Religion and Spirituality

An Oblate missionary and parish priest. (1822-1895)

In religion, Mother Theodore. Born at Etables (Côte du Nord), Brittany, France, 2 October, 1798; died 14 May, 1856.

A celebrated exorcist; b. 22 Aug., 1727, at Braz, Vorarlberg, Austria; d. 4 April, 1779.

Prince, priest, and missionary. (1770-1840)

A wreath of flowers or evergreens formerly used in connection with baptismal, nuptial, and funeral rites, as well as in solemn processions.

A twelfth-century student of Arabic science and translator from Arabic into Latin; born at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187.

Brother of the foregoing; b. in Washington county, Pa., 19 January 1831; d. at St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana, 12 November, 1874.

A Florentine painter, and founder of the Italian school of painting, b. most probably, in the village of Vespignano near Florence; d. at Milan, 8 Jan., 1337.

Founded by St. Kevin.

The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews.

Cardinal and theologian. (1664-1742)

Reigned 1572-1585.

The moral good (bonum honestum) consists in the due ordering of free action or conduct according to the norm of reason, the highest faculty, to which it is to conform.

Located in Hungary.

A titular see of Syria Prima.

Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).

Priest and missionary. (1606-1684)

Historian of Peru. (1539-1617)

Explains the nature of this science and the course of its evolution.

A titular see in the province of Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium in the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England.

Historian, publicist, and poet; b. at Coblenz on 28 May, 1805; d. at Munich on 14 July, 1852.

Flemish painter; b. about 1472; d. at Middelburg about 1533.

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.