Catholic Encyclopedia

Indian tribe in Chile.

A miraculous image venerated at Arcachon, France, and to all appearances the work of the thirteenth century.

An archbishop or metropolitan, in the present sense of the term, is a bishop who governs a diocese strictly his own, while he presides at the same time over the bishops of a well-defined district composed of simple dioceses but not of provinces.

Site of an ancient abbey, now a parish and village in the county Meath, Ireland.

Humanist, and translator of Aristotle, born at Constantinople, 1416; died at Rome about 1486.

Writer of ascetical treatises, born at Seville in Spain, 1533, died in that place, 15 May, 1605.

A titular see of Palestine.

Enclosure, garden; the Garden of the Gods.

The vital function by which an organism changes nutrient material into living protoplasm.

Diocese in Umbria.

Suffragan of Saint Boniface; erected 8 April, 1862, by Pius IX.

That system of thought which is formally opposed to theism.

English priest and martyr. (d. 1610)

An illustrious Maronite family of Mount Lebanon, Syria, four members of which, all ecclesiastics, distinguished themselves during the eighteenth century in the East and in Europe.

A titular see of Lower Egypt.

Byzantine stateman and historian, probably a native of Attalia in Pamphylia.

A faithful follower of Gregory VII in his conflict with the simoniac clergy.

A learned theologian and canonist of the tenth century.

Historian of canon law and Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, born at Saragossa 26 February, 1517, of a distinguished family; died at Tarragona, 31 May, 1586.

A designation in early Christian times of certain bishops who were subject to no patriarch or metropolitan, but depended directly on the triennial provincial synod or on the Apostolic See.

In 585 (or 578) a Council of Auxerre held under St. Annacharius formulated forty-five canons, closely related in context to canons of the contemporary Councils of Lyons and Mâcon.

Developed from the already existing schools of the city, was formally constituted in 1303, by a Bull of Boniface VIII.

Archbishop of Carthage from 388 to 423.

A learned Dominican, b. at Piacenza, Italy; d. at Bologna, 19 August, 1327.

Describes two people known by this name.

Consecrated the same day as the antipope Eulalius. Both were ordered to leave Rome. Eulalius took over St. John Lateran on Holy Saturday, after which the emperor refused to consider his claim. Boniface died in 422.

Fifth-century Irish missionary to Wales and a contemporary of St. Patrick.

Or Botolph. Founder and abbot of Icanhoe, d. about 680.

Poor Clare and ascetical writer. She died in 1527.

Carmelite, Renaissance poet, d. 1516.

Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland, died 1197.

Italian Franciscan missionary, died 1494. Of little note as an author. Best remembered for his monti di pietà, a type of charitable lender similar to pawnbrokers.

The word is derived from the Babylonian bab-ilu, meaning "gate of God".

French physicist. (1794-1872)

The most northerly group of the West Indies.

Titular Bishop of Siga. (1787-1843)

A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; died there, after 1195.

The Greek and Latin name for Belshazzar, which is the Hebrew equivalent for Bel­sarra­usur, i.e., "May Bel protect the king".

False prophet mentioned in the New Testament.

Archbishop of Tours, France, born 26 April, 1746, at Grenoble; died 7 June, 1816, at Paris.

A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612.

Italian missionary born 1692. Entered the Society of Jesus in France at the age of twenty-one, arrived in Louisiana in 1728.

Name given to the place where the "Sermon on the Mount", was delivered.

Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 April, 1757.

A book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in the Church.

The principal city of the province of the same name in Campania.

Dominican orator. (1830-1882)

An English Jesuit priest born in Cheshire, 1609; died 30 October, 1692.

A writer of church history, b. 22 November, 1720, at Briey, Lorraine; d. about 1794 at Noyon, France.

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