Selected Anthropologists and Archaeologists Margaret Mead See also People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Anthropology Archaeology Some Ancient…
(Encyclopedia) Quebec, Fr. Québec, city (1991 pop. 167,517), provincial capital, S Que., Canada, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers. The population is largely French…
(Encyclopedia) Gerson, John (Jean Charlier de Gerson)Gerson, Johngûrˈsən; zhäN shärlyāˈ də zhârsôNˈ [key], 1363–1429, French ecclesiastical statesman and writer. He studied (1377–94) under Pierre d'…
(5 syl.). “Bless you:” a benediction used in the Roman Catholic Church; also the canticle. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BenedickBendy A B C D E F G…
(Benedict ). The most wealthy farmer of Grand Pré ( Nova Scotia), and father of Evangeline. When the inhabitants of his village were exiled, and he was about to embark, he died of a broken…
was how Gregory the Great described St. Benedict. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Scio's Blind Old BardScience Persecuted A B C D E F G H I J K L…
The most popular of the Eucharistic hymns sung in the Roman Catholic churches at Benediction with the Holy Sacrament. So called from the first two words of the last stanza but one of the…
(2 syl.). The last service of the day in the Roman Catholic Church. First appointed by the abbot Benedict in the sixth century. The word is a corruption of completorium. In ecclesiastical…
A Roman emperor; so called because he wore a military sandal called a caliga, which had no upper leather, and was used only by the common soldiers. (12, 37-41.) “ `The word caligæ, however…
or Long Cross (), used for reference to a note after the asterisk (*), is a Roman Catholic character, originally employed in church books, prayers of exorcism, at benedictions, and so on…
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