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Eperies
Diocese of the Greek Ruthenian Rite, suffragan to Gran.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05484c.htm
Ephraem, Saint
Born at Nisibis, then under Roman rule, early in the fourth century; died June, 373.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05498a.htm
Epimachus and Gordianus, Saints
Martyrs, suffered under Julian the Apostate, 362, commemorated on 10 May.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06649a.htm
Exeter, Ancient Diocese of
English see, chosen by Leofric, Bishop of Crediton, as his cathedral city in 1050.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05708a.htm
Est, Willem Hessels van
Famous commentator on the Pauline Epistles. (1542-1613)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05547a.htm
Eusebius of Alexandria
Ecclesiastical writer and author of a number of homilies well known in the sixth and seventh centuries.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05617a.htm
Eberhard of Ratisbon
A German chronicler about the beginning of the fourteenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05242b.htm
Executor, Apostolic
A cleric who puts into execution a papal rescript, completing what is necessary in order that it be effective.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05691a.htm
Easter Controversy
The dispute regarding the proper time of observing Easter.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05228a.htm
Eyb, Albrecht von
One of the earliest German humanists, born in 1420 near Anabach in Franconia; died in 1475.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05731b.htm
Eyston, Charles
Antiquary, born 1667; died 5 November, 1721; he was a member of the ancient family of Eyston.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05736b.htm
Extravagantes
This word is employed to designate some papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority, i.e. they are not found in the Decree of Gratian or the three official collections of the "Corpus Juris".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05715a.htm
Ezekiel
Son of Buzi, and was one of the priests who, in the year 598 B.C., had been deported together with Joachim as prisoners from Jerusalem (IV Kings, xxiv, 12-16; cf. Ezek. xxxiii, 21, xl, 1).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05737b.htm
Evangelist
In the New Testament this word, in its substantive form, occurs only three times: Acts, xxi, 8; Eph., iv, 11; II Tim., iv, 5. It seems to indicate not so much an order in the early ecclesiastical hierarchy as a function.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05645a.htm
Echinus
A titular see of Thessaly, Greece.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05270c.htm
Echave, Baltasar de
Painter, born at Zumaya, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in the latter part of the sixteenth century; died in Mexico about the middle of the seventeenth.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05270b.htm
Ebionites
Name designating one or more early Christian sects.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05242c.htm
Epiphania
A titular see in Cilicia Secunda, in Asia Minor, suffragan of Anazarbus.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05503a.htm
Examiners, Apostolic
So called because appointed by the Apostolic See for service in Rome. In 1570 Pius V instituted the Apostolic examiners to conduct examinations of candidates for orders and of confessors.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05675b.htm
Erin, The Twelve Apostles of
Twelve holy Irishmen of the sixth century who went to study at the School of Clonard in Meath.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01632a.htm
Erdington Abbey
Situated in a suburb of Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, belongs to the Benedictine congregation of St. Martin of Beuron, Germany, and is dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05517c.htm
Easterwine
Abbot of Wearmouth, nephew of St. Benedict Biscop; born 650, died 7 March, 686.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05240a.htm
Enoch, Book of
The antediluvian patriarch Henoch according to Genesis "walked with God and was seen no more, because God took him".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01602a.htm
Eucherius, Saint
First Bishop of Trier (Treves) in the second half of the third century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05595a.htm
Euchologion
The name of one of the chief Service books of the Byzantine Church. It corresponds more or less to the Missal and Ritual.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05595b.htm
Eudists
An ecclesiastical society instituted at Caen, France, 25 March, 1643, by the Venerable Jean Eudes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05596b.htm
Eli
Heli was both judge and high-priest, whose history is related in I Kings.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07204b.htm
Eyre, Thomas
First president of Ushaw College; born at Glossop, Derbyshire; in 1748; died at Ushaw, 8 May, 1810.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05736a.htm
Ecstasy
Offers details of false views.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05277a.htm
Easter
Includes information on the feast and customs.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm
Ecclesiastical Architecture
All ecclesiastical architecture may be said to have been evolved from two distinct germ-cells, the oblong and the circular chamber.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05257a.htm
Eyck, Hubert and Jan van
Brothers, Flemish illuminators and painters, founders of the school of Bruges and consequently of all the schools of painting in the North of Europe.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05732a.htm
Echard, Jacques
Historian of the Dominicans, born at Rouen, France, 22 September, 1644; died at Paris, 15 March, 1724.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05270a.htm
