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Sabinianus, Pope
Reigned 604-606. The son of Bonus, he was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo. In 593 he was sent by St. Gregory I as apocrisiarius or Apostolic nuncio to Constantinople; but in some respects his administration of the office did not come up to Gregory's expectations.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13291a.htm
Seraphic Crown
The Franciscan Crown, also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04540a.htm
Sacrament, Reservation of the Blessed
The practice of preserving after the celebration of the Liturgy a portion of the consecrated elements for the Communion of the sick or for other pious purposes. The extreme antiquity of such reservation cannot be disputed.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12784b.htm
Society, The Catholic Church Extension
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
Saint Paul-without-the Walls
An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the great Apostle in the Via Ostia was marked by a cella memoriæ, near which the Catacomb of Comodilla was established.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13369a.htm
Sozomen, Salaminius Hermias
One of the famous historians of the early Church, born at Bethelia, a small town near Gaza in Palestine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14165c.htm
Strossmayer, Joseph Georg
Josip Juraj, Bishop of Diakovár, born at Essegg in Croatia-Slavonia, 4 February, 1815; died 8 April, 1905.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14316a.htm
Syncelli
A name which in the early Church was given to those monks or clerics who lived in the same room with their bishops, and whose duty it was to be witnesses to the purity of their lives or to perform the daily spiritual exercises in common with them.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14383b.htm
Sault St. Louis
Also known as Caughnawaga. An Iroquois reservation, situated on the south bank of the St. Lawrence, about ten miles above Montreal.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03458a.htm
Sacrifice
This term is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13309a.htm
Sabran, Louis de
Jesuit (1652-1732)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13291b.htm
Sacrilege
The violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13321a.htm
Sabbatine Privilege
The name Sabbatine Privilege is derived from the apocryphal Bull "Sacratissimo uti culmine" of John XXII, 3 March, 1322.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13289b.htm
Stigmata, Mystical
Their existence is so well established historically that, as a general thing, they are no longer disputed by unbelievers, who now seek only to explain them naturally.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14294b.htm
Swinomish Indians
A tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely connected with the Skagit. They formerly held the territory about the mouth of the river Skagit together with the adjacent portion of Whidbey Island.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14357b.htm
Slavonic Language and Liturgy
Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it among the languages widely used throughout the world in the liturgy of the Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14041b.htm
Streber, Franz Ignaz Von
Numismatist and theologian, born at Reisbach, Lower Bavaria, 11 Feb., 1758; died at Munich, 26 April, 1841.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14315b.htm
Sadler, Thomas Vincent Faustus
Missionary born 1604; died at Dieulward, Flanders, 19 Jan., 1680-1.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13323b.htm
Sahagún, Bernardino de
Missionary and Aztec archeologist, b. at Sahagún, Kingdom of Leon, Spain, in or before the year 1500; d. at Mexico, 23 Oct., 1590.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13325a.htm
Sacra Jam Splendent
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of the Feast of the Holy Family.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13292c.htm
Sailer, Johann Michael
Professor of theology and Bishop of Ratisbon, b. at Aresing in Upper Bavaria 17 October, 1751; d. 20 May, 1832, at Ratisbon.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13328a.htm
San Salvador
Diocese. The Republic of Salvador, often incorrectly called San Salvador from the name of its capital, is the smallest and most thickly populated state of Central America.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13450b.htm
Sullivan, Alexander Martin
Irish politician, lawyer and journalist, b. at Bantry in 1830; d. at Dartry Lodge, Rathmines, Dublin, 17 Oct., 1884.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14329a.htm
Sabbatarians, Sabbatarianism
The name, as appears from its origin, denotes those individuals or parties who are distinguished by some peculiar opinion or practice in regard to the observance of the Sabbath or day of rest.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287a.htm
Singing, Congregational
In his Instruction on sacred music, commonly referred to as the Motu Proprio (22 Nov., 1903), Pius X says (no. 3): "Special efforts are to be made to restore the use of Gregorian chant by the people, so that the faithful may again take a more active part in ecclesiastical offices, as was the case in ancient times".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04241a.htm
Syriac Language and Literature
Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14408a.htm
Sadlier, Mary Anne Madden
Authoress, b. at Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, 30 Dee., 1820; d. at Montreal, Canada, 5 April, 1903.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13323c.htm
Sylvester, Bernard, of Chartres
A twelfth-century philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14372a.htm
Saint Andrews, Priory of
