Crispin and Crispinian, Saints
Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution, d. 285 or 286.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04491a.htm

Cornely, Karl Josef Rudolph
German biblical scholar and Jesuit, b. 19 April, 1830, at Breyell in Germany; d. at Treves, 3 March, 1908.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04378a.htm

Cynic School of Philosophy
Founded at Athens about 400 B.C., continued in existence until about 200 B.C. It sprang from the ethical doctrine of Socrates regarding the necessity of moderation and self-denial.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04582a.htm

Creed, Liturgical Use of
The public use of creeds began in connection with baptism, in the Traditio and Redditio symboli, as a preparation for that sacrament, and in the preliminary interrogations.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04479a.htm

Courts, Ecclesiastical
Legislative, judicial, and executive power to be exercised over the church, without any interference on the part of civil society.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04447a.htm

Custom (in Canon Law)
An unwritten law introduced by the continuous acts of the faithful with the consent of the legitimate legislator.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04576a.htm

Cursores Apostolici
The Latin title of the ecclesiastical heralds or pursuivants pertaining to the papal court.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04574a.htm

Cabral, Pedralvarez
Portuguese navigator. (b. 1460)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03128a.htm

Curityba do Parana
Diocese, suffragan of São Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04572b.htm

Cabrillo, Estévan
Sixteenth century sailor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03128b.htm

Cabral, Francisco
Portuguese missionary in Japan. (1529-1609)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03127a.htm

Czech Literature
The evolution of Czech literature dates back to 863, when Moravia and Bohemia, through the efforts of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the apostles of these two countries, were converted to Christianity and thus became participants in the great work of civilization.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04598b.htm

Cuoq, André-Jean
Philologist, b. at LePuy, France, 1821; d. at Oka near Montreal, 1898.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04569c.htm

Cursor Mundi
A Middle-English poem of nearly 30,000 lines containing a sort of summary of universal history.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04574b.htm

Cabassut
French theologian and priest. (1604-1685)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126a.htm

Cydonia
A titular see of Crete.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04581b.htm

Cabas
Titular see of Egypt.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03125d.htm

Cush
Cush, like the other names of the ethnological table of Genesis, x, is the name of a race, but it has generally been understood to designate also an individual, the progenitor of the nations and tribes known in the ancient world as Cushites.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04575c.htm

Crispina, Saint
African matron, martyred in Numidia in 304.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04490b.htm

Cunegundes, Saint
A niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Cunegundes married Boleslaus, Duke of Cracow, later King of Poland. Once widowed, she became a Poor Clare. She died in 1292.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04569a.htm

Cuthbert, Saint
Biography of this soldier, monk, bishop of Lindisfarne, hermit.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04578a.htm

Cyprian and Justina, Saints
Christians of Antioch martyred at Nicomedia, 26 September, 304. Already in the same century, quite a colorful legend arose about them.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04583a.htm

Cyprian of Carthage, Saint
Long article on this bishop and martyr.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04583b.htm

Cuncolim, Martyrs of
On Monday, 25 July, 1583 (N.S.), the village of Cuncolim in the district of Salcete, territory of Goa, India, was the scene of the martyrdom of five religious of the Society of Jesus: Fathers Rudolph Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, and Anthony Francis, also Francis Aranha, lay brother.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04568a.htm

Cyril of Alexandria, Saint
Article on this Doctor of the Church, and anti-Nestorian theologian.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592b.htm

Cyprian, Saint
Bishop of Toulon, student and biographer of St. Caesarius of Arles. Cyprian died in 546.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04582b.htm

Cyril of Constantinople, Saint
Father General of the Carmelites, had a reputation for prophecy, d. about 1235.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04595a.htm

Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint
Bishop, Doctor of the Church, d. 386.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04595b.htm

Cross, Daughters of the
The aim of this congregation is to instruct poor country girls, to provide refuges for the young exposed to temptation, to prepare the sick for death, and to care for churches.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16031b.htm

