society of Antiquaries. (1786-1842)
  
• - An English priest who was imprisoned and tortured. He died a martyr in 1581.
  
• - Bishop of Breslau. (1607-1671)
  
• - Rechab was the father of Jonadab who in IV Kings, x, 15-28, appears as a fervent supporter of Jehu's attack on the House of Achab. The Rechabites were his descendants.
  
• - English priest and martyr. (1568-1610)
  
• - Article describing the view of the human race from a 1911 Catholic perspective.
  
• - French archæologist. (1789-1854)
  
• - Statesman and historian. (1808-1887)
  
• - Prussian politician and author. (1808-1895)
  
• - Rolls in which a long narrow strip of papyrus or parchment, written on one side, was wound like a blind about its staff.
  
• - One of the official books of the Roman Rite. It contains all the services performed by a priest that are not in the Missal and Breviary and has also, for convenience, some that are in those books.
  
• - Spanish Mercedarian. (1200-1240)
  
• - Brazilian scientist and explorer. (1756-1815)
  
• - Frankish sculptor. (1460-1531)
  
• - This catechism differs from other summaries of Christian doctrine for the instruction of the people in two points: it is primarily intended for priests having care of souls (ad parochos), and it enjoys an authority equalled by no other catechism.
  
• - Italian missionary to China. (1593-1638)
  
• - A generic term for dissidents from the Established Church in Russia.
  
• - Dominican, theologian and Orientalist. (1220-1284)
  
• - French ecclesiastical historian. (1789-1856)
  
• - Itinerant preacher and founder of Fontevrault. (b. 1047)
  
• - German diocese embracing the greater portion of the administrative district of Oberpfalz, and portions of Upper and Lower Bavaria, and Upper Franconia.
  
• - Name of the two smallest states of the German Confederation.
  
• - Intellectual and writer. (d. 1525)
  
• - Physician and mathematician. (1765-1822)
  
• - Capital of County Roscommon, Ireland; owes origin and name to a monastery founded by St. Coman in the first half of the eighth century on a "ros" or wooded point amidst marshes.
  
• - Italian jurist. (d. 1354)
  
• - French poet. (1670-1741)
  
• - Missionary in India and Sanskrit scholar. (1620-1668)
  
• - Missionary and cartographer. (1633-1724)
  
• - Diplomat, economist and statesman. (1787-1848)
  
• - Thirteenth century French architect.
  
• - A secular community founded in 1608 by the Duke of Mentone, Vincent Gonzaga, on the occasion of the marriage of his eldest son Francis II Gonzaga with Marguerite of Savoy.
  
• - The restoration of man from the bondage of sin to the liberty of the children of God through the satisfactions and merits of Christ.
  
• - The Perpetual Rosary is an organization for securing the continuous recitation of the Rosary by day and night among a number of associates who perform their allotted share at stated times.
  
• - The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.
  
• - General of the Society of Jesus. (1703-1775)
  
• - A titular see of Lycia, suffragan of Myra.
  
• - A discussion of this whimsical style, its origins and uses.
  
• - The manner of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, administering Sacraments, reciting the Divine Office, and performing other ecclesiastical functions as used in the city and Diocese of Rome.
  
• - French Jesuit, orator, and author. (1795-1858)
  
• - Record of the eleven saints named Rufinus in the Roman Martyrology.
  
• - Priest and martyr, died at Smithfield, 1540.
  
• - The ceremonies, prayers, and functions of any religious body.
  
• - King who embarked on the Crusades. (1157-1199)
  
• - The communication of some truth by God to a rational creature through means which are beyond the ordinary course of nature.
  
• - German jurist and parliamentarian. (1810-1892)
  
• - Italian astronomer. (1598-1671)
  
• - A titular see of Mauritania Tingitana.
  
• - Resurrection is the rising again from the dead, the resumption of life.
  
• - The most important of certain departments organized by the Holy See at various times to assist it in the transaction of those affairs which canonical discipline and the individual interests of the faithful bring to Rome.
  
