Catholic Encyclopedia

Brief details of dioceses that were too new to have articles about them in 1914.

Founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

Canonically termed disturbtiones quotidianae, are certain portions of the revenue of a church, distributed to the canons present at Divine service.

Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death unknown.

Benedictine monastery in Switzerland.

Premonstratensian, b. at Senftenberg, Bohemia, 26 March, 1698; d. at Prenditz, Moravia, 21 December, 1765.

Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896.

A Greek silver coin.

Missionary in Pacific Northwest. (1809-1871)

Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576.

Diocese erected 8 May, 1881, in the four southern tiers of counties in Iowa.

A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century.

In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898.

Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870.

French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, 1566.

French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089.

Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham. Owing to its geographical position on the Scottish border, the successive bishops were led to assume constitutional and political functions in addition to their spiritual office.

Detailed biographical article on the King of England.

First woman; wife of Adam.

This Archbishop of Canterbury died in 1240, and was canonized within six years. Biography.

Bishop of Vercelli, exiled for defending St. Athanasius, anti-Arian, martyr, d. 371.

First Bishop of Tournai, early sixth century.

According to the Vitae Patrum, passed as a man and lived in a men's monastery for 38 years. She died in about 470.

Sometimes called Aristus. Martyr, died about 107.

Bishop of Winchester, called "father of monks," d. 984.

Queen of Northumbria, twice married for reasons of state, d. 679. Biography.

Abbot and Bishop of Ros-mic-Truin, d. first half of the sixth century. Some believe that Eimhin is the author of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick.

Second-century Roman martyrs.

King of Kent, a worshipper of Odin well into his adulthood, converted to Christianity, d. 616. Biography.

Profile of the English priest and martyr, who was executed at York in 1594.

One of the earliest German humanists, born in 1420 near Anabach in Franconia; died in 1475.

Precentor of Canterbury and historian.

A titular see of Thessaly, Greece.

Painter, born at Zumaya, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in the latter part of the sixteenth century; died in Mexico about the middle of the seventeenth.

So called because appointed by the Apostolic See for service in Rome. In 1570 Pius V instituted the Apostolic examiners to conduct examinations of candidates for orders and of confessors.

Discussed under the headings: (1) Scientific Hypothesis vs. Philosophical Speculation; (2) Theistic vs. Atheistic Theories of Evolution; (3) The Theory of Evolution vs. Darwinism; and (4) Human Evolution vs. Plant and Animal Evolution.

A priest of Bamberg in the eleventh century, author of a famous poem known as the "Song of the Miracles of Christ".

Missionary, born at Bingen, Germany, 4 August, 1721; died at the College of Polstok, Polish Russia, 29 June, 1809.

Founded by St. Egwin, third Bishop of Worcester, about 701, in Worcestershire, England, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.

The name of a warm spring near the center of the west shore of the Dead Sea, and also of a town situated in the same place.

Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish literatures are a few of the influences.

A property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital.

King of the English, eldest son of Edmund and St. Aelfgifu, born about 940; died 959.

Antiquarian, date of birth unknown; died 1603.

The union of Church and State setting up a definite and distinctive relation between the two is frequently expressed in English by the use of the word "establishment".

The feast was called among the Syrians denho (up-going), a name to be connected with the notion of rising light expressed in Luke. I, 78.

A titular see of Galatia Secunda in Asia Minor, suffragan of Pessinus.

An association of Protestants belonging to various denominations founded in 1846.

His own father had him arrested for secretly taking Holy Orders, and Maurice's brother accused him of treason. Martyred at Dublin in 1581.

A contract of future marriage between a man and a woman, who are thereby affianced.