Spanish rabbi. (1092-1167)

Associate of St. Vincent de Paul. (1603-1691)

Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian. (1079-1142)

Commentary on the first murder victim.

Biblical place-name.

A sect of Anabaptists who disdained human knowledge, contending that God would enlighten His elect interiorly and give them knowledge of necessary truths by visions and ecstasies.

Complete or partial lists of letters of the alphabet, chiefly Greek and Latin, inscribed on ancient monuments, Pagan and Christian.

May be considered as a public crime and a matrimonial diriment impediment.

Persian martyrs in the Decian persecution. Died in about 250.

Ecclesiastically considered, is the resignation of a benefice or clerical dignity.

Apocryphal writer.

A minor prophet.

A titular see in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.

Those who make an abridgment or abstract of a long writing or discourse.

Latin abbreviations commonly seen in documents of the Catholic Church, the full Latin words or phrases, and their English meaning.

Discusses forms used to get the most use from scarce and costly materials.

A title given to the superior of a community of twelve or more monks.

Biographical article on this Benedictine monk, who died in 1004.

French Benedictine monk of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, sometimes called Abbo Parisiensis.

A monastery canonically erected and autonomous, with a community of not fewer than twelve religious; monks under the government of an abbot; nuns under that of an abbess.

The female superior in spirituals and temporals of a community of twelve or more nuns.

Orientalist. (1836-1906)

A French word meaning primarily and strictly an abbot or superior of a monastery of men.