Religion and Spirituality

Article about the spiritual writings of this Augustinian mystic, d. 1396.

Born at Versailles, 1741; died 16 July, 1828; the most distinguished sculptor of France during the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Preacher and writer on ascetics; b. 23 January, 1631, at Tours; d. 21 March, 1729, at Paris.

A city supposed to be identical with the Marionis of Ptolemy, was founded by a colony of fishermen from Lower Saxony.

A Catholic theologian; born 13 January, 1819, at Aschaffenburg; died 26 January, 1890, at Würzburg.

One of the suffragan sees of the Archdiocese of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

The name of the council by which the Church of Russia and, following its example, many other Orthodox Churches are governed.

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle (Hagulstadensis et Novocastrensis).

Capital and seat of Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as of the (civil) Province of South Holland.

King of Norway, 935 (936) to 960 (961), youngest child of King Harold Fair Hair and Thora Mosterstang.

A titular see of Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.

The name of several Latin writers.

A provost at Solothurn, in Switzerland, born at Zurich, in 1388 or 1389; died about 1460.

A French Lazarist missionary and traveller; born at Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne), 1 June, 1813; died at Paris, 26 March, 1860.

Biographical entry for this bishop, who died in 636.

Tells the story of this son of Emperor Michael I, forced into monastic life by a rival. Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed on a wicked pretext. Ignatius died in 877.

A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the "Following of Christ". Its purpose is to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model.

An important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri.

It is an uncompromising attitude in the late Jewish history, together with the apparently obvious meaning of the First Commandment, that are responsible for the common idea that Jews had no images.

The faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses.

Probably from an Arapahoe Indian word, "Gem of the Mountains", the name first suggested for the territory of Colorado.

Secret society founded in 1776.

Includes the United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and South America.

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.