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  • - Founded in 1128 near Antwerp, Belgium.
  • - Martyrs whose feast is observed on 22 August.
  • - Chemist. (1777-1857)
  • - In pagan times titulus signified an inscription on stone, and later the stone which marked the confines of property.
  • - Austrian statesman, born at Linz, 31 March, 1736; died at Vienna, 28 May, 1818.
  • - Spanish poet and folklorist. (1821-1889)
  • - A titular see in Mauretania Caesariensis.
  • - Priest and physicist. (1719-1797)
  • - Fourteenth General of the Society of Jesus. (1648-1730)
  • - French priest. (1017-1066)
  • - Consecrated by St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a missionary bishop among the Picts, and was consequently regarded later as the first Bishop of Whithorn, in Galloway.
  • - Jesus Christ uses the words "new testament" as meaning the alliance established by Himself between God and the world, and this is called "new" as opposed to that of which Moses was the mediator.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Scythopolis, in Palaestina Secunda.
  • - Briefly defined as the scientific exposition of Christian asceticism.
  • - Italian poet. (1544-1595)
  • - Disciple and companion of St. Paul.
  • - Icelandic bishop. (1237-1297)
  • - Missionary priest. (1614-1672)
  • - Archdiocese comprising 21 provinces or 15 departments.
  • - First intendant in exercise of New France.
  • - Benedictine Abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt; date of birth unknown; d. at Kitzingen about 790 or later.
  • - Superior General, and foundress of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. (1832-1900)
  • - Martyrdom seems to have taken place 17 Feb., 306, under the Emperors Galerius Maximian and Maximin, for on this day the Menologies give his feast.
  • - Novelist. (1833-1907)
  • - A titular see and suffragan of Athens in Achaia Prima.
  • - A post-Biblical substantive formation of Pi'el ("to teach"), and originally signified "doctrine" or "study".
  • - English theologian. (1623-1676)
  • - In 997 Olaf Trygvesson founded at the mouth of the River Nid the city of Nidaros, afterwards called Trondhjem.
  • - Reformer and preacher. (1529-1582)
  • - Titular see in Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.
  • - Sometimes erroneously called Taxter or Taxston. A thirteenth-century chronicler, of whose life nothing is known except that he was professed as a Benedictine at Bury St. Edmund's 20 Nov., 1244.
  • - Martyr. Born at Heworth Hall, near York, in 1635; suffered at York, 23 Oct., 1680.
  • - A temporary suspension of hostilities, as distinct from the Peace of God which is perpetual.
  • - Defined as the right enforceable solely in equity to the beneficial enjoyment of property of which the legal title is in another.
  • - Poet. (1859-1907)
  • - A Decree issued by Innocent XI, 1 Oct., 1678, regulating the fees that may be demanded or accepted by episcopal chancery offices for various acts, instruments, or writings.
  • - A titular suffragan see of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima.
  • - Diocese in Belgium.
  • - Prince of Antioch, born about 1072; died at Antioch, 12 Dec., 1112.
  • - Diocese in Italy.
  • - A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII.
  • - A term introduced by F.W.H. Myers in 1882 to denote "the ability of one mind to impress or to be impressed by another mind otherwise than through the recognized channels of sense".
  • - An Italian painter of the Ferrarese school. (1481-1559)
  • - A titular see of Mauretania Tingitana (the official list of the Roman Curia places it in Mauretania Caesarea).
  • - A form of civil government in which God Himself is recognized as the head.
  • - Religion derived from the philosophical doctrines of Lao-tze.
  • - The earlier Hebrew term rendered in English versions by the word "tribe" is shebet, while the term matteh, prevails in the post-exilic writings.
  • - (1) the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia; (2) certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrus; (3) the letter of Ibas to Maris.
  • - One of the four cardinal virtues.
  • - A small town in the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy.
  • - Writer and journalist. (1848-1895)
  • - German Jesuit. (1532-1591)
  • - Initiator of international Eucharistic congresses, born at Tours, 1 Nov., 1834; died there 20 June, 1910.
