Religion and Spirituality

Late sixteenth-century Italian Capuchin. Had the gift of reading hearts.

Forced by her husband to enter the Poor Clares, d. 1478.

Sacred Scripture is one of the several names denoting the inspired writings which make up the Old and New Testament.

In Hebrew, plural form of "host" or "army". The word is used almost exclusively in conjunction with the Divine name as a title of majesty: "the Lord of Hosts", or "the Lord God of Hosts".

Erected by a Decree of 30 June, 1911, and entrusted to the Dutch Capuchins.

Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.

In Rome, originally founded for the use of Spanish Franciscans during the pontificate of Gregory XV.

Well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer, often spoken of under the anglicized form of St. Omers or St. Omer's, founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593.

Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore. (1810-1872)

The highest institution of learning in Peru, located at Lima, under the official name of Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Reputed to be the oldest university in the New World, created by a royal decree of 12 May, 1551.

Born in Quebec, Canada, February, 1667; killed, 1707. Entering the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères of Quebec, he was ordained in 1690 and after serving for a time at Minas, Nova Scotia (then Acadia), was assigned to the western mission.

Saliensis. Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland.

The imperial residence and second capital of Russia, lies at the mouth of the Neva on the Gulf of Finland.

A group of islands situated in the south Pacific.

The names of two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines.

Sanction signifies the authoritative act whereby the legislator gives a law value and binding force for its subjects.

Comprises all that portion of the State of Texas between the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers, except the land south of the Arroyo de los Hermanos, on the Rio Grande, and the Counties of Live Oak, Bee, Goliad, and Refugio.

The name given by Columbus to his first discovery in the New World. It is one of the Bahama group of islands.

Italian Humanist b. in Tuscany, 1331; d. 4 May, 1406.

Titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades. The island, called in Turkish Soussan-Adassi, is 181 sq. miles in area and numbers 55,000 inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Greek schismatics.

Canonist, born at Orléans, 1128; died at Tournai, September, 1203.

The Sanctus is the last part of the Preface in the Mass, sung in practically every rite by the people (or choir). One of the elements of the liturgy of which exists the earliest evidence.

Historian, b. at Antwerp, 1586; d. at Afflighem, Belgium, 10 Jan., 1664.

Diocese in the Province of Catanzaro in Calabria, Southern Italy. Situated on a rocky precipice on the site of the ancient Siberena, it became an important fortress of the Byzantines in their struggles with the Saracens.

Consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition the staircase leading once to the prætorium of Pilate at Jerusalem, hence sanctified by the footsteps of Our Lord during his Passion.

One of the series of councils called to adjust the doctrinal and other difficulties caused by the Arian heresy, held most probably in 343.

Diocese; S. Angelo in Vado is a city in the Marches, on the site of the ancient "Tifernum Metaurense", a town of the Umbrian Senones, near the River Metaurus, believed to have been destroyed by the Goths.

A Saxon-Thuringian duchy. The duchy came into existence in 1681, as the result of the various succession agreements among the seven sons of Duke Ernest the Pious of Saxe-Gotha.

German physiologist and founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms; b. at Neuss, 7 December, 1810; d. Cologne, 11 January, 1882.

In the language of theology and canon law, the rupture of ecclesiastical union and unity.

The northern portion of the Island of Great Britain.

The Horace of Poland, b. near Plonsk, in the Duchy of Masovia, 24 February, 1595; d. 2 April, 1649. He entered the novitiate of the Jesuits at Vilna on 25 July, 1612.

A titular metropolitan of Palaestina Secunda. It is the ancient Bethsan so often mentioned in the Bible, as proved by texts in the writings of Josephus.

Diocese in Styria, Austria, suffragan of Salzburg. The See of Seckau was founded by Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg, with the permission of Honorius III, 22 June, 1218.

The name of a Protestant sect founded by the nobleman Caspar von Schwenckfeld (b. at Ossig in Silesia in 1489 or 1490; d. at Ulm 10 December, 1561).

The name given to seats on the south side of the sanctuary, used by the officiating clergy during the liturgy.

An obscure Puritan sect which arose in England in the middles of the seventeenth century. They represented an Antinomian tendency among some of the Independents, and professed to be seeking for the true Church, Scripture, Ministry, and Sacraments.

A term used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life".

Located in the Province of Rome. The city, situated on a hill in the Monti Lepini overlooks the valley of the river Sacco.

Canonist and archaeologist, b. at Naples, 10 August, 1728; d. there, November, 1772.

The right of a private person to employ force against any one who unjustly attacks his life or person, his property or good name.

Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus.

Archdiocese in Spain.

All writers on the spiritual life uniformly recommend, nay, command under penalty of total failure, the practice of silence.

A titular See in Armenia Secunda, suffragan of Melitene.

Cardinal and scholar, born at Guardavalle near Stilo in Calabria, 1514; died at Rome, 6 October, 1585.

Italian preacher and writer. (d. 1348)

Per Tillemont, one of the most illustrious martyrs France has given to the Church.

Slomšek, Anton Martin, Bishop of Lavant, in Maribor, Styria, Austria, noted Slovenian educator, born 1800; died 24 Sept., 1862.

A consecrated place of refuge.