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	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05782a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05782a.htm In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage, however, excludes servants.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06166a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06166a.htm Geography, statistics, and history.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.
	Formosus, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139b.htm Reigned 891-896.

	Felix IV, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031a.htm Since Felix II was an antipope imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, St. Felix IV is sometimes called Felix III. Pope St. Felix IV died in 530.
	Felix III, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030b.htm Felix II was an antipope, irregularly imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, so St. Felix III is sometimes called Felix II. Pope St. Felix III was much involved in battling heresy, and died in 492.
	Florence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105c.htm Located in the province of Tuscany (Central Italy).
	Franciscan Order - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic Church.
	Francis Xavier, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233b.htm Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

	Felix I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029b.htm The successor of Pope St. Dionysius, Felix died in 274. He is sometimes confused with a Roman martyr of the same name.
	Francis of Assisi, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm Long article on St. Francis, founder, mystic, perhaps the most beloved Catholic saint of all.
	Felix II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030a.htm Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.
	Fortitude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06147a.htm One of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue.
	Fabian, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742d.htm Biography of this pope who was martyred in 250.

	Feasts, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special services and rest from work.
	Florence, Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06111a.htm The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was the continuation of the Council of Ferrara.
	Friends, Society of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06304b.htm Quakers, an Anglo-American religious sect.
	Faithful, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05769a.htm Those who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by confirmation.
	Filioque - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06073a.htm It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism.

	Franks, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06238a.htm A confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle fought against this people about the year 241.
	Fathers of the Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06001a.htm The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:
	Francis de Sales, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06220a.htm Biographical article on the Bishop of Geneva, and Doctor of the Church, who died in 1622.
	Free Will - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.
	Fear (from a Moral Standpoint) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of human origin.

	Francis I - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06207a.htm King of France; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05793a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05793a.htm Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789c.htm Abstinence from food or drink.
	Flanders - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094b.htm Designated in the eighth century a small territory around Bruges; it became later the name of the country bounded by the North Sea, the Scheldt, and the Canche.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280b.htm A member of one of the mendicant orders.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137b.htm The original meaning of the term form, both in Greek and Latin, was and is that in common use - eidos, being translated, that which is seen, shape, etc., with secondary meanings derived from this, as form, sort, particular, kind, nature.
	Fortunatus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06149a.htm Lengthy biographical article on the talented sixth-century poet and hymn-writer.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06046a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06046a.htm Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.
	Forgery, Forger - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06135b.htm The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031b.htm Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449). (1383-1451)

	Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe- - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06035a.htm French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745c.htm The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts.
	Fetishism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06052b.htm The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitiço from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer).
	Free-Thinkers - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258b.htm Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06249a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06249a.htm In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong and unfair advantage.

	Frederick II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250.
	French Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06190a.htm Origin, foundations, and types.
	First-Born - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06081a.htm The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family.
	Friars Minor, Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06281a.htm History, traditions, and saints of the order.
	Frederick I (Barbarossa) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06252b.htm German King and Roman Emperor. (1123-1190)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06068b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06068b.htm A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterion of certitude is authority.
	First-Fruits - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06082a.htm First-fruit offerings are designated in the Law by a threefold name: Bíkkûrîm, Reshîth, and Terûmôth.
	Faber, Frederick William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740c.htm Oratorian and devotional writer. (1814-1863)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043a.htm A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions.
	Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156c.htm A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868.

	Faculties of the Soul - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05749a.htm Article covers the meaning and classification.
	Faith, Hope & Charity, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766a.htm Two groups of martyrs. The first were martyred along with their mother Sophia during the reign of Hadrian, and buried on the Aurelian Way. The second band, also along with someone named Sophia, were martyred at a later date, and buried along the Appian Way.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020b.htm A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger.
	Faculties, Canonical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05748a.htm In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.
	Flabellum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089a.htm A fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest.

	Fabiola, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743a.htm Divorced, remarried, widowed, penitent, renowned for her generosity. She died in 399 or 400.
	Flagellation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06092a.htm Includes history and its use in scripture.
	Funeral Pall - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322a.htm A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313b.htm This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.
	Felicitas, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06028a.htm Roman martyr. Article explains how she and the seven martyrs who are called her sons have come to have different feast days.