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez
Born at Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain; dates of birth and death uncertain.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126c.htm

Caballero y Ocio, Juan
Priest, remarkable for lavish gifts to the Church and for charity. (1644-1707)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03125c.htm

Caius, John
Physician and scholar. (1510-1573)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144b.htm

Cuyabá
Diocese; suffragan of São Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04580b.htm

Caen, University of
Founded in 1432 by Henry VI of England, who was then master of Paris and of a large part of France.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03132a.htm

Cagliari, Archdiocese of
Cagliari, called by the ancient Caralis, is the principal city and capital of the Island of Sardinia, and an important port on the Gulf of Cagliari.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03139c.htm

Cajetan, Saint
Also known as St. Gaetano. Biography of the founder of the Theatines.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03145a.htm

Choir
A body of singers entrusted with the musical parts of the Church service, and organized and instructed for that purpose.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03693b.htm

Cadalous
Bishop and antipope. (d.1072)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03128c.htm

Cades
The name, according to the Vulgate and the Septuagent, of three, or probably four cities mentioned in Scripture.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03130a.htm

Caldas-Barbosa, Domingo
Brazilian poet. (1740-1800)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03155b.htm

Cyrus and John, Saints
Companions in life and in martyrdom. Beheaded in the Diocletian persecution.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04597b.htm

Caballero, Fernán de
Nom de plume of Cecilia Böhl von Faber, a noted Spanish novelist. (1796-1877)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03125a.htm

Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de
French agriculturist, b. at Caen, France, 1731; d. at Sarcelles, near Paris, 1813.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04488b.htm

Cross, Daughters of the Holy
The first steps towards the foundation of this society were taken in 1625 at Roy, Picardy, by Père Pierre Guérin, Françoise Unalet, and Marie Fannier to provide for the Christian education of girls.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16031a.htm

Contant de la Molette, Philippe du
Theologian and Biblical scholar, born at Côte-Saint-André, in Dauphiné, France, 29 August, 1737; died on the scaffold during The Terror, 1793.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04323b.htm

Crypt
The word originally meant a hidden place, natural or artificial, suitable for the concealment of persons or things.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04558a.htm

Caballero, Raimundo Diosdado
Writer. (1740-1830)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03125b.htm

Cahier, Charles
French antiquarian. (1807-1882)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03140b.htm

Colman, Saint MacCathbad
Bishop of Kilroot and a contemporary of St. Ailbe.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04115f.htm

Cadiz, Diocese of
Suffragan of Seville.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03131b.htm

Caiazzo, Diocese of
Situated in the province of Caserta, Italy, amid the mountains of Tifati near the river Volturno.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03141b.htm

Calancha, Fray Antonio de la
Augustinian monk. (1584-1654)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03148d.htm

Cainites
A name used for (1) the descendants of Cain, (2) a sect of Gnostics and Antinomians.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03143a.htm

Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio Gaetani
Domincan cardinal, philosopher, theologian, and exegete. (1469-1534)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03145c.htm

Crown, Franciscan
Also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04540a.htm

Cornaro, Elena Lucrezia Piscopia
A learned Italian woman of noble descent, born at Venice, 5 June, 1646; died at Padua, 26 July, 1684.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04373b.htm

Caleb
Six people with this name are described.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03157a.htm

Cagli e Pergola, Diocese of
Situated in Umbria (Italy), in the province of Pesaro, suffragan of Urbino.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03140a.htm

Callipolis
Titular see of Thrace.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03183c.htm

Calatayud, Pedro de
Jesuit missionary. (1689-1773)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03149c.htm

Cuyo, Virgin of
According to V. Gambon this statue is probably the one which, together with the church in which it stood, was given to the Franciscans when the Jesuits were expelled (1767) from the country by Charles III.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16031c.htm

Cabot, John and Sebastian
Navigators and explorers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126d.htm

Cuzco, Diocese of
Suffragan of Lima, Peru.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04580c.htm