  • - The Apostle St. Paul declares himself (II Cor., iii, 6) a minister "of the new testament", and calls (iii, 14) the covenant entered into on Mount Sinai "the old testament".
  • - Carthusian martyr, died in Newgate gaol, London, 20 September, 1537.
  • - An Indian virgin of the Mohawk tribe, known as the "Lily of the Mohawks", and the "Genevieve of New France".
  • - The valley of the Nile, under Roman domination, was divided into four provinces: Lower and Upper Egypt, Lower and Upper Thebaid.
  • - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • - Irish saint, born in the first decade of the fifth century; died about 497.
  • - An incitement to sin whether by persuasion or by the offer of some good or pleasure.
  • - A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica.
  • - Founded in 1404, when the lectures at Piacenza and Pavia were interrupted by the wars of Lombardy.
  • - One of the smaller cultured nations of ancient Mexico, occupying at the time of the Spanish conquest the coast province of Totonicapan.
  • - Violinist, composer, and theorist. (1692-1770)
  • - Italian Jesuit, preacher and writer. (1693-1752)
  • - In Monmouthshire, England, founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare for Cistercian monks.
  • - Held in 692 under Justinian II.
  • - Guillotined at the Place du Trône Renversé (now called Place de la Nation), Paris, 17 July, 1794.
  • - The papal crown, ornamented with precious stones and pearls, which is shaped like a bee-hive, has a small cross at its highest point.
  • - Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, French minister and ambassador. (1754-1838)
  • - Italian scholar. (1731-1794)
  • - In the exercise of inherent rights of administering property, the Church often appoints deputies.
  • - Twelfth-century archbishop and writer.
  • - Confessor, born in Cornwall, 1548; died at Lisbon, 25 Sept., 1608.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima.
  • - Titular see; suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
  • - Diocese; suffragan of Salzburg.
  • - A tribe of Cariban linguistic stock occupying the territory about the Cuchivero River, a tributary of the lower Orinoco, Venezuela.
  • - The theory and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of Holy Writ.
  • - Archbishop of Lima. (1538-1606)
  • - English martyr, born at Up Holland, Lancashire, probably about 1568; suffered at Lancaster, 18 March, 1615 or 1616.
  • - Titular see in Thessaly.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Seleucia Trachaea in Isauria.
  • - A titular metropolitan see of Thracia Prima.
  • - The custom originated in 1621, when Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony appointed a day for public praise and prayer after the first harvest.
  • - Priest and martyr. (1497-1540)
  • - In the Bible the sanctuary of Jerusalem bears the Hebrew name of Bet Yehovah (house of Jehovah).
  • - Papal legate to India and China, cardinal, born of a noble Savoyard family at Turin, 21 December, 1668; died in confinement at Macao, 8 June, 1710.
  • - A French preacher, born at Lyons in 1669; died at Paris, 25 April, 1723.
  • - Located in the Province of Rome.
  • - A lector attached to the Church of St. Sophia of Constantinople in the early part of the sixth century.
  • - A collective term for those members of the Cowichan tribe, occupying the Lower Fraser River, Yale District, British Columbia (Canada), between Nicomen and Yale.
  • - French draughtsman and painter. (1836-1902)
  • - Melchite archdiocese and Maronite diocese.
  • - The Diocese of Tarbes comprises the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees (ancient territory of Bigorre).
  • - Born at Münster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May, 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 Feb., 1865.
  • - Diocese comprising the Department of Corrèze.
  • - The name popularly given in Christian tradition to the scriptural Garden of Eden.
  • - Bishop of Alexandria from about 283 to 301.
  • - Located in Dalmatia; suffragan to Kalocsa-Bacs.
  • - Observed on August 6 to commemorate the manifestation of the Divine glory recorded by St. Matthew (Chapter 17).
