Bishop of Elvira, in the province of Baetica, Spain, from which he derived his surname; d. ...
Historian of the Breviary and one of the most scholarly patrologists of the nineteenth ...
Born 4 August, 1789 at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe ; died there 24 February, 1839. His ...
French-Canadian lawyer and member of the Assembly of Lower Canada, b. at Charlesbourg near ...
Chief founder of the Maurist Congregation of the Benedictine Order , b. at Nevers, 1573; d. ...
A writer of church history, b. 22 November, 1720, at Briey, Lorraine ; d. about 1794 at Noyon, ...
(Peter of Poitiers, Petrus Scholasticus).
A French writer who flourished about the middle of the ...
Cardinal, and founder of the French congregation of the Oratory, born in the province of ...
(B ÖCKHN ).
A German Benedictine, canonist, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of ...
(BURGLANUM, BURGLANENSIS.)
The ancient See of Börglum, in Denmark, embraced the ancient ...
(Originally and more properly VAÑEZ and sometimes, but erroneously, IBAÑEZ).
A ...
German philosopher, born at Munich, 1765; died at the same place, 23 May, 1841.
I. The ...
( Hebrew Bá'ál; plural, Be`alîm.)
A word which belongs to the oldest ...
The Heliopolis of the Greek and Latin writers, a Syrian town located now in present-day Lebanon ...
Babel occurs in the Vulgate only in Genesis 11:9 ; the form Babylonia is found in Baruch ...
The "Tower of Babel" is the name of the building mentioned in Genesis 11:19 .
History of the ...
A German philosopher and theologian ; vice-chancellor of the University of Salzburg ; born ...
French physicist, born at Lusignan, Vienne, 5 March, 1794; died at Paris, 21 October, 1872. He ...
Bishop and Martyr. He was the successor of Zebinus as Bishop of Antioch in the reign of the ...
The curial title of a Latin archbishopric, also of a Chaldean patriarchate and of a Syrian ...
In treating of the history, character, and influence of this ancient empire, it is difficult not ...
(BAPCHILD, near Sittingbourne, Kent), Synod Of (694).
This meeting was rather a witenagemot , ...
Martyrs, d. in the Diocletian persecution in Coele-Syria about 303. Their martyrdom is well ...
Bishop of Corinth, whom Eusebius mentions among the prominent second-century churchmen (H. ...
A degree marking the completion of the traditional curriculum of the college. In the medieval ...
Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, b. at Grand Beauchet, commune of St. Cyr (Orne), ...
An early fifth-century writer, known only through two treatises which warrant the conjecture that ...
(Amincola).
Catholic theological controversialist, born at Chemnitz, Saxony, about 1466. His ...
Bibliographer, born at Antwerp, Belgium , 18 July, 1809; died at Liège, 1 December, 1873. ...
Born 10 December, 1805, at Tilburg, Holland ; died 28 October, 1868. Ordained priest 17 March, ...
First bishop of Portland, Maine, U.S.A. born in New York, 5 November, 1813. He made his ...
(Johannes Anglicus, Johannes De Baconthorpe).
An English Carmelite and theologian, born ...
Better know under the assumed name of Southwell, a Jesuit priest and bibliographer, b. in the ...
Philosopher, surnamed D OCTOR M IRABILIS , b. at Ilchester, Somersetshire, about 1214; d. at ...
This system takes its name from its founder, Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, ...
(Pacensis.)
The Latin name Pax , or Civitas Pacensis , was given to this district ...
The Grand Duchy of Baden is situated in the southwestern part of the German Empire, bounded by ...
Cardinal, author, papal legate, born at Modena, 1483; died at Rome, 6 September, 1547. He ...
The first Catholic priest ordained within the limits of the original thirteen States of the ...
A Florentine Dominican of the seventeenth century. He was deeply versed in Tuscan and ...
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Missionary and ethnographer, born at Schlettstadt in Alsace, 23 December, 1717; died at ...
Bollandist, born at Ypres, 25 August, 1651; died at Antwerp, 27 October, 1719. He entered the ...
Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated by a pontifical Decree of 11 May, 1906, ...
This city was founded on the Tigris by the second Abbaside Caliph Abou Giafar al Mansur (762 or ...
A titular see of Lydia in Asia Minor. This name is found on coins, but becomes Bagis in the ...
Known as the "Deaf Man of the Barozzo", a painter of distinction, b. in Rome, 1571; d. there ...
(Anciently NOVEMPAGI, BALNEUM REGIUM).
A diocese situated in the district of Viterbo, ...
Theologian, born at Rennes, in France, 9 July, 1591, died at Paris, 23 August, 1664. He entered ...
Convert, priest, prisoner for the Faith, and a prominent figure in the controversies between ...
(Or L UCAYOS )
The most northerly group of the West Indies, are a chain of coral islands ...
Controversialist, died c. 1657. He was son of Bishop Bailey of Bangor and was educated as an ...
A French-Canadian bishop, b. 26 April, 1798, at Ile-aux-Grues, P. Q.; d. 13 October, 1870. He ...
French author, b. 1649 at Neuville en Hez, near Beauvais, France ; d. at Paris, 1706. His ...
Missionary among the Indians of Canada, b. 1612, at Saintes, France ; d. in the Ottawa missions, ...
A Catholic clergyman, b. in Yorkshire, England ; d. at Douai, France, 7 October, 1591. He was a ...
Archbishop of York, and Cardinal, b. at Hilton, near Appleby, in Westmoreland, probably 1464; ...
Titular Bishop of Siga, one of the most striking figures among English Catholics at the period ...
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, England, b. at Knowsthorp, Yorks, date of birth uncertain; ...
Born in Rome, 21 October, 1775; died there 21 May, 1844. Baini made his first musical studies ...
An Irish monk, specially selected by St. Columba as one of the band of missionaries who set sail ...
(Or M ICHEL DE B AY )
Theologian and author of a system known as Baianism, was b. at ...
Cardinal and statesman, b. about 1442, in the village of Erdoed, county Szatmár, ...
A well-known Benedictine mystic and an ascetic writer, born at Abergavenny, England, 9 ...
Comprises Wasco, Klamath, Lake, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Morrow, Grant, Union, Crook, Umatilla, ...
Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, born Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 30 March, ...
( Recté , according to his own entry in the English College David Henry Lewis).
An ...
The derivation of the name is uncertain. Dr. Neubauer would connect it with the god Ammo or Ammi, ...
A titular see of Syria. The city of this name, a colony of Aradus (Strabo, XVI, 753), is placed ...
Memorials of a St. Balbina are to be found at Rome in three different spots which are connected ...
A Jesuit historian of Bohemia, born 4 December 1621, at Königgrätz, of an ancient ...
Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of Central America, born in Spain, 1475, ...
A Spanish poet, born in Val de Peñas, 1568; died in Porto Rico , 1627. At an early age ...
(Accellini).
Humanist, poet, diplomatist, and Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, b. about 1450 at ...
A dome-like canopy in wood, stone, or metal, erected over the high altar of larger churches, ...
A German poet, b. 4 January, 1604, in the Imperial free town of Ensisheim in Upper Alsace; d. at ...
(Or Baudry).
Bishop of Dol, in France, chronicler, b. about 1050; d. 7 January, 1130. After a ...
A monk of Liège, a writer and teacher of the twelfth century, b. date unknown, at ...
An Italian poet and savant, b. at Urbino, 5 June, 1553; d. at the same place, 10 October, ...
Born 19 June, 1665, at Florence, died 6 November, 1717. He entered the Society of Jesus 21 ...
A notable Florentine painter, b. in Florence, 14 October, 1427; d. there, 29 August, 1499. His ...
(1) a Celtic Bishop of Strathclyde, b. about 643; d. at Aldhame, Haddingtonshire, about 607. He ...
Known as Grien or Grun, from his fondness for brilliant green, both in his own costume and in his ...
Archbishop of Trier and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, born 1285; died 1354; he belonged to ...
Thirty-ninth Archbishop, a native of Exeter, date of birth unknown; d. 19 Nov., 1190. He was ...
(Also Baudoin).
A celebrated jurist, b. 1 January, 1520 at Arras, then part of the German ...
A group in the western part of the Mediterranean belonging to Spain and consisting of four larger ...
(Or Bayles, alias Evers)
Priest and martyr, b. at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County ...
Born in Dublin 9 January, 1794; died 19 May, 1861; foundress of the Irish Branch of the ...
One of the three suffragan dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Melbourne, Australia. It ...
Born at Medicina, near Bologna, 10 October, 1805; died in Rome, 27 November, 1881. He entered the ...
Celebrated theologians and canonists, the sons of a distinguished surgeon of Verona. A rare ...
(Or Balma; also called Hugh)
A Franciscan theologian, born at Genera, date uncertain; d. 23 ...
Philosopher and publicist, b. at Vich, Spain, 28 August, 1810; d. there, 9 July, 1848. His ...
Balsam is an oily, resinous, and odorous substance, which flows spontaneously or by incision from ...
A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; ...
(Or, as found in the Septuagint Baltasár .)
Baltasar is the Greek and Latin name for ...
The senior see of the United States of America , established as a diocese 6 April, 1789; as an ...
While the ecclesiastical province of Baltimore comprised the whole territory of the American ...
These councils have a unique importance for the Church in the United States inasmuch as the ...
Theologian, born at Metz, 8 June, 1667; died at Reims, 9 March, 1743. He entered the Society of ...
A French cardinal, b. probably c. 1421, in Poitou; d. 5 October, 1491, at Ripatransone (March ...
French scholar and historian, b. at Tulle, 24 December, 1630; d. in Paris, 28 July, 1718. His ...
( Alias Reading).
Priest and martyr, b. at the Moor, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire; executed ...
The Archdiocese of Bamberg, in the kingdom of Bavaria, embraces almost the whole of the ...
(Authorized Version Benaiah; Kenrick, Banaiah; Hebrew bnyhw, also bnyh, "Jehovah hath built ...
Born at Valence, 1628; died at Avignon, 1685. When very young he entered the Dominican Order at ...
Born at Castelnuovo di Scrivia in Piedmont, Italy, in 1480; died Bishop of Agen, France, in ...
Archaeologist and numismatologist, b. 1671 at Ragusa, off the coast of Dalmatia ; d. at Paris, ...
(Bangorium, Bangoriensis)
Diocese ; anciently known as Bangor Vawr, situated in Carnarvonshire ...
The name of two famous monastic establishments in Ireland and England.
(1) The Irish Abbey ...
An ancient Latin manuscript, supposed to have been originally written at Bangor ( Ireland ).
...
John Banim
Poet, dramatist, novelist, b. 3 April, 1798, at Kilkenny, Ireland ; d. 31 August, ...
The Diocese of Banjaluka in Western Bosnia includes some of the most beautiful portions of the ...
( See also MORAL ASPECT OF BANKRUPTCY .)
Bankruptcy ( La banqueroute; earlier English ...
( See also CIVIL ASPECT OF BANKRUPTCY .)
Bankruptcy must be considered not only from the ...
(Latin bannum , pl. bann-a,-i from an Old English verb, bannan , to summon).
In ...
Jesuit missionary and educator, b. at La Roche, Fribourg, Switzerland, 17 December, 1815; d. at ...
One of the Seven Sacraments of the Christian Church ; frequently called the "first sacrament ...
A basin or vase, serving as a receptacle for baptismal water in which the candidate for baptism ...