Camara y Castro, Tomás
Spanish bishop. (1847-1904)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16016c.htm

Curley, James
Irish-American astronomer. (1796-1889)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04573a.htm

Cremation
The custom of burning the bodies of the dead.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04481c.htm

Calendar, Christian
Includes history and Saint's days.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm

Cracow, The University of
The first documentary evidence regarding the scheme that King Casimir the Great conceived of establishing a university dates from 1362. Urban V favored the plan, and King Casimir issued the charter of the university, 12 May, 1364.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04465a.htm

California
Includes history, population, education, resources, and religion.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03170a.htm

Calvi and Teano, Diocese of
The ancient Cales or Calenum in the Campagna, not far from Capua.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03195a.htm

Conradin of Bornada
Dominican preacher, b. in the latter part of the fourteenth century; d. at Bologna, 1 November, 1429.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04258b.htm

Calepino, Ambrogio
Italian lexicographer. (1440-1510)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03169a.htm

California Missions
Divided into Lower or Old California and Upper California.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03177b.htm

Constantinople, Council of, in Trullo
Particular council held in A.D. 692.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04311b.htm

Cuneo, Diocese of
Suffragan to Turin.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04569b.htm

Calas Case, The
Jean Calas was a French Calvinist, born 19 March, 1698, at La Caparède near Castres, in the department of Tarn; executed 10 March, 1762, at Toulouse.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03149a.htm

Caddo Indians
In the earlier period they were commonly known to the Spaniards as Tejas, whence the name of the State, and to the French as Cenis or Assinais.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03129a.htm

Calabozo, Diocese of
A town in the State of Miranda, Venezuela, on the River Guárico, 120 miles south-southwest of Caracas.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03148a.htm

Caius
Third-century Christian author.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144a.htm

Corydallus
A titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04402c.htm

Curry, John
Irish historian and physcician. (d. 1780)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04573c.htm

Callistus III, Pope
Born near Valencia in Spain, 31 December, 1378; died at Rome, 6 August, 1458.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03187a.htm

Calahorra and La Calzada, Diocese of
Suffragan of Burgos, comprising almost all the province of Logroño and part of the provinces of Navarre and Soria. Calahorra.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03148b.htm

Caliari, Paolo
Eminent painter of the Venetian school. (1528-1588)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03169b.htm

Callot, Jacques
French etcher, engraver, and painter. (1592-1635)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03188a.htm

Calasio, Mario di
Friar Minor and lexicographer. (1550-1620)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03149b.htm

Calendar, Jewish
Details include days, weeks, months, years, and eras.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03166a.htm

Calvert, Charles
Third Baron of Baltimore, and Second Proprietary Governor of Maryland. (1629-1715)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03194a.htm

Calvert, George
First Lord Baltimore, statesman and colonizer. (1580-1632)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03192a.htm

Campani, Giuseppe
Italian optician and astronomer who lived in Rome during the latter half of the seventeenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03222a.htm

Caltanisetta
The city is situated in a fertile plain of Sicily, on the River Salso, in the vicinity of the most extensive sulphur mines in the world.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03190b.htm

Cynewulf
That certain Anglo-Saxon poems still extant were written by one Cynewulf is beyond dispute, for the author has signed his name in them by spelling it out in runic letters which may be so read as to make sense in the context of the poem. It is, however, quite uncertain who this Cynewulf was.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04581d.htm

Cabello de Balboa, Miguel
Sixteenth century Spanish priest.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126b.htm

Caiaphas
Jewish High Priest.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03143b.htm

Canice, Saint
Irish priest, monastic founder, missionary to Scotland, d. 600.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03250a.htm

Cura Animarum
Technically, the exercise of a clerical office involving the instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and the sanctification, through the sacraments, of the faithful in a determined district, by a person legitimately a ppointed for the purpose.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04572a.htm

