An important tribe of Shoshonean linguistic stock, speaking a dialect of the Pima language and ...
A famous Hungarian ecclesiastic of the seventeenth century; died 19 March, 1637. He was born of ...
Spanish writer, born at Murcia. Little is known of his life except that he lived during the ...
(PETROCORICENSIS)
Comprises the Department of Dordogne and is suffragan to the Archbishopric of ...
(DIONYSIUS PETAVIUS)
One of the most distinguished theologians of the seventeenth century, ...
Titular see, recorded under "Pacanden." Among the titular sees in the official list of the Curia ...
Cardinal, scholar, and statesman, b. at Benevento, 27 Dec., 1756; d. at Rome, 19 Feb., 1844; ...
Died about 346. The main facts of his life will be found in MONASTICISM (Section II: Eastern ...
Controversial and educational writer, b. at Mergentheim, Wurtemberg, 14 Sept., 1825; d. at ...
A disciple of St. Francis of Assisi, born probably near Ascoli, Italy, in the second half of ...
(Also known as Pacificus of Novara, or Novariensis ).
Born 1420 at Cerano, in the Diocese ...
Born at San Severino, in the parents died soon after his confirmation when three years old; he ...
(Paciuolo.)
Mathematician, born at Borgo San Sepolco, Tuscany, toward the middle of the ...
(Paderbornensis)
Suffragan diocese of Cologne, includes: the District of Minden, ...
Friar Minor, protomartyr of the United States of America , member of the Andalusian province, ...
(Patavina)
Diocese in northern Italy. The city is situated on a fertile plain and is ...
The University of Padua dates, according to some anonymous chronicles (Muratori, "Rer. Ital. ...
Paganism, in the broadest sense includes all religions other than the true one revealed by God, ...
Jurisconsult and man of letters, born in Brienza, Province of Salerno, 8 Dec., 1748; died at ...
English martyr, born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, 1571; died at York, 20 or 30 April, 1593. ...
French ecclesiastical historian. Born 31 March, 1624, at Rognes in the Department of ...
French ecclesiastical historian, nephew of Antoine Pagi. Born 7 September, 1654, at Lambesc in ...
(Or XANTES)
A Dominican, born 1470 at Lucca, Tuscany ; died 24 Aug., 1541, at Lyons, one of ...
Painting has always been associated with the life of the Church. From the time of the ...
(Also written Pacoá)
One of a group of cognate tribes, hence designated the ...
( palaia , "ancient", graphe , "writing")
The art of deciphering ancient writing in ...
( logos ton palaion onton )
Palæ ontology, or the science of fossils, deals with ...
Bishop of La Puebla de Los Angeles, b. at Fitero in Navarre, 24 June, 1600; d. at Osma in ...
( Or Palliser).
English martyr, born at Ellerton-upon-Swale, parish of Catterick, North ...
( German Rheinpfalz ).
A former German electorate. It derives its name from the title of a ...
( Latin palatium , palace)
The designation, primarily, of certain high officials in the ...
Prefecture Apostolic in the Philippine Islands ; comprises Palawan, Cuyo, Culion, Twahig, and ...
(PALENTINA)
This Diocese comprises the civil provinces of Palencia, Santander, Valladolid, ...
(Palæopolis)
A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ephesus. The history of this ...
Cardinal and Archbishop of Bologna. Born at Bologna, 4 October, 1522; died at Rome, 22 July, ...
Archdiocese of Palermo (Panormitana), in Sicily.
The city is built on an inlet of the ...
The Convent of St. Dominic of Palermo may be considered the nucleus of the future University of ...
(PBÆNESTINENSIS)
The town of Palestrina, in the province of Rome, central Italy, is the ...
The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient ...
Classical scholar, born at Easingwold near York, 14 Jan., 1815; died at Bournemouth, 9 December, ...
A heavy, black cloth, spread over the coffin in the church at a funeral, or over the catafalque ...
A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased ...
Italian architect, born at Vicenza 1508; died at Venice, 19 August, 1580. There is a tradition ...
( Palladios )
Born in Galatia, 368; died probably before 431. The identity of the author of ...
First bishop sent by Pope Celestine to Ireland (431). The chronicle of the contemporary St. ...
A cardinal, born 28 Nov., 1607; died 5 June, 1667. Descended from the line of Parma of the ...
Form and Use of the Modern Pallium
The modern pallium is a circular band about two inches wide, ...
The founder of the Pious Society of Missions , born at Rome, 21 April, 1798 [other sources say ...
In pre-Christian times the palm was regarded as a symbol of victory (Aulus Gellius, "Noct. Att.", ...
The sixth and last Sunday of Lent and beginning of Holy Week, a Sunday of the highest rank, ...
(JACOPO NIGRETI)
Born at Serinalta near Bergamo, about 1480; d. at Venice, 30 July 1528.
...
Born at Mixbury, Oxfordshire, 12 July, 1811; died at Rome, 4 April, 1879; the elder brother of ...
A theologian, born at Piacenza, Italy, 4 July, 1829; died in Rome, 29 May, 1909. He studied in ...
Physicist and meteorologist, b. at Faicchio, Benevento, Italy, 22 April, 1807; d. in Naples, 9 ...
Titular metropolitan see in Phoenicia Secunda. Solomon ( 1 Kings 9:18 ) built Palmira (A. V. ...
A Friar Minor, born at Palma, Island of Majorca, about 1722; died in 1789 or 1790. He entered the ...
A titular see and suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in Syria Prima. The town was founded by a ...
(PETRUS DE PALUDE)
A theologian and archbishop, born in the County of Bresse, Savoy, about ...
(Jacques de Joigny De Pamele).
Belgian theologian, born at Bruges, Flanders, 13 May, 1536; ...
(APAMÆA)
A Diocese comprising the Department of Ariège, and suffragan of ...
Roman senator, d. about 409. In youth he frequented the schools of rehetoric with St. Jerome. In ...
Martyred 309. Eusebius's life of Pamphilus is lost, but from his "Martyrs of Palestine" we ...
(PAMPILONENSIS)
This Diocese comprises almost all of Navarre and part of Guipuzcoa. This ...
Located in Central America, occupies the Isthmus of Panama, or Darien, which extends east and west ...
The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the Church on 12 May, in common, and ...
(PANDECTÆ, or DIGESTA)
This part of Justinian's compilation was his most important ...
A papal legate and Bishop of Norwich, died at Rome, 16 Sept., 1226. He is commonly but ...
A titular see of Pamphylia Secunda, suffragan of Perge. Panemotichus coined money during the ...
The opening words of two hymns celebrating respectively the Passion and the Blessed Sacrament. ...
A preacher and controversialist, Bishop of Asti, born at Milan, 6 Feb., 1548; died at Asti, 31 ...
See also KONRAD SWEYNHEIM .
Both printers; Pannartz died about 1476, Sweinheim in 1477. ...
A former important mission tribe on the middle Ucayali River, Peru, being the principal of a group ...
A titular see, suffragan of Antinoe in Thebais Prima; the ancient Apu or Khimmin which the ...
(Greek pan , all; psyche , soul )
Panpsychism is a philosophical theory which holds ...
Head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria about 180 ( Eusebius, "Hist. eccl.", V, x), still ...
Martyr, died about 305. According to legend he was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of ...
(From Greek pan , all; theos , god).
The view according to which God and the world are ...
Historian and archaeologist, born at Verona, 23 February, 1530; died at Palermo, 7 April, 1568. ...
Bishop of Mileto, died early in 1662. He was a secular priest of Arezzo, having left the ...
Born at Argigliano, Tuscany, 1 Sept., 1642; died at Rome, 17 January, 1720. The son of Angelo ...
This term is employed in an ecclesiastical and in an historical signification. In the former of ...
An institution almost coeval with the papacy itself. The principle of arbitration presupposes ...
For current procedures regarding the election of the pope, see Pope John Paul II's 1996 Apostolic ...
The right to coin money being a sovereign prerogative, there can be no papal coins of earlier ...
( Latin re-scribere , "to write back")
Rescripts are responses of the pope or a Sacred ...
( Italian Lo Stato della Chiese )
Consists of the civil territory which for over 1000 years ...
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The most celebrated personage of this name was bishop of a city in the Upper Thebaid in the ...
A titular see, suffragan of Salamis in Cyprus. There were two towns of this name, Old Paphos ...
Bishop of Hierapolis (close to Laodicea and Coloss Colossae aelig; in the valley of the ...
An Italian canonist of the thirteenth century; died 18 Sept., 1213. He was born at Pavia, ...
An historian, born at San Giovanni Valdarno, between Florence and Arezzo, about 1751; died at ...
Parætonium, a titular see of Lybia Secunda or Inferior (i.e. Marmarica), suffragan of ...
French surgeon, born at Bourg-Hersent, near Laval, department of Maine, 1517; died 20 ...
A titular see of Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica. It is mentioned by Ptolemy (III, 13, ...
Writer, b. at the castle of Phanja Champsaur, Basses-Alpes, 1724; d. at Paris, 1797. After his ...
The word parable (Hebrew mashal ; Syrian mathla , Greek parabole ) signifies in general ...
paraboloi, parabalanoi
The members of a brotherhood who in the Early Church voluntarily ...
Celebrated physician and reformer of therapeutics, b. at the Sihlbrücke, near Einsiedeln, ...
Paraclete, Comforter (L. Consolator ; Greek parakletos ), an appellation of the Holy Ghost. ...
( paradeisos , Paradisus ).
The name popularly given in Christian tradition to the ...
One of the inland republics of South America, separated from Spain and constituted as an ...
(PARAHYBENESIS)
Located in the State of Parahyba, Brazil, suffragan of Bahia, founded 27 ...
( Paraleipomenon ; Libri Paralipomenon ).
Two books of the Bible containing a summary of ...
The balance of verse with verse, an essential and characteristic feature in Hebrew poetry. Either ...
A doctrine which states that the relation between mental processes, on the one hand, and ...
A titular see, suffragan of Cabasa in Ægyptus Secunda. One of the seven mouths of the ...
(PARANENSIS)
Suffragan of Buenos Aires, in Argentina until recently, comprised two civil ...
(Gr. paraskevé ); seems to have supplanted the older term prosábbaton , used ...
A town of five thousand inhabitants in the Department of Sâone-Loire, Diocese of Autun , ...
French scientist, b. at Pau, 5 Sept., 1636; d. of fever contracted whilst ministering to the ...
Pardon, from the Latin perdonare , — assimilated in form to donum , a gift, middle ...
Born at Quito, Ecuador, 31 Oct. 1618; died at Quito, 26 May, 1645. On both sides of her family ...