The name popularly given to the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just ...
(Or SPAGNOLI). Carmelite and Renaissance poet, born at Mantua, 17 April, 1447, where he also ...
(Varano).
An ascetical writer, b. at Camerino, in the Camerino, belonged to an illustrious ...
The separate building in which the Sacrament of Baptism was once solemnly administered, or that ...
I. Hermits of St. John the Baptist. II. Missionaries of St. John the Baptist. III. Sisterhood of ...
(Greek, baptizein , to baptize ).
A Protestant denomination which exists chiefly in ...
( Abu'l Faraj ).
A Jacobite Syrian bishop, philosopher, poet, grammarian, physician, ...
One of the most celebrated Jacobite bishops and writers of the ninth century, born at Balad, ...
( Hebrew Baraq , lightning)
The deliverer of the Israelites from the power of the ...
A Syrian Monophysite bishop, born in Tella, towards the end of the fifth or the beginning of the ...
First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, U.S.A., b. 29 June, 1797, at Malavas, in the parish of ...
Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart , born at Joigny, Burgundy, 12 December, 1779; died ...
A French Orientalist, born at Bourges during the first quarter of the seventeenth century; died ...
A secular priest of whom Nicolas Antonio (Bibliotheca hispana nova, 1786) says "Baeticus ex ...
A titular see of Mesopotamia. It was a city in Provincia Augusta Euphratensis , where the ...
Virgin and Martyr. There is no reference to St. Barbara contained in the authentic early ...
Italian Cardinal, nephew of Blessed Gregorio Barbarigo (1625-97), born in 1658 at Venice ; died ...
(Barbastrum and Civitas Barbastrensis)
Suffragan diocese of the Spanish province of Huesca. ...
Styled the "apostle of Philadelphia", b. at Luneville, Province of Alsace, France, 30 May, ...
Daniel Barber
Daniel Barber, soldier of the Revolution, Episcopalian minister and convert, b. ...
Giovanni Barbieri, called from his squinting, "Il Guercino"; a famous painter of religious ...
A noted canonist, b. at Guimaraens, Portugal, in 1589; consecrated in Rome, 22 March, 1649, ...
A Portuguese historian, born at Lisbon in 1686; died in 1734. He pursued his studies at the ...
Scottish ecclesiastic and author of "The Bruce", a historical poem in the early Scottish or ...
Italian philosopher and theologian, b. at Soncino, Lombardy, and hence known also by the name ...
A titular see of Cyrenaica in Northern Africa. According to most archaeologists it was ...
(Barcino). See also UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA.
One of the suffragan dioceses of the ...
See also BARCELONA.
This was an outgrowth of the ecclesiastical schools founded in the ...
(Also Barzana).
A native of Bacza in Andalusia, Spain, b. 1528; d. at Cuzco, Peru, 15 ...
Author of the political novel "Argenis" and other Latin works in prose and verse, was b. 28 ...
Scottish Jurist, b. 1546; d. at Angers, France, 3 July, 1608. He was of a good Aberdeenshire ...
Born 1535, at Logroño, in the Diocese of Plasencia of Estremadura (Spain); died c. 1602. ...
French theologian of the Jansenist School, b. at Bayonne, 1600; d. at St. Cyran, 1678. He was a ...
(Baron Bromley and Viscount Bellamont)
An English soldier and diplomat, b. 1604; d. 1660. He ...
( Bar-Daisan )
Syrian Gnostic or, more correctly, a Syrian poet, astrologist, and ...
An archdiocese situated in the province of the same name, in Apulia, Southern Italy. The city of ...
(Gr. Bariesous ).
A false prophet found in the company of the Proconsul Sergius Paulus by ...
( Alias LAMBERT.)
Priest and martyr, born about 1572 in Lincolnshire; executed at Tyburn 27 ...
The principal characters of a legend of Christian antiquity, which was a favourite subject of ...
(Sometimes called Barlete, De Barolo, Barolus)
Preacher, b., according to some, in the ...
Located about six miles E.N.E. of Lincoln, England, founded in 1154 in honour of Our Lady by ...
( Alias R ADCLIFFE and B RERETON .)
Priest and martyr, b. at Barlow Hall, 1585; d. 10 ...
Third son of Sir Alexander Barlow of Barlow Hall, near Manchester, England, and Mary Brereton ...
( Interamna ) Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 (or 1477). He belonged to the noble family ...
Barnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture , and, like St. Paul, ranked ...
Authorities for the Text and Editions
There is a triple tradition of the Greek text of this ...
The popular name of a religious order which is canonically known by the title, given to it by ...
Called Fiore d'Urbino, a distinguished painter and engraver, born at Urbino, 1528; died at the ...
( French baroque ).
A debased application to architecture of Renaissance features. The term ...
A distinguished Irish Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and writer of Latin prose and verse, ...
A Dominican theologian and preacher, b. at Martres, in the department of the Haute-Garonne, ...
Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian, born at Sora in the Kingdom of Naples, 30 August, 1538; ...
(De Barquisimeto)
Diocese in Venezuela, South America. The city is the capital of the State ...
A Portuguese exegete and preacher, born at Lisbon in 1543; died at Coimbra in 1615. In 1558 he ...
Archbishop of Tours, France, born 26 April, 1746, at Grenoble ; died 7 June, 1816, at Paris. ...
French palæ ontologist, b. at Sangues (Haute-Loire), 11 August, 1799; d. at Frohsdorff, ...
( Or Barraza).
Born at Lima, Peru, early in the seventeenth century; died there, 22 Nov., ...
Tenth French Governor-General of Canada, b. at Paris in 1622; d. in 1690. De la Barre was made ...
A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612, on the mission of Angola, ...
A Spanish Dominican bishop, patriot, and diplomat, b. at Medina del Campo, Kingdom of Leon ...
A missionary, born at Waterford, Ireland, 1801; died at Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. 12 Sept., ...
Historian, b. in Portugal, 1496; d. 20 October, 1570. Of his early youth little is known. In ...
Priest, descended from a family of stanch Catholic yeomen, b. 13 May, 1735, at ...
( Alias Waring, alias Harcourt).
An English Jesuit martyr, born in Lancashire, in 1609, ...
Controversialist and publicist, born at Villeneuve de Berg (Ardeche); 2 October, 1741; died at ...
Captain in the United States navy, b. at Tacumshane, County Wexford, Ireland, in 1745; d. at ...
Second Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A.; b. 1799 in the parish of Oylegate, Co. Wexford, ...
Horticulturist, b. near Belfast, Ireland, May, 1816; d. at Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 23 June, ...
Born at Leucate in 1587; died at Avignon, 28 July, 1661. He was a member of the Society of ...
A celebrated French numismatologist and writer, b. at Cassis (Provence), 1716; d. in Paris, ...
A German canonist, b. 10 June, 1697, at Kitzingen, Bavaria ; d. 8 April, 1771. He was the son of ...
Friar Minor and chronicler, died c. 1372. Little is known of his life save what may be gathered ...
Franciscan encyclopedist of the thirteenth century. An Englishman by birth he had been professor ...
"APOSTLE OF ARMENIA."
Also called Bartholomaeus Parvus (the Little), born at Bologna, year not ...
Born at Verdela, near Lisbon, May, 1514; died at Viana, 16 July, 1590. Bartholomew Fernandez, ...
Born about 1200; died 1 July, 1271. He made his studies at Padua, receiving there the habit of the ...
An Italian canonist, b. probably in the second half of the twelfth century at Brescia ; d. ...
Syrian apologist and polemical writers. The place of his birth is not known, it was probably ...
(Or de Fiadonibus, sometimes abbreviated Ptolomeo or Tolomeo)
Historian, b. about 1227 at Lucca ...
Friar Minor and chronicler. The fact that there were two Friars Minor named Bartholomew living ...
(Also of Pisa )
Canonist, and man of letters, b. at San Concordia, near Pisa about ...
This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the ...
One of the Twelve Apostles, mentioned sixth in the three Gospel lists ( Matthew 10:3 ; Mark ...
The name given to Armenian monks who sought refuge in Italy after the invasion of their country ...
An historian and littérateur , born at Ferrara, 12 February, 1608; died in Rome, 12 ...
A Cistercian monk and learned Hebrew scholar, b. at Celleno in the old kingdom of Naples, 1 ...
An Italian painter and a member of the Dominican Order, b. in 1475 in the territory belonging ...
An engraver, etcher, and painter, b. at Florence, 1727; d. at Lisbon, 1815. His father was a ...
Born probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; called the "Nun of Kent." The career of ...
( Hebrew Barûkh , blessed, Benedict; Septuagint Barouch ).
The disciple of ...
Born at Sulislawice, Sandomir, Russian Poland, 1838; d. at Chicago, 2 May, 1899. The son of ...
A sculpture executed upon and attached to a flat surface. The usual impression produced by an ...
(Basileus or Basilius)
Bishop and Martyr. In St. Jerome's Latin version of the Chronicle of ...
Bishop and ecclesiastical writer, date of birth uncertain; d., probably, between 458 and 460; ...
Bishop of Caesarea, and one of the most distinguished Doctors of the Church. Born probably 329; ...
Several Oriental liturgies, or at least several anaphoras, have been attributed to the great ...
I.
Under the name of Basilians are included all the religious who follow the Rule of St. Basil. ...
(Priests of the Community of St. Basil)
During the French Revolution, Mgr. D'Aviau, the last ...
( Stoa basilike , or basileios ).
The term basilica can indicate either the ...
The earliest of the Alexandrian Gnostics ; he was a native of Alexandria and flourished under ...
Martyrs bearing the name of Basilides are mentioned in the old martyrologies on three different ...
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A titular see of Asia Minor. Originally a small village in Bithynia Prima, it obtained the rank ...
Various female martyrs, attributed to different localities yet bearing the common name of ...
Basins were extensively used in the Jewish Ritual and were in early use in Christian churches ...
Convoked by Pope Martin V in 1431, closed at Lausanne in 1449. The position of the pope as the ...
Basle-Lugano is the largest Catholic diocese of Switzerland. It is composed of the two Dioceses ...
A town situated twenty-nine miles north of Bombay in British India, and now of much historic ...
Convert and controversialist, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England, under James II, ...
Founder and first Superior-General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, the principal branch ...
Bishop of Ephesus (444-448). As a priest of Ephesus the charities of Bassianus so won the ...
A French economist, b. at Mugron, a small city in the Department of Landes, 29 June, 1801; d. at ...
A French theologian, b. at Rouen, 29 November, 1741; d. at Saint-Laurent, 26 September, 1825. He ...
(Prefecture Apostolic of Basutoland)
Basutoland, a mountainous district of South Africa, is ...
(Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia)
When the Portuguese took possession of the island of Java, of ...
The first religious house in Bath was a monastery of nuns founded by King Osric, A.D. 676. This ...
B ADONIENSIS ET W ELLENSIS
(Bath, Aquae Solis, Bathonia, Bathensis, Bathoniensis ; Wells, ...
Writer on music and education, b. at Dublin, Ireland, 2 April, 1564; d. at Madrid, 17 June, ...
(Or BATILDE).
Wife of Clovis II, King of France, time and place of birth unknown; d. ...
Diocese situated in New South Wales, Australia, in the ecclesiastical Province of Sydney, ...
A historian of the councils, b. at Rimini, Italy, 25 March, 1645; d. at Cesena, 19 September, ...
