Books by Church Fathers, Doctors, Saints, Notable Authors

No encyclopedia articles match that search.

• Dablon, Claude

  Jesuit missionary, born at Dieppe, France, in February, 1618; died at Quebec, 3 May, 1697

• Dabrowski, Joseph

  Founder of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit (d. 1903)

• Dacca

  Diocese in Bengal, India

• Dacier, André

  A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722

• Dacier, Anne

  The wife of Andre Dacier, born at Saumur in 1651; died 17 April 1720

• Dagon

  A Philistine deity

• Daguesseau, Henri-François

  Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at Paris, 5 February, 1751

• Dahomey

  The Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, in West Africa, is territorially identical with the French colony of the same name

• Dalberg, Adolphus von

  Prince-Abbot of Fulda and founder of the university in the same city, born 29 May, 1678; died 3 November, 1737

• Dalgairns, John Dobree

  Born in the island of Guernsey, 21 Oct., 1818; d. 6 April, 1876, at St. George's Retreat, Burgess Hill, near Brighton, England

• Dalila

  The woman who deceived and betrayed Samson

• Dallas

  Diocese created in 1890, comprising 108 counties in the northern and northwestern portion of the State of Texas, U.S.A

• Dalley, William Bede

  Lawyer and statesman, born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1831; died there 28 October, 1888

• Dalmatia

  A part of the Kingdom of Croatia according to a convention entered into between Croatia and Hungary

• Dalmatic

  The outer liturgical vestment of the deacon

• Dalton, John

  Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874

• Damão

  Suffragan to Goa, and situated in Portugese India and the British Government of Bombay

• Damaraland

  The middle part of the German colony, German Southwest Africa

• Damascus

  It is mentioned in the Bible at the time of Abraham; xv, 2); also on the pylons of Karnak, among the Syrian cities captured by the Pharaoh Touthmes III

• Damasus II, Pope

  A native of Bavaria and the third German to be elevated to the See of Peter

• Damasus I, Saint, Pope

  Damasus, who had to contend with an antipope, condemned Apollinarianism, and persuaded St. Jerome to undertake the revision of the Latin Bible, died in 384

• Damberger, Joseph Ferdinand

  Church historian, born 1 March, 1795, at Passau, Bavaria; died 1 April, 1859, at Schaeftlarn

• Damien, Father (Joseph de Veuster)

  Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai

• Damietta

  An Egyptian titular see for the Latins and the Catholic Melchite Greeks, in Augustamnica Prima

• Dan

  The fifth son of Jacob, being the elder of the two sons born to him by Bala, the handmaid of Rachel, and the eponymous ancestor of the tribe bearing the same name

• Danaba

  A titular see of Phaenicia Secunda

• Dance of Death

  Originally a species of spectacular play akin to the English moralities. It has been traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century

• Dancing

  The origin of dancing is from the natural tendency to employ gesture either to supplement or to replace speech

• Dandolo, Enrico

  Doge of Venice from 1192 to 1205; died, aged about a hundred years, in 1205

• Daniel

  The hero and traditional author of the book which bears his name

• Daniel and Companions, Saint

  Franciscan missionaries and martyrs, d. 10 October, 1227

• Daniel, Anthony

  Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois

• Daniel, Book of

  In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its deutero-canonical parts, both of which have an equal right to be considered as inspired, and to be included in a treatment of the Book of Daniel

• Daniel, Charles

  Founded the 'Etudes de théologie et d' histoire', a magazine with monthly publication (1818-1893)

• Daniel, Gabriel

  Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, 1728

• Daniel, John

  Priest and professor, Born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October, 1823

• Daniel of Winchester

  Bishop of the West Saxons, and ruler of the See of Winchester from 705 to 744; died in 745

• Dansara

  A titular see in Osrhoene

• Danti, Ignazio

  Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at Alatri, 19 Oct., 1586

• Dantine, Maurus

  Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the 'Blancs-Manteaux', Paris, 3 November, 1746

• Danti, Vincenzo

  Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576

• Da Ponte, Lorenzo

  Poet, b. at Cenada, Italy, 1749; d. in New York, 17 Aug., 1838

• Darboy, Georges

  Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Fayl-Billot, near Langres, 1813; killed by Communists at Paris, 24 May, 1871

• Dardanus

  A titular see in the province of Hellespont, suffragan of Cyzicus

• Dardel, Jean

  Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, adviser and confessor to King Leo V (or VI) of Armenia

• Darerca, Saint

  Sister of St. Patrick and the mother of many saints

• Dareste de la Chavanne, Antoine-Elisabeth

  Historian and professor, b. in Paris, 25 October, 1820; d. at Lucenay-les-Aix, 6 August, 1882

• Darnis

  Titular see of Libya

• Darras, Joseph-Epiphane

  Church historian, b. at Troyes, France, 1825; d. at Paris, Nov. 8, 1878

• Darrell, William

  Theologian, b. 1651, in Buckinghamshire, England; d. 28 Feb., 1721, at St. Omer's, France

• Dates and Dating

  In classical Latin even before the time of Christ it was usual for correspondents to indicate when and where their letters were written

• Daubrée, Gabriel-Auguste

  French geologist, b. at Metz, 25 June, 1814; d. at Paris, 29 May, 1896

• Daulia

  A titular see of Greece

• Daumer, Georg Friedrich

  German poet and philosopher, b. at Nuremberg, 5 March, 1800; d. at Wurzburg, 14 December, 1875

• D'Avenant, Sir William

  Poet and dramatist, b. Feb., 1605-6, at Oxford, England; d. in London, 7 April, 1668

• Davenport

  Diocese erected 8 May, 1881, in the four southern tiers of counties in Iowa

• Davenport, Christopher

  Theologian, b. 1598, at Coventry, England, d. 31 May, 1680

• David, Armand

  Missionary priest and zoologist, b. 1826; d. 1900

• David, Gheeraert

  Painter and illuminator (1450-1523)

• David, King

  In the Bible the name David is borne only by the second king of Israel, the great-grandson of Boaz and Ruth

• David of Augsburg

  Medieval German mystic, b. probably at Augsburg, Bavaria, early in the thirteenth century; d. at Augsburg, 19 November, 1272

• David of Dinant

  A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century

• David, Saint

  Also known as Dewi or Degui. Biography of this bishop and confessor, the patron saint of Wales

• David Scotus

  A medieval Irish chronicler, date of birth unknown; d. 1139

• Davies, Venerable William

  Biography of the Welsh priest concentrates especially on his imprisonment and martyrdom. Fr. Davies died in 1593

• Dávila Padilla

  Writer, Bishop of Santo Domingo. A native of the City of Mexico, b. 1562; d. 1604

• Dawson, Æneas McDonnell

  Author, b. in Scotland, 30 July, 1810; d. in Ottawa, Canada, 29 Dec., 1894

• Dax, Diocese of

  Suppressed French diocese

• Day, George

  Bishop of Chichester; b. in Shropshire, England, c. 1501; d. 2 August, 1556

• Day, John Charles, Sir

  Jurist, b. near Bath, England, 1826; d. 13 June, 1908, at Newbury

• Deaconesses

  Offers history and functions

• Deacons

  The name means only minister or servant, and is employed in this sense both in the Septuagint (though only in the book of Esther, and in the New Testament