One of the great religious houses in Scotland and the metropolitan church in that country before the Reformation.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13332b.htm
Saint Cloud
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minn., comprises the counties of Stearns, Sherburne, Benton, Morrison, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Isanti, Traverse, Douglas, Wilkin, Otter-Tail, Todd, Wadena, in the State of Minnesota, an area of 12,251 square miles. The bishop resides in St. Cloud, Stearns county.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13342a.htm
Sacris Solemniis
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of Corpus Christi and of the Votive Office of the Most Blessed Sacrament, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13321b.htm
Suburbicarian Dioceses
A name applied to the dioceses nearest Rome, viz. Albano, Frascati (Tusculum), Palestrina, Sabina, Ostia and Velletri, Porto and S. Rufina, the bishops of which form the order of cardinal bishops.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14324a.htm
Supernatural Adoption
That adoption of man by God in virtue of which man becomes His sons and heirs.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01148a.htm
Sumatra
Erected by a Decree of 30 June, 1911, and entrusted to the Dutch Capuchins.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14333b.htm
Sacristan
An officer who is charged with the care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents. In ancient times many duties of the sacristan were performed by the doorkeepers (ostiarii), later by the mansionarii and the treasurers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13322a.htm
Sadoleto, Jacopo
Cardinal, humanist, and reformer (1477-1547)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13324a.htm
Solanus, Saint Francis
Franciscan missionary to South America. (1549-1610)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233a.htm
Stripping of an Altar
Removal of the altar-cloths, vases of flowers, antipendium, and other ornaments, so that nothing remains but the cross and the candlesticks with the candles extinguished.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01349a.htm
Saint Albert
Diocese in Canada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13329b.htm
Sykes, Edmund
Born at Leeds; martyred at York Tyburn 23 March, 1586-7.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14368a.htm
Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann
Foundress of the Sisters of Charity (1774-1821).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13739a.htm
Saint Boniface
Archdiocese; the chief ecclesiastical division of the Canadian West, so-called after the patron saint of the German soldiers who were among its first settlers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13339b.htm
Sabbatical Year
The seventh year, devoted to cessation of agriculture, and holding in the period of seven years a place analogous to that of the Sabbath in the week; also called "Year of Remission".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13289a.htm
Saint Augustine, Abbey of
Benedictine monastery, originally dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul, founded in 605 outside of the City of Canterbury, on the site of the earlier Church of St. Pancras.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13333a.htm
Saint Vincent de Paul, Society of
International association of Catholic laymen engaging in personal service of the poor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13389a.htm
Sagalassus
A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13324b.htm
Sainctes, Claude de
French controversialist, b. at Perche, 1525; d. at Crèvecoeur, 1591.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13328b.htm
Saint Gall
A Swiss bishopric directly subject to the Holy See. It includes the Canton of St. Gall and, as a temporary arrangement, the two half-cantons of Appenzell Outer Rhodes and Appenzell Inner Rhodes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13349a.htm
Saint Benedict, Medal of
A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13338a.htm
Saint Albans, Abbey of
Located in Hertfordshire, England; founded about 793 by Offa, king of the Mercians.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13329a.htm
Saavedra, Fajardo Diego de
Statesman and author, b. at Algezares, Murcia, Spain, in 1584; d. at Madrid in 1648.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16073a.htm
Saint Isidore, College of
In Rome, originally founded for the use of Spanish Franciscans during the pontificate of Gregory XV.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13352a.htm
Saint Louis (Missouri)
Created a diocese 2 July, 1826; raised to the rank of an archdiocese 20 July, 1847.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13357a.htm
Saint-Brieuc
Diocese; comprises the Department of the Côtes du Nord. Re-established by the Concordat of 1802 as suffragan of Tours, later, in 1850, suffragan of Rennes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13340a.htm
Servants of Mary (Order of Servites)
Order founded on the feast of the Assumption, 1233 when the Blessed Virgin appeared to seven noble Florentines.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09750a.htm
Sullivan, Peter John
Soldier, lawyer, born at Cork, Ireland, 15 March, 1821; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 2 March 1883.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14329b.htm
Syncretism
An explanation is given by Plutarch in a small work on brotherly love ("Opera Moralia", ed. Reiske, VII, 910). He there tells how the Cretans were often engaged in quarrels among themselves, but became immediately reconciled when an external enemy approached.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14383c.htm
Saint George, Orders of
Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13350a.htm