• - Sections on England and Ireland.
  
• - Biographical article on the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (better known as the Irish Christian Brothers).
  
• - Benedictine monk, teacher and theologian. (d. 908)
  
• - Antonio Rosmini Serbati, philosopher, and founder of the Institute of Charity, born 24 March, 1797, at Rovereto, Austrian Tyrol; died 1 July, 1855, at Stresa, Italy.
  
• - Apostle of the Franks, Archbishop of Reims, d. 553.
  
• - A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the center, and filled with stained glasses.
  
• - Ancient German diocese that was suffragan to Hamburg and embraced the Duchy of Lauenburg (Holstein) in the Prussian Province of Schleswig- Holstein, the Principality of Ratzeburg in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the western part of the Gran
  
• - Prefecture Apostolic in Brazil.
  
• - A Friar minor and preacher, appearing in history between 1428 and 1431, whose origin and nationality are unknown.
  
• - Chancellor of the German Empire. (d. 1167)
  
• - French chronicler. (d. 862)
  
• - Benedictine monk and chronicler. (d. 1236)
  
• - Strictly deliverance by payment of a price or ransom, or simply deliverance by power, as from oppression, violence, or captivity.
  
• - Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. (1573-1650)
  
• - Towns which according to the Jewish law enjoyed the right of asylum and to which anyone who had unintentionally slain another might flee and be protected from the "avenger of blood".
  
• - Fifteenth-and-sixteenth century Italian engraver.
  
• - Article discussing various definitions of the term.
  
• - Article discussing the moral value of religion.
  
• - Sometimes called less properly sepulchre or tomb, more frequently repository.
  
• - Member of the Society of Jesus, porter and influential citizen. (1532-1617)
  
• - A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.
  
• - Hermitess, greatly venerated at Palermo and in the whole of Sicily of which she is patroness.
  
• - Bishop of Edessa. (d. 435)
  
• - The educational system of the Jesuits.
  
• - Abbey located in Reims, France that acquired the relics of St. Remy in 553.
  
• - German humanist. (1455-1522)
  
• - Companion of St. Thomas Aquinas. (1230-1290)
  
• - Priests who preside over missions or quasi-parishes.
  
• - A titular see in Syria Secunda, suffragan of Apamea.
  
• - Revived by the Concordat of 1802 with the Sees of Bayeux, Evreux, and Séez as suffragans: it also includes the Department of the Seine Inferieure.
  
• - Article discussing various rites used within the United States.
  
• - Days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest.
  
• - The rising again from the dead, the resumption of life.
  
• - History of this devotion. Also considers the Orthodox and Eastern-Rite Catholic practice.
  
• - A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus, suffragan of Neocaesarea.
  
• - Five distinct parish registers that a pastor must have: one each of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths; and a fifth containing a census or general account of the state of souls in the parish.
  
• - Scholar and missionary to the Choctaw Indians. (1813-1887)
  
• - Sixth-century poet.
  
• - Created 23 September, 1908, in the north-western part of the State of Illinois.
  
• - Archbishop of Paris. (1614-1679)
  
• - Strictly speaking, the ensemble of departments or ministries which assist the sovereign pontiff in the government of the Universal Church.
  
• - A titular metropolitan of the Cyclades.
  
• - A monk of Compiègne, was teaching as early as 1087.
  
• - Officials in the Byzantine Court who reported to the emperor on the memorials of petitioners, and conveyed to the judges the orders of the emperor in connexion with such memorials.
  
• - Island upon the Gnadensee of the Lake of Constance, about one mile in breadth and about three and three-quarter miles long.
  
• - Theologian and publicist. (1711-1794)
  
• - The hymn at Lauds in the Common of Martyrs in the Roman Breviary.
  
• - Community of nuns formed in Scala, Italy, by Father Thomas Falcoia.
  
• - Theologian and canonist. (1641-1703)
  
• - Archdiocese based in the capital of a province in Romagna, central Italy.
  
• - One of the proto-canonical writings of the Old Testament.
  