Abbé and writer on philosophy and æsthetics, b. near Vouziers, France, 6 May, ...
(His original name was Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac).
Born of Jewish parents at Safed in Galilee, ...
Founded by William the Conqueror on the site of the Battle of Senlae or Hastings (1066), nearly ...
German physician, novelist, and poet, b. at Thannhausen in Swabian Bavaria, 3 March, 1809; d. at ...
Regular Canon and economist, b. at Amboise, France, 25 April, 1730; d. in 1792. He became a ...
Italian missionary, born in Quebec, Canada, 8 March, 1692, entered the Society of Jesus in ...
Poet and writer on the history of literature, b. at St. Gall, Switzerland, 27 June, 1841; d. at ...
A Swiss statesman, b. 18 October, 1797, at Altstätten, Switzerland ; d. 12 July, 1869, at ...
Educator, b. at Bellgarde (Loiret), France, in 1828. He was one of the clergy of ...
Theologian, b. in 1564 at Mouzon, Ardennes, France ; d. 3 December, 1649, at Saint Pol de ...
A French cardinal, writers, and statesman, b. in 1748 at Pondichery, where his father held an ...
Philosopher and theologian, b. at Paris, 17 February, 1796; d. there, 15 October, 1867. After a ...
Born at Mexico, 1555; date of death unknown, but probably between 1606 and 1615. He joined the ...
I. POLITICAL CONSTITUTION, AREA, POPULATION
The present Kingdom of Bavaria -- named after the ...
(Or Baldwin).
An English Jesuit, born at Cornwall, 1563; died at St.-Omer, 28 September, ...
( née Parmentier)
Eldest daughter of Andrew Parmentier, b. in Belgium, 4 July, 1814, ...
Born at Saragossa, 9 March, 1734; died Madrid, 4 August, 1795, a distinguished religious and ...
DIOCESE OF BAYEUX (B AJOCÆ ).
Coextensive with the Department of Calvados; suffragan to ...
First Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.; eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland ; b. ...
Born at Torre-Hermosa, in the Kingdom of Aragon, 24 May, 1540, on the Feast of Pentecost, called ...
Jesuit mathematician and scientist, b. in Piedmont, Italy, 9 November, 1816; d. at Santa Clara, ...
(Lapurdum)
The Diocese of Bayonne comprises the Department of Basses-Pyrenees. Reorganized in ...
(Baisio)
An Italian canonist, b. about the middle of the thirteenth century of a noble ...
Third Bishop of Vincennes (now the Diocese of Indianapolis ), b. at Duerne, near Lyons, ...
Beads variously strung together, according to the kind, order, and number of prayers in certain ...
Among the Jews, as among most Oriental peoples, the beard was especially cherished as a symbol of ...
English artist, born at Brighton, 1872; died at Mentone, France, 16 March, 1898. It has been ...
The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in ...
HISTORY
According to some writers the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic ...
This name is given to the place where Our Saviour delivered the "Sermon on the Mount", beginning ...
The solemn blessings ( beatitudines, benedictiones ) which mark the opening of the Sermon on ...
(Or Bethune)
Cardinal, Archbishop of St. Andrews, b. 1494; d. 29 May, 1546. He was of an ...
(Or Bethune)
A Scottish Archbishop ; b. c. 1473; d. at St. Andrews, 1539, was the sixth and ...
(Or Bethune)
Archbishop of Glasgow, b. 1517; d. 24 April, 1603; the son of James Beaton of ...
(Or B EATRICE ).
The name Beatrix has been borne by a certain number of holy persons, but no ...
Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 1443; d. 1509, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, first ...
( Abbatia quae vocitatur Bellus Locus )
Beaulieu Abbey was a Cistercian house in ...
A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours ; d. 1606 in Paris. Before entering the ecclesiastical ...
Celebrated French pulpit orator, born at Metz in Lorraine, 4 December, 1733; died at the ...
Soldier, b. near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 28 May, 1818; d. there 20 February, 1893. He ...
(Bellovacum)
A suffragan diocese of the archiepiscopal See of Reims. The Dioceses of ...
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Jesuit writer and preacher, born at Mans, France, 7 July, 1693; died probably at Paris about ...
A French bishop, b. at Cherbourg, 17 October, 1731; d. at Paris, 4 April, 1790. The sermons he ...
The Benedictine Abbey of Bec, or Le Bec, in Normandy, was founded in the earlier part of the ...
(Verbreck, van der Breck).
Controversialist, born at Hilvarenbeck, Brabant, Holland, 6 ...
A physicist, born at Mondovì, 3 October, 1716; died at Turin, 27 May, 1781. At the age ...
Patriarch of Constantinople in the second half of the thirteenth century, one of the few Greek ...
( Alias THOMAS MARSHALL).
English Benedictine abbot and martyr ; date of birth unknown; ...
Born at Hanover, 14 April, 1778; died at Grünhof, 27 February, 1858. He first studied ...
Sixth Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. b. at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 20 December, 1832; ...
Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at London, 21 December, 1118 (?); died at Canterbury, 29 ...
Twenty-second General of the Society of Jesus , born at Sichem, Belgium, 8 February, 1795; died ...
French physicist, b. at Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret), 7 March, 1788; d. at Paris, 18 January, ...
(Or B EAD , whence Bedehouse, Bedesman, Bederoll).
The old English word bede (Anglo-Saxon ...
Historian and Doctor of the Church , born 672 or 673; died 735. In the last chapter of his great ...
Medical writer and teacher, b. at Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. of a distinguished family in ...
Writer, educator, b. in London 1 October, 1816; d. in Dublin, Ireland, 21 May, 1903. With the ...
( alias Long)
Superioress of the English Institute of Mary , b. 1616 of a gentle family ...
Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583. He was the grandson of Sir Edmund Bedingfeld who had served in the Wars ...
Italian Cardinal and diplomat; born at Sinigaglia, Italy, 15 May, 1806; died at Viterbo, 6 ...
(An English abbreviation of BETHLEHEM).
A London hospital originally intended for the poor ...
Exegete and Orientalist, b. at Amsterdam, 12 January 1807; d. at Louvain, 31 March 1884. After a ...
( Or BAALPEOR.)
Beelphegor was the baal of Mt. Phogor, or Peor, a mountain of Moab. ...
1. Old Testament
Beelzebub, or Baalzebûb, the Philistine god of Accaron (Ekron), ...
(Also spelled Bisley). Martyr, born at The Hill in Goosnargh parish, Lancaster, England, of an ...
Born at Bonn, probably on 16 December, 1770; died at Vienna, 26 March, 1827. The date of his ...
A canonist who lived at the end of the seventeenth century; died at Freising, 9 October, 1713. ...
The etymology of the names Beghard and Beguine can only be conjectured. Most likely they are ...
(Known also as Albertus Bohemus)
Born c. 1180, probably at Boheiming, in the Diocese of Passau ...
(Martinus de Bohemia )
A German cartographer and navigator, b. at Nuremberg in 1459; d. at ...
In Phoenicia, a titular Latin see, and the residential see of several prelates of Oriental ...
Diocese in Portugal, suffragan of Evora. It was created 10 June, 1770, and numbers 175,000 ...
B ARON B ELASYSE
Born about 1614; died 1689, a loyal Catholic English nobleman, second son ...
A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII, date of birth uncertain; d. 3 August 1537. He ...
In South America, formerly (after 4 March, 1719) a suffragan diocese of Bahia (San Salvador), ...
The upper part of the tower or steeple of a church, for the reception of the bells ; or a ...
I. THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
The victory of Fleurus, gained by the French army over the Austrian forces, ...
Titular (united) sees of Servia. The history of these sees is as confused as their present plight ...
Italian Jesuit and natural philosopher, born at Udine, 16 November, 1704; died in the same ...
Found frequently as a personal name in the Vulgate and various English translations of the ...
( be and lyian , to hold dear).
That state of the mind by which it assents to ...
French prelate and writer, b. in Besançon early in the seventeenth century; d. 29 April, ...
A small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side ...
The triple Hail Mary recited in the evening, which is the origin of our modern Angelus, was ...
( alias F RANCIS ) Friar Minor and English martyr, b. at Temple-Broughton near Worcester, 13 ...
Priest and martyr, b. at Warrington in Lancashire, England, probably about 1520; d. 20 April, ...
Jerome Bellamy of Uxenden Hall, near London, England, d. 1586, a member of an old Catholic family ...
Barnabite theologian, b. at Castelnuovo, Italy, in 1552; d. at Milan, 27 August, 1630. He was ...
(Also, "Bellarmino").
A distinguished Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal, born at ...
Serjeant-at-Law, b. 14 October, 1800; d. 24 January, 1873; was one of the most able and respected ...
Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 ...
(Ballenden, or Ballantyne)
A Scotch poet, b. at Haddington or Berwick in the latter part of ...
The Diocese of Belleville comprises that part of southern Illinois, U.S.A. which lies south of ...
Diocese of Belley (Bellicium)
Coextensive with the civil department of Ain and a suffragan of ...
(Or Belling)
Irish historian, b. near Dublin early in the seventeenth century; d. in 1677. He ...
Giacomo (Jacopo) Bellini
Father of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, b. about 1400; d. 1471. ...
Cardinal - Archbishop of Paris, b. 9 October, 1709, at Morangles in the Diocese of Beauvais ; ...
The subject will be treated under the following heads:
I. Origin; II. Benediction; III. Uses; IV. ...
(Diocese of Belluno-Feltre).
Belluno, which was anciently called Bellunum, the metropolis of ...
Fifth superior of the Sulpicians at Montreal, b. at Grenoble, France, 1645; d. 1732. He went ...
(Or, as found in the Septuagint Baltasár .)
Baltasar is the Greek and Latin name for ...
Martyr, b. at Brill in Oxfordshire, England, dated uncertain; d. 5 July 1589. He was at the ...
Bishop of Marseilles, b. 1671 at the Château de la Force, in Périgord; d. 1755 at ...
An Egyptian explorer, b. at Padua, Italy, in 1778; d. Gato, Africa, 3 Dec., 1823. His father ...
A famous Italian scholar and Cardinal, b. of a noble family at Venice, 20 May, 1470; d. at ...
Prefecture Apostolic in Africa ; lies between 8° and 12° N. lat., and between 42° ...
(Benavidez)
Archbishop of Goa in the Portuguese Indies. Although a prelate of high rank, the ...
An adaptation of the sanctuary guard or altar-rail. Standing in front of this barrier, in a ...
A titular see of Albania. Its history is closely connected with that of the Sees of Narenta and ...
An English monastic founder, born of a noble Anglo-Saxon family, c. 628; died 12 January 690. ...
Of the first Pontiff who bore the name of Benedict practically nothing is known. The date of his ...
Date of birth unknown; died 8 May, 685; was a Roman, and the son of John. Sent when young to the ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 17 April, 858. The election of the learned and ascetic Roman, Benedict, ...
Date of birth unknown; died in the summer of 903.
The Popes Benedict from the fourth to the ...
The nephew of his two immediate predecessors, Benedict IX was a man of very different character ...
Born 26 March, 1748 at Amettes in the Diocese of Boulogne, France ; died in Rome 16 April, 1783. ...
Benedict Levita (of Mainz ), or Benedict the Deacon, is the name given to himself by the author ...
Born about 745-750; died at Cornelimünster, 11 February, 821. Benedict, originally known as ...
