Christianity

Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit.

The name Orthodox Church is generally used to distinguish those of the Greek Rite who are not in communion with the Holy See.

An antipope, known as Clement III, 1080 (1084) to 1100; born at Parma about 1025; died at Cività Castellana, 8 Sept., 1100.

A Bishop of Aversa, a Benedictine monk, theologian, and opponent of Berengarius; born at an unknown place in Normandy during the first quarter of the eleventh century; died between 1090-95, at Aversa, near Naples.

Article on this martyr, who died in about 306.

Seer and prophet, Sibyl of the Rhine, d. 1179. Never formally canonized, but she is listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Hyderabad, also called Bhagnagar, and Fakhunda Bunyad, capital of the Nizam's dominions, was founded in 1589, by Mohammed Kuli, King of Golconda.

During the early centuries of Christianity the hospice was a shelter for the sick, the poor, the orphans, the old, the travellers and the needy of every kind.

Son of King Gorm the Old of Denmark. (911-986)

Historian, b. at Volkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria, 25 April, 1683; d. at Vienna, 5 September, 1766.

A collection of homilies, or familiar explanations of the Gospels.

Third and last archpriest of England, b. in Derbyshire in 1553; d. 11 May, 1621.

Of the Society of the Sacred Heart, who established all the convents of her order, up to the year 1883, in the eastern part of the United States, Canada, and Cuba; b. at Piscataway, Maryland, 1809; d. at Paris, France, 17 June. 1886.

Preacher; b. at Coblenz, 14 August, 1810; d. at Paris, 5 July, 1876.

Franciscan Fathers, who with lay brothers keep watch over the Holy Sepulchre and the sanctuaries of the basilica.

Details of various groups by this name.

The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of Christ and His Divine mediatorial office.

Bishop and writer, b. at Edinburgh, 24 Aug., 1729; d. at Aquhorties, 18 Oct., 1811.

A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance.

Missionary, author, founder of the Paulists; b. in New York, 18 December, 1819; d. there, 22 Dec., 1888.

Poet and priest; born at Mercken, West Flanders, in 1596; died at Tongres in 1653.

Details on several congregations under this name.

St. Augustine first applied the pagan title of hero to the Christian martyrs.

Titular Archdiocese, metropolis of the Province of Euphrates, in the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Chronicler, mathematician, and poet. (1013-1054)

Priest and second Superior General of the Institute of St. Paul the Apostle. (1820-1897)

Titular see of Numidia.

Article about the spiritual writings of this Augustinian mystic, d. 1396.

Born at Versailles, 1741; died 16 July, 1828; the most distinguished sculptor of France during the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Preacher and writer on ascetics; b. 23 January, 1631, at Tours; d. 21 March, 1729, at Paris.

A city supposed to be identical with the Marionis of Ptolemy, was founded by a colony of fishermen from Lower Saxony.

A Catholic theologian; born 13 January, 1819, at Aschaffenburg; died 26 January, 1890, at Würzburg.

One of the suffragan sees of the Archdiocese of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

The name of the council by which the Church of Russia and, following its example, many other Orthodox Churches are governed.

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle (Hagulstadensis et Novocastrensis).

Capital and seat of Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as of the (civil) Province of South Holland.

King of Norway, 935 (936) to 960 (961), youngest child of King Harold Fair Hair and Thora Mosterstang.

A titular see of Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.

The name of several Latin writers.

A provost at Solothurn, in Switzerland, born at Zurich, in 1388 or 1389; died about 1460.

A French Lazarist missionary and traveller; born at Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne), 1 June, 1813; died at Paris, 26 March, 1860.

Biographical entry for this bishop, who died in 636.

Tells the story of this son of Emperor Michael I, forced into monastic life by a rival. Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed on a wicked pretext. Ignatius died in 877.

A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the "Following of Christ". Its purpose is to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model.

An important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri.

It is an uncompromising attitude in the late Jewish history, together with the apparently obvious meaning of the First Commandment, that are responsible for the common idea that Jews had no images.

The faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses.

Probably from an Arapahoe Indian word, "Gem of the Mountains", the name first suggested for the territory of Colorado.

Secret society founded in 1776.

Includes the United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and South America.