• - Pioneer of scientific judicial procedure in the twelfth century.
  
• - Sculptor and architect. (1490-1530)
  
• - French poet. (1524-1585)
  
• - The subject is covered under the headings: I. Position; II. History; III. Inscriptions; IV. Paintings; V. Sarcophagi; VI. Small Objects Found in the Catacombs; and VII. Catacombs outside Rome.
  
• - Diocese in Ascoli Piceno, Central Italy.
  
• - Poet, newspaper editor and Confederate chaplain. (1839-1886)
  
• - Filipino hero, physician, poet, novelist, and sculptor. (1861-1896)
  
• - The original appelation of the alleged members of the occult-cabalistic-theosophic "Rosicrucian Brotherhood", described in the pamphlet "Fama Fraternitatis R.C."
  
• - There are two theories in regard to the early Christianity of Russia; according to one of them, Russia was Catholic from the times when she embraced Christianity until the twelfth century; the other holds that Russia was always Orthodox.
  
• - This article treats of the various colleges in Rome which have been founded under ecclesiastical auspices and are under ecclesiastical direction, with the exception of those that are treated separately under their respective titles throughout the Catholic
  
• - Ecclesiastical division comprising the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
  
• - Feast on 24 September commemorating the foundation of the Mercedarians.
  
• - Italian professor, scholar and writer. (d. 1320)
  
• - A series of verses and responses, usually taken from Holy Scripture and varying according to the feast or season.
  
• - Middle High German epic poet of the thirteenth century.
  
• - German art historian. (1785-1843)
  
• - Biographical article on this Benedictine, abbot of Fulda, Archbishop of Mainz, theologian, who died in 856.
  
• - Augustinian nun. (1386-1456)
  
• - Converted Jew who built two convents in Jerusalem. (1814-1884)
  
• - Jesuit missionary. (1608-1680)
  
• - Count of Toulouse and son of Raymond VI. (1197-1249)
  
• - A former German electorate.
  
• - The advanced section of the High Church party in the Anglican Establishment, which since about 1860 has adhered to and developed further the principles of the earlier Tractarian Movement.
  
• - Prince-Abbot of Einsiedeln and theological writer. (1625-1692)
  
• - Chronicler and monk at Westminster Abbey.
  
• - Versions of the Bible consisting almost entirely of collections of the psalms.
  
• - Certain fundamental laws in the form of axioms found in the "Corpus Juris".
  
• - Biblico-dogmatic term closely connected with the ideas of justification, Divine sonship, and the deification of the soul through grace.
  
• - Antipope under the name of Clement VII. (1342-1394)
  
• - Second-century Christian writer.
  
• - The opening words and the title of the Encyclical issued by Leo XIII, 15 May, 1891, on the "Condition of Labour".
  
• - Monastery and nunnery of the Rule of St. Benedict, founded by Sts. Romaricus and Amatus in 620 above the town of Vosges, France.
  
• - English priest. (1800-1886)
  
• - Vulgate, text, the opening words of Isaiah 45:8.
  
• - The alleged competence of the more important Catholic countries, Austria, France, and Spain, to indicate to their respective cardinal protector, or cardinal procurator, those members of the Sacred College who were personæ minus gratæ, so that, if there
  
• - English abbey founded by a Saxon noble in 969.
  
• - A doctrine which denies, universally or in regard to some restricted sphere of being, the existence of absolute values.
  
• - Missionary and Indian linguist. (1559-1630)
  
• - A series of days passed in solitude and consecrated to practices of asceticism, in particular to prayer and penance.
  
• - A monastery of the Cistercian Order, situated on the left bank of the Rainworth Water, about two miles south of Ollerton in Nottinghamshire.
  
• - Virgin. (1235-1252)
  
• - Consists of a single section of the Roman Ritual (titulus ix) with sundry supplementary materials taken from the Missal and the Pontifical.
  
• - A qualification of the name Catholic commonly used in English-speaking countries by those unwilling to recognize the claim of being the One True Church.
  