  • - Astronomer. (1745-1817)
  • - Chronicler, died about 850. Assistant Bishop of Trier and friend of Walafrid Strabo.
  • - A Welsh saint, son of King Ceithfalt of Morganwg or Southern Wales, flourished probably in the sixth century.
  • - The Vicariate Apostolic of Temiskaming, suffragan of Ottawa, Canada.
  • - Eighth-century Scottish bishop.
  • - Bishop in Cilicia and ecclesiastical writer.
  • - Seat of a titular suffragan see of Ptolemais in Thebaid Secunda.
  • - Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Oaxaca.
  • - A titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan of Ancyra.
  • - A French-Canadian explorer, born at Quebec, 1676.
  • - Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa.
  • - Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • - English Minorite. (d. 1369)
  • - The Archdiocese of Tuam, the metropolitan see of Connacht, extends, roughly speaking, from the Shannon westwards to the sea, and comprises half of County Galway, and nearly half of Mayo, with a small portion of south Roscommon.
  • - A titular see of Numidia.
  • - Disciples of St. Paul.
  • - Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 1161)
  • - A penitent in Egypt in the fourth century.
  • - Viceroy of New France, born in France, 1603, of noble parents; died there in 1670.
  • - An Apostolic Letter of Leo XIII addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, 22 January, 1899.
  • - Covers their establishment in various countries.
  • - A collective name which, since about the close of the Middle Ages or a little later, has been applied to texts of great variety (in both poetry and prose) written for the purpose of amplifying and embellishing an independently complete liturgical text.
  • - Carmelite of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus. (1873-1897)
  • - Located on the Italian coast of the Adriatic, having a small harbour near the mouth of the Petraglione.
  • - On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.
  • - Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Mexico.
  • - The word tradition refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission.
  • - Mentioned by three Evangelists and is often alluded to by the early Christian Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others, but there are comparatively few writers of the first six centuries who speak of it as a relic known to be still in ex
  • - Thibaut IV, count of Champagne and King of Navarre, and French poet. (1201-1253)
  • - A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica.
  • - Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • - Theologian. (1658-1729)
  • - Born at Brabant in 1559; died at Ingolstadt in April, 1632.
  • - Ecclesiastical tithes, which in the course of time became alienated from the Church to lay proprietors.
  • - A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.
  • - Italian humanist and philosopher born of a noble family at Cosenza, near Naples, 1508; died there, 1588.
  • - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • - An institution for the higher education of Catholic women, located at Washington, D.C.
  • - A titular see in Asia, a suffragan of Ephesus.
  • - Patriarch of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; died 25 February, 806.
  • - A suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespont.
  • - A diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Guadalajara.
  • - Roman martyr.
  • - The origin of Terce, like that of Sext and None, to which it bears a close relationship, dates back to Apostolic times.
  • - A collection of some 350 clay tablets found in 1887 amid the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton.
  • - Theologian known as the Doctor Profundus.
  • - Roman martyrs, feast 11 August.
  • - The first Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honour the Most Holy Trinity.
  • - Ecclesiastical writer in the second and third centuries.
  • - For some three centuries the seat of Saxon hermits, or of anchorites living in community, before it was refounded in 972 for Benedictine monks by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, with the aid of King Edgar.
  • - Town of the Pueblo group, inhabited by Indians speaking the Tigua language of Shoshonean linguistic stock.
  • - Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa Bács.
  • - Benedictine abbey of Bavaria.
  • - Martyr. (d. 1295)
  • - The terms transcendent and transcendental have antithetical reference to experience or the empirical order.
  • - Jesuit missionary and noted geographer in Hindustan. 1710-1785)
  • - Statesman, b. at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Geneviève Michon; d. 30 July, 1865.
  • - A Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia.
  • - Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572.
  • - The first word of Chapter 1, Session 24, of the Council of Trent.
  • - A titular see, suffragan of Nicomedia, in Bithynia Prima.
  • - A rectangular space inserted between the apse and nave in the early Christian basilica.
