Christianity

Writer. (1740-1830)

A name used for (1) the descendants of Cain, (2) a sect of Gnostics and Antinomians.

Suffragan of Lima, Peru.

Technically, the exercise of a clerical office involving the instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and the sanctification, through the sacraments, of the faithful in a determined district, by a person legitimately a ppointed for the purpose.

A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.

The Archdiocese of Colombo, situated on the western seaboard of the Island of Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz. the Western and the Northwestern.

Situated in the Italian province of Macerata in the Apennines, about 40 miles from Ancona.

Italian anatomist and physiologist. (1725-1813)

Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1475; d. 1536.

Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694.

Historian and litterateur; born at Florence, Italy, 13 September, 1792; died 3 February, 1876.

A city in the province of Catania, Sicily, built on two eminences about 2000 feet above sea-level, connected by a bridge.

Superior of the Sulpicians in Canada, b. at Bourges, France, in 1835; d. at Montreal, 27 November, 1902.

French missionary among the Indians of Canada, born at Carentoir, France, November 1633; died at Quebec, 27 July, 1726.

French priest, founder of the Marists. (1790-1875)

The subject is covered under the headings: I. Position; II. History; III. Inscriptions; IV. Paintings; V. Sarcophagi; VI. Small Objects Found in the Catacombs; and VII. Catacombs outside Rome.

A social organization described by its constitution as a club which "shall consist of Catholic gentlemen who are governed by a spirit of devotion to the Church and fidelity to the Holy Father".

The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption.

Missionary bishop. (d. 1583)

Flemish Humanist and theologian. (1513-1566)

An important town in the province of Lombardy (Northern Italy), situated on Lake Como, the ancient Lacus Larius.

The word indicates both a state of mind and a quality of a proposition, according as we say, "I am certain", or, "It is certain".

Prior of the English Carthusians at Bruges. (d. 1581)

Missionary among the Huron Indians, born at Senlis, France, in 1606; died at Quebec, 14 August, 1684.

Archbishop of Tuam, patriot, theologian and founder of the Irish (Franciscan) College of St. Anthony at Louvain, born in Galway, 1560; died at Madrid, 18 Nov., 1629.

Venetian painter. (1459-1517)

Founded in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme, in a deserted and uninhabited part of the Diocese of Châlons-sur Saône.

The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to moral.

Founded by a Bull which Sixtus IV issued 19 June, 1475, at the request of King Christian I.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Reigned 1769-1774.

A titular see of Armenia.

A titular see of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.

Diocese of England, consisting of Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire.

A titular see of Osrhoene.

One of the Ionian Islands, at the entrance of the Adriatic, opposite the Albanian coast, from which it is separated by a narrow channel.

Designates in the Old Testament a certain city and its adjacent territory in the tribe of Juda.

Writer and preacher. (1822-1893)

Also called Jacob van Amsterdam or van Oostzann, and at times confounded with a Walter van Assen, a Dutch painter of the first third of the sixteenth century.

A religious order, founded by Théodore de Celles, who, after following the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Crusade, obtained a canonry in the Cathedral of St. Lambert of Liège.

Canadian statesman. (1820-1890)

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Located in the Republic of Chile, suffragan to Santiago de Chile.

A peculiar style of inlaid ornamental mosaic introduced into the decorative art of Europe during the twelfth century.

A narrow isthmus between Panama in the east and the Republic of Nicaragua in the north, the Caribbean Sea on the north-east and the Pacific Ocean on the south-west.

A special competitive examination prescribed in canon law for all aspirants to certain ecclesiastical offices to which is attached the cure of souls.

Includes information on the history and types of congresses held.

An important and fortified Mediterranean seaport, in the province of Rome.

The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".