• Dead, Prayers for the

  Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle's Creed

• Dead Sea

  The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine

• Deaf, Education of the

  History, aids, and alphabets are discussed

• Dean

  One of the principal administrative officials of a diocese

• Dean, William, Venerable

  Short article on the career of this English priest, martyred in 1588

• Dease, Thomas

  Bishop of Meath, born in Ireland, 1568; died at Galway, 1651

• Death, Preparation for

  Includes the steps taken, such as calling a priest, winding up earthly affairs, and confession

• Debbora

  Prophetess and judge, wife of Lapidoth and endowed by God with prophetic gifts which secured for her the veneration of the divided Israelitic tribes and gave her great authority over them

• Debt

  That which is owed or due to another; in general, anything which one person is under an obligation to pay or render to another

• Decalogue

  The term employed to designate the collection of precepts written on two tables of stone and given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai

• Decapolis

  Name given in the Bible and by ancient writers to a region in Palestine lying to the east and south of the Sea of Galilee

• Dechamps, Adolphe

  Belgian statesman and publicist, brother of Cardinal Dechamps, born at Melle near Ghent, 17 June, 1807, died at Manage, 19 July, 1875

• Dechamps, Victor Augustin Isidore

  Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., 1810; died 29 Sept., 1883, at Mechlin

• Decius

  Roman Emperor 249-251

• Decker, Hans

  A German sculptor of the middle of the fifteenth century

• Declaration, The Royal

  The name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation of Catholicity which, in accordance with provisions of the 'Bill of Rights' (1689) and of 'the Act of Succession' (1700), every sovereign succeeding to the throne of Great Britain was required to make in the presence of the assembled Lords and Commons

• Decorations, Pontifical

  The titles of nobility, orders of Christian knighthood and other marks of honour and distinction which the papal court confers upon men of unblemished character who have in any way promoted the interests of society, the Church, and the Holy See

• Decree

  In a general sense, an order or law made by a superior authority for the direction of others. In ecclesiastical use it has various meanings. Any papal Bull, Brief, or Motu Proprio is a decree inasmuch as these documents are legislative acts of the Holy Father

• Decretals, Papal

  In the wide sense the term decretalis signifies a pontifical letter containing a decretum, or pontifical decision. In a narrower sense it denotes a decision on a matter of discipline. In the strictest sense of the word, it means a rescript, an answer of the pope when he has been appealed to or his advice has been sought on a matter of discipline

• Dedication

  A term which, though sometimes used of persons who are consecrated to God's service, is more properly applied to the 'setting aside' of places for a special and sacred purpose

• Dedication, Feast of the

  Also called the Feast of the Machabees and Feast of Lights

• Deduction

  An argument or reasoning process, that kind of mediate inference by which from truths already known we advance to a knowledge of other truths necessarily implied in the former; the mental product or result of that process. Also a method, the deductive method, by which we increase our knowledge through a series of such inferences

• Deer, Abbey of

  A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple Drostan, and others, went from Hy (Iona) into Buchan and established an important missionary centre at Deer on the banks of the Ugie on lands given him by the mormaer or chief of the district whose son he had by his prayers freed of a dangerous illness

• Defender of the Matrimonial Tie

  An official whose duty is to defend the marriage-bond in the procedure prescribed for the hearing of matrimonial causes which involve the validity or nullity of a marriage already contracted

• Definitions, Theological

  An irrevocable decision, by which the supreme teaching authority in the Church decides a question appertaining to faith or morals, and which binds the whole Church

• Definitor (in Canon Law)

  An official in secular deaneries and in certain religious orders

• Definitors (in Religious Orders)

  Generally speaking, the governing council of an order

• Deger, Ernst

  Historical painter, born in Bockenem, Hanover, 15 April, 1809; died in Duesseldorf, 27 Jan., 1885

• Degradation

  A canonical penalty by which an ecclesiastic is entirely and perpetually deprived of all office, benefice, dignity, and power conferred on him by ordination; and by a special ceremony is reduced to the state of a layman, losing the privileges of the clerical state and being given over to the secular arm

• Deharbe, Joseph

  Theologian, catechist, b. at Straburg, Alsace, 11 April, 1800; d. at Maria-Laach, 8 November, 1871

• Deicolus, Saint

  Or Dichuil. Elder brother of St. Gall and missionary companion of St. Columbanus. Deicolus died in 625

• Dei gratia; Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia

  A formulae added to the titles of ecclesiastical dignitaries

• Deism

  Historical survey and critique

• Deity

  This article is confined to the non-Christian notion of the Deity

• De La Croix, Charles

  Missionary, b. at Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Belgium, 28 Oct., 1792; d. at Ghent, 20 Aug., 1869

• Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène

  Artist's biography with bibliography

• Delaroche, Hippolyte

  Painter, born at Paris, 17 July, 1797; died 4 November, 1856

• Delatores

  A term used by the Synod of Elvira (c. 306) to stigmatize those Christians who appeared as accusers of their brethren

• Delaware

  One of the original thirteen of the United States of America

• Delaware Indians

  An important tribal confederacy of Algonquian stock originally holding the basin of the Delaware River, in Eastern Pennsylvania

• Delcus

  A titular see of Thrace, suffragan of Philippopolis

• Delegation

  A delegation is the commission to another of jurisdiction, which is to be exercised in the name of the person delegating. Jurisdiction is defined as the power of anyone who has public authority and pre-eminence over others for their rule and government

• Delfau, François

  Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France; died 13 Oct., 1676

• Delfino, Pietro

  A theologian, born at Venice in 1444; died 16 Jan., 1525

• Delille, Jacques

  French abbe and litterateur, born at Aigueperse, 22 June, 1738; died at Paris, 1 May, 1813

• De Lisle, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps

  Born 17 March, 1809; died 5 March, 1878

• Delisle, Guillaume

  Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris; died there 25 January, 1726

• De L'Orme, Philibert

  Celebrated architect of the French Renaissance, born at Lyons, c. 1515 or a little later; died at Paris, 8 January, 1570

• Delphine, Blessed

  Third Order Franciscan, the wife of St. Elzear. She died in 1358

• Delrio, Martin Anton

  Scholar, statesman, Jesuit theologian, born at Antwerp, 17 May, 1551; died at Louvain, 19 October, 1608

• Delta of the Nile, Prefecture Apostolic of the

  Situated in the north of Egypt and comprises four of the six provinces forming Lower Egypt, namely: Gharbieh, Charkieb, Menufieh, and Kalyiubieh

• Deluge

  A catastrophe fully described in Genesis

• Demers, Modeste

  Missionary in Pacific Northwest (1809-1871)

• Demetrius

  The name of two Syrian kings mentioned in the Old Testament and two other persons in the New Testament

