The name of a prayer that occurs in all Eastern liturgies (and originally in Western liturgies also) after the words of Institution, in which the celebrant prays that God may send down His Holy Spirit to change this bread and wine into the Body and Blood of His Son.

In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude.

One of the defenders of the Faith of Chalcedon (451) against the Monophysites, b. at Amida in Mesopotamia; d. in 545.

Long article on the life and works of the hermit, deacon, poet.

a kind of garment, which differed according to its use by the high-priest, by other persons present at religious services, or as the object of idolatrous worship.

One of the many examples of the legend about a man who falls asleep and years after wakes up to find the world changed.

The Acts of the first session of this synod were read at the Council of Chalcedon, 451, and have thus been preserved. The remainder of the Acts are known only through a Syriac translation by a Monophysite monk, published from the British Museum MS. Addit. 14,530, written in the year 535.

The third ecumenical council, held in 431.

A titular archiespiscopal see in Asia Minor, said to have been founded in the eleventh century B.C. by Androcles, son of the Athenian King Codrus, with the aid of Ionian colonists.

The letter which, in the manuscripts containing the Epistles of St. Paul, bears the title "To the Ephesians" comprises two parts distinctly separated by a doxology (Eph., iii, 20 sq.).

Diocese of the Greek Ruthenian Rite, suffragan to Gran.

A philanthropic priest and inventor of the sign alphabet for the instruction of the deaf and dumb; was b. at Versailles, 25 November, 1712; d. at Paris, 23 December, 1789.

Originally the name of one of the divisions of the Roman Empire.

The surplus days of the solar over the lunar year; hence, more freely, the number of days in the age of the moon on 1 January of any given year. The whole system of epacts is based on the Metonic Lunar Cycle, and serves to indicate the days of the year on which the new moons occur.

Some details on five Irish saints of this name.

From Greek 'enthronízein, to place on a throne.

A superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns in classic architecture.

Belonged to a family of architects who came from Einsingen near Ulm, Wurtemberg, and who shared as master-builders in the construction of the most important Gothic buildings of the fifteenth century in Southern Germany.

Rhetorician and bishop, b. probably at Arles, in Southern Gaul, in 474; d. at Pavia, Italy, 17 July, 521.

Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish literatures are a few of the influences.

The restoration of the English hierarchy in 1850 was a milestone for English Catholics after the Penal Times.

Since this article was published, some of the causes for canonization have been successful, and others have progressed from "venerable" to "blessed."

Information on its foundation, scholastic status, and students.