The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and more especially, athletic training.

The fortieth day after Easter Sunday, commemorating the Ascension of Christ into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2.

The elevation of Christ into heaven by His own power in presence of His disciples the fortieth day after His Resurrection.

A Bull issued by Gregory XIII, 24 May, 1584, in favor of the Society of Jesus, to confirm the constitution of the Society, and the privileges already granted to it by Paul III, Julius III, Paul IV, and Pius V.

Ambassador of Innocent IV (1243-54) to the Tartars.

A titular see of Palestine.

First bishop of the Welsh town named after him. Second half of sixth century.

Thomas, first Lord Arundell of Wardour.

Sixtieth Archbishop of Canterbury, second son of Robert, Earl of Arundel and Warren, b. 1353; d. 19 February, 1414.

A Russian city in the trans-Caucasian province of Kutais.

Chiefly used during the Middle Ages. Doesn't mean arts as the word is understood today, but those branches of knowledge which were taught in the schools of that time.

One of the four traditional divisions of the teaching body of the university.

An academic degree higher than that of Bachelor.

A degree marking the completion of the traditional curriculum of the college.

A peculiar service in the Greek Church performed as the concluding part of Vespers.

A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 articles relative to Catholicism, and 44 relative to Protestantism, presented by order of Napoleon to the Tribunate and the legislative body at the same time that he made these two bodies vote on the Concordat itself.

Certain revealed supernatural truths such as those contained in the symbol of the Apostles.

A celebrated Catholic physician of the seventeenth century, born at Limerick, 1593, died c. 1666.

A Dominican friar, and a theologian of note, b. at Limerick, Ireland, early in the seventeenth century; d. (probably) 1670.

Mentioned as the leader of an Antitrinitarian sect at Rome, in the third century.

A titular see of Egypt, now Medinet el Fayum.

A Roman, was tutor to the emperor's children before fleeing to the monastery of St. John the Dwarf. Arsenius died in 450.

Patriarch of Constantinople. (d. 1273)