Edward III
King of England (1312-77).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05321a.htm
Eulogia
The term has been applied in ecclesiastical usage to the object blessed. It was occasionally used in early times to signify the Holy Eucharist, and in this sense is especially frequent in the writings of St. Cyril of Alexandria.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05603b.htm
Euphemius of Constantinople
Succeeded as patriarch Flavitas (or Fravitas, 489-490), who succeeded Acacius (471-489).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05606a.htm
Edmund Campion, Saint
English Jesuit and martyr.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05293c.htm
Eymard, Pierre-Julien, Saint
Biographical article on the French priest and founder.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05735b.htm
Evolution, Catholics and
Discussed under the headings: (1) Scientific Hypothesis vs. Philosophical Speculation; (2) Theistic vs. Atheistic Theories of Evolution; (3) The Theory of Evolution vs. Darwinism; and (4) Human Evolution vs. Plant and Animal Evolution.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05654a.htm
Egoism
The designation given to those ethical systems which hold self-love to be the source of all rational action and the determinant of moral conduct.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05328a.htm
Ezzo
A priest of Bamberg in the eleventh century, author of a famous poem known as the "Song of the Miracles of Christ".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05739b.htm
Eckart, Anselm
Missionary, born at Bingen, Germany, 4 August, 1721; died at the College of Polstok, Polish Russia, 29 June, 1809.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05273a.htm
Eleutheropolis
A titular see in Palaestina Prima.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05380a.htm
Estiennot de la Serre, Claude
Benedictine. (1639-1699)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05551a.htm
Elishé
Armenian historian of the fifth century, place and date of birth unknown, d. 480.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05387a.htm
El Cid
Popular hero of the chivalrous age of Spain, born at Burgos c. 1040; died at Valencia, 1099. He was given the title of seid or cid (lord, chief) by the Moors and that of campeador (champion) by his admiring countrymen.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03769a.htm
Ecclesiastical Art
Article explores the origin, history, and types.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05248a.htm
English Confessors and Martyrs (1534-1729)
Since this article, some of the causes for canonization have been successful, and others have progressed from "venerable" to "blessed."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05474a.htm
Eusebius, Saint
Bishop of Samosata.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05614c.htm
Eusebius, Saint
Roman priest.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05615a.htm
Elias
Old Testament prophet.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05381b.htm
Eliseus
A Prophet of Israel.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05386c.htm
Eusebius, Saint, Pope
Reigned A.D. 309 or 310.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05615b.htm
Eusebius of Cæsarea
Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine, the "Father of Church History"; b. about 260; d. before 341.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05617b.htm
Eustace, John Chetwode
Antiquary, b. in Ireland, c. 1762; d. at Naples, Italy, 1 Aug., 1815.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05626b.htm
Eguiara y Eguren, Juan José
Mexican scholar. (d. 1763)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037b.htm
Expeditors, Apostolic
Officials who attend to the sending of Bulls, Briefs, and Rescripts, that emanate from the Apostolic Chancery, the Dataria, the Sacred Paenitentiaria, and the Secretariate of Briefs.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05712c.htm
Edmund the Martyr, Saint
King of East Anglia, born about 840; died at Hoxne, Suffolk, 20 November, 870.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05295a.htm
Episcopalians
The history of this religious organization is divide into two portions: the period of its dependence upon the Church of England and that of its separate existence with a hierarchy of its own.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12493a.htm
Eustachius, Bartolomeo
A distinguished anatomist of the Renaissance period.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05626d.htm
Euthalius
A deacon of Alexandria and later Bishop of Sulca.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05629b.htm
Eutropius of Valencia
Spanish bishop; d. about 610.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05630c.htm
Evesham Abbey
Founded by St. Egwin, third Bishop of Worcester, about 701, in Worcestershire, England, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05648a.htm
Eckhel, Joseph Hilarius
German numismatist. (1737-1798)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05274b.htm
Ephesus, Seven Sleepers of
One of the many examples of the legend about a man who falls asleep and years after wakes up to find the world changed.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05496a.htm
Epiphanius
A translator of various Greek works in the middle of the sixth century of the Christian Era.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05504a.htm
Ecclesiastes
The name given to the book of Holy Scripture which usually follows the Proverbs; the Hebrew Qoheleth probably has the same meaning.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05244b.htm
Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de
Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid, 7 August, 1533; died in the same city, 29 November, 1594.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05516b.htm
