Christianity

Theologian, b. of a Roman senatorial family early in the thirteenth century; d. at Rome, 1 September, 1271.

Fourth-century Byzantine official.

A term used in its widest sense to signify the tendency of man to conceive the activities of the external world as the counterpart of his own.

The remains of the loaves or cakes from which the various portions are cut for consecration in the Mass, according to the Greek Rite, are gathered up on a plate, in the sanctuary and kept upon the prothesis, during the celebration of the Mass.

The shiretown of the county of the same name in Nova Scotia.

A titular metropolitan see of Syria, in the valley of the Orontes, whose episcopal list dates from the first century.

Discovered in a Montpellier manuscript of the tenth or eleventh century.

Indicates in general the ecclesiastical envoys of Christian antiquity, whether permanent or sent temporarily on missions to high ecclesiastical authorities or royal courts.

For several days after a great feast the celebrant turns back to certain prayers of the feast and repeats them in commemoration of it. The last day of such repetition of the prayers of the previous feast is called the apodosis.

A theological science which has for its purpose the explanation and defence of the Christian religion.

A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of Our Lord (the Master spoon) and the twelve Apostles.

A title given to the Kings of Hungary.

An act by which a bishop or other superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.

A name given to several sects in the early Church.

Jewish tentmakers, who left Rome in the Jewish persecution under Claudius, 49 or 50, and settled in Corinth.

A council held in 381, presided over by St. Valerian of Aquileia.

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)