  • - A Muskhogean tribe living when first known on the west bank of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Tensas parish, Louisiana.
  • - A Maronite and Melchite diocese, in Syria.
  • - Christology is that part of theology which deals with Our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • - The magnanimous indulgence one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a "false
  • - Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Santiago.
  • - Musical composer and pianist. (1812-1871)
  • - From Greek telos, end, and logos, science.
  • - Italian mathematician and physicist, born at Faenza, 15 October, 1608; died at Florence, 25 October, 1647.
  • - Diocese in the Philippines.
  • - Dogmatic theologian. (1832-1903)
  • - Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Linares.
  • - Bishop of Hereford. (1218-1282)
  • - Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786.
  • - In the Old Testament God commanded that a lamp filled with the purest oil of olives should always burn in the Tabernacle of the Testimony without the veil.
  • - French missionary, born at St-Loup, Diocese of Poitiers; martyred in Tonkin, 2 February, 1861. (1829-1861)
  • - A titular see in Hellas, suffragan of Corinth.
  • - Theologian and historian. (1804-1874)
  • - The opening words of the penultimate stanza of the Vesper hymn of Corpus Christi.
  • - Archbishop of Reims.
  • - A former abbey of Cistercian nuns, situated north of Breslau in Silesia.
  • - Titular see of Thebais Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais, and the seat of a Coptic Catholic diocese.
  • - Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
  • - Titular see in Macedonia.
  • - New England convert and priest. (1755-1815)
  • - A fourteenth-century scholastic of the Augustinian Order.
  • - A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.
  • - Explores the question where Mary died and was buried, either Jerusalem or Ephesus.
  • - Martyr, born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire; suffered at Tyburn, London, 24 Aug., 1601.
  • - Situated in the barony of Uppercross.
  • - Martyred at York, 11 March, l6l6.
  • - Located on the east coast of Northumberland, England, occupied the site of an earlier Saxon church built first in wood, then in stone, in the seventh century, and famous as the burial-place of St. Oswin, king and martyr.
  • - Writer, born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, 17 Oct., 1857; died in London, 9 May, 1907.
  • - Diocese in Spain.
  • - Diocese; suffragan of Cologne.
  • - Bishop of London, later of Durham. (1474-1559)
  • - Aunts of St. Gregory the Great, virgins in the sixth century.
  • - Educator, philanthropist, born at Fuentellana, Spain, 1488; died at Valencia, 8 September, 1555.
  • - Diocese comprising the Departments of Lambayeque, Libertad, Pinra, and the Province of Tumbes, in North-west Peru, formed by Gregory XIII.
  • - Titular see of Numidia.
  • - Includes information on geography, history, and missions.
  • - First instituted at Paris in 1239.
  • - Detailed article broken into time periods.
  • - A titular see in Byzacene.
  • - Located in the Society Islands, has an area of 600 square miles.
  • - A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.
  • - Known also as Pellegrino da Bologna and as Pellegrino Pellegrini, decorator, mural painter, and architect. 1527-1592)
  • - Limited to those doctrines which discuss the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end, and propose the means instituted by God for the attainment of that end.
  • - Located in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona.
  • - Though pre-eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe.
  • - Moral theologian. (1591-1675)
  • - An abbreviated title commonly given a hymn in rhythmical prose, of which the opening words, Te Deum Laudamus, formed its earliest known title.
  • - One of the three great feasts of the Hebrew liturgical calendar.
  • - President of the Association Tijd en Vlijt and of Constantius Buter, also a member of the Flemish Academy, and for a time, its president.
  • - First Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, missionary, prelate, statesman, and writer of Western Canada. (1823-1894)
  • - Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, 1574-1579; born about 1526; died 1579.
  • - Old Testament precursor to the Temple.
  • - Lay members of religious orders, i.e. men and women who do not necessarily live in community and yet can claim to wear the habit and participate in the good works of some great order.
  • - Born in Devonshire; died at Tyburn, 28 May, 1582.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Larissa in Thessaly.