Missionary, probably born at Auñon in the Diocese of Toledo, Spain, date unknown; died ...
( Latin parere , to beget)
I. DUTIES OF PARENTS TOWARDS THEIR CHILDREN
In the old pagan ...
(PARENTINA-POLENSIS)
The little town of Parenzo is picturesquely situated on a promontory ...
Italian poet, born at Bosisio, 23 May, 1729; died at Milan, 15 Aug., 1799. Parini was early ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF PARIS (PARIBIENSIS)
See also UNIVERSITY OF PARIS .
Paris comprises the ...
The secular priests and the religious who were murdered in Paris, in May 1871, on account of ...
Philologist, born at Avenay, Marne, France, 25 March, 1800; died 13 Feb., 1881. Having finished ...
A French philologist, son of Paulin, born at Avenay (Marne), 9 August, 1839; died at Cannes, 6 ...
Benedictine monk and chronicler, b. about 1200; d. 1259. There seems no reason to infer from the ...
See also ARCHDIOCESE OF PARIS .
Origin and Early Organization
Three schools were especially ...
(Latin par&ligcia, parochia , Greek paroikia , a group of neighbouring dwellings).
I. ...
Titular see, suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespontus. The Acts of the martyr St. Onesiphorus ...
Located half a mile south of Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1129 by Duke Godfrey, surnamed ...
An historian, born in England, 1667; died there 30 January, 1728. In 1692 he was appointed ...
A titular see of Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch. As a Roman colony it was called Julia Augusta ...
Italian botanist, b. at Palermo, 8 Aug., 1816; d. at Florence, 9 Sept., 1877, a devout and ...
Located in central Italy. The city is situated on the river of the same name, an affluent of the ...
An agriculturist, born at Montdidier, 17 August, 1737; died in Paris, 13 Dec., 1813. Left an orphan ...
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The current name of FRANCESCO MAZZUOLA, MAZZOLA, MAZZUOLI, or MAZZOLI, Italian ...
A titular see in Cappadocia Secunda, suffragan of Mocessus. Situated between Ancyra and ...
The parish is established to provide the parishioners with the helps of religion, especially ...
This term is used to designate certain special exertions of the Church's pastoral agencies, ...
Born at Russey, near Besançon, 1 Sept., 1665; died at Pekin, 29 Sept., 1741. He entered ...
(PARSEES).
A small community in India, adherents of the Zoroastrian religion and originally ...
A. Dogma of Particular Judgment
The Catholic doctrine of the particular judgment is this: that ...
Partnership, an unincorporated association of two or more persons, known as partners, having for ...
Venetian historian and statesman, born at Venice, 14 May, 1540; died there, 6 Dec., 1598. Of a ...
Born at Torre-Hermosa, in the Kingdom of Aragon, 24 May, 1540, on the Feast of Pentecost, called ...
Born at Clermont-Ferrand, 19 June 1623; died in Paris, 19 August 1662. He was the son of Etienne ...
Jews of all classes and ways of thinking look forward to the Passover holidays with the same ...
The blessing of the "paschal candle ", which is a column of wax of exceptional size, usually ...
(817-824)
The date of his birth is unknown; he died in April, May, or June, 824. He was the ...
(RAINERIUS).
Succeeded Urban II, and reigned from 13 Aug., 1099, till he died at Rome, 21 ...
(GUIDO OF CREMA)
The second antipope in the time of Alexander III. He was elected in 1164 ...
A lamb which the Israelites were commanded to eat with peculiar rites as a part of the ...
I. LITURGICAL ASPECT
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost are called by the older ...
Theologian, b. at Soissons, 786; d. in the Monastery of Corbie, c. 860 (the date 865 is ...
A deacon of the Roman Church about 500; died after 511. Almost all that is known of Paschasius ...
Born at Lucca, 9 May, 1812; died at Turin, 12 March, 1887. He entered the Society of Jesus in ...
(PASSAVIENSIS)
Located in Bavaria, suffragan of Munich-Freising, including within its ...
Born 30 April, 1772, at Joinville, France ; died 30 October, 1858. The difficulties he had to ...
(known as IL CRESTI, or IL PASSIGNANO, Cresti being his family name)
A Venetian painter, ...
Precisely when, in the development of the liturgy, the history of the Passion of Our Lord ...
A feast kept on the Tuesday after Sexagesima. Its object is the devout remembrance and honour ...
See also THE PASSION OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS .
The sufferings of Our Lord, which culminated ...
See also DEVOTION TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST .
We have in the Gospels four separate accounts ...
The recitation of these offices, called also Of the Instruments of the Passion, was first granted ...
The modern drama does not originate in the ancient, but in the religious plays of the Middle ...
The fifth Sunday of Lent, a Sunday of the first class, not permitting the celebration of any ...
A cardinal, theologian, born at Fossombrone, 2 Dec., 1682; died 5 July, 1761. Educated in the ...
The full title of the Passionist institute is: The Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most ...
By passions we are to understand here motions of the sensitive appetite in man which tend ...
The two weeks between Passion Sunday and Easter. The last week is Holy Week, while the first ...
(Or, more fully, Santos Passos )
The Portuguese name locally used to designate certain ...
Jews of all classes and ways of thinking look forward to the Passover holidays with the same ...
Chemist, founder of physio-chemistry, father of bacteriology, inventor of bio-therapeutics; born ...
(PASTENSIS, PASTOPOLITANA).
A Colombian see, suffragan of Popayan, from which it was separated ...
This term denotes a priest who has the cure of souls ( cura animarum ), that is, who is ...
(T HE P ASTORALS
STS. TIMOTHY AND TITUS
Saints Timothy and Titus were two of the most beloved ...
(Or PASTORAL STAFF).
The crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops ...
Pastoral theology is the science of the care of souls. This article will give the definition of ...
One of the most curious of the popular movements inspired by a desire to deliver the Holy Land. ...
Patagonia is the name given to the southernmost extremity of South America. Its boundary on the ...
Titular see of Lycia, suffragan of Myra, formerly a large cornmercial town, opposite Rhodes. ...
The eucharistic vessel known as the paten is a small shallow plate or disc of precious metal upon ...
Venerable William Patenson, English martyr , born in Yorkshire or Durham ; died at Tyburn, 22 ...
Although the Latin term oratio dominica is of early date, the phrase "Lord's Prayer" does not ...
This subject will be considered under the following headings:
I. Localization of Mental ...
One of the major poets of the nineteenth century, in spite of the small bulk of his verse, born at ...
A small volcanic island in the Ægean Sea, off the coast of Asia Minor, to the south of Samos ...
A metropolitan see in Achaia. It was one of the twelve ancient cities of Achaia, built near ...
The word patriarch as applied to Biblical personages comes from the Septuagint version, where ...
Names of the highest ecclesiastical dignitaries after the pope, and of the territory they rule.
...
(Or BROTHERS OF SAINT PATRICK).
This Brotherhood was founded by the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel ...
Lough Derg, Ireland. This celebrated sanctuary in Donegal, in the Diocese of Clogher, dates ...
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at ...
Jesuit exegete, b. at Rome, 19 June, 1797; d. there 23 April, 1881. He was the eldest son and ...
Patrology, the study of the writings of the Fathers of the Church, has more commonly been known ...
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By the right of patronage ( ius patronatus ) is understood a determinate sum of rights ...
A patron is one who has been assigned by a venerable tradition, or chosen by election, as a ...
It was first permitted by Decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, 6 May, 1679, for all the ...
(PACTENSIS)
Patti, in the Province of Messina (Sicily), on the western shore of the gulf of ...
Martyred at Rome on 26 June. The year of their martyrdom is uncertain according to their ...
(757-67)
Date of birth unknown; died at Rome, 28 June, 767. He was a brother of Stephen II. ...
(PIETRO BARBO)
Born at Venice, 1417; elected 30 August, 1464; died 26 July, 1471; son of ...
(A LESSANDRO F ARNESE ).
Born at Rome or Canino, 29 Feb., 1468; elected, 12 Oct., 1534; ...
(G IOVANNI P IETRO C ARAFFA ).
Born near Benevento, 28 June, 1476; elected 23 May, ...
(PAUL DE SANTA MARIA; Jewish name, SOLOMON HA-LEVI)
A Spanish archbishop, lord chancellor and ...
A scientist and bishop, born in 1446 at Middelburg, the ancient capital of the province of ...
Bishop of Antioch. Several synods, probably three, were held against him about 264-66. St. ...
Paul Francis Daneii, born at Ovada, Genoa, Italy, 3 January, 1694; died in Rome, 18 October, 1775. ...
(Paulus Diaconus; also called Casinensis, Levita, and Warnefridi).
Historian, born at ...
There are three important versions of the Life of St. Paul: (1) the Latin version ( H ) of St. ...
The story of Paul, as Palladius heard it from men who had known St. Anthony, was as follows: ...
(CAMILLO BORGHESE).
Born at Rome, 17 Sept., 1550; elected 16 May, 1605; died 28 Jan., 1621. ...
I. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS A. Apocryphal Acts of St. Paul
Professor Schmidt has published a ...
( San Paolo fuori le mura ).
An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the ...
Born in Rome, 347; died at Bethlehem, 404. She belonged to one of the first families of Rome. ...
Born about 1455; died after 1530 in the monastery at Thann in Alsace. What little is known of ...
A dualistic heretical sect, derived originally from Manichaeism. The origin of the name ...
(PHILIP WESDIN).
Missionary and Orientalist, b. at Hoff in Lower Austria, 25 Apr., 1748; d. ...
Born at Premariacco, near Cividale, Italy, about 730-40; died 802. Born probably of a Roman ...
Christian poet of the fifth century; b. at Pella in Macedonia, but of a Bordelaise family. He ...
Archbishop of York, died at Rochester, 10 October, 644. He was a Roman monk in St. Andrew's ...
(Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus).
Born at Bordeaux about 354; died 22 June, 431. He ...
Otherwise known as the "Paulist Fathers"
A community of priests for giving missions and ...
From the time that the abode and virtues of St. Paul the first hermit were revealed to St. ...
(Paulus Diaconus; also called Casinensis, Levita, and Warnefridi).
Historian, born at ...
Theologian of the Hermits of the Order of Saint Augustine, born according to the chroniclers of ...
(PAPIA)
Located in Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated in a fertile plain; the city is ...
Pavia was, even in Roman times, a literary centre (Ennodius); as the capital of the Lombard ...
Bishop of Alet, b. at Paris 1597; d. at Alet, 1677. He joined the community of St-Lazare, ...
