In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage, however, excludes servants.

Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In canon law the term usually signifies seculars residing in monasteries and other religious houses, actually employed therein as servants and subject to the authority of the regular prelate to the same extent as servants are subject to their masters.

A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.

A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.

A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.

Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)

Anatomist. (1523-1562)

A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.

Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)

A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.

Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.

Those who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by confirmation.

The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.

Two groups of martyrs. The first were martyred along with their mother Sophia during the reign of Hadrian, and buried on the Aurelian Way. The second band, also along with someone named Sophia, were martyred at a later date, and buried along the Appian Way.

In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.

Historian. (1800-1870)

Mathematician. (1682-1766)

Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.

Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.

A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.

In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.

Article covers the meaning and classification.

Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)