  • - The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one from another.
  • - Defines ontological, logical, and moral truth.
  • - A titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades.
  • - A supernatural gift of the class gratiae gratis datae, designed to aid in the outer development of the primitive Church.
  • - Archbishop of Canterbury; died 30 July, 734.
  • - The triangular candlestick used in the Tenebrae service.
  • - Diocese in Brazil, South America, established on 29 April, 1908, as a suffragan of Sãn Paulo.
  • - A name assumed by one of the pseudo-prophets during the time of the Great Schism.
  • - Martyred at Norwich, 13 July, 1616.
  • - Abbot of Einsiedeln, born at Arth in the Canton of Schwyz, 28 Dec., 1752; died 7 April, 1825.
  • - Located in the Province of Salerno.
  • - Austrian statesman. (1811-1888)
  • - A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.
  • - The fundamental obligations of religion and morality and embodying the revealed expression of the Creator's will in relation to man's whole duty to God and to his fellow-creatures.
  • - Brothers, natives of Jerusalem. Championed the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy in the East.
  • - First public antagonist of Luther. (1465-1519)
  • - Grand Inquisitor of Spain. (1420-1498)
  • - A name given along with several others to a church ornament used only in the office of Holy Saturday.
  • - The distinctive designation of the Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament.
  • - A division of central Italy, includes the provinces of Arezzo, Florence, Grosseto, Livorno, Massa and Carrara, Pisa, and Siena.
  • - Master-mason to the king, b. about 1442; d. in August, 1510.
  • - Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution. (c. 304)
  • - Jesuit theologian and cardinal. (1653-1726)
  • - The second Roman emperor.
  • - Titular metropolis in Macedonia.
  • - Located in Ceylon, suffragan of Colombo.
  • - Vicariate Apostolic in India, one of the three vicariates of the Syro-Malabar Rite.
  • - French statesman and cardinal. (1680-1758)
  • - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • - Bishop of Cyrus and theologian, born at Antioch in Syria about 393; died about 457.
  • - A tribal group formerly ranging about the middle Trinity and Colorado Rivers, in Eastern Texas.
  • - The hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary.
  • - A titular suffragan see of Sardes in Lydia.
  • - Jesuit educator and publicist. (1807-1885)
  • - Tribe of the great Chaco wilderness of South America.
  • - A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude.
  • - Born about 362-371.
  • - Genealogist, born at Quebec, 1819; died 1902.
  • - French botanist. (1656-1708)
  • - Christ endured temptation only from without, inasmuch as His human nature was free from all concupiscence.
  • - A fifteenth-century Greek Humanist and translator of Aristotle.
  • - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • - A titular see in Africa Byzacena.
  • - Addresses acts and experiences or states of the soul which cannot be produced by human effort or industry even with the ordinary aid of divine grace.
  • - A term used in general to designate the knowledge of God supposed to be obtained by the direct intuition of the Divine essence.
  • - A titular see in Cyprus, suffragan of Salamis.
  • - Italian poet and scholar. (1478-1550)
  • - A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan to Laodicea.
  • - Article on Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
  • - Roman Emperor 79-81.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honorias.
  • - Italian painter, b. at Venice, 1518; d. there 1594.
  • - Towards the end of the twelfth century the order had 250 houses throughout Christendom, where its benevolent work was manifested by the return of liberated captives.
  • - The collective designation for a group of tribes constituting the Tacanan linguistic stock in different dialects, occupying the upper valleys of the Beni and Madre de Dios Rivers, on the eastern slope of the Andes, Department of Beni, north-western Bolivi
  • - English saint. (1319-1379)
  • - Titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana.
  • - Diocese in Southern Russia suffragan of Mohilev.
  • - Covers the history in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
  • - Vicariate apostolic. Portion of south Africa.