• Demetrius, Saint

  The first bishop of Alexandria of whom anything is known. Appointed Origen as head of the Catechetical School and later condemned him for being ordained to the presbyterate without authorization. Demetrius died in 231

• Demiurge

  The word means literally a public worker, demioergos, demiourgos, and was originally used to designate any craftsman plying his craft or trade for the use of the public. Soon, however, technítes and other words began to be used to designate the common artisan while demiurge was set aside for the Great Artificer or Fabricator, the Architect of the universe

• Democracy, Christian

  Article representing Christian democracy as the ensemble of Catholic doctrine, organization, and action in the field of popular social questions

• Demon

  In Scripture and in Catholic theology this word has come to mean much the same as devil and denotes one of the evil spirits or fallen angels

• Demoniacs

  Article concerned with the demonic possession in the New Testament

• Demonology

  The science or doctrine concerning demons

• Dempster, Thomas

  Savant, professor, and author (1579-1625)

• Denaut, Pierre

  Tenth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Montreal, 20 July, 1743; d. at Longueuil in 1806

• Dénés

  An aboriginal race of North America, also called Athapaskans and known earlier among earlier ethnologists as Tinne or Tinneh

• Denifle, Heinrich Seuse

  Paleographer and historian (1844-1905)

• Denis, Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael

  Bibliographer and poet, b. at Schaerding, Bavaria, 27 September, 1729; d. at Vienna, 29 Sept., 1800

• Denis, Joseph

  The first Canadian to join the Recollects of the Friars Minor (1657-1736)

• Denis, Saint

  Bishop of Paris, martyred along with his deacons Rusticus and Eleutherius in about 275

• Denman, William

  Publisher, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 March, 1784; d. in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 12 September, 1870

• Denmark

  History includes politics, religion, literary, and art

• Denonville, Seigneur and Marquis de

  Governor of New France, born in 1638 at Denonville in the department of Eure-et-Loir, France; died 1710

• Dens, Peter

  Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, 1690; d. at Mechlin, 15 February, 1775

• Denunciation

  Making known the crime of another to one who is his superior

• Denver

  A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, erected in 1887

• Denys the Carthusian

  Sometimes called the last of the Schoolmen, devoted to prayer, avid reader whose favorite author was Pseudo-Dionysius. Author of commentaries, sermons, and theological and philosophical treatises. He died in 1471

• Denza, Francesco

  Italian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Naples, 7 June, 1834; d. at Rome, 14 December, 1894

• Denzinger, Heinrich Joseph Dominicus

  Theologian of the modern Catholic German school and author of the 'Enchiridion' universally used, b. 10 Oct., 1819, at Liege; d. 19 June, 1883

• Deo Gratias

  An old liturgical formula of the Latin Church to give thanks to God for graces received

• De Paul University

  In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898

• Deposition

  An ecclesiastical vindictive penalty by which a cleric is forever deprived of his office or benefice and of the right of exercising the functions of his orders

• Deprés, Josquin

  Article about his life and work, especially the religious dynamic in his compositions

• De Profundis

  'Out of the depths'. First words of Psalm 129

• Derbe

  A titular see of Lycaonia, Asia Minor

• Dereser, Anton

  Discalced Carmelite, born at Fahr in Franconia, 3 February, 1757; died at Breslau, 15 or 16 June, 1807

• Derogation

  The partial revocation of a law, as opposed to abrogation or the total abolition of a law

• De Rossi, Giovanni Battista

  Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs (1822-1894)

• Derry

  Includes nearly all the County Derry, part of Donegal, and a large portion of Tyrone, Ireland; it is a suffragan of Armagh

• Derry, School of

  This was the first foundation of St. Columba, the great Apostle of Scotland, and one of the three patron saints of Ireland

• Desains, Paul-Quentin

  Physicist, b. at St-Quentin, France, 12 July, 1817; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1885

• Desault, Pierre-Joseph

  Surgeon and anatomist, b. at Magny-Vernois a small town of Franche-Comte, France, in 1744; d. 1 June, 1795

• Descartes, René

  Philosopher and scientist, born at La Haye France, 31 March, 1596; died at Stockholm, Sweden, 11 February 1650

• Deschamps, Eustache

  Also called Morel, on account of his dark complexion; b. at Vertus in Champagne between 1338 and 1340; d. about 1410

• Deschamps, Nicolas

  Polemical writer, born at Villefranche (Rhone), France, 1797; died at Aix-en-Provence, 1872

• Desclée, Henri and Jules

  Nineteenth-century Belgian monks

• Desecration

  The loss of that peculiar quality of sacredness, which inheres in places and things in virtue of the constitutive blessing of the Church

• Desert

  The word wilderness, which is more frequently used than desert of the region of the Exodus, more nearly approaches the meaning of the Hebrew

• Desertion

  Brief explanation of the different situations to which this concept applies in canon law

• Deshon, George

  Paulist priest, died in 1903

• Desiderius

  Benedictine monk, peacemaker, abbot of Monte Cassino, elected to the papacy in 1086, d. 1087

• Desiderius of Cahors, Saint

  Bishop of Cahors, promoted monasticism, d. 655

• Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean

  A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676

• De Smet, Pierre-Jean

  Missionary among the North American Indians, b. at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 30 Jan., 1801; d. at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., 23 May, 1873

• De Soto, Hernando

  Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, 1496 or 1500; died on the banks of the Mississippi the latter part of June, 1542

• Despair

  The voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one's soul and of having the means required for that end

• Despretz, César-Mansuète

  Chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May, 1863

• Desservants

  The name of a class of French parish priests

• Desurmont, Achille

  Ascetical writer, b. at Tourcoing, France, 23 Dec., 1828; d. 23 July, 1898

• Determinism

  A name employed by writers, especially since J. Stuart Mill, to denote the philosophical theory which holds, in opposition to the doctrine of free will, that all man's volitions are invariably determined by pre-existing circumstances

• Detraction

  The unjust damaging of another's good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer

• Detré, William

  French missionary (b. 1668)

• Detroit

  Diocese established 8 March, 1838. Suffragan of Cincinnati

• Deusdedit, Cardinal

  Joined the Benedictine Order and became a zealous promoter of ecclesiastical reforms in the latter half of the eleventh century

• Deusdedit, Saint

  First Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 664

• Deus in Adjutorium Meum Intende

  These words form the introductory prayer to every Hour of the Roman, monastic, and Ambrosian Breviaries, except during the last three days of Holy Week, and in the Office of the Dead

• Deuteronomy

  This term occurs in Deuteronomy 17 and Joshua 8, and is the title of one of the five books of the Pentateuch

• Deutinger, Martin

  Philosopher and religious writer, b. in Langenpreising, Bavaria, 24 March, 1815; d. at Pfaefers, Switzerland, 9 Sept., 1864

• Devas, Charles Stanton

  Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of Protestant parents, 26 August, 1848; d. 6 November, 1906

• De Vere, Aubrey Thomas Hunt

  Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland, 10 January, 1814; died there, 21 January, 1902

• Devereux, John C.