	Faldstool - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770b.htm A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.
	Faith, The Rule of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766b.htm The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.
	Ferdinand III, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042a.htm King of León and Castile, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1252.
	Fiacre, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06067a.htm Biography of this Irish priest and hermit, patron saint of gardeners, d. 670.
	Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06069a.htm Former lawyer who joined the Capuchins, and was sent as a missionary to the Calvinists. Martyred in 1622.

	Felix of Nola, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033b.htm Third-century confessor. Possibly the same as St. Felix of Nola, bishop and martyr.
	Feudalism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058c.htm The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law.
	Firmament - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06079b.htm The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples.
	French Catholics in the United States - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271c.htm History and statistics of French Canadian immigration to the United States.
	Fish, Symbolism of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083a.htm The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multification of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its popularity among Christians was due principally, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish (Ichthys), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and His claim to the worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.

	Flathead Indians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06097a.htm A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes practising the custom of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means.
	Four Masters, Annals of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163b.htm The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland.
	Frances of Rome, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205c.htm Wife and mother, Benedictine oblate, mystic, d. 1440.
	Flavia Domitilla - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06098b.htm A Christian Roman matron of the imperial family who lived towards the close of the first century.
	Francis of Paula, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06231a.htm Founder of the Order of Minims, d. 1507.

	Felicitas and Perpetua, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029a.htm Martyred at Carthage in 203.
	Fire, Liturgical Use of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06079a.htm One of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols.
	Fitzherbert, Maria Anne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06085a.htm Wife of King George IV; b. 26 July, 1756 (place uncertain); d. at Brighton, England, 29 March, 1837.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115b.htm The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi.
	Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078b.htm Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

	Foundling Asylums - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06159a.htm Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.
	Fatalism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05791a.htm The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.
	Francis, Rule of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06208a.htm As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule.
	Francis Borgia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06213a.htm Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit.
	Fallopio, Gabriello - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772a.htm Anatomist. (1523-1562)

	Forty Hours' Devotion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06151a.htm Somewhat dated with regard to the liturgical details, but otherwise an accurate depiction. An Eucharistic devotion.
	Ficino, Marsilio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06067b.htm Entry on this Renaissance Platonist, by M. Schumacher. Details his life and explores his relation to the classical thinkers.
	Feast of Fools - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06132a.htm A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later Middle Ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.).
	Flagellants - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089c.htm A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries.
	Febronianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06023a.htm The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius.

	Frequent Communion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06278a.htm Discusses the history and practice.
	Fraticelli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06244b.htm A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, principally in Italy.
	Fontevrault, Order and Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06129b.htm The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d'Arbrissel about the end of 1100.
	Forum, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153b.htm Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is distinguished into that of the internal and external forum.
	Frankfort-on-the-Main - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06237a.htm Formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751b.htm Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.
	Fabri, Honoré - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743c.htm Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688.
	Fabricius, Hieronymus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745a.htm Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)
	Fleury, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102c.htm One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated.
	Faa di Bruno, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740a.htm Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)

	Fermo, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043c.htm In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy).
	Formularies - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06141a.htm Medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case.
	Fagnano, Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752a.htm Mathematician. (1682-1766)
	Fall River - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05771a.htm A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.
	Fundamental Articles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06319a.htm This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the Christian faith from those non-essential doctrines, which, as they believed, individual churches might accept or reject without forfeiting their claim to rank as parts of the Church universal.

	False Decretals - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05773a.htm A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.
	Flavian, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06098c.htm Bishop of Constantinople, excommunicated Eutyches, was the recipient of the famous "Tome of Leo," deposed by the Latrocinium, died from severe beatings in exile in 449.
	Frascati - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06243a.htm One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church.
	Flechier, Esprit - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100a.htm Bishop; b. at Pernes, France, 1632; died at Montpellier, 1710.
	Farfa, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785d.htm A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto.