  • - Located in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
  • - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • - Discalced Carmelite, writer on mystical theology. (1564-1627)
  • - German astronomer. (1821-1889)
  • - Archbishop of Dublin. (1739-1823)
  • - A titular see in Cappadocia Prima, suffragan of Caesarea.
  • - A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.
  • - The principal document concerning him is the "Acta Thomae", variations both in Greek and in Syriac, and bearing signs of its Gnostic origin.
  • - Two of the canonical Epistles of St. Paul.
  • - The name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week.
  • - French historian. (1553-1617)
  • - Exegete, born at Madrigal, Castile, about 1400; died at Bonilla de la Sierra, near Avila, 3 Sept., 1455.
  • - In a broad sense, the name given to the system which follows the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophical and theological questions.
  • - Diocese in southern Italy.
  • - Martyr, born in London, 1551; died at Tyburn, London, 7 February, 1578.
  • - In general the doctrine that, in the process of generation, the human spiritual soul is transmitted to the offspring by the parents.
  • - Spanish artist. Born in Crete, between 1545 and 1550; died at Toledo, 7 April, 1614.
  • - Seventh Archbishop of Canterbury. (602-690)
  • - Founded by St. Jarlath, it rivalled Clonmacnoise as a center of Celtic art in the eleventh century.
  • - Spanish poet and dramatist, born at Torres, near Badajoz, towards the end of the fifteenth century.
  • - The Association of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and of work for poor churches was founded at Brussels in 1848 by Anne de Meeûs.
  • - A deistic sect formed in France during the latter part of the French Revolution.
  • - A fabric in which the two processes of weaving and embroidering are combined.
  • - Martyr, born 1549, in Lancashire; executed at Tyburn, 30 May, 1582.
  • - Franciscan poet and writer. (1200-1255)
  • - The killing of a tyrant, and usually is taken to mean the killing of a tyrant by a private person for the common good.
  • - Italian mathematician. (1500-1557)
  • - The seat the bishop uses when not engaged at the altar.
  • - Primatial see of Spain, whose archbishop, raised almost always to the dignity of cardinal, occupies the first place in the ranks of the higher Spanish clergy.
  • - The terms of the oath required the affiant to deny, not only that he had ever been in armed hostility to the United States, or to the lawful authorities thereof, but that he had ever "by act or word", manifested his adherence to the cause of the
  • - The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving.
  • - Located on the Tavy River in Devonshire, England, founded for Benedictine monks in 961.
  • - The story of an expedition against the Quadi led by Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
  • - Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652.
  • - The reputed pupil of the Apostle Paul, who is the heroine of the apocryphal "Acta Pauli et Theclae".
  • - Distinguished among the mountains of Palestine for its picturesque site, its graceful outline, the remarkable vegetation which covers its sides of calcareous rock, and the splendour of the view from its summit.
  • - Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Yucatán.
  • - Includes geography, history, and demographics.
  • - Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy).
  • - Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.
  • - Writer and statesman. (1805-1859)
  • - English theologian and cardinal. (d. 1310)
  • - Term was introduced into philosophy by Leibniz.
  • - Historian. (d. 1022)
  • - The city of Viterbo in the Province of Rome stands at the foot of Monte Cimino, in Central Italy.
  • - Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist. (1810-1874)
  • - Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, from the caliphate of Baghdad and independent Turkish principalities.
  • - Formed from the Archdiocese of Quebec, to which it is suffragan.
  • - That part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and His works.
  • - Bishop of Orléans, a writer skilled in poetic forms and a learned theologian, born in Spain about 760; died at Angers, France, 18 December, 821.
  • - Titular see in Byzacena.
  • - Located in the Marches, Central Italy.
  • - Spanish priest and poet, better known by his pseudonym of Tirso de Molina. (1571-1648)
  • - A suffragan of Saragossa.
  • - A zealous champion of the veneration of images and the last geat representative of the unity and independence of the Church in the East.
  • - French Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1677-1718)
  • - English composer. (1514-1585)
  • - Saint, knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, born in London, 7 February, 1477-78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535.