Founder of western monasticism, born at Nursia, c. 480; died at Monte Cassino , 543. The only ...
Abbot and writer, place and date of birth unknown; d. 1193. He was educated at Oxford, and was ...
(Or B ENEDICT THE M OOR )
Born at San Philadelphio or San Fradello, a village of the ...
Date of birth unknown; died 4 July, 965.
Benedict V was elected pope (May, 964) in very ...
Date of birth unknown; d. August, 974 (see Ricobaldi of Ferrara, Compil. Chron., in Rer. Ital. SS. ...
Date of birth unknown; d. c. October, 983. Acting under the influence of Sicco (see BENEDICT VI ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 9 April, 1024. The first of the Tusculan popes, being the son of ...
The bearer of this name was an antipope in the days of Nicholas II, 1056-61.
(Nicholas Boccasini)
Born at Treviso, Italy, 1240; died at Perugia, 7 July, 1304. He entered ...
(J ACQUES F OURNIER )
Third of the Avignon popes, b. at Saverdun in the province of ...
(PIETRO FRANCESCO ORSINI)
Born 2 February, 1649; died 23 February, 1730. Being a son of ...
(P ROSPERO L ORENZO L AMBERTINI .)
Son of Marcello Lambertini and Lucretia Bulgarini, b. ...
A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
One ...
This work holds the first place among monastic legislative codes, and was by far the most ...
Situated in the Bavarian Alps, about thirty miles south of Munich. It was formerly in the ...
A Franciscan theologian of the sixteenth century belonging to the Observantine Province of ...
The Benedictine Order comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known ...
One of the most generally popular of Catholic services is Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, ...
( Benedictionale ).
A book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in ...
A medieval Friar Minor missionary and traveller (c. 1245) companion of Giovanni da Piancarpino, ...
The Benedictus, given in Luke 1:68-79, is one of the three great canticles in the opening ...
( Latin Beneficium , a benefit)
Popularly the term benefice is often understood to denote ...
The exemption from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, which in England, in the Middle ...
Friar Minor Capuchin and historical writer, d. in 1774. He belonged to the Province of Piedmont ...
(BENEVENTANA).
Benevento, the ancient Beneventum, the principal city of the province of the ...
(JOANNES BENEDICTI).
Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, b. 1417; d. in 1467. He was a member of ...
A martyr of the French Commune, b. at Bourges, 19 September, 1824; d. in Paris, 26 May, 1871. ...
Martyr honoured as the patron saint and first herald of Christianity of Dijon (Divio) an old ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 467, son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which ...
(Vicariate Apostolic of the Coast of Benin. Also called Oræ Benini).
Includes an ...
( Hebrew binjamin , "son of the right hand").
(1) The youngest son of Jacob born of ...
German theologian and historical writer, b. 25 September, 1790, at Nordheim, near the mountain ...
Bishop of Osnabrück, b. at Luningen in Swabia; d. 27 July, 1088, in the Benedictine ...
Born at Autun (or Dijon ), France, 8 October, 1715; died at Peking, 23 October, 1774, a ...
Jeremy Bentham an English jurist and reformer, born at Houndsditch, London, 15 February, 1748; ...
Originally from the castle of that name in the neighbourhood of Bologna, Italy. They claimed ...
English architect, b. at Doncaster, Yorkshire, in 1839; d. in London, February, 1902. From early ...
( Alias Bennet).
An English Jesuit priest born in Cheshire, 1609; died 30 October, 1692. He ...
Founder of the Catholic publishing house that bears his name, b. at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, ...
Born at Milan about 1519. He went to America in 1541 and successively visited the Antilles and ...
Of Termonbarry, d. 595; a disciple of St. Kevin and a celebrated Irish saint, whose memory is ...
(Or BERALDUS). Friar Minor and martyr ; d. 16 January, 1220. Of the noble family of ...
Canonist, b. at Oneglia, Italy, 26 August, 1719; d. 1768. Having studied theology at Savona ...
(BERERUS).
Abbot of Hautvillers in Champagne, b. 636; d. 28 March, 696. Descended from a ...
(BERCHOIRE, BERSUIRE).
A learned French Benedictine, b. 1290 at St. Pierre du Chemin ...
Born at Diest in Brabant, 13 March, 1599; died at Rome, 13 August, 1621. His parents watched ...
(BERTHOLD).
Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland ; date of ...
Franciscan Friar and missionary, born at Sarteano, in Tuscany, 1385; died at Milan, 15 August, ...
Born at Tours about 999; died on the island of St. Cosme, near that city, in 1088. Having ...
A titular see of Egypt which was situated at the end of Major Syrtis where Bengazi stands ...
(Diocese of Bergamo).
The city, called by the ancients Bergonum, is capital of the province of ...
(BERGA, BERGENSIS.)
The diocese included the Provinces of Nordre and Sondre Bergenhus, and ...
French theologian, b. 31 December, 1715 at Darney in Lorraine ; d. at Versailles, 9 April, 1790. ...
Confessor, first Bishop of Dorchester (in what is now the County of Oxford, not Dorchester, ...
Titular Bishop of Hiero-Caesarea, b. at Stock, Essex, England, 1748; d. 8 June, 1798. His life ...
One of the best known Catholic writers of his day, b. at Winsley, in Herefordshire, 16 January, ...
Confessor (c. 1588) of whom the only extant account occurs in the manuscript marked "F", ...
(Berisa or Verissa)
A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus, in Asia Minor which Kiepert and ...
Mexican bibliographer, b. in Puebla, Mexico, 22 May, 1756; d. at Mexico, 23 March, 1817. He went ...
Dogmatic theologian, b. 21 December, 1805, at Münster, Westphalia ; d. there, 6 December, ...
Archbishop of Bordeaux, b. 1375 in Médoc; d. 1457 at Bordeaux. Being of humble ...
Bishop of Panama, b. at Berlanga in Spain, date uncertain; d. there 8 August, 1551. He was ...
Capital of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia, and residence of the German ...
French composer, b. at La Côte Saint-André, near Grenoble, 11 December, 1803; d. at ...
Spanish theologian, born at Magallon in Aragon in 1587; died at Saragossa, 13 September, 1642. ...
Inquisitor of Toulouse against the Albigenses and Bishop of Lodève, b. at ...
Friar Minor and chronicler, a native of Aquitaine, date of birth uncertain; he belonged to the ...
( Also Bernardine; Flovitano Toselli).
Friar Minor Capuchin and Scotist theologian, born at ...
Generally called Parmensis from his birthplace, Parma in Italy, a noted canonist of the ...
Born in 1090, at Fontaines, near Dijon, France ; died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153.
His ...
Bernard of Cluny (or of Morlaix), a Benedictine monk of the first half of the twelfth century, ...
(1) Bernard of Compostella (Antiquus)
A canonist of the early thirteenth century, a native of ...
Dominican theologian, controversialist, and Inquisitor of the Archdioceses of Cologne, Mainz, ...
Born in 923, probably in the castle Menthon near Annecy, in Savoy ; died at Novara, 1008. He ...
A noted canonist, provost of the cathedral chapter of Pavia, and, in 1190, promoted to the ...
Founder of the congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto, born at Siena in Tuscany ...
Bishop of St. Hyacinth, P.Q., Canada. b. at Beloeil, P.Q., 29 December, 1847. He made his ...
A French ecclesiastic known as "the poor priest " ( le pauvre prêtre ), b. at Dijon 23 ...
French physiologist, b. 12 July, 1813 at Saint Julien near Villefranche, France ; d. at Paris, ...
(BARNARD.)
Archbishop of Vienne, France. Born in 778; died at Vienne, 23 January, 842. His ...
Friar Minor and missionary, b. at Feltre, Italy, in 1439 and d. at Pavia, 28 September, 1494. He ...
Of the Order of Friars Minor, historian and ascetical writer, b. at Fossa, in the Diocese of ...
Friar Minor, missionary, and reformer, often called the "Apostle ofItaly ", b. of the noblefamily ...
Title of certain sisters of the order of Cîteaux who at the end of the sixteenth and in ...
The fourth city of Switzerland in population, capital of a canton of the same name which is the ...
An Italian comic poet, b. at Lamporecchio (Florence) 1497 or 1498; d. at Florence, 26 May, ...
French Bishop, b. at Daon (Mayenne), 31 October, 1762; d. at Paris, 1 October, 1806. He was a ...
Son of the famous artist Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini , lived in the early part of the eighteenth ...
One of the most vigorous and fertile of Italian architects and sculptors, b. at Naples in 1598; ...
A Capuchin missionary and Orientalist, b. near Carignan in Piedmont ; d. in Hindustan in 1753. ...
A French cardinal and statesman, b. 1715 at Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche; d. at Rome, 1794. ...
(Apostle of the Obotrites), in the latter half of the twelfth century. The Obotrites were one of ...
Famous as orator, poet, philosopher, and musician, born (date unknown) at Prüm near Trier ...
Historian and theologian, b. in Swabia about 1054; d. at Schaffhausen, 16 September, 1100. He ...
Thirteenth Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany, b. about the middle of the tenth century; d. 20 ...
(Later, Berrhoea, Beroie, and Beroe ).
A titular see of Macedonia, at the foot of Mount ...
( Berosós or Berossós )
The name of a native historian of Babylonia and a ...
(B EEROTH )
A city in Chanaan, one of the confederation of cities under the headship of ...
(Called Pietro da Cortona)
A distinguished Italian painter, architect, and writer, b. at ...
For his mastery of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, sometimes called the ...
Born at Roueb, 7 November, 1681; died at Paris, 18 February, 1758. He entered the Society of Jesus ...
French advocate, orator, and statesman, son of Pierre-Nicolas Berryer, an advocate, b. at Paris, ...
( Bar sb‘ or Beersheba )
A town on the southern extremity of Palestine, one of the ...
Of the various holy women bearing the name of Bertha, five are more particularly worthy of ...
A Jesuit professor and writer, born at Issoudun, 1704; died at Bourges, 1782. He taught ...
Bishop, Apostle of the Livonians, killed 24 July, 1198, in a crusade against the pagan ...
A German bishop and theological writer, b. 1465 at Salzburg, Austria ; d. 19 July, 1543, at ...
Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. 1441; d. 21 December, 1504. Having completed his education ...
A Franciscan of the monastery of that city and the most powerful preacher of repentance in the ...
A Benedictine monk and chronicler of the celebrated Abbey of Reichenau on the Lake of ...
An Italian theologian, b. 28 May, 1696, at Sarravezza, Tuscany ; d. 26 March, 1766, at Pisa. His ...
Abbot of St. Omer, b. near Constance about 615; d. about 709. At an early age he entered the ...
Bertinoro, anciently called Forum Truentinorum, and, at the time of the Gothic war, Petra ...
An Italian missionary, born 1552 at Rocca Contrada near Ancona ; died at Lima, Peru, 3 ...
Born at Valencia, Spain, 1 Jan., 1526; died 9 Oct., 1581. His patents were Juan Bertrand and ...
(1) A French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist, b. 1280 at Annonay in Vivarais; d. 1348 or 1349 ...
Abbot of Bobbio, date of birth unknown; d. 639 or 640. He was the son of a pagan nobleman in ...
A French priest, founder of charitable institutions ; b. at Sarrelouis, 15 May, 1795; d. at ...
Archdiocese coextensive with the departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, and the district of ...
