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• Faa di Bruno, Francesco

  Italian mathematician and priest (1825-1888)

• Faber, Felix

  German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany

• Faber, Frederick William

  Oratorian and devotional writer (1814-1863)

• Faber, Johann

  Theologian (1478-1541)

• Faber, Johann

  Controversialist and preacher (1504-1558)

• Faber, Johann Augustanus

  Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531

• Faber, Matthias

  Writer and preacher, born at Altomuenster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 April 1653

• Faber, Peter, Saint

  French priest, one of the first Jesuits, d. 1546

• Faber, Philip

  Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus (1564-1630)

• Fabian, Pope Saint

  Biography of this pope who was martyred in 250

• Fabiola, Saint

  Divorced, remarried, widowed, penitent, renowned for her generosity. She died in 399 or 400

• Fabre, Joseph

  Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (1824-1892)

• Fabriano and Matelica

  Fabriano, a city in the province of Macerata, Central Italy, is noted for its paper manufactories and its trade in salted fish. The town of Matelica possesses some ancient inscriptions. A Roman colony was established there in 89 B.C

• Fabrica Ecclesiæ

  Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction

• Fabricius, Hieronymus

  Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)

• Fabri, Honoré

  Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688

• Fabyan, Robert

  English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513

• Façade

  The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts

• Facciolati, Jacopo

  Lexicographer and philologist (1682-1769)

• Faculties, Canonical

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

• Faculties of the Soul

  Article covers the meaning and classification

• Facundus of Hermiane

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

• Faenza

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

• Fagnani, Prospero

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

• Fagnano, Guilio Carlo de' Toschi di

  Mathematician (1682-1766)

• Faillon, Etienne-Michel

  Historian (1800-1870)

• Faith

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

• Faithful, The

  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

• Faith, Hope, and Charity (Saints)

  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

• Faith, The Rule of

  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

• Falco, Juan Conchillos

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

• Faldstool

  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

• Falkner, Thomas

  Surgeon and missionary (1707-1784)

• Fallopio, Gabriello

  Anatomist (1523-1562)

• Falloux du Coudray

  Frederic Alfred Pierre (1811-1885)

• Fall River

  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

• False Decretals

  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

• Falsity

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

• Famagusta

  A titular see in the Island of Cyprus

• Familiars

  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

• Family

  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

• Fano

  Located in Italy

• Fanon

  Shoulder-cape worn by the pope

• Faraud, Henri

  Canadian bishop (1823-1890)

• Farfa, Abbey of

  A legend in the 'Chronicon Farfense' relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto

• Fargo

  Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A

• Faribault, George-Barthélemy

  Canadian archaeologist (1789-1866)

• Faribault, Jean-Baptiste

  Early settler in Minnesota (1774-1860)

• Farinato, Paolo

  Italian painter (1524-1606)

• Faringdon, Blessed Hugh

  His family name was Cook; Faringdon is his probable birthplace. Mitred abbot of Reading. When he refused to surrender the abbey, he was condemned to death. Martyred in 1539

• Farlati, Daniele

  Ecclesiastical historian (1690-1773)

• Farnese, Alessandro

  Cardinal (1520-1589)

• Faro

  A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve

• Faroe Islands

  A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland

• Fast

  Abstinence from food or drink

• Fatalism

  The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate

• Fate

  Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict

• Fathers of Mercy, The

  A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834

• Fathers of the Church

  The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:

• Faunt, Lawrence Arthur

  Jesuit theologian (1554-1590)

• Fauriel, Charles-Claude

  French historian (1772-1844)

• Faustinus and Jovita, Saints

  Brothers martyred at Brescia in 120

• Faustus of Riez

  Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495

• Faversham Abbey

  A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda

• Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann

  Astronomer (1814-1902)

• Fear (from a Moral Standpoint)

  Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of human origin

• Fear (in Canon Law)

  A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger

• Feast of Fools

  A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later middle ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.)