  • - A Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite.
  • - English abbot. (d. 975)
  • - A common misrepresentation concerning the Elizabethan persecution of English and Irish Catholics from 1570 onwards is the statement that the victims devoted to imprisonment, torture, and death suffered not for their religious belief but for treason agains
  • - Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo.
  • - Priest, born at Gloucestershire; martyred at Tyburn, 6 July, 1585.
  • - The chief town of a civil province in Piedmont and was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • - The Diocese of Tarazona comprises the Spanish provinces of Saragossa, Soria, Navarre, and Logroño.
  • - Martyrs whose feast is observed in the Latin Church on 10 November.
  • - English Catholic layman.
  • - Suffragan diocese of Görz-Gradiska.
  • - Sister of St. Patrick.
  • - Controversialist, born at Innsbruck in 1571; died at Unken, 25 May, 1632.
  • - Italian philosopher. (1820-1865)
  • - Archdiocese in France.
  • - A titular see in Libyan Pentapolis.
  • - Hellenist and polemicist. (1509-1584)
  • - Philosopher, theologian, and exegete, son of an actuary. (1532-1596)
  • - A titular see, suffragan of Amasea in the Hellespont.
  • - Signifies first "direction, instruction", as, for instance, the instruction of parents, or of the wise.
  • - Includes geography, history, demographic, and government information.
  • - Diocese in western Galicia, Austria.
  • - The object of textual criticism is to restore as nearly as possible the original text of a work the autograph of which has been lost.
  • - Jurist and first Catholic Premier of Canada. (1844-1894)
  • - English martyr. (d. 1585)
  • - Diocese in the Cyclades.
  • - The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, alotted to the clergy for their support or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
  • - Scottish theologian. (1543-1597)
  • - Born at Stalbridge, Dorset; died about 1689.
  • - Reigned from 642 to 649.
  • - Hebrew, addition, supplement.
  • - French historian, belonging to the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Maur. (1697-1777)
  • - A titular see in Mauretania Cæsariensis.
  • - An ancient body of Christians on the east and west coasts of India, claiming spiritual descent from the Apostle St. Thomas.
  • - French statesman and historian, first president of the Third French Republic. (1797-1877)
  • - Knight Bachelor (in or before 1524), Grand Prior of England in the Order of Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.
  • - Located in Würtemberg; founded by Count Eberhard im Bart on 3 July, 1477.
  • - Wrote "The History and Antiquities of the Castle of Arundel" (London, 1834) and several controversial pamphlets. Also acted as editor of the "Dublin Review", succeeding Quin, the first editor.
  • - Archbishop of Narbonne, born at Montauban about 840; died at the same place 1 May, 893.
  • - An Armenian Catholic diocese.
  • - A diocese in Ohio, U.S.A., formed out of the Diocese of Cleveland and erected into a separate jurisdiction, 15 April, 1910.
  • - Name of various persons and a book in the Bible.
  • - Explores the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration.
  • - Bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Beckington, Somerset, about 1390; died at Wells, 14 January, 1465.
  • - Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, born at Avila, Old Castile. (1515-1582)
  • - A Platonist philosopher of the twelfth century.
  • - Diocese in Central Italy; immediately dependent on the Holy See.
  • - A tribe along the north bank of the upper Amazon.
  • - Suffragan to Buenos Aires, erected from the Diocese of Salta on 15 February, 1897.
  • - Author of a large number of theological and historical works and commentaries on the classics, more especially the works of Seneca.
  • - Located in the Province of Potenza in the Basilicata (Southern Italy), near the River Perrola.
  • - Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573.
  • - A tomb, or monument, over a grave, oblong in form, which is covered with a slab or table, having the appearance of an altar.
  • - A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch.
  • - A Latin diocese of the Cyclades.
  • - Diocese created 15 July, 1881, suffragan of New York.
  • - So called in John 21:1 (cf. 6:1), otherwise known as "the sea of Galilee".
