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Chapeauville, Jean
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03574a.htm
Belgian theologian and historian, b. at Liège, 5 January, 1551; d. there 11 May 1617.
Chantry
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03573c.htm
The endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of choir member in a collegiate church or cathedral, or of curate in outlying districts, or of chaplain in hospitals and jails, or of schoolmaster or librarian.
Chantelou, Claude
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Patristic scholar, born in 1617, at Vion, in the present Diocese of Le Mans, France; died 28 November, 1664, at the Monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
Chancel
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03572b.htm
Part of the choir near the altar of a church, where the deacons or sub-deacons stand to assist the officiating priest.
Chanca, Diego Alvarez
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03572a.htm
A physician-in-ordinary to Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile and Aragon; dates of birth and death uncertain.
Champs, Etienne Agard de
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03569a.htm
Theologian and author. (1613-1701)
Champollion, Jean-François
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03568b.htm
A biography of the French Orientalist renowned for deciphering hieroglyphics through the triple inscription on the Rosetta Stone.
Chambéry
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In 1467, in the ducal chapel built for the Holy Winding-Sheet (Santo Sudario) by Amadeus IX, duke of Savoy, and the Duchess Yolande of France, Paul II erected a chapter directly subject to the Holy See, and his successor Sixtus IV, united this chapter with the deanery of Savoy.
Cham, Chamites
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Son of Noe and progenitor of one of the three great races of men whose ethnographical table is given by Genesis 10.
Châlons-sur-Marne
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The Diocese comprises the department of Marne, exclusive of the arrondissement of Reims.
Challoner, Richard
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03564a.htm
Bishop of Debra, Vicar Apostolic of the London District, author of spiritual and controversial works, b. 29 Sept., 1691; d. 12 Jan., 1781.
Chalice
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03561a.htm
Occupies the first place among sacred vessels, and by a figure of speech the material cup is often used as if it were synonymous with the Precious Blood itself.
Chaldean Christians
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03559a.htm
The name of former Nestorians now reunited with the Roman Church.
Chalcedon, Council of
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03555a.htm
The Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in 451, from 8 October until 1 November inclusive, at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
Chalcedon
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03554a.htm
A titular see of Asia Minor. The city was founded 676 B. C. by the Megarians on the Bithynian coast, opposite the place where a little later Byzantium rose.
Chair of Peter
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03551e.htm
From the earliest times the Church at Rome celebrated on 18 January the memory of the day when the Apostle held his first service with the faithful of the Eternal City.
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
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An island to the south-east of India and separated from it only by a chain of reefs and sand-banks called Adam's Bridge.