  Irish immigrant to New York (1774-1848)

• Devereux, Nicholas

  Born near Enniscorthy, Ireland, 7 June, 1791; died at Utica, New York, 29 Dec., 1855, was the youngest brother of John C. Devereux

• Devil

  The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons. With the article (ho) it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, 'the Devil and his angels'

• Devil Worship

  Fathers and theologians explain the matter as, the fallen angels besides tempting and assailing men in other ways have, by working on their fears or exciting their cupidity, brought them to give worship to themselves under the guise of idols

• Devolution

  The right of an ecclesiastical superior to provide for a benefice, when the ordinary patron or collator has failed to do so, either through negligence or by the nomination of an improper candidate

• Devoti, Giovani

  Canonist, born at Rome, 11 July, 1744; died there 18 Sept., 1820

• Devotions, Popular

  Brief explanation of the spiritual practices collectively called 'devotions' or 'popular devotions.'

• Deymann, Clementine

  Priest and prison chaplain. Born at Klein-Stavern, Oldenburg, Germany, 24 June, 1844; died at Phoenix, Arizona

• Deza, Diego

  Patron of Columbus (1444-1523)

• Dhuoda

  Wife of Bernard, Duke of Septimania

• Diaconicum

  In the Greek Church, the liturgical book specifying the functions of the deacon

• Diakovár

  See of the Bishop of the united Dioceses of Bosnia or Diakovar and Syrmia

• Dialectic

  Greek dialektike (techne or methodos), the dialectic art or method, from dialegomai I converse, discuss, dispute; as noun also dialectics; as adjective, dialectical

• Diamantina

  Located in the north of the state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, South America; created under the Brazilian Empire, 10 Aug., 1853, and confirmed by the Holy See, 6 June, 1854

• Diana, Antonino

  Moral theologian, born of a noble family at Palermo, Sicily, in 1586; died at Rome, 20 July, 1663

• Diano

  Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy; the ancient Tegianum and seat of the Tegyani, a tribe of Lucania

• Diario Romano

  A booklet published annually at Rome, with papal authorization, giving the routine of feasts and fasts to be observed in Rome and the ecclesiastical functions to be performed in the city

• Diarmaid, Saint

  Brief biographies of two Irish saints of this name. The first mentioned was Archbishop of Armagh, and died in 851 or 852. The second, St. Diarmaid the Just, was a monastic founder and distinguished writer of the mid-sixth century

• Dias, Bartolomeu

  A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth century, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope; died at sea, 29 May, 1500

• Diaspora

  The name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through which the Jews were dispersed, and secondarily to the Jews living in those countries

• Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

  Spanish historian, one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, b. at Medina del Campo, Spain, c. 1498; d. after 1568

• Díaz de Solís, Juan

  Spanish navigator and explorer, b. about 1470

• Díaz, Pedro

  Missionary, b. at Lupedo, Diocese of Toledo, Spain, in 1546; d. in Mexico, 12 Jan., 1618

• Dibon

  A Latin titular see. The site is mentioned in Scripture, and is near Damascus

• Dicastillo, Juan de

  Jesuit theologian (1584-1653)

• Dicconson, Edward

  Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 Nov., 1670; d. 5 May, 1752

• Diceto, Ralph de

  Dean of St. Paul's, London, and chronicler

• Dichu, Saint

  The son of an Ulster chieftain, was the first convert of St. Patrick in Ireland

• Dicuil

  Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death unknown

• Didache

  A short treatise which was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture

• Didacus, Saint

  Franciscan lay brother, d. 1463

• Didascalia Apostolorum

  A treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts, xv), but is really a composition of the third century

• Didon, Henri

  Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isere), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse

• Didot

  Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isere), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse

• Didron, Adolphe-Napoleon

  Also called Didron aine; archaeologist; together with Viollet-le-Duc and Caumont, one of the principal revivers of Christian art in France; b. 13 March, 1806, d. 13 November, 1867

• Didymus the Blind

  Layman, one of the principal opponents of Arianism. Born about 310-313; died about 395-398

• Diego y Moreno, Francisco Garcia

  First bishop of California, b. 17 Sept., 1785, at Lagos in the state of Jalisco, Mexico; d. 30 April, 1846, at Santa Barbara

• Diekamp, Wilhelm

  Historian, b. at Geldern, 13 May, 1854; d. at Rome, 25 Dec., 1885

• Diemoth

  An old German word for the present 'Demuth', the English 'humility', was the name of a pious recluse at the monastery of Wessobrunn in Upper Bavaria, b. about 1060 of a noble Bavarian or Swabian family; d. 30 March, probably in 1130

• Diepenbeeck, Abraham van

  An erudite and accomplished painter of the Flemish School, b. at Bois-le-Duc in the Netherlands, 1599; d. at Antwerp, 1675

• Diepenbrock, Melchior, Baron von

  Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Breslau, b. 6 January, 1798, at Boeholt in Westphalia; d. at the castle of Johannisberg in Upper Silesia, 20 January, 1853

• Dieringer, Franz Xaver

  Catholic theologian, b. 22 August, 1811, at Rangeningen (Hohenzollern-Hechingen); d. 8 September, 1876, at Veringendorf

• Dies Irae

  Name by which the sequence in requiem Masses is commonly known

• Dietenberger, Johann

  Theologian, b. about 1475 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, d. 4 Sept., 1537, at Mainz

• Diether of Isenburg

  Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. about 1412; d. 7 May, 1482, at Aschaffenburg

• Dietrich von Nieheim

  Born in the Diocese of Paderborn, between 1338 and 1340; d. at Maastricht, 22 March, 1418, a medieval German historian, best known for his contributions to the history of the Western Schism

• Digby, George

  Second Earl of Bristol, b. at Madrid, Spam, where his father, the first earl, was ambassador, 1612; d. at Chelsea, England, 1677

• Digby, Kenelm Henry

  Writer, b. in Ireland, 1800; d. at Kensington, Middlesex, England, 22 March, 1880

• Digby, Sir Everard

  Born 16 May, 1578, died 30 Jan., 1606. Succeeded in his fourteenth year to large properties in the Counties of Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland

• Digby, Sir Kenelm

  Physicist, naval commander and diplomatist, b. at Gayhurst (Goathurst), Buckinghamshire, England, 11 July, 1603; d. in Covent Garden, Westminster, 11 June, 1665

• Digne

  Diocese comprising the entire department of the Basses Alpes; suffragan of the Archbishopric of Aix

• Dignitary, Ecclesiastical

  A member of a chapter, cathedral or collegiate, possessed not only of a foremost place, but also of a certain jurisdiction

• Dijon

  Diocese comprising the entire department of Cote-d'Or and is a suffragan of Lyons

• Dillingen, University of

  Located in Swabia, a district of Bavaria. Its founder was Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg (1543-1573)

• Dillon, Arthur-Richard

  A French prelate, b. at St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, 1721; d. in London, 1806

