Religion and Spirituality

A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century.

In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898.

Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870.

French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, 1566.

French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089.

Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham. Owing to its geographical position on the Scottish border, the successive bishops were led to assume constitutional and political functions in addition to their spiritual office.

Detailed biographical article on the King of England.

First woman; wife of Adam.

This Archbishop of Canterbury died in 1240, and was canonized within six years. Biography.

Bishop of Vercelli, exiled for defending St. Athanasius, anti-Arian, martyr, d. 371.

First Bishop of Tournai, early sixth century.

According to the Vitae Patrum, passed as a man and lived in a men's monastery for 38 years. She died in about 470.

Sometimes called Aristus. Martyr, died about 107.

Bishop of Winchester, called "father of monks," d. 984.

Queen of Northumbria, twice married for reasons of state, d. 679. Biography.

Abbot and Bishop of Ros-mic-Truin, d. first half of the sixth century. Some believe that Eimhin is the author of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick.

Second-century Roman martyrs.

King of Kent, a worshipper of Odin well into his adulthood, converted to Christianity, d. 616. Biography.

Profile of the English priest and martyr, who was executed at York in 1594.

One of the earliest German humanists, born in 1420 near Anabach in Franconia; died in 1475.

Precentor of Canterbury and historian.

A titular see of Thessaly, Greece.

Painter, born at Zumaya, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in the latter part of the sixteenth century; died in Mexico about the middle of the seventeenth.

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.