• Feasts, Ecclesiastical

  Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special services and rest from work

• Febronianism

  The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius

• Feckenham, John de

  Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585

• Feder, Johann Michael

  German theologian (1753-1824)

• Feilding, Rudolph William Basil

  English convert (1823-1892)

• Feilmoser, Andreas Benedict

  Theologian and Scripture scholar (1777-1831)

• Felbiger, Johann Ignaz von

  German Augustinian (1724-1788)

• Felician and Primus, Saints

  Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution, in about 304

• Felician Sisters, O.S.F.

  Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela

• Felicissimus

  Third-century schismatic

• Felicitas and Perpetua, Saints

  Martyred at Carthage in 203

• Felicitas, Saint

  Roman martyr. Article explains how she and the seven martyrs who are called her sons have come to have different feast days

• Felix and Nabor, Saints

  Martyrs in the Diocletian persecution

• Félix, Célestin Joseph

  French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891

• Felix II

  Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365

• Felix III (II), Pope Saint

  Felix II was an antipope, irregularly imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, so St. Felix III is sometimes called Felix II. Pope St. Felix III was much involved in battling heresy, and died in 492

• Felix I, Pope Saint

  The successor of Pope St. Dionysius, Felix died in 274. He is sometimes confused with a Roman martyr of the same name

• Felix IV (III), Pope Saint

  Since Felix II was an antipope imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, St. Felix IV is sometimes called Felix III. Pope St. Felix IV died in 530

• Felix of Cantalice, Saint

  Biography of this Capuchin lay brother, known for his goodness, popular with children, d. 1587

• Felix of Nola, Saint

  Third-century confessor. Possibly the same as St. Felix of Nola, bishop and martyr

• Felix of Valois, Saint

  Co-founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, d. 1212

• Felix V

  Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449) (1383-1451)

• Feller, François-Xavier de

  An author and apologist, b. at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802

• Feneberg, Johann Michael Nathanael

  Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria

• Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-

  French bishop and author, b. in the Chateau de Fenelon in Perigord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715

• Fenn, John

  Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor

• Ferber, Nicolaus

  A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534

• Ferdinand, Blessed

  Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity. When a military mission of his brother failed, Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage, and died in captivity in 1443

• Ferdinand II

  Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637

• Ferdinand III, Saint

  King of Leon and Castile, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1252

• Ferdinando, Luigi, Count de Marsigli

  Italian geographer and naturalist, b. at Bologna 10 July, 1658; d. at Bologna 1 Nov., 1730

• Ferentino, Diocese of

  In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See

• Fergus, Saints

  There are at least ten Irish saints named Fergus. This article gives details on three of them: St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, bishop, d. about 730; St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, d. 778; and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, d. 583

• Feria

  A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions

• Ferland, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine

  A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865

• Fermo, Archdiocese of

  In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy)

• Fernández, Antonio

  A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642

• Fernández de Palencia, Diego

  A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century

• Fernández, Juan

  A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan

• Ferns

  Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin

• Ferrara

  Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See

• Ferrari, Gaudenzio

  An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546

• Ferraris, Lucius

  An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order

• Ferreira, Antonio

  A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569

• Ferrer, Rafael

  A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San Jose, Peru, in 1611

• Ferrer, Saint Vincent

  Biography of this Spanish-born Dominican missionary, who died in 1419

• Ferre, Vicente

  Theologian (d. 1682)

• Ferrières, Abbey of

  Situated in the Diocese of Orleans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis

• Ferstel, Heinrich, Freiherr von

  Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883

• Fesch, Joseph

  Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839

• Fessler, Josef

  Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council; b. 2 December, 1813, at Lochau near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg; d. 25 April, 1872

• Fetherston, Blessed Richard

  Priest and martyr, died at Smithfield, 1540

• Feti, Domenico

  Italian painter; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624

• Fetishism

  The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitico from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer)