Elcesaites
A sect of Gnostic Ebionites.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05372a.htm
Eckebert
Abbot of Schönau, born in the early part of the twelfth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05273b.htm
Elect
Denotes in general one chosen or taken by preference from among two or more; as a theological term it is equivalent to "chosen as the object of mercy or Divine favour, as set apart for eternal life".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05374a.htm
Epiphanius of Constantinople
Succeeded John II (518-20) as Patriarch of Constantinople.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05504b.htm
Epiphanius of Salamis
Born at Besanduk, near Eleutheropolis, in Judea, after 310; died in 403. While very young he followed the monastic life in Egypt. On his return founded a monastery at Besanduk and was ordained to the priesthood.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13393b.htm
Embolism
An insertion, addition, interpretation. The word has two specific uses in the language of the Church; in the prayer and in the calendar.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05399c.htm
Elohim
The common name for God.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05393a.htm
Ecclesiastical Archives
A collection of documents, records, and memorials, pertaining to the origin, foundation, growth, history, and constitutions of a diocese, parish, monastery, or religious community under the jurisdiction of the Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01696a.htm
Ecclesiastical Buildings
This term comprehends all constructions erected for the celebration of liturgical acts, whatever be the name given to them, church, chapel, oratory, and basilica.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03041a.htm
Ember Days
The days at the beginning of the seasons ordered by the Church as days of fast and abstinence.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05399b.htm
Edmund Arrowsmith, Saint
English martyr, born in 1585 at Haddock; executed at Lancaster, 23 August, 1628.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05293b.htm
Eusebius, Chronicle of
Consists of two parts: the first was probably called by Eusebius the "Chronograph" or "Chronographies"; the second he terms the "Canon", or "Canons", and also the "Chronological Canons".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05616a.htm
Empiricism
Primarily, and in its psychological application, the term signifies the theory that the phenomena of consciousness are simply the product of sensuous experience, i.e. of sensations variously associated and arranged.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05407a.htm
Encratites
Literally, "abstainers" or "persons who practised continency", because they refrained from the use of wine, animal food, and marriage.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05412c.htm
Emanationism
The doctrine that emanation (Lat. emanare, "to flow from") is the mode by which all things are derived from the First Reality, or Principle.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05397b.htm
Emancipation, Ecclesiastical
In ancient Rome emancipation was a process of law by which a slave released from the control of his master, or a son liberated from the authority of his father (patria potestas), was declared legally independent. The earliest ecclesiastical employment of this process was in the freeing of slaves.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05399a.htm
Education
In the broadest sense, education includes all those experiences by which intelligence is developed, knowledge acquired, and character formed. In a narrower sense, it is the work done by certain agencies and institutions, the home and the school, for the express purpose of training immature minds.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05295b.htm
Evolution, History and Scientific Foundation of
History, definition, and various arguments.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05655a.htm
Eleazar
Includes information on three uses of this name.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05373b.htm
East Indies, Patriarchate of the
In consequence of an agreement between the Holy See and the Portuguese Government in 1886.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07758a.htm
Eucharist, Introduction to the
The name given to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar its twofold aspect of sacrament and Sacrifice of Mass, and in which Jesus Christ is truly present under the bread and wine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05572c.htm
Egan, Boetius
Archbishop of Tuam, born near Tuam, Ireland, 1734; died near Tuam, 1798.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05324b.htm
Edmund, Congregation of Saint
Founded in 1843, by Jean-Baptiste Muard, at Pontigny, France, for the work of popular missions.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05293a.htm
English Hierarchy, Reorganization of the
On 29 September, 1850, by the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae", Pius IX restored the Catholic hierarchy in England which had become extinct with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth. Westminster became the metropolitan see and its occupant the lawful successor of the Catholic archbishops of Canterbury.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037d.htm
Extension Society, The Catholic Church
The first active agitation for a church extension or home mission society for the Catholic Church in North America was begun in 1904 by an article of the present writer, published in the "American Ecclesiastical Review" (Philadelphia).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14078a.htm
Elias of Jerusalem
Died 518; one of the two Catholic bishops (with Flavian of Antioch) who resisted the attempt of the Emperor Anastasius I (491-518) to abolish the Council of Chalcedon (451).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05385a.htm
