Consists of five parts: the foot, the stem, the knob about the middle of the stem, the bowl to receive the drippings of wax, and the pricket, i.e. the sharp point that terminates the stem on which the candle is fixed.

For mystical reasons the Church prescribes that the candles used at Mass and at other liturgical functions be made of beeswax.

Bread is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist.

Made of wood, tin, britannia, silver, or other metal. A round flat weight, covered if necessary with silk or linen, and having a knob on top, so as to be easily taken hold of, is placed on the breads.

A small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar.

In the New Law the altar is the table on which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is offered.

An exempt archipresbyterate in the province of Bari, in southern Italy.

Jesuit. (1625-1715)

The German Imperial Territory so known, and divided for State purposes into three civil districts.

Physician and botanist. (1553-1617)

Spanish-born widower, Jesuit lay brother, served as porter at Majorca for 46 years, d. 1617. Also known as Alonso.

Long biographical article on the founder of the Redemptorists and devotional writer.

The Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets have been variously made use of in Christian liturgy.

Employed from the fourth century as a symbol expressing the confidence of orthodox Christians in the scriptural proofs of Our Lord's divinity.

Includes Jewish and Christian meanings.

Short biography of this Jesuit student, who died in 1591 at the age of 23.

A party of heretics who arose after the Cataphrygians, Quartodecimans, and others, and who received neither the Gospel of St. John nor his Apocalypse.

English hermit and martyr, d. about 700.

Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity.

Sixteenth-century English priest and writer.

English Cistercian and Confessor the Faith. (d. 1585)

Italian Oratorian priest. (1714-1779)

A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Granada in Spain.