Born at Linz, 1726; died 1781. For twenty-four years he taught Scripture at Salzburg. He ...
Jesuit missionary in Canada, born at Châlons-sur-marne, 25 May, 1630; died at Reims, 4 ...
Born at Castiglione in the Venetian Republic, 1680; died at Manapar c. 1746. He entered the ...
(Beçál'el, in the shadow of God).
I. The son of Uri and grandson of Hur of the ...
A Jansenist writer, b. at Paris, 1686; d. 1763. Ordained in 1715, he received the doctorate of ...
A German jurist and publicist, b. of Protestant parents in 1577 at Tübingen, ...
(Or B ASILIUS ).
Cardinal ; b. at Trebizond, 1389, or according to others, 1395, but most ...
(In religion Gottfried )
Benedictine, abbot, and historian, b. 5 September, 1672, at ...
Miscellaneous author, b. at Lincoln, England, 21 October, 1768; d. at Brighton, 28 May, 1836. He ...
Medieval books on animals, in which the real or fabulous characteristics of actually existent or ...
A Dominican missionary, d. at Valladolid, Sept., 1549. One of the most illustrious Dominicans ...
A Franciscan missionary, b. at Betanzos in Galicia; d. at Chomez, Nicaragua, 1570. He was one ...
Unfortunately very little is known as yet of this official, who has left such valuable works on ...
( Bethania ).
A village of Palestine, fifteen furlongs, or one mile and three-quarters, east ...
( Bethania peran tou Iordanou ).
In the text of St. John's Gospel, i, 28, the author locates ...
A city of the Amorrhites in the valley-plain east of the Jordan, about twelve miles from ...
Name of two cities in Palestine. (1) A city ( Joshua 15:41 ) of the tribe of Juda "in the plains", ...
( Hebrew word meaning "house of God ").
An ancient Cansanitish town, twelve miles north of ...
A titular see of Palestine. The early name of the city was Ephrata; afterwards Bethlehem, "House ...
The old Hebrew name bêth lehem , meaning "house of bread", has survived till the present ...
An architectural term used in the Ethiopic Church for the oven or bakehouse for baking the ...
MILITARY ORDERS
There were two military orders dedicated to Our Lady of Bethlehem and known ...
Bethsaida is:
a city, or perhaps two cities, on the shore of the Lake of Genesareth, the ...
( Hebrew Beth Shean , or Beth Shan , "place of rest"). A city within Issachar, but assigned to ...
(Greek Betuloua ).
The city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms ...
( Latin sponsalia ).
The giving of one's troth — that is, one's true faith or promise. ...
Prefecture Apostolic in northern India, includes as part of its jurisdiction the entire native ...
A bet may be defined as the backing of an affirmation or forecast by offering to forfeit, in ...
French historian and statesman, b. at Bar-sur-Aube, 25 March, 1797; d. at Paris, 15 March, 1865. ...
Abbot of Clynnog, d. 660(?), was, according to the "Bucced Beuno", born in Powis-land and, after ...
A collegiate church at Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire, served by a chapter ...
Belgian theologian and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Antwerp, April, 1578; d. at the same place, ...
(CODEX CANTABRIGIENSIS), one of the five most important Greek New Testament manuscripts, and the ...
Friar Minor andtheologian, b. at Lucca, 2 October, 1686; d. at Rome, 18 January, 1768. At the age ...
A student of the natural sciences, and an historian, b. at Verona, Northern Italy, 13 December, ...
(Giuseppe Blanchini).
Italian Oratorian, Biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar, b. ...
Merchant and philanthropist, b. 26 September, 1785, in the duchy of Milan ; d. near Clonmel, ...
Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622. In 1608 ...
(Bernardo Dovizi)
An Italian Cardinal and comedy-writer, known best by the name of the town ...
The earliest mention in an authentic historical authority of St. Bibiana (Vibiana), a Roman ...
Protestant Bible Societies, established for the purpose of publishing and propagating the Bible ...
The authenticity or authority of Holy Writ is twofold on account of its twofold authorship. ...
DIALECTS
The Coptic language is now recognized in four principal dialects, Bohairic (formerly ...
In the present article we understand by editions of the Bible the printed reproductions of its ...
The subject will be treated in this article under the four heads:
I. Belief in Inspired books; ...
Manuscripts are written, as opposed to printed, copies of the original text or of a version ...
A collection of writings which the Church of God has solemnly recognized as inspired.
The ...
Synopsis
GREEK : Septuagint; Aquila; Theodotion; Symmachus; other versions.
VERSIONS FROM THE ...
In the Middle Ages the Church made use of pictures as a means of instruction, to supplement ...
The rhymed versions of the Bible are almost entirely collections of the psalms. The oldest ...
(BIBLE OF THE POOR).
A collection of pictures representing scenes from Our Lord's life with ...
We shall consider (1) what is meant by biblical accommodation; (2) its use in Sacred Scripture; ...
This department of archæology has been variously defined and classified. Some scholars have ...
A committee of cardinals at Rome who, with the assistance of consultors, have to secure the ...
A technical name which is usually applied to two distinct, but intimately connected, things. ...
Orientalist, b. at Cassel, 7 July, 1838; d. at Vienna, 15 Jan., 1906. His father, Johann Wilhelm ...
Martyr, a Yorkshire layman, b. at Low Hall, near Knaresborough (date unknown), but residing at ...
Archbishop of Dublin, date of birth unknown; d. 1349. As his surname suggests he came from a ...
A poet and theologian of great learning and sanctity, b. at Ebingen, Germany, in 1578; d. at ...
Called "the last of the Scholastics ", b. at Speyer, Germany, c. 1425; d. at Tübingen, ...
The city of Biella, the see of the diocese of that name, is an important industrial centre ...
(Or Wolski)
A Polish chronicler, b. of noble parentage on the patrimonial estate of Biala ...
French Governor of Louisiana and founder of New Orleans, b. in Montreal, Canada, 24 February, ...
According to the strict meaning, the word should signify the marrying of a second after the death ...
( French bigamie , from Latin bis , twice, and Greek gamos , marriage)
Bigamy, in civil ...
(Binius, Bignaeus)
French theologian and patrologist, b. about 1546 at ...
( Also Julia). Foundress, and first superior-general of the Congregation of the Sisters of ...
( Also Steinberger, Latin Latomus, Lapicida ).
German theologian, opponent of the ...
(Billi)
A French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist, and a Benedictine abbot, ...
(Latin bis , twice, and locatio , place.)
I. The question whether the same finite being ...
The offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant. ...
Canonist, historian, and theologian, b. at Gluringen, Switzerland, 1697; d. at Torrenburg, ...
Jesuit author, born at Dijon, France, 1569; died at Paris, 1639. He entered the Society of ...
French mathematician and astronomer, b. at Rennes, in Brittany, 2 February, 1786; d. in Paris, ...
Historian and critic, b. in 1573 in the village of Randerath, Western Germany ; d. 14 February, ...
Born at Düsseldorf, 19 September, 1779; died at Bilk, 17 May, 1855, a theologian of repute ...
According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life. Biogenesis is ...
(From bios , life and logos , reason, account, reasoning)
Biology may be defined as the ...
A distinguished Italian arch æologist and historian, b. at Forli in 1388; d. at Rome in ...
A physicist and mathematician, born at Paris, France, 21 April, 1774; died. there, 3 ...
Many kinds of birds are used in Christian symbolism. The first to be so employed was the Dove ...
A square cap with three ridges or peaks on its upper surface, worn by clerics of all grades from ...
Confessor, first Bishop of Dorchester (in what is now the County of Oxford, not Dorchester, ...
Polish preacher, b. at Lemberg, 1566; d. at Cracow, 1636. He completed his studies at the ...
(BIRMINGHAMIA, BIRMINGHAMIENSIS)
One of the thirteen dioceses erected by the Apostolic ...
(Also known as DE PIRO, the latinized form of this German name)
A pious and learned ...
(ILLEGITIMACY)
A canonical impediment to ordination. When used in this connection, the word ...
A titular see of Osrhaene, probably identical with Birejik (Zegma) on the left bank of the ...
Situated in Sardinia, in the province of Sassari, district of Nuoro, and suffragan to the ...
An English monastic founder, born of a noble Anglo-Saxon family, c. 628; died 12 January 690. ...
(Anglo-Saxon Biscop, Busceop , German Bischof ; from the Greek episkopos , an overseer, ...
(Or PASTORAL STAFF).
The crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops ...
A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is ...
The first superior in England in episcopal orders since the old hierarchy died out in the ...
(BISMARCKIENSIS).
In North Dakota, this diocese was erected on 31 December, 1909, and is ...
A tomb large enough to contain two bodies. The ordinary tombs ( loci ) in the galleries of ...
This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by ...
An English Catholic who suffered imprisonment in the closing years of the seventeenth, and ...
An important tribe of the Northern Plains, constituting the westernmost extension of the great ...
Author, b. at Dunfermline, Scotland, 1539; d. 1613. He was a great-nephew of Robert Reid, Bishop ...
Bishop and martyr.
The ninth-century martyrologies of Europe in their lists, which are ...
Fifth Bishop, and first Archbishop, of New Orleans, La., U.S.A. b. at Sury, near Lyons, ...
(Duchesne).
A French Jesuit and educator, born 12 October, 1731, at Tourteron in the ...
Brother of François Norbert Blanchet , first Bishop of Walla Walla-Nesqually, State of ...
Missionary and first Archbishop of Oregon City, U.S.A. son of Pierre Blanchet, a Canadian ...
Virgin and martyr.
She belongs to the band of martyrs of Lyons who, after some of their ...
( Or BLAAN).
Bishop and Confessor in Scotland, b. on the island of Bute, date unknown; d. ...
Blasphemy (Greek blaptein , "to injure", and pheme , "reputation") signifies etymologically ...
A monk of the Order of St. Basil, living in the fourteenth century, who applied himself to the ...
A distinguished Irish monk, b. in Ireland about 750. He suffered martyrdom in Iona, about ...
(B LEMMYDES )
A learned monk and writer of the Green Church, b. about 1198, at ...
Peter Blenkinsop
Catholic publisher, b. in Ireland ; married a sister of Archbishop Oliver Kelly ...
An enclosed congregation and a reform of the Dominican Order devoted to the perpetual adoration ...
Exposition is a manner of honouring the Holy Eucharist, by exposing It, with proper solemnity, to ...
The practice of preserving after the celebration of the Liturgy a portion of the consecrated ...
One of the most recent congregations of religious women in the Catholic Church and one of ...
Since Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine in a sacramental way, the ...
By this devotional practice, which is of comparatively modern development, the presence of ...
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.
In general, the ...
There are at present two ways in which the Church allows public worship to be paid those who ...
In its widest acceptation this word has a variety of meanings in the sacred writings:
It has ...
The solemn blessing ( urbi et orbi ) which, before 1870, the Holy Father himself gave from the ...
Although the education of the blind as a class dates back no further than the year 1784, ...
DIOCESE OF BLOIS (BLESENSIS).
Coextensive with the civil department of Loir-et-Cher and a ...
(PETER A LEYDIS)
Carthusian, b. at Leyden, in Holland in 1466; d. 30 September, 1536. Owing to ...
A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the ...
(Also called de Blois ).
A Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer, born at Donstienne, ...
(B LAATAND )
Born 911; died 1 November, 985 or 986. He was the son of King Gorm the Old of ...