Eycken, Jean Baptiste van
Painter, born at Brussels, Belgium, 16 September, 1809; died at Schaerbeek, 19 December, 1853.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05735a.htm
Emesa
A titular see of PhÂœnicia Secunda, suffragan of Damascus, and the seat of two Uniat archdioceses, Greek Melchite and Syrian.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05402a.htm
Eve
First woman; wife of Adam.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05646b.htm
Eclecticism
A philosophical term meaning either a tendency of mind in a thinker to conciliate the different views or positions taken in regard to problems, or a system in philosophy which seeks the solution of its fundamental problems by selecting and uniting what it regards as true in the various philosophical schools.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05276a.htm
Elevation, The
The Elevation of the Mass is a rite of comparatively recent introduction.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05380b.htm
Education of the Blind
Includes statistics and history.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05306a.htm
England, John
First Bishop of Charleston, S.C. (1786-1842)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05470a.htm
Enoch
The name of the son of Cain (Gen., iv, 17, 18), of a nephew of Abraham (Gen., xxv, 4), of the first-born of Ruben (Gen., xlvi, 9), and of the son of Jared and the father of Mathusala (Gen., v. 18 sq.).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07218a.htm
Engaddi
The name of a warm spring near the center of the west shore of the Dead Sea, and also of a town situated in the same place.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05428a.htm
English Revolution of 1688
The history of the Revolution resolves itself into a catalogue of various ill-judged measures which alienated the support of the Established Church, the Tory party, and the nation as a whole.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13007b.htm
Egyptian Church Ordinance
An early Christian collection of thirty-one canons regulating ordinations, the liturgy, and other main features of church life.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05363a.htm
Eparchy
Originally the name of one of the divisions of the Roman Empire.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05484a.htm
Ecumenical Councils
Councils are legally convened assemblies of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts for the purpose of discussing and regulating matters of church doctrine and discipline.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04423f.htm
Epée, Charles-Michel de l'
A philanthropic priest and inventor of the sign alphabet for the instruction of the deaf and dumb; was b. at Versailles, 25 November, 1712; d. at Paris, 23 December, 1789.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05484b.htm
Epact
The surplus days of the solar over the lunar year; hence, more freely, the number of days in the age of the moon on 1 January of any given year. The whole system of epacts is based on the Metonic Lunar Cycle, and serves to indicate the days of the year on which the new moons occur.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05480b.htm
Edward Jones, Blessed
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08500a.htm
Ephesus, Robber Council of
The Acts of the first session of this synod were read at the Council of Chalcedon, 451, and have thus been preserved. The remainder of the Acts are known only through a Syriac translation by a Monophysite monk, published from the British Museum MS. Addit. 14,530, written in the year 535.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05495a.htm
English Literature
Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish literatures are a few of the influences.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05458a.htm
Encyclopedia
An abridgment of human knowledge in general or a considerable department thereof, treated from a uniform point of view or in a systematized summary.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05414a.htm
Endowment
A property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05421b.htm
Edward the Confessor, Saint
King of England, born in 1003; died 5 January, 1066.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05322a.htm
Emmanuel
Signifies "God with us" (Matthew 1:23), and is the name of the child predicted in Isaias 7:14: "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05404a.htm
Epicureanism
In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05500b.htm
Elizabeth Associations
Charitable associations of women in Germany which aim for the love of Christ to minister to the bodily and spiritual sufferings of the sick poor and of neglected children.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05388b.htm
Edward the Martyr, Saint
King of England, son to Edgar the Peaceful, and uncle to St. Edward the Confessor; b. about 962; d. 18 March, 979.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05323a.htm
Edward Stransham, Blessed
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14313b.htm
Etschmiadzin
An Armenian monastery, since 1441 the ecclesiastical capital of the schismatic Armenians, and seat of their patriarch or catholicos, whom the greater part of the Non-Uniat Armenian Church acknowledge as their head.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05571a.htm
Epistemology
That branch of philosophy which is concerned with the value of human knowledge.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05506a.htm
Enthronization
From Greek 'enthronÃzein, to place on a throne.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05479c.htm
Ephesus, Council of
The third ecumenical council, held in 431.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05491a.htm
Emmeram, Saint, Abbey of