• - Article discussing the judging of private revelations.
  
• - The history of the Revolution resolves itself into a catalogue of various ill-judged measures which alienated the support of the Established Church, the Tory party, and the nation as a whole.
  
• - English monastery founded in 1131.
  
• - People who refrained from attending Church of England services.
  
• - The hymn for Matins of Wednesday in the Divine Office.
  
• - Papal nuncio to Ireland during the uprising of 1645-49. (1592-1653)
  
• - Bavarian composer and organist. (1839-1901)
  
• - Historian and liturgist. (d. 1403)
  
• - Spanish dramatic poet. (1580-1639)
  
• - French philosopher and writer. (1632-1707)
  
• - American journalist and poet. (1839-1908)
  
• - The act of recalling or annulling.
  
• - Nephew, pupil and assistant to painter Luca. (1431-1528)
  
• - The outcome of a person's meritorious activity.
  
• - Born either at Marseilles or at Narbonnaise, Gaul; died 26 Oct., 461. According to biographers, Rusticus is the one to whom St. Jerome (about 411) addressed a letter, commending him to imitate the virtues of St. Exuperius of Toulouse and to follow the adv
  
• - A term used for sins whose absolution is not within the power of every confessor.
  
• - English priest, martyred in 1588.
  
• - Titular see in Palestine, suppressed in 1884 by the Roman Curia.
  
• - Article covering a 1913 Catholic view of Rabbinism.
  
• - Founder of the Angelica Library at Rome. (1545-1620)
  
• - Thirteenth-century Franciscan missionary and writer of travels.
  
• - Writer and member of the Society of Jesus. (1526-1611)
  
• - Diocese based around the province of Ancona in Central Italy.
  
• - The voluntary subjection of oneself to God.
  
• - Born near Barcelona, Raymond was an able canon lawyer who joined the Dominicans. He died in 1275.
  
• - Missionary and historian. (1576-1655)
  
• - Italian poet. (1626-1698)
  
• - Italian painter. (1483-1520)
  
• - Ross-Carbery, formerly Ross-Ailithir.
  
• - Oblate of St. Charles, hymn-writer and preacher. (1826-1885)
  
• - Copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives.
  
• - Bishop of Strasburg. (1794-1887)
  
• - A titular see in Cilicia Secunda, suffragan to Anazarba.
  
• - The Institute of Charity, or, officially, Societas a charitate nuncupata, is a religious congregation founded by Antonio Rosmini, first organized in 1828.
  
• - Brief biography of the seventeenth-century dramatist.
  
• - Congregation founded in 1678 with large schools in various places in England, France, and Belgium.
  
• - The starting point of the French Revolution was the convocation of the States General by Louis XVI.
  
• - Prioress of Celle-Robaud in the Diocese of Fréjus. (1263-1329)
  
• - Priest and writer that fell victim to the plague. (1550-1585)
  
• - French missionary. (1591-1660)
  
• - Cardinal and French statesman. (1585-1642)
  
• - Article considers: the fact of the Real Presence; the several allied dogmas grouped about it; and the speculations of reason, so far as speculative investigation regarding the august mystery under its various aspects is permissible, and so far as it is de
  
• - A kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, situated between the Black Sea, the Danube, the Carpathian Mountains, and the Pruth.
  
• - Italian theologian, writer and preacher. (1585-1639)
  
• - Masses that are offered for the dead.
  
• - Archdiocese of Reims comprising the district of Reims in the Department of Marne and the whole Department of Ardennes.
  
• - The university is now under the control of the Italian Government and is called the Royal University.
  
• - Canadian diocese, suffragan of Quebec.
  
• - Founder of the Abbey of Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne. (1000-1067)
  
• - German mystic and prior of Groenendael. (1293-1381)
  
• - A collection of historical materials of which the general scope is indicated by its official title, "The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages".
  
• - Flemish painter. (1577-1640)
  
• - Neapolitan artist. (1615-1673)
  
• - Collar ornamented in the front and back with appendages worn by the Bishops of Eichstätt, Paderborn, Toul, and Cracow.
  
