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	Archbishop - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01691a.htm An archbishop or metropolitan, in the present sense of the term, is a bishop who governs a diocese strictly his own, while he presides at the same time over the bishops of a well-defined district composed of simple dioceses but not of provinces.
	Adrian III, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01156b.htm Short article on this pope, a Roman, who died in 885.
	Anastasius III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455a.htm Reigned 911-913.
	Agapetus I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01202c.htm Anti-Arian, instrumental in deposing a Monophysite bishop who had moreover abandoned his see, d. 536.
	Aristotle - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm Philosopher, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Thracian peninsula Chalcidice, 384 B.C.; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C.

	Agapetus II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01203a.htm Reigned 946-955.
	Adrian II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01156a.htm Reigned 867-872.
	Adeodatus, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01142a.htm Brief article on this Roman monk, opponent of Monothelitism, d. 676. Called Adeodatus II to distinguish him from his predecessor St. Deusdedit, who is also called Adeodatus.
	Averroes - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02150c.htm Arabian philosopher, astronomer, and writer on jurisprudence; born at Cordova, 1126; died at Morocco, 1198.
	Agatho, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204c.htm Short article on St. Agatho the Wonderworker, a Sicilian believed to have been over 100 years old at the time of his election. He died in 681.

	Alexander VII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01294a.htm Biographical article on this seventeenth-century pontiff.
	Anthony, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01553d.htm Article on the founder of Christian monasticism.
	Alexander II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01286a.htm Reigned 1061-1073.
	Atonement, Day of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02054a.htm A most solemn fast, on which no food could be taken throughout the day, and servile works were forbidden.
	Anastasius II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01454d.htm Reigned 496-498.

	Adrian I, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01155b.htm Reigned 772-95.
	Astronomy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02025a.htm Divided into two main branches, astrometry and astrophysics; the former concerned with determining the places of the investigation of the heavenly bodies, the latter, with the investigation of their chemical and physical nature.
	Apocrypha - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01601a.htm A long article with a comments on each Apocryphal book. Classified according to origin.
	Albertus Magnus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01264a.htm Called "the Universal Doctor." Dominican scientist, philosopher, theologian, instructor of St. Thomas Aquinas.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01736b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01736b.htm A mountainous region of Western Asia occupying a somewhat indefinite area to the southeast of the Black Sea.

	Agnesi, Maria Gaetana - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01214b.htm An Italian woman of remarkable intellectual gifts and attainments. Member of the Blue Nuns in Milan. (1718-1799)
	Archdiocese - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01694b.htm Not an ecclesiastical province, but only that diocese of the province which is the archbishop's own.
	Alcuin, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01276a.htm Lengthy article on the educator, scholar, theologian, liturgist, who died in 804.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01010a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01010a.htm A monastery canonically erected and autonomous, with a community of not fewer than twelve religious; monks under the government of an abbot; nuns under that of an abbess.
	Armada, The Spanish - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01727c.htm A fleet intended to invade England and to put an end to the long series of English aggressions against the colonies and possessions of the Spanish Crown.

	Anastasius I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01454c.htm Article on the pope remembered chiefly for condemning Origenism, d. 401.
	Alexander I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01285c.htm Article on this pope, who died in 115 or 116. According to a tradition dating to the fifth century, Alexander was martyred, but it is possible that he has been confused with another St. Alexander who was indeed a martyr.
	Alexander VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01295a.htm Pietro Ottoboni, born at Venice, April, 1610; elected 5 October, 1689; died at Rome, 1 February, 1691.
	Adrian IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01156c.htm Reigned 1154-1159.
	Anglicanism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01498a.htm A term used to denote the religious belief and position of members of the established Church of England.

	Anterus, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01553a.htm Also known as Anteros, pope for less than 2 months, d. in 236. Short biographical article.
	Adrian VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01159b.htm Reigned 1522-1523.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01165a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01165a.htm According to 1907 usage, a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle and embracing four Sundays.
	Ambrose, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01383c.htm Article on the life and teachings of this Bishop of Milan, and Doctor of the Church, who died in 397.
	Authority, Civil - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02137c.htm The moral power of command, supported by physical coercion, which the State exercises over its members.

	Assumption of Mary, Feast of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm The principal feast of the Blessed Virgin.
	Athanasius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02035a.htm Long article on the Bishop of Alexandria, confessor and Doctor of the Church.
	Arianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm Founded by Arius, belief asserting that Christ was not God like the Father, but a creature made in time. Rejected by the Council of Constantinople (381).
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm The word is used in Hebrew to denote indifferently either a divine or human messenger.
	Acts, Human - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm St. Thomas and the scholastics in general regard only the free and deliberate acts of the will as human.

	Apostles' Creed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01629a.htm A formula containing in brief statements, or "articles," the fundamental tenets of Christian belief, and having for its authors, according to tradition, the Twelve Apostles.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01015c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01015c.htm A title given to the superior of a community of twelve or more monks.
	Anna Comnena - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01531a.htm Byzantine historian, eldest daughter of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Constantinople (1081-1118).
	Alexandria, Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01300a.htm Details several councils held here.
	Augustine of Hippo, Life of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm Biography, with extensive hyperlinks to related articles.

	Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02121b.htm The European monarchy whose dominions have for their main life-distributing artery the River Danube, in its course from Engelhartszell, near Passau, to Orsova. South of the Danube lie the Austrian Alpine provinces and the provinces of Carinthia and Carnola; north of the Danube are the Carpathian and Sudetic provinces.
	Avicenna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02157a.htm Arabian physician and philosopher, born at Kharmaithen, in the province of Bokhara, 980; died at Hamadan, in Northern Persia, 1037.
	Anglo-Saxon Church, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505a.htm History of the occupation, conversion, and development.
	Alexander III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01287a.htm Reigned from 1159-81.
	Anastasius Bibliothecarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16002b.htm Librarian of the Roman Church. (810-879)

	Alexander IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01287b.htm Reigned 1254-61.
	Apocalypse, Book of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01594b.htm The name given to the last book in the Bible, also called the Book of Revelation.
	Absinthe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01060b.htm Wormwood, known for its repulsive bitterness.
	Apostolic Fathers, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01637a.htm Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so influenced by them that their writings may be held as echoes of genuine Apostolic teaching.
	Ampè, André-Marie - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01437c.htm Physicist and mathematician. (1775-1836)

	Antipope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01582a.htm A false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected.
	Advocatus Diaboli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01168b.htm A title given to an officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, established in 1587, by Sixtus V, to deal juridically with processes of beatification and canonization.
	Academy, The French - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01089a.htm Founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635.
	Association, Right of Voluntary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02001c.htm Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.
	All Saints' Day - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm Celebrated on the first of November. Instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year.

	Ash Wednesday - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01775b.htm The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, which is the first day of the Lenten fast.
	Altar Vase - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01357d.htm Vase to hold flowers for the decoration of the altar.
	Altar Vessels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01357e.htm The chalice is the cup in which the wine and water of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is contained.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02040a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02040a.htm That system of thought which is formally opposed to theism.
	Ark, Noah's - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01720a.htm The form, very likely foursquare, was not convenient for navigation, but, as has been proven by the experiments of Peter Jansen and M. Vogt, it made the Ark a very suitable device for shipping heavy cargoes and floating upon the waves without rolling or pitching.

	Angelico, Fra, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01483b.htm Biography of this Dominican, a famous painter, who died in 1455.
	Approbation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01656b.htm An act by which a bishop or other superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.
	Acta Pilati - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01111b.htm The Gospel of Nicodemus.
	Anselm, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01546a.htm Long biographical article on St. Anselm, monk, abbot, philosopher, theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church.
	Anastasius IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455b.htm Reigned 1153-1154.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01742a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01742a.htm Celebrated French family, the history of which is connected with that of Jansenism and of Port­Royal.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007e.htm The female superior in spirituals and temporals of a community of twelve or more nuns.
	Alexander VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01289a.htm Rodrigo Borgia, born at Xativa, near Valencia, in Spain, 1 January, 1431; died in Rome, 18 August, 1503.
	Anicetus, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01514a.htm Biography of this martyr, a contemporary of St. Polycarp and of the heretic Marcion.
	Anacletus, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01446a.htm Third pope, a martyr, d. about 91. May be the same person as Pope St. Cletus.

	Avicebron - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02156a.htm Jewish religious poet, moralist, and philosopher. He was born at Malaga in 1020 or 1021, and died at Saragossa in 1070.
	Ambition - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01381d.htm The undue craving for honor.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01181a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01181a.htm This name, which is of Phoenician origin, was at first given by the Romans to the territory about the city of Carthage.
	Arts, The Seven Liberal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01760a.htm Chiefly used during the Middle Ages. Doesn't mean arts as the word is understood today, but those branches of knowledge which were taught in the schools of that time.
	Alphonsus Liguori, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01334a.htm Long biographical article on the founder of the Redemptorists and devotional writer.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01661a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01661a.htm An Italian archdiocese in the Abruzzi, directly dependent on the Holy See.
	Aggeus (Haggai) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01209d.htm The tenth among the minor prophets of the Old Testament.
	African Synods - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01199a.htm Commonly called African or Carthaginian Synods.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01489a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01489a.htm The desire of vengeance.
	Age of Reason - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01209a.htm The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible.

	Arnold Janssen, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16047a.htm Short biography of the founder of the Society of the Divine Word.
	Apostolic See, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01640c.htm A metaphorical term, used, as happens in all languages, to express the abstract notion of authority by the concrete name of the place in which it is exercised.
	Addresses, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01137a.htm Rules as to what is fitting and customary in the matter of ecclesiastical correspondence.
	Abbreviations, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01022a.htm Latin abbreviations commonly seen in documents of the Catholic Church, the full Latin words or phrases, and their English meaning.
	Aloysius Gonzaga, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01331c.htm Short biography of this Jesuit student, who died in 1591 at the age of 23.

	Apostles, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626c.htm Apostolos (Apostle) means one who is sent forth, who is entrusted with a mission.
	Alphonsus Rodriguez, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01341a.htm Spanish-born widower, Jesuit lay brother, served as porter at Majorca for 46 years, d. 1617. Also known as Alonso.
	Alanus de Rupe, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246a.htm Dominican promoter of the Rosary. (1428-1475)
	Alms and Almsgiving - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328f.htm Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity.
	Altar Frontal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01353b.htm An appendage which covers the entire front of the altar, from the lower part of the table to the predella, and from the gospel corner to that of the epistle side.

	Altar Lamp - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01354b.htm In the Old Testament God commanded that a lamp filled with the purest oil of olives should always burn in the Tabernacle of the Testimony without the veil.
	Anacletus II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01447a.htm The title which was taken by Cardinal Pietro Pierleone at the contested papal election of the year 1130.
	Attributes, Divine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02062e.htm In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the implications of the truth, God is All-Perfect, this infinite Perfection is viewed, successively, under various aspects, each of which is treated as a separate perfection and characteristic inherent to the Divine Substance, or Essence. A certain group of these, of paramount import, is called the Divine Attributes.
	Archdeacon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01693a.htm The incumbent of an ecclesiastical office dating back to antiquity and up to the fifteenth century of great importance in diocesan administration, particularly in the West.
	Adrian V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01159a.htm A Genoese, and nephew of Innocent IV. He was elected at Viterbo 12 July 1276, but died 18 August.

