Religion and Spirituality

That system of thought which is formally opposed to theism.

English priest and martyr. (d. 1610)

An illustrious Maronite family of Mount Lebanon, Syria, four members of which, all ecclesiastics, distinguished themselves during the eighteenth century in the East and in Europe.

A titular see of Lower Egypt.

Byzantine stateman and historian, probably a native of Attalia in Pamphylia.

A faithful follower of Gregory VII in his conflict with the simoniac clergy.

A learned theologian and canonist of the tenth century.

Historian of canon law and Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, born at Saragossa 26 February, 1517, of a distinguished family; died at Tarragona, 31 May, 1586.

A designation in early Christian times of certain bishops who were subject to no patriarch or metropolitan, but depended directly on the triennial provincial synod or on the Apostolic See.

In 585 (or 578) a Council of Auxerre held under St. Annacharius formulated forty-five canons, closely related in context to canons of the contemporary Councils of Lyons and Mâcon.

Developed from the already existing schools of the city, was formally constituted in 1303, by a Bull of Boniface VIII.

Archbishop of Carthage from 388 to 423.

A learned Dominican, b. at Piacenza, Italy; d. at Bologna, 19 August, 1327.

Describes two people known by this name.

Consecrated the same day as the antipope Eulalius. Both were ordered to leave Rome. Eulalius took over St. John Lateran on Holy Saturday, after which the emperor refused to consider his claim. Boniface died in 422.

Fifth-century Irish missionary to Wales and a contemporary of St. Patrick.

Or Botolph. Founder and abbot of Icanhoe, d. about 680.

Poor Clare and ascetical writer. She died in 1527.

Carmelite, Renaissance poet, d. 1516.

Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland, died 1197.

Italian Franciscan missionary, died 1494. Of little note as an author. Best remembered for his monti di pietà, a type of charitable lender similar to pawnbrokers.

The word is derived from the Babylonian bab-ilu, meaning "gate of God".

French physicist. (1794-1872)

The most northerly group of the West Indies.

Titular Bishop of Siga. (1787-1843)

A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; died there, after 1195.

The Greek and Latin name for Belshazzar, which is the Hebrew equivalent for Bel­sarra­usur, i.e., "May Bel protect the king".

False prophet mentioned in the New Testament.

Archbishop of Tours, France, born 26 April, 1746, at Grenoble; died 7 June, 1816, at Paris.

A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612.

Italian missionary born 1692. Entered the Society of Jesus in France at the age of twenty-one, arrived in Louisiana in 1728.

Name given to the place where the "Sermon on the Mount", was delivered.

Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 April, 1757.

A book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in the Church.

The principal city of the province of the same name in Campania.

Dominican orator. (1830-1882)

An English Jesuit priest born in Cheshire, 1609; died 30 October, 1692.

A writer of church history, b. 22 November, 1720, at Briey, Lorraine; d. about 1794 at Noyon, France.

Information includes history, religion, climate, education, and economy.

Italian theologian, b. 28 May, 1696, at Sarravezza, Tuscany; d. 26 March, 1766, at Pisa.

Titular see of Palestine.

Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622.

Poet and theologian. (1578-1639)

Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.

This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.

A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the Apapahoes and Cheyennes, constitute the Western division of the Algonquin family.

A Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer, born at Donstienne, near Liège, Flanders, 1506; died at Liessies, 1566.

Principal work, "De uno geminoque sacrae eucharistiae synaxeos salubriter percipiendae ritu ac usu" was published (Ingolstadt, 1585) when he was provincial of Austria.

Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa.

Bishop of London, b. about 1500; d. 1569.