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Matthias of Neuburg

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Chronicler, born towards the close of the thirteenth century, possibly at Neuburg, in Baden; died between 1364 and 1370, probably at Strasburg, in Alsace.

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Matthew, Sir Tobie

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English priest, born at Salisbury, 3 October, 1577, died at Ghent, 13 October, 1655.

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Matthew, Saint

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The Apostle and Evangelist, in Scripture and tradition.

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Matthew of Cracow

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Renowned scholar and preacher of the fourteenth century, b. at Cracow about 1335, d. at Pisa, 5 March, 1410.

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Matteucci, Carlo

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Physicist, born at Forli, in the Romagna, 21 June, 1811; died at Ardenza, near Leghorn, 25 July, 1868.

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Matter

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Taking the term in its widest sense, matter signifies that out of which anything is made or composed.

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Matricula

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A term having several meanings in the field of Christian antiquity.

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Matins

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Not Morning Prayer, but a nighttime prayer, which has now been replaced by the Office of Readings.

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Matilda, Saint

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Biography of the Queen of Germany, wife of Henry I (the Fowler). She died in 968.

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Matilda of Canossa

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Countess of Tuscany, daughter and heiress of the Marquess Boniface of Tuscany, and Beatrice, daughter of Frederick of Lorraine, b. 1046; d. 24 July, 1114.

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Mathieu, François-Désiré

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Bishop and cardinal, born 27 May, 1839; died 26 October, 1908.

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Mathew, Theobald

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Apostle of Temperance, born at Thomastown Castle, near Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland, 10 October, 1790; died at Queenstown, Cork, 8 December, 1856.

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Mathathias

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The name of ten persons of the Bible, variant in both Hebrew and Greek of Old Testament and in Greek of New Testament; uniform in Vulgate.

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Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast of the

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Second Sunday in October. The object of this feast is to commemorate the dignity of the Mary as Mother of God.

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Materialism

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As the word itself signifies, Materialism is a philosophical system which regards matter as the only reality in the world, which undertakes to explain every event in the universe as resulting from the conditions and activity of matter, and which thus denies the existence of God and the soul.

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Mater

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A titular bishopric in the province of Byzantium.

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Mataco Indians

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Tribes ranging over a great part of the Chaco region, about the headwaters of the Vermejo and the Picomayo, in the Argentine province of Salta and the Bolivian province of Tarija, and noted for the efforts made by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries in their behalf in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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