	Altar Rail - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01356c.htm The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church. Also called the communion-rail.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01001a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01001a.htm In French, Aix-la-Chapelle, the name by which the city is generally known; in Latin Aquae Grani, later Aquisgranum.
	Auxiliary Bishop - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02145b.htm A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions; or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one; or whose episcopal see has attached to it a royal or imperial office requiring protracted presence at court.
	Apologetics - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01618a.htm A theological science which has for its purpose the explanation and defence of the Christian religion.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01663a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01663a.htm The cradle of Islam and, in all probability, the primitive home of the Semitic race.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01680c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01680c.htm The first American aborigines met by Columbus.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01588e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01588e.htm A city of Belgium, in the archdiocese of Mechlin.
	Acta Sanctae Sedis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01111c.htm A publication containing the principal public documents issued by the Pope, directly or through the Roman Congregations.
	Anna Maria Gesualda Antonia Taigi, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14430b.htm Happily married for 48 years, became a Third Order Trinitarian, d. 1837.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01106a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01106a.htm A cleric promoted to the fourth and highest minor order in the Latin Church, ranking next to a subdeacon.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01659a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01659a.htm The semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a church.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01570a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01570a.htm Provides information on two places by this name.
	Appetite - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01656a.htm A tendency, an inclination, or direction.
	Abelard, Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01036b.htm Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian. (1079-1142)
	Absolution - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01061a.htm The remission of sin, or of the punishment due to sin, granted by the Church.

	Attrition - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02065a.htm Also called "imperfect contrition." Definition, its relation to sacramental penance, and moral considerations.
	Amsterdam - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01441b.htm The capital, and second residential city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01409c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01409c.htm Consists of three main divisions: North America, Central America, and South America.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01407b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01407b.htm One of a small number of Hebrew words which have been imported unchanged into the liturgy of the Church.
	Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02109a.htm Second-century Roman emperor and philosopher.

	Anabaptists - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01445b.htm A violent and extremely radical body of ecclesiastico-civil reformers which first made its appearance in 1521 at Zwickau.
	Authentic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02137a.htm The term is used in two senses. It is applied first to a book or document whose contents are invested with a special authority, in virtue of which the work is called authentic. In its second sense it is used as a synonym for "genuine", and therefore means that a work really emanates from the author to whom it is ascribed.
	Abomination of Desolation, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01046a.htm Spoken of in St. Matthew, xxiv, 15, and St. Mark, xiii, 14.
	Altar Wine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01358a.htm Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid and licit consecration vinum de vite, i.e. the pure juice of the grape naturally and properly fermented, is to be used.
	Altar Linens - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01355a.htm The corporal, pall, purificator, and finger towels.

	Athanasian Creed, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02033b.htm One of the symbols of the Faith approved by the Church and given a place in her liturgy.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148b.htm The inordinate love for riches.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01777b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01777b.htm Article intended to give a rapid survey of the geography, ethnography, political and religious history of Asia, and especially of the rise, progress, and actual condition of Asiatic Christianity and Catholicism.
	Altar, History of the Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01362a.htm An elevated surface, tabular in form, on which the Sacrifice of the Mass is offered.
	Augustine, Rule of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02079b.htm Names the five documents sometimes identified as the Rule of Augustine, quickly narrows the field to two contenders, settles on Letter 211. Also deals with Augustine's relation to monasticism.

	Astrology - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018e.htm The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older planets, on the fate of man.
	Agnosticism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01215c.htm A philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, professing doubt of or disbelief in some or all of the powers of knowing possessed by the human mind.
	Anthony Daniel, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04621a.htm Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois.
	Anne Line, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09270b.htm A convert to Catholicism, hanged in 1601 for the (unproven) crime of harboring a priest. She is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
	Aggressor, Unjust - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01210a.htm According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is lawful, in the defense of life or limb, of property of some importance, and of chastity, to repel violence with violence, even to the extent of killing an unjust assailant.

	Alexander V - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01288a.htm Pietro Philarghi, born c. 1339, on the island of Crete (Candia), whence his appellation, Peter of Candia; elected 26 June, 1409; died at Bologna, 3 May, 1410.
	Apostolic Succession - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01641a.htm Article claims that Apostolic succession is found in the Catholic Church and not in others.
	Apostolic Constitutions - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01636a.htm A fourth-century pseudo-Apostolic collection, in eight books, of independent, though closely related, treatises on Christian discipline, worship, and doctrine, intended to serve as a manual of guidance for the clergy, and to some extent for the laity.
	Apostles of Erin, The Twelve - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01632a.htm Twelve holy Irishmen of the sixth century who went to study at the School of Clonard in Meath.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01381e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01381e.htm A word of Greek origin, supposed to signify a mountain or elevation.

	Alemany, Joseph Sadoc - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01282a.htm First Archbishop of San Francisco. (1814-1888)
	Authenticity of the Bible - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02137b.htm The authority of Holy Writ is twofold on account of its twofold authorship: human authors and divine inspiration.
	Apostasy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01624b.htm The word itself in its etymological sense, signifies the desertion of a post, the giving up of a state of life; he who voluntarily embraces a definite state of life cannot leave it, therefore, without becoming an apostate.
	Asceticism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01767c.htm The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and more especially, athletic training.
	Ascension - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01767a.htm The elevation of Christ into heaven by His own power in presence of His disciples the fortieth day after His Resurrection.

	Anschar, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01544c.htm Benedictine monk, missionary to Scandinavia, bishop of Hamburg, d. 865.
	Angelus Bell - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01487a.htm The triple Hail Mary recited in the evening, which is the origin of our modern Angelus, was closely associated with the ringing of a bell.
	Articles, The Organic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01756a.htm A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 articles relative to Catholicism, and 44 relative to Protestantism, presented by order of Napoleon to the Tribunate and the legislative body at the same time that he made these two bodies vote on the Concordat itself.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01457e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01457e.htm The science of the form and structure of living beings.
	Anathema - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455e.htm Placed on high, suspended, set aside.

	Agreda, Maria de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01229a.htm Franciscan mystic. (1602-1665)
	Antiphon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01575b.htm One or more psalm verses or sentences from Holy Scripture which are sung or recited before and after each psalm and the Magnificat during Matins and Vespers.
	Athenagoras - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02042b.htm A Christian apologist of the second half of the second century of whom no more is known than that he was an Athenian philosopher and a convert to Christianity.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01452a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01452a.htm An absence of law.
	Analysis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01450a.htm The process by which anything complex is resolved into simple, or at least less complex parts or elements.

	Acts of the Apostles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01117a.htm The fifth book of the New Testament.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02053a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02053a.htm The system of those who hold that all bodies are composed of minute, indivisible particles of matter called atoms.
	Attila the Hun - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02061b.htm Life and times of the legendary king.
	Antoninus Pius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01586a.htm Roman Emperor. (138-161)
	Alfred the Great - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01309d.htm King of the West Saxons. (849-899)

	Alexandria, The Church of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01300b.htm Founded by St. Mark the Evangelist, the center from which Christianity spread throughout all Egypt, the nucleus of the powerful Patriarchate of Alexandria.
	Alexandria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01299d.htm Seaport of Egypt, on the left bank of the Nile.
	Alexander, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01296a.htm Patriarch of Alexandria. Elected instead of the heresiarch Arius, who had been scheming to be made bishop. A man of great holiness, St. Alexander died in 326.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01592a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01592a.htm A tribe of North American Indians belonging linguistically to the Athapascan stock whose original habitat is believed to have been Northwestern Canada.
	Antiphonary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01576b.htm One of the present liturgical books intended for use in the liturgical choir, and originally characterized, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Roman liturgy.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01237c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01237c.htm In architecture, one of the lateral or longitudinal divisions of a church, separated from the nave by rows of piers, pillars, or columns.
	Alleluia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01319b.htm A liturgical mystic expression.
	Aesthetics - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01174c.htm May be defined as a systematic training to right thinking and right feeling in matters of art, and is made a part of philosophy by A.G. Baumgarten.
	Angela Merici, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01481a.htm Biography of the founder of the Ursulines, who died in 1540.
	Antichrist - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01559a.htm Defines the word according to its biblical and ecclesiastical usage.

	Adultery - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01163a.htm The article considers adultery with reference only to morality.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01435a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01435a.htm Old Testament prophet.
	Afonzo de Albuquerque - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01270c.htm Second son of Gonzallo de Albuquerque, lord of Villaverde.
	Apocatastasis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01599a.htm A name given in the history of theology to the doctrine which teaches that a time will come when all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation; in a special way, the devils and lost souls.
	Ambrosian Library - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01393a.htm Founded between 1603 and 1609 by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo at Milan.

	Adoration - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01151a.htm In the strict sense, an act of religion offered to God in acknowledgment of His supreme perfection and dominion, and of the creature's dependence upon Him.
	Apollinarianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01615b.htm Fourth-century Christological heresy propounded by Apollinaris of Laodicea. The theory that Jesus had a human body and soul, but that the Logos took the place of the human spirit or mind in Jesus. Solemnly condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 381.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01251b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01251b.htm A white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle.
	Abyssinia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01075e.htm Provides details on the geography, ethnology, political revolutions, as well as church information.
	Archpriest - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01697b.htm Since the fourth century numerous dioceses had an archpriest, or head of the college of presbyters, who aided and represented the bishop in the discharge of his liturgical and religious duties.

	Accident - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01096c.htm The obvious division of things into the stable and the unstable.
	Augustine of Hippo, Teaching of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02091a.htm Article on Augustine as a Doctor of the Church, and his influence in the history of philosophy and theology. Particular interest in his teaching on grace.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01129a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01129a.htm First man and father of the human race.
	Aristides - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01712d.htm A Christian apologist living at Athens in the second century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007c.htm Includes geographical and historical information.

	Augustine of Hippo, Works of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02089a.htm Annotated bibliography of Augustine's principal writings.
	Absolute, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01060c.htm Philosophical term referring to God.
	Aquila and Priscilla - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01661b.htm Jewish tentmakers, who left Rome in the Jewish persecution under Claudius, 49 or 50, and settled in Corinth.
	Ark of the Covenant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01721a.htm A kind of chest, measuring two cubits and a half in length, a cubit and a half in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.
	Australia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02113b.htm Includes history, education, and religious statistics.

	Asia Minor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01782a.htm The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea.
	Ascension, Feast of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01767b.htm The fortieth day after Easter Sunday, commemorating the Ascension of Christ into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2.
	Arminianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01740c.htm The popular designation of the doctrines held by a party formed in the early days of the seventeenth century among the Calvinists of the Netherlands.
	Articles of Faith - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01755d.htm Certain revealed supernatural truths such as those contained in the symbol of the Apostles.
	Augsburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02073b.htm Diocese in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising.

	Augustus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02107a.htm The name by which Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, the first Roman emperor, in whose reign Jesus Christ was born, is usually known; born at Rome, 62 B.C.; died A.D. 14.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01326c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01326c.htm A Hebrew word signifying a "young woman", unmarried as well as married.
	Archives, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01696a.htm A collection of documents, records, and memorials, pertaining to the origin, foundation, growth, history, and constitutions of a diocese, parish, monastery, or religious community under the jurisdiction of the Church.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01051a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01051a.htm Outline of his life, with New and Old Testament views.
	Argentina - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01702d.htm A South American confederation of fourteen provinces, or States, united by a federal Constitution framed on the same lines as the Constitution of the United States of America.

	Anne d'Auray, Sainte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01539a.htm A little village three miles from the town of Auray, in the Diocese of Vannes, famous for its sanctuary and for its pilgrimages, or pardons, in honour of St. Anne.
	Atonement, Doctrine of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02055a.htm In Catholic theology, the Atonement is the Satisfaction of Christ, whereby God and the world are reconciled or made to be at one.
	Adventists - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01166a.htm A group of six American Protestant sects which hold in common a belief in the near return of Christ in person.
	Aurelian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02108b.htm Roman Emperor, 270-275, born near Sirmium in Pannonia, 9 September, 214; died 275.
	Anne de Beaupré, Sainte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01539b.htm Devotion to Saint Anne, in Canada.

	Altar (in Liturgy) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01346a.htm In the New Law the altar is the table on which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is offered.
	Affinity (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01178a.htm A relationship arising from the carnal intercourse of a man and a woman, sufficient for the generation of children, whereby the man becomes related to the woman's blood-relatives and the woman to the man's.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01272b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01272b.htm The art of transmuting baser metals into gold and silver.
	Abstinence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01067a.htm Includes information about old and new testament fasting as well as church laws.
	Annunciation, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541c.htm In the sixth month after the conception of St. John the Baptist by Elizabeth, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the Virgin Mary.