Steinmeyer, Ferdinand
Jesuit missionary, born in Swabia, Germany, 13 Oct., 1720; died at Philadelphia, 17 Aug., 1786.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14285b.htm
Sadducees
A politico-religious sect of the Jews during the late post-Exile and New-Testament period. The old derivation of the name from tsaddiqim, i.e. the righteous; with assumed reference to the adherence of the Sadducees to the letter of the Law as opposed to the pharasaic attention to the superadded "traditions of the elders", is now generally discredited.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13323a.htm
Sacraments
Presents the necessity, the nature, the origin/cause, the number, the effects, the minister, and the recipient of the Sacraments.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13295a.htm
Saint Omer, College of
Well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer, often spoken of under the anglicized form of St. Omers or St. Omer's, founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13365c.htm
Sutton, Sir Richard
Co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford, date of birth unknown; d. September or October, 1524.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14346b.htm
Sahara, Vicariate Apostolic of
Vast desert of northern Africa, measuring about 932 miles from north to south and 2484 miles from east to west, and dotted with oases which are centres of population.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13327a.htm
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Prefecture apostolic comprising the only French possession in North America, a group of islands.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13376a.htm
Saint-Sulpice, Society of
Founded at Paris by M. Olier (1642) for the purpose of providing directors for the seminaries established by him.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13378a.htm
Saint Peter, Basilica of
The present Church of St. Peter stands upon the site where at the beginning of the first century the gardens of Agrippina lay.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13369b.htm
Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
The exact date of the foundation of the See of St. Andrews is, like any others in the earliest history of the Scottish Church, difficult, if not impossible, to fix.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13330a.htm
Saint Paul (Minnesota)
Archdiocese comprising the counties of Ramsey, Hennepin, Chisago, Anoka, Dakota, Scott, Wright, Rice, Lesueur, Carver, Nicollet, Sibley, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Kandiyohi, Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow Medicine, Lac-Qui-Parle, Chippewa, Swift, Goodhue, Big Stone, and Brown, which stretch across the State of Minnesota from east to west, in about the center of its southern half.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13366b.htm
Saint Asaph, Ancient Diocese of
Founded by St. Kentigern about the middle of the sixth century when he was exiled from his see in Scotland.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13332c.htm
Saint Thomas of Guiana
Diocese; suffragan of Caracas, erected by Pius VI on 19 Dec., 1791, comprises the former state of Bermúdez, districts of Nueva Esparta and Guayana, and territories of Amazonas, Caura, Colón, Orinoco, and Yuruary, in the south and east of Venezuela.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13382a.htm
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Diocese of Mauramanensis. Includes the arrondissement of Saint Jean-de-Maurienne in the Department of Haute Savoie.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13353b.htm
Schäzler, Constantine, Baron von
Theologian, b. at Ratisbon, 7 May, 1827; d. at Interlaken, 9 September, 1880.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13524a.htm
Saint-John, Ambrose
Oratorian; b. 1815; d. at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 24 May, 1875; son of Henry St. John, descended from the Barons St. John of Bletsoe.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13354a.htm
Saint-Victor, Abbey of
In 1108 William of Champeaux retired to a small hermitage dedicated to St. Victor, the martyr soldier. He was followed by many disciples and induced again to take up his lectures. Hence the origin of the Royal Abbey and School of St. Victor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13388a.htm
Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, 17 Oct., 1760; died there, 19 May, 1825. He belonged to the family of the author of the "Memoirs".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13377a.htm
Saint Andrews, University of
The germ of the university is to be found in an association of learned ecclesiastics, formed in 1410, among whom were: Laurence of Lindores, Abbot of Scone, Richard Cornwall, Archdeacon of Lothian, Wm. Stephen, afterwards Archbishop of Dunblane. They offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, canon and civil law.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13332a.htm
Saint Joseph, Diocese of
The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a Catholic. At the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866, St. Joseph was among the new episcopal sees proposed.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13356b.htm
Suso, Blessed Henry
Also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings. German mystic, born at Constance on 21 March, about 1295; died at Ulm, 25 January, 1366.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07238c.htm
Spalding, Martin John
Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore. (1810-1872)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14208a.htm
Saint-Ouen, Abbey of
Located in Rouen, France, this abbey was a Benedictine monastery of great antiquity dating back to the early Merovingian period.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13366a.htm
