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- Ibagué:
(IBAGUENSIS)
Suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of ...
- Ibar, Saint:
A pre- Patrician Irish saint, who laboured in the present County Wexford from 425 ...
- Ibarra:
(IBARRENSIS)
Diocese in Southern Ecuador, suffragan of ...
- Ibas:
(Syriac IHIBA or HIBA, i.e. DONATUS)
Elected
- Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d':
Founder of the colony of Louisiana, b. at Villemarie, Montreal, 16 July, 1661; d. ...
- Ibora:
A titular see in the Province of Helenopont, suffragan of Amasia. The ...
- Iceland:
The island called Iceland, which, though really a part of America, is considered, ...
- Ichthys (Fish), Symbolism of the:
Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish ranks ...
- Iconium:
A titular see of Lycaonia. Xenophon (Anab., I, ii, 19) says that it is the ...
- Iconoclasm:
Iconoclasm ( ...
- Iconography, Christian:
The science of the description, history, and interpretation of the traditional ...
- Iconostasis:
(Gr. eikonostasion, eidonostasis , picture screen, from eikon , image, ...
- Idaho:
(Probably from an Arapahoe Indian word, "Gem of the Mountains"), the name first ...
- Idatius of Lemica:
( Also IDATIUS; LEMICA is more correctly LIMICA.)
A ...
- Idea:
(Latin idea, forma, species; Greek
- Idealism:
In discussing this term and its meaning, reference must be had to the cognate ...
- Ideas, Association of:
(1) A principle in
- Idioms, Communication of:
("Communication of Idioms").
A technical expression in the ...
- Idiota:
(RAYMUNDUS JORDANUS)
The nom de plume of an ancient, ...
- Idolatry:
(Greek eidololatria .)
- Idumea:
The country inhabited by the descendants of Edom. The word
- Iglesias de la Casa, José:
A Spanish of the coterie gathered about Meléndez, Valdés, born at ...
- Iglesias, Diocese of:
(ECCLESIENSIS)
A suffragan of Cagliari in Sardinia. The ...
- Ignacio de Azevedo, Blessed:
Born at Oporto, Portugal, 1528; died near Palma, one of the Canary Islands, 15 ...
- Ignatius Loyola, Saint:
Youngest son of Don Beltrán Yañez de Oñez y Loyola and
- Ignatius of Antioch, Saint:
Also called Theophorus ( ho Theophoros ); born in Syria, around the year 50; ...
- Ignatius of Constantinople, Saint:
Born about 799; died 23 October, 877; son of Emperor Michael I and Procopia. His ...
- Igneus, Blessed Peter:
(Peter Aldobrandini.)
An Italian
- Ignorance:
( Latin in , not, and gnarus , knowing)
- IHS:
A monogram of the name of Jesus ...
- Ildephonsus, Saint:
Archbishop of Toledo; died 23 January, 667. He was born of a distinguished
- Illegitimacy:
As generally defined, and as understood in this article,
- Illinois:
One of the United States of
- Illinois Indians:
(Illinois, through the French, from Illini-wek, i.e., men ; the name used by ...
- Illtyd, Saint:
(Or ILTUTUS.)
Flourished in the latter part of the fifth and ...
- Illuminated Manuscripts: I. ORIGIN
A large number of
- Illuminati:
The name assumed by the members of a
- Illuminati:
(Alumbrados.)
The name assumed by some false mystics who ...
- Illuminative Way:
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. ...
- Illyria:
A district of the Balkan Peninsula, which has varied in extent at different ...
- Iltutus, Saint:
(Or ILTUTUS.)
Flourished in the latter part of the fifth and ...
- Images, Veneration of: I. IMAGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
The First Commandment would seem absolutely ...
- Imagination: ITS NATURE
- Imbonati, Carlo Giuseppe:
Cistercian of the Reform of St. Bernard, orientalist, biographer, theologian ; ...
- Imhof, Maximus von:
German physicist, born 26 July, 1758, at Rissbach, in Bavaria ; died 11 April, ...
- Imitation of Christ:
A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the "Following of Christ". Its ...
- Immaculate Conception: The doctrine
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, ...
- Immaculate Conception, Congregation of the: I. Congregation of the
- Immanence:
( Latin in manere , to remain in)
- Immanuel:
Emmanual ( Septuagint Emmanouel ; A.V.,
- Immortality:
( Latin, in, mortalis; German, Unsterblichkeit )
By
- Immunity:
( Latin immunitas ).
- Imola:
(Imolensis)
Diocese ; suffragan of Bologna. The city is ...
- Imola, Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da:
Italian painter ; b. at Imola, c. 1494; d. at Bologna, c. 1550. When but twelve ...