• Dimissorial Letters

  Letters given by an ecclesiastical superior to his subjects to have effect in territory outside his jurisdiction

• Dingley, Ven. Sir Thomas

  Martyr, prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, found guilty of high treason 28 April, 1539, and beheaded on Tower Hill, 9 July, together with the Blessed Sir Adrian Fortescue

• Dinooth, Saint

  Founder and first abbot of Bangor on the Dee, fl. 500-542

• Diocaesarea

  Information on several places by this name

• Diocese

  The territory or churches subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop

• Diocese (Supplemental List)

  Brief details of dioceses that were too new to have articles about them in 1914

• Dioclea

  A titular see of Phyrgia in Asia Minor

• Diocletian

  Roman Emperor and persecutor of the Church, b. of parents who had been slaves, at Dioclea, near Salona, in Dalmatia, A.D. 245; d. at Salona, A.D. 313

• Diocletianopolis

  A titular see of Palaestina Prima

• Diodorus of Tarsus

  Date of birth uncertain; d. about A.D. 392. He was of noble family, probably of Antioch. St. Basil calls him a 'nursling' of Silvanus, Bishop of Tarsus, but whether this discipleship was at Antioch or at Tarsus is not known

• Diognetus, Epistle to

  An apology for Christianity cited by no ancient or medieval writer, and came from a single manuscript which perished in the siege of Strasburg (1870)

• Dionysias

  A titular see in Arabia

• Dionysius Exiguus

  According to his friend and fellow-student, Cassiodorus, though by birth a Scythian, he was in character a true Roman and thorough Catholic, most learned in both tongues i.e., Greek and Latin, and an accomplished scripturist

• Dionysius of Alexandria

  Also called Dionysius the Great. Bishop, d. 264 or 265

• Dionysius, Pope Saint

  Elected towards the end of a wave of persecution. Dionysius opposed the errors of the Sabellians and Marcionites, and died in 268

• Dionysius, Saint

  Bishop of Corinth about 170

• Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite

  Article on the identity of the mysterious Pseudo-Areopagite, his writings, and their influence

• Dioscorus

  Antipope (d. 530)

• Dioscorus

  Fifth-century Bishop of Alexandria

• Diplomatics, Papal

  The word diplomatics denotes in English the science of ancient official documents, more especially of those emanating from the chanceries of popes, kings, emperors, and other authorities possessing a recognized jurisdiction

• Diptych

  A sort of notebook, formed by the union of two tablets, placed one upon the other and united by rings or by a hinge

• Direction, Spiritual

  Personal guidance according to individual needs. Criticizes excesses at both ends of the spectrum: heavyhanded directors, and people who think that since they have the Holy Spirit they have no need of human help

• Directories, Catholic

  Directorium simply means guide, but in the later Middle Ages it came to be specially applied to guides for the recitation of Office and Mass

• Discalced

  A term applied to those religious congregations of men and women, the members of which go entirely unshod or wear sandals, with or without other covering for the feet

• Discernment of Spirits

  In the restricted sense, spirits indicate the various spiritual agents which, by their suggestions and movements, may influence the moral value of our acts

• Disciple

  This term is commonly applied to one who is learning any art or science from one distinguished by his accomplishments

• Disciples of Christ

  A sect founded in the United States of America by Alexander Campbell

• Discipline, Ecclesiastical

  Various meanings discussed

• Discipline of the Secret

  A theological term used to express the custom which prevailed in the earliest ages of the Church, by which the knowledge of the more intimate mysteries of the Christian religion was carefully kept from the heathen and even from those who were undergoing instruction in the Faith

• Discussions, Religious

  Oral dialectical duels, more or less formal and public, between champions of divergent religious beliefs

• Disibod, Saint

  Irish-born abbot and bishop, d. 700

• Dispensation

  An act whereby in a particular case a lawful superior grants relaxation from an existing law

• Dispersion of the Apostles

  A feast in commemoration of the missionary work of the Twelve Apostles

• Dissen, Heinrich von

  Carthusian monk (1415-1484)

• Dissentis, Abbey of

  Benedictine monastery in Switzerland

• Distraction

  Distraction (Lat. distrahere, to draw away, hence to distract) is here considered in so far as it is wont to happen in time of prayer and in administering the sacraments

• Distributions

  Canonically termed disturbtiones quotidianae, are certain portions of the revenue of a church, distributed to the canons present at Divine service

• Dithmar

  Bishop of Merseburg and medieval chronicler, b. 25 July, 975; d. 1 Dec., 1018

• Dives

  Latin for rich. The word is not used in the Bible as a proper noun; but in the Middle Ages it came to be employed as the name of the rich man in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31

• Divination

  The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden things by inadequate means

• Divine Charity, Daughters of

  Founded at Vienna, 21 November, 1868, by Franziska Lechner (d. 1894) on the Rule of St. Augustine, and approved by the Holy See in 1884 and definitively confirmed 22 July, 1891

• Divine Charity, Sisters of

  Founded at Besancon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul

• Divine Charity, Society of

  Founded at Maria-Martental near Kaisersesch, in 1903 by Josepth Tallmanns

• Divine Compassion, Institute of the

  Founded in the city of New York, USA, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Stanislaus Preston

• Divine Nature and Attributes, The

  Covered as natural reason and faith

• Divine Office

  Brief essay on the historical development of the Liturgy of the Hours

• Divine Providence, Sisters of

  Includes several orders by this name

• Divine Redeemer, Daughters of the

  Motherhouse at Oedenburg, Hungary; founded in 1863 from the Daughters of the Divine Saviour of Vienna

• Divine Savior, Society of the

  Founded at Rome, 8 Dec., 1881, by Johann Baptist Jordan (b. 1848 at Gartweil im Breisgau), elected superior general as Father Francis Mary of the Cross

• Divine Word, Society of the

  The first German Catholic missionary society established. It was founded in 1875 during the period of the Kulturkampf at Steyl, near Tegelen, Holland, by a priest, Rev. Arnold Janssen (d. 15 January, 1909), for the propagation of the Catholic religion among pagan nations

• Divisch, Procopius

  Premonstratensian, b. at Senftenberg, Bohemia, 26 March, 1698; d. at Prenditz, Moravia, 21 December, 1765

• Divorce (in Civil Jurisprudence)

  Defined in jurisprudence as 'the dissolution or partial suspension by law of the marriage relation'

• Divorce (in Moral Theology)

  The subject is treated here under two distinct heads: First, divorce in moral theology; second, divorce in civil jurisprudence

• Dixon, Joseph

  Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, born at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, in 1806; died at Armagh, 29 April, 1866

• Dlugosz, Jan

  Short biography of Krakow's and Poland's preeminent medieval historian

• Dobmayer, Marian

  Benedictine theologian, born 24 October, 1753, at Schwandorf, Bavaria; died 21 December, 1805