	Flodoard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105a.htm French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966.
	Ferraris, Lucius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06048a.htm An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order.
	Freiburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06264a.htm City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany.
	Fontana, Felice - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06127a.htm Italian naturalist and physiologist, b. at Pomarolo in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1730; d. at Florence, 11 January, 1805.
	Faustus of Riez - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019b.htm Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.

	Felbiger, Johann Ignaz von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027a.htm German Augustinian. (1724-1788)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137a.htm Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy); suffragan of Ravenna.
	Farnese, Alessandro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788b.htm Cardinal. (1520-1589)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06070a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06070a.htm Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.
	Franzelin, Johann Baptist - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06242a.htm Cardinal and theologian. (1816-1886)

	Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318a.htm Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885.
	Fesch, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050b.htm Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839.
	Froissart, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06308b.htm Biography of the French historian and poet.
	Furniss, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324c.htm A well-known children's missioner. (1809-1865)
	Formby, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139a.htm Writer, born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884.

	Felicissimus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027c.htm Third-century schismatic.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123b.htm Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern Italy).
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076d.htm As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124b.htm Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.
	Ficker, Julius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06068a.htm Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at Innsbruck, 10 June, 1902.

	Funk, Franz Xaver von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322c.htm Church historian. (1840-1907)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785a.htm Located in Italy.
	Flandrin, Jean-Hippolyte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06096a.htm French painter. (1809-1864)
	Fabriano and Matelica - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05744a.htm Fabriano, a city in the province of Macerata, Central Italy, is noted for its paper manufactories and its trade in salted fish. The town of Matelica possesses some ancient inscriptions. A Roman colony was established there in 89 B.C.
	Felix of Cantalice, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033a.htm Biography of this Capuchin lay brother, known for his goodness, popular with children, d. 1587.

	Fredegarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251c.htm The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06269a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06269a.htm Suffragan of Aix; comprises the whole department of Var (France).
	Ferrari, Gaudenzio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06047a.htm An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546.
	Fraunhofer, Joseph von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06250a.htm Optician. (1787-1826)
	Friends of God - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06306a.htm An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, having for its object the cultivation of holiness.

	Foppa, Ambrogio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133a.htm Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker, b. 1445, d. about 1527.
	Foulque de Neuilly - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06157a.htm A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202.
	Fust, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06326b.htm A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466.
	Fathers of Mercy, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05794a.htm A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.
	Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06088b.htm Physicist. (1819-1896)

	Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020a.htm Astronomer. (1814-1902)
	Firmilian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080b.htm Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269.
	Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066a.htm Spanish writer. (1676-1764)
	Francis Solanus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233a.htm Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America, d. 1610. Short biographical article.
	Forcellini, Egidio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134a.htm Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, 1768.

	Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06145a.htm Astronomer and naturalist. (1789-1860)
	Fixlmillner, Placidus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06088a.htm Astronomer. (1721-1791)
	Fossombrone - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154b.htm Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324b.htm A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed.
	Fort Wayne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06150a.htm The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., established in 1834, comprised the whole State of Indiana till the Holy See, on 22 September, 1857, created the Diocese of Fort Wayne, assigning to it that part of Indiana north of the southern boundary of Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware, and Randolph Counties.

	Frassen, Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06244a.htm A celebrated Scotist theologian and philosopher of the Order of Friars Minor; b. near Peronne, France, in 1620; d. at Paris, 26 February, 1711.
	Fouquet, Jehan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06161b.htm French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480.
	Foundation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06157b.htm An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time.
	Fordham University - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15203b.htm Developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist's Day, 24 June, 1841.
	Finbarr, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076a.htm Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland. (550-623)

	Felix of Valois, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033c.htm Co-founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, d. 1212.
	Felician Sisters, O.S.F. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027b.htm Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela.
	Forty Martyrs - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153a.htm Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia about this group of soldiers who, for professing Christianity, were ordered by the prefect to lie naked on a frozen lake. One of these threw himself into a warm bath which had been set up for defectors, but one of the guards was so impressed with the others that he declared himself a Christian and died with them. Early fourth century.
	Fountains Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06161a.htm A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York.
	Famagusta - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781b.htm A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.