• - Political economist and social reformer. (1844-1899)
  
• - Diocese, suffragan of Ravenna.
  
• - Russian is a Slav language belonging to the Indo-European family.
  
• - Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal. (1542-1621)
  
• - English solitary and writer. (d. 1349)
  
• - The name given to the last book in the Bible, also called the Book of Apocalypse.
  
• - Spanish theologian. (1624-1699)
  
• - Conception of the nature and scope of Christianity, widely held in modern Protestantism, especially in Germany.
  
• - Spanish writer and teacher. (1526-1616)
  
• - Italian sculptor. (1409-1464)
  
• - Term used in an exact sense, to designate a particular moment in the development of Protestant thought in Germany, or in a broader, and more usual, sense to cover the view that the human reason, or understanding, is the sole source and final test of all t
  
• - Biobibliographical article on Ramon Lull, who is called "Doctor Illuminatus."
  
• - Italian revolutionary and notary of the Camera Capitolina. (d. 1354)
  
• - Chronicler and king's clerk in the time of Henry II.
  
• - The Roman Breviary hymn for Matins of Sundays and weekdays during the Paschal Time.
  
• - The official catalogue of the Roman Curia mentioned formerly a titular see of Rosea in Syria.
  
• - Spanish theologian. (1594-1648)
  
• - Abbey founded by Henry I in 1121 and located in Surrey, England.
  
• - One of three tribunals instituted by the "Sapienti Consilio" constitution of 1908.
  
• - Apologetical writer and Orientalist. (1648-1720)
  
• - Sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of Philadelphia. (1831-1911)
  
• - These terms are used to designate the theories that have been proposed as solutions of one of the most important questions in philosophy, often referred to as the problem of universals, which, while it was a favourite subject for discussion in ancient tim
  
• - Ninth-century Benedictine monk and author.
  
• - Located in S. E. Limburg, Netherlands.
  
• - French marshal. (1725-1807)
  
• - Recollection, as understood in respect to the spiritual life, means attention to the presence of God in the soul.
  
• - Historian and professor. (1800-1877)
  
• - Life, summaries of religious and secular works, and commentary on his advances in music theory and composition.
  
• - Jurist and educator. (1834-1911)
  
• - English priest and martyr. (d. 1537)
  
• - English antiquarian and ecclesiologist. (1799-1871)
  
• - Writer and statesman. (1797-1853)
  
• - This work holds the first place among monastic legislative codes, and was the most important factor in the organization and spread of monasticism in the West.
  
• - Italian theologian and historian. (1687-1775)
  
• - Diocese in the Province of Bari, Aquileia, Southern Italy. Ruvo, the ancient Rubi, situated on a calcareous hill, contains a fine Norman cathedral of the eleventh century.
  
• - Count of Toulouse and of Tripoli. (d. 1105)
  
• - An act of commutative justice by which exact reparation as far as possible is made for an injury that has been done to another.
  
• - The name given in later antiquity and the early Middle Ages to those clerics and officials of the Church of Rome who were attached neither to the papal palace or the titular churches of Rome, but to one of the city regions, or wards, which was assigned as
  
• - Italian oratorian. (1595-1671)
  
• - Diocese in Central Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.
  
• - English politician and biographer of St. Thomas More. (1496-1578)
  
• - French theologian and writer. (1583-1663)
  
• - A term, often used to signify the True Cross itself, which, with the prefix Holy, occurs as the dedication of some churches.
  
• - German-speaking Jesuit preacher. (1811-1872)
  
• - Diocese comprising the greater part of County Donegal in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh.
  
• - Numbers of followers of various religions across the world in 1913.
  
• - English politician, Governor-General and Viceroy of India. (1827-1909)
  
• - French missionary. (b. 1602)
  
• - Monks in observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.
  
• - A Slavic people from Southern Russia, Galicia and Bukowina in Austria, and North-eastern Hungary.
  
