Denominations

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.

Italian family said to be descended from Albanian refugees of the fifteenth century. Includes information on six family members.

Diocese comprising seventy-nine towns in the province of Port Maurice and forth-five in the province of Genoa, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Genoa, Italy.

Archbishop, of Trier born about 1080; died 1152.

First Archbishop of San Francisco. (1814-1888)

Diocese made up of 42 communes in the province of Cagliari, Archbishopric of Oristano, Italy.

Reigned 1254-61.

Tragic poet of Italy. (1749-1803)

A learned Greek of the seventeenth century. (1586-1669)

A Milanese Dominican who won distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary. (1715-1785)

One of the English priests who were victims of the plots of 1679-80.

Jesuit missionary. (1571-1653)

Drawn around the altar at certain parts of Mass.

Warrior and statesman. (1508-1582)

Describes several biblical uses of the word.

A term formed by Auguste Comte in 1851, to denote the benevolent, as contrasted with the selfish propensities.

Jesuit and educator. (1526-1582)

A titular see and metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the river Iris, now Amasiah.

A cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, for exercise in walking; the aisle that makes the circuit of the apse of a church.

Offers details of early exploration.

King of Sennaar (Shinar), or Babylonia.

A violent and extremely radical body of ecclesiastico-civil reformers which first made its appearance in 1521 at Zwickau.

The process by which anything complex is resolved into simple, or at least less complex parts or elements.

Reigned 496-498.

The name given to a thirteenth­ century code of rules for the life of anchoresses, which is sometimes called "The Nuns' Rule".

Missionary and explorer of Tibet in the seventeenth century.

Benedictine monastery in Bavaria.

Roman composer, b. c. 1560; d. c. 1630.