A small inland town in the county Galway, Ireland, anciently called Athnere, from Ath-na-Riagh, the king's ford, or the abode of the king.

A Christian apologist of the second half of the second century of whom no more is known than that he was an Athenian philosopher and a convert to Christianity.

Established in the County of Somerset, England. Founded by King Alfred, A.D. 888, as a religious house for monks of the Order of St. Benedict.

That system of thought which is formally opposed to theism.

Long article on the Bishop of Alexandria, confessor and Doctor of the Church.

One of the symbols of the Faith approved by the Church and given a place in her liturgy.

Suffragan of Saint Boniface; erected 8 April, 1862, by Pius IX.

Duchesne introduced the word to designate those cases in which species revert spontaneously to what are presumably long-lost characters.

Claimed to have been sent by God to drive the Spaniards from western South America.

Son of the Inca war chief Huayna Capac and an Indian woman from Quito.

Son of a converted Protestant minister. (1684-1766)

French cardinal. (1772-1851)

Includes examples of Old and New Testament references.

Divided into two main branches, astrometry and astrophysics; the former concerned with determining the places of the investigation of the heavenly bodies, the latter, with the investigation of their chemical and physical nature.

The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older planets, on the fate of man.

Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Valladolid.

The name of several English Catholics of prominence.

One of the divisions of the province of Alexandria, and suffragan of Turin.

Name of several prominent persons in early Christian history.

This is a utensil for the Liturgy according to the Greek Rite, which is not used in Roman Rite.

Includes geographical and historical information.

A titular see of Proconsular Africa, now Henchir-Zenfour.

Three definitions.