A Benedictine monastery at Ratisbon (Regensburg), named after its traditional founder, the patron saint of the city.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05406a.htm
Elizabeth, Sisters of Saint
From an association established by Dorothea Klara Wolff, in connection with the sisters, Mathilde and Maria Merkert, and Franziska Werner, 1842, in Nelsse (Prussia), to tend in their own homes, without compensation, helpless sick persons who could not or would not be received into the hospitals.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05388a.htm
Exmew, Blessed William
Carthusian monk and martyr. (d. 1535)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630c.htm
Erasmus, Desiderius
German humanist, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, 28 October, probably in 1466; d. at Basle, Switzerland, 12 July, 1536.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05510b.htm
Endlicher, Stephan Ladislaus
Austrian botanist, linguist, and historian, b. at Pressburg, Hungary, 24 June, 1804; d. at Vienna, 28 March, 1849.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05421a.htm
England (Before the Reformation)
This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the largest and most populous, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Ephod
a kind of garment, which differed according to its use by the high-priest, by other persons present at religious services, or as the object of idolatrous worship.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05497a.htm
Edwy
King of the English, eldest son of Edmund and St. Aelfgifu, born about 940; died 959.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05324a.htm
Entablature
A superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns in classic architecture.
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Ephraemi Rescriptus, Codex
The last in the group of the four great uncial manuscripts of the Greek Bible, received its name from the treatises of St. Ephraem the Syrian (translated into Greek) which were written over the original text.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04084a.htm
Esau
The eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca, the twin-brother of Jacob.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05527c.htm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
A manner of honouring the Holy Eucharist, by exposing it, with proper solemnity, to the view of the faithful in order that they may pay their devotions before it.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05713a.htm
Ecclesiasticus
The longest of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible, and the last of the Sapiential writings in the Vulgate of the Old Testament.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05263a.htm
Ephraim of Antioch
One of the defenders of the Faith of Chalcedon (451) against the Monophysites, b. at Amida in Mesopotamia; d. in 545.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05500a.htm
Eastern Churches
Eastern Churches depended originally on the Eastern Empire at Constantinople.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05230a.htm
Erdeswicke, Sampson
Antiquarian, date of birth unknown; died 1603.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05517b.htm
Epiklesis
The name of a prayer that occurs in all Eastern liturgies (and originally in Western liturgies also) after the words of Institution, in which the celebrant prays that God may send down His Holy Spirit to change this bread and wine into the Body and Blood of His Son.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05502a.htm
Edwin, Saint
The first Christian King of Northumbria, born about 585.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05323b.htm
Establishment, The
The union of Church and State setting up a definite and distinctive relation between the two is frequently expressed in English by the use of the word "establishment".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05548a.htm
Esglis, Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'
Eighth Bishop of Quebec, Canada; born Quebec, 24 April, 1710; died 7 June, 1788.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05538a.htm
Ephesus
A titular archiespiscopal see in Asia Minor, said to have been founded in the eleventh century B.C. by Androcles, son of the Athenian King Codrus, with the aid of Ionian colonists.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05490a.htm
Erastus and Erastianism
The name "Erastianism" is often used in a somewhat loose sense as denoting an undue subservience of the Church to the State.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05514a.htm
Espence, Claude D'
French theologian, born in 1511 at Châlons-sur-Marne; died 5 Oct., 1571, at Paris.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05542a.htm
Emmaus
A titular see in Pa1æstina Prima, suffragan of Cæsarea.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05405a.htm
English College, The, in Rome
Information on its foundation, scholastic status, and students.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05472b.htm
Epiphany
The feast was called among the Syrians denho (up-going), a name to be connected with the notion of rising light expressed in Luke. I, 78.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05504c.htm
Edward Olcorne, Blessed
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11237a.htm
Eustace White, Saint
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15611b.htm
Edward Waterson, Blessed
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15566a.htm
Esther
Queen of Persia and wife of Assuerus, who is identified with Xerxes (485-465 B.C.).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05549a.htm
Elhuyar y de Suvisa, Fausto de
Mineralogist and chemist. (1755-1833)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05381a.htm
Ephesians, Epistle to the