	Fagnani, Prospero - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751c.htm Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05786a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05786a.htm Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.
	Fremin, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271a.htm Jesuit missionary to the American Indians; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, 1691.
	Fractio Panis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06165a.htm The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.
	Feuillants - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06064a.htm The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans.

	Ferdinand II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06040a.htm Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.
	Frankfort, Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06236a.htm Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne (can. 1), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy, and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789a.htm A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318c.htm Diocese in the Madeira Islands.
	Fessler, Josef - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06051a.htm Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council; b. 2 December, 1813, at Lochau near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg; d. 25 April, 1872.

	Faribault, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787b.htm Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)
	Feckenham, John de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06025a.htm Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585.
	Fulgentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06316a.htm Full name, Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius. Monk, abbot, Bishop of Ruspe, anti-Arian theologian, d. 533.
	Fresnel, Augustin-Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280a.htm Physicist; b. at Broglie near Bernay, Normandy, 10 May, 1788; d. at Ville d'Avray, near Paris, 14 July, 1827.
	Fulbert of Chartres - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06312a.htm Bishop. (952-1028)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06045a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06045a.htm Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121b.htm A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century.
	Fringes (in Scripture) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307b.htm A special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, etc., or strips of other suitable material, along the edge of a piece of cloth.
	Fructuosus of Tarragona, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311b.htm Bishop, was martyred along with his deacons Augurius and Eulogius in 259.
	Fauriel, Charles-Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06018b.htm French historian. (1772-1844)

	Franco, Giovanni Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235a.htm Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in 1510; d. at Venice in 1580.
	Freppel, Charles-Emile - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06277a.htm Bishop of Angers, France; and deputy from Finistère. (1827-1891)
	Fulgentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06315a.htm Bishop of Ecija, died sometime between 619 and 633.
	Ferdinand, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039c.htm Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity. When a military mission of his brother failed, Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage, and died in captivity in 1443.
	Frideswide, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303b.htm Patron saint of Oxford, d. 735. Biographical entry.

	Fursey, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324d.htm Blood brother of St. Foillan. Fursey was an Irish monk and visionary, the abbot of Lagny. He died in about 650.
	Folkestone Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125a.htm Located in England.
	Fulgentius Ferrandus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06317a.htm A canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century.
	Facundus of Hermiane - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751a.htm A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.
	Fouard, Constant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156b.htm An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837.

	Facciolati, Jacopo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05747a.htm Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)
	Furness Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324a.htm Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian.
	Fitzalan, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084c.htm Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580.
	Florence of Worcester - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114a.htm English chronicler, died in 1118.
	Florentina, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114b.htm Sometimes called Florentia. Spanish nun, d. about 612.

	Feller, François-Xavier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034a.htm An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.
	Fontenelle, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06129a.htm A Benedictine monastery in Normandy (Seine-Inférieure), near Caudebec-en-Caux.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785b.htm Shoulder-cape worn by the pope.
	Fridolin, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303c.htm Irish missionary, founded the Monastery of Säckingen sometime before the ninth century.
	Furstenberg, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06325a.htm A statesman and educator. (1729- 1810)

	Frontenac, Louis de Baude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310a.htm A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698.
	Feder, Johann Michael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026a.htm German theologian. (1753-1824)
	Faustinus and Jovita, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019a.htm Brothers martyred at Brescia in 120.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206b.htm Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517.
	Faber, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741b.htm Controversialist and preacher. (1504-1558)

	Francis of Fabriano, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06230a.htm Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322.
	Flanagan, Thomas Canon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094a.htm Canon of Birmingham Diocese. Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865.
	Finan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075c.htm Irish monk, second Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 661.
	Fiacc, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066b.htm Poet, chief bishop of Leinster, d. around 520.
	Finotti, Joseph M. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06077b.htm Italian-American Jesuit in Colorado. (1817-1879)

