The ant symbolises prudence the ape, malice, lust, and cunning the ass, sobriety, or the Jewish nation the asp, Christ, or Christian faith the bee, industry the camel, submission the cock…
ParadisoPostscript Six Sonnets on Dante's Divine Comedy by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,…
A victim. The consecrated bread of the Eucharist is so called in the Latin Church because it is believed to be a real victim consisting of flesh, blood, and spirit, offered up in sacrifice…
(Encyclopedia) Augusta
Augusta
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[key]. 1 City (2020 pop. 199,614), seat of Richmond co., E Ga.; inc. 1798. At
the head of navigation on the Savannah River…
(Encyclopedia) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the…
(Encyclopedia) Boas, FranzBoas, Franzbōˈăz, –ăs [key], 1858–1942, German-American anthropologist, b. Minden, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Kiel, 1881. He joined an expedition to Baffin Island in 1883 and…
(Encyclopedia) Pius XII, 1876–1958, pope (1939–58), an Italian named Eugenio Pacelli, b. Rome; successor of Pius XI. Ordained a priest in 1899, he entered the Vatican's secretariat of state. He…
Priests used to wear their ring on the fore-finger (which represents the Holy Ghost) in token of their spiritual office. (See Wedding Finger.) The ring finger represents the humanity of…
(St.). The patron saint of boys, as St. Catherine is of girls. In Germany, a person assembles the children of a family or school on the 6th December (the eve of St. Nicholas), and…
Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths. It affirms the existence of one God, Yahweh, who entered into covenant with the descendants of Abraham, God's chosen people. Judaism's holy writings…
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