(Osculatorium, Tabula Pacis, Lapis Pacis).
A tablet to be kissed. The primitive usage in the ...
Pax vobis (or vobiscum ), like the other liturgical salutations (e.g. Dominus vobiscum ), ...
Born 10 Oct., 1769, at Inca, Island of Majorca; died 28 April, 1823. He received the habit of St. ...
Born in the Diocese of Peterborough ; died at Chelmsford, 2 April, 1582. He went to Douai in ...
(PEGNA)
A canonist, born at Villaroya de los Pinares, near Saragossa, about 1540; died at ...
Bishop of New Orleans, Archbishop of Guatemala, son of a wealthy and noble family ; born ...
I. EARLY HISTORY
The genesis of the idea of a meeting of representatives of different nations ...
This is the designation usually applied to the condition of the Church after the publication at ...
A revolt of the peasants of southern and central Germany, the causes of which are disputed as a ...
(Or Peva )
The principal of a small group of cognate tribes, comprising the Peba proper, ...
(PECCHAM)
Archbishop of Canterbury, born about 1240; died 6 December, 1292. His birthplace ...
(PEACOCK)
Bishop of Chichester, born in North Wales about 1395; died at Thorney Abbey about ...
("Pectoral of judgment").
The original meaning of the Hebrew term has been lost, and little ...
( Crux Pectoralis ).
The name of the cross used by the pope, cardinals, bishops, abbots, ...
The name with which the important document frequently known as the Inscription of Autun ...
(Petnelissus).
A titular see in Pamphylia Secunda, suffragan of Perge. In ancient times ...
Born at Cordova, Andalusia, Spain, about 1460; died on the Island of Santo Domingo, 1525. He ...
The name of several saints. The old Syrian martyrology gives the feast of a St. Pelagia of ...
Pelagianism received its name from Pelagius and designates a heresy of the fifth century, which ...
Date of birth unknown; died 3 March, 561, was a Roman of noble family ; his father, John, seems ...
The date of whose birth is unknown, seemingly a native of Rome, but of Gothic descent, as his ...
Theologian, born at Nidda, Hesse, about 1488; died at Trier, 1557. Stork (Greek Pelargon , ...
French writer, born at Béziers in 1624 of Protestant parents ; died at Versailles, 7 ...
A titular see and suffragan of Scythopolis in Palaestina Secunda. According to Stephanus ...
Born in Paris, 22 March, 1788; died there, 19 July, 1842. His father, Bertrand Pelletier, a ...
Italian author and patriot, born at Saluzzio, Italy, 24 June, 1788; died at Turin 31 Jan., ...
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Born at Melgueil in Languedoc, about 1490; died at the castle of Montferraud, ...
(PELOTASENSIS)
Located in Brazil, suffragan to Porto Alegre. By a decree of Pius X, dated ...
Scientist, b. at Valognes, La Manche, 26 Feb., 1807; d. in Paris, 31 May or 1 June, 1867. He began ...
née CHAUVIGNY
A French noblewoman, and foundress, born at Caen, 1603; died at Quebec, ...
A titular metropolitan see of Augustamnica Prima in Egypt, mentioned in Ezech., xxx, 15 sq., ...
(PEMBROKIENSIS)
A suffragan of Ottawa, in Canada. The town of Pembroke has a beautiful ...
This article treats of the penal legislation affecting Catholics in English-speaking countries ...
Penance ( poenitentia ) designates (1) a virtue ; (2) a sacrament of the New Law; (3) a ...
Penance is a sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins ...
Controversialist, born at Manchester ; died in London, September, 1557; educated at Brasenose ...
A small tribe of Salishan stock, speaking a dialect of the Cowichan language and occupying a ...
(The Penitent Brothers), a society of flagellants existing among the Spanish of New Mexico and ...
Rules laid down by councils or bishops concerning the penances to be done for various sins. ...
A general name for religious congregations whose members are bound to perform extraordinary works ...
Congregations, with statutes prescribing various penitential works, such as fasting, the use of ...
(Pennensis et Atriensis).
Penne is a city in the Province of Teramo, in the Abruzzi, central ...
One of the thirteen original United States of America , lies between 39° 43' and 42° 15' ...
The principal tribe of the famous Abnaki confederacy of Maine, and the only one still keeping its ...
The right to a certain sum of money to be paid yearly out of the revenues of a church or ...
A titular see of Palestine, suffragan of Areopolis or Rabbah. It was never a residential see; ...
The word, occurring in Wisdom, x, 6, designates the region where stood the five cities ( pente, ...
Pentateuch , in Greek pentateuchos , is the name of the first five books of the Old ...
A feast of the universal Church which commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the ...
The second in importance of the great Jewish feasts.
The term, adopted from the ...
(PEORIENSIS).
Diocese comprising that part of Central Illinois south of the Counties of ...
A principal tribe of the confederated Illinois Indians (q.v.) having their chief residence, in the ...
Mayor of the Palace of the whole Frankish kingdom (both Austrasia and Neustria), and later King ...
Novelist, lecturer, and priest, well known under the assumed name of "Paul Peppergrass", born in ...
Missionary and martyr, born at Puech, Diocese of Cahors, France, 6 January, 1802; martyred at ...
Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572. He was the eldest ...
( alias JOHN FISHER)
Born at Holmeside, Durham, 27 Sep., 1569; died at London, 3 Dec., ...
The canons of Priscillian, prefixed to the Epistles of St. Paul in many (chiefly Spanish) ...
(PEREYRA, PERERA, PERERIUS)
Philosopher, theologian, and exegete, born about 1535, at Ruzafa, ...
Died before 1513. At one time he held the office of contador or accountant to the Queen of ...
A thing is perfect in which nothing is wanting of its nature, purpose, or end. It may be perfect ...
A titular see, suffragan of Ephesus. This city was situated on the banks of the Selinus. It was ...
Titular metropolitan see in Pamphylia Secunda. Perge, one of the chief cities of Pamphylia, was ...
Born at Naples, 3 Jan., 1710; d. 16 March, 1736, at Pozzuoli, near Naples. This young man of ...
A rude and savage tribe, of unknown linguistic affinity, formerly occupying the extreme southern ...
(P ETRI )
The name under which the Pseudo-Clementine writings are quoted by Epiphanius, ...
The invention of printing, besides exerting a great influence on literature in general and on ...
(Latin per , through and jurare , to swear)
Perjury is the crime of taking a false oath. ...
Canonist, b. at Traunstein, Bavaria, 12 Aug., 1794; d. at Ratisbon, 10 Oct., 1862. He studied ...
Scientist, b. at Neumark, Tyrol, 15 March, 1848; d. at Arco, 20 Dec., 1908. He entered the ...
Martyrs, suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, ...
A term broadly used to designate the practically uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed ...
(Belgium)
A congregation with simple vows, founded at Brussels, 1857, by Anna de Meeus, ...
A contemplative religious congregation, founded in 1526 by Sister Elizabeth Zwirer (d. 1546), at ...
(Quimper, France ).
An institute of nuns devoted to perpetual adoration of the Blessed ...
(Sacramentines.)
Anton Le Quien, b. in Paris, 23 Feb., 1601, the founder of the first order ...
( Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)
The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is painted ...
A congregation founded in the parish of St. Damien, Bellechasse, P.Q., Canada, 28 August, 1892, ...
( Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)
The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is painted ...
Eighth Bishop of Tours, d. 1 January, or 8 December, 490, or 8 April, 491. He was a member of ...
(Perpinianum.)
Comprises the Department of Pyrénées Orientales; created by the ...
Peter IV of Aragon (1327-87), having conquered (1344) the town of Perpignan and reunited to his ...
Cardinal and academician; b. at Lyons, France, 7 Feb., 1828; d. 18 Feb., 1906. He had a ...
Writer, b. in Paris, 12 Jan., 1628; d. 16 May, 1703. His first literary attempts were a parody of ...
Born at Paris, 1613; died there, 1688. He built the main eastern façade of the Louvre, ...
Born at Paris, 11 April, 1831; died there 18 June, 1865. His father was professor at the ...
Jesuit theologian, b. at Chieri, Italy, 11 March, 1794; d. at Rome, 28 Aug., 1876. After studying ...
Born in London, August, 1833; d. 27 Dec. 1889. He belonged to a well-known Catholic family. His ...
GENERAL
Persecution may be defined in general as the unlawful coercion of another's liberty or ...
(ACCORDING TO GREEK AND LATIN SOURCES)
During the first two centuries the Church of Alexandria ...
( Perseverantia finalis ).
Final perseverance is the preservation of the state of grace till ...
The history, religion, and civilization of Persia are offshoots from those of Media. Both Medes ...
Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
History and Origin
This rite is used by ...
A cardinal, born 30 Jan., 1823, at Naples, Italy ; died 7 Dec., 1896. He entered the Capuchin ...
The Latin word persona was originally used to denote the mask worn by an actor. From this it ...
In its etymological sense this expression signifies every person who forms a part of the external ...
It is proposed in this article to give an account:
(1) of the physical constituents of ...
(Also, but less correctly, P ARSONS )
Jesuit, b., at Nether Stowey, Somerset, 24 June, 1546; ...
(PERTHENSIS)
Located in Western Australia, suffragan to Adelaide; bounded on the north by ...
Roman Emperor (31 Dec., 192), b. at Alba Pompeia, in Luguria, 1 August, 126; d. at Rome 28 ...
A republic on the west coast of South America, founded in 1821 after the war of independence, ...
(PERUSINA)
Located in Umbria, Central Italy. The city is situated on a hill on the right of ...
One of the "free" universities of Italy, was erected into a studium generale on 8 Sept., 1308, ...
(PIETRO VANNUCCI)
An Italian painter, founder of the Umbrian school, born at Città ...
An architect and painter, born at Siena, 7 March, 1481; died at Rome, 6 Jan., 1537. He derived ...
(PESAURENSIS)
Located in central Italy. The city is situated at the mouth of the river ...
Emperor of Rome (193-194). He was a native of central Italy, and during the reigns of Marcus ...
A Jesuit philosopher, b. at Cologne, 1 Feb., 1836; d. at Valkenberg, Holland, 18 Oct., 1899. He ...
(PISCIENSIS)
Diocese in Tuscany, Italy, on the Rivers Pescia Maggiore and Pescia Minore, ...
I. A TEMPER OF MIND
In popular language the term pessimist is applied to persons who ...
( Pessinous .)
A titular see of Galatia Secunda. Pessinonte, on the southern slope of Mt. ...
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, one of the greatest pioneers of modern education, born at Zurich, ...