	Fitton, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084b.htm Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881.
	Fitzherbert, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086a.htm Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome.
	Fridelli, Xavier Ehrenbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303a.htm Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)
	Felix and Adauctus, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06032b.htm Martyrs at Rome in 303. "Adauctus" is not the second martyr's proper name--it means "added."
	Francis de Geronimo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218b.htm Italian Jesuit, a popular preacher with a flair for the dramatic, d. 1716.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154a.htm Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin.
	Fromentin, Eugène - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06309a.htm French writer and artist. (1820-1876)
	Frigolet, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307a.htm The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King of Arles.
	Fredegis of Tours - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06252a.htm A ninth-century monk, teacher, and writer.
	Fabre, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743b.htm Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. (1824-1892)

	Ferstel, Heinrich, Freiherr von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050a.htm Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883.
	Firmicus Maternus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080a.htm Christian author of the fourth century.
	Faraud, Henri - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785c.htm Canadian bishop. (1823-1890)
	Flaget, Benedict Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06093a.htm First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville), Kentucky, U.S.A. (1763-1850)
	Francis X. Seelos, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13681b.htm Short biographical article on the missionary priest.

	Fisher, Philip - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083b.htm Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. S., 1652.
	Faillon, Etienne-Michel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752b.htm Historian. (1800-1870)
	Feuillet, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065a.htm Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123a.htm Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Romanian Rite.
	Free Church of Scotland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257b.htm Short introduction and history of the United Free Church. Briefly covers the secession, notes the events leading up to the disruption and deals with the events during the unification.

	Fletcher, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101c.htm A missionary and theologian; d. about 1848.
	Feuchtersleben, Baron Ernst von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058b.htm An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, 1849.
	Four Crowned Martyrs - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163a.htm The Four Crowned Martyrs are actually two groups, with a total of nine or ten martyrs. The first five were masons or sculptors in Pannonia, martyred in 305. The second was a group of four martyrs, names unknown. They have been venerated since the fourth century and share a feast day on 8 November.
	Fintan, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078a.htm Brief biographical sketches of two saints of this name: St. Fintan of Clonenagh, and St. Fintan (Munnu) of Taghmon.
	Francis Regis Clet, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06232b.htm French Lazarist missionary to China, martyred in 1820.

	Fontana, Domenico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126c.htm A Roman architect of the Late Renaissance, b. at Merli on the Lake of Lugano, 1543; d. at Naples, 1607.
	Fonte-Avellana - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06128a.htm A suppressed order of hermits, which takes its name from their first hermitage in the Apennines.
	Ferrières, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049d.htm Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.
	Faber, Johann Augustanus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742a.htm Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.
	Farinato, Paolo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787c.htm Italian painter. (1524-1606)

	Falloux du Coudray - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772b.htm Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)
	Francis Ingleby, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007c.htm Brief biography of the Yorkshire priest and martyr, who died in 1586.
	Fonseca, Pedro Da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125c.htm A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599.
	Foillan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123c.htm Blood brother of SS. Fursey and Ultan. Irish-born abbot of Cnoberesburg until it was captured by the Mercians, whereupon Foillan fled to Nivelles. He was murdered in 652.
	Ferber, Nicolaus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039b.htm A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.

	Fergus, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042c.htm There are at least ten Irish saints named Fergus. This article gives details on three of them: St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, bishop, d. about 730; St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, d. 778; and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, d. 583.
	William Freeman, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258a.htm English priest, martyred at Warwick in 1595.
	Florilegia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121a.htm Systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes.
	Franceschini, Marc' Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205a.htm Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's.
	Feuardent, François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058a.htm Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at Paris, 1 Jan., 1610.

	Fontbonne, Jeanne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06127b.htm Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons. (1759-1843)
	Fleury, André-Hercule de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06103a.htm Chaplain to Maria Theresa and Louis XIV. (1653-1742)
	Fischer, Antonius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16040b.htm Cardinal-Archbishop of Cologne. (1840-1912)
	Fulcran, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313a.htm Bishop of Lodève, d. 1006.
	Fillastre, Guillaume - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06074a.htm French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer. (1348-1428)

	Fregoso, Federigo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06263a.htm Cardinal; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541.
	Florians, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115a.htm An independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians; it was founded in 1189 by the Abbot Joachim of Flora.
	Fritz, Samuel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06308a.htm A Jesuit missionary of the eighteenth century noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin.
	Francis of Vittoria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06232a.htm Spanish theologian; b. about 1480, at Vittoria, province of Avila, in Old Castile; d. 12 August, 1546.
	Fredoli, Berenger - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257a.htm Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. (1250-1323)

