Catholic Encyclopedia

Online version of the 1914 encyclopedia. Complete text of all articles. Some articles are also grouped by topic.

Although he is identified in the Roman Martyrology, at least one scholar thinks that this bishop was an Arian.

Article on Augustine as a Doctor of the Church, and his influence in the history of philosophy and theology. Particular interest in his teaching on grace.

Short article on St. Agatho the Wonderworker, a Sicilian believed to have been over 100 years old at the time of his election. He died in 681.

Short biography of the Franciscan famed as a preacher.

Long article on the Bishop of Alexandria, confessor and Doctor of the Church.

Fourth-century bishop of Trier.

Irish-born abbot of Iona, and St. Columba's biographer.

Long article on the Augustinian canon turned Franciscan, priest, preacher, miracle worker, d. 1231. Known as "the Hammer of the Heretics."

Profiles of six bishops of this name in the early Church.

A first-century martyr, the bishop of Ravenna.

Brother of St. Bridget the Younger and archdeacon of Fiesole, d. about 877.

Entered the convent at the age of 9, commissioned by the pope to found a monastery at the age of 13 (and 2 years later she was made its superior), also founded a Dominican convent, d. 1317.

Archbishop of Florence, Dominican reformer, moral theologian, d. 1459.

Sister or niece of Pepin of Landen. Amalberga was married to Witger; they both entered monastic life. Also called St. Amelia.

Deacon, founder of the English Franciscan Province, d. 1236.

Polish Jesuit priest and missionary, martyred in 1657.

Counselor to the King of Sicily, joined the Augustinians, renowned for his knowledge of civil and ecclesiastical law, served as the pope's confessor, was General of his Order.

Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois.

A Hebrew word signifying: ruin, destruction (Job 31:12); place of destruction; the Abyss, realm of the dead (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11).

A titular see in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.

Apocryphal writer.

Indian tribe, linguistically of Guaycuru stock.

Covers definition, causes, and physical effects.

French bishop, born at the Château de Raconis in 1580 of a Calvinistic family; died 1646.

A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome.

A titular see of Troas in Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespontic province.

Historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these associations of learned men.

Son of Amri and King of Israel.

Philologist, Latin poet, and convert to the Catholic Church. (1567-1595)

Name of several Italian cardinals.

A poem the initial or final letters of whose verses form certain words or sentences.

An English chronicler of about the middle of the fourteenth century.

Located in Denmark.

Spanish novelist and poet. (1833-1891)

Adoption, as defined in canon law, is foreign to the Bible.

An Italian bishopric, suffragan to Venice.

According to 1907 usage, a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle and embracing four Sundays.

Reigned 867-872.

A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75).

A Neo-Platonic philosopher, a convert to Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the fifth century.

A Roman general, patrician, and consul, b. towards the end of the fourth century; d. 454.

One of the names given by the Donatists to those of their followers who went through cities and villages to disseminate the doctrine of Donatus.

Archiepiscopal see of the ancient kingdom of Croatia, in Austria, founded towards the end of the eleventh century as a suffragan of Kalocsa in Hungary, and made an archdiocese in 1852.

Theories and movements intended to benefit the poorer classes of society by dealing in some way with the ownership of land or the legal obligations of the cultivators.

Bishop of Carthage at the close of the second and beginning of the third century.

Composer. (1779-1867)

A city of Upper Egypt, situated on the banks of the Nile.

Theologian. (1549-1624)

Manichæan heretics who lived in Albania, probably about the eighth century.