Catholic Encyclopedia

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.

A social organization described by its constitution as a club which "shall consist of Catholic gentlemen who are governed by a spirit of devotion to the Church and fidelity to the Holy Father".

The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption.

Missionary bishop. (d. 1583)

Flemish Humanist and theologian. (1513-1566)

An important town in the province of Lombardy (Northern Italy), situated on Lake Como, the ancient Lacus Larius.

The word indicates both a state of mind and a quality of a proposition, according as we say, "I am certain", or, "It is certain".

Prior of the English Carthusians at Bruges. (d. 1581)

Missionary among the Huron Indians, born at Senlis, France, in 1606; died at Quebec, 14 August, 1684.

Archbishop of Tuam, patriot, theologian and founder of the Irish (Franciscan) College of St. Anthony at Louvain, born in Galway, 1560; died at Madrid, 18 Nov., 1629.

Venetian painter. (1459-1517)

Founded in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme, in a deserted and uninhabited part of the Diocese of Châlons-sur Saône.

The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to moral.

Founded by a Bull which Sixtus IV issued 19 June, 1475, at the request of King Christian I.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Reigned 1769-1774.

A titular see of Armenia.

A titular see of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.

Diocese of England, consisting of Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire.

A titular see of Osrhoene.

One of the Ionian Islands, at the entrance of the Adriatic, opposite the Albanian coast, from which it is separated by a narrow channel.

Designates in the Old Testament a certain city and its adjacent territory in the tribe of Juda.

Writer and preacher. (1822-1893)

Also called Jacob van Amsterdam or van Oostzann, and at times confounded with a Walter van Assen, a Dutch painter of the first third of the sixteenth century.

A religious order, founded by Théodore de Celles, who, after following the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Crusade, obtained a canonry in the Cathedral of St. Lambert of Liège.

Canadian statesman. (1820-1890)

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Located in the Republic of Chile, suffragan to Santiago de Chile.

A peculiar style of inlaid ornamental mosaic introduced into the decorative art of Europe during the twelfth century.

A narrow isthmus between Panama in the east and the Republic of Nicaragua in the north, the Caribbean Sea on the north-east and the Pacific Ocean on the south-west.

A special competitive examination prescribed in canon law for all aspirants to certain ecclesiastical offices to which is attached the cure of souls.

Includes information on the history and types of congresses held.

An important and fortified Mediterranean seaport, in the province of Rome.

The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".

The meaning of the term in Roman law, and consequently in early ecclesiastical records and writings, was much the same; a concubine was a quasi-wife, recognized by law if there was no legal wife.

Bishop; born in Swabia at an unknown date; killed at Utrecht, 14 April, 1099.

Reigned 686-687.

The cleric or minister who carries the processional cross, that is, a crucifix provided with a long staff or handle.

Contumacy, or contempt of court, is an obstinate disobedience of the lawful orders of a court.

The Diocese comprises the entire department of La Manche and is a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Rouen.

The Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown comprises North Queensland, Australia, from 16°30' south latitude to Cape York, and from the Pacific Coast to the boundary of Northern Territory.

Theologian, writer, and preacher, b. in Portugal, about 1548; d. about 1620.

Italian painter of the school of Ferrara, b. about 1430; d. probably at Ferrara, 1485.

Italian painter. Little is known of his life, and his b. and d. are usually reckoned by his earliest and latest signed pictures, 1468-93.

Born in Toledo, Spain, 25 July, 1512; died in Madrid, 27 Sept., 1577.

Generally, an unreasonable desire for what we do not possess.

Archbishop of Canterbury, born in the parish of St. Martin's, Exeter, England, c. 1342; died at Maidstone, 31 July, 1396.

A titular see of Albania.

In general, a form of belief.

In legal language the term constitutiones denotes only church ordinances, civil ordinances being termed leges, laws.