Died at Nagasaki, 5 Feb., 1597. In 1593 while negotiations were pending between the Emperor of ...
(Kannees, Kanys, probably also De Hondt).
Born at Nimwegen in the Netherlands, 8 May, 1521; ...
Theologian, b. probably at Gisberoi near Beauvais, France ; d. at Long Pont Abbey, 22 Sept., ...
(PETER DE LA CELLE).
Bishop of Chartres, b. of noble parentage in Champagne; d. at Chartres, ...
Born at Imola, 406; died there, 450. His biography, first written by Agnellus (Liber pontificalis ...
The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. He ...
Theological writer, b. at Troyes, date unknown; d. at Paris about 1178. He was first attached ...
(Or Damiani).
Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, b. at Ravenna "five years ...
A statesman and theologian, born at Blois about 1130; died about 1203. He appears to have ...
Born at Ravenna about 1049; died, 29 March, 1119. Among his ancestors was the great St. Romuald, ...
(REGALATUS)
A Friar Minor and reformer, born at Valladolid, 1390; died at Aguilera, 30 ...
(DE VINEIS, DELLA VIGNA)
Born at Capua about 1190; died 1249. Peter's legal learning and the ...
Born 13 April, 1506, at Villaret, Savoy ; died 1 Aug., 1546, in Rome. As a child he tended his ...
Known as LE BON PÈRE DE MATTAINCOURT, born at Mirecourt, Lorraine, 30 Nov., 1565 died at ...
Intruding Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch ; d. 488. He received the Greek surname Gnapheus ...
Popularly known as St. Elmo, b. in 1190 at Astorga, Spain ; d. 15 April, 1246, at Tuy. He was ...
(Peter Aldobrandini.)
An Italian monk of the Benedictine congregation of the ...
Theologian, b. at Novara (or perhaps Lumello), Italy, about 1100; d. about 1160-64. He studied ...
( moggos , "stammerer", or "hoarse".)
Intruded Monophysite patriarch of Alexandria (d. ...
Born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, near Castelnaudary, France, in 1189 (or 1182); died at ...
Born at Alcántara, Spain, 1499; died 18 Oct., 1562. His father, Peter Garavita, was the ...
Became Bishop of Alexandria in 300; martyred Nov., 311. According to Philip of Sidetes he ...
(SCOTELLUS). Friar Minor , theologian and bishop, b. at Aquila in the Abruzzi, Italy, towards ...
(Correctly, PETER ARBUES).
Born in 1441 (or 1442); died 17 Sept., 1485. His father, a ...
A philosopher and theologian ; died after 1310. He was a canon of Paris ; some biographers ...
(ALMADURA)
A theologian, date of birth unknown; died at Placentia, in 1482. He entered the ...
(Better known as PETER THE VENERABLE).
Born in Auvergne, about 1092; died at Cluny, 25 ...
A French scholastic theologian, born at Poitiers or in its neighbourhood about 1130; died in ...
Bishop, b. about 340; d. 391. He belonged to the richly blest family of Basil and Emmelia of ...
Born at Verona, 1206; died near Milan, 6 April, 1252. His parents were adherents of the ...
English martyr, suffered at York, 15 June, 1598. He was born at or near Ripon and arrived at the ...
Born at Amiens about 1050; d. at the monastery of Neufmoutier (Liège), in 1115. His ...
(Orseolo)
Born at Rivo alto, Province of Udina, 928; at Cuxa, 10 January, 987 (997 is less ...
TOPOGRAPHY
The present Church of St. Peter stands upon the site where at the beginning of the ...
Under this head will be treated:
I. The annual Feast of the Chair of Peter ( Cathedra Petri ) at ...
The life of St. Peter may be conveniently considered under the following heads:
I. Until the ...
These two epistles will be treated under the following heads: I. Authenticity; II. Recipients, ...
Philanthropist, b. at Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.A. 10 May, 1800; d. at Cincinnati, 6 Feb., 1877. Her ...
The history of the relics of the Apostles Peter and Paul is one which is involved in ...
The print version of the C ATHOLIC E NCYCLOPEDIA contains two articles on this saint. We ...
(PETERBOROUGHENSIS)
Located in the Province of Ontario , Canada, comprises the Counties of ...
Peterspence, otherwise known to the Anglo-Saxons as "Romescot", is the name traditionally given to ...
(GERLACUS PETRI)
Born at Deventer, 1377 or 1378; died 18 Nov., 1411. He entered the ...
(PITNISUS)
A titular see in Galatia Secunda (Salutaris). This city is mentioned by Strabo, ...
A Benedictine theologian and ecclesiastical historian, born at Saint-Nicolas-du-Port in ...
I. MODE OF PETITIONING
Faculties, indults, dispensations, and other favours, the granting of ...
Titular metropolitan see of Palæstina Tertia. Under the name of Sela (the rock) this ...
Italian poet and humanist, b. at Arezzo, 20 July, 1304; d. at Arquá, 19 July, 1374. His ...
The Petres are one of those staunch and constant families, which have played a great part in the ...
Heretics of the twelfth century so named from their founder Peter of Bruys. Our information ...
Virgin, probably martyred at Rome at the end of the first century.
Almost all the sixth- and ...
Bishop of Bologna, date of birth unknown; died before 450. The only certain historical ...
(Petropolitanensis).
Diocese in the Province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, erected 11 Feb., ...
A converted Jew and controversialist, born at Huesca, in the former Kingdom of Aragon, 1062; ...
Florentine heretic ; born at Florence about 1475; died 1502. His parents were common folk, and ...
Bishop; author of a collection of lives of the saints; date of birth unknown; d. between 1400 and ...
The name of several men of note in ecclesiastical history and literature.
(1) One of the ...
One of the three great divisions of the Huron Indians, the other two being the Hurons proper, and ...
(Also Peurbach, Purbach, Purbachius)
Austrian astronomer, b. at Peuerbach near Linz, 30 May, ...
An antiquarian and humanist, born at Augsburg, 14 Oct., 1465; died 28 Dec., 1547. As a young ...
(P ETO, P ETOW ).
Cardinal ; d. 1558 or 1559. Though his parentage was long unknown, it is ...
(1) BERNHARD
An historian, born 22 February, 1683, at Ybbs near Melk ; died 27 March, 1735, at ...
An abbot, born at Langen, Vorarlberg, Austria, 1825; died at Emmaus, South Africa, 24 May, ...
A baptized Jew, b. probably at Nuremberg, 1469; d. at Cologne, between 1521 and 1524. In 1505, ...
An educationist, born at Hechingen in Hohenzollern, 26 Sept., 1810; died at Ober-Dischingen in ...
The last Catholic Bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, born at Eythra, near Leipzig, 1499; died at Zeits, ...
A former Cistercian monastery (1137-1540), near Naumburg on the Saale in the Prussian province ...
Phœnicia is a narrow strip of land, about one hundred and fifty miles long and thirty miles ...
A titular see and suffragan of Pelusium, in Augustamnica Prima. Ptolemy (IV, v, 24) makes it ...
(Prah, Par‘o, or, after a vowel, Phar‘o ; Greek Pharaó ; Latin Pharao). ...
Titular see and suffragan of Leontopolis, in Augustamnica Secunda. This name is merely the ...
A politico-religious sect or faction among the adherents of later Judaism, that came into ...
Titular see and suffragan of Larissa in Thessaly. The city is mentioned for the first time after ...
Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra. The city was a Doric colony on the Pamphylian Gulf. ...
(A.V. Pisgah ).
Whether the word in Hebrew is a proper or a common noun is not clear; ...
Phenomenalism ( phainomenon ) literally means any system of thought that has to do with ...
A titular see in Lydia, suffragan of Sardes. The city was founded by Philadelphus, King of ...
(PHILADELPHIENSIS)
A diocese established in 1808; made an archdiocese, 12 Feb., 1875, ...
The system of education educed from the ideas of Rousseau and of the German "Enlightenment", ...
Bishop of Brescia, died before 397. He was one of the bishops present at a synod held in ...
A citizen of Coloss Colossæ, to whom St. Paul addressed a private letter, unique in the ...
King of Spain, only son of the Emperor Charles V, and Isabella of Portugal, b. at Valladolid, 21 ...
King of France, born 22 or 25 August, 1165; died at Mantes, 14 July, 1223, son of Louis VII ...
Surnamed Le Bel (the Fair)
King of France, b. at Fontainebleau, 1268; d. there, 29 Nov., 1314; ...
Born in Mexico, date unknown; died at Nagasaki early in February, 1597. Though unusually ...
(ESPRIT JULIEN).
Discalced Carmelite, theologian, born at Malaucene, near Avignon, 1603; died ...
THE APOSTLE OF ROME.
Born at Florence, Italy, 22 July, 1515; died 27 May, 1595. Philip's ...
Like the brothers, Peter and Andrew, Philip was a native of Bethsaida on Lake Genesareth ( John ...
(Philippus)
Emperor of Rome (244-249), the son of an Arab sheik, born in Bosra. He rose ...
(Greek Phílippoi , Latin Philippi ).
Philippi was a Macedonian town, on the ...
A titular metropolitan see in Macedonia. As early as the sixth century B. C. we learn of a ...
I. HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, OCCASION, AND CHARACTER
( See also PHILIPPI ).
The Philippians, ...
Situation and Area
The Philippine Islands lie between 116° 40' and 126° and 34' E. long., ...
A titular metropolitan see of Thracia Secunda. The city was founded by Philip of Macedon in 342 ...
Titular see in Arabia, suffragan of Bostra. Its bishop, Hormisdas, was present at the Council ...
(Also known as PETRUS PHILIPPUS, PIETRO PHILLIPO.)
Born in England about 1560; date and place ...
( Septuagint phylistieim in the Pentateuch and Josue, elsewhere allophyloi , ...
Priest, d. at Paris, 4 Jan., 1647. He was descended from the Scottish family of Phillip of ...
A canonist, born at Königsberg, 6 Sept., 1804; died at Vienna, 6 September, 1872, was the son ...
Born about 25 B.C. . His family, of a sacerdotal line, was one of the most powerful of the ...
A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch. According to ancient writers Philomelium was ...
On 25 May, 1802, during the quest for the graves of Roman martyrs in the Catacomb of Priscilla, ...
I. Definition of Philosophy .
II. Division of Philosophy .
III. The Principal Systematic ...
(AKHSENAYA) OF MABBOGH.
Born at Tahal, in the Persian province of Beth-Garmai in the second ...
A titular see in Asia, suffragan of Ephesus. The town of Phocæa was founded in the ...