• Feuardent, François

  Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at Paris, 1 Jan., 1610

• Feuchtersleben, Baron Ernst von

  An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, 1849

• Feudalism

  The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law

• Feuillants

  The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans

• Feuillet, Louis

  Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732

• Féval, Paul-Henri-Corentin

  French novelist (1817-1887)

• Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo

  Spanish writer (1676-1764)

• Fiacc, Saint

  Poet, chief bishop of Leinster, d. around 520

• Fiacre, Saint

  Biography of this Irish priest and hermit, patron saint of gardeners, d. 670

• Ficino, Marsilio

  Entry on this Renaissance Platonist, by M. Schumacher. Details his life and explores his relation to the classical thinkers

• Ficker, Julius

  Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at Innsbruck, 10 June, 1902

• Fideism

  A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterion of certitude is authority

• Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Saint

  Former lawyer who joined the Capuchins, and was sent as a missionary to the Calvinists. Martyred in 1622

• Fiesole

  Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence

• Figueroa, Francisco de

  A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed 'the Divine', b. at Alcala de Henares, c. 1540, d. there, 1620

• Figueroa, Francisco García de la Rosa

  Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown

• Fiji, Vicariate Apostolic of

  Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago

• Filby, Blessed William

  English priest, martyred in 1582. Article also has details on Bl. Laurence Richardson and St. Luke Kirby, his companions in martyrdom

• Filelfo, Franscesco

  A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481

• Filial Church

  A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church

• Filicaja, Vincenzo da

  Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707

• Filioque

  It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism

• Fillastre, Guillaume

  French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer (1348-1428)

• Filliucci, Vincenzo

  Jesuit moralist (1566-1622)

• Filliucius, Felix

  An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590

• Final Perseverance

  The preservation of the state of grace till the end of life

• Finan, Saint

  Irish monk, second Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 661

• Finbarr, Saint

  Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland (550-623)

• Finch, Ven. John

  A layman, raised Protestant. As a young man he converted to Catholicism, married, served as a catechist, and made his home a center of missionary activity. Captured, he was tortured and imprisoned for three years before being martyred in 1584

• Finglow, Ven. John

  Yorkshire priest, martyred in 1586

• Finland

  As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland

• Finnian of Movilla, Saint

  Irish monk, author of a monastic rule and a penitential. Also the founder of a famous school in County Down. St. Finnian died in 589

• Finotti, Joseph M.

  Italian-American Jesuit in Colorado (1817-1879)

• Fintan, Saints

  Brief biographical sketches of two saints of this name: St. Fintan of Clonenagh, and St. Fintan (Munnu) of Taghmon

• Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi

  Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century

• Fire, Liturgical Use of

  One of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols

• Firmament

  The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples

• Firmicus Maternus

  Christian author of the fourth century

• Firmilian

  Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269

• First-Born

  The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family

• First-Fruits

  First-fruit offerings are designated in the Law by a threefold name: Bikkurim, Reshith, and Terumoth

• Fiscal Procurator

  The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing crime and safeguarding ecclesiastical law

• Fischer, Antonius

  Cardinal-Archbishop of Cologne (1840-1912)

• Fisherman, The Ring of the

  Ring worn by the popes, with a representation of St. Peter in a boat on it

• Fisher, Philip

  Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. S., 1652

• Fish, Symbolism of the

  The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multification of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its popularity among Christians was due principally, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish (Ichthys), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and His claim to the worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Y

• Fitter, Daniel

  Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700

• Fitton, James

  Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881

• Fitzalan, Henry

  Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580

• FitzGibbon, Catherine

  Catherine FitzGibbon, born in London, England, 12 May, 1823; died in New York, 14 August, 1896

• Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir

  Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538

• Fitzherbert, Maria Anne

  Wife of King George IV; b. 26 July, 1756 (place uncertain); d. at Brighton, England, 29 March, 1837