  • - A titular see of Numidia near the sea, between the Armua and the Tusca.
  • - Author of the "Imitation of Christ", born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471.
  • - Bishop of Trent. (1777-1860)
  • - Son of Photius.
  • - Three days. Frequently chosen for prayer or for other devout practices.
  • - A philosopher and physician of the Middle Ages, and a member of the Order of Saint Dominic.
  • - The first day of Tishri (October), the seventh month of the Hebrew year.
  • - Philosopher and writer on sociological subjects. (1793-1862)
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Cyrene, in the Libya Pentapolis.
  • - Scholar and Benedictine abbot. (1462-1516)
  • - Established in London for educational purposes at the time of the Crusades.
  • - A small tribe living, when first known to the French, in small villages on the lower Yazoo River, Mississippi.
  • - A titular see in Numidia.
  • - The name of two eminent Flemish landscape painters; the elder, born at Antwerp in 1582; died there in 1649; the younger; born at Antwerp in 1610; died at Brussels in 1694.
  • - Reigned about 125-136.
  • - Diocese established in 1880 as a suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of Colombia, South America.
  • - A religious order of men, founded by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa, afterwards Pope Paul IV.
  • - An African Donatist writer of the fourth century who appears to have had some influence on St. Augustine.
  • - Second-century Bishop of Antioch.
  • - Titular see, suffragan of Caesarea in Palaestina Prima.
  • - Philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church (Angelicus Doctor), patron of Catholic universities, colleges, and schools.
  • - A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.
  • - A titular see, suffragan of Perge in Pamphylia Secunda.
  • - A celebrated preacher, b. at Vienna, 7 or 12 April, 1729; d. there, 20 July, 1784.
  • - Suffragan of Seville, formerly called Nivariensis from Nivaria, the ancient name of the island.
  • - Diocese in the Province of Rome.
  • - Baron de L'Aulne, French minister. (1727-1781)
  • - The hybrid name by which the Carrier Indians of the northern interior of British Columbia were originally made known by the fur traders.
  • - A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.
  • - Diocese comprising the Department of Aube.
  • - Comprises the arrondissement of Moutiers in the Department of Savoie; it is also sometimes called the Diocese of Moutiers en Tarentaise, and is suffragan of Chambéry.
  • - Main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants.
  • - Medieval writer, preacher, and theologian. (1201-1272)
  • - Fourth son of George Talbot and brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Chiefly known for having been the last priest to be indicted in the public courts for saying Mass. (1726-1790)
  • - French composer. (1811-1896)
  • - Constitutes the group of superstitions and customs of which the totem is the center.
  • - A former diocese of the colony of New Spain.
  • - A metropolitan see of Cilicia Prima.
  • - A titular metropolitan see in the Province of Scythia, on the Black Sea.
  • - Veronese painter and engraver.
  • - Taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and Scripture, was made rector of the imperial university, and guided for six years the Bohemian province of his order.
  • - Abbess of the Convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion.
  • - Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou. (1528-1598)
  • - American poet and educator. (1845-1909)
  • - Mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. (1397-1482)
  • - The science of the care of souls.
  • - A titular see in Greece, suffragan of Corinth.
  • - Dominican biographer and historian. (1686-1775)
  • - Italian poet. (1565-1635)
  • - A sacred rite instituted by the Church by which a baptized and confirmed Christian is received into the clerical order.
  • - German Dominican, mystic and preacher. (1300-1361)
  • - English composer. (1475-1535)
  • - The secret taking of another's property against the reasonable will of that other.
  • - Titular see of Numidia.
  • - Titular see of Cappadocia Prima.
  • - Titular see of Galatia Secunda, suffragan of Pessinus.
  • - All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.
  • - Historian commonly known as Charles Dodd. Died 1743.
  • - Emperor of Rome (A.D. 98-117), b. at Italica Spain, 18 September, 53; d. 7 August, 117.
  • - Dutch poet of the nineteenth century.