Christianity

The term given, in general, to all those theories, which, for one reason or another, deny that it is the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion.

Lack of knowledge about a thing in a being capable of knowing.

German physicist, born 26 July, 1758, at Rissbach, in Bavaria; died 11 April, 1817 at Munich.

A remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven.

The Incarnation is the mystery and the dogma of the Word made Flesh.

In consequence of an agreement between the Holy See and the Portuguese Government in 1886.

Reigned 1243-1254.

Reigned 1484-1492.

The violation of another's strict right against his reasonable will, and the value of the word right is determined to be the moral power of having or doing or exacting something in support or furtherance of one's own advantage.

A Nestorian bishop of that city in the latter half of the seventh century, being consecrated by the Nestorian Patriarch George (660-80).

Founder of the colony of Louisiana, b. at Villemarie, Montreal, 16 July, 1661; d. at Havana, 9 July, 1706.

A society of male religious approved by the Church, but not taking Holy orders, and having for its object the personal sanctification of its members and the Christian education of youth, especially of the children of artisans and the poor.

Collegiate bodies established at Rome by ecclesiastical or civil authority for the purpose of historical research, notably in the Vatican archives.

A canonical impediment directly impeding the reception of tonsure and Holy orders or preventing the exercise of orders already received.

Diocese in the province of Campobasso in Molise (Southern Italy).

The fifth of the Minor Prophets. Article takes a look at the Book of Jonah.

One of the books of the Old Testament, and the chief personage in it.

What can be known of St. James, son of Zebedee and brother of John, from Scripture. Also discusses the tradition that St. James preached in Spain and that his body was translated to Compostela.

Lengthy article on the life and teachings of the apologist.

The first bishop of Rochester, and later the fourth archbishop of Canterbury, died possibly in 627.

Sometimes called Scholasticus or the Sinaita. Article on the sixth-century Syrian abbot of Mt. Sinai. He is called "Climacus" because he wrote the spiritual classic "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," "Klimax" being the Greek for "ladder."

According to apocryphal literature, the father of Mary.

Information on the entire life of St. Joseph.

Husband and wife, of whom little is known except that he was martyred in the Diocletian persecution. According to later legend, Basilissa was the founder of a monastery.

Rigby, an unmarried layman, appeared in court on behalf of his employer's daughter and admitted that he was himself a Catholic. He was martyred in 1600.

Biography of this Jesuit, always pious, who died in 1621 at the age of 22.

Priest, founder of the Piarists, d. 1648.

Also known as John of La Verna. Franciscan, a friend of Jacopone of Todi. John died in 1322.

Vincentian priest, missionary to China, where he was tortured and martyred in 1840.

Arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for having attached a copy of the papal bull excommunicating the queen to the Bishop of London's door. He died a martyr in 1570.

The Curé of Ars, d. 1869.

Niece of St. Alexis Falconieri. She founded the Servite Third Order, and died in 1341.

Biography of the founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence, and missionary to China. He died in 1793.

Biographical article on this 17th-century priest from Goa who was a missionary to Sri Lanka.

Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, martyr, d. 1535.

Yorkshire man, a priest, martyred at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1592.

Cornelius, born of Irish parents in Cornwall, studied for the priesthood at Reims. For 10 years he worked as a missionary in England till he was martyred in 1594 for being a Catholic priest, and three companions were also martyred for aiding him.

Article examines the name Jesus and Christ separately.

Missionary writer, born at Toulouse in 1566; d. at Saintes, 2 March, 1617.

A Greek name adopted by many Jews whose Hebrew designation was Joshua (Jesus). In the Old Testament, it is applied to three or four persons connected with the period of the Machabees.

Born at Bologna; died in the same city in 1460.

According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle).

Mentioned in only one passage of the Bible (Joel, iii-Heb. text, iv).

Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races; the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity and others.

An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a common language with dialectic variants, and together constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

An Averroistic philosopher, theologian, and political writer of the fourteenth century.

A Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. probably in 1458.

Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire.

A claim, exercised in the Middle Ages, of succession to the property of deceased clerics, at least such as they had derived from their ecclesiastical benefices.

Founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834, for the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls.