Christianity

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.

Bishop of Trier, b. 15 Nov., 1815, at Trier (Germany), d. there 30 May, 1876.

A titular archiepiscopal see in that part of Mesopotamia formerly known as Osrhoene.

Educator, b. 11 August, 1793, in Kentucky, U.S.A.; d. 28 Sept., 1838, at Bardstown.

Dutch painter, b. at Leyden, 1468; d. there 1533; is believed to have been identical with a certain Cornelis de Hollandere who was a member of the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1492.

The sixth son of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, after whose resignation of the government in 1627 to his son Wilhelm V, Ernst and his brother Hermann respectively founded the collateral lines of Hesse-Rheinfels and Hesse-Rotenburg.

A titular see of Epirus Vetus in Greece, suffragan of Nicopolis.

Bishop, place and date of birth unknown; d. 341. He was a pupil at Antioch of Lucian the Martyr, in whose famous school he learned his Arian doctrines.

Irish missionary, founded the Monastery of Säckingen sometime before the ninth century.

Martyred at Carthage in 203.

Abbot of Engelberg, renowned for learning as well as sanctity, d. 1178.

Biography of this Capuchin lay brother, known for his goodness, popular with children, d. 1587.

Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322.

Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit.

Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)

German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.

Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)

French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.

A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.

German Augustinian. (1724-1788)

Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.

Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.

Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane. (1593-1665)

A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466.

One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated.

Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons. (1759-1843)

The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.

The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.

Artist. (1800-1876)

This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.

Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.

Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)

A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.