African-born Benedictine abbot, d. 710.

Reigned 1154-1159.

Short article on this pope, a Roman, who died in 885.

Reigned 867-872.

Reigned 772-95.

Knight of St. John, martyred in 1539.

An Italian bishopric, suffragan to Venice.

A hymn sometimes styled Rhythmus, or Oratio, S. Thomæ (sc. Aquinatis) written c. 1260.

Italian preacher. (1531-1586)

A term broadly used to designate the practically uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

In the strict sense, an act of religion offered to God in acknowledgment of His supreme perfection and dominion, and of the creature's dependence upon Him.

The theory that the man Jesus at some point in time became the Son of God only by adoption. Strictly speaking, refers to an eighth-century Spanish heresy, but the term is also used to cover similar beliefs.

The adoption of man by God in virtue of which we become His sons and heirs.

The Church made its own the Roman law of adoption, with its legal consequences.

Adoption, as defined in canon law, is foreign to the Bible.

Fourth son of King David, and Adonias the Levite are discussed.

Hebrew meaning "lord, ruler", a name bestowed upon God in the Old Testament.

Benedictine monk, pilgrim, scholar, pastor, Archbishop of Vienne, d. 875.

A Benedictine abbey in Styria, Austro-Hungary.

A preliminary means used by the Church towards a suspected person, as a preventive of harm or a remedy of evil.

One charged with the care of church property.

Includes details on administrators of dioceses, parishes, and ecclesiastical institutions.

An urgent demand made upon another to do something, or to desist from doing something, which is rendered more solemn by coupling with it the name of God.