Catholic Encyclopedia

The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person.

A congregation founded in the department of Isère, at Saint-Antoine, France, by the Abbé Dom Adrien Gréa.

Located in the Republic of Venezuela, a metropolitan see with the Barquisimeto, Calabozo, Guayana, Merida, and Zulia as suffragans.

The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Author and publisher, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 28 January, 1760; d. in Philadelphia, U.S.A., 15 September, 1839.

French Canadian statesman, son of Jacques Cartier and Marguerite Paradis, b. at St. Antoine, on the Richelieu, 16 Sept., 1814; d. in London 20 May, 1873.

Cardinal, b. 1455, at Plasencia in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome 16 Dec., 1523.

Poet, dramatist, and diplomatist, b. at West Harting, England, 1625; d. 1711.

French historian, b. at Paris, 28 December, 1659; d. there 12 October, 1737.

French archaeologist, b. at Paris, in 1692; d. in 1765.

Founded in Belgium, the rule and constitutions were approved and confirmed by Pope Leo XIII, 4 July, 1899.

A community founded at Newark, in 1859, by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, who for twelve years previously had been a member of the Sisters of Charity, of St. Vincent de Paul in New York.

Papal nuncio, b. at Vicenza, 1479; d. at Bologna, 6 December, 1539.

A Mexican Indian of the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, who received a liberal education in the colleges for Indians of Mexico City under the direction of the clergy.

First Bishop of Prussia, d. 1245.

A society within the Church of England.

The Diocese, a suffragan see of the metropolitan province of Tuam, was founded in 557 by St. Brendan the Navigator.

The family name of several generations of painters.

Italian miniaturist, called by Vasari "the unique" and "little Michelangelo", b. at Grizani, on the coast of Croatia, in 1498; d. at Rome, 1578.

Humanist and Catholic controversialist, b. 1479; d. 11 Jan., 1552, in Breslau.

An island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the Gulf of Alexandretta.

A titular see of Northern Africa.

Melchite patriarch of that see in the seventh century, and one of the authors of Monothelism; d. about 641.

Scottish abbot and later hermit, fl. about 600. Also known as St. Drustan, Dustan, or Throstan.

Also called Dionysius the Great. Bishop, d. 264 or 265.

First Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 664.

Founder and first abbot of Bangor on the Dee, fl. 500-542.

Elected towards the end of a wave of persecution. Dionysius opposed the errors of the Sabellians and Marcionites, and died in 268.

The earliest document giving an account of liturgical services in the Diocese of Durham is the so-called "Rituale ecclesiæ Dunelmensis".

Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet who flourished about 820.

A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722.

Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.

Painter and illuminator. (1450-1523)

Daughter of Herod Agrippa I.

Theologian of the modern Catholic German school and author of the "Enchiridion" universally used, b. 10 Oct., 1819, at Liege; d. 19 June, 1883.

The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine.

Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, 1690; d. at Mechlin, 15 February, 1775.

Situated in the north of Egypt and comprises four of the six provinces forming Lower Egypt, namely: Gharbieh, Charkieb, Menufieh, and Kalyiubieh.

A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676.

The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons. With the article (ho) it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, "the Devil and his angels".

Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy; the ancient Tegianum and seat of the Tegyani, a tribe of Lucania.

Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., 1810; died 29 Sept., 1883, at Mechlin.

Making known the crime of another to one who is his superior.

Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 Nov., 1670; d. 5 May, 1752.

Publisher, born at Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March, 1811; died at Boston, U.S.A., 18 March, 1901.

These words form the introductory prayer to every Hour of the Roman, monastic, and Ambrosian Breviaries, except during the last three days of Holy Week, and in the Office of the Dead.

The territory or churches subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop.

Antoine, chancellor of France and Cardinal, b. at Issoire in Auvergne, 17 January, 1463; d. 1535. Guillaume, son of the foregoing, b. at Issoire, 1507; d. at Beauregard, 1560. Appointed Bishop of Clermont in 1529.

Date of birth unknown; died 14 Jan., 1811. He was a native of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, where he entered the Franciscan Order.

Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at Paris, 5 February, 1751.