In use not only in the old Roman province of Africa of which Carthage was the capital, but also in Numidia and Mauretania.

The name given to the Christian communities inhabiting the region known politically as Roman Africa.

This name, which is of Phoenician origin, was at first given by the Romans to the territory about the city of Carthage.

Martyred at Augsburg in the Diocletian persecution (c. 304) for refusing to participate in pagan rites.

Second son of Gonzallo de Albuquerque, lord of Villaverde.

Archbishop of Paris. (1793-1848)

Benedictine abbey in Belgium.

A solemn declaration accepted in legal procedure in lieu of the requisite oath.

Scripture recognizes affinity as an impediment to wedlock.

A relationship arising from the carnal intercourse of a man and a woman, sufficient for the generation of children, whereby the man becomes related to the woman's blood-relatives and the woman to the man's.

A Roman general, patrician, and consul, b. towards the end of the fourth century; d. 454.

The Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, by which he summoned the Vatican Council. It is dated Rome, 29 June, 1868.

An encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII (issued 4 August, 1879); not to be confused with the apostolic letter of the same name written by Pope Pius IX.

May be defined as a systematic training to right thinking and right feeling in matters of art, and is made a part of philosophy by A.G. Baumgarten.

A friend and fellow ascetic of Eustathius, who became Bishop of Sebaste (355), and who ordained Aërius and placed him over the hospital or asylum in that city.

The largest and outer-most covering of the chalice and paten in the Greek church, corresponding to the veil in the Latin rite.

The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal Being.

Mentioned in John 3:23, as the locality where the forerunner of Christ baptized.

Irish hermit, hagiographer, poet, late eighth century.

A Neo-Platonic philosopher, a convert to Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the fifth century.

Cistercian abbot, homilist, spiritual writer, d. 1166 or 1167.

Monk and biographer, of whom nothing is known except his Life of St. Canute the Martyr, written in 1109.

The author of the homilies in Anglo-Saxon, a translator of Holy Scripture, and a writer upon many miscellaneous subjects.