• - French missionary. (d. 1738)
  
• - Mother of Joseph and Benjamin, and love of Jacob.
  
• - Surgeon and writer of several works on emigration. (1800-1858)
  
• - Monk and archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg. (d. 888)
  
• - English philosopher and theologian. (d. 1167)
  
• - Co-founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. (d. 1400)
  
• - French composer. (1792-1868)
  
• - Article discussing religious uses and values concerning the wearing of rings.
  
• - Writer and troubled leader of the Diocese of Verona.
  
• - Scottish theologian. (d. 1173)
  
• - English Cardinal. (d. 1218)
  
• - The history of all ordinations which were considered null for any other reason than defect of the prescribed form or intention and which were repeated.
  
• - The substitution of exercises either easier or extending over a shorter period, for works of penance imposed according to the penitential canons.
  
• - At the request of the Dominican Order Gregory XIII in 1573 allowed this feast to be kept in all churches which possessed an altar dedicated to the Holy Rosary.
  
• - Last martyr under Queen Elizabeth. (d. 1603)
  
• - German king. (1218-1291)
  
• - Eleventh-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
  
• - Founder of the Catholic missions of China. (1552-1610)
  
• - Document denoting those rights that belonged exclusively to the king.
  
• - Communal chief town of the canton of Gramat, district of Gourdon, Department of Lot, in the Diocese of Cahors and the ancient province of Quercy.
  
• - Discusses a variety of duties that relatives should apply to one another.
  
• - Diocese that once consisted of the modern Danish Provinces of Ribe, Vejle, and Ringkjöbing, and of part of North Schleswig.
  
• - French Jesuit writer. (1621-1687)
  
• - Astronomer, cartographer, and painter. (d. 1533)
  
• - German minnesinger of the twelfth century.
  
• - English priest and martyr. (d. 1581)
  
• - Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs. (1822-1894)
  
• - Spanish dramatic poet. (1607-1680)
  
• - A way of obtaining a benefice or a title by the choice of the new titulary himself.
  
• - Italian sculptor. (1427-1478)
  
• - Italian missionary. (1811-1884)
  
• - Brief article on a hymn for None, one of the "little hours." Mid-afternoon.
  
• - The first synod is generally believed to have been held by Archbishop Saint-Ouen about 650.
  
• - Twenty-first General of the Society of Jesus. (1785-1853)
  
• - There is no separate and distinct rite for the Ruthenians, but the name is often used for the modifications which the Ruthenians have introduced in the Byzantine or Greek Rite.
  
• - Proper name meaning both a patriach and a tribe of Israel.
  
• - Twelfth-century Cardinal, English philosopher and theologian.
  
• - British possession in South Africa (present-day Zimbabwe).
  
• - Catholic educationist and writer. (1821-1896)
  
• - A titular see of Crete, suffragan of Gortyna.
  
• - Italian fresco painter. (1439-1507)
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1583)
  
• - Italian-born founder of the Camaldolese, d. 1027.
  
• - Missionary and author. (1558-1633)
  
• - Located in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, founded in the year 1419.
  
• - Diocese; suffragan of the ecclesiastical Province of the Upper Rhine.
  
• - Bishop of Worcester. (d. 1179)
  
• - Philosopher, born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, about 1214; died at Oxford, perhaps 11 June, 1294.
  
• - This article treats briefly of the individual catacomb cemeteries in the vicinity of Rome.
  
• - A liturgical horary prayer, the canonical hours of the priest, or an office of the Breviary, in which not only the hymns are regulated by a certain rhythm, but where, with the exception of the psalms and lessons, practically all the other parts show metre
  
• - Founder of the Abbey of Citeaux and the monastery at Molesme. (d. 1111)
  
• - A canonical term signifying the resignation of an ecclesiastical office or benefice.
  
• - Sixteenth century religious movement led by Martin Luther.
  
• - Teacher and writer. (d. 1432)
  
• - The oldest and smallest of all the suffragan sees of Canterbury, was founded by St. Augustine, Apostle of England, who in 604 consecrated St. Justus as its first bishop.
  