A heretic of the fourth century, a Galatian and deacon to Marcellus, Metropolitan of Ancyra ...
Photius of Constantinople, chief author of the great schism between East and West, was b. at ...
( Phulachterion — safeguard, amulet, or charm).
The word occurs only once in the New ...
The subject will be treated under the following heads:
I. A Glance at Ancient Physics; II. ...
( physis , nature, kratein , rule)
A school of writers on political and economic ...
An early Christian work of a popular theological type, describing animals real or fabulous ...
DIOCESE OF PIACENZA (PLACENTINENSIS)
Piacenza is a diocese in Emilia, central Italy. The city ...
Born at Pian di Carpine (now called della Magione), near Perugia, Umbria, 1182; died probably in ...
Scientist, b. at Spoleto, 27 Oct., 1784; d. at Rome, 23 March, 1862. He entered the Society of ...
An allowance granted by the pope to cardinals residing in curia or otherwise employed by ...
(Secular name, JEAN-JOSEPH LOISEAUX), b. 5 Aug., 1815; d. in the Monastery of Ste. Claire, ...
(DE PIAUHY, PIAHUNENSIS)
Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belem do Para, in the State of ...
(PLATIENSIS)
Located in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. The city of Piazza Armerina is ...
Astronomer, b. at Ponte in Valtellina, 16 July, 1746; d. at Naples, 22 July, 1826. He took the ...
English martyr, born at Thirsk, Yorkshire; died at St Thomas's Waterings, Camberwell, 18 February, ...
Astronomer, b. at La Flêche, 21 July, 1620; d. at Paris, 12 Oct., 1682. He was a priest ...
Littérateur, philosopher, astronomer, b. 13 June, 1508; d. 12 March, 1578. He passed his ...
A cardinal, born in the Villa Basilica near Lucca, 1422; died at San Lorenzo near Bolsena, 10 ...
A renowned Austrian family of gem-cutters who lived and died in Italy.
ANTONIO (JOHANN ...
Distinguished canonist and controversial writer, b. at Grosberghofen, 24 May, 1670; d. at Munich, ...
Lay brother and martyr, a member of an old Westmoreland family, b. c. 1621; executed at Tyburn, ...
(HENRI BERNARDINE DE PICQUIGNY)
Born at Picquigny, Picardy, 1633; died in Paris, 8 December, ...
A celebrated Sulpician missionary in Canada, b. at Bourg, Bresse, France, 4 Dec., 1708; d. at ...
In the Middle Ages the Church made use of pictures as a means of instruction, to supplement ...
The sixth quatrain of Adoro Te Devote , sometimes used as a separate hymn at Benediction of ...
Cardinal, born at Pontgouin, Diocese of Chartres, 1815; died at Angoulême, 1880. He studied ...
(Also spelled PICK). Friar Minor and martyr, b. at Gorkum, Holland, 29 August, 1534; d. at ...
( Italian Piemonte ).
A part compartimento of northern Italy, bounded on the north by ...
A pioneer in the movement for reform of church music, b. at Kessewick, near Bonn, 12 Aug., 1835; ...
A priest and probably head master of the catechetical school at Alexandria conjointly with ...
Born in the Diocese of Montpellier , Languedoc, now Department of Hérault, France ; died ...
Surnamed PETER THE PILGRIM ( Petrus Peregrinus )
A physician of the Middle Ages. Under the ...
A missionary, born at Dun-sur-Meuse, France, 28 Sept., 1631; date and place of death unknown. He ...
Born at Ath, Hainaut (Belgium), 4 January, 1642; died at Lorette, Quebec, 1688. At the age of ...
Pietism is a movement within the ranks of Protestantism, originating in the reaction against the ...
A theologian, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Kampen, Overyssel, Holland, about 1490; ...
Born 27 December, 1737, in Saragossa, Spain ; died 11 November, 1811. His family was of ...
Martyr, born in Dorsetshire; died at Dorchester, dec., 1591. He was a joiner, and lived at West ...
"Our Lady of the Pillar", a celebrated church and shrine, at Saragossa, Spain, containing a ...
After the deposition of the eldest son of Herod, Archelaus (who had succeeded his father as ...
( Or PILCHER).
Martyr, born at Battle, Sussex, 1557; died at Dorchester, 21 March 1586-7. ...
( zucca , head).
The small, round skullcap of the ecclesiastic. The official name is ...
The name given to the religious rising in the north of England, 1536. The cause of this great ...
(Middle English, pilgrime, Old French, pelegrin, derived from Latin peregrinum, supposed ...
Bishop of Passau, date of birth unknown; died 20 May, 991. He was educated at the ...
(P ILLAR OF F IRE ).
A cloud which accompanied the Israelites during their wandering. It ...
An important tribe of Southern Arizona, centering along the middle Gila and its affluent, the ...
(Pinetensis ad Flumen)
Located in Cuba, erected by the Brief "Actum præclare" of Leo ...
A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra. Pinara was one of the chief cities of the Lycian ...
An Italian poet of noble birth, born at Verona, 13 Nov., 1753; died there, 18 Nov., 1828. He ...
Born in Seville, 1558; died there, 27 Jan., 1637. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1572, ...
(PINEROLIENSIS)
Located in the province of Turin, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, suffragan of ...
Born in Paris 11 September, 1711; died 1 May, 1796. He was educated in Senlis at the college ...
A writer and theologian, born at Rio de Janeiro, 23 Aug., 1687; died there, 18 Dec., 1764. On 3 ...
A Portuguese traveller, born at Montemor-o-Velho near Coimbra, c. 1509; died at Almada near ...
(BERNARDINO DI BETTO, surnamed PINTURICCHIO)
Born at Verona, about 1454; died at Siena, 11 ...
Spanish navigator and companion of Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, b. at Palos ...
More correctly known as S EBASTIANO L UCIANI .
Venetian portrait painter, b. at Venice, ...
Martyred at Smyrna, 12 March, 250. Pionius, with Sabina and Asclepiades, was arrested on 23 ...
(Fondo Piadoso de las Californias)
The Pious Fund of the Californias had its origin, in 1697, ...
Founded by Ven. Vincent Mary Pallotti in 1835. The members of the society are generally called ...
An Italian etcher and engraver, b. at Venice, 1720; d. in Rome, 9 Nov., 1778. His uncle ...
Born at Sigarthin, near Passau, 1606; died between 1678 and 1681. At the age of twenty-two he ...
Charitas Pirkheimer
Abbess of the Convent of St. Clara, of the Poor Clares, in Nuremberg, and ...
A tribe of considerable importance, ranging by water for a distance of three hundred miles along ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF PISA (PISÆ)
Archdiocese in Tuscany, central Italy. The city is situated ...
Preliminaries.
The great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of ...
In the eleventh century there were many jurisconsults at Pisa who lectured on law ; prominent ...
Or ANDREA DA PISA (the name by which Andrea da Pontadera is known).
An Italian sculptor and ...
Architect and sculptor, b. at Pisa about 1205-07; d. there, 1278. He was the father of modern ...
A tribe of Algonquian linguistic stock formerly occupying the peninsula of lower Maryland ...
(Latin from piscis, a fish, fish-pond, pool or basin, called also sacrarium, thalassicon, or ...
Priest, poet, and prose writer, b. at Annapolis, Maryland, 22 Nov., 1801; d. at Brooklyn, New ...
A country in the southwestern part of Asia Minor, between the high Phrygian tableland and the ...
(PISTORIENSIS ET PRATENSIS)
Located in the Province of Florence. The city of Pistoia is ...
Held 18 to 28 September, 1786, by Scipio de’ Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and Prato. It marks ...
A controversialist and historian, born at Nidda in Hesse, 14 February, 1546; died at Freiburg, 18 ...
A writer, born at Troyes, 1 Nov. 1539; died at Nogent-sur-Seine, 1 Nov., 1596. His father, a ...
A musician, born at Rieti, Perugia, Italy, 18 March, 1657; died at Rome, 1 Feb., 1743, and ...
Cardinal, famous archeologist and theologian, b. 1 August, 1812, at Champforgeuil in the ...
Born at Alton, Hampshire, 1560; died at Liverdun, Lorraine, 17 Oct., 1616. He was educated at ...
DIOCESE OF PITTSBURG/PITTSBURGH (PITTSBURGENSIS).
Suffragan of Philadelphia, in the United ...
A titular see in Pontus Polemoniacus, suffragan of Neocæsarea. Pityus was a large and ...
Date of birth unknown; pope from about 140 to about 154. According to the earliest list of the ...
(Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini).
Born at Corsignano, near Siena, 18 Oct., 1405; elected 19 ...
(Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini).
B. at Siena, 29 May, 1439; elected 22 Sept., 1503; d. in ...
(Giovanni Angelo Medici).
B. 31 March, 1499, at Milan ; elected 26 December, 1559; d. in ...
(G IOVANNI M ARIA M ASTAI -F ERRETTI ).
Pope from 1846-78; born at Sinigaglia, 13 May, ...
(MICHELE GHISLERI).
Born at Bosco, near Alexandria, Lombardy, 17 Jan., 1504 elected 7 Jan., ...
(G IOVANNI A NGELICO B RASCHI ).
Born at Cesena, 27 December, 1717; elected 15 ...
(B ARNABA C HIARAMONTI ).
Born at Cesena in the Pontifical States, 14 August, 1740; ...
(Francesco Xaverio Castiglione).
B. at Cingoli, 20 Nov., 1761; elected 31 March, 1829; d. 1 ...
(Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto).
Born 2 June, 1835, at Riese, Province of Treviso, in Venice. His ...
The name given to Catholic associations in various countries of Europe.
I. THE PIUS ...
Born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain, probably in 1471; died at Lima, Peru, 26 June, 1541.
He ...
St. Placidus, disciple of St. Benedict, the son of the patrician Tertullus, was brought as a ...
Ten calamities inflicted on the Egyptians to overcome Pharao's obstinacy and force him to let ...
By plain chant we understand the church music of the early Middle Ages, before the advent of ...
Cardinal, Bishop of Winchester, born c. 1377; died at Westminster, 11 April, 1447. He was the ...
Book-binder and publisher of Antwerp, b. 1514, at or near Tours ( France ); d. 1 July, 1589, at ...
When Moses spoke to the people about the Land of Promise, he described it as a "land of hills ...
(PLACENTINA)
Plasencia comprises the civil provinces of Cáceres, Salamanca, and ...
Belgian physicist, b. at Brussels, 14 Oct., 1801; d. at Ghent, 15 Sept., 1883. His father, a ...
