Religion and Spirituality

Located in Mexico; suffragan of Michoacan.

Denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ.

Doctrine which declares that man's highest perfection consists in a sort of psychical self-annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life.

Ancient hymn in honour of the Blessed Virgin.

Opening line of the twelfth and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius.

Proper name meaning both a patriarch and a tribe of Israel.

Monk from Gaul, became bishop of Narbonne. Zealous opponent of the Arians and Nestorians.

Article on this English priest and missionary to his native land, martyred in 1588.

Rita married an abusive man, became a mother, was widowed, joined the Augustinians. She died in 1456.

English priest, martyred in 1588.

Founder of the Abbey of Citeaux and the monastery at Molesme. (d. 1111)

English abbot. (d. 1159)

Early 14th century. While on pilgrimage, Roch acquired renown for healing plague victims. He himself was stricken with the plague. Upon returning to his hometown, he was cast into prison as an accused spy, where he died.

Created 23 September, 1908, in the north-western part of the State of Illinois.

Diocese in the Province of Bari, Aquileia, Southern Italy. Ruvo, the ancient Rubi, situated on a calcareous hill, includes a fine Norman cathedral of the eleventh century.

Philologist and historian. (1561-1634)

Officials in the Byzantine Court who reported to the emperor on the memorials of petitioners, and conveyed to the judges the orders of the emperor in connexion with such memorials.

The restoration of man from the bondage of sin to the liberty of the children of God through the satisfactions and merits of Christ.

Prefecture Apostolic in Switzerland.

A titular see in Syria Secunda, suffragan of Apamea.

American state and one of the thirteen original colonies.

Feast that is found only in the special calendar of some dioceses and religious orders, and is celebrated with proper Mass and Office either on the third Sunday of July or on 23 October.

The insignia of royalty or "crown jewels".

Theologian and publicist. (1711-1794)

Writer and member of the Society of Jesus. (1526-1611)

A remaining or abiding where one's duties lie or where one's occupation is properly carried on.

English monastery founded in 1131.

Converted Jew who built two convents in Jerusalem. (1814-1884)

Biographical article on the 12th-century Scottish theologian, exegete, and mystic.

Twelfth-century Cardinal, English philosopher and theologian.

The Diocese of Rodez was united to the Diocese of Cahors by the Concordat of 1802, and again became an episcopal see by the Concordat of 1817 and Bull of 1822.

English philosopher and theologian. (d. 1167)

A collection of historical materials of which the general scope is indicated by its official title, "The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages".

The manner of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, administering Sacraments, reciting the Divine Office, and performing other ecclesiastical functions as used in the city and Diocese of Rome.

The Institute of Charity, or, officially, Societas a charitate nuncupata, is a religious congregation founded by Antonio Rosmini, first organized in 1828.

Chancellor of the German Empire. (d. 1167)

Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. (1573-1650)

French Jesuit missionary to North America, and martyr. (1654-1724)

Spanish theologian. (1562-1632)

English abbey founded by a Saxon noble in 969.

The Perpetual Rosary is an organization for securing the continuous recitation of the Rosary by day and night among a number of associates who perform their allotted share at stated times.

A generic term for dissidents from the Established Church in Russia.

Copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives.

Ecclesiastical division comprising the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Prussian politician and author. (1808-1895)

German jurist and parliamentarian. (1810-1892)

The advanced section of the High Church party in the Anglican Establishment, which since about 1860 has adhered to and developed further the principles of the earlier Tractarian Movement.

Reigned 687-701

Martyr, reigned for ten years in the very early part of the second century.

First and most famous of the hermits whose asceticism involved living atop a pillar. Died in 459.