- Impanation:
An heretical doctrine according to which
- Impediments, Canonical: I. GENERAL NOTION OF AN IMPEDIMENT
The Latin word impedimentum ...
- Imperative, Categorical:
A term which originated in
- Imperfect Contrition:
Attrition or ...
- Imposition of Hands:
A symbolical
- Impostors:
Under this heading we may notice a certain number of objectionable characters who, ...
- Improperia:
The Improperia ...
- In Cœna Domini:
A papal Bull, so called from the feast on which it was annually published in ...
- In Commendam:
A phrase used in
- In Partibus Infidelium:
(Often shortened to in partibus , or abbreviated as i.p.i. ).
- In Petto:
An Italian translation of the Latin in pectore , "in the breast", i.e. in the ...
- Incardination and Excardination:
(Latin cardo, a pivot, socket, or hinge--hence, incardinare, to hang on a ...
- Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, Order of the:
Founded in the early part of the seventeenth century by Jeanne Chezard de Matel. ...
- Incarnate Word, Sisters of Charity of the:
This congregation, with simple vows, was founded by Rt. Rev. C.M. Dubuis,
- Incarnation, The: I. The Fact of the Incarnation(1) The Divine
- Incense:
( Latin thus , Gr. thumiama ), an aromatic
- Incest:
(Latin in , not, and castus , chaste).
- Inchbald, Elizabeth:
Novelist, dramatist, and actress; b. at Staningfield, near Bury St. Edmunds, 15 ...
- Incorporation of Church Property, Civil:
Christianity at its very beginning, found the concept of the
- Index of Prohibited Books:
The Index of Prohibited Books, or simply "Index", is used in a restricted sense to ...
- India:
In popular language the name "India", in its widest extension, is taken to include ...
- Indian Missions, Bureau of Catholic:
An institution originated (1874) by J. Roosevelt Bailey,
- Indiana:
Indiana, one of the United States of
- Indianapolis:
(INDIANAOLITANA)
Diocese ; suffragan of Cincinnati, ...
- Indians, American: GENERAL
When Columbus landed on the island of
- Indies, Patriarchate of the East: In consequence of an agreement between the
- Indifferentism, Religious:
The term given, in general, to all those theories, which, for one
- Individual, Individuality:
(Latin individuum; German Einzeln; French individuel )
...
- Individualism:
A comprehensive and logical definition of this term is not easy to obtain.
- Indo-China:
Indo-China, the most easterly of the three great peninsulas of Southern Asia, is ...
- Induction:
I.
- Indulgences:
The word indulgence ( Latin indulgentia , from indulgeo , to be kind or ...
- Indulgences, Apostolic:
The indulgences known as ...
- Indult, Pontifical:
( Latin Indultum , found in Roman Law, bk. I, Cod. Theodos. 3, 10. and 4, 15: V, ...
- Ine, Saint:
(Ini or Ina).
King of West Saxons, d. 728. He was a son of ...
- Infallibility:
In general ,
- Infamy:
( Latin in , not, and fama , fame.)
- Infanticide:
Child-murder; the killing of an infant before or after birth. According to the ...
- Infessura, Stefano:
Born at Rome ...
- Infidels:
(Latin in , privative, and fidelis .)
As in ...
- Infinity:
(Latin infinitas; in, not, finis , the end, the boundary).
- Infralapsarians:
( Latin, infra lapsum , after the fall).
The name given ...
- Ingen-Housz, Jan:
Investigator of the physiology of plants, physicist, and physician, b. at
- Inghirami, Giovanni:
Italian astronomer, b. at Volterra, Tuscany, 16 April, 1779; d. at Florence, 15 ...
- Ingleby, Venerable Francis:
English martyr, born about 1551; suffered at York on Friday, 3 June, 1586 (old ...
- Ingolstadt, University of:
The University of Ingolstadt (1472-1800), was founded by Louis the Rich, Duke of ...
- Ingram, Venerable John:
English martyr, born at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, in 1565; executed at ...
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste Dominique:
French painter, b. at Montauban, 29 August, 1780; d. at Paris, 14 January, 1867. ...
- Ingulf:
Abbot of Croyland, Lincolnshire; d. there 17 December 1109. he is first heard of ...
- Ingworth, Richard of:
(INGEWRTHE, INDEWURDE).
Franciscan preacher who flourished ...
- Injustice:
( Latin in, privative, and jus, right).
Injustice, in the ...
- Innocent I, Pope:
Date of birth unknown; died 12 March, 417. Before his elevation to the Chair of ...
- Innocent II, Pope:
(Gregorio Papereschi)
Elected 14 Feb., 1130; died 24 Sept., ...