• Fitzherbert, Thomas

  Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome

• Fitzpatrick, William John

  Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895

• Fitzralph, Richard

  Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360

• Fitzsimon, Henry

  Irish Jesuit (1566-1643)

• Fitz-Simons, Thomas

  American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 26 Aug., 1811

• Fixlmillner, Placidus

  Astromomer (1721-1791)

• Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis

  Physicist (1819-1896)

• Flabellum

  A fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest

• Flaccilla, Ælia

  Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great, died c. A.D. 385 or 386

• Flagellants

  A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries

• Flagellation

  Includes history and its use in scripture

• Flaget, Benedict Joseph

  First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville), Kentucky, U.S.A (1763-1850)

• Flanagan, Thomas Canon

  Canon of Birmingham Diocese. Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865

• Flanders

  Designated in the eighth century a small territory around Bruges; it became later the name of the country bounded by the North Sea, the Scheldt, and the Canche

• Flandrin, Jean-Hippolyte

  French painter (1809-1864)

• Flathead Indians

  A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes practising the custom of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means

• Flathers, Ven. Mathew

  English priest martyred at York in 1607

• Flavia Domitilla

  A Christian Roman matron of the imperial family who lived towards the close of the first century

• Flavian, Saint

  Bishop of Constantinople, excommunicated Eutyches, was the recipient of the famous 'Tome of Leo,' deposed by the Latrocinium, died from severe beatings in exile in 449

• Flavias

  A titular see of Cilicia Secunda

• Flavigny, Abbey of

  Benedictine abbey in the Diocese of Dijon, the department of Cote-d'Or, and arroundissement of Semur

• Flaviopolis

  A titular see in the province of Honorias

• Fléchier, Esprit

  Bishop; b. at Pernes, France, 1632; died at Montpellier, 1710

• Flemael, Bertholet

  Painter, b. at Liege, Flanders, in 1614; d. there in 1675

• Fleming, Patrick

  Franciscan friar b. at Lagan, County Louth, Ireland, 17April, 1599; d. 7 November, 1631

• Fleming, Richard

  Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. about 1360; d. at Sleaford, 25 Jan., 1431

• Fleming, Thomas

  Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane (1593-1665)

• Fletcher, John

  A missionary and theologian; d. about 1848

• Flete, William

  An Augustinian hermit friar, a contemporary and great friend of St. Catherine of Siena; the exact place and date of his birth are unknown and those of his death are disputed

• Fleuriot, Zénaide-Marie-Anne

  French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890

• Fleury, Abbey of

  One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated

• Fleury, André-Hercule de

  Chaplain to Maria Theresa and Louis XIV (1653-1742)

• Flodoard

  French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966

• Floreffe, Abbey of

  Situated on the Sambre, about seven miles southwest of Namur, Belgium, owes its foundation to Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis

• Florence

  Located in the province of Tuscany (Central Italy)

• Florence, Council of

  The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was the continuation of the Council of Ferrara

• Florence of Worcester

  English chronicler, died in 1118

• Florentina, Saint

  Sometimes called Florentia. Spanish nun, d. about 612

• Flórez, Enrique

  Spanish theologian, archeologist, and historian; born at Valladolid, 14 February, 1701; died at Madrid, 20 August, 1773

• Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris, Chevalier de

  Writer, born at the chateau of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794

• Florians, The

  An independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians; it was founded in 1189 by the Abbot Joachim of Flora

• Florida

  The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi

• Florilegia

  Systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes

• Florus

  A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century

• Floyd, John

  English missionary (1572-1649)

• Fogaras

  Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Rumanian Rite

• Foggia

  Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern Italy)

• Foillan, Saint

  Blood brother of SS. Fursey and Ultan. Irish-born abbot of Cnoberesburg until it was captured by the Mercians, whereupon Foillan fled to Nivelles. He was murdered in 652

• Folengo, Teofilo

  Italian poet (1496-1544)

