Religion and Spirituality

Drawn around the altar at certain parts of Mass.

Warrior and statesman. (1508-1582)

Describes several biblical uses of the word.

A term formed by Auguste Comte in 1851, to denote the benevolent, as contrasted with the selfish propensities.

Jesuit and educator. (1526-1582)

A titular see and metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the river Iris, now Amasiah.

A cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, for exercise in walking; the aisle that makes the circuit of the apse of a church.

Offers details of early exploration.

King of Sennaar (Shinar), or Babylonia.

A violent and extremely radical body of ecclesiastico-civil reformers which first made its appearance in 1521 at Zwickau.

The process by which anything complex is resolved into simple, or at least less complex parts or elements.

Reigned 496-498.

The name given to a thirteenth­ century code of rules for the life of anchoresses, which is sometimes called "The Nuns' Rule".

Missionary and explorer of Tibet in the seventeenth century.

Benedictine monastery in Bavaria.

Roman composer, b. c. 1560; d. c. 1630.

Italian Dominican, b. at Taggia, in the province of Genoa; d. in Rome, 14 May, 1825.

The word is used in Hebrew to denote indifferently either a divine or human messenger.

Missionary to Ethiopia. (1567-1628)

A congregation of women founded at Milan about 1530 by Countess Luigia Torelli of Guastalla for the protection and reclamation of girls.

The episcopal see of the Azores, suffragan of Lisbon.

The doctrine or theory of the soul.

Aquileia and certain of its suffragan sees had a special rite but they do not give any clear indication as to what this rite was.

Theologian, b. of a Roman senatorial family early in the thirteenth century; d. at Rome, 1 September, 1271.

Fourth-century Byzantine official.

A term used in its widest sense to signify the tendency of man to conceive the activities of the external world as the counterpart of his own.

The remains of the loaves or cakes from which the various portions are cut for consecration in the Mass, according to the Greek Rite, are gathered up on a plate, in the sanctuary and kept upon the prothesis, during the celebration of the Mass.

The shiretown of the county of the same name in Nova Scotia.

A titular metropolitan see of Syria, in the valley of the Orontes, whose episcopal list dates from the first century.

Discovered in a Montpellier manuscript of the tenth or eleventh century.

Indicates in general the ecclesiastical envoys of Christian antiquity, whether permanent or sent temporarily on missions to high ecclesiastical authorities or royal courts.

For several days after a great feast the celebrant turns back to certain prayers of the feast and repeats them in commemoration of it. The last day of such repetition of the prayers of the previous feast is called the apodosis.

A theological science which has for its purpose the explanation and defence of the Christian religion.

A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of Our Lord (the Master spoon) and the twelve Apostles.

A title given to the Kings of Hungary.

An act by which a bishop or other superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.

A name given to several sects in the early Church.

Jewish tentmakers, who left Rome in the Jewish persecution under Claudius, 49 or 50, and settled in Corinth.

A council held in 381, presided over by St. Valerian of Aquileia.

Indian tribe in Chile.

A miraculous image venerated at Arcachon, France, and to all appearances the work of the thirteenth century.

An archbishop or metropolitan, in the present sense of the term, is a bishop who governs a diocese strictly his own, while he presides at the same time over the bishops of a well-defined district composed of simple dioceses but not of provinces.

Site of an ancient abbey, now a parish and village in the county Meath, Ireland.

Humanist, and translator of Aristotle, born at Constantinople, 1416; died at Rome about 1486.

Writer of ascetical treatises, born at Seville in Spain, 1533, died in that place, 15 May, 1605.

A titular see of Palestine.

Enclosure, garden; the Garden of the Gods.

The vital function by which an organism changes nutrient material into living protoplasm.

Diocese in Umbria.

Suffragan of Saint Boniface; erected 8 April, 1862, by Pius IX.