- Innocent III, Pope:
(Lotario de' Conti)
One of the greatest
- Innocent IV, Pope:
(Sinibaldo de' Fieschi)
Count of Lavagna, born at Genoa, ...
- Innocent IX, Pope:
(Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti)
Born at Bologna, 22 July, ...
- Innocent V, Blessed Pope:
(PETRUS A TARENTASIA)
Born in Tarentaise, towards 1225; ...
- Innocent VI, Pope:
(ETIENNE AUBERT)
Born at Mont in the
- Innocent VII, Pope:
(Cosimo de' Migliorati)
Born of humble
- Innocent VIII, Pope:
(Giovanni Battista Cibò)
Born at Genoa, 1432; elected ...
- Innocent X, Pope:
(Giambattista Pamfili)
Born at Rome, 6 May, 1574; died ...
- Innocent XI, Pope:
(Benedetto Odescalchi)
Born at Como, 16 May, 1611; died at ...
- Innocent XII, Pope:
(ANTONIO PIGNATELLI)
Born at Spinazzolo near Naples, 13 ...
- Innocent XIII, Pope:
(Michelangelo Dei Conti)
Born at Rome, 13 May, 1655; died ...
- Innsbruck University:
Innsbruck University, officially the ROYAL IMPERIAL LEOPOLD FRANCIS UNIVERSITY IN ...
- Inquisition: ( Latin inquirere , to look to).
By this term is usually ...
- Inquisition, Canonical:
Canonical
- Insane, Asylums and Care for the:
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries hospital care of the sick of all ...
- Insanity:
All writers on this subject confess their inability to frame a strictly logical ...
- Inscriptions, Early Christian:
Inscriptions of
- Inspiration of the Bible:
The subject
- Installation:
( Latin installare , to put into a stall).
This word, ...
- Instinct: DEFINITIONS
In both popular and scientific literature the term
- Institute of Mary:
The official title of the second congregation founded by
- Institute of Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart:
In the autumn of 1888, there came to Baltimore, Maryland, a convert, Mrs. ...
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Irish:
Founded by Frances
- Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools: NATURE AND OBJECT
The Institute of the Brothers of the
- Institutes, Roman Historical:
Collegiate ...
- Institution, Canonical:
(Latin institutio , from instituere , to establish)
In ...
- Intellect:
(Latin intelligere -- inter and legere -- to choose between, to discern; ...
- Intendencia Oriental y Llanos de San Martín:
Vicariate Apostolic in the province of Saint Martin, Colombia, South America, ...
- Intention:
( Latin intendere, to stretch toward, to aim at) is an act of the
- Intercession:
To intercede is to go or come between two parties, to plead before one of them on ...
- Intercession, Episcopal:
The right to ...
- Interdict:
(Latin interdictum , from inter and dicere ).
...
- Interest (in Economics): Notion of interest
Interest is a value exacted or promised over and above ...
- Interest (in Psychology):
( Latin interest; Fr. intérêt; Germ. interesse ). The mental ...
- Interims:
( Latin interim , meanwhile.)
- Internuncio:
( Latin inter , between; nuntius , messenger.)
The name ...
- Introduction, Biblical:
A technical name which is usually applied to two distinct, but intimately ...
- Introit:
The Introit ( ...
- Intrusion:
(Latin intrudere .)
- Intuition:
Intuition ...
- Inventory of Church Property:
By inventory ( Latin inventarium ) is meant a descriptive list in which are ...
- Investiture, Canonical:
( Latin investitura , from investire , to clothe.)
...
- Investitures, Conflict of:
( German Investiturstreit .)
The terminus technicus for ...
- Invincible Armada, The:
The Spanish Armada, also called the Invincible Armada ( infra ), and more ...
- Invitatorium:
The Invitatorium, as the word implies, is the invitation addressed to the faithful ...
- Iona, School of:
Iona is the modern name derived by change of letter from Adamnan's Ioua ; in
- Ionian Islands:
A group of seven islands (whence the name Heptanesus, by which they are also ...
- Ionian School of Philosophy:
The Ionian School includes the earliest Greek philosophers, who lived at Miletus, ...
- Ionopolis:
A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia, suffragan of Gangres. The city ...
- Iowa:
Iowa is one of ...
- Ipolyi, Arnold:
( Family name ...
- Ippolito Galantini, Blessed:
Founder of the Congregation of
- Ipsus:
A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, suffragan of Synnada. The locality was ...
- Ireland: GEOGRAPHY
- Ireland, Ven. William:
( Alias Ironmonger.)
Jesuit martyr, born in Lincolnshire, ...