	Altar Breads - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01349d.htm Bread is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist.
	Anglican Orders - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01491a.htm In the creed of the Catholic Church, Holy Order is one of the Seven Sacraments instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ.
	Arnobius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01746c.htm A Christian apologist, flourished during the reign of Diocletian (284-305).
	Altar Crucifix - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01352a.htm The principal ornament of the altar.
	Alypius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01374c.htm Close friend of St. Augustine of Hippo. Like Augustine, Alypius was baptized by Ambrose. St. Alypius became bishop of Tagaste.

	Adoration, Perpetual - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01152a.htm A term broadly used to designate the practically uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
	Anthropomorphism, Anthropomorphites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01558c.htm A term used in its widest sense to signify the tendency of man to conceive the activities of the external world as the counterpart of his own.
	Authorized Version, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02141a.htm Historical background on the AV, also called the King James Bible.
	Andrew of Crete, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01473b.htm Also known as Andreas, monk, bishop of Gortyna, best known for his hymnody, d. 740 or 720.
	Apostolic Camera - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01633b.htm The former central board of finance in the papal administrative system, which at one time was of great importance in the government of the States of the Church, and in the administration of justice.

	Abandonment - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01006a.htm A term used by writers of ascetical and mystical books to signify the first stage of the union of the soul with God by conforming to His Will.
	Andrew, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01471a.htm The Apostle in Scripture and tradition.
	Alexander of Lycopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01299a.htm Fourth-century writer.
	Alexander of Hales - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01298a.htm Biographical article on the first of the scholastic theologians to use Aristotelean principles in systematic theology.
	Apostolic Letters - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01640a.htm The letters of the Apostles to Christian communities or those in authority.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01082a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01082a.htm Patriarch of Constantinople. (d. 489)
	All Souls' Day - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315b.htm The commemoration of all the faithful departed is celebrated by the Church on 2 November, or, if this be a Sunday or a solemnity, on 3 November.
	Alexandrian Library, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01303a.htm The Great Library of Alexandria, so called to distinguish it from the smaller or "daughter" library in the Serapeum, was a foundation of the first Ptolemies for the purpose of aiding the maintenance of Greek civilization in the midst of the conservative Egyptians.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01652a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01652a.htm The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive view of the positive legislation of the Church on appeals belonging to the ecclesiastical forum; but it does not treat of the nature of the ecclesiastical forum itself nor of the rights of the Church and its supreme head, the pope, to receive appeals in ecclesiastical matters.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01146a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01146a.htm Hebrew meaning "lord, ruler", a name bestowed upon God in the Old Testament.

	Apostle Spoons - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626b.htm A set of thirteen spoons, usually silver, the handles of which are adorned with representations of Our Lord (the Master spoon) and the twelve Apostles.
	Abbreviation, Methods of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01021b.htm Discusses forms used to get the most use from scarce and costly materials.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02158a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02158a.htm Written in the form of Avennio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, takes its name from the House, or Clan, Avennius.
	Arches, The Court of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01695a.htm Was held in the Church of St. Mary le Bow (Sancta Maria de Arcubus), in Cheapside, the chief and most ancient court and consistory of the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
	Athos, Mount - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02047b.htm The mountain that the architect Dinocrates offered to turn into a statue of Alexander the Great with a city in one hand and in the other a perennially flowing spring.

	Association of Ideas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02004a.htm A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states.
	Anchorites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01462b.htm In Christian terminology, men who have sought to triumph over the two unavoidable enemies of human salvation, the flesh and the devil, by depriving them of the assistance of their ally, the world.
	Apostolicity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01648b.htm The mark by which the Church of today is recognized as identical with the Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the Apostles.
	Ancona and Umana - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01463d.htm An Italian diocese in the Archdiocese of Ancona.
	Athens, Modern Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02046a.htm The majority of Catholics who live within the Diocese of Athens are foreigners, or of foreign descent.

	Adoptionism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01150a.htm The theory that the man Jesus at some point in time became the Son of God only by adoption. Strictly speaking, refers to an eighth-century Spanish heresy, but the term is also used to cover similar beliefs.
	Adoption, Supernatural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01148a.htm The adoption of man by God in virtue of which we become His sons and heirs.
	Aquileia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01661c.htm A former city of the Roman Empire, situated at the head of the Adriatic.
	Ambrosian Liturgy and Rite - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01394a.htm The liturgy and Rite of the Church of Milan, which derives its name from St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (374-397).
	Anastasius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455c.htm A former magician and soldier, converted to Christianity, became a monk. He was martyred in 628.

	America, Pre-Columbian Discovery of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01416a.htm Offers details of early exploration.
	Ambulatory - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01406b.htm A cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, for exercise in walking; the aisle that makes the circuit of the apse of a church.
	Abraham, The Bosom of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01055a.htm Found only in two verses of St. Luke's Gospel (xvi, 22, 23).
	Ambrosian Basilica - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01388c.htm Erected at Milan by fourth-century bishop, St. Ambrose, and was consecrated in the year 386.
	Amorrhites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01433c.htm A name of doubtful origin and meaning, used to designate an ancient people often mentioned in the Old Testament.

	Amphoræ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01439a.htm Vessels generally made of clay, and furnished with ears or handles.
	Agnes of Bohemia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01213b.htm Also called Agnes of Prague. Poor Clare, prioress.
	Ampullæ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01439c.htm Their peculiarity consists in the sediment of dark red colour they contain, from which they derive the name, blood-ampullæ, on the theory that the sediment is the remains of the blood of a martyr.
	Aix, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01237e.htm Includes the districts of Aix and Arles (Department of the Bouches-du-Rhône).
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02032c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02032c.htm Duchesne introduced the word to designate those cases in which species revert spontaneously to what are presumably long-lost characters.

	Aidan of Lindisfarne, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01233d.htm Irish monk, first bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 651.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01058c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01058c.htm Article covers Absalom, son of David; Absalom, father of Mathathias; and Absalom, father of Jonathan.
	Athens, Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02043b.htm History of the Church in Athens.
	Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01231c.htm Described as a "knight, doctor, and by common reputation, a magician".
	Anaphora - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01451a.htm A liturgical term in the Greek Rite.

	Anaesthesia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01447b.htm A term in medicine, and the allied sciences, signifying a state of insensibility to external impressions, consequent upon disease, or induced artificially by the employment of certain substances known as anæsthetics, or by hypnotic suggestion.
	Anastasia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01453a.htm Article on this martyr, whose feast day is 25 December. Attracted a cultus at Rome in the late fifth century, and a sixth-century legend makes her a Roman matron, though martyred elsewhere.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02051c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02051c.htm Primarily, the smallest particle of matter which can exist.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01443a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01443a.htm An object generaliy inscribed with mysterious formulæ and used by pagans as a protection against various maladies, as well as witchcraft.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01075d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01075d.htm Primarily and classically an adjective, very deep.

	Alpha and Omega (in Scripture) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01332a.htm Employed from the fourth century as a symbol expressing the confidence of orthodox Christians in the scriptural proofs of Our Lord's divinity.
	Avesta, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02151b.htm The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning the religious and spiritual life the ancient Persians.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01035c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01035c.htm Commentary on the first murder victim.
	Avignon, Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02159a.htm Details of several councils held here.
	Abduction - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01032b.htm May be considered as a public crime and a matrimonial diriment impediment.

	Allen, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01322b.htm Cardinal. (1522-1594)
	Allen, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01322a.htm Priest and martyr. He was executed at Tyburn in the beginning of the year 1538.
	Allen, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01321b.htm Archbishop of Dublin, canonist, and Chancellor of Ireland. (1476-1534)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02163a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02163a.htm A titular metropolitan see of ancient Christian Ethiopia.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02169b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02169b.htm A surname applied to the tribe of the Mexica, or Chichimeca Mexitin, which occupied aboriginal Mexico, in more or less contiguous groups, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the Spaniards first came into contact with them.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02171a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02171a.htm Unfermented cakes used by the Jews in their various sacrifices and religious rites.
	Alexius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01307b.htm Tries to untangle the story of the Man of God. According to tradition, a fifth-century Roman who became a beggar in Edessa. He is honored as a confessor of the Faith.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01313a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01313a.htm In the common legal sense of the word, the allowance by order of the court a husband pays to his wife for her maintenance while she is living separately from him, or paid by her former husband to a divorced woman.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01006d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01006d.htm Aramaic word for father.
	Alimentation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01312b.htm In a broad sense, whatever is necessary to sustain human life: not merely food and drink, but lodging, clothing, care during sickness and burial.

	Algonquins - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01311b.htm The Micmacs, Abenakis, Montagnais, Penobscots, Chippewas, Mascoutens, Nipissings, Sacs, Pottowatomies, and Illinois, the Pequods of Massachusetts, the Mohegans of New York, the Lenapes of Pennsylvania and Delaware, with many other minor tribes, may be classed among them.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01005a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01005a.htm A Hebrew word signifying: ruin, destruction (Job 31:12); place of destruction; the Abyss, realm of the dead (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11).
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01003a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01003a.htm Brother of Moses, and High Priest of the Old Law.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02168a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02168a.htm An archipelago situated in that tract of the Atlantic Ocean which is known to mariners as the Sargasso Sea.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225c.htm Term for alleged sayings of Jesus, found in ancient Christian writings, not included in the canonical Gospels.

	Alban, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01252b.htm First martyr of Britain, d. about 304. Biographical article.
	Ambrosian Chant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01389a.htm Chant composed by St. Ambrose.
	Abortion, Physical Effects of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01049a.htm Covers definition, causes, and physical effects.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01253b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01253b.htm The ancient Epirus and Illyria, is the most western land occupied by the Turks in Europe.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01255b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01255b.htm A suburban see, comprising seven towns in the Province of Rome.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01377c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01377c.htm A people remembered chiefly as the most hated of all the enemies of Israel.
	Abortion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01046b.htm Briefly defined as "the loss of a fetal life."
	Alvarado, Pedro de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01372d.htm Accompanied Grijalva on his exploration of Yucatan and the Mexican coast in 1518, and was the chief officer of Cortez during the conquest of Mexico.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01370a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01370a.htm Signifies in ecclesiastical usage, a student preparing for the sacred ministry in a seminary.
	Altruism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01369a.htm A term formed by Auguste Comte in 1851, to denote the benevolent, as contrasted with the selfish propensities.

	Altars (in Scripture) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01360a.htm Describes several biblical uses of the word.
	Autocephali - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02142a.htm A designation in early Christian times of certain bishops who were subject to no patriarch or metropolitan, but depended directly on the triennial provincial synod or on the Apostolic See.
	Altar Horns - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01354a.htm On the Jewish altar there were four projections, one at each corner, which were called the horns of the altar. These projections are not found on the Christian altar, but the word cornu ("horn") is still maintained to designate the sides or corners of the altar.
	Altar Cloths - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01351e.htm The custom of using three altar-cloths began probably in the ninth century, but at present it is of strict obligation for the licit celebration of Mass.
	Altar Candlesticks - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01350a.htm Consists of five parts: the foot, the stem, the knob about the middle of the stem, the bowl to receive the drippings of wax, and the pricket, i.e. the sharp point that terminates the stem on which the candle is fixed.

	Augustine of Canterbury, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02081a.htm Biographical article on the monk who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, called "Apostle of the English."
	Altar Candles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01347a.htm For mystical reasons the Church prescribes that the candles used at Mass and at other liturgical functions be made of beeswax.
	Alphabet, Christian Use of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01333a.htm The Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets have been variously made use of in Christian liturgy.
	Ave Maris Stella - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02149a.htm The first verse of an unrhymed, accentual hymn, of seven stropes of four lines each, assigned in Roman Breviary to Vespers in the Common office, the Office of Saturdays, and the Little Office (as well as for Feasts) of the Blessed Virgin.
	Alpha and Omega - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01332b.htm Includes Jewish and Christian meanings.