Calcutta, Archdiocese of
Extends along the sea-coast from the Khabadak to the Mahanundi River.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03152a.htm

Chorepiscopi
A name originally given in the Eastern Church to bishops whose jurisdiction was confined to rural districts.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16024c.htm

Calmet, Dom Augustin
Celebrated exegetist. (1672-1757)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03189a.htm

Calvary, Mount
The place of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03191a.htm

Calendar, Reform of the
Such alterations were too obvious to be ignored, and throughout the Middle Ages many observers both pointed them out and endeavoured to devise a remedy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03168a.htm

Caillau, Armand-Benjamin
Priest and writer, born at Paris, 22 October, 1794, died there, 1850.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03142a.htm

Calvin, John
Born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03195b.htm

Camargo, Diego Muñoz
Born of a Spanish father and Indian mother soon after 1521; died at a very advanced age, the exact date unknown.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03209a.htm

Camel, George Joseph
Botanist, born at Brunn, in Moravia, 21 April 1661, died in Manila, 2 May, 1706.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03216b.htm

Colonna
A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04125c.htm

Camachus
A titular see in Armenia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03204c.htm

Colombo
The Archdiocese of Colombo, situated on the western seaboard of the Island of Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz. the Western and the Northwestern.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04124a.htm

Calvinism
Calvin succeeded Luther in point of time and was committed to a struggle with Zwingli's disciples at Zurich and elsewhere, known as Sacramentarians.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03198a.htm

Callistus II, Pope
Date of birth unknown; died 13 December, 1124.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03185a.htm

Camerino, Diocese of
Situated in the Italian province of Macerata in the Apennines, about 40 miles from Ancona.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03216c.htm

Caldani, Leopoldo Marco Antonio
Italian anatomist and physiologist. (1725-1813)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16016a.htm

Cambiaso, Luca
Genoese painter, b. at Moneglia near Genoa, in 1527; d. in the Escorial, Madrid, 1585.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03209b.htm

Candace
Ethiopian queen.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03244c.htm

Calvert, Philip
Proprietary Governor of Maryland in 1660-1661.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03194c.htm

Cyril and Methodius, Saints
Also called Constantine and Methodius. Biography of these ninth-century brothers, Apostles of the Slavs.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592a.htm

Croagh Patrick
A mountain looking out on the Atlantic ocean from the southern shore of Clew Bay, in the County Mayo, and called "the Sinai of Ireland."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04509b.htm

Calvert, Cecilius
Second Lord Baltimore. (1606-1675)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03193a.htm

Campbell, James
American public official. (1812-1893)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16016d.htm

Cally, Pierre
Philosopher and theologian, b. at Mesnil-Hubert, department of Orne, France, date of birth uncertain; d. 31 December, 1709.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03188b.htm

Cosmas and Damian, Saints
Short hagiography of these twins, physicians, and martyrs. They died on 27 September, probably in the year 287.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04403e.htm

Cain
First-born of Adam and Eve.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03142b.htm

Columbia University (Oregon)
Formerly known as Portland University, located on the east bank of the Willamette River in northern Portland, and is conducted by the Congregation of Holy Cross, whose mother-house is at Notre Dame, Indiana.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15202a.htm

Calvinus, Justus Baronius
Convert and apologist. (1570-1606)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03204a.htm

Candles
The word candle (candela, from candeo, to burn) was introduced into the English language as an ecclesiastical term, probably as early as the eighth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03246a.htm

Campi, Galeazzo
Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1475; d. 1536.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03224b.htm

Camisards
Eighteenth-century French sect.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03218a.htm

Canons, Collections of Ancient
Includes authority and methods.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03281a.htm

Campaña, Pedro
Flemish painter, known in France as Pierre de Champagne, and in Brussels as Pieter de Kempeneer (his actual name), or, as translated in Flemish, Van de Velde, b. at Brussels in 1503; d. there in 1580.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03221a.htm