- Irenaeus, Saint:
Bishop of Lyons, and Father of the Church.
Information as ...
- Irene, Sister:
(Catherine FitzGibbon.)
Born in London, England, 12 May, ...
- Irenopolis:
A titular see of Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia. Five of its
- Iriarte, Ignacio de:
Painter, b. at Azcoitia, Guipuzcoa, in 1620; d. at Seville, 1685. Iriarte was the ...
- Irish College, in Rome:
Towards the close of the sixteenth century, Gregory XIII had sanctioned the
- Irish Colleges, on the Continent:
The religious
- Irish Confessors and Martyrs: General survey
The period covered by this article embraces that between ...
- Irish Literature:
It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of ...
- Irish, The, (in countries other than Ireland): I. IN THE UNITED STATES
Who were the first Irish to land on the ...
- Irnerius:
(GARNERIUS)
An Italian jurist and founder of the School of ...
- Iroquois:
A noted confederacy of five, and afterwards six, cognate tribes of Iroquoian ...
- Irregularity:
(Latin in , not, and regula , rule, i. e. not according to rule)
- Irremovability:
( Latin in , not, and removere , to remove)
A
- Irvingites:
A religious sect called after Edward Irving (1792-1834), a deposed Presbyterian ...
- Isaac:
The son of
- Isaac Jogues, Saint:
French missionary, born at Orléans, France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at ...
- Isaac of Armenia:
(SAHAK)
- Isaac of Nineveh:
A Nestorian
- Isaac of Seleucia:
Patriarch of the Persian Church, d. 410.
- Isabel of France, Saint:
Daughter of Louis VIII and of his wife, Blanche of Castille, born in March, 1225; ...
- Isabella I:
("LA CATÓLICA" = "THE CATHOLIC")
Queen of Castile ; ...
- Isaias:
Among the writers whom the Hebrew
- Isaura:
Titular see in the Province of Lycaonia, suffragan of Iconium. Isaura, the ...
- Ischia:
Diocese of
- Isernia and Venafro:
(Diocese of Isernia and Venafro).
Isernia is a city in the ...
- Ishmael:
(Septuagint 'Ismaél ; Vulgate Ismahel, in
- Isidore of Pelusium, Saint:
Born at
- Isidore of Seville, Saint:
Born at Cartagena, Spain, about 560; died 4 April, 636.
...
- Isidore of Thessalonica:
Cardinal and sometime
- Isidore the Labourer, Saint:
A Spanish daylabourer; b. near Madrid, about the year 1070; d. 15 May, 1130, at ...
- Isionda:
A titular see in the province of Pamphylia Secunda; it was a suffragan of ...
- Isla, José Francisco de:
Spanish preacher and satirist, b. at Villavidantes (Kingdom of
- Islam (Concept):
Islam , an Arabic word which, since Mohammed's time, has acquired a religious ...
- Islam (Religion): I. THE FOUNDER
Mohammed, "the Praised One", the
- Isleta Pueblo:
The name of two pueblos of the ancient Tigua tribe, of remote Shoshoncan stock. ...
- Islip, Simon:
An Archbishop ...
- Ismael:
(Septuagint 'Ismaél ; Vulgate Ismahel, in
- Ispahan:
A Catholic ...
- Israelites:
The word designates the descendants of the
- Issachar:
The exact derivation and the precise meaning of the name are unknown. It ...
- Issus:
A titular see of Cilicia Prima, suffragan of Tarsus. The city is famous for a ...
- Ita, Saint:
Saint Ita, called the "Brigid of Munster"; b. in the present County of Waterford, ...
- Italian Literature: Origins and Development
The modern language of
- Italians in the United States:
Christopher Columbus, an Italian, was the leader of those who in succeeding ...
- Italo-Greeks:
The name applied to the Greeks in
- Italy:
In ancient times
- Ite Missa Est:
This is the versicle chanted in the Roman Rite by the deacon at the end of ...
- Itineraria:
(MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN GUIDE-BOOKS: Latin iter , gen. itineris , journey) ...
- Itinerarium:
A form of
- Ittenbach, Franz:
Historical painter ; born at Königswinter, at the foot of the Drachenfels, ...
- Ives, Levi Silliman:
Born at Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.A. 16 September, 1797; d. at New York, 13 ...
- Ives, Saint:
(St. Yves)
St. Ives, born at Kermartin, near Tréguier, ...
- Ivo of Chartres, Saint:
(YVO, YVES).
One of the most notable
- Ivory:
Ivory (French ...
- Ivrea, Diocese of:
Suffragan of Turin, Northern Italy. The city is situated on the
- Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de Alba:
Born 1568; died 1648. The most illustrious of the native Mexican historians and ...
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