	Alcoholism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01274a.htm The term is understood to include all the changes that may occur in the human organism after the ingestion of any form of alcohol.
	Adrian of Canterbury, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01160a.htm African-born Benedictine abbot, d. 710.
	Antipodes - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01581a.htm Speculations concerning the rotundity of the earth and the possible existence of human beings "with their feet turned towards ours" were of interest to the Fathers of the Early Church only in so far as they seemed to encroach upon the fundamental Christian dogma of the unity of the human race, and the consequent universality of original sin and redemption.
	Advowson - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01169a.htm In English law the right of patronage of a church or ecclesiastical benefice, a right exercised by nomination of a clergyman to such church or other benefice.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170a.htm A secret chamber or place of retirement in the ancient temples, and esteemed the most sacred spot; the innermost sanctuary or shrine.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01729a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01729a.htm Archdiocese founded by St. Patrick about 445, as the primatial and metropolitan see of Ireland.
	Arnulf of Metz, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01752b.htm Frankish civil servant at the court of Austrasia, bishop of Metz, hermit, d. about 640.
	Antediluvians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01551c.htm People who lived before the flood.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173c.htm The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal Being.
	Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Feast of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01542a.htm In the Latin Church this feast is first mentioned in the Sacramentarium of Pope Gelasius.

	Affinity (in the Bible) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01177c.htm Scripture recognizes affinity as an impediment to wedlock.
	Antonio María Claret y Clará, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16026a.htm Spanish priest and missionary, founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (better known as the Claretians), d. 1870.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01530c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01530c.htm Details of four women by this name in Sacred Scripture.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01200a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01200a.htm Mentioned in Acts 11:28, and 21:10, as a prophet of the New Testament.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774b.htm The property by which a being exists of and from itself.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01200b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01200b.htm Under certain circumstances the agape and the Eucharist appear to form parts of a single liturgical function.
	Anne, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01538a.htm According to apocryphal literature, the mother of Mary.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01776c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01776c.htm A number of passages in the Old Testament connect ashes with mourning.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01526a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01526a.htm The doctrine or theory of the soul.
	Animals in the Bible - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01517a.htm The sacred books were composed by and for a people almost exclusively given to husbandry and pastoral life, hence in constant communication with nature.

	Animals in Christian Art - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01515b.htm Animal forms have always occupied a place of far greater importance than was ever accorded to them in the art of the pagan world.
	Apollonia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01617c.htm A virgin, possibly ordained, martyr at Alexandria in late 248 or early 249.
	Apotheosis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01650b.htm Deification, the exaltation of men to the rank of gods.
	Adalbert, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01127b.htm Apostle of the Slavs. Monk, missionary to Russia, abbot, and bishop of Magdeburg, d. 981.
	Appropriation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01658a.htm In theology, appropriation is used in speaking of the different Persons of the Trinity.

	Apostleship of Prayer, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01633a.htm A pious association otherwise known as a league of prayer in union with the Heart of Jesus.
	Adeodatus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01141e.htm Son of St. Augustine. (372-388)
	Adelaide, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140c.htm Or Adelheid. The widow of Otho, she died in 999.
	Apse Chapel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01660a.htm A chapel radiating tangentially from one of the bays or divisions of the apse, and reached generally by a semicircular passageway, or ambulatory, exteriorly to the walls or piers of the apse.
	Andrew Corsini, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01472d.htm Article on this Carmelite, called "the Apostle of Florence," regarded as a prophet and thaumaturgus, who became bishop of Fiesoli, and died in 1373.

	Adoption - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01147a.htm Adoption, as defined in canon law, is foreign to the Bible.
	Arbitration - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01682b.htm A method of arranging differences between two parties by referring them to the judgment of a disinterested outsider whose decision the parties to a dispute agree in advance to accept as in some way binding.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01686d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01686d.htm A box in which the Eucharist was kept by the primitive Christians in their homes.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01688a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01688a.htm A structure composed of separate pieces, such as stone or bricks, having the shape of truncated wedges, arranged on a curved line so as to retain their position by mutual pressure.
	Antonio Maria Zaccaria, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01588a.htm A Doctor of Medicine, founder of the Barnabites, d. 1539.

	Archconfraternity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01692a.htm A confraternity empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and to impart to them its indulgences and privileges.
	Archimandrite - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01695c.htm In the Greek Rite the superior of a monastery or of several monasteries.
	Archpriest Controversy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16004a.htm Arose in England on the appointment of George Blackwell as archpriest with jurisdiction over the secular clergy of England and Scotland, by the Holy See on 7 March, 1598.
	Adulteration of Food - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01162b.htm This act is defined as the addition of any non-condimental substance to a food.
	Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01114a.htm Biography of the historian best-known for his view of the corruption power causes.

	Aristeas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01712c.htm A name given in Josephus to the author of a letter ascribing the Greek translation of the Old Testament to six interpreters sent into Egypt from Jerusalem.
	Antioch, The Church of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01567a.htm A city on the banks of the lower Orontes.
	Ancient of Days - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01463a.htm A name given to God by the Prophet Daniel.
	Agony of Christ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01224a.htm The word is used only once in Sacred Scripture (Luke, xxii, 43) to designate the anguish of Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemani.
	Andrew the Scot, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01474c.htm Brother of St. Bridget the Younger and archdeacon of Fiesole, d. about 877.

	Agnus Dei (in Liturgy) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01221a.htm A name given to the formula recited thrice by the priest at Mass in the Roman rite.
	Agnus Dei - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01220a.htm The name given to certain discs of wax impressed with the figure of a lamb and blessed at stated seasons by the Pope.
	Angels, Early Christian Representations of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01485a.htm The oldest fresco in which an angel appears is the Annunciation scene (second century) of the cemetery of St. Priscilla.
	Angels of the Churches - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01486a.htm St. John in the Apocalypse is shown seven candlesticks and in their midst, the Son of Man holding seven stars. The candlesticks represent the seven Churches of Asia; the stars, the angels of those Churches.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01486b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01486b.htm A short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation repeated three times each day, morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of the bell.

	Agatha, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01203c.htm Virgin and martyr, died at Catania in Sicily, probably in the Decian persecution (250-253).
	Accomplice - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100a.htm A term generally employed to designate a partner in some form of evildoing.
	Angela of Foligno, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01482a.htm Short biography of the penitent, mystic, writer, Third Order Franciscan, who died in 1309.
	Assideans - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01800b.htm The maintainers of the Mosaic Law against the invasion of Greek customs.
	Asses, Feast of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01798b.htm The feast dates from the eleventh century, though the source which suggested it is much older.

	Ass in Caricature of Christians, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793c.htm The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians.
	Asmodeus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01792c.htm Demon mentioned in the Book of Tobias.
	Anima Christi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01515a.htm Well known prayer dating from the first half of the fourteenth century and enriched with indulgences by Pope John XXII in the year 1330.
	Alsace-Lorraine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01341c.htm The German Imperial Territory so known, and divided for State purposes into three civil districts.
	Albigenses - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01267e.htm A neo-Manichæan sect that flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01801a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01801a.htm Diocese in Umbria.
	Aldhelm, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01280b.htm Abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne, poet, d. about 709.
	Agnes of Assisi, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01213a.htm Brief biography of the younger sister of St. Clare, and prioress of the Poor Clares at Monticelli.
	Ausonius, Decimus Magnus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02112d.htm Professor and poet. (310-394)
	Abjuration - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01044d.htm A denial, disavowal, or renunciation under oath.

	Apostolic Churches - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01634a.htm All the individual orthodox churches could, in a sense, be called Apostolic Churches, because they were in some more or less mediate connection with the Apostles.
	Agnes of Rome, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01214a.htm Virgin, martyred at the age of 12 or 13, revered since at least the mid-fourth century.
	Andrew Bobola, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01472c.htm Polish Jesuit priest and missionary, martyred in 1657.
	Admonitions, Canonical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01144b.htm A preliminary means used by the Church towards a suspected person, as a preventive of harm or a remedy of evil.
	Ariosto, Ludovico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01712b.htm Son of Nicolo Ariosto, Governor of Reggio, and Daria Malaguzzi, born at Reggio in Emilia, 8 September, 1474; died at Ferrara, 6 June, 1533.

	Antinomianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01564b.htm The heretical doctrine that Christians are exempt from the obligations of moral law.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01449a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01449a.htm A philosophical term used to designate, first, a property of things; secondly, a process of reasoning.
	Age, Canonical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01206c.htm Fixed by the canons, or law of the Church, at which her subjects become capable of incurring certain obligations, enjoying special privileges, embracing special states of life, holding office or dignity, or receiving the sacraments.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01428c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01428c.htm A short linen cloth, square or oblong in shape and, like the other sacerdotal vestments, needing to be blessed before use.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01718a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01718a.htm An heresiarch, born about A.D. 250; died 336.

	Apostolicæ Sedis Moderationi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01645a.htm A Bull of Pius IX (1846-78) which regulates anew the system of censures and reservations in the Catholic church.
	Affirmation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01179a.htm A solemn declaration accepted in legal procedure in lieu of the requisite oath.
	Alexander, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01295c.htm Called "The Charcoal Burner." Made bishop of Comana at the recommendation of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus. St. Alexander was martyred in the Decian persecution.
	Actus et Potentia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01124a.htm A technical expression in scholastic phraseology used to translate Aristotle's energeia or entelecheia, and dynamis.
	Acca, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01093a.htm Bishop of Hexham, companion of St. Wilfrid. Acca died in about 742.

	Assemblies of the French Clergy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01795a.htm Meetings of the Clergy of France for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the Church by the kings of France, and incidentally for other ecclesiastical purposes.
	Antoninus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01585b.htm Archbishop of Florence, Dominican reformer, moral theologian, d. 1459.
	African Liturgy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01194a.htm In use not only in the old Roman province of Africa of which Carthage was the capital, but also in Numidia and Mauretania.
	Addeus and Maris, Liturgy of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01136d.htm Oriental liturgy, sometimes assigned to the Syrian group; sometimes to the Persian group.
	Arts, Bachelor of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01756c.htm A degree marking the completion of the traditional curriculum of the college.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01030b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01030b.htm A minor prophet.
	Adjuration - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01142c.htm An urgent demand made upon another to do something, or to desist from doing something, which is rendered more solemn by coupling with it the name of God.
	Allen, Frances - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01320c.htm The first woman of New England birth to become a nun. (1784-1819)
	Aphraates - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01593c.htm Wrter born of pagan parents during the last half of the third century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01316a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01316a.htm The name of God in Arabic.

	Astronomy in the Bible - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02029a.htm Includes examples of Old and New Testament references.
	Arts, The Faculty of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01757a.htm One of the four traditional divisions of the teaching body of the university.
	Asperges - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793a.htm The rite of sprinkling the congregation with holy water before the principal Mass on Sunday.
	Avesta, Theological Aspects of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02154a.htm Explores the subjects of God, dualism, angelology, and man.
	Adoro Te Devote - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01154b.htm A hymn sometimes styled Rhythmus, or Oratio, S. Thomæ (sc. Aquinatis) written c. 1260.

	Arabian School of Philosophy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01674c.htm A circumstance which favoured the study of letters and philosophy was the accession to the throne about A.D. 750 of the Abassides, an enlightened line of Caliphs who encouraged learning, and patronized the representatives, chiefly Syrian and Persian, of foreign culture.
	Audiences, Pontifical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02069a.htm The receptions given by the pope to cardinals, sovereigns, princes, ambassadors, and other persons, ecclesiastical or lay, having business with or interest in the Holy See.
	Anchor (as Symbol), The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01462a.htm Regarded in ancient times as a symbol of safety.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01380c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01380c.htm A titular see and metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the river Iris, now Amasiah.
	Amiens, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01429d.htm Comprises the department of Somme.