Cancer de Barbastro, Luis
Dominican missionary to the New World. (d. 1549)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03244b.htm

Calvaert, Dionysius
Painter. (1540-1619)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03190d.htm

Cambysopolis
Titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03216a.htm

Caloe
A titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03189b.htm

Campi, Bernardino
Italian painter of the Lombard School, b. at Cremona, 1522; d. at Reggio, about 1590.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03224a.htm

Capitulations, Episcopal and Pontifical
Agreements, by which those taking part in the election of a bishop or pope imposed special conditions upon the candidate to be fulfilled by him after his election.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03311a.htm

Chrysanthus and Daria, Saints
Martyrs at Rome, perhaps in 283 or 284.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03742a.htm

Campagna, Girolamo
Sculptor born in Verona, 1552; died about 1623 or 1625.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03220a.htm

Corcoran, James Andrew
Theologian, editor, and Orientalist, b. at Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., 30 March, 1820; d. at Philadelphia, 16 July, 1889.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04356b.htm

Campagnola, Domenico
Painter of the Venetian school, b. at Padua in 1482; date of death unascertained.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03220b.htm

Canes, Vincent
Friar Minor and controversialist, born on the borders of Nottingham and Leicestershire, date uncertain; died in London, June, 1672
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03249c.htm

Cornelius
A centurion of the Italic cohort, whose conversion at Cæsarea with his household is related in Acts 10.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04375b.htm

Canelos and Macas
Vicariate Apostolic in Ecuador, South America.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03249b.htm

Canon of the New Testament
The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm

Candlemas
Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm

Compline
Scholarly essay on what is essentially a bedtime prayer, often recited privately.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04187a.htm

Cyrenaic School of Philosophy
Overview of this strain of classical thought, by William Turner.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04591a.htm

Canon of the Mass
Article divided into four sections: (I) Name and place of the Canon; (II) History of the Canon; (III) The text and rubrics of the Canon; (IV) Mystical interpretations.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03255c.htm

Canons, Ecclesiastical
Certain rules or norms of conduct or belief prescribed by the Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03287a.htm

Cantù, Cesare
Italian historian and poet, b. at Brivio, 8 December, 1807; d. at Milan, 11 March, 1895.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03306b.htm

Cajetan, Constantino
Benedictine savant. (1560-1650)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03145b.htm

Calama
Titular see in Africa.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03148c.htm

Caius and Soter, Saints
Popes, having their feast together on 22 April.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144c.htm

Cueva, Juan de la
Spanish poet and dramatist. (1550-1607)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04563a.htm

Campi, Giulio
Italian painter and architect, b. at Cremona about 1500; died there, 1572.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03224c.htm

Calynda
A titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03204b.htm

Cano, Melchior
Article by John R. Volz on the character, teachings, and life of this Dominican bishop and theologian.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03251a.htm

Callinicus
Titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03183b.htm

Campeche
Diocese in the State of Campeche, Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yucatan.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03222b.htm

Crime, Impediment of
Nullifies marriage according to ecclesiastical law, and arises from adultery and homicide separately or together.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04489a.htm

Canisius, Henricus
Canonist and historian, born at Nymwegen in Geldern.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03250b.htm

Cyme
A titular see of Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04581c.htm

Corsica
The third island of the Mediterranean in point of size, only Sicily and Sardinia being of greater extent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04396b.htm

Canopy
An ornamental covering of cloth, stone, wood, or metal, used to crown an altar, throne, pulpit, or statue.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03297c.htm

Capharnaum
A titular see of Palestine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03309a.htm

Canisius, Theodorich
Born at Nimwegen, Holland, 1532; died 27 September, 1606, at Ingolstadt.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03250c.htm

Clonmacnoise, Abbey and School of
Situated on the Shannon, about half way between Athlone and Banagher, King's County, Ireland.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04065a.htm

Calvert, Leonard
Governor of Maryland. (1607-1647)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03194b.htm