The letter which, in the manuscripts containing the Epistles of St. Paul, bears the title "To the Ephesians" comprises two parts distinctly separated by a doxology (Eph., iii, 20 sq.).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05485a.htm
Eckhart, Meister
Dominican preacher, theologian and mystic, born about 1260 at Hochheim, near Gotha; died in 1327 at Cologne.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05274a.htm
England (After 1558)
The Protestant Reformation is the great dividing line in the history of England, as of Europe generally.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05445a.htm
Educational Association, The Catholic
A voluntary organization composed of Catholic educators and other persons who have an interest in the welfare of Catholic education in the United States.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05305a.htm
Eccleston, Samuel
Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore, U.S.A. (1801-1851)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05269a.htm
Egypt
Provides information on history, religion, and literature.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05329b.htm
Egan, Michael
First bishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A., b. in Ireland, most probably in Galway, in 1761; d. at Philadelphia, 22 July, 1814.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05324c.htm
Emmerich, Anne Catherine
An Augustinian nun, stigmatic, and ecstatic, born 8 September, 1774, at Flamsche, near Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Munster, Westphalia, Germany; died at Dulmen, 9 February, 1824.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05406b.htm
Expectative
An expectative, or an expectative grace, is the anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which will become so, regularly, on the death of its present incumbent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05712b.htm
Eucharist, as a Sacrifice
The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the "breaking of bread" (fractio panis) or "liturgy".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10006a.htm
Exegesis, Biblical
The branch of theology which investigates and expresses the true sense of Sacred Scripture.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05692b.htm
Essenes
One of three leading Jewish sects mentioned by Josephus as flourishing in the second century B.C., the others being the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05546a.htm
Eternity
Eternity is defined by Boetius (De Consol. Phil., V, vi) as "possession, without succession and perfect, of interminable life".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05551b.htm
Eudoxias
A titular see of Galatia Secunda in Asia Minor, suffragan of Pessinus.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597b.htm
Encyclical
According to its etymology, an encyclical is nothing more than a circular letter. In modern times, usage has confined the term almost exclusively to certain papal documents which differ in their technical form from the ordinary style of either Bulls or Briefs, and which in their superscription are explicitly addressed to the patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and bishops of the Universal Church in communion with the Apostolic See.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05413a.htm
Eucharist, as a Sacrament
Since Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine in a sacramental way, the Blessed Eucharist is unquestionably a sacrament of the Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05584a.htm
Energy, The Law of Conservation of
Includes the history and philosophy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05422a.htm
Elie de Beaumont, Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Léonce
Geologist, b. at Canon (Dép. Calvados), near Caen, France, 25 Sept., 1798; d. at Canon, 21 Sept., 1874.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05385b.htm
Eschatology
That branch of systematic theology which deals with the doctrines of the last things (ta eschata).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05528b.htm
Eudocia
Ælia Eudocia, sometimes wrongly called Eudoxia, was the wife of Theodosius II; died c. 460. Her original name was Athenais, and she was the daughter of Leontius, one of the last pagans who taught rhetoric at Athens.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597a.htm
Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Celebrated on 18 December by nearly the entire Latin Church. Owing to the ancient law of the Church prohibiting the celebration of feasts during Lent (a law still in vigour at Milan), the Spanish Church transferred the feast of the Annunciation from 25 March to the season of Advent, the Tenth Council of Toledo (656) assigning it definitely to 18 December.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05712a.htm
Eucharist, Real Presence of Christ in
Article considers: the fact of the Real Presence; the several allied dogmas grouped about it; and the speculations of reason, so far as speculative investigation regarding the august mystery under its various aspects is permissible, and so far as it is desirable to illumine it by the light of philosophy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm
Ernakulam, Vicariate Apostolic of
In May, 1887, the churches of Syrian Rite in Malabar were separated from those of the Latin Rite and formed into the Vicariates of Trichur and Kottayam under European prelates. In response, however, to the petitions of the Syrian Catholics desirous of obtaining bishops of their own race and rite, Leo XIII by his brief "Quae Rei Sacrae" (28 July, 1896) divided the territory anew into three vicariates: Trichur, Changanacherry, and Ernakulam.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16038a.htm
Excardination and Incardination
In the ecclesiastical sense the words are used to denote that a given person is freed from the jurisdiction of one bishop and is transferred to that of another.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07704a.htm