	Auctorem Fidei - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02068b.htm A Bull issued by Pius VI, 28 August, 1794, in condemnation of the Gallican and Jansenist acts and tendencies of the Synod of Pistoia (1786).
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148c.htm The word is used, in a technical sense, in the Hindu religion to denote the descent upon earth of a portion of the essence of a god, which then assumes some coarser material form, be it animal, monster, or man.
	Alain de l'Isle - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01244e.htm Monk, poet, preacher, theologian, and eclectic philosopher. (1128-1203)
	Ammonites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01431b.htm A race closely allied to the Hebrews.
	Abgar, The Legend of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01042c.htm Concerns a correspondence that took place between God and the local potentate at Edessa.

	Amphilochius of Iconium - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01438a.htm Fourth-century Cappadocian bishop.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144a.htm Comprises the entire Department of Saone et Loire in France. It was suffragan to the Archdiocese of Lyons under the old regime.
	Aelred, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01172b.htm Cistercian abbot, homilist, spiritual writer, d. 1166 or 1167.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225b.htm Archiepiscopal see of the ancient kingdom of Croatia, in Austria, founded towards the end of the eleventh century as a suffragan of Kalocsa in Hungary, and made an archdiocese in 1852.
	Anthony of Padua, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01556a.htm Long article on the Augustinian canon turned Franciscan, priest, preacher, miracle worker, d. 1231. Known as "the Hammer of the Heretics."

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01379a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01379a.htm Archdiocese directly dependent on the Holy See, has its seat at Amalfi, not far from Naples.
	Administrator - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01143a.htm Includes details on administrators of dioceses, parishes, and ecclesiastical institutions.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01283b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01283b.htm Armenian Rite Archdiocese in Syria.
	Abingdon, The Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01043c.htm Located in the County of Berkshire, England, founded A.D. 675.
	Alberti, Leone Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01263a.htm Florentine ecclesiastic and artist of the fifteenth century.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01239a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01239a.htm A city of Upper Egypt, situated on the banks of the Nile.
	Altar, Portable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01348b.htm Consists of a solid piece of natural stone which must be sufficiently hard to resist every fracture.
	Ahriman and Ormuzd - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01233a.htm The modern Persian forms of Anro-Mainyus and Ahura Mazda, the Evil Spirit and the Good Spirit.
	Adalbert, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01127c.htm Apostle of Prussia. Bishop of Prague, forced to flee his see. Missionary to the Hungarians and Poles. He was murdered in 997.
	Adam of Bremen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01132c.htm A German historian and geographer of the eleventh century.

	Andrada, Antonio de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01468d.htm Missionary and explorer of Tibet in the seventeenth century.
	Alcalá, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01271a.htm Had its inception in the thirteenth century, when Sancho IV, conceived the idea of founding a Studium Generale in Alcalá de Henares.
	Agde, Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01206b.htm Held in 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the presidency of St. Caesarius of Arles.
	Avitus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02161c.htm Anti-Arian Bishop of Vienne, converted King Sigismund, was a renowned poet, d. about 518.
	Ambrosian Hymnography - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01392a.htm The term implies no attribution of authorship, but rather a poetical form or a liturgical use.

	Acclamation (in Papal Elections) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01099a.htm One of the forms of papal election. Consists of all the cardinals present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff, without the formality of casting votes.
	Adelard of Bath - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16001c.htm Twelfth-century scholastic philosopher.
	Allatius, Leo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01317b.htm A learned Greek of the seventeenth century. (1586-1669)
	Arles, The Synods of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01727b.htm The first Council of Arles was held in 314, for the purpose of putting an end to the Donatist controversy.
	Altar, Stripping of an - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01349a.htm Removal of the altar-cloths, vases of flowers, antipendium, and other ornaments, so that nothing remains but the cross and the candlesticks with the candles extinguished.

	Antonelli, Giacomo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01583d.htm Cardinal; Secretary of State to Pius IX. (1806-1876)
	Arnold of Brescia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01747b.htm Born at Brescia towards the end of the eleventh century, date of death uncertain.
	Alva, The Duke of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01371a.htm Warrior and statesman. (1508-1582)
	Altar Stone - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01357b.htm A solid piece of natural stone, consecrated by a bishop, large enough to hold the Sacred Host and chalice.
	Anselm of Lucca, the Younger, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01550d.htm Appointed bishop of Lucca by his uncle Anselm of Lucca the Elder (Pope Alexander II), then became a Benedictine monk, served as papal legate, and died in 1086.

	Albergati, Niccolo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01258b.htm Cardinal and Bishop of Bologna. (1357-1443)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01255a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01255a.htm Italian family said to be descended from Albanian refugees of the fifteenth century. Includes information on six family members.
	Auxilius of Naples - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02147a.htm The name (probably fictitious, according to Hefele) of an ecclesiastic to whom we owe a series of remarkable writings (P. L., CXXIX, 1054 sqq.) that deal with the controversies concerning the succession and fate of Pope Formosus (891-896), and especially the validity of the orders conferred by him.
	Amalarius of Metz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01376b.htm A liturgical writer, b. at Metz, in the last quarter of the eighth century; d. about 850.
	Amort, Eusebius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01434a.htm Philosopher and theologian. (1692-1775)

	Ascendente Domino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01766d.htm A Bull issued by Gregory XIII, 24 May, 1584, in favor of the Society of Jesus, to confirm the constitution of the Society, and the privileges already granted to it by Paul III, Julius III, Paul IV, and Pius V.
	Annals, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01531b.htm The historical literature of the Middle Ages may be classed under three general heads: chronicles, annals, and lives of the saints.
	Abbon, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01015b.htm Biographical article on this Benedictine monk, who died in 1004.
	Aben-Ezra, Abraham-ben-Meir - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01039c.htm Spanish rabbi. (1092-1167)
	Ailly, Pierre d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01235b.htm French theologian and philosopher, bishop and cardinal, born 1350 at Compiègne; died probably 1420 at Avignon.

	Allouez, Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01326b.htm Jesuit missionary and explorer. (1620-1689)
	Andrea Pisano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01470a.htm An Italian sculptor and architect, b. 1270; d. 1349.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101c.htm The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 B.C., of a strip of land between the gulf of Corinth and Elis and Arcadia, embracing twelve cities leagued together.
	Adamnan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01135c.htm Irish-born abbot of Iona, and St. Columba's biographer.
	Altarpiece - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01356a.htm A picture of some sacred subject painted on the wall or suspended in a frame behind the altar, or a group of statuary on the altar.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01593a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01593a.htm Founder of a Gnostic sect; died at an advanced age late in the second century.
	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01171b.htm The author of the homilies in Anglo-Saxon, a translator of Holy Scripture, and a writer upon many miscellaneous subjects.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02067c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02067c.htm Archdiocese; comprises the Department of Gers in France.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01699b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01699b.htm A Frankish Bishop of the latter part of the seventh century.
	Albert of Brandenburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01262a.htm Cardinal and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. (1490-1545)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018b.htm One of the divisions of the province of Alexandria, and suffragan of Turin.
	Arias Montanus, Benedictus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01711c.htm Orientalist, exegete, and editor of the "Antwerp Polyglot", born at Frejenal de la Sierra in Estremadura, Spain, 1527; died at Seville, 1598.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01110a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01110a.htm A diocese suffragan of Turin, Italy.
	Acquaviva, Claudius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01109c.htm Fifth General of the Society of Jesus. (1543-1615)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01537b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01537b.htm The first fruits, or first year's revenue of an ecclesiastical benefice paid to the Papal Curia (in medieval times to bishops also).

	Ayllón, Lucas Vésquez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02164c.htm This Spanish discoverer of Chesapeake Bay, and the first who tried to find a northwest passage from Europe to Asia, date of birth uncertain; died 18 October, 1526.
	Adrianople - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01161a.htm According to legend, Orestes, son of Agamemnon, built this city at the confluence of the Tonsus (Toundja) and the Ardiscus (Arda) with the Hebrus (Maritza).
	Attainder - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02059c.htm An Act of Parliament for putting a man to death or for otherwise punishing him without trial in the usual form.
	Assumption, Augustinians of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02104a.htm Had its origin in the College of the Assumption, established in Nîmes France, in 1843.
	Acacians, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01079b.htm Fourth-century Arian sect.

	Arts, Master of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01759a.htm An academic degree higher than that of Bachelor.
	Apostolicae Curae - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01644a.htm A Bull of Leo XIII issued 15 September, 1896, and containing the latest papal decision with regard to the validity of Anglican orders.
	African Church, Early - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01191a.htm The name given to the Christian communities inhabiting the region known politically as Roman Africa.
	Amandus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01380b.htm Hermit, missionary, bishop of Maastricht, monastic founder, d. about 690.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01177b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01177b.htm A Roman general, patrician, and consul, b. towards the end of the fourth century; d. 454.

	Apiarius of Sicca - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01594a.htm A priest of the diocese of Sicca, in proconsular Africa.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01081a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01081a.htm Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, disciple and biographer of Eusebius, the historian, whose successor in the See of Caesarea he became in 340.
	Allies, Thomas William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01323b.htm English writer. (1813-1903)
	Academies, Roman - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01083b.htm Historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these associations of learned men.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01090a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01090a.htm Usually regarded as the small district on the south shore of the Bay of Fundy from Annapolis to the Basin of Minas.

	Altar, Privileged - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01348c.htm An altar is said to be privileged when, in addition to the ordinary fruits of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, a plenary indulgence is also granted whenever Mass is celebrated thereon.
	Arnolfo di Cambio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01750a.htm Sometimes called di Lapo, the principal master of Italian Gothic, b. at Florence, about 1232.
	Afra, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01180b.htm Martyred at Augsburg in the Diocletian persecution (c. 304) for refusing to participate in pagan rites.
	Accession - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01095a.htm Method of acquiring ownership of a thing arising from the fact that it is in some way added to, or is the fruit of something already belonging to oneself.
	Arias de Avila, Pedro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01711b.htm A Spanish knight from Segovia, b. about the middle of the fifteenth century; d. at Leon, 1530.

	Assumption, Sisters of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006a.htm A congregation of French nuns devoted to the teaching of young girls.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01256a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01256a.htm Diocese comprising the entire counties of Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Washington, and that part of Herkimer and Hamilton counties south of the northern line of the townships of Ohio and Russia, Benson and Hope, in the State of New York.
	Auckland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02068a.htm Diocese comprising the Provincial District of Auckland (New Zealand), with its islets, and the Kermadec Group.
	Alexander Natalis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01296c.htm A French historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic. (1639-1724)
	Ambrosiaster - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01406a.htm The name given to the author of a commentary on all the Epistles of St. Paul, with the exception of that to the Hebrews.

	Abercius, Inscription of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01040a.htm A Greek hagiographical text.
	Atto of Vercelli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02062c.htm A learned theologian and canonist of the tenth century.
	Andrew Avellino, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01472b.htm Canon lawyer, priest, reformer, Theatine, d. 1608.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01719a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01719a.htm Includes history, population, and government details from early in the twentieth century.
	Acceptance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01094b.htm In canon law, the act by which one receives a thing with approbation or satisfaction.

	Abbo Cernuus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01015a.htm French Benedictine monk of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, sometimes called Abbo Parisiensis.
	Armentia, Fray Nicolás - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01740a.htm Bishop of La Paz, appointed 22 October, 1901; b. at Bemedo, diocese of Vittoria, Spain, 5 December, 1845.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01367c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01367c.htm Diocese in Illinois.
	Alexander of Jerusalem, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01295b.htm Alexander, Bishop of Cappadocia, imprisoned for his faith, served as coadjutor to the Bishop of Jerusalem. Exiled and again imprisoned, Alexander was tortured and died in prison in 251.
	Assumption, Little Sisters of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02005d.htm A congregation whose work is the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes.