• Dobrizhoffer, Martin

  Missionary, b. in Graz, Styria, 7 Sept., 1717; d. in Vienna, 17 July 1791

• Docetæ

  Docetism, from the Greek 'dokeo' (to seem, to appear) was the contention that Christ merely seemed to be human and only appeared to be born, to suffer, and to die. Already in New Testament times, the Gospel of John opposes Docetism, and so do Ignatius, Irenaeus, and other Fathers

• Docimium

  A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor

• Doctor

  The title of an authorized teacher

• Doctors of the Church

  Certain ecclesiastical writers have received this title on account of the great advantage the whole Church has derived from their doctrine

• Doctors, Surnames of Famous

  Lists the principal surnames with the dates of death

• Dogma

  Signifies, in the writings of the ancient classical authors, sometimes, an opinion or that which seems true to a person; sometimes, the philosophical doctrines or tenets, and especially the distinctive philosophical doctrines, of a particular school of philosophers, and sometimes, a public decree or ordinance, as dogma poieisthai

• Dogmatic Fact

  Any fact connected with a dogma and on which the application of the dogma to a particular case depends

• Dogmatic Theology

  That part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and His works

• Dogmatic Theology, History of

  Detailed article broken into time periods

• Dolbeau, Jean

  Recollect friar, born in the Province of Anjou, France, 12 March, 1586; died at Orleans, 9 June, 1652

• Dolci, Carlo

  Painter, born in Florence, Italy, 25 May, 1616; died 17 January, 1686

• Doliche

  A titular see of Commagene (Augusto-Euphratesia)

• Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

  Historian and theologian (1799-1890)

• Dolman, Charles

  Publisher and bookseller, b. at Monmouth, England, 20 Sept., 1807; d. in Paris, 31 December, 1863

• Dolores Mission

  Or Mission San Francisco De Asis De Los Dolores

• Dolphin

  The use of the dolphin as a Christian symbol is connected with the general ideas underlying the more general use of the fish. The particular idea is that of swiftness and celerity symbolizing the desire with which Christians, who are thus represented as being sharers in the nature of Christ the true Fish, should seek after the knowledge of Christ

• Dome

  An architectural term often used synonymously with cupola

• Domenech, Emmanuel-Henri-Dieudonne

  Abbe, missionary and author, b. at Lyons, France, 4 November, 1826; d. in France, June, 1886

• Domenechino

  Italian painter (1581-1641)

• Domesday Book

  The name given to the record of the great survey of England made by order of William the Conqueror in 1085-86

• Domicile

  The canon law has no independent and original theory of domicile; both the canon law and all modern civil codes borrowed this theory from the Roman law; the canon law, however, extended and perfected the Roman theory by adding thereto that of quasi-domicile

• Dominical Letter

  A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the 'Proprium de Tempore' to the 'Proprium Sanctorum' when constructing the ecclesiastical calendar for any year

• Dominican Republic

  The eastern, and much larger political division of the island now comprehensively known as Haiti, which is the second in size of the Greater Antilles

• Dominicans

  An extensive article about several branches of the Dominicans, including their history

• Dominici, Blessed Giovanni

  Biography of the Dominican preacher and writer

• Dominic of Prussia

  A Carthusian monk and ascetical writer, born in Poland, 1382; died at the monastery of St. Alban near Trier, 1461

• Dominic of the Mother of God

  A member of the Passionist Congregation and theologian, b. near Viterbo, Italy, 22 June, 1792; d. near Reading, England, 27 August, 1849

• Dominic, Saint

  Biography of the founder of the Order of Preachers, d. 1221

• Dominis, Marco Antonio de

  Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science, b. on the island of Arbe, off the coast of Dalmatia, in 1566; d. in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, Rome, September, 1624

• Dominus Vobiscum

  An ancient form of devout salutation, incorporated in the liturgy of the Church, where it is employed as a prelude to certain formal prayers

• Domitian

  Roman emperor and persecutor of the Church, son of Vespasian and younger brother and successor of the Emperor Titus; b. 24 Oct., A.D. 51, and reigned from 81 to 96

• Domitiopolis

  A titular see of Isauria in Asia Minor

• Domnus Apostolicus

  A title applied to the pope, which was in most frequent use between the sixth and the eleventh centuries

• Donahoe, Patrick

  Publisher, born at Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March, 1811; died at Boston, U.S.A., 18 March, 1901

• Donatello Di Betto Bardi

  One of the great Tuscan sculptors of the Renaissance, born at Florence, c. 1386; died there, 13 Dec., 1466

• Donation (in Canon Law)

  The gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing

• Donation (in Civil Law)

  The gratuitous transfer, or gift, of ownership of property

• Donatists

  The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the conference at Carthage in 411, after which its importance waned

• Donatus of Fiesole

  Irish teacher and poet, Bishop of Fiesole, about 829-876

• Donders, Peter

  Missionary among the lepers, b. at Tilburg in Holland, 27 Oct., 1807; d. 14 Jan., 1887

• Dongan, Thomas

  Second Earl of Limerick, b. 1634, at Castletown Kildrought, now Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland; d. at London, 1715

• Donlevy, Andrew

  Educator, b. in 1694, probably in Sligo, Ireland; date and place of death uncertain

• Donnan, Saint

  Three or possibly four Irish saints of this name lived in the sixth and seventh centuries

• Donner, Georg Raphael

  Austrian sculptor, b. at Essling, Austria, 25 May, 1692; d. at Vienna, 15 February, 1741

• Donnet, Ferdinand-François-Auguste

  A French cardinal, b. at Bourg-Argental (Loire), 1795; d. at Bordeaux, 1882

• Donoso Cortés, Juan Francesco Maria de la Saludad

  Primarily biographical article by Conde B. Pallen on the Spanish thinker

• Donus, Pope

  Son of a Roman called Mauricius; he was consecrated Bishop of Rome 2 Nov., 676, to succeed Adeodatus II, after an interval of four months and seventeen days; d. 11 April, 678

• Doorkeeper

  A minor order also called "doorkeeper"

• Dora

  A titular see of Palestina Prima

• Dorchester, Abbey of

  Founded in 1140 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln

• Doré, Pierre

  Controversialist, b. at Orleans about 1500; d. at Paris, 19 May, 1559

• Doria, Andrea

  Genoese admiral and statesman, b. at Oneglia, Italy, 1468; d. at Genoa, 1560

• Döring, Matthias

  Historian and theologian, b. between 1390 and 1400, at Kyritz, in Brandenburg; d. there 24 July, 1469

• Dorman, Thomas

  Theologian, b. at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, date uncertain; d. at Tournai, 1572 or 1577

• Dornin, Bernard

  First publisher in the United States of distinctively Catholic books, b. in Ireland, 1761; d. in Ohio, 1836

• Dorothea, Saint

  Brief hagiographies of two saints of this name: St. Dorothea, virgin and martyr, d. at Caesarea; and St. Dorothea of Montau

• Dorsey, Anne Hanson

  Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896

• Dorylaeum

  A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor

• Dositheans

  Followers of Dositheus, a Samaritan who formed a Gnostic-Judaistic sect, previous to Simon Magus