	Flete, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102a.htm An Augustinian hermit friar, a contemporary and great friend of St. Catherine of Siena; the exact place and date of his birth are unknown and those of his death are disputed.
	Frankenberg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235c.htm Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of Belgium, and cardinal. (1726-1804)
	Fuhrich, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311d.htm Artist. (1800-1876)
	Fructuosus of Braga, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311a.htm Hermit, abbot, archbishop, d. around 665.
	Frayssinous, Denis de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251a.htm Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris. (1765-1841)

	Friedrich von Hausen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06304a.htm Medieval German poet.
	Francis Caracciolo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218a.htm Co-founder of the Congregation of the Minor Clerks Regular, d. 1608.
	Ferreira, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049b.htm A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569.
	Fitzralph, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086c.htm Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360.
	Fitz-Simons, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06087b.htm American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 26 Aug., 1811.

	Fünfkirchen, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322b.htm Diocese in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical province of Gran.
	Figueroa, Francisco García de la Rosa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071b.htm Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155a.htm Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era.
	Frowin, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310b.htm Abbot of Engelberg, renowned for learning as well as sanctity, d. 1178.
	Foster, John Gray - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155b.htm Soldier, convert. (1823-1874)

	Fytch, William Benedict - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06327a.htm An English Capuchin, whose family name was Filch. (1563-1610)
	Foresters, Catholic Orders of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06135a.htm A Catholic fraternal insurance society.
	Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris, Chevalier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114d.htm Writer, born at the château of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794.
	Farlati, Daniele - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788a.htm Ecclesiastical historian. (1690-1773)
	Franchi, Ausonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206a.htm Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa.

	Fabrica Ecclesiæ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05744b.htm Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction.
	Frances d'Amboise, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205b.htm Biographical article on the Duchess of Brittany. While married, she was a great friend of the Poor Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites. After she was widowed, she became a Carmelite herself, and died in 1485.
	Frank, Michael Sigismund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235b.htm Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at Nuremberg; d. at Munich, 16 January, 1847.
	Faunt, Lawrence Arthur - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06018a.htm Jesuit theologian. (1554-1590)
	Funeral Dues - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06321a.htm The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of his parishioners.

	Faribault, George-Barthélemy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787a.htm Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)
	Faber, Felix - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740b.htm German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.
	Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311c.htm Chemist and mineralogist. (1774-1856)
	Frechette, Louis-Honoré - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251b.htm Canadian journalist and poet. (1839-1908)
	Forbin-Janson, Comte de Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133c.htm A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood. (1785-1844)

	Feval, Paul-Henri-Corentin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065b.htm French novelist. (1817-1887)
	Faroe Islands - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789b.htm A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.
	Ferrer, Rafael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049c.htm A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in 1611.
	Feti, Domenico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06052a.htm Italian painter; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624.
	Filelfo, Franscesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071c.htm A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481.

	Fonseca, José Ribeiro da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125b.htm Friar Minor; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752.
	Fortaleza, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06145b.htm Co-extensive with the State of Ceará in the Republic of Brazil.
	Finnian of Moville, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06077a.htm Irish monk, author of a monastic rule and a penitential. Also the founder of a famous school in County Down. St. Finnian died in 589.
	Fiscal Procurator - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06082b.htm The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing crime and safeguarding ecclesiastical law.
	Flaccilla, Aelia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089b.htm Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great, died c. A. D. 385 or 386.

	Fernández, Juan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044b.htm A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan.
	Fonseca Soares, Antonio da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126a.htm Friar Minor and ascetical writer. (1631-1682)
	Fleming, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101a.htm Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. about 1360; d. at Sleaford, 25 Jan., 1431.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099a.htm A titular see of Cilicia Secunda.
	Flemael, Bertholet - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100b.htm Painter, b. at Liège, Flanders, in 1614; d. there in 1675.