Originally named S ACCHI, b. at Piadena, near Mantua, in 1421; d. at Rome, 1481. He first ...
I. LIFE OF PLATO
Plato ( Platon , "the broad shouldered") was born at Athens in 428 or 427 ...
A French economist, born at La Rivière (Calvados), 11 April, 1806; died at Paris, 5 ...
Archbishop of Canterbury, died 2 August, 914. He was a Mercian, and spent his early life near ...
A book of formulae and texts. Plenarium or Plenarius ( Liber ) is any book that contains ...
A canonical term applied to various kinds of ecclesiastical synods. The word itself, derived from ...
Bishop of Quebec, born at Montreal, 3 March, 1763; died at Quebec, 4 Dec., 1822. He studied ...
Born in Constantinople about 1355, died in the Peloponnesus, 1450. Out of veneration for Plato ...
(PLOCENSIS)
Located in Russian Poland, suffragan of Warsaw, includes the district of Plock ...
Born at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, 1743; died at Jougne, Doubs, France, 13 June, 1821. He was ...
Born 1517-8; died in London, 6 Feb., 1584-5. Son of Humphrey Plowden of Plowden Hall, Shropshire, ...
Son of William Plowden of Plowden Hall, b. at Shropshire, 8 June, 1749; d. at Paris, 4 Jan., ...
Elder brother of Charles, born 27 January, 1740; died at Wappenbury, 27 June, 1823. He entered ...
( Alias Salisbury).
Born in Oxfordshire, England, 1594; died in London, 13 Feb., 1664; ...
Born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 Sept., 1745; joined the Society ...
(botanical abbreviation, Plum .)
A French botanist, born at Marseilles, 20 April, 1646; ...
[ Editor's Note: St. Oliver Plunkett was canonized by Pope Paul VI on October 10, 1975.] ...
Founded in 1230 by Alexander III , King of Scotland, six miles from Elgin, Morayshire, for ...
(PLYMUTHENSIS, PLYMUTHÆ)
Plymouth consists of the County of Dorset, which formed a ...
(Macedonians)
A heretical sect which flourished in the countries adjacent to the Hellespont ...
Since the Bible is divinely inspired, and thus becomes the "written word" of God, many devout ...
An Italian humanist and historian; born at Terranuova, near Arezzo, in 1380; died at Florence, ...
DIOCESE OF POGGIO MIRTETO (MANDELENSIS)
Diocese in the province of Perugia, central Italy. The ...
( ta Pogla )
Titular see in Pamphylia Secunda. Pogla is mentioned only by Ptolemy, V, 5, ...
D IOCESE OF P OITIERS (P ICTAVENSIS )
The Diocese of Poitiers includes the Departments of ...
I. GEOGRAPHY
The western part of the Sarmatian Plain together with the northern slopes of the ...
Archbishop of Sydney, born at Liverpool, 18 Oct., 1794; died at Sydney, 16 March, 1877. In 1805 ...
Countess of Salisbury, martyr ; b. at Castle Farley, near Bath, 14 August, 1473; martyred at ...
Cardinal, b. at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, England, in March, 1500; d. at Lambeth Palace, ...
Titular see in Pontus Polemoniacus, suffragan of Neocæsarea. At the mouth of the Sidenus, ...
Marquess, physicist, and antiquarian; b. at Venice, 23 Aug., 1683; d. at Padua, 14 Nov., 1761; ...
Causes of Immigration
There is good foundation for the tradition that a Pole, John of Kolno (a ...
DIOCESE OF POLICASTRO (POLICASTRENSIS)
Diocese in the province of Salerno, Southern Italy. The ...
Cardinal, diplomatist, and writer, b. of an ancient family of Auvergne, at Le Puy, France, 11 ...
The subject will be divided, for convenience of treatment, into historical periods.
First ...
(In religion AMBROSIUS CATHARINUS)
Born at Siena, 1483; died at Naples, 1553. At sixteen he ...
(ANGIOLO DE 'AMBROSINI DA MONTE PULCIANO)
An Italian Humanist, born at Monte Pulciano in 1454; ...
S CIENCE OF P OLITICAL E CONOMY (E CONOMICS ).
I. DEFINITIONS
Political economy (Greek, ...
Antonio and Piero Benci Pollajuolo derived their surname, according to Florentine custom, from ...
Traveller; born at Venice in 1251; died there in 1324. His father Nicolo and his uncle Matteo, ...
A titular see in Phrygia Salutaris, suffragan of Synnada. This town is mentioned only in the ...
Martyr (A.D. 69-155).
Our chief sources of information concerning St. Polycarp are: (1) the ...
The title of a canonical collection in eight books composed in Italy by Cardinal Gregorius. It is ...
The first Bible which may be considered a Polyglot is that edited at Alcalá (in Latin ...
A titular see of Macedonia Secunda, suffragan of Philippi. When Philippi was made a ...
The belief in, and consequent worship of, many gods. See the various articles on national ...
A titular see in Mauretania Cæsarea. It is north of Tlemcen (capital of an arrondissement ...
S EBASTIâO J OSÉ DE C ARVALHO E M ELLO
The son of a country gentleman of ...
A Prussian province on the Baltic Sea situated on both banks of the River Oder, divided into ...
A titular see in Paphlagonia. The ancient name of the town is unknown; it may have been ...
(POMPONATIUS, also known as PERETTO on account of his small stature)
A philosopher and ...
Explorer, born at San Servas in the province of Campos, 1460; died in Cuba, 1521.
He was ...
A philosopher and theologian, born at Cork, 1603, died at Paris, 1670. At an early age he went ...
Missionary; b. at Paris, 17 May, 1610; d. at Martinique, 18 June, 1675. He entered the Jesuit ...
(PONDICHERIANA OR PUDICHERIANA)
Located in India, it is bounded on the east by the Bay of ...
Located in Yorkshire, England, a Cluniac monastery dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, founded ...
Dates of birth and death unknown. The "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 145) gives Rome ...
In earlier times there existed in Europe outside of the city of Rome a large number of ...
Pontifical decorations are the titles of nobility, orders of Christian knighthood and other ...
Pontifical Mass is the solemn Mass celebrated by a bishop with the ceremonies prescribed in the ...
( Pontificale Romanum ).
A liturgical book which contains the rites for the performance ...
(PONTIFICALS).
The collective name given for convenience sake to those insignia of the ...
Second daughter of Cîteaux, was situated on the banks of the Serain, present Diocese of ...
Born at Barcelona, c. ú died c. 1320. Pontius and Carbonell are names frequently met with ...
After the deposition of the eldest son of Herod, Archelaus (who had succeeded his father as ...
In ancient times, Pontus was the name of the north-eastern province of Asia Minor , a long ...
In the English Bibles, the word "pool" stands for three Hebrew words: (1) 'agam means properly ...
(PUNENSIS)
Diocese in India, comprises that portion of the Bombay Presidency which lies on ...
A congregation of lay brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis, instituted for charitable ...
( Pauperes Catholici )
A religious mendicant order, organized in 1208, to reunite the ...
A congregation founded at Aachen in 1844 for the support and education of poor, orphan, and ...
(POOR LADIES, SISTERS OF ST. CLARE)
The Second Order of St. Francis. The subject will be treated ...
A community founded by Catherine Kasper, a native of Dernbach, Germany. She was born 26 May, 1820, ...
A religious congregation founded in 1808 by Mother Mary Magdalen Taylor in conjunction with ...
Poor Laws are those legal enactments which have been made at various periods of the world's ...
I. OBJECTS, HISTORY, AND ORGANIZATION
A. The care of the poor is a branch of charity. In the ...
An active, unenclosed religious congregation founded at St Servan, Brittany, 1839, through the ...
A Congregation, founded by the Venerable Mother Frances Schervier at Aachen in the year 1845, ...
(POPAYANENSIS)
Popayán lies approximately between 1º 20' and 3º 2' north ...
Poet, son of Alexander Pope and his second wife, Edith Turner, b. in London, England, 22 May, ...
( Ecclesiastical Latin papa from Greek papas , a variant of pappas father, in classical ...
See also POPE, LIST OF POPES, PAPAL ELECTIONS, ELECTION OF THE POPE.
The historical lists ...
For current procedures regarding the election of the pope, see Pope John Paul II's 1996 Apostolic ...
See also POPE, PAPAL ELECTIONS, ELECTION OF THE POPE.
St. Peter (32-67)
St. Linus (67-76) ...
Abbot, born 977; died at Marchiennes, 25 January, 1048. He belonged to a noble family of ...
Devotion, in the language of ascetical writers, denotes a certain ardour of affection in the ...
Down to the end of the eighteenth century, very little attention was given to the relation between ...
A hall projecting in front of the façade of a church, found from the fifth century both ...
Italian painter, b. at Pordenone, 1483; d. at Ferrara, January, 1539. He is occasionally referred ...
A Franciscan missionary of a Czech family named Mattiussi, born at Villanova near Pordenone, ...
English martyr, b. at Hull about 1559; d. at St. Paul's Churchyard, 20 Feb., 1592. He was probably ...
Titular see, suffragan of Tyre in Phoenicia Prima. It is described in the "Notitia Episcopatuum" ...
Bishop of Gaza in Palestine, b. at Thessalonica about 347; d. at Gaza, 26 February, 420. ...
Family name Capponi, called a Porrecta from the place of birth, theologian, b. 1536; d. at Bologna, ...
(PORTAUGUSTANA)
This diocese is a suffragan of Adelaide, South Australia, created in ...
(PORTUS LUDOVICI)
This diocese comprises the islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez, Chagos, and ...
(PORTUS HISPANIÆ)
An archiepiscopal and metropolitan see, including the Islands of ...
(PORTUS VICTORIÆ SEYCHELLARUM.)
Port Victoria comprises the Seychelles Islands in the ...
(PORTUS PRINCIPIS)
This archdiocese comprises the western part of the Republic of Haiti. Its ...
A celebrated Benedictine abbey which profoundly influenced the religious and literary life of ...
Poet, b. at Milan in 1775; d. there 5 January, 1821; educated by the Jesuits at Monza and ...
Architect and sculptor, b. at Porlizza on Lake Lugano 1541; d. 1604. He was a pupil of ...
A portable altar consists of a solid piece of natural stone which must be sufficiently hard to ...
Suffragan diocese of Lisbon, Portugal, established by Pope Julius III in 1550. Its first ...
(Also called DOORKEEPER. From ostiarius , Latin ostium , a door.)
Porter denoted among ...
Archbishop of Bombay, b. 1825 at Exeter, England ; d. at Bombay, 28 September, 1889. Of ...