• Foley, Henry

  English Jesuit lay brother (1811-1891)

• Foligno

  Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See

• Foliot, Gilbert

  Bishop of London, b. early in the twelfth century

• Folkestone Abbey

  Located in England

• Fonseca, José Ribeiro da

  Friar Minor; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752

• Fonseca, Pedro Da

  A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599

• Fonseca Soares, Antonio da

  Friar Minor and ascetical writer (1631-1682)

• Fontana, Carlo

  An architect and writer; b. at Bruciato, near Como, 1634; d. at Rome, 1714

• Fontana, Domenico

  A Roman architect of the Late Renaissance, b. at Merli on the Lake of Lugano, 1543; d. at Naples, 1607

• Fontana, Felice

  Italian naturalist and physiologist, b. at Pomarolo in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1730; d. at Florence, 11 January, 1805

• Fontbonne, Jeanne

  Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons (1759-1843)

• Fonte-Avellana

  A suppressed order of hermits, which takes its name from their first hermitage in the Apennines

• Fontenelle, Abbey of

  A Benedictine monastery in Normandy (Seine-Inferieure), near Caudebec-en-Caux

• Fontevrault, Order and Abbey of

  The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d'Arbrissel about the end of 1100

• Fonts, Holy Water

  Vessels intended for the use of holy water

• Foppa, Ambrogio

  Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker, b. 1445, d. about 1527

• Forbes, John

  Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606

• Forbin-Janson, Comte de Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph

  A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood (1785-1844)

• Forcellini, Egidio

  Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, 1768

• Ford, Blessed Thomas

  English priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1582

• Fordham University

  Developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist's Day, 24 June, 1841

• Foreman, Andrew

  A Scottish prelate; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522

• Forer, Laurenz

  Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659

• Foresters, Catholic Orders of

  A Catholic fraternal insurance society

• Forgery, Forger

  The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty

• Forli

  Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy); suffragan of Ravenna

• Form

  The original meaning of the term form, both in Greek and Latin, was and is that in common use - eidos, being translated, that which is seen, shape, etc., with secondary meanings derived from this, as form, sort, particular, kind, nature

• Formby, Henry

  Writer, born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884

• Formosus, Pope

  Reigned 891-896

• Formularies

  Medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case

• Forrest, William

  Sixteenth-century English priest and poet

• Förster, Arnold

  German entomologist (1810-1884)

• Forster, Fobrenius

  Bavarian Prince-Abbot (1709-1791)

• Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria

  Astronomer and naturalist (1789-1860)

• Fortaleza, Diocese of

  Co-extensive with the State of Ceara in the Republic of Brazil

• Fortescue, Blessed Adrian

  Knight of St. John, martyred in 1539

• Fortitude

  One of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue

• Fortunato of Brescia

  Morphologist and Minorite of the Reform of Lombardy; b. at Brescia, 1701; d. at Madrid, 1754

• Fortunatus

  Lengthy biographical article on the talented sixth-century poet and hymn-writer

• Fort Wayne

  The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., established in 1834, comprised the whole State of Indiana till the Holy See, on 22 September, 1857, created the Diocese of Fort Wayne, assigning to it that part of Indiana north of the southern boundary of Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware, and Randolph Counties

• Forty Hours' Devotion

  Somewhat dated with regard to the liturgical details, but otherwise an accurate depiction. A eucharistic devotion

• Forty Martyrs

  Article about this group of soldiers who, for professing Christianity, were ordered by the prefect to lie naked on a frozen lake. One of these threw himself into a warm bath which had been set up for defectors, but one of the guards was so impressed with the others that he declared himself a Christian and died with them. Early fourth century

• Fossano

  Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin

• Fossombrone

  Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino

• Fossors

  Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era

• Foster, John Gray

  Soldier, convert (1823-1874)

• Fothad, Saint

  St. Fothad Na Canoine ('of the Canon'), late eighth-century monk in County Donegal