Christianity

The most northerly group of the West Indies.

Titular Bishop of Siga. (1787-1843)

A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; died there, after 1195.

The Greek and Latin name for Belshazzar, which is the Hebrew equivalent for Bel­sarra­usur, i.e., "May Bel protect the king".

False prophet mentioned in the New Testament.

Archbishop of Tours, France, born 26 April, 1746, at Grenoble; died 7 June, 1816, at Paris.

A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612.

Italian missionary born 1692. Entered the Society of Jesus in France at the age of twenty-one, arrived in Louisiana in 1728.

Name given to the place where the "Sermon on the Mount", was delivered.

Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 April, 1757.

A book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in the Church.

The principal city of the province of the same name in Campania.

Dominican orator. (1830-1882)

An English Jesuit priest born in Cheshire, 1609; died 30 October, 1692.

A writer of church history, b. 22 November, 1720, at Briey, Lorraine; d. about 1794 at Noyon, France.

Information includes history, religion, climate, education, and economy.

Italian theologian, b. 28 May, 1696, at Sarravezza, Tuscany; d. 26 March, 1766, at Pisa.

Titular see of Palestine.

Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622.

Poet and theologian. (1578-1639)

Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.

This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.

A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the Apapahoes and Cheyennes, constitute the Western division of the Algonquin family.

A Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer, born at Donstienne, near Liège, Flanders, 1506; died at Liessies, 1566.

Principal work, "De uno geminoque sacrae eucharistiae synaxeos salubriter percipiendae ritu ac usu" was published (Ingolstadt, 1585) when he was provincial of Austria.

Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa.

Bishop of London, b. about 1500; d. 1569.

First Bishop of Merseburg, in the present Prussian Province of Saxony, and Apostle of the Wends, d. November, 970.

French bishop and orator. (1627-1704)

A titular see situated in Phoenicia.

French Jesuit. (1690-1743)

One of the medieval English names for Palm Sunday.

French writer of memoirs, b. in 1539, or a little later; d. 15 July, 1614.

In the Christian liturgy bread is used principally as one of the elements of the Eucharistic sacrifice.

Diocese situated in the Dutch province of Brabant and suffragan of Utrecht.

German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place about 1713.

Known also as Aquapontanus, historian of the Catholic confessors under Queen Elizabeth, born in Yorkshire about 1532; died probably at Trier, about 1596.

These publications derive their origin and their title from the Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last Earl of Bridgewater.

Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626.

Called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium, by the Greeks Brentesion, a city of in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, on a rocky peninsula which extends into the Adriatic.

Historian, b. in Portugal, 1496; d. 20 October, 1570.

Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897.

French statesman and historian. (1821-1901)

A Jesuit missionary, born 1724 at Magnac, Angoumois, France; died 1782.

A versatile and voluminous writer. (1814-1893)

A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711.

A European kingdom in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula.

Dominican historian and theologian. (1673-1747)

A receptacle in which, for reasons of convenience xnd reverence, the folded corporal is carried to and from the altar.

One of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries in Germany in the Middle Ages. Founded in 1093 by Duke Henry of Nordheim and his wife Gertrude.