	Floyd, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06122a.htm English missionary. (1572-1649)
	Franck, Kasper - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06234a.htm A theologian and controversialist; b. at Ortrand, Saxony, 2 Nov., 1543; d. at Ingolstadt, 12 March, 1584.
	Folengo, Teofilo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124a.htm Italian poet. (1496-1544)
	Fontana, Carlo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126b.htm An architect and writer; b. at Bruciato, near Como, 1634; d. at Rome, 1714.
	Forrest, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144a.htm Sixteenth-century English priest and poet.

	Falco, Juan Conchillos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770a.htm Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.
	Fiji, Vicariate Apostolic of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16040a.htm Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago.
	Feilding, Rudolph William Basil - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026b.htm English convert. (1823-1892)
	Filial Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06072a.htm A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church.
	Fernández de Palencia, Diego - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044c.htm A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.

	Förster, Arnold - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144b.htm German entomologist. (1810-1884)
	Faversham Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019c.htm A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.
	Falkner, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770c.htm Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)
	Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06085b.htm Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538.
	Fitter, Daniel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084a.htm Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700.

	Fitzpatrick, William John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086b.htm Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895.
	Flaviopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099c.htm A titular see in the province of Honorias.
	Filliucci, Vincenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075a.htm Jesuit moralist. (1566-1622)
	Foley, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041a.htm English Jesuit lay brother. (1811-1891)
	Faber, Philip - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742c.htm Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus. (1564-1630)

	Fabyan, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745b.htm English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513.
	Fumo, Bartolommeo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318b.htm Theologian. (d. 1545)
	French, Nicholas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271b.htm Bishop of Ferns, Ireland. (1604-1678)
	Forster, Fobrenius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144c.htm Bavarian Prince-Abbot. (1709-1791)
	Floreffe, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105b.htm Situated on the Sambre, about seven miles southwest of Namur, Belgium, owes its foundation to Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis.

	Feneberg, Johann Michael Nathanael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034b.htm Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.
	Fleming, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101b.htm Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane. (1593-1665)
	Fowler, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06164a.htm Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9.
	Filliucius, Felix - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075b.htm An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590.
	Forbes, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133b.htm Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606.

	Florez, Enrique - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114c.htm Spanish theologian, archeologist, and historian; born at Valladolid, 14 February, 1701; died at Madrid, 20 August, 1773.
	Fleuriot, Zénaide-Marie-Anne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102b.htm French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890.
	Ferre, Vicente - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049a.htm Theologian. (d. 1682)
	Forer, Laurenz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134c.htm Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659.
	Foreman, Andrew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134b.htm A Scottish prelate; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522.

	Faber, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741a.htm Theologian. (1478-1541)
	Familiars - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781c.htm Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In canon law the term usually signifies seculars residing in monasteries and other religious houses, actually employed therein as servants and subject to the authority of the regular prelate to the same extent as servants are subject to their masters.
	Fernández, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044a.htm A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.
	Felix, Célestin Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06032a.htm French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891.
	Fothad, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156a.htm St. Fothad Na Canoine ("of the Canon"), late eighth-century monk in County Donegal, bard.

	Figueroa, Francisco de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071a.htm A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed "the Divine", b. at Alcalá de Henares, c. 1540, d. there, 1620.
	Ferentino, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042b.htm In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.
	Fenn, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039a.htm Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06326a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06326a.htm A titular see in Numidia.
	Filicaja, Vincenzo da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06072b.htm Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707.

	Fortunato of Brescia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06148a.htm Morphologist and Minorite of the Reform of Lombardy; b. at Brescia, 1701; d. at Madrid, 1754.
	Faber, Matthias - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742b.htm Writer and preacher, born at Altomünster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 April 1653.
	Feilmoser, Andreas Benedict - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026c.htm Theologian and Scripture scholar. (1777-1831)
	Fitzsimon, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06087a.htm Irish Jesuit. (1566-1643)
	Flavigny, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099b.htm Benedictine abbey in the Diocese of Dijon, the department of Côte-d'Or, and arroundissement of Semur.

	Fleming, Patrick - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100c.htm Franciscan friar b. at Lagan, County Louth, Ireland, 17April, 1599; d. 7 November, 1631.
	Ferland, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043b.htm A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.

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