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Assumption, Sisters of the

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A congregation of French nuns devoted to the teaching of young girls.

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Assumption, Little Sisters of the

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A congregation whose work is the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes.

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Assumption, Augustinians of the

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Had its origin in the College of the Assumption, established in Nīmes France, in 1843.

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Assuerus

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The name of two different persons in the Bible.

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Associations, Pious

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Under this term are comprehended all those organizations, approved and indulgenced by Church authority, which have been instituted especially in recent times, for the advancement of various works of piety and charity.

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Association, Right of Voluntary

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Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.

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Association of Priestly Perseverance

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A sacerdotal association founded in 1868 at Vienna, and at first confined to that Archdiocese.

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Association of Ideas

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A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states.

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Assmayer, Ignaz

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An Austrian musician, born at Salzburg, 11 February, 1790; died in Vienna, 31 August, 1862.

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Assizes of Jerusalem

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The code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Assistant at the Pontifical Throne

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Those prelates who belong to the Papal Chapel and hold toward the Pope much the same relation as cathedral canons do to the bishop.

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Assimilation, Psychological

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As applied to a mental process, assimilation derives all its force and meaning from the analogy which many educationists have found to exist between the way in which food is incorporated into the living tissue and the manner in which truth is acquired by the growing mind.

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Assimilation, Physiological

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The vital function by which an organism changes nutrient material into living protoplasm.

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Assideans

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The maintainers of the Mosaic Law against the invasion of Greek customs.

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Assicus, Saint

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St. Patrick's coppersmith, also a renowned bellfounder, Bishop of Elphin.

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Assessors

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In ecclesiastical law, learned persons who function is to counsel a judge with whom they are associated in the trial of causes.

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Asses, Feast of

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The feast dates from the eleventh century, though the source which suggested it is much older.

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Asser, John

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A learned monk of St David's, Menevia, b. in Pembrokeshire; d. probably, 910.

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Assemblies of the French Clergy

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Meetings of the Clergy of France for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the Church by the kings of France, and incidentally for other ecclesiastical purposes.

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Assemani

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An illustrious Maronite family of Mount Lebanon, Syria, four members of which, all ecclesiastics, distinguished themselves during the eighteenth century in the East and in Europe.

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