Sahaptin Indians
A prominent tribe formerly holding a considerable territory in Western Idaho and adjacent portions of Oregon and Washington.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13326a.htm
Saint Mark, University of
The highest institution of learning in Peru, located at Lima, under the official name of Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Reputed to be the oldest university in the New World, created by a royal decree of 12 May, 1551.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13365b.htm
Saint-Cosme, Jean-François Buisson de
Born in Quebec, Canada, February, 1667; killed, 1707. Entering the SÈminaire des Missions Etrangères of Quebec, he was ordained in 1690 and after serving for a time at Minas, Nova Scotia (then Acadia), was assigned to the western mission.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13343a.htm
Saba and Sabeans
This Saba (Sheba) must not be confounded with Saba (Seba) in Ethiopia of Is., xliii, 3; xlv, 14. It lies in the Southern Arabian Jôf about 200 miles north-west of Aden.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13285c.htm
Saint Lucius, Monastery of
Located in Chur, Switzerland. The Church of St. Lucius was built over the grave of this saint, whose relics were preserved in it until the sixteenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13365a.htm
South American College in Rome
The Rev. Ignatius Victor Eyzaguirre went to Rome, in 1857, and proposed to the Pope the erection of a college for students from Latin American countries.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01425a.htm
Saint-Dié
Diocese comprising the Department of the Vosges.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13344b.htm
Saint Thomas, Diocese of
Diocese comprising the Islands of São Thomé and Principe, in the Gulf of Guinea.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13381b.htm
Sacred Heart, Brothers of the
A congregation founded in 1821 by Père André Coindre, of the Diocese of Lyons, France. Its constitutions were modeled upon the constitutions of St. Ignatius based upon the Rule of Saint Augustine. Its members bind themselves for life by the simple vows of religion.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13305a.htm
Sainte Anne d'Auray
A little village three miles from the town of Auray, in the Diocese of Vannes, famous for its sanctuary and for its pilgrimages, or pardons, in honour of St. Anne.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01539a.htm
Sidon
Titular metropolis of Pamphylia Prima.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13777a.htm
Saint Francis Mission
A noted Catholic Indian mission village under Jesuit control near Pierreville, Yamaska district, Province of Quebec, Canada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13348a.htm
Salesian Society, The
Founded by Saint John Bosco, takes its distinctive name from its patron, Saint Francis de Sales.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13398b.htm
Salamon, Louis-Siffren-Joseph
Bishop of Saint-Flour; b. at Carpentras, 22 Oct., 1759; d. at Saint-Flour, 11 June, 1829.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13395a.htm
Saint George's
Diocese in Newfoundland. Beginning at Garnish it takes in the western portion of the south coast and then stretches along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northwards, almost as far as the Straits of Belle Isle, lying between 55° 20' and 59° 30' west longitude and between 47° 30' and 51° 20' north latitude.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13351a.htm
Saint-Vallier, Jean-Baptiste de
Second Bishop of Quebec, b. at Grenoble, France, 14 Nov. 1653; d. at Quebec, Canada, 26 Dec., 1727; son of Jean de La Croix de Chevrières, and Marie de Sayne.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13387a.htm
Synod
A general term for ecclesiastical gatherings under hierarchical authority, for the discussion and decision of matters relating to faith, morals, or discipline. It corresponds to the Latin word concilium.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14388a.htm
Society of Jesus, The
A religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14081a.htm
Stoning in Scripture
At first an expression of popular fury analogous to "lynching", later came to be a natural and legally recognized method of execution.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14308a.htm
Salazar, Domingo de
Born in La Rioja, in the village of La Bastida on the banks of the Ebro, 1512; died in Madrid, 4 December, 1594. Devoted to the conversion of natives of the new world.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13395b.htm
Spiritual Direction
In the technical sense of the term, spiritual direction is that function of the sacred ministry by which the Church guides the faithful to the attainment of eternal happiness.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05024a.htm
State, Allegiance to the
The duty of loyalty and obedience which a person owes to the State of which he is a citizen.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03794b.htm
Saint-Denis
Diocese erected in 1850 as suffragan of Bordeaux, includes the Island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean about 350 miles cast of Madagascar.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13344a.htm
Saint-Denis, Abbey of
Situated in a small town to which it has given its name, about four miles north of Paris.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13343b.htm
Saint-Victor, Achard de
Canon regular, Abbot of St-Victor, Paris, and Bishop of Avranches, b. about 1100; d. 1172.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13388b.htm
Saint Peter, Tomb of
The history of the confusion and conflicting authorities surrounding the location of the tomb of Saint Peter.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13374a.htm
