Religion and Spirituality

Bishop of Trier, d. 349 or 352.

Fairly lengthy biographical article on this bishop, who died in around 397.

Irishman, appointed Abbot of Fahan by St. Columba. Patron saint of the O'Neills. Died in about 645.

Or Aventicensis, so called because he was bishop of Avenches. Goldsmith, chronicler, d. 594.

Also known in the Christian East as St. Marina. Virgin and martyr from Pisidian Antioch.

Third Order Franciscan, d. 1791.

Mysticism as direct union of the human soul with the Divinity primarily from a Catholic perspective, but does mention other mystical traditions.

Well-known Irish poet of the nineteenth century, born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, 26 May, 1817; died at Blackrock, Dublin, 7 April, 1882.

A titular see of the Byzantine Empire.

Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. (1632-1707)

Charitable institutions of credit that lend money at low rates of interest, or without interest at all, upon the security of objects left in pawn, with a view to protecting persons in want from usurers.

A short, richly ornamented staff.

Moralities are a development or an offshoot of the Miracle Plays and together with these form the greater part of Medieval drama. They were popular in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and existed side by side with the Miracle Plays of that date.

Italian painter. (d. 1660)

Founded at Mechlin in 1839 by Canon J. B. Cornelius Scheppers for the instruction and care of prisoners and of the sick.

A Christian apologist of the end of the fourth century.

A name common in the Semitic languages and of special interest as being that borne by the Jewish servant whose ear was struck off by St. Peter.

Chief steward of the household of the pope.

King of Israel.

Theologian; born 1490; died 1547; he occupied the first rank among the theologians of the sixteenth century.

Born at Niort, 28 November 1635; died at Saint-Cyr, 15 April 1719. She was the granddaughter of the celebrated Protestant writer, Agrippa d'Aubigné.

Born at Montblanch, Catalonia, Spain, 29 or 30 January, 1761; died at Santa Clara, California, 22 Nov., 1830. He received the habit of St. Francis at Barcelona on 4 April, 1777, and was ordained priest probably in 1785.

Friar minor, historian, and Bishop of Oporto in Portugal, b. at Lisbon (date of birth uncertain); d. in 1591.

Those between Catholics and non-Catholics, when the latter have been baptized in some Christian sect. The term is also used to designate unions between Catholics and infidels.

On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

The Greek word martus signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation. The term martyr came to be exclusively applied to those who had died for the faith.

Diocese in Central Italy (Lunigiana and Garfagnana).

A Cardinal, born 9 June, 1809, at Piova in Piedmont, Italy; died at Cremona, 6 August, 1889.

Information on the laws.

Theologian, born at Toulouse, 28 Oct., 1632; died at Rome, 23 Jan., 1706.

Bishop of Rennes, ecclesiastical writer and hymnologist, b. about 1035 at Angers, France, d. there 11 September, 1123.

Physicist, born at Forli, in the Romagna, 21 June, 1811; died at Ardenza, near Leghorn, 25 July, 1868.

Four principal words are rendered maledictio in the Vulgate, "curse" in Douay Version.

A titular see in Mauretania Sitifiensis.

Fifth Earl of Nithsdale (Lord Nithsdale signed as Nithsdaill) and fourteenth Lord Maxwell, b. in 1676; d. at Rome, 2 March, 1744.

An educator of the clergy, born at Bleymard, in the Diocese of Mende, France, 9 June, 1837; died 21 December, 1902.

The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals.

A French dramatic poet of the fifteenth century.

Archdiocese in the Republic of Colombia, Metropolitan of Antioquia and Manizales, in the Departments of Medellín, Antioquia, and Manizales.

As early as the fourteenth century it was the custom to address persons high in rank or power with the title Monseigneur or Monsignore.

Physicist and author, b. at Guéméné (Morbihan), 15 April, 1804; d. at Saint-Denis (Seine), 14 July, 1884.

Italian physician and investigator in medicine; b. 25 February, 1682; d. Bologna, 6 December, 1771.

Founded by Father Frederic Faura, S.J., in 1865; constituted officially The Philippine Weather Bureau by decree of the American governor, May, 1901.

A Catalan poet, b. perhaps in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, at Valencia; d. there in 1458.

An archæologist, born at Tolmezzo near Udine, 22 Feb., 1795; died at Rome, 10 Feb., 1860.

Reigned 882-884.

A Franciscan who probably came from the county of Somerset, but the date of his birth is unknown; died at the end of 1257 or the beginning of 1258.

Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.

Before the Reformation dispositions of property, whether real or personal, for the purposes of Masses, were valid, unless where, in the case of real property, they might happen to conflict with the Mortmain laws by being made to religious congregations.

A tribe of Panoan linguistic stock, ranging the forests between the Ucayali, the Yavari and the Marañon (Amazon) rivers in north-east Peru and the adjacent portions of Brazil.