• Dosquet, Pierre-Herman

  Fourth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Liege, Flanders, 1691; d. at Paris, 1777

• Dossi, Giovanni

  An Italian painter, b. about 1479; d. at Ferrara in 1542

• Douai

  The town of Douai, in the department of Nord, France, is on the River Scarpe, some twenty miles south of Lille

• Douay Bible

  The original Douay Version, which is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic versions are still based, owed its existence to the religious controversies of the sixteenth century

• Double Monasteries

  Religious houses comprising communities of both men and women, dwelling in contiguous establishments, united under the rule of one superior, and using one church in common for their liturgical offices

• Doubt

  A state in which the mind is suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them

• Douglas, Gavin

  Scottish prelate and poet, born about 1474; died 1522

• Doutreleau, Stephen

  Missionary, born in France, 11 October, 1693; date of death uncertain

• Dove

  In Christian antiquity the dove appears as a symbol and as a Eucharistic vessel

• Dowdall, George

  Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in 1487; d. at London, 15 August, 1558

• Dowdall, James

  Martyr, date of birth unknown; executed for his faith at Exeter, England, 20 September, 1600

• Dower

  A provision for support during life accorded by law to a wife surviving her husband

• Dower, Religious

  Because of its analogy with the dower that a woman brings to her husband when she marries, the name 'religious dower' has been given to the sum of money or the property that a religious woman, or nun (religiosa) brings, for her maintenance, into the convent where she desires to make her profession

• Down and Connor

  A line drawn from Whitehouse on Belfast Lough due west to the Clady River, thence by the river itself to Muckamore and Lough Neagh, marks the boundary between the Diocese of Down and the Diocese of Connor

• Downside Abbey

  Near Bath, Somersetshire, England, was founded at Douai, Flanders, under the patronage of St. Gregory the Great, in 1605 by the Venerable John Roberts

• Doxology

  The doxology in the form in which we know it has been used since about the seventh century all over Western Christendom, except in one corner

• Doyle, James Warren

  Irish bishop; b. near New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, 1786; d. at Carlow, 1834

• Doyle, John

  Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1797; died in London, 2 January, 1868; English portrait-painter and caricaturist

• Doyle, Richard

  English artist and caricaturist, b. in London, September, 1824; d. there 11 December, 1883

• Drach, David Paul

  Convert from Judaism, b. at Strasburg, 6 March, 1791; d. end of January, 1868, at Rome

• Drachma

  A Greek silver coin

• Dracontius, Blossius Æmilius

  A Christian poet of the fifth century

• Drane, Augusta Theodosia

  In religion Mother Francis Raphael; b. At Bromley near London, in 1823; d. at Stone, Staffordshire, 19 April, 1894

• Dreams, Interpretation of

  Theologians continue to admit the possibility of dreams supernatural in their origin, and consequently the possibility of dream-interpretation depending on supernatural communications

• Drechsel, Jeremias

  Ascetic writer, b. at Augsburg, 15 August, 1581; entered the Society of Jesus 27 July, 1598; d. at Munich, 19 April, 1638

• Dresden

  The capital of the Kingdom of Saxony and the residence of the royal family, is situated on both sides of the Elbe

• Dreves, Lebrecht Blücher

  Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870

• Drevet Family, The

  Leading portrait engravers of France for over a hundred years, beginning with Pierre, and sustained by his son, Pierre-Imbert, and by his nephew, Claude

• Drexel, Francis Anthony

  Banker, b. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 20 June, 1824; d. there 15 Feb., 1885

• Drey, Johann Sebastian von

  A professor of theology at the University of Tübingen (1777-1853)

• Dromore

  Suffragan of Armagh, Ireland

• Drostan, Saint

  Scottish abbot and later hermit, fl. about 600. Also known as St. Drustan, Dustan, or Throstan

• Droste-Vischering, Clemens August von

  Archbishop of Cologne, born 21 Jan., 1773, at Muenster, Germany; died 19 Oct., 1845, in the same city

• Druidism

  Probably the best-substantiated derivation of the word is from the root vid, 'to know', and the intensive prefix dru. According to this etymology, the druids would be the 'very wise and learned ones'

• Druillettes, Gabriel

  Missionary, b. in France, 29 September, 1610; d. at Quebec, 8 April, 1681

• Drumgoole, John C.

  Priest and philanthropist, b. at Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland, 15 August, 1816; d. in New York, 28 March, 1888

• Drury, Robert

  Biographical portrait of the English priest, martyred at Tyburn in February 1606 or 1607

• Drusilla

  Daughter of Herod Agrippa I

• Drusipara

  A titular see in Thracia Prima

• Druys, Jean

  Thirtieth Abbot of Parc near Louvain, Belgium, b. at Cumptich, near Tirlemont; d. 25 March, 1635

• Druzbicki, Gaspar

  Ascetic writer, b. at Sierady in Poland, 1589; entered the Society of Jesus, 20 August 1609; d. at Posen, 2 April, 1662

• Druzes

  Small Mohammedan sect in Syria, notorious for their opposition to the Marionites, a Catholic people dwelling on the slopes of the Lebanon

• Dryburgh Abbey

  A monastery belonging to the canons of the Premonstratensian Order (Norbertine or White Canons), situated four miles south-east of Melrose, Scotland

• Dryden, John

  Introductory biography of the poet and dramatist

• Dualism

  Denotes the religious or theological system which would explain the universe as the outcome of two eternally opposed and coexisting principles

• Dublin

  Archdiocese; occupies about sixty miles of the middle eastern coast of Ireland, and penetrates inland, about forty-six miles, including all the County of Dublin, nearly all of Wicklow, and parts of Kildare and Wexford, with three suffragans: Kildare and Leighlin, Ferns, and Ossory

• Dubois, Guillaume

  A French cardinal and statesman, born at Brive, in Limousin, 1656; died at Versailles, 1723

• Dubois, Jean-Antoine

  French missionary in India, b. in 1765 at St. Remeze (Ardeche); d. in Paris, 17 Feb., 1848

• Dubois, John

  Third Bishop of New York, educator and missionary, b. in Paris, 24 August, 1764; d. in New York, 20 December, 1842

• Dubourg, Louis-Guillaume-Valentin

  Second Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, Archbishop of Besancon (1766-1833)

• Dubric, Saint

  Welsh bishop and confessor, d. 612. Also called St. Dubricius or Dyfrig

• Dubuque

  Archdiocese established, 28 July, 1837, created an archbishopric, 1893, comprises that part of Iowa, U.S.A., north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Scott, and east of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster, and Boone Counties

• Du Cange, Charles Dufresne

  Historian and philologist, b. at Amiens, France, 18 Dec., 1610; d. at Paris, 1688

• Duccio di Buoninsegna

  Painter, and founder of the Sienese School, b. about 1255 or 1260, place not known; d. 3 August, 1319

• Duc, Fronton du

  A French theologian and Jesuit, b. at Bordeaux in 1558; d. at Paris, 25 September, 1624