Salve Regina
The opening words (used as a title) of the most celebrated of the four Breviary anthems of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13409a.htm
Salmas
A Chaldean see, included in the ancient Archdiocese of Adhorbigan, or Adherbaidjan.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13402a.htm
Sale
Saliensis. Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13395c.htm
Saints, Canonization of
Traces the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm
Salvation
Salvation has in Scriptural language the general meaning of liberation from straitened circumstances or from other evils, and of a translation into a state of freedom and security.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13407a.htm
Saint Petersburg
The imperial residence and second capital of Russia, lies at the mouth of the Neva on the Gulf of Finland.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13374b.htm
Saint Hyacinthe
Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of Montreal.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13351b.htm
Salt Lake, Diocese of
Includes the State of Utah, and slightly more than half of the State of Nevada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13404c.htm
Salto
Diocese in Uruguay, suffragan to Montevideo.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13405a.htm
Salvianus
Fifth-century Latin writer.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13411a.htm
Samoa
A group of islands situated in the south Pacific.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13421a.htm
Sacristy
A room in the church or attached thereto, where the vestments, church furnishings and the like, sacred vessels, and other treasures are kept, and where the clergy meet and vest for the various ecclesiastical functions.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13322b.htm
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, The
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
Stylites
Solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism. This practice may be regarded as the climax of a tendency which became very pronounced in Eastern lands in the latter part of the fourth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14317b.htm
Salzmann, Joseph
Founder of St. Francis Provincial Seminary (St. Francis, Wisconsin) known as the "Salesianum", one of the best known pioneer priests of the North-west, b. at Münzbach, Diocese of Linz, Upper Austria, 17 Aug., 1819; d. at St. Francis, Wisconsin, 17 Jan., 1874.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13415a.htm
Salome
Daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias at whose request John the Baptist was beheaded.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13403a.htm
Samson
Most famous of the Judges of Israel.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13423a.htm
Samuel, First and Second Books of
Known as the First and Second Books of Kings in the Authorized Version, in the Hebrew editions and the Protestant versions these are known as 1st and 2nd Samuel, with the Third and Fourth Books of Kings being styled First and Second Books of Kings.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08647b.htm
Syntagma Canonum
A canonical collection made in 1335 by Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is known.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14394a.htm
Saints, Communion of
The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm
Salimbene degli Adami
Chronicler, b. at Parma, 9 Oct., 1221; d. probably at Montefalcone about 1288.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13400a.htm
Soul
The question of the reality of the soul and its distinction from the body is among the most important problems of philosophy, for with it is bound up the doctrine of a future life.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm
Salmanticenses and Complutenses
Authors of the courses of scholastic philosophy and theology, and moral theology.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13401c.htm
Salamanca
Diocese in Spain; comprises the civil Provinces of Salamanca, Cáceres, Avila, and LÈon, and is bounded on the north by Zamora, on the east by Avila and Valladolic, on the south by Cáceres, and on the west by Portugal.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13391b.htm
Scholasticism
A term used to designate both a method and a system. It is applied to theology as well as to philosophy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13548a.htm
Saavedra RemÃrez de Baquedano, Angel de
Spanish poet and statesman, b. at Cordova, 10 March, 1791; d. at Madrid, 22 June, 1865.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13285b.htm
San Gallo
A celebrated family of architects, sculptors, painters, and engravers, which flourished in Italy during the Renaissance period, from the middle of the fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century. The founder of the family was Francesco Giamberti (1405-80), a Florentine wood-carver; he had two sons, Giuliano and Antonio.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13443a.htm
Saliva Indians
The principal of a small group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock (the Salivan), centring in the eighteenth century, about and below the junction of the Meta and Orinoco, in Venezuela.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13401b.htm
Samosata
A titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis, capital of Commagenum.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13422a.htm
San Carlos de Ancud
The most southern of the Chilian dioceses.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13426a.htm
Sanction
Sanction signifies the authoritative act whereby the legislator gives a law value and binding force for its subjects.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13428a.htm
Sanctifying Grace
Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06701a.htm
Sanctuary
Church architecture term.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13431a.htm
Soter and Caius, Saints
They have their feast together on 22 April, on which day they appear in most of the martyrologies, though Notker and a few others give Soter on the 21st and Caius on the 19th or 21st.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144c.htm
Synods, National
According to the recent canon law, national councils are the deliberating assemblies at which all the bishops of a nation are convoked by the patriarch or primate (Cf. Bened. XIV, "De Synodo", I, i), but, in order to include the ancient national synods, it would be more correct to say a legitimate assemblage of the episcopate of a nation, the decisions of which are valid for an entire national Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14389a.htm
Sabrata
A titular see in Tripolitana. Sabrata was a Phoenician town on the northern coast of Africa, between the two Syrta. With Oca and Leptis Magna it caused the Greek name Tripolis to be given to the region.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13292a.htm
Sacchoni, Rainerio
A learned and zealous Dominican, born at Piacenza about the beginning of the thirteenth century; died about 1263.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13292b.htm
Saint-Claude
The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only twenty-six parishes, subject previously to the Abbey of Saint-Claude, and some parishes detached from the Dioceses of Besançon and Lyons.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13341a.htm
Saltillo, Diocese of
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Linares, or Monterey.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13404b.htm
Sa, Manoel de
Portuguese theologian and exegete, b. at Villa do Conde (Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro), 1530; d. at Arona (Italy), 30 Dec., 1596.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13285a.htm
Sampson, Richard
English bishop (d. 1554)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13422b.htm
Samogitia
A Russian diocese, also called Telshi (Telshe), including the part of Lithuania lying on the Baltic.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13421b.htm
Sanctity
Explains the meaning of the term "sanctity" as employed in somewhat different senses in relation to God, to individual men, and to a corporate body.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13428b.htm
Salvete Christi Vulnera
The Roman Breviary hymn at Lauds of the feast of the Most Precious Blood, is found in the Appendix to Pars Verna of the Roman Breviary (Venice, 1798).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13410a.htm
Salmeron, Alphonsus
Jesuit Biblical scholar, born at Toledo, 8 Sept., 1515; died at Naples, 13 Feb., 1585.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13402b.htm
Sainte Anne de Beaupré
Devotion to Saint Anne, in Canada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01539b.htm
Sámar and Leyte
The names of two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13415b.htm
San José de Costa Rica
The Republic of Costa Rica, Central America, constitutes this diocese as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Guatemala.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13446a.htm
Sánchez, Alonzo Coello
Painter - Born at Benyfayro, Valenciz, Spain, in 1513 or 1515; died at Madrid, 1590.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13427a.htm
Sánchez, Alonzo
Jesuit missionary and writer, born in Mondejar, Guadalajara, Spain, in 1547; died at Alcalá, 27 May, 1593.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13426b.htm
Sanchez, Thomas
Religious scholar/author - Born at Cordova, 1550; died in the college of Granada, 19 May, 1610.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13427c.htm
Saint Sylvester, Order of
The Order is neither monastic nor military but a purely honorary title created by Gregory XVI, 31 Oct., 1841.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13381a.htm
Saint John
Diocese in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13355a.htm
San León del Amazonas
Prefecture Apostolic in Peru.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13448a.htm
Sergius and Bacchus
Martyrs, died in the Diocletian persecution in Coele-Syria about 303.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13728a.htm
Syon Monastery
Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14394b.htm
Saint-Flour
Diocese comprising the Department of Cantal, and is suffragan of the Archbishopric of Bourges.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13347b.htm
Sanctorum Meritis
The hymn at First and Second Vespers in the Common of the Martyrs in the Roman Breviary. Its authorship is often attributed to Rabanus Maurus (d. 856), Archbishop of Mainz.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13429a.htm
Sankt Pölten
Diocese in Lower Austria.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13447b.htm
San Salvador
The name given by Columbus to his first discovery in the New World. It is one of the Bahama group of islands.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13450a.htm
Sandeo, Felino Maria
Often quoted under the name of Felinus, Italian canonist of the fifteenth century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13435b.htm
San Marino
An independent republic lying between the Italian Provinces of Forli, Pasaro, and Urbino.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13449a.htm
Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the subject of knotty historical disputes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13333b.htm
Sanseverino, Gaetano
Restorer of the Scholastic philosophy in Italy, b. at Naples, 1811; d. there of cholera, 16 Nov., 1865.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13453a.htm