	Asaph, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01766a.htm First bishop of the Welsh town named after him. Second half of sixth century.
	Adamites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01135b.htm An obscure sect, dating perhaps from the second century, which professed to have regained Adam's primeval innocence.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02059b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02059b.htm An open place or court before a church.
	Actus Purus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01125b.htm A term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God.
	Alma Redemptoris Mater - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01326d.htm The opening words of one of the four Antiphons sung at Compline and Lauds, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, at various seasons of the year.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246b.htm The first knowledge of Alaska was acquired in 1741 through the expedition under Vitus Bering, a Dane in the Russian service, who sailed from Okhoysk.
	All Hallows College - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01314b.htm An institution devoted to the preparation of priests for the missions in English-speaking countries.
	Avempace - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02150a.htm Arabian philosopher, physician, astronomer, mathematician, and poet, b. at Saragossa towards the end of the eleventh century; d. at Fez, 1138.
	Arcosolium - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01699a.htm Term applied by the primitive Christians to one form of the tombs that exist in the Roman catacombs.
	Amraphel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01441a.htm King of Sennaar (Shinar), or Babylonia.

	Amalricians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01379b.htm Heretical sect founded towards the end of the twelfth century.
	Allocution - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01325c.htm A solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.
	Acclamation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01097a.htm Used in the classical Latin of Republican Rome as a general term for any manifestation of popular feeling expressed by a shout.
	Antiochene Liturgy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01571a.htm The family of liturgies originally used in the Patriarchate of Antioch begins with that of the Apostolic Constitutions; then follow that of St. James in Greek, the Syrian Liturgy of St. James, and the other Syrian Anaphorus.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01284b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01284b.htm Diocese in European Turkey, since 1886 suffragan of Scutari.

	Antigonish - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01562c.htm The shiretown of the county of the same name in Nova Scotia.
	Asterius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018a.htm Name of several prominent persons in early Christian history.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01110b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01110b.htm Syrian seaport on the Mediterranean.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01564a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01564a.htm A titular see of the Thebaid, now Esneh or Esench, a city in Egypt.
	Adoption, Canonical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01147b.htm The Church made its own the Roman law of adoption, with its legal consequences.

	Ado of Vienne, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01145b.htm Benedictine monk, pilgrim, scholar, pastor, Archbishop of Vienne, d. 875.
	Antiphonary, Gregorian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01579a.htm Discovered in a Montpellier manuscript of the tenth or eleventh century.
	Apocrisiarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01600a.htm Indicates in general the ecclesiastical envoys of Christian antiquity, whether permanent or sent temporarily on missions to high ecclesiastical authorities or royal courts.
	Anthony, Orders of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01555a.htm Religious communities or orders under the patronage of St. Anthony the Hermit, father of monasticism, or professing to follow his rule.
	Adelaide, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140a.htm Centered in Adelaide, capital of South Australia.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01331b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01331b.htm A party of heretics who arose after the Cataphrygians, Quartodecimans, and others, and who received neither the Gospel of St. John nor his Apocalypse.
	Angilbert, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01490b.htm Abbot of Centula, fathered two children by Charlemagne's unmarried daughter Bertha. He died in 814.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01230a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01230a.htm An archiepiscopal see of Hungary, founded in 1009, and made an archdiocese in 1304, by Pius VII.
	Aurispa, Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02112a.htm A famous ltalian humanist and collector of Greek manuscripts, born about 1369 at Noto, in Sicily; died at Ferrara in 1459.
	Angelus, Silesius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01488a.htm Convert, poet, controversialist, the son of a Lutheran Polish Nobleman. (1624-1677)

	Assizes of Jerusalem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02001a.htm The code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
	Aubusson, Pierre d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02067b.htm Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, born 1423; died 1503.
	Alciati, Andrea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01273b.htm Italian jurist. (1492-1550)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007b.htm Three definitions.
	Anerio, Felice - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01475d.htm Roman composer, b. c. 1560; d. c. 1630.

	American College at Louvain, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01424a.htm An institution for the education of priests founded in 1857.
	Abraham Ecchelensis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01057a.htm A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome.
	Arcadelt, Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01687b.htm A distinguished musician, born in Holland at the close of the fifteenth, or at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Article with details of secular and religious compositions, especially madrigals and masses.
	Altar Tomb - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01357c.htm A tomb, or monument, over a grave, oblong in form, which is covered with a slab or table, having the appearance of an altar.
	Albert of Aachen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01261d.htm A chronicler of the First Crusade.

	Auriesville - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02111b.htm The site of the Mohawk village, Montgomery County, New York, U.S.A., in which Father Issac Jogues, and his companions, Goupil and Lalande, were put to death for the Faith by the Indians.
	Alvarez de Paz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01374b.htm A famous mystic of the Society of Jesus. (1560-1620)
	Alberic of Monte Cassino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01259a.htm Benedictine, died 1088.
	Ampleforth, The Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01439b.htm Benedictine abbey in England.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173b.htm Mentioned in John 3:23, as the locality where the forerunner of Christ baptized.

	Act of Settlement (Irish) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01112a.htm 1662 act passed by the Irish Parliament to bring in Protestant settlers in Munster, Leinster, and Ulster.
	Anselm of Laon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01550b.htm Medieval theologian. (d. 1117)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01240a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01240a.htm The twenty-second state admitted into the union.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774d.htm Details four uses of this name.
	Anno, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541b.htm Former soldier, Archbishop of Cologne, d. 1075.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101e.htm King of Judah.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01774c.htm The daughter of Putiphare (Poti-phera), priest of On.
	Alexander Sauli, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01299b.htm Apostle of Corsica, Barnabite, bishop of Aleria, d. 1592.
	Albrechtsberger, Johann G. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01270a.htm Master of musical theory, and teacher of Hummel and Beethoven. (1736-1809)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01141d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01141d.htm It comprises all Arabia, and is known as the Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia and Aden.

	Adda, Ferdinando d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01136b.htm Cardinal and Papal Legate. (1649-1719)
	Agrarianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01226a.htm Theories and movements intended to benefit the poorer classes of society by dealing in some way with the ownership of land or the legal obligations of the cultivators.
	Adrichem, Christian Kruik van - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01161b.htm Catholic priest and theological writer. (1533-1585)
	Aeterni Patris - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01177a.htm An encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII (issued 4 August, 1879); not to be confused with the apostolic letter of the same name written by Pope Pius IX.
	Arkansas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01724a.htm Includes history, climate, government, education, and Catholic information.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01205a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01205a.htm In the diocese of Sion, Switzerland, owes its fame to an event related by St. Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons, the martyrdom of a Roman legion, known as the "Theban Legion", at the beginning of the fourth century.
	Arbogast, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01686a.htm Irish, traveled to the Continent and became a hermit, bishop of Strasburg, famous for miracles. He died in 678.
	Animuccia, Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01530a.htm An Italian composer, born at Florence about 1500; died 1571.
	Atahuallpa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02032a.htm Son of the Inca war chief Huayna Capac and an Indian woman from Quito.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02169a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02169a.htm Three uses, one of the five great cities of the Philistines, the mountain to which Bacchides pursued the Jews in battle, and a titular see of Palestine situated near the seacoast, between Jaffa and Ascalon.

	Alzog, Johann Baptist - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01375a.htm Church historian. (1808-1878)
	Annius of Viterbo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541a.htm Archeologist and historian, born at Viterbo about 1432; died 13 November, 1502.
	Assemani - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01794a.htm An illustrious Maronite family of Mount Lebanon, Syria, four members of which, all ecclesiastics, distinguished themselves during the eighteenth century in the East and in Europe.
	Aiguillon, Duchess of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01233e.htm Marie de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Marquise of Combalet and Duchesse d'Aiguillon; niece of Cardinal Richelieu. Born 1604; died at Paris, 1675.
	Aberdeen, The Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01041c.htm A see founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Bl. Beyn.

	Albert, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01261a.htm Canon regular, papal legate, and Patriarch of Jerusalem. He was assassinated in 1215.
	Alexander of Abonoteichos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01297a.htm The most notorious imposter of the second century of the Christian era.
	Andrea, Giovanni d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01469d.htm Canonist. (1275-1348)
	Ancren Riwle - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01464a.htm The name given to a thirteenth­ century code of rules for the life of anchoresses, which is sometimes called "The Nuns' Rule".
	Ausculta Fili - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02112c.htm A letter addressed 5 December 1301, by Pope Boniface VIII to Philip the Fair, King of France.

	Adam of St. Victor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01134b.htm A prolific writer of Latin Hymns, born in the latter part of the twelfth century.
	Acephali - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100c.htm A term applied to the Eutychians who withdrew from Peter Mongus, the Monophysite Patriarch of Alexandria, in 482.
	Amiot, Joseph Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430a.htm Missionary to China. (1718-1793)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01536a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01536a.htm Son of Seth, succeeded (A.D. 6 or 7) Joazar in the high-priesthood by appointment of Quirinius who had come to Judea to attend to the incorporation of Archelaus's territory into the Roman province of Syria.
	Agnellus of Pisa, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01212c.htm Deacon, founder of the English Franciscan Province, d. 1236.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01225a.htm Archdiocese situated in British India.
	Anne-Marie Javouhey, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08326a.htm Founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, missionary to Africa and South America, d. 1851.
	Alexandrine Liturgy, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01303b.htm The parent rite of all others in Egypt.
	Aviz, Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02161d.htm Military body of Portuguese knights.
	Alessi, Galeazzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01284a.htm Italian architect, b. 1500; d. 1572.

	Arundell - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01765c.htm Thomas, first Lord Arundell of Wardour.
	Assuerus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02005c.htm The name of two different persons in the Bible.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01101b.htm Son of Amri and King of Israel.
	Arriaga, Pablo José - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01753b.htm Jesuit missionary to Peru. (1564-1621)
	Acts, Indifferent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01116a.htm An act that is neither good nor bad.

	Altar Screen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01356d.htm A cloth, on which images of Our Lord, of the Blessed Virgin, or of saints, are represented, may be suspended above the altar, unless such images are painted on the wall.
	Adam Scotus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01134f.htm A theologian and Church historian of the latter part of the twelfth century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01368a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01368a.htm A suffragan see of the province of Philadelphia.
	Alexander Briant, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01296b.htm English Jesuit priest and martyr. He was scarcely over 25 when martyred in 1581.
	Apostolici - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01647a.htm The name of four different heretical bodies.

	Antivari - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01582b.htm So called from its position opposite to Bari in Italy; the Catholic archiepiscopal see of Montenegro.
	Aengus, Saint (the Culdee) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173a.htm Irish hermit, hagiographer, poet, late eighth century.
	Andreas of Caesarea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01473a.htm Cappadocian bishop.
	Associations, Pious - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02005b.htm Under this term are comprehended all those organizations, approved and indulgenced by Church authority, which have been instituted especially in recent times, for the advancement of various works of piety and charity.
	Abraham a Sancta Clara - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01056a.htm A Discalced Augustinian friar, preacher, and author of popular books of devotion. (1644-1709)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01044c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01044c.htm Nephew of King David.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01103b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01103b.htm A titular see in Upper Albania.
	Aeterni Patris - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01176a.htm The Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, by which he summoned the Vatican Council. It is dated Rome, 29 June, 1868.
	Arnulf of Lisieux - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01752a.htm Studied canon law at Rome, and wrote in defence of Pope Innocent II a violent letter against Gerard, Bishop of Angouleme.
	Ave Regina - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02149b.htm An antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven).

	Anathoth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01457a.htm Includes several mentioned by this name.
	Ambrose of Sienna, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01388b.htm Dominican teacher and missionary, diplomat, d. 1286.
	Agricola, Rudolph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01231b.htm Humanist of the earlier period, and a promoter of the study of the classics in Germany, born in 1442, or 1443, at Bafflo, hear Groningen, Holland; died at Heidelberg, 28 October, 1485.
	Altar Side - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01356e.htm That part of the altar which faces the congregation.
	Abdon and Sennen, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01032a.htm Persian martyrs in the Decian persecution. Died in about 250.

