Fourth-century Arian sect.

The Biblical Acacia belongs to the genus Mimosa.

Provides details on the geography, ethnology, political revolutions, as well as church information.

Primarily and classically an adjective, very deep.

A titular see of Troas in Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespontic province.

An Italian bishop, b. at Thessalonica early in the fifth century; d. 469.

A bishop of Caria in Syria; d., probably, in 770.

An English or Lowland Scotch form of the middle-Latin word abthania (Gaelic, abdhaine), meaning abbacy.

A process (or a faculty) by which the mind selects for consideration some one of the attributes of a thing to the exclusion of the rest.

Article deals with effects due to partial or periodic abstinence, such as practiced by the Catholic Church.

Includes information about old and new testament fasting as well as church laws.

One who cannot take wine without risk of vomiting.

The remission of sin, or of the punishment due to sin, granted by the Church.

Philosophical term referring to God.

Wormwood, known for its repulsive bitterness.

A Danish prelate, also known as Axel. (1128-1201)

Article covers Absalom, son of David; Absalom, father of Mathathias; and Absalom, father of Jonathan.

A class of ancient stone articles, of small dimensions, inscribed with outlandish figures and formulas.

Jesuit theologian. (1589-1655)

Syrian heretics of the ninth century.

Found only in two verses of St. Luke's Gospel (xvi, 22, 23).

A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome.

A Discalced Augustinian friar, preacher, and author of popular books of devotion. (1644-1709)