San Luis PotosÃ
Diocese in Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1854. It includes the State of San Luis PotosÃ, and a small portion of the State of Zacatecas.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13448b.htm
San Marco and Bisignano
Diocese in the Province of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13448c.htm
San Martino al Cimino
A prelature nullius in the territory of the Diocese of Viterbo, Province of Rome.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13449b.htm
San Francisco
Archdiocese established 29 July 1853 to include multiple counties in the State of California, U.S.A.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13439c.htm
Sandwich Isands
Vicariate Apostolic comprising all the islands of the Hawaiian group.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13438a.htm
Sandomir
Ancient Polish city with existing traces of prehistoric construction.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13436b.htm
Sandemanians
An English form of the Scottish sect of Glassites, followers of John Glas (b. 1695; d. 1773) who was deposed from the Presbyterian ministry in 1728, for teaching that the Church should not be subject to any league or covenant, but should be governed only by Apostolic doctrine.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13435a.htm
Sambuga, Joseph Anton
Theologian, b. at Walldorf near Heidelberg, 9 June; 1752; d. at Nymphenburg near Munich 5 June, according to Sailer, but 5 January according to other statements, 1815.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13420a.htm
Sanetch Indians
A sub-tribe of the Songish Indians.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13439b.htm
San Antonio, Diocese of
Comprises all that portion of the State of Texas between the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers, except the land south of the Arroyo de los Hermanos, on the Rio Grande, and the Counties of Live Oak, Bee, Goliad, and Refugio.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13424b.htm
Salta, Diocese of
Comprises the civil Provinces of Salta and Jujuy in the northern part of the Republic of Argentina.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13404a.htm
Santa Fe (Argentina)
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13457a.htm
Santa Casa di Loreto
Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, the "Holy House" of Loreto has been numbered among the most famous shrines of Italy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13454b.htm
San Juan
Diocese in the Argentine Republic at the foot of the Cordillera of the Andes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13447a.htm
Samuco Indians
The collective name of a group of tribes in southwestern Bolivia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13424a.htm
Sanction, Pragmatic
Pragmatic sanction meant in the latter period of the Roman Empire an edict formally issued by the emperor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12333a.htm
Salutati, Coluccio di Pierio di
Italian Humanist b. in Tuscany, 1331; d. 4 May, 1406.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13405b.htm
Salisbury, Ancient Diocese of
The diocese was originally founded by Birinus, who in 634 established his see at Dorchester in Oxfordshire, whence he evangelized the Kingdom of Wessex. From this sprang the later Dioceses of Winchester, Sherborne, Ramsbury, and Salisbury.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13401a.htm
Sander, Nicholas
English exile - Born at Charlwood, Surrey, in 1530; died in Ireland, 1581.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13435d.htm
Sainte-Claire Deville, Charles
Geologist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 26 February, 1814; d. in Paris 10 October, 1876.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13346a.htm
Santa Maria (Brazil)
A Brazilian see, suffragan of Porto Alegre.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13458a.htm
Santiago del Estero
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, erected 25 March, 1907, suffragan of Buenos Aires.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13462a.htm
Sao Carlos do Pinhal
Diocese; suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil, South America, created on 7 June, l908.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13465a.htm
Santander
Diocese in Spain which takes its name not from St. Andrew as some believe, but from St. Hemeterius (Santemter, Santenter, Santander), one of the patrons of the city and ancient abbey.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13458d.htm
Saints Vincent and Anastasius, Abbey of
Located near Rome.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13380a.htm
Santini, Giovanni Sante Gaspero
Astronomer, b. at Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. at Padua, 26 June, 1877.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13462b.htm
Salamanca, University of
Spanish university. Had its beginning in the Cathedral School under the direction, from the twelfth century, of a magister scholarum (chancellor).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13392a.htm
Santa Lucia del Mela
Prelature nullius within the territory of the Archdiocese of Messina, Sicily.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13457b.htm
Sands, Benjamin and James
U.S. Navy admirals.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13437a.htm
San Miniato
A city and diocese in the Province of Florence, central Italy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13449c.htm
Sandhurst
Diocese in Victoria, Australia; suffragan of Melbourne.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13436a.htm
Santa Maria de Monserrato
An abbey nullius in Brazil.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13458b.htm
Santa Agata dei Goti, Diocese of