Born at Cologne or Bonn, Germany in 1526; died at Graz, 24 April, 1586. He entered the Society ...
English Carmelite, reviser of the Douay Bible, born c. 1705; d. in London, 11 December 1772. ...
Born at Valencia, Spain, 1511; died at Loretto, Italy, 23 September, 1590. After having taught ...
The diocese ( Ebovium , or Bobium ; Dioecesis Eboviensis , or Bobiensis ), which is ...
Martyr, born of an old and illustrious Polish family, in the Palatinate of Sandomir, 1590; ...
Boccaccio Boccaccino
An eminent Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1460, and d. probably in 1525 ...
Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant ...
(or B OKKYNG ).
English Benedictine, b. of East Anglian parentage, end of fifteenth century; ...
Martyr, b. at Wells, Somerset: 1549; d. at Andover, Wilts., 2 November, 1583. He studied at ...
Born at Angers, 1520, probably of Jewish origin: died at Laon, 1596. He studied and taught ...
A titular see of Albania. The name is a dialectic form of Dodone, in Epirus, near Janina at the ...
(Also BOYCE and BOETHIUS)
Chronicler and one of the founders of the University of Aberdeen, b. ...
(BOHIER)
A french benedictine canonist and bishop, b. during the first quarter of the ...
Roman statesman and philosopher, often styled "the last of the Romans", regarded by tradition as ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF SANTA FÉ DE BOGOTÁ (BOGOTENSIS)
The city of Bogotá, capital ...
(Germ. Böhmen , or formerly Böheim ; Latin Bohemia or Bojohemum ), a cisleithan ...
(MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or UNITAS FRATRUM).
DEFINITION AND DOCTRINAL POSITION
"Bohemian Brethren" ...
A traveler who has seen the natural beauties of Bohemia, its vast resources, and the thrift of ...
Diocese in the province of Benevento, Italy, suffragan to the Archbishopric of Benevento. The ...
An Italian poet, b. about 1434, at, or near, Scandiano (Reggio-Emilia); d. at Reggio, 20 ...
French poet, b. at Paris, 1 November, 1636; d. there, 13 March, 1711. He was educated at the ...
The Diocese of Bois-le-Duc ( Buscoducensis ) lies within the Dutch province of Brabant, and ...
Diocese of Boise ( Xylopolitana )
Created by Leo XIII, 25 August, 1893, embraces the ...
French prelate and cardinal, b. of an ancient family at Rennes in Brittany, 27 February, ...
Superior of Melrose Abbey , d. 664. Almost all that is known of St. Boisil is learnt from Bede ...
(Bokenam)
English Augustinian friar and poet, b. 1393 (the year in which the most famous of ...
(Joseph Bischoff)
A German novelist, son of a rich merchant, b. 9 August, 1828, at ...
Theologian and controversialist, b. at Bergamo, Italy, 22 January, 1733; d. at Rome, 3 May, ...
A South American republic which lies between longitudes west of Greenwich 57 deg. 30' and 74 deg., ...
An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum. This work is a ...
Distinguished Orientalist, born near Düren in Rhenish Prussia 23 August, 1821; died at ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF BOLOGNA
HISTORY
Bologna is the principal city in the province of the same name, ...
Flemish Renaissance sculptor, b. at Douai, in Flanders, about 1524; d. at Florence in 1608. ...
A tradition of the thirteenth century attributed the foundation of this university to Theodosius ...
A theologian and physician, b. probably at Paris, date unknown; d. at Lyons c. 1584. He ...
Historian, antiquary, and poet, born c. 1575; died c. 1633. The genuine loyalty in the Catholic ...
Austrian mathematician and philosopher, b. at Prague, 5 October, 1781; d. 18 December, 1848. As ...
(BOMBAYENSIS)
The Archdiocese of Bombay comprises the Island of Bombay with several outlying ...
Bishop of Liège, born at Leyden, in Holland on 5 April, 1790; died 7 April 1852. He was ...
I. INSTITUTE OF BON SECOURS (DE PARIS)
The first of the congregations of nursing sisters, gardes ...
(Bona Mors = "Happy Death").
The Bona Mors Confraternity was founded 2 October, 1648, in the ...
A distinguished cardinal and author, b. of an old French family at Mondovì, in ...
(Or PERGAMO) Friar Minor , theologian, and canonist, date of birth unknown; d. at Munich, ...
Bishop of Clermont, b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen ; d. at Munich, 1800. He had ...
French theologian and founder of the Congregation of the Priests of St. Mary (Bonalists), b. ...
French statesman, writer, and philosopher, b. at Monna, near Millau, in Rouergue (Aveyron) 2 ...
Cardinal, b. at Millau, in Rouergue (now Aveyron), 30 October, 1787, d. at Lyons, 25 Feb., 1870. ...
Prince of Canino and Musignano, ornithologist, b. in Paris, 24 May, 1803; d. in the same city 29 ...
At Quaracchi, near Florence, Italy, famous as the centre of literary activity in the Order of ...
Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, Minister General of the Friars Minor, born at ...
Italian mathematician, b. at Rome, 10 May, 1821; d. 13 April, 1894. He was a member of the ...
A Spanish priest and one of the first to give attention to the education of the deaf and dumb ...
Friar Minor, theologian, and missionary,date of birth uncertain; d. 1360. Probably a Frenchman by ...
Biblical scholar, born at Dinant, Belgium, 12 April, 1573; died at Tournai, 9 May, 1642. He ...
(Or BONSHOMMES).
This name was popularly given to at least three religious orders in the ...
(B ONIFATIUSVEREIN ).
The Boniface Association, one of the most successful Catholic ...
Elected 28 December, 418; d. at Rome, 4 September, 422. Little is known of his life antecedent to ...
Elected 17 September, 530; died October, 532.
In calling him the son of Sigisbald, the "Liber ...
Pope Boniface III, of Roman extraction and the son of John Cataadioce, was elected to succeed ...
Son of John, a physician, a Marsian from the province and town of Valeria; he succeeded Boniface ...
Elected at Rome, 2 November, 1389, as successor of the Roman Pope, Urban VI ; d. there, 1 ...
Forty-sixth Archbishop of Canterbury and son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, date of birth ...
A Neapolitan who succeeded Deusdedit after a vacancy of more than a year; consecrated 23 ...
A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He ...
(Previously B ONIFACE F RANCO )
A Roman and son of Ferrucius; was intruded into the ...
(B ENEDETTO G AETANO )
Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303. He ...
(WINFRID, WYNFRITH).
Apostle of Germany, date of birth unknown; martyred 5 June, 755 (754); ...
(Or BONITHO).
Bishop of Sutri in Central Italy, in the eleventh century, an adherent of ...
(RHEINSCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT).
An academy was founded at Bonn in 1777 by Max ...
A French missionary and martyr, b. 1 March, 1824 at Saint-Christôt-en-Jarret ( Diocese of ...
Situated near Binche, province of Hainault, Diocese of Tournai, Belgium. It owes its foundation ...
Cardinal and senator, b. at Paris, 1800; d. 1883. Entering the magistracy, he became ...
Bishop of London, b. about 1500; d. 1569. He was the son of Edmund Bonner, a sawyer of Potter's ...
A French writer, b. at Entrevaux (dept. of Basses-Alpes) 9 May, 1798, d. at Paris, 26 March, ...
Bishop of Sardica, a heretic in the latter part of the fourth century. Against the common ...
(Called Il Moretto, or Moretto da Brescia).
One of the finest North Italian painters of the ...
I. HISTORY
On 21 January, 1549, the first Act of Uniformity was passed imposing upon the whole ...
An Irish manuscript containing the Four Gospels, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the Eusebian ...
John Foxe was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, England, in 1516, and was educated at Magdalen ...
The Index of Prohibited Books, or simply "Index", is used in a restricted sense to signify the ...
Orientalist, b. at Angers, 15 Aug., 1809; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1878. From the college of Angers ...
(BURDIGALA).
Archdiocese ; comprises the entire department of the Gironde and was established ...
The University of Bordeaux was founded during the English domination, under King Henry VI , in ...
An eminent painter of the Venetian school, b. at Treviso, 1500 d. at Venice, 1570. A member of ...
Third Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. b. at Kloppenburg, Hanover, Germany, 1 August, ...
Cardinal, born at Velletri, 3 December, 1731; died at Lyons, 1804; Italian theologian, ...
Diocese in the province of Parma, Italy. The city takes its name from St. Domninus, who fled to ...
Diocese situated in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. The city is believed by some to ...
(Real name AMBROGIO STEFANI DA FOSSANO).
A distinguished Italian painter and architect, b. ...
Bishop-elect of Acanthus, Vicar Apostolic of Western Tongking and Martyr ; b. 20 February, ...
I. DUTCH BORNEO
The former Vicariate of Bavaria was composed of Sumatra, Java, and the other ...
A distinguished Spanish painter, born at Cocentaina, 1530; died at Gandia, 1610. Going to ...
An Italian missionary, born on the first half of the seventeenth century, at or near Milan ; ...
Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, cousin and successor of St. Charles Borromeo, born at Milan ...
St. Charles Borromeo -- Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal-Priest of the Title of St. Prassede, ...
(Borro-Mäusverein).
A German Catholic association for the encouragement and diffusion ...
Architect and sculptor ; born 25 September, 1599, at Bissone; died ( by his own hand ) 1 ...
(Borri, Burrus)
Missionary, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Milan in 1583; died at ...
In the province of Cagliari, The city numbers about 35,000 inhabitants. St. Gregory the Great, ...
Bollandist, born at Brussels, 19 October, 1686; died 14 November, 1736. After studying the ...
( Or St. John Bosco; Don Bosco.)
Founder of the Salesian Society. Born of poor parents in ...
A Dalmatian Jesuit and well-known mathematician, astronomer, and natural philosopher, b. at ...
Known as "The Columbus of the Catacombs ", b. in the island of Malta about the year 1576; d. ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina form the north-western corner of the Balkan Peninsula. Taking the two ...
First Bishop of Merseburg, in the present Prussian Province of Saxony, and Apostle of the ...
Third English Cardinal, date of birth uncertain, d. at Rome, about 1181. He was a Benedictine ...
French theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne, born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626. He ...
A celebrated French bishop and pulpit orator, born at Dijon, 27 September, 1627, died at ...
(Or JOHN BOAST.)
Priest and martyr, b. of good Catholic family at Dufton, in Westmoreland, ...
Archdiocese ; comprises Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties in the State ...
Titular see of Syria. Bostra, "The fortress", is neither Bosor of Reuben and Moab ( ...
A titular see situated in Phoenicia. Bothrys is the Greek name of a city founded by Ithobaal, ...
A famous Florentine painter. Born at Florence about 1447; died in the same city, 1510. ...
(Or BOTOLPH.)
Abbot, date of birth unknown; died c. 680. St. Botulph, the saint whose name ...
A native of Milan in Lombardy who went to Mexico in 1736 by permission of the Spanish ...
Born at Lagny, a village near Mortagne in the Perche, France, 1622, died at Boucherville, 1717. ...
Bishop of Laval in France, b. at Dijon, 28 February 1823, d. at Laval 7 November, 1888. He ...
Born at Quimper in Brittany, in 1690; died at Paris, 1743. He entered the Society of Jesus ...
French Jesuit author, born at Paris, 15 May, 1632; died 27 May, 1702. Entering the Society of ...
A Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur, b. in the Diocese of Chartres, 1669; ...
(Emmanuel Thédore de la Tour d'Auvergne)
French prelate and diplomat, b. 24 August, 1643, ...
One of the best known and most distinguished of modern French canonists, b. 15 May, 1808, at ...
Born at Saint-Saire (Seine-Inférieure) France, 11 October, 1658; died at Paris, 23 ...
(PETIT-PÈRE ANDRÉ).
A French monk and preacher, b. at Paris in 1578; d. 27 ...
(BULÆUS).
A French historian, b. in the beginning of the seventeenth century at ...
French bishop, b. at Avignon, 26 December 1747; d. at Troyes, 13 March, 1825. He was the son of ...
A learned Benedictine of the Congregation of St.-Maur, b. at Amiens, France, 6 August, 1685; ...
Born at Warneton, Belgium, 16 May, 1840; died at Brussels, 5 November, 1902; a Belgian ...
Archæologist and historian, b. at Ste.-Maure (Indre-et-Loire), France, 22 December, 1813; ...
Born 1406; died 1486, Cardinal, was the third son of William Bourchier, Earl of Eu, and of Lady ...
Born at Bourges, 20 August, 1632; died at Paris, 13 May, 1704. He is often described as the ...
Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, b., probably, towards 1423, at the castle of Bourdeilles ...
Born at Rouen, France, 1612; died at Quebec, 1668. In 1634 he went to Canada and became the ...
A French missionary and philosopher, b. 7 July, 1806, at Gaujan, department of Gers; d. 21 May, ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF BOURGES (BITURICÆ).
Coextensive with the departments of Cher and Indre. ...
First Bishop of Montreal, P.Q., Canada, and titular Archbishop of Martianopolis, b. at Point ...
Third Superior general of the Congregation of the Oratory in France and one of the early ...
Irish scholar and writer, b. 29 Dec., 1829, at Castlebar, Co. Mayo ; d. there, 22 Nov., 1887; ...
Last Catholic Bishop of Bath and Wells , England, son of Philip Bourne of Worcestershire, ...
French pulpit orator, b. at Bourg in 1750; d. in 1830. At an early age he embraced the ...
Jesuit missionary, born at Le Mans, France (date unknown), died at Peking, China, 28 June, 1732. ...
Bishop of Le Mans, theologian, b. At St. Charles-la-Forêt, Mayenne, 16 January, 1783; d. ...
A celebrated French mystic of the seventeenth century; born at Montargis, in the Orléanais, ...
DIOCESE OF BOVA.
Situated in the civil province of Reggio, in Calabria, Italy, suffragan to ...
Diocese in the province of Foggia, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Benevento. The city, ...
Baronet, an eminent English writer on jurisprudence, as well as a prominent defender of the Holy ...
The custom of electing a boy-bishop on the feast of St. Nicholas dates from very early ...
Novelist, lecturer, and priest, well known under the assumed name of "Paul Peppergrass", born in ...
The name of boycotting was first aplied to a practice which had its origin in Ireland during the ...
A celebrated Cistercian house situated on the River Boyle, nine miles northwest of Elphin, in ...
Jesuit missionary, born at Condé-sur-Vire in Normandy, 25 March, 1593; died in Canada, ...
A French Dominican theologian of the convent of Evreux ; died c. 1479. He was made Doctor of ...
Ecclesiastical historian and bishop, born at Bingen, 25 October, 1831; died 4 November, 1903. He ...
Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Olmutz, embracing the south-western part of Moravia, an ...
Poet, journalist, politician, b. in Ireland 21 December, 1843; d. at Dunedin, New Zealand , 16 ...
Also called HENRY OF BRACTON.
A famous English juridical writer, the Blackstone of the ...
First Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire , U.S.A. b. 25 February, 1846, at Castle-island, ...
An English Carmelite friar known in religion as Elias à Jesu; b. in Lancashire, ...
English Benedictine and poet, b. in the City of Chester, England, date unknown; d. 1513. From ...
Ecclesiastical writer, b. in Dublin, 8 January, 1825; d. in Rome, 19 March, 1894. He was nephew ...
(Bracara Augusta, Civitas Bracarensis).
Braga is situated in a flat fertile tract of land ...
Many councils were held in Braga, some of them important. The authenticity of the so-called ...
(Brigantiensis.)
This diocese is situated in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of ...
By Brahminism is meant the complex religion and social system which grew out of the ...
French educator and inventor, born 4 January 1809, at Coupvray, Seine-et-Marne, France ; died 6 ...
French Oratorian and ecclesiastical writer, born at Chars-en-Vexin, France, c. 1600; died at ...
(Also called D 'A GNOLO after his father Angelo)
Italian architect and painter, b. about ...
An ancient and illustrious Neapolitan family, from which the "Brancas" of France were descended. ...
Cardinal, Minor conventual, and theologian, b. at Lauria in the then Kingdom of Naples, 10 ...
Born in Sicily in 1607; he entered the Society of Jesus in 1624 and went to the Chinese ...
One of the medieval English names for Palm Sunday. The difficulty of procuring palms for that ...
Formerly an electoral principality (the Mark of Brandenburg), and a diocese in the heart of the ...
French physicist and inventor of the coherer employed in wireless telegraphy, born at Amiens, 23 ...
One of the most famous of French writers of memoirs, b. in 1539, or a little later; d. 15 July, ...
A German humanist and poet, born at Stasburg in 1457 or 1458; died at the same place, 1521. He ...
Just when memorial brasses first came into use is not known; the earliest existing dated ...
Born at Bourbourg (Département du Nord), France, 1814; died at Nice in January, 1874. He ...
A German humanist, born probably at Cannstatt, 1500; died at Vienna, 25 November, 1539. He was ...
Younger brother of Johann Alexander (b. at Tübingen, 1509; d. at Vienna, 3 June, 1549) went ...
Bishop of Saragossa, date of birth unknown, d. at Saragossa c. 651. In 631 he succeeded his ...
A Bavarian historian, b. at Peiting near Schongau in Upper Bavaria, 11 February, 1756; d. at ...
A duchy situated in the mountainous central part of Northern Germany, comprising the region of the ...
As far as known, author of the first book on medicine printed in America. His "Opera Medicinalia ...
(T HE U NITED S TATES OF B RAZIL )
A vast republic of central South America covering an ...
In the Christian liturgy bread is used principally as one of the elements of the Eucharistic ...
These are made of wood, tin, britannia, silver, or other metal. In order that the breads may not ...
Bread is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. It ...
Striking of the breast as a liturgical act is prescribed in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ...
(BREDANA)
Diocese situated in the Dutch province of Brabant and suffragan of Utrecht. The ...
Brehon law is the usual term for Irish native law, as administered in Ireland down to almost ...
Formerly the seat of an archdiocese situated in the north-western part of the present German ...
An Irish missionary in Wales, a contemporary of St. Patrick, and among the earliest of the ...
An ecclesiastical historian, born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1780; died at Dublin, February, ...
St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, known also as Brendan the Voyager, was born in Ciarraighe ...
A German poet, one of the most prominent members of the Romantic School. He was born at ...
The Diocese of Brescia takes its name from the principal city in the province of the same name in ...
Prince-Bishopric seated at Breslau, on the River Oder in the Prussian Province of Silesia.
...
An Indian missionary, born in Rome, 6 May, 1612; died at Florence, 9 September, 1672. He entered ...
Brest -- in Russian, Brest-Litovski; in Polish, Brzesc; in the old chronicles, called Brestii, or ...
A group of persons closely connected with the Saviour appears repeatedly in the New ...
A noted French missionary among the Caribbean Indians, b. at Baune, 3 September, 1609; d. at Caen, ...
(Or Bretton).
A layman and martyr, of all ancient family of Bretton near Barnsley in ...
This subject may be divided, for convenience of treatment, as follows:
I. DEFINITION; II. ...
This breviary may be described as the Sarum Office in a Scottish form. The use of the ancient ...
By the Apostolic Constitution "Divino Afflatu" of Pius X (1 November, 1911), a change was made ...
A German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place ...
(1) Guillaume Briçonnet
A French cardinal, b. at Tours, date of birth unknown; d. at ...
Seventh Bishop of Quebec, b. in 1715 at Plérin, Brittany; d. 25 June, 1794. He studied ...
English Jesuit and martyr, born in Somersetshire of a yeoman family about 1556; executed at ...
The payment or the promise of money or other lucrative consideration to induce another, while ...
Preacher, b. at Chusclan, France, 21 March, 1701; d. at Roquemaure, 22 December, 1767. Having ...
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, we hear of the existence of various religious ...
(Also Birgitta).
The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms, born about 1303; died 23 ...
Priest and author, b. at Derby, England, 20 January, 1829, of Protestant parents ; d. at St. ...
These publications derive their origin and their title from the Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, eighth ...
Known also as AQUAPONTANUS, historian of the Catholic Confessors under Queen Elizabeth, b. in ...
A bulla was originally a circular plate or boss of metal, so called from its resemblance in ...
(Briocus, Brioc, or Bru).
A Celtic saint of Brittany who received his education in Ireland ...
(Incorrectly known as BRIDGET).
Born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near ...
(SISTERS OF ST. BRIGID.)
The Institute of the Brigidines was established by Most Rev. Dr. ...
The Brigittine Order (also, ORDER OF ST. SAVIOUR) was founded in 1346 by St. Brigit, or Bridget, ...
Born at St. Malo in 1629; died at Paris, 12 June, 1712. He was a member of the Society of Jesus ...
A brilliant Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626. ...
Born at Cologne in 1542, died at Mainz, 25 August, 1595. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1558, ...
(Or B RYNDEHOLME .)
Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of ...
Brindisi—called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium , by the Greeks Brentesion ...
Confessor of the Faith, imprisoned and tortured as manager of a secret press for the ...
Orator and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Bourges in 1641, d. at Paris, 23 March, 1736. At the ...
Controversialist, b. at Blois, France, 9 June, 1592; entered the Society of Jesus in 1619, d. at ...
Comprises that part of the State of Queensland, Australia, which lies south of the 24th parallel ...
Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University ...
(BRISTOLIA, BRISTOLIENSIS).
This English diocese, which takes its very origin from measures ...
Born at Worcester, 1538, died at Harrow-on-the-Hill, 1581. He went to the University of Oxford ...
British Columbia is the westernmost province of the Dominion of Canada. Territorially, it is also ...
An orientalist, and a monk of Rennes in Brittany; date of birth and death unknown. He entered ...
Born near Chester, England, 1744; died at Hartpury Court, 1827. His parents were Protestants, ...
Martyr ; born in Lisbon, 1 March, 1647, and was brought up in court; martyred in India 11 ...
(Or Bretton).
A layman and martyr, of all ancient family of Bretton near Barnsley in ...
A Prince-Bishopric of Austria, suffragan of Salzburg, embracing the greater part of Northern ...
Flourished in the sixth or seventh century. Several persons in repute for holiness seem to have ...
Abbé, professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique at Paris, and writer on ...
French statesman and historian, b. at Paris, 13 June, 1821; d. there 19 January, 1901. After a ...
Born in Paris, 5 September, 1766; d. there, 20 June, 1821. He was the son of the Field-Marshal, ...
(Or JEAN-ALOUZIER).
A French Cardinal, b. in 1342 at Brogny, in Savoy ; d. at Rome, 1426. ...