• - French writer on art. (1797-1874)
  
• - Priest and controversialist. (1807-1842)
  
• - Archbishop of Paris. (1819-1908)
  
• - Responses of the pope or a Sacred Congregation, in writing, to queries or petitions of individuals.
  
• - Religious order founded in 1641 that works towards reforming women living a life of sin.
  
• - Italian sculptor. (1400-1481)
  
• - Prefecture apostolic covering several Indian states.
  
• - Bishop of Breslau. (1402-1482)
  
• - A book containing prayers and pious exercises to which the popes have attached indulgences.
  
• - Mentions and gives brief profiles of several saints of this name.
  
• - English priest and writer. (1838-1899)
  
• - Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr. (d. 1539)
  
• - Archdiocese in Calabria, province of Cosenza, Southern Italy.
  
• - Preacher, writer, and director of the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers. (1802-1884)
  
• - The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible.
  
• - Virgin and patroness of America. (1586-1617)
  
• - Their author was a pious client of Mary, Eustace Sirena.
  
• - First Bishop of Salzburg. (d. 718)
  
• - Thirteenth-century writer and Franciscan.
  
• - Famous organ and piano-forte builders of Antwerp.
  
• - Former Cistercian abbey in Eichsfeld, founded on 1 August, 1162 by Count Ernst of Tonna.
  
• - German historian and writer. (1787-1857)
  
• - Theologian and statesman. (1800-1869)
  
• - Archangel appearing in the Book of Tobias.
  
• - An over-tunic usually made of fine white linen (cambric; fine cotton material is also allowed), and reaching to the knees.
  
• - History of a series of synods held at the French city.
  
• - Substantive designating the object of justice.
  
• - American state and one of the thirteen original colonies.
  
• - Educator and Mexican War chaplain. (1807-1847)
  
• - Article by William Turner on this early humanist and logician.
  
• - Feast that is found only in the special calendar of some dioceses and religious orders, and is celebrated with proper Mass and Office either on the third Sunday of July or on 23 October.
  
• - The opening words of the Eastertide anthem of the Blessed Virgin.
  
• - Located in New York.
  
• - Diocese in Holland; suffragan of Utrecht.
  
• - Fourteenth-and-fifteenth century cardinal-priest of the title of SS.
  
• - The daily hymn for Sext in the Roman Breviary.
  
• - Miracle-working saint. (1295-1327)
  
• - Suffragan to Hamburg, about 991-1104, to Lund, 1104-1536.
  
• - Archdiocese in Calabria, southern Italy.
  
• - Details of several writings that have been given this title.
  
• - Deposed in the year 476, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
  
• - Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.
  
• - Italian astronomer. (1824-1889)
  
• - Writer and witness to a revelation. (1696-1730)
  
• - The devoted companion of St. Edmund Rich, was bishop of Chichester. Richard died in 1253, and was canonized less than 10 years later.
  
• - English Benedictine martyr. (1583-1641)
  
• - Jesuit campaign to convert the natives of Paraguay.
  
• - A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil.
  
• - German theologian and writer. (1832-1907)
  
• - Group of ten martyrs listed in the Roman Martyrology.
  
• - German historian and writer. (1807-1856)
  
• - Return or bringing back of an order from a mitigated or relaxed observance to the rigour of its primitive rule.
  
• - Article describing the most celebrated of the twelve Irish saints known as Ronan.
  
• - Sixteenth-century French writer.
  
• - English priest and writer. (1755-1838)
  
• - Founder of the Xaverian Brothers. (1797-1871)
  
• - Among the ancients, according to Columella, Vitruvius, and Pliny, the word rubrica, rubric, signified the red earth used by carpenters to mark on wood the line to follow in cutting it; according to Juvenal the same name was applied to the red titles under
  
• - Suffragan of Baltimore consisting of parts of the states of Virginia and West Virginia.
  