In the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy; the city, situated on a hill at the base of Monte Taburno, contains an ancient castle.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13454a.htm
Sennen and Abdon, Saints
Persian martyrs under Decius (c. A.D. 250)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01032a.htm
Stapleton, Theobald
Nothing is known of his career, except that he was a priest living in Flanders, and that in 1639 he published at Brussels a book called "Catechismus seu doctrina christiana latino-hibernica", which was the first book in which Irish was printed in Roman type.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14249a.htm
Samos
Titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades. The island, called in Turkish Soussan-Adassi, is 181 sq. miles in area and numbers 55,000 inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Greek schismatics.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13421c.htm
Salt
Always used for the seasoning of food and for the preservation of things from corruption, had from very early days a sacred and religious character.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13403b.htm
Samson
Abbot of St. Edmunds (1135-1211)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13423b.htm
Sanctus
The Sanctus is the last part of the Preface in the Mass, sung in practically every rite by the people (or choir). One of the elements of the liturgy of which exists the earliest evidence.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13432a.htm
Sao Luiz de Cáceres
Diocese in Brazil, suffragan of Cuyabá.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13465b.htm
Shert, Blessed John
Very brief biographical profile of the English priest, martyred in 1581.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689d.htm
Sacramentals
In instituting the sacraments Christ did not determine the matter and form down to the slightest detail, leaving this task to the Church, which should determine what rites were suitable in the administration of the sacraments. These rites are indicated by the word Sacramentalia, the object of which is to manifest the respect due to the sacrament and to secure the sanctification of the faithful.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13292d.htm
Sannazaro, Jacopo
Italian and Latin poet, b. at Naples, 28 July, 1458; d. at Rome, in Aug., 1530.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13449d.htm
Sarabaites
A class of monks widely spread before the time of St. Benedict.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13468b.htm
Saragossa, University of
Not definitively established until 1585, its real founder being Don Pedro Cerbunc, Prior of the Cathedral of Saragossa, and later Bishop of Tarrazona.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13470a.htm
Sardica
A titular metropolitan see of Dacia Mediterranea. The true name of the city (now Sophia, the capital of Bulgaria) was Serdica.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13472b.htm
Sao Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos
Brazilian see erected by Julius III, 25 Feb., 1551, as suffragan of Lisbon, and raised to archiepiscopal rank by Innocent XI, 16 Nov., 1676.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13466a.htm
Sardes
A titular see of Lydia, in Asia Minor probably the ancient Hyde of Homer (Iliad, II, 844; XX, 385), at the foot of Mount Tmolus.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13472a.htm
Sandals, Episcopal
Unlike the ancient sandals, which consisted merely of soles fastened to the foot by straps, the episcopal sandals are in the form of low shoes, and resemble slippers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13434a.htm
Savannah
The Diocese of Savannah comprises the State of Georgia and was created as such by Pius IX, 1850.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13488a.htm
Sassari
Archdiocese in Sardinia, Italy, situated on the River Rossello in a fertile region: a centre of the oil, fruit, wine, and tobacco industries.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13485a.htm
San Severo
Diocese in the Province of Foggia (Capitanata), Southern Italy, situated in a fertile plain, watered by the Radicosa and Triolo.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13453b.htm
Sao Paulo
Ecclesiastical province in the Republic of Brazil, South America.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13465d.htm
Sao Thiago de Cabo Verde
This diocese has the seat of its bishopric on the Island of S. Nicolau and comprises the Cape Verde Archipelago, which forms one civil province, and Portuguese Guinea, on the coast of Senegambia, which forms another.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13467a.htm
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Devotion to the
Special form of devotion to Jesus. Discussion of what it is and what distinguishes it, its object, its foundations, and its proper act.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07163a.htm
Stephen of Tournai
Canonist, born at Orléans, 1128; died at Tournai, September, 1203.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14291c.htm
Sardinia
The second largest Italian island in the Mediterranean.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13473b.htm
Santos, João dos
Dominican missionary in India and Africa, b. at Evora, Portugal; d. at Goa in 1622.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13464a.htm
Sala, George Augustus Henry
Journalist, b. in London, 24 Nov., 1828; d. at Brighton, 8 Dec., 1895, having been received into the Church before death.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13391a.htm
Sara
Wife of Abraham and also his step-sister.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13468a.htm
Schöffer, Peter
Publisher and printer, b. at Gernsheim on the Rine about 1425; d. at Mainz in 1503.
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