• Duchesne, Philippine-Rose

  Admiring biographical essay

• Duckett, John, Venerable

  Biographical sketch of the English priest and martyr

• Duckett, Ven. James

  Convert to Catholicism, publisher and bookseller, martyred in 1601

• Du Coudray, Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Tronson

  Soldier, b. at Reims, France, 8 September, 1738; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 11 September, 1777

• Ducrue, Francis Bennon

  Missionary in Mexico, b. at Munich, Bavaria. of French parents, 10 June 1721; d. there 30 March, 1779

• Dudik, Beda Franciscus

  Moravian historian, b. at Kojetein near Kremsier, Moravia, 29 January, 1815; d. as abbot and titular bishop at the monastery of Raigern, 18 January, 1890

• Duel

  This word, as used both in the ecclesiastical and civil criminal codes, generally signifies every contest with deadly weapons which takes place by agreement between two persons on account of some private quarrel

• Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan

  Politician and author, b. at Monaghan, Ireland, 12 April, 1816; d. at Nice, France, 9 Feb., 1903

• Duhamel, Jean-Baptiste

  A French scientist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Vire, Normandy, 11 June, 1624; d. at Paris, 6 August, 1706

• Du Lhut Daniel Greysolon, Sieur

  Born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye about 1640; died at Montreal, 26 Feb., 1710. He first served in the French army, becoming a lieutenant in 1657 and a gendarme of the King's Guard in 1664

• Dulia

  A theological term signifying the honour paid to the saints, while latria means worship given to God alone, and hyperdulia the veneration offered to the Blessed Virgin Mary

• Duluth

  Diocese, established 3 Oct., 1889, suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. Paul

• Dumas, Jean-Baptiste

  French chemist and senator, b. at Alais, department of Gard, 14 July, 1800; d. at Cannes, 10 April, 1884

• Dumetz, Francisco

  Date of birth unknown; died 14 Jan., 1811. He was a native of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, where he entered the Franciscan Order

• Dumont, Hubert-André

  Belgian geologist, b. at Liege, 15 Feb., 1809; d. in the same city, 28 Feb., 1857

• Dumoulin, Charles

  French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, 1566

• Dunbar, William

  Scottish poet, sometimes styled the 'Chaucer of Scotland', born c. 1460

• Dunchadh, Saint

  Abbot of Iona, confessor, d. 717. Also known as St. Dunichad, Duncad, or Donatus

• Dundrennan, Abbey of

  In Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; a Cistercian house founded in 1142 by King David I and Fergus Lord of Galloway for monks brought from Rievaulx in Yorkshire

• Dunedin

  Diocese comprises the provincial district of Otago (including the Otago part, Southland, and Stewart Island, as well as other adjacent islands)

• Dunfermline, Abbey of

  In the southwest of Fife, Scotland. Founded by King Malcolm Canmore and his queen, Margaret, about 1070, it was richly endowed by him and his sons, and remodelled as a Benedictine abbey by his successor, David I, who brought an abbot and twelve monks from Canterbury

• Dungal

  Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet who flourished about 820

• Dunin, Martin von

  Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, born 11 Nov., 1774, in the village of Wat near the city of Rawa, Poland; died 26 Dec., 1842

• Dunkeld

  Located in Scotland, constituted, as far back as the middle of the ninth century, the primatial see of the Columban Church by King Kenneth Mac Alpine, who rebuilt there the church and monastery founded by King Constantine (afterwards destroyed by the Danes), and translated thither St. Columba's relics

• Dunkers

  A Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite

• Duns Scotus, Blessed John

  Called 'Doctor Subtilis,' Franciscan, philosopher, d. 1308

• Dunstan, Saint

  Long biographical essay on this tenth-century Anglo-Saxon archbishop and confessor

• Dupanloup, Félix-Antoine-Philibert

  Bishop of Orleans, France, b. at Saint-Felix; Savoie, 2 June, 1802; d. at Lacombe, Isere, 11 October, 1878

• Duperron, Jacques-Davy

  A theologian and diplomat, born 25 Nov., 1556, at St-Lo (Normandy), France; died 5 Sept., 1618

• Dupin, Louis Ellies

  A theologian, born 17 June, 1657, of a noble family in Normandy; died 6 June, 1719

• Dupin, Pierre-Charles-François

  French mathematician and economist (1784-1873)

• Duponceau, Peter Stephen

  Jurist and linguist (1760-1844)

• Duprat, Antoine & Guillaume

  Antoine, chancellor of France and Cardinal, b. at Issoire in Auvergne, 17 January, 1463; d. 1535. Guillaume, son of the foregoing, b. at Issoire, 1507; d. at Beauregard, 1560. Appointed Bishop of Clermont in 1529

• Dupré, Giovanni

  Sculptor (1817-1882)

• Dupuytren, Baron Guillaume

  French anatomist and surgeon (1777-1835)

• Duquesnoy, François

  Sculptor (1594-1646)

• Durand Ursin

  Benedictine (1682-1771)

• Durandus of Saint-Pourçain

  Philosopher and theologian (d. 1332)

• Durandus of Troarn

  French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089

• Durandus, William

  Canonist and writer (1237-1296)

• Durandus, William, the Younger

  Died 1328, canonist, nephew of the famous ritualist and canonist of the same name

• Durango

  Archdiocese located in northwestern Mexico

• Duran, Narcisco

  Franciscan missionary (1776-1846)

• Durazzo

  Archdiocese in Albania

• Durbin, Elisha John

  The 'Patriarch-priest of Kentucky', born 1 February, 1800; died in 1887

• Dürer, Albrecht

  German artist (1471-1528)

• Durham

  Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham. Owing to its geographical position on the Scottish border, the successive bishops were led to assume constitutional and political functions in addition to their spiritual office

• Durham Rite

  The earliest document giving an account of liturgical services in the Diocese of Durham is the so-called 'Rituale ecclesiae Dunelmensis'

• Durrow, School of

  Irish Dairmagh, Plain of the Oaks. Situated in the King's County, a few miles from the town of Tullamore

• Duty

  The definition of the term duty given by lexicographers is: 'something that is due', 'obligatory service'; 'something that one is bound to perform or to avoid'

• Duvergier de Hauranne, Jean

  One of the authors of Jansenism, b. at Bayonne, France, 1581; d. in Paris, 1643

• Duvernay, Ludger

  A French-Canadian journalist and patriot, born at Vercheres, Quebec, 22 January, 1799; died 28 November, 1852

• Dwight, Thomas

  American anatomist (1843-1911)

• Dyck, Antoon (Anthonis) Van

  Flemish portrait-painter, b. at Antwerp, 22 March, 1599; d. in London, 9 December, 1641

• Dymoke, Robert

  Confessor of the Faith, date of birth uncertain; d. at Lincoln, England, 11 Sept., 1580

• Dymphna, Saint

  Virgin and martyr, venerated since at least the thirteenth century

• Dynamism

  A general name for a group of philosophical views concerning the nature of matter