Cantate Sunday
A name given to the fourth Sunday after Easter.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03299a.htm

Casium
A titular see of Lower Egypt.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03402b.htm

Capaccio and Vallo
Suffragan diocese of Salerno.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03307b.htm

Canterbury
The Ancient Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03299b.htm

Cadillac, Antoine de Lamothe, Sieur de
Founder of Detroit. (1657-1730)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03131a.htm

Caperolo, Pietro
Friar Minor, date of birth unknown; d. at Velletri in 1480.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03308a.htm

Capecelatro, Alfonso
Archbishop of Capua. (1824-1912)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16017a.htm

Callières, Louis-Hector de
Thirteenth Governor of New France. (1646-1705)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03183a.htm

Canea
Formerly a titular see of Crete, suppressed by a decree of 1894.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03249a.htm

Cahill, Daniel William
Lecturer and controversialist. (1796-1864)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03140c.htm

Canons and Canonesses Regular
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a canon regular is essentially a religious cleric.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03288a.htm

Capocci, Gaetano
Italian composer. (1811-1898)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16017b.htm

Caraffa, Vincent
Seventh General of the Society of Jesus. (1585-1649)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03329a.htm

Canticle of Canticles
One of three books of Solomon, contained in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Christian Canon of the Scriptures.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03302a.htm

Concordia, Diocese of
Erected 2 August, 1887, and is situated in the northwestern part of Kansas, U.S.A.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04206b.htm

Capgrave, John
Augustinian friar, historian, and theologian, b. at Lynn in Norfolk, 21 April, 1393.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03308b.htm

Carbonnelle, Ignatius
Professor of mathematics and science. (1829-1889)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03331a.htm

Candlesticks
Provides the history of their use in Christian churches.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03248a.htm

Carabantes, José de
Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03328b.htm

Caesarea
A Latin titular see, and the seat of a residential Armenian bishopric, in Cappadocia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03133b.htm

Criticism, Higher
Biblical criticism in its fullest comprehension is the examination of the literary origins and historical values of the books composing the Bible, with the state in which these exist at the present day.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04491c.htm

Caprara, Giovanni Battista
Statesman and cardinal, born at Bologna, 29 May, 1733; died at Paris, 27 July, 1810.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03313a.htm

Court (in Scripture)
The word court, in the English Bible, corresponds to the Hebrew haçer enclosed space. Also, in the English Bible the word court is occasionally used to mean the retinue of a person of high rank and authority.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04445a.htm

Capefigue, Baptiste-Honoré-Raymond
Historian, b. at Marseilles, 1802; d. at Paris, 22 December, 1872.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03307c.htm

Capponi, Gino, Count
Historian and litterateur; born at Florence, Italy, 13 September, 1792; died 3 February, 1876.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03312a.htm

Carissimi, Giacomo
Detailing his work in and composition for the Roman Catholic Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03348b.htm

Carayon, Auguste
French author and bibliographer. (1813-1874)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03330a.htm

Cardenas, Juan
Moral theologian and author. (1613-1684)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03332b.htm

Caroline Books
A work in four books (120 or 121 chapters), purporting to be the composition of Charlemagne, and written about 790-92.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03371b.htm

Campan, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette
French educator, born 6 November, 1752, at Paris; died in 1822, at Mantes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03220c.htm

Carmel, Mount
A well-known mountain ridge in Palestine, usually called in the Hebrew Bible Hakkarmel.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03352a.htm

Colet, John
Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and founder of St. Paul's School, London; b. in London, 1467; d. there 18 Sept., 1519.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04098a.htm

Colgan, John
Hagiographer and historian, b. in County Donegal, Ireland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century; d. probably in 1657.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04099c.htm

Cardinals (1913 List)
Members of the College of Cardinals, 1913.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16017c.htm

Caltagirone
A city in the province of Catania, Sicily, built on two eminences about 2000 feet above sea-level, connected by a bridge.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03190a.htm