Theologian, d. about 1390. He takes his name from his birthplace in Herefordshire, England. He ...
First Bishop of Helena, Montana, U.S.A. b. at Bruges, Belgium, 23 February, 1842; d. at ...
( Or Brorbey). Friar Minor and English martyr, died 19 July 1537. Brookby was lecturer in ...
Last Catholic Bishop of Gloucester, England, b. May, 1512, in Hampshire, d. 1560. Proceeding to ...
Comprises the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, or all of Long Island, in the State ...
A Jesuit missionary, born 1724 at Magnac, Angoumois, France ; died 1782. He studied classics ...
St. John of God, the founder of this religious institution, was born 8 March, 1495, at Montemor ...
( alias Rouse)
Born about 1558 at Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire; died according to ...
(Browerius).
Historian, born 12 March, 1559, at Arnheim, Holland ; died in 1617, at Trier, ...
A naval officer of the Republic of Argentina, b. 1777, in the County Mayo, Ireland ; d. 3 May, ...
(ARTEMUS WARD).
Humorist, b. at Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A. 26 April, 1834; d. ...
Philosopher, essayist, reviewer, b. at Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S.A., 16 September, 1803; d. at ...
Daughter of Orestes A. Brownson, b. at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 7 June, 1839; married William ...
Vicariate Apostolic, erected 1874. Previous to this date the entire State of Texas was under ...
(Briocus, Brioc, or Bru).
A Celtic saint of Brittany who received his education in Ireland ...
(Brulius).
A theologian and historian, born early in the seventeenth century at Vorst, a ...
A French theologian and dramatic author, born at Aix in 1640; died 25 November, 1723, at ...
Professor of apologetics and church history, born at Orléans, 8 October 1823; died at ...
The chief town of the Province of West Flanders in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Pope Nicholas I in ...
A French priest, Jansenist, and Juror, born at Thiers, 3 October, 1730; died at Paris, 7 ...
A renowned Franciscan preacher of the fifteenth century, b. at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, ...
An Italian-American historical painter, celebrated for his fresco work in the Capitol at ...
Born at Rouen in Normandy, 1688; entered the Society of Jesus in 1704; died in Paris, 1742. ...
(Or Brunelleschi)
An architect and sculptor, born at Florence, 1377; died there 16 April, ...
A French critic and professor, born at Toulon, 19 July, 1849; died at Paris, 9 December, 1906. ...
Friar Minor and chronicler, born c. 1262; died c. 1348. His father Rinaldo, Lord of Sarnano in the ...
An eminent Italian humanist, b. of poor and humble parents at Arezzo, the birthplace of ...
The founder of the Swiss-American congregation of the Benedictines, b. 10 January, 1795, at ...
A versatile and voluminous writer, b. in Vienna, 10 December, 1814; d. there, 27 November, 1893. ...
(Also called BRUN and BONIFACE).
Second Apostle of the Prussians and martyr, born about ...
(SAXONICUS.)
A German chronicler of the eleventh Century and author of the "Historia de Bello ...
Italian philosopher, b. at Nola in Campania, in the Kingdom of Naples, in 1548; d. at Rome, ...
Bishop of Segni, in Italy, born at Solero, Piedmont, about 1048; died 1123. He received his ...
Confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order. He was born at Cologne ...
A duchy situated in the mountainous central part of Northern Germany, comprising the region of the ...
Archbishop of Prague, b. at. Muglitz in Moravia, 13 February, 1518; d. 28 August, 1580. After ...
A titular see of Bithynia in Asia Minor. According to Strabo, XII, iv, the city was founded by ...
(From Bruk Sel , marsh-castle; Flemish Brussel , German Brussel , French Bruxelles ). ...
First Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A. (now Indianapolis ), b. at Rennes, France, 20 March ...
Born at Lyons, France, 13 July, 1635; died at Sault St. Louis, Canada, 15 June 1712. He ...
Physician, poet, author, and editor, b. in Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1811; d. 1877. He was the son of ...
A titular see of Lower Egypt, on the right bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, near the ...
(Buzlin).
A Benedictine historical writer, born at Diessenhofen in Thurgau, 29 December, ...
(Also called BUTZER.)
One of the leaders in the South German Reformation movement, b. 11 ...
(B UCHAREST ; B UCARESTIENSIS ; Rumanian, B UCHARESCI "City of enjoyment")
Comprises the ...
Bollandist, born at Oudenarde, Flanders, 21 April, 1817; died 28 June, 1876. His family was one ...
The date of the foundation of the monastery of Our Lady of Buckfast, two miles from ...
A soldier, lawyer, stateman, judge, born near Castletownsend, County Cork, Ireland, in 1841; died ...
( Alias John Jones; alias John Griffith; in religion, Godfrey Maurice). Priest and martyr, ...
(Budaeus).
A French Hellenist, born at Paris, 1467; died there 22 August, 1540. He studied at ...
The religious, monastic system, founded c. 500 B.C. on the basis of pantheistic Brahminism. The ...
(Czech, BUDEJOVICE; Latin BUDOVICIUM; BOHEMO-BUDVICENSIS).
A diocese situated in Southern ...
The federal capital of the Argentine Republic , and the second city of the Latin races in the ...
Diocese established 23 April, 1847, now comprises the counties of Erie, Niagara, Genesee, ...
A philosopher, and author, born in Poland, of French parents, 25 May, 1661; died in Paris, 17 ...
A celebrated missionary in China, mathematician, and theologian, born at Mineo, Sicily, 26 ...
(Also Boil or Boyal.)
A Friar Minor. The fact that there were two religious of the name of ...
This term comprehends all constructions erected for the celebration of liturgical acts, whatever ...
(B UCHAREST ; B UCARESTIENSIS ; Rumanian, B UCHARESCI "City of enjoyment")
Comprises the ...
A European kingdom in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, bounded by the Black Sea, ...
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Neither the English term nor the German ( Stiergefecht ) used to designate this ...
(Golden Bull ).
A fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire; probably the best known of all ...
( Also John Baptist).
A Friar Minor and English martyr, born at Chichester about the ...
Bullarium is a term commonly applied to a collection of bulls and other analogous papal ...
Born in Paris, at commencement of the seventeenth century, her parents being Guichard Favre and ...
A bulla was originally a circular plate or boss of metal, so called from its resemblance in ...
A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711, was the second son of Edward Bulstrode ...
(VAN DEN BUNDERE).
A Flemish theologian and controversialist, born of distinguished parents ...
Italian sculptor, painter, and architect, b. at Caprese in the valley of the upper Arno, 6 March, ...
(Also of HASENBURG or ASUEL, from his ancestral castle in Western Berne, Switzerland ). ...
First bishop of Würzurg, b. in England of Anglo-Saxon parents, date unknown; d. in ...
Bishop of that see, b. of noble parents in Hesse, Germany, after the middle of the tenth ...
(Or Burgkmair).
A painter of the Swabian school, b. at Augsburg in 1473; d. in 1531. He was ...
A Dominican historian and theologian, b. in England c. 1673; d. in Brussels, 27 April, 1747. ...
Born at Oaxaca about 1600; d. at Teopozotlan in 1681. He entered the Dominican Order 2 August, ...
(B URGENSIS )
The Archdiocese of Burgos (from burgi, burgorum , signifying a ...
(Latin Burgundia , German Burgund , French Bourgogne ).
In medieval times ...
The interment of a deceased person with ecclesiastical rites in consecrated ground. The Jews ...
French scholastic philosopher of the fourteenth century, b. at Béthune, in the district of ...
Historian, b. at Reims, 1692; d. at Paris, 1785. In 1713, with his brothers, Champeaux and ...
The name of two celebrated German jurists. One died suddenly at Rain, 9 December 1539. He began to ...
First Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia, b. in the parish of Maryborough, County Kildare, Ireland, ...
(THOMAS DE BURGO)
Bishop of Ossory, b. at Dublin, Ireland, about 1709; d. at Kilkenny, 25 ...
A celebrated Dominican orator, b. 8 September, 1830, in Galway ; d. 2 July, 1882, at ...
(Also: Walter Burley; Burlæus). Friar Minor and medieval philosopher, b. in 1275 and d. in ...
(Burlingtonensis).
Diocese established 14 July, 1853; comprises the whole State of Vermont , ...
Before its annexation by the British Burma consisted of the kingdoms of Ava and Pegu. In 1548 St. ...
First American Governor of California, U.S.A. b. in Nashville, Tennessee, 15 Nov., 1807, of ...
Publisher and author, b. near Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland, 1808; d. in London, 11 April, ...
( Bursa , "hide", "skin"; whence "bag" or "purse").
A receptacle in which, for reasons of ...
In the Middle Ages on of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries in Germany was the ...
The first religious foundation there was established by Sigebert, King of the East Angles, who ...
(Busæus or Buys).
A Jesuit theologian, born at Nimwegen in 1540; died at Vienna in ...
A priest and founder of two religious congregations, b. 3 February, 1544, at Cavaillon, Comtat ...
Moral theologian, born at Notteln, Westphalia, 1600; died at Münster, 31 January, 1668. He ...
A titular see taking its title from one of the many Egyptian cities of the same name. This ...
(Caligæ).
Ceremonial stockings of silk, sometimes interwoven with gold threads, and even ...
Jurist, b. 23 March, 1803 at Zell in Baden ; d. 31 January, 1878, at Freiburg im Breisgau. He ...
Mexican statesman and historian, b. at Oaxaca, Mexico, 4 November, 1774; d. in Mexico, 29 ...
(or Busten)
A Jesuit missionary and author, born 1549, in the Diocese of Salisbury , ...
Born at Mountstuart, Bute, 12 September, 1847; d. at Dumfries House, Ayrshire, 9 October, 1900, ...
French missionary in Canada. Born at Abbeville, in Picardy, 11 April, 1600; slain by the ...
Historian, b. 10 October, 1710, at Appletree, Northamptonshire, England ; d. at St-Omer, ...
One of the most prominent figures among the English Catholics of his day, b. in London, 1750, d. ...
First Irish Abbess of the Irish Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Grace, at Ypres, Flanders, ...
Born at Suirville, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 31 October, 1838; died 7 June, 1910, was the son of ...
A pilaster, pier, or body of masonry projecting beyond the main face of the wall and intended to ...
Priest and martyr, b. in Derbyshire; d. at Canterbury, 1 October, 1588. He was a scholar of ...
A titular see of Phoenicia. Byblos is the Greek name of Gebal "The Mountain", one of the oldest ...
An altar that is subordinate to the central or high altar. The term is generally applied to ...
A titular see of Epirus Nova (Albania), whose title is often added to that of Apollonia among ...
English composer, born in London in 1542 or 1543; died 4 July, 1623. He was the son of a ...
Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A. b. at Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland, 5 December, 1802; ...
Brevet brigadier general, United States Army, b. in Co. Cavan, Ireland, 1832; d. at Washington, ...
Missionary and educator, born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1780; died at Bardstown, Kentucky, ...
A mixed style, i.e. a style composed of Graeco-Roman and Oriental elements which, in earlier ...
The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital Byzantium, or Constantinople. The term ...
The ancient Roman Empire having been divided into two parts, an Eastern and a Western, the Eastern ...
To grasp correctly the essential characteristics of Byzantine literature, it is necessary first ...
( Also BYZANTINE RITE.)
The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of ...