Epistle (in Scripture)
The Old Testament exhibits two periods in its idea of an epistle: first, it presents the epistle under the general concept of a book or a writing; secondly, it regards the epistle as a distinct literary form. The New Testament presents a very highly developed form of an epistle.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05509a.htm
Epping, Joseph
German astronomer and Assyriologist, b. at Neuenkirchen near Rhine in Westphalia, 1 Dec., 1835; d. at Exaeten, Holland, 22 Aug., 1894.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05510a.htm
Editions of the Bible
Includes Hebrew and Greek editions.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05286a.htm
Echternach, Abbey of
A Benedictine monastery in the town of that name, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and the Diocese of Trier.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05270d.htm
Eithne, Saint
Commemorated in the Irish martyrologies under the 11th of January.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05369b.htm
Evangelical Counsels
The difference between a precept and a counsel lies in this, that the precept is a matter of necessity while the counsel is left to the free choice of the person to whom it is proposed.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04435a.htm
Eucharist, Early Symbols of the
The earliest and always the favourite symbol of the Eucharist in the monuments was that inspired by the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes; the banquet of the seven Disciples appears only in one (second-century) catacomb scene; the miracle of Cana in two, one of which is of the early third, the other of the fourth, century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05590a.htm
Espinel, Vincent
Poet and novelist; born at Ronda (Malaga), Spain, 1544; died at Madrid, 1634.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05542b.htm
Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio
Preacher and writer, born at Valladolid in 1589; died there, 4 July, 1669.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05534b.htm
Examination of Conscience
By this term is understood a review of one's past thoughts, words and actions for the purpose of ascertaining their conformity with, or difformity from, the moral law.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05675a.htm
Eugenius I
Archbishop of Toledo, successor in 636 of Justus in that see; d. 647.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05602a.htm
Evangelical Alliance, The
An association of Protestants belonging to various denominations founded in 1846.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05641a.htm
Eugenics, The Church and
Eugenics literally means "good breeding". It is defined as the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16038b.htm
Eugenius II (the Younger)
Archbishop of Toledo from 647 to 13 Nov., 657, the date of his death.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05602b.htm
Eusebius of Laodicea
An Alexandrian deacon who had some fame as a confessor and became bishop of Laodicea in Syria, date of birth uncertain: d. about 268.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05623a.htm
Euthanasia
From Greek eu, well, and thanatos, death, easy, painless death.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05630a.htm
Exclusion, Right of
The alleged competence of the more important Catholic countries, Austria, France, and Spain, to indicate to their respective cardinal protector, or cardinal procurator, those members of the Sacred College who were personæ minus gratæ, so that, if there was a possibility of one of these becoming pope, the authorized cardinal might, before the decisive ballot, give his veto, in the name of his government, against such election.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05677b.htm
Espinosa, Alonso De
Spanish priest and historian of the sixteenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05542c.htm
Examination
A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; an investigation, inquiry.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05673a.htm
Esdras
Priest and scribe connected with Israel's restoration after the Exile.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05535a.htm
Eunomianism
A phase of extreme Arianism prevalent amongst a section of Eastern churchmen from about 350 until 381; as a sect it is not heard of after the middle of the fifth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05605a.htm
Europus
A titular see in Provincis Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05614a.htm
Eustace, Maurice
Eldest son of Sir John Eustace, Castlemartin, County Kildars, Ireland, martyred for the Faith, Nov. 1581.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05626c.htm
Exul Hibernicus
The name given to an Irish stranger on the Continent of Europe in the time of Charles the Great, who wrote poems in Latin, several of which are addressed to the emperor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05730a.htm
Evin, Saint
Also known as Saint Abban of New Ross, Abhan, or Ewin.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007a.htm
Ekkehard
Name of five monks of the (Swiss) Abbey of St. Gall from the tenth to the thirteenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05370a.htm
Extreme Unction
A sacrament to give spiritual aid and comfort and perfect spiritual health, including, if need be, the remission of sins, and also, conditionally, to restore bodily health, to Christians who are seriously ill.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05716a.htm
Ex Cathedra
Literally "from the chair", a theological term which signifies authoritative teaching and is more particularly applied to the definitions given by the Roman pontiff.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05677a.htm
Excommunication
Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm
Elbel, Benjamin
Bavarian moral theologian. (1690-1756)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037c.htm
Exequatur
A faculty which civil rulers impart to a Bull, papal Brief, or other ecclesiastical enactment in order to give it binding force in their respective territories.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05707a.htm
Ethics
Many writers regard ethics as any scientific treatment of the moral order and divide it into theological, or Christian, ethics (moral theology) and philosophical ethics (moral philosophy).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05556a.htm
Exemption
The whole or partial release of an ecclesiastical person, corporation, or institution from the authority of the ecclesiastical superior next higher in rank, and the placing of the person or body thus released under the control of the authority next above the former superior, or under a still higher one, or under the highest authority of all, the pope.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05706a.htm
Espousals
A contract of future marriage between a man and a woman, who are thereby affianced.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05542d.htm
Exorcist
(1) In general, any one who exorcises or professes to exorcise demons (cf. Acts 19:13); (2) in particular, one ordained by a bishop for this office, ordination to which is the second of the four minor orders of the Western Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05711a.htm
Exorcism
Exorcism is (1) the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from persons, places, or things, which are believed to be possessed or infested by them, or are liable to become victims or instruments of their malice; (2) the means employed for this purpose, especially the solemn and authoritative adjuration of the demon, in the name of God, or any of the higher power in which he is subject.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05709a.htm
Exarch
A title used in various senses both civilly and ecclesiastically.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05676b.htm
Eutyches
An heresiarch of the fifth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05631a.htm
Exultet
The hymn in praise of the paschal candle sung by the deacon, in the liturgy of Holy Saturday.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05730b.htm
Evodius
The first Bishop of Antioch after St. Peter.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05653a.htm
Error
Reduplicatively regarded, is in one way or another the product of ignorance. But besides the lack of information which it implies, it adds the positive element of a mental judgment, by which something false is held to be true, or something true avouched to be false.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05525a.htm
Evil
In a large sense, described as the sum of the opposition, which experience shows to exist in the universe, to the desires and needs of individuals; whence arises, among humans beings at least, the sufferings in which life abounds.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm
Eichendorff, Josef Karl Benedikt
Poet. (1788-1857)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05363b.htm
Emigrant Aid Societies
Details of several organizations, the earliest being the Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Massachusetts, founded 17 March, 1737.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05402b.htm
Ems, Congress of
A meeting of the representatives of the German Archbishops Friedrich Karl von Erthal of Mainz, Maximilian Franz of Cologne, Clemens Wenceslaus of Trier, and Hieronymus von Colloredo of Salzburg, at the little town of Bad-Ems, near Coblenz, in August, 1786, for the purpose of protesting against papal interference in the exercise of episcopal powers and fixing the future relations between these archbishops and the Roman pontiff.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05409a.htm
England (Before 1066) Anglo-Saxon Church, The
History of the occupation, conversion, and development.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505a.htm
Elined, Saint
Fifth-century virgin and martyr.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05386b.htm
Erie
Diocese established 1853.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05518b.htm
Ermland
A district of East Prussia and an exempt bishopric. St. Adalbert of Prague (d. 997) and St. Bruno of Querfurt (d. 1009) converted the early inhabitants of this region, the heathen Prussians, to Christianity and two centuries later Teutonic Knights and members of the Cistercian Order introduced civilization also into the land.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05522a.htm
Ernan, Saints
Name of four Irish saints.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05523a.htm
Eliud, Saint
Archbishop of Llandaff, born at Eccluis Gunniau, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire; died at Llandilo Vawr, Carmarthenshire, probably in or before 560.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14473b.htm
Elizabeth
Mother of St. John the Baptist.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05387b.htm
Elizabeth Ann Seton, Saint
Foundress of the Sisters of Charity. (1774-1821)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13739a.htm
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint
Also called St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, born in Hungary, probably at Pressburg, 1207; died at Marburg, Hesse, 17 November, 1231.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05389a.htm
Elizabeth of Portugal, Saint
Queen of Portugal. (1271-1336)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05391a.htm
Elizabeth of Reute, Saint
Third-order Franciscan. (1386-1420)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05391b.htm
Elizabeth of Schönau, Saint
Twelfth-century Benedicti
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