(PORZIONCULA or PORZIUNCOLA).
A town and parish situated about three-quarters of a mile from ...
Diocese in the State of Maine ; suffragan of Boston ; established by Pius IX, 8 Dec., 1854. ...
(PORTALEGRENSIS)
Located in Eastern Brazil. Porto Alegre, the capital and chief port of the ...
(PORTALEGREN)
Porto Alegre comprises the southern part of the State of Minas Geraes, and part ...
(PORTUENSIS ET SANCTÆ RUFINÆ)
This diocese was formed from the union of two ...
(PUERTO RICO)
The smallest and most easterly of the Greater Antilles, rectangular in shape, ...
(PORTUS VETERIS).
A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Quito, Republic of Ecuador. It was ...
The earliest fresco representing Christ surrounded by the Apostles dates from the beginning of ...
(PORTUS MAGNUS, or PORTEMUTHENSIS)
This diocese was created by a Brief of Leo XIII , ...
I. GEOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Portugal is situated on the west of the Iberian ...
Portuguese East Africa consists of the Province of Mozambique. Portuguese activity on that ...
The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the lingua rustica spoken in the countries ...
The name usually given to the Province of Angola. It has a coast line of 1015 miles from the ...
Positivism is a system of philosophical and religious doctrines elaborated by Auguste Comte. As ...
Passionist student; renowned for sanctity and miracles ; born at Assisi, 1 March, 1838; died ...
( See also DEMONOLOGY, DEMONIACS, EXORCISM, EXORCIST.)
Man is in various ways subject to the ...
Theologian and papal envoy, b. at Mantua in 1533 or 1534; d. at Ferrara, 26 Feb., 1611. At ...
Bishop of Calama in Numidia, author of a short life of St. Augustine and of an indiculus or ...
The Communion act finishes the essential Eucharistic service. Justin Martyr (I Apol., lxv-lxvi) ...
English martyr, b. at Kirkdale House, Egton, Yorkshire, in 1596 or 1597; d. at York, 7 August, ...
Postulancy is a preliminary stage to the novitiate existing from the institution of monasticism. ...
( Latin postulare, to request)
A postulation is a petition presented to a competent ...
An important tribe of Algonquin linguistic stock, closely related dialectically to the Ojibwa ...
A celebrated French lawyer, b. at Orléans, 9 January, 1699; d. there, 2 March, 1772. His ...
Marquis de Nadaillac, b. in 1817; d. at Rougemont, Cloyes, 1 October, 1904; the scion of an old ...
Lay brother, b. at Beaumond (or Belmony), Farlington, Hampshire, 29 May, 1538; d. there, 26 Feb., ...
French painter, b. at Les Andelys near Rouen in 1594; d. at Rome, 19 November, 1666. His early ...
I. THE MORAL DOCTRINE OF POVERTY
Jesus Christ did not condemn the possession of worldly goods, or ...
See also CARE OF THE POOR BY THE CHURCH
In a legal and technical sense, pauperism denotes the ...
( alias M ORGAN, alias P ROSSER )
Martyr, b. at Tralon, Brecknockshire, 2 Feb., 1594; d. ...
With Blessed Thomas Abel there suffered Edward Powell, priest and martyr, b. in Wales about ...
Born 20 May, 1762, at Petersfield, Hants; died 26 Nov., 1827, in London. He was educated at the ...
(P UTEUS )
Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period, b. at Trent, 1642; d. at ...
(PUTEOLANA)
The city of Pozzuoli in the province of Naples, southern Italy, on the gulf of ...
Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare, missionary and sinologist, born at Cherbourg, 17 July, 1666; ...
Located about twelve miles west of Laon, Department of Aisne, France ; founded by St. Norbert. ...
A former Benedictine abbey in Lorraine, now in the Diocese of Trier, founded by a Frankish ...
A theologian, born about 1720 at Castelsarrasin ( Diocese of Montauban ), died in 1782 at ...
Exegete, b. at Baeza in Spain, 1547; d. at Rome, 13 Jan., 1595. He entered the Society of ...
(i.e. Dioceseos)
A prelate who exercises quasi-episcopal jurisdiction in a territory not ...
( pragmatica sanctio , lex , jussio , also pragmatica or pragmaticum )
Pragmatic ...
Pragmatism, as a tendency in philosophy, signifies the insistence on usefulness or practical ...
(PRAGENSIS). An archdiocese in Bohemia.
From about the middle of the sixth century Slavonic ...
The University of Prague was founded by Charles IV with the consent of the Estates on the model ...
An early anti- Montanist, is known to us only by Tertullian's book "Adversus Praxean". His name ...
Martyrs of an unknown era. The seventh-century itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs ...
The exhortation (" Pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours be acceptable to God the Father ...
Abbot, canon, librarian of the University library of Buda, and important Hungarian historian, b. ...
(Greek euchesthai , Latin precari , French prier , to plead, to beg, to ask earnestly). ...
This feast occurs on the Tuesday after Septuagesima (double major). Its object is to ...
The Prayer of Quiet is regarded by all writers on mystical theology as one of the degrees of ...
Although the Latin term oratio dominica is of early date, the phrase "Lord's Prayer" does not ...
By "prayer-books" usage generally understands a collection of forms of prayer intended for ...
This subject will be treated under the following three heads:
I. General Statement and Proof of ...
A dignitary of the pontifical household. As a regular function, under special Regulations, this ...
As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we ...
The supposed inhabitants of the earth prior to Adam. Strictly speaking, the expression ought to be ...
The right of a member of a chapter to his share in the revenues of the cathedral ; also the ...
( Preces , prayers ).
A precaria is a contract granting to a petitioner the use and ...
( Latin præcedere , to go before another).
Precedence signifies the right to enjoy ...
(Latin Præcentor , from præ , before- cantor singer).
A word describing ...
( Precept: From the Latin præceptum from præcipere , to command).
Precept , ...
The blood of our Divine Saviour. Jesus, at the Last Supper, ascribes to it the same life-giving ...
Confraternities which made it their special object to venerate the Blood of Christ first arose in ...
An association of secular priests living in community, whose principal aim is to give missions ...
I. BERNADINES OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
A congregation of nuns, no longer in existence, founded by ...
For many dioceses there are two days to which the Office of the Precious Blood has been ...
Born at Besançon, 1626; died at Brussels, 7 June, 1711. Having studied the classics at ...
(Latin præconizare , to publish, from præco , herald, public crier)
This word ...
Predestinarianism is a heresy not unfrequently met with in the course of the centuries which ...
Predestination ( Latin prœ , destinare ), taken in its widest meaning, is every Divine ...
( Latin Præfatio ).
The first part of the Eucharistic prayers ( Anaphora or Canon) in ...
( Latin prœfectus, one put over or in charge of something)
During the last few ...
(SUPPLEMENTAL LIST)
An account is here given of the prefectures Apostolic that have been ...
Real Prelate, the incumbent of a prelature, i.e., of an ecclesiastical office with special and ...
(C ANONICI R EGULARES P RÆMONSTRATENSES ).
Founded in 1120 by St. Norbert at ...
Presbyterianism in a wide sense is the system of church government by representative assemblies ...
The part of the church reserved for the higher clergy was known in antiquity by various names, ...
(Latin prœ , before, and scribere , to write, in later legal Latin involving the idea ...
Prescription "in some form and under some name" is said to have existed as a part of the municipal ...
Doctrinal
All solid devotion and devotional practices must be founded upon the truths of ...
In this article we shall consider:
the fact of the Real Presence , which is, indeed, the central ...
In the early part of the nineteenth century when the Penal Laws were relaxed, and the ban which ...
This congregation, devoted to the education of young girls, was founded in 1796 at Theuyts, ...
The Protoevangel of James, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, and ...
Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Greek Hypapante ), Feast of the Presentation of ...
An Order founded at Cork, Ireland, by Nano (Honoria) Nagle (see below). In 1775 she entered with ...
(1) Daughters of the Presentation , founded in 1627 by Nicolas Sanguin (b. 1580; d. 1653), ...
Out of gratitude for the foundation or endowment of churches and benefices, the Church grants ...
Name of a legendary Eastern priest and king.
FIRST STAGE
The mythical journey to Rome of a ...
( Alias R OGER W IDDRINGTON ).
Benedictine, d. in the Clink prison, 5 April, 1640. He ...
The Vicar-General of New York, prothonotary Apostolic, chancellor, distinguished convert, ...
(Latin praesumere , "to take before", "to take for granted").
Presumption is here ...
(IN CANON LAW)
A term signifying a reasonable conjecture concerning something doubtful, drawn ...
This name is derived from the Latin prætorium, in later Greek tò ...
Pride is the excessive love of one's own excellence. It is ordinarily accounted one of the seven ...
A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ephesus. The foundation of the town of Priene dates ...
This word (etymologically "elder", from presbyteros , presbyter ) has taken the meaning of ...
The assistant priest ( presbyter assistens , anciently called capellanus ) is the first and ...
The high-priest in the Old Testament is called by various names:
the priest ( Numbers 3:6 ); ...
The word priest (Germ. Priester ; Fr. prêtre ; Ital. prete ) is derived from the ...
A sacerdotal association founded in 1868 at Vienna, and at first confined to that Archdiocese. ...
An association of priests established at Rome on 20 July, 1906, in the Church of San ...
I. Object
The Priests' Eucharistic League (Confraternitas sacerdotalis adorationis Sanctissimi ...
Three confraternities of priests -- the Apostolic Union, the Priests' Eucharistic League, ...
(Latin primatus, primus , first).
The supreme episcopal jurisdiction of the pope as ...
(Or Primadizzi.)
Born at Bologna; died in the same city in 1460. As early as the year 1426 he ...
(Lat. primas, from primus, "first").
In the Western Church a primate is a bishop ...
I. THE NAME
The name Prime ( prima hora ) belongs with those of Terce, Sext, None, to the ...
The common English name for a book of devotions which from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century ...
(Etymologically primus in cera , sc. in tabula cerata , the first in a list of a class of ...
Suffered martyrdom about 304 in the Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" ...
A suffragan see of St. Boniface, Manitoba, in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Originally ...
A monastic superior. In the Rule of St. Benedict the term prior occurs several times, but ...
(Priorissa, Praeposita).
A superioress in a monastic community for women. The term prioress ...
A monastery whose superior is a prior. The Dominicans, Augustinian Hermits, Carthusians, ...
She was a martyr of the Roman Church, whose dates are unknown. The name Prisca or Priscilla ...
Latin grammarian, born at Caesarea (Mauretania) , taught at Constantinople under Anastatius I ...
( Or Prisca.)