• - A certain connection of persons established either by nature or by civil or canon law.
  
• - Society of missionary priests founded by St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori in 1732 at Scala, Italy.
  
• - The insignia of royalty or "crown jewels".
  
• - A titular see of Numidia.
  
• - The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope.
  
• - Titular see of Byzacena in Africa, mentioned only by Ptolemy (IV, 3) and the "Tabula" Peutinger.
  
• - Missionary and martyr. (1654-1724)
  
• - Linguist and pioneer of the original Jesuit mission in Paraguay. (1585-1652)
  
• - American soldier and politician.
  
• - Belgian archeologist and historian. (1831-1903)
  
• - Geography and history.
  
• - Philosopher and French politician. (1763-1845)
  
• - Diocese; suffragan of Port of Spain, Trinidad, B.W.I.
  
• - Thirteenth century writer and lecturer.
  
• - Monthly English Catholic periodical published from 1848 to 1859.
  
• - Opened early in July, 359, with over four hundred bishops.
  
• - French theologian. (d. 1570)
  
• - The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church.
  
• - Family of French architects and archaeologists of the nineteenth century.
  
• - Period of revival of classic, especially of Greek, learning and the recovery of ancient art in the departments of sculpture, painting, and architecture.
  
• - Diocese in Ireland.
  
• - French writer and professor. (1661-1741)
  
• - 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
  
• - City forming the base for the diocese of Bolivarensis, suffragan of Quito, Ecuador.
  
• - Ninth-century Pope who reigned for four months in 897.
  
• - Spanish poet. (1583-1659)
  
• - Sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest's absolution to those who with true sorrow confess their sins and promise to satisfy for the same.
  
• - The constitution makes clear the following: though regulars according to canon law are subject immediately to the Holy See, bishops are given jurisdiction over small communities.
  
• - Sixth-century Irish saint.
  
• - Ring worn by the popes, with a representation of St. Peter in a boat on it.
  
• - Doctor who engaged in relief work for the poor. (1586-1653)
  
• - Sixteenth-century English priest and martyr.
  
• - French diocese including the Department of Ille et Vilaine.
  
• - Martyrs on the Island of Corcyra in the second century.
  
• - Article discussing the meanings and origin of religion as a profession.
  
• - An object, notably part of the body or clothes, remaining as a memorial of a departed saint.
  
• - First Prior of Downside Abbey and martyr. (d. 1610)
  
• - Warden of the Observant friary at Canterbury who was condemned to death by Henry VIII. (1489-1534)
  
• - English abbot. (d. 1159)
  
• - English lawyer, journalist and politician. (1832-1900)
  
• - English bishop and bibliophile. (1286-1345)
  
• - Italian painter. (1575-1642)
  
• - English martyr. (1570-1600)
  
• - Overview and evangelical ideas on what makes up religious life.
  
• - Writer, priest and lecturer. (1544-1594)
  
• - Philologist and historian. (1561-1634)
  
• - Seraphic Crown, also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.
  
• - The subject is treated under the following heads: I. The Roman Church and St. Paul; II. Character, Contents, and Arrangement of the Epistle; III. Authenticity; IV. Integrity; V. Date and Circumstances of Composition; VI. Historical Importance; VII, Theolo
  
• - Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. (1797-1875)
  
• - Irish professor and writer. (1812-1880)
  
• - A remaining or abiding where one's duties lie or where one's occupation is properly carried on.
  
• - Any box, casket, or shrine destined for the reception of relics.
  
• - Dominican promoter of the Rosary. (1428-1475)
  
• - The restriction in certain cases by a superior of the jurisdiction ordinarily exercised by an inferior.
  
• - A titular see in Osrhoene, suffragan of Edessa.
  
• - English Oratorian priest and controversialist. (1837-1907)
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1598)
  
• - Thirteenth-century English chronicler.
  
• - Spanish artist. (1588-1656)
  
• - Article describing the view of the negro race from a 1911 Catholic perspective.
  
• - French chemist and physicist. (1810-1878)
  
  

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