Religion and Spirituality

Founded in 1878 by the White Fathers of Cardinal Lavigerie.

One of the missionaries sent to China by Louis XIV in 1687.

A hall projecting in front of the façade of a church, found from the fifth century both in the East and the West.

Italian orator, patriot, philosopher. (1792-1861)

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.

Father of modern algebra.

Cardinal Gregory Conti, elected in opposition to Innocent II.

An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the Jansenists on 16 July, 1705.

Founder of the modern school of violinist.

Article on the Benedictine missionary and bishop, who died in 739.

Short biography of the missionary and bishop, d. 789.

English-born companion of St. Boniface. Wigbert was abbot of Hersfeld and, for a time, of Ohrdruf. He died in about 746.

Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1588. Also some information on his companions in martyrdom John Hewitt, Robert Sutton, and John Harrison.

English widower, became a priest. He was martyred at York in 1582.

Short article on the career of this English priest, martyred in 1588.

A Dorset layman, a joiner by trade. Converted to Catholicism. He was martyred in 1591.

English priest, was betrayed by an apostate on Christmas Day of 1582, chained in an underground dungeon, and martyred at York in 1583.

A professor of philosophy at Gratz and Vienna and chaplain to the Gages at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. (1562-1639)

Forty-fourth state, derives its name from the Delaware Indian word "Maughwauwama", signifying mountains with large plains between.

Eleventh-century priest and biographer.

Publicist, diplomat, born at Baltimore, MD., 1785; died at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859.

City and University.

English Biblical scholar. (1600-1661)

English bishop. (1814-1895)

Swiss theologian. (1779-1844)

Medieval Belgian Abbot. (1098-1158)

Belgian Augustinian. (1596-1661)

Prominent English convert. (1824-1911)

Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century.

Catholic journalist. (1818-1883)

Archbishop of Tyre and historian. (1130-1190)

William de Warre, Guard, Guaro, Varro or Varron.

Member of the Order of Cistercians. (1748-1797)

Benedictine abbot and controversial writer. (1518-1592)

Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier. An institute of laymen, founded under episcopal approbation by Theodore James Ryken, in Belgium, in the year 1839.

French theologian. (1565-1642)

Located in the Republic of Mexico; Campeche and Tabasco are its suffragans.

The prophecy of Zacharias is one of the books admitted by both Jews and Christians into their canon of Sacred Writings, one of the Minor Prophets.

Account of his pontificate focuses on his entanglement with the Pelagian controversy.

Prefecture Apostolic of the Zambesi Mission.

Greco-Melchite diocese.

Spanish Franciscan, born at Bilbao, Vizeaya, Spain. (1780-1846)

Diocese in Spain.

Titular see in Cilicia.

Historian who took vows at the Abbey of Zwiefalten 21 November, 1707, was ordained priest, 21 March, 1713, and became professor of theology at his monastery.

A sect which flourished in the eighteenth century at Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg.

Franciscan born at Durango in the Basque. Custodian of the convent of Abrojo.

Illustrated profile, with links.

Illustrated profile.

Illustrated profile of this nurse and Sister of Charity.