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Down and Connor

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A line drawn from Whitehouse on Belfast Lough due west to the Clady River, thence by the river itself to Muckamore and Lough Neagh, marks the boundary between the Diocese of Down and the Diocese of Connor.

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Dower, Religious

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Because of its analogy with the dower that a woman brings to her husband when she marries, the name "religious dower" has been given to the sum of money or the property that a religious woman, or nun (religiosa) brings, for her maintenance, into the convent where she desires to make her profession.

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Dower

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A provision for support during life accorded by law to a wife surviving her hustand.

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Dowdall, James

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Martyr, date of birth unknown; executed for his faith at Exeter, England, 20 September, 1600.

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Dowdall, George

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Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in 1487; d. at London, 15 August, 1558.

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Dove

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In Christian antiquity the dove appears as a symbol and as a Eucharistic vessel.

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Doutreleau, Stephen

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Missionary, born in France, 11 October, 1693; date of death uncertain.

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Douglas, Gavin

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Scottish prelate and poet, born about 1474; died 1522.

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Doubt

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A state in which the mind is suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.

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Douay Bible

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The original Douay Version, which is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic versions are still based, owed its existence to the religious controversies of the sixteenth century.

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Douai

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The town of Douai, in the department of Nord, France, is on the River Scarpe, some twenty miles south of Lille.

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Dossi, Giovanni

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An Italian painter, b. about 1479; d. at Ferrara in 1542.

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Dosquet, Pierre-Herman

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Fourth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Liège, Flanders, 1691; d. at Paris, 1777.

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Dositheans

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Followers of Dositheus, a Samaritan who formed a Gnostic-Judaistic sect, previous to Simon Magus.

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Dorylaeum

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A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor.

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Dorsey, Anne Hanson

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Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896.

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Dorothea, Saint

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Brief hagiographies of two saints of this name: St. Dorothea, virgin and martyr, d. at Caesarea; and St. Dorothea of Montau.

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Dornin, Bernard

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First publisher in the United States of distinctively Catholic books, b. in Ireland, 1761; d. in Ohio, 1836.

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Dorman, Thomas

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Theologian, b. at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, date uncertain; d. at Tournai, 1572 or 1577.

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Doring, Matthias

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Historian and theologian, b. between 1390 and 1400, at Kyritz, in Brandenburg; d. there 24 July, 1469.

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Doria, Andrea

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Genoese admiral and statesman, b. at Oneglia, Italy, 1468; d. at Genoa, 1560.

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Dore, Pierre

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Controversialist, b. at Orleans about 1500; d. at Paris, 19 May, 1559.

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