	Alexander (Early Bishops) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01285b.htm Profiles of six bishops of this name in the early Church.
	Ancona, Ciriaco d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01463c.htm An Italian antiquary whose family name was Pizzicolli, born at Ancona about 1391; died about 1455 at Cremona.
	Agnes of Montepulciano, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01213c.htm Entered the convent at the age of 9, commissioned by the pope to found a monastery at the age of 13 (and 2 years later she was made its superior), also founded a Dominican convent, d. 1317.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02060b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02060b.htm A titular metropolitan see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01079a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01079a.htm The Biblical Acacia belongs to the genus Mimosa.

	Atahualpa, Jean Santos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02032b.htm Claimed to have been sent by God to drive the Spaniards from western South America.
	Aldrovandi, Ulissi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01281b.htm Italian naturalist. (1522-1607)
	Apostolic Union of Secular Priests, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01643a.htm An association of secular priests who observe a simple rule embodying the common duties of their state, afford mutual assistance in the functions of the ministry, and keep themselves in the spirit of their holy vocation by spiritual conferences.
	Apparitor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01650c.htm The official name given to an officer in ecclesiastical courts designated to serve the summons, to arrest a person accused, and, in ecclesiastico-civil procedure, to take possession, physically or formally, of the property in dispute.
	Alvarus Pelagius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16002a.htm Spanish writer. (1280-1352)

	Acrostic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01111a.htm A poem the initial or final letters of whose verses form certain words or sentences.
	Aspilcueta, Martin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793b.htm Spanish canonist and moral theologian. (1491-1586)
	Apodosis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01615a.htm For several days after a great feast the celebrant turns back to certain prayers of the feast and repeats them in commemoration of it. The last day of such repetition of the prayers of the previous feast is called the apodosis.
	Apollinaris, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01616a.htm A first-century martyr, the bishop of Ravenna.
	Aguirre, Joseph Saenz de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01232c.htm Cardinal, and learned Spanish Benedictine; born at Logro o, in Old Castile, 24 March, 1630; died 19 August, 1699.

	Auxentius of Milan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144b.htm Ordained (343) to the priesthood by Gregory, the intruded Bishop of Alexandria.
	Altar Canopy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01351a.htm The "Caeremoniale Episcoporum (I, xii, 13), treating of the ornaments of the altar, says that a canopy (baldachinum) should be suspended over the altar.
	Aureoli, Petrus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02111a.htm Brief article by E.A. Pace notes the highlights of Aureol's intellectual career.
	Amat, Thaddeus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01380e.htm Second Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, California. (1810-1878)
	Allegri, Gregorio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01319a.htm Composer from the same family which produced the painter Correggio.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01058b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01058b.htm A class of ancient stone articles, of small dimensions, inscribed with outlandish figures and formulas.
	Auxerre, Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02145a.htm In 585 (or 578) a Council of Auxerre held under St. Annacharius formulated forty-five canons, closely related in context to canons of the contemporary Councils of Lyons and Mâcon.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01161c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01161c.htm Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Moutier-en-Der, d. 992, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
	Antidicomarianites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01562a.htm An Eastern sect which flourished about A. D. 200 to 400, and which was so designated as being the "opponents of Mary".
	Amulets, Use and Abuse of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01443b.htm Amulets have had quite a general vogue among all people of all times and have been characterized by a bewildering variety as to the material, shape, and method of employment.

	Adeste Fidelis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01142b.htm A hymn used at Benediction at Christmastide in France and England since the close of the eighteenth century.
	Antidoron - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01562b.htm The remains of the loaves or cakes from which the various portions are cut for consecration in the Mass, according to the Greek Rite, are gathered up on a plate, in the sanctuary and kept upon the prothesis, during the celebration of the Mass.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01687e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01687e.htm An Encyclical Letter on Christian marriage, issued 10 February, 1880, by Leo XIII.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01093b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01093b.htm The most northern of the five principal Philistine cities.
	Allioli, Joseph Franz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01325a.htm Studied theology at Landshut, was ordained at Ratisbon, 1816, studied Oriental languages (1818-20), became professor in the University at Landshut in 1824, and was transferred with the university to Munich in 1826, but owing to a weak throat he had to accept a canonry at Ratisbon. Became Dean of the chapter at Augsburg, in 1838.

	Aileran, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01234c.htm Irishman, rector of the School of Clonard, distinguished scholar and author, d. 664.
	Alexians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01306b.htm A religious institute which had its origin at Mechlin, in Brabant, in the fifteenth century, during the ravages of the "black death."
	Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01285a.htm Seven men with this name are described.
	Alexandre, Dom Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01299c.htm Benedictine monk. (1653-1734)
	Alexis Falconieri, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01307a.htm Visionary, co-founder of the Servites, uncle of St. Juliana Falconieri. St. Alexis died in 1310, at the age of 110 years.

	Achitopel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01102e.htm Counsellor of David, who joined the rebellion of Absalom.
	Anquetil, Louis-Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01543b.htm A French historian. (1723-1806)
	Amerbach, Veit - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01409b.htm Humanist and convert from Lutheranism to the Catholic Church. (1503-1557)
	Agricola, George - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01231a.htm Physician, mineralogist, historian, and controversialist. (1494-1555)
	Ammen, Daniel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430c.htm American naval officer and author (1820-1898)

	Acosta, Jose de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01108b.htm Founded a number of colleges, among them those of Arequipa, Potose, Chuquisaca, Panama, and La Paz.
	Anastasius Sinaita, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455d.htm Profile of the seventh-century abbot of the monastery of Mt. Sinai, vociferous opponent of the Monophysites and Monothelites, writer.
	Abdication - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01031a.htm Ecclesiastically considered, is the resignation of a benefice or clerical dignity.
	Archontics - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01697a.htm A Gnostic sect which existed in Palestine and Armenia about the middle of the fourth century.
	Altar Ledge - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01354d.htm A step behind the altar, raised slightly above it, for candlesticks, flowers, reliquaries, and other ornaments.

	Accommodation, Biblical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01099b.htm Covers what is meant by biblical accommodation, its use in Sacred Scripture, and the rules which ought to regulate its use.
	Andreis, Felix de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01470c.htm Lazarist superior. (1778-1820)
	Alberic of Ostia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01259b.htm Benedictine monk and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia. (1080-1147)
	Achery, Lucas d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01102a.htm French Benedictine. (1609-1685)
	Altar Steps - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01356f.htm The number of steps leading up to the high altar is for symbolical reasons uneven; usually three, five, or seven, including the upper platform.

	Altar Cavity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01351d.htm A small square or oblong chamber in the body of the altar, in which are placed the relics of two canonized martyrs.
	Azarias, Brother - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02166c.htm Educator, essayist, litterateur, and philosopher, b. near Killenaule, County Tipperary, Ireland, 29 June, 1847.
	Altar Curtain - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01353a.htm Drawn around the altar at certain parts of Mass.
	Allahabad - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01316b.htm Diocese; suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agra, India.
	Afflighem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01179b.htm Benedictine abbey in Belgium.

	Altarage - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01359a.htm The fees received by a priest from the laity when discharging any function for them, e.g. marriages, baptisms, funerals.
	Adrian Fortescue, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06146b.htm Knight of St. John, martyred in 1539.
	Aikenhead, Mary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01234a.htm Foundress of the Irish Sisters of Charity. (1787-1858)
	Autos Sacramentales - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02143a.htm A form of dramatic literature which is peculiar to Spain, though in some respects similar in character to the old Morality plays of England.
	Agnellus, Andreas, of Ravenna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01212d.htm Historian of that church, b. 805; the date of his death is unknown, but was probably about 846.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01045a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01045a.htm A son of Ner, a cousin of Saul, and commander-in-chief of Saul's army.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01775a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01775a.htm Enclosure, garden; the Garden of the Gods.
	Amyot, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01445a.htm Bishop of Auxerre, Grand Almoner of France. (1513-1593)
	Apostolic Church-Ordinance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01635a.htm A third-century pseudo-Apostolic collection of moral and hierarchical rules and instructions, compiled in the main from ancient Christian sources.
	Ailbe, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01234b.htm A disciple of St. Patrick and bishop of Emly, died in the first half of the sixth century.

	Alcántara, Military Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01271b.htm First committed to the care of the Castilian Knights of Calatrava.
	Adelaide, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140b.htm Abbess, renowned for having the gift of miracles, d. 1015.
	Altars (in the Greek Churches) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01359b.htm The altar of the Russian Orthodox or the Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches means the sanctuary, and not merely the altar known to Latin churches.
	Almagro, Diego de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01326e.htm Generally considered a foundling; came to Panama in 1514 with Pedro Arias de Avila (D'Avila), and soon distinguished himself in military expeditions.
	Atkinson, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02050b.htm English Catholic confessor. (d. 1595)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01146b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01146b.htm Fourth son of King David, and Adonias the Levite are discussed.
	Altar Cards - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01351b.htm To assist the memory of the celebrant at Mass in those prayers which he should know by heart, cards on which these prayers are printed are placed on the altar in the middle, and at each end.
	Acathistus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01092c.htm The title of a certain hymn or, an Office in the Greek Liturgy in honour of the Mother of God.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430b.htm A titular see of Pontus in Asia Minor.
	Agricola, Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01230c.htm Biography of the composer, mentioning the possibility of unpublished manuscripts still in Spanish libraries.

	Aliturgical Days - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01314a.htm Those days on which the "liturgy", i.e. the Holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist, is not allowed to be celebrated.
	Arsenius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01754b.htm A Roman, was tutor to the emperor's children before fleeing to the monastery of St. John the Dwarf. Arsenius died in 450.
	Ashton, Venerable Roger - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01777a.htm Martyr, third son of Richard Ashton of Croston, in Lancashire. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, 23 June, 1592.
	Amadeo, Giovanni Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01375c.htm Italian architect and sculptor. (1447-1522)
	Adalbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01126c.htm Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen; born about 1000; died 1072.

	Angers, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01489c.htm Early in the eleventh century this school became famous under the direction of Marbodus.
	Adam in Early Christian Liturgy and Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01132a.htm Discusses his importance to the Fathers and to the authors of the many apocryphal writings of the first five centuries of the Christian Era.
	Acacius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01083a.htm Bishop of Melitene in the third century.
	Achor Valley - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01103a.htm The scene of the death of the "troubler" Achan.
	Araucanians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01679b.htm Indian tribe in Chile.

	Albert Berdini of Sarteano, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01261c.htm Short biography of the Franciscan famed as a preacher.
	Assimilation, Psychological - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01800d.htm As applied to a mental process, assimilation derives all its force and meaning from the analogy which many educationists have found to exist between the way in which food is incorporated into the living tissue and the manner in which truth is acquired by the growing mind.
	Ambrosians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01403a.htm The Order of St. Ambrose was the name of two religious congregations, one of men and one of women, founded in the neighbourhood of Milan during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
	Allen, Edward Patrick - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01320b.htm Fifth Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, U.S.; born at Lowell, Massachusetts, 17 March, 1853.
	Auenbrugger, Leopold - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02072a.htm An Austrian physician, born 19 November, 1722; died 17 May, 1807.

	Adam of Perseigne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01134a.htm French Cistercian, Abbot of the monastery of Perseigne in the Diocese of Mans, born about the middle of the twelfth century.
	Angelo Clareno da Cingoli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01484b.htm One of the leaders of the Spiritual Franciscans.
	Attracta, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02062d.htm Contemporary of St. Patrick, founder of a hospice and several churches.
	Agostino Novello, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01224c.htm Counselor to the King of Sicily, joined the Augustinians, renowned for his knowledge of civil and ecclesiastical law, served as the pope's confessor, was General of his Order.
	Andrea Dotti, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01469e.htm Servite priest, miracle worker, d. 1315.