Cantor
The chief singer (and sometimes instructor) of the ecclesiastical choir, called also precentor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03306a.htm

Colin, Frédéric-Louis
Superior of the Sulpicians in Canada, b. at Bourges, France, in 1835; d. at Montreal, 27 November, 1902.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04100b.htm

Castracane degli Antelminelli, Francesco
Naturalist, b. at Fano, Italy, 19 July, 1817; d. at Rome 27 March, 1899.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03414c.htm

Carheil, Etienne de
French missionary among the Indians of Canada, born at Carentoir, France, November 1633; died at Quebec, 27 July, 1726.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03347a.htm

Caesarea Mauretaniae
Titular see in North Africa.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03134a.htm

Crema, Diocese of
Suffragan to Milan.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04481b.htm

Canons, Apostolic
A collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and discipline of the Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03279a.htm

Capreolus, John
A theologian, born towards the end of the fourteenth century, (about 1380), in the diocese of Rodez, France; died in that city 6 April, 1444.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03314a.htm

Colin, Jean-Claude-Marie
French priest, founder of the Marists. (1790-1875)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04101a.htm

Carli, Dionigi da Piacenza
Seventeenth century Capuchin missionary.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03349a.htm

Casot, Jean-Jacques
The last surviving Jesuit of the old Canada mission, born in Liège, Belgium, 4 October, 1728; died at Quebec, 16 March, 1800.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03402c.htm

Cassani, Joseph
Spanish Jesuit. (1673-1686)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03403b.htm

Catechumen
In the early Church, was the name applied to one who had not yet been initiated into the sacred mysteries, but was undergoing a course of preparation for that purpose.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03430b.htm

Castelli, Benedetto
Mathematician and physicist; b. at Perugia, Italy, 1577; d. at Rome, 1644.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03408d.htm

Captain (in the Bible)
In the Douay version captain represents several different Hebrew and Latin words, and designates both civil and military officers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03314c.htm

Carochi, Horacio
Jesuit missionary to Mexico. (1586-1666)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03371a.htm

Capitolias
A titular see of Palestine, suffragan to Scythopolis in Palestina Secunda.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03309b.htm

Catacombs, Roman
The subject is covered under the headings: I. Position; II. History; III. Inscriptions; IV. Paintings; V. Sarcophagi; VI. Small Objects Found in the Catacombs; and VII. Catacombs outside Rome.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03417b.htm

Cathedral
The chief church of a diocese.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03438a.htm

Castro Palao, Fernando
Spanish theologian. (1581-1633)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03415b.htm

Canticle
Used in the English Catholic translation of the Bible as the equivalent of the Vulgate canticum in most, but not all, of the uses of that word; for where canticum is used for a sacred song.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03301a.htm

Canossa
A former castle of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the foothills of the Apennines.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03298a.htm

Category
The term was transferred by Aristotle from its forensic meaning (procedure in legal accusation) to its logical use as attribution of a subject.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03433a.htm

Caesarea Palaestinae
Titular see in Palestine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03134b.htm

Crétin, Joseph
First Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. (1799-1857)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04487b.htm

Catholic
The combination "the Catholic Church" (he katholike ekklesia) is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, written about the year 110.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm

Collections
Article discussing the development which took the form of a contribution in money, corresponding particularly to what is conveyed by the French word quête.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm

Captivities of the Israelites
Includes the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman captivities.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03315a.htm

Cross, Daughters of the
Belgian religious congregation.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16030b.htm

Cologne
German city and archbishopric.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04116a.htm

Cologne, University of
Near the end of the fourteenth century Urban VI, at the instance of the Town Council, issued (21 May, 1388) the Bull of foundation.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04120a.htm

Colombia
Forms the north-west corner of the South American Continent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04121b.htm

Colombo, Mateo Realdo
Italian anatomist and discoverer of the pulmonary circulation, b. at Cremona in 1516; d. at Rome, 1559.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04125a.htm

Colonna, Eg