Religion and Spirituality

Also known as John of La Verna. Franciscan, a friend of Jacopone of Todi. John died in 1322.

Vincentian priest, missionary to China, where he was tortured and martyred in 1840.

Arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for having attached a copy of the papal bull excommunicating the queen to the Bishop of London's door. He died a martyr in 1570.

The Curé of Ars, d. 1869.

Niece of St. Alexis Falconieri. She founded the Servite Third Order, and died in 1341.

Biography of the founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence, and missionary to China. He died in 1793.

Biographical article on this 17th-century priest from Goa who was a missionary to Sri Lanka.

Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, martyr, d. 1535.

Yorkshire man, a priest, martyred at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1592.

Cornelius, born of Irish parents in Cornwall, studied for the priesthood at Reims. For 10 years he worked as a missionary in England till he was martyred in 1594 for being a Catholic priest, and three companions were also martyred for aiding him.

Article examines the name Jesus and Christ separately.

Missionary writer, born at Toulouse in 1566; d. at Saintes, 2 March, 1617.

A Greek name adopted by many Jews whose Hebrew designation was Joshua (Jesus). In the Old Testament, it is applied to three or four persons connected with the period of the Machabees.

Born at Bologna; died in the same city in 1460.

According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle).

Mentioned in only one passage of the Bible (Joel, iii-Heb. text, iv).

Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races; the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity and others.

An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a common language with dialectic variants, and together constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

An Averroistic philosopher, theologian, and political writer of the fourteenth century.

A Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. probably in 1458.

Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire.

A claim, exercised in the Middle Ages, of succession to the property of deceased clerics, at least such as they had derived from their ecclesiastical benefices.

Founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834, for the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls.

Lived about 1176. Author of a treatise written against the doctrine of Abelard.

A congregation devoted to the Christian education of youth, founded in the Diocese of Ghent (Belgium) by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817.

The third Sunday after Easter.

Reigned 872-82.

Reigned 898-900.

Born at Rome, 10 September, 1487; died there, 23 March, 1555.

Belgian statesman and historian, b. at Saint-Michel-lez-Bruges, 17 August, 1817; d. there, 3 April, 1891.

Flemish painter, native of the Duchy of Cleves; b. between 1499 and 1510; d. at Naples, 1546.

"Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we know about Jesus Christ, but a survey of the intellectual endowment of Christ.

Dogmatic theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, born at Bruneck in northern Tyrol, 12 July, 1796; died at Bozen, 30 March, 1863.

Born at Helmond, Diocese of Bois-1e-Duc, Holland, 24 August, 1821; died 30 June, 1884.

Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a diocese on 1 September, 1886.

A term derived from the discussion as to the real meaning of Phil. 2:6.

Diocese, one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province of Tuam.

By Decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 8 March, 1912, Pius X divided into two parts the territory of the Diocese of Omaha, erecting the western part into a new and distinct diocese with its see at Kearney.

Polish author, b. at Vilna, 6 November, 1825, of Jewish parents; d. at Cracow, 26 November, 1906.

A religious order famous in the history of Bohemia, and accustomed from the beginning to the use of arms, a custom which was confirmed in 1292 by an ambassador of Pope Nicholas IV.

Put to death for the Faith at York, on 29 November, 1596; with him also suffered Venerables George Errington of Herst, William Gibson of Ripon, and William Abbot of Howden, in Yorkshire.

Born at Sandomir?, 1633; died at Krakow, 1699. He received his education at the Jesuit College, Sandomir, served in the army, and then spent the rest of his life on his estate.

Diocese in Bohemia.

Historian, b. on 9 October, 1822, at Leer (East Friesland); d. at Vienna, 9 August 1903.

Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster, in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, 1877.

Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850.

A suffragan diocese of Cashel.

An important Plains tribe, constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

The legenda are stories about the saints, and often include a mix of historical fact and unhistorical embellishments.

Bishop of Fréjus, d. 488. On good terms with Honoratus, who founded the famous monastery of Lérins, and with John Cassian and Pope St. Leo I.