Etymologically denotes divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God.

The nom de plume of an ancient, learned, and pious writer whose identity remained unknown for some centuries.

The characteristic of those who regard the ideas of truth and right, goodness and beauty, as standards and directive forces.

The word was originally Greek, but passed without change into Latin. It seems first to have meant form, shape, or appearance, whence, by an easy transition, it acquired the connotation of nature, or kind.

Probably from an Arapahoe Indian word, "Gem of the Mountains", the name first suggested for the territory of Colorado.

A great screen or partition running from side to side of the apse or across the entire end of the church, which divides the sanctuary from the body of the church, and is built of solid materials such as stone, metal, or wood, and which reaches often (as in Russia) to the very ceiling of the church, thus completely shutting off the altar and the sanctuary from the worshipper.

The science of the description, history, and interpretation of the traditional representations of God, the saints and other sacred subjects in art.

The name of the heresy that in the eighth and ninth centuries disturbed the peace of the Eastern Church, caused the last of the many breaches with Rome that prepared the way for the schism of Photius, and was echoed on a smaller scale in the Frankish kingdom in the West.

A titular see of Lycaonia.

The island called Iceland, is considered, because of its population and history as forming a part of Europe, is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A titular see in the Province of Helenopont, suffragan of Amasia.

Founder of the colony of Louisiana, b. at Villemarie, Montreal, 16 July, 1661; d. at Havana, 9 July, 1706.

Elected Bishop of Edessa in 439 as successor of Rabbulas, one of the most ardent supporters of St. Cyril; d. 457.

Diocese in Southern Ecuador, suffragan of Quito, created by Pius IX.

Irishman, contemporary of St. Patrick, and was a missionary in County Wexford before Patrick set foot in Ireland. Uncle of St. Abban.

Suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of Colombia, South America.