	Alto, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01367b.htm Irish-born hermit and missionary in Bavaria, monastic founder, eighth century.
	Anne García, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06378b.htm Better known as Anne of St. Bartholomew. Biography of one of the first Discalced Carmelites. She died in 1626.
	Atkinson, Paul, of St. Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02050d.htm One of the notable confessors of the English Church during the age which succeeded the persecution of blood.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430d.htm The supreme divinity of the Egyptian pantheon.
	Adalard, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01126b.htm Grandson of Charles Martel. Adalard was abbot of Corbie, and Pepin's prime minister. He died in 827.

	Arne, Thomas Augustine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01746a.htm Brief biography of the eighteenth-century English composer.
	Autpert, Ambrose - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02143b.htm An early medieval writer and abbot of the Benedictine Order, born in France, early in the eighth century.
	Aldfrith - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01280a.htm A Northumbrian king, son of King Oswin; d. 14 December, 705.
	Altar Bell - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01349b.htm A small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007c.htm A French word meaning primarily and strictly an abbot or superior of a monastery of men.

	Aubignac, François Hédelin, Abbé d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02067a.htm Grammarian, poet, preacher, archeologist, philologist. (1604-1676)
	Aeneas of Gaza - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01172c.htm A Neo-Platonic philosopher, a convert to Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the fifth century.
	Anthony Baldinucci, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02219b.htm Jesuit priest and missionary, preached penitence and devotion to the Virgin Mary, d. 1717.
	Aichinger, Gregor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01233c.htm Organist and composer of sacred music, born probably at Ratisbon in 1565; died at Augsburg, 21 January, 1628.
	Agathias - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204b.htm A Byzantine historian and man of letters, born at Myrina in Asia Minor about 536.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01711e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01711e.htm Archbishop of Mainz; date of birth unknown; d. 6 April, 1032.
	Agostini, Paolo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01224b.htm Italian composer. (1593-1629)
	Ad Limina Apostolorum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01128a.htm A pilgrimage to the sepulchres of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome.
	Aldegundis, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01279a.htm Daughter of SS. Walbert and Bertilia. Flemish nun, founder of monastery at Maubeuge, d. about 684.
	Anastasius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01454b.htm Bishop of Antioch, exiled by the emperor, restored to his see in 593 by St. Gregory the Great. Anastasius died in 598.

	Aran, The Monastic School of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01677b.htm During three hundred years from about 500 to 800, Aran Mor and its sister islands were a famous centre of sanctity and learning, which attracted holy men from all parts of Ireland to study the science of the saints in this remote school of the West.
	Aedan of Ferns, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170b.htm Bishop and patron of Ferns, Ireland. (550-632)
	Albert of Stade - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01262c.htm Thirteenth-century chronicler.
	Aegidius of Assisi, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170d.htm Better known in English as Brother Giles. One of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi, he died in 1262.
	Abban of Magheranoidhe, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01006f.htm Irish monastic founder, d. 620.

	American College in Rome, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01423a.htm Owes its existence chiefly to Archbishop Hughes, of New York, and Archbishop Kenrick of Baltimore.
	Apollinaris, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01616b.htm Born in Vienne, became bishop of Valence, was exiled to Sardinia, d. 520.
	Anderton, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01467e.htm English Benedictine. (1611-1671)
	Andrew, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01472a.htm Was stoned to death at Lampsacus, during the Decian persecution, along with his companion Paul.
	Alan of Tewkesbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01245d.htm Benedictine abbot and writer. (d. 1202)

	Alan of Walsingham - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01245e.htm Architect. (d. 1364)
	Abban the Hermit, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007b.htm An Irishman who lived at Abingdon, England, before St. Patrick's lifetime.
	Alfrida, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01310a.htm Daughter of King Offa of Mercia. Hermit at Crowland, fl. 795.
	Apotactics - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01650a.htm The adherents of a heresy which sprang up in the third century and spread through the western and southern parts of Asia Minor.
	Aiblinger, Johann Caspar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01233b.htm Composer. (1779-1867)

	Araujo, Francisco de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01680b.htm Spanish theologian. (1580-1664)
	Antiphon (in Greek Liturgy) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01576a.htm The Greek Liturgy uses antiphons, not only in the Office, but also in the Mass, at Vespers, and at all the canonical Hours.
	Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01128b.htm Summarizes this intervention in the Jansenist controversy by Pope Alexander VII.
	Antimensium - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01563a.htm Consecrated corporal of a kind used only in the Greek Rite.
	Ambo (in the Russian and Greek Church) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01382a.htm Sometimes two ambos were used, from one of which the Epistle was read and from the other the Gospel.

	Anima, College and Church of the, in Rome - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01514b.htm S. Maria dell' Anima, the German national church and hospice in Rome, received its name, according to tradition, from the picture of Our Lady which forms its coat of arms.
	Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16001d.htm Spanish novelist and poet. (1833-1891)
	Amboise, George d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01382b.htm French cardinal, archbishop, and statesman. (1460-1510)
	Antoniano, Silvio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01584d.htm Cardinal, writer on education. (1540-1603)
	Anatolius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01457d.htm Patriarch of Constantinople, anti-Nestorian, anti-Eutychian. Some say he was killed by heretics in 458.

	Acton, Charles Januarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01113a.htm English cardinal. (1803-1847)
	Acquaviva - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01109b.htm Name of several Italian cardinals.
	Abrabanel, Don Isaac - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01050b.htm Jewish statesman, apologist and exegete. (1437-1508)
	Angelo Carletti di Chivasso, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01484a.htm Fifteenth-century Franciscan, a moral theologian.
	Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01111d.htm Abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan.

	Austin, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02113a.htm An English lawyer and writer, born 1613 at Walpole, in Norfolk; died London, 1669.
	Ammon, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01430e.htm One of the desert fathers. Lived with his wife for 18 years as brother and sister, after which he became a hermit in Nitria and she also became a monk. Fourth-century Egypt.
	Anatolia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01457b.htm Virgin and martyr, was denounced as a Christian and put to death by the sword in the Decian persecution.
	Assistant at the Pontifical Throne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01802a.htm Those prelates who belong to the Papal Chapel and hold toward the Pope much the same relation as cathedral canons do to the bishop.
	Amalberga, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01377a.htm Sister or niece of Pepin of Landen. Amalberga was married to Witger; they both entered monastic life. Also called St. Amelia.

	Ammonian Sections - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01431a.htm Divisions of the four Gospels.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01440c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01440c.htm The Syrian houses in the region of Hauran were inhabited, from the third century to the seventh, by the upper and middle classes of the population. A house of this kind in perfect preservation is still to be seen at Amrah.
	Anslo, Reyer - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01551a.htm Dutch poet and convert. (1622-1669)
	Ancilla Dei - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01463b.htm A title often given to a deceased woman in early Christian inscriptions.
	Aurora Lucis Rutilat - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02112b.htm One of the Ambrosian hymns.

	Apolysis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01623a.htm The dismissal blessing said by the Greek priest at the end of the Mass, Matins, or Vespers.
	Apophthegmata Patrum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01623c.htm Sayings of the Fathers of the Desert.
	Allegri, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01318b.htm Artist known as Correggio, the place of his birth. (1494-1534)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02107b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02107b.htm Its original meaning was a cupboard and it has never lost this more general sense, but even in classical Latin it had of it acquired in addition the special signification of a cupboard of holding books.
	Abrahamites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01057b.htm Syrian heretics of the ninth century.

	Augustinus, Antonius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02105a.htm Historian of canon law and Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, born at Saragossa 26 February, 1517, of a distinguished family; died at Tarragona, 31 May, 1586.
	Alvarez, Balthazar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01373a.htm A Spanish mystic, who was the spiritual director of St. Teresa. (1533-1580)
	Amadia and Akra - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01376a.htm Designates two Catholic dioceses of the Chaldean Rite in Kurdistan, Turkey in Asia.
	Anunciación, Fray Domingo de la - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01591a.htm Dominican missionary. (1510-1591)
	Avaugour, Pierre du Bois, Baron d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148d.htm Sixth Governor General of Canada.

	Avila, Francisco de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02161a.htm Curate or vicar in the province of Huarochiri of Peru, later curate at Huánaco, finally Canon of the Church of La Plata, in Bolivia.
	Azara, Féliz de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02166a.htm Spanish naturalist, b. at Barbunales in Aragon, 18 May, 1746; d. 1811.
	Advertisements, Book of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01167a.htm A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75).
	Azymites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02172a.htm A term of reproach used by the schismatic Greeks since the eleventh century against the Latins, who, together with the Armenians and the Maronites, celebrate the Holy Eucharist with unleavened bread.
	Antiochus of Palestine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01574a.htm Seventh century monk.

	Aedh of Kildare - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170c.htm Sixth-century King of Leinster, Ireland.
	Ayeta, Fray Francisco de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02164b.htm A Spanish Franciscan of the seventeenth century.
	Amovibility - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01437a.htm A term applied to the condition of certain ecclesiastics in regard to their benefices or offices.
	Arden, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01700b.htm An English Catholic, executed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
	Arethas of Caesarea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01701c.htm Born at Patrae, Greece, about 860.

	Arévalo, Rodríguez Sanchez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01702a.htm A learned Spanish bishop. (1404-1470)
	Agiles, Raymond d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01210b.htm A chronicler and canon of Puy-en-Velay, France, toward the close of the eleventh century.
	Argenson, Pierre de Voyer d' - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01702c.htm Called the vicomte d'Argenson, chevalier, vicomte de Mouzé, seigneur de Chastres, was the fifth Governor-General of Canada (1657-61), b. 1626; d. 1710.
	Ad Apostolicae Dignitatis Apicem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01127d.htm Apostolic letter issued against Emperor Frederick II by Pope Innocent IV.
	Argüello, Luis Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01706b.htm Governor of California, born at San Francisco, 1784; died there in 1830.

	Agios O Theos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01211b.htm The opening words in Greek of an invocation, or doxology, or hymn for it may properly receive any of these titles which in the Roman Liturgy is sung during the Improperia, or "Reproaches" at the ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross, on Good Friday.
	Arbuthnott, Missal of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01686c.htm A manuscript Scottish missal or mass-book, written in 1491 by James Sibbald, priest of Arbuthnott, in Scotland, for use in that church.
	Agnelli, Fra. Guglielmo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01212b.htm Sculptor and architect. (1238-1313)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01747a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01747a.htm Name of several medieval figures.
	Ange de Saint Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476b.htm French missionary friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. (1636-1697)

	Arundel, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01765b.htm Sixtieth Archbishop of Canterbury, second son of Robert, Earl of Arundel and Warren, b. 1353; d. 19 February, 1414.
	Arason Jón - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01678c.htm The last Catholic bishop of Iceland before the introduction of Protestantism. (1484-1550)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01102f.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01102f.htm Diocese in Ireland, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tuam.
	Adam of Usk - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01134c.htm An English priest, canonist, and chronicler.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793d.htm A Prefecture Apostolic in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta, India, established in 1889.

	Apsidiole - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01660b.htm A small or secondary apse, one of the apses on either side of the main apse in a triapsidal church, or one of the apse-chapels when they project on the exterior of the church.
	Assessor of the Holy Office - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01799a.htm An official of the Congregation of the Inquisition.
	André, Yves Marie - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01469c.htm Mathematician. (1675-1764)
	Abstinence, Physical Effects of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01073a.htm Article deals with effects due to partial or periodic abstinence, such as practiced by the Catholic Church.
	Auger, Edmond - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02072c.htm Entered the Society of Jesus while St. Ignatius was still living, and was regarded as one of the most eloquent men of his time. (1530-1591)

Apostolici Regiminis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01648a.htm A Bull issued 19 December, 1513, by Leo X, in defence of the Catholic doctrine concerning the immortality of the soul.