Jewish tentmakers, who left Rome (Aquila was a native of Pontus ) in the ...
This heresy originated in Spain in the fourth century and was derived from the Gnostic - ...
I. IN ANCIENT TIMES
Many jurisconsults and Scriptural interpreters include imprisonment among ...
It is plain from many decrees in the "Corpus Juris Canonici" that the Church has claimed and ...
( Latin, privilegium , like priva lex )
Privilege is a permanent concession made by a ...
An altar is said to be privileged when, in addition to the ordinary fruits of the Eucharistic ...
Ecclesiastical privileges are exceptions to the Law made in favour of the clergy or in favour ...
A Christian poetess of the fourth century. The name Faltonia is doubtful and is apparently due ...
Probabilism is the moral system which holds that, when there is question solely of the ...
Roman Emperor, 276-82, raised to the throne by the army in Syria to succeed Tacitus. Of humble ...
Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution (about 304). The "Martyrologium Hieronymian." contains the ...
A processional cross is simply a crucifix which is carried at the head of a procession, and ...
Strictly speaking it might be said that the Processional has no recognized place in the Roman ...
Processions, an element in all ceremonial, are to be found, as we should expect, in almost every ...
The dates of these martyrs are unknown. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" (ed. De ...
Patriarch of Constantinople.
Saint Proclus died in 446 or 447. Proclus came to the fore in the ...
(PRŒCONNESUS)
A titular see in Hellespont. Proconnesus was the name of an island ...
Byzantine historian, b. in the latter years of the fifth century at Caesarea in Palestine , d. ...
Poetess and philanthropist, b. in London, England, 30 October, 1825; d. in London, 2 February, ...
A person who manages the affairs of another by virtue of a charge received from him. There are ...
HISTORICAL VIEW
Profession may be considered either as a declaration openly made, or as a state ...
The term promise in Holy Writ both in its nominal and verbal form embraces not only promises ...
(P ROMOTER OF THE F AITH ).
An official of the Roman Congregation of Rites. The office ...
( Latin promulgare, to make known, to post in public).
I. PROMULGATION IN GENERAL
This is the ...
Proof is the establishment of a disputed or controverted matter by lawful means or arguments. ...
The Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide , whose official title is "sacra congregatio ...
This society is an international association for the assistance by prayers and alms of ...
I. NOTION OF PROPERTY
The proprietor or owner of a thing, in the current acceptation of the word, ...
Abstract Right of Ownership
That the Church has the right to acquire and possess temporal ...
The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore decreed (tit. IX, cap. i, n. 264): "We must hold, ...
As the term is used in mystical theology , it applies both to the prophecies of canonical ...
I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT A. Introduction
Yahweh had forbidden Israel all kinds of oracles in ...
The Proprium de tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum form in the present liturgy the two ...
A well-known Austrian author, born at Hohenfurt, Bohemia, 2 April, 1816; died at Vienna, 6 ...
I. DEFINITION AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Sequence ( Sequentia )–or, more accurately as ...
( proselytos , stranger or newcomer; Vulgate, advena ).
The English term "proselyte" ...
Born at Grobing in Upper Silesia, 11 Feb., 1794; died 20 Dec., 1861. He took his degree as Doctor ...
The first sure date in the life of Prosper is that of his letter to St. Augustine written ...
Martyrs of Milan, probably in the second century, patrons of the city of Milan and of ...
A cover made of cloth, baize or velvet which is placed on the table of the altar, during the ...
The right of protection exercised by a Christian power in an infidel country with regard to ...
The institutions for the shelter and training of the young, designed to afford neglected or ...
The history of this religious organization divides itself naturally into two portions: the period ...
The subject will be treated under the following heads, viz.:
I. Origin of the Name. II. ...
A member of the highest college of prelates in the Roman Curia, and also of the honorary ...
The formula used at the beginning of public acts drawn up by notaries, e.g., mention of the reign, ...
A priest of higher rank in the Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches, corresponding in ...
Martyrs during the persecution of Valerian (257-9). The day of their annual commemoration is ...
The name by which the Rev. Francis Sylvester Mahony (O'Mahony), author of "The Bells of ...
Naturalist, b. 10 March, 1820, in the parish of Béconcourt, Nicolet county, Province of ...
One of the Sapiential writings of the Old Testament placed in the Hebrew Bible among the ...
Founded at Paris, by Madame Polaillon (Marie de Lumague), a devout widow. In 1643 Madame ...
(St. Mary-of-the-Woods)
Among the teaching religious orders that originated in France at ...
SISTERS OF CHARITY
The Sisters of xxyyyk.htm">Providence, known also as Sisters of ...
Founded at Turin in 1834 by the Marchesa Julia Falletti de Barolo for the care of children and ...
SISTERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHARITY
An offshoot from the Sisters of xxyyyk.htm">Providence, ...
(PROVIDENTIENSIS)
Co-extensive with the State of Rhode Island . When erected (17 Feb., 1872) ...
( Latin, Providentia ; Greek, pronoia ).
Providence in general, or foresight, is a ...
The name given to an ecclesiastical administrative district under the jurisdiction of an ...
An officer acting under the superior general of a religious order, and exercising a general ...
A deliberative assembly of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province, summoned and presided ...
Canonical Provision is a term signifying regular induction into a benefice, comprising three ...
The English statute usually so designated is the 25th of Edward III, St. 4 (1350-1), otherwise ...
(Latin, prœpositus; French, prévôt; German, Probst )
Anciently (St. ...
(Latin prudentia , contracted from providentia , seeing ahead).
One of the four ...
(GALINDO)
A Bishop of Troyes, born in Spain ; died at Troyes on 6 April, 861; celebrated ...
A Christian poet, born in the Tarraconensis, Northern Spain, 348; died probably in Spain, ...
Titular see, suffragan of Claudiopolis in the Honoriad. Memnon, the historian, says that Prusias ...
The Kingdom of Prussia at the present time covers 134,616 square miles and includes about 64.8 ...
(PREMISLIENSIS)
Latin see in Galicia, suffragan of Lemberg. After conquering Halicz and ...
(PREMISLIENSIS, SAMBORIENSIS, ET SANOCHIENSIS)
A Græco-Ruthenian Uniat diocese of ...
The Psalter, or Book of Psalms, is the first book of the "Writings" ( Kethubhim or Hagiographa ...
Alphabetic psalms are so called because their successive verses, or successive parallel series, ...
The Psalterium, or Book of the Psalms, only concerns us here in so far as it was transcribed ...
(also PSAULME, PREAUME, Latin PSALMÆUS)
Bishop of Verdun, born at Chaumont-sur-Aire in ...
( Michael ho Psellos ), Byzantine statesman, scholar, and author, born apparently at ...
(Greek psyche, logos ; Latin psychologia; French psychologie; German Seelenkunde )
In ...
(from the Greek psyche , "mind", and therapeuo , "I cure")
Psychotherapy is that ...
Ptolemais, a titular see in Egypt, metropolis of Thebais Secunda. Ptolemais owes its name to ...
(SAINT-JEAN D'ACRE)
Ptolemais, a titular metropolis in Phoenicia Prima, or Maritima. The ...
A heretic of the second century and personal disciple of Valentinus. He was probably still ...
Civil Authority is the moral power of command, supported (when need be) by physical coercion, ...
A diriment matrimonial impediment consisting in a relationship, which arises from a valid ...
Publican , in the Gospels, is derived from the publicanus of the Vulgate, and signifies a ...
NAME
From the Spanish word meaning "village" or "town". A term used collectively to designate ...
A painter, sculptor, architect, and naval constructor, born at Marseilles, 31 Oct., 1622; died ...
A jurist and statesman, born at Cincinnati, Ohio., 28 November, 1822; died there, 19 July, 1876. ...
Architect and archeologist, born in London, 1 March, 1812; died at Ramsgate, 14 September, 1852; ...
French mathematician and astronomer, b. 16 April, 1820, at Argenteuil (Seine-et-Oise); d. 9 ...
Patriot and soldier, b. at Winiary, Poland, 4 March, 1748; d. on the Wasp, in the harbour of ...
(The Diocese of Pulati: Pulatensis or Polatinensis ).
The ancient Pulati in Albania no ...
Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire, eldest daughter of the Emperor Arcadius, b. 19 Jan., 399; d. ...
An Italian poet, born at Florence, 15 Aug., 1432; died at Padua in 1484. The Pulci gave many ...
(POLENIUS, PULLAN, PULLEIN, PULLENUS, PULLY, LA POULE)
See also ROBERT PULLEN.
Died 1147 (?). ...
(PULLEN, PULLAN, PULLY.)
See also ROBERT PULLEN.
Cardinal, English philosopher and ...
( Latin pulpitum , a stage or scaffold)
An elevated stand to preach on. To elucidate the ...
The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.
The ...
DIOCESE OF PUNO (PUNIENSIS)
Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima in Peru. Its jurisdiction ...
Archbishop of Cincinnati, born at Mallow, Ireland, 26 Feb., 1800; died at the convent of the ...
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. It may be ...
Pious associations or confraternities in the Catholic Church, which have as their purpose to ...
The subject is treated under these heads:
I. Catholic Doctrine II. Errors III. Proofs IV. Duration ...
Lough Derg, Ireland. This celebrated sanctuary in Donegal, in the Diocese of Clogher, dates ...
(P HURIM ).
The origin of the name is disputed: some derive it from the Persian pure ...
One of the chief difficulties in studying the various movements loosely spoken of as Puritanism is ...
Edward Bouverie Pusey, born at Pusey House, Berkshire, 22 Aug., 1800; died at Ascot Priory, ...
The name of a family of well-known Catholic publishers. The original home of the Pustets was ...
Putative (Latin, putativus supposed) signifies that which is commonly thought, reputed, or ...
(ERRIJCK DE PUT)
Born at Venloo, in Dutch Limbourg, 4 Nov., 1574; died at Louvain, 17 Sept., ...
Theologian and canonist, b. at Rodaneck, Tyrol, 4 March, 1836; d. at Ilchester, Md., 15 May, ...
French painter, b. at Lyons, 14 Dec., 1824; d. at Paris, 24 Oct., 1898. Through his father ...
An important tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, formerly holding the territory along the river of ...
(FELSÖ-EÖR)
He was born at Langh near Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, 2 Nov., 1772; died ...
Pyrrhonism is a system of scepticism, the founder of which was Pyrrho, a Greek philosopher, ...
Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician and founder of the Pythagorean school, ...
The word pyx (Lat., pyxis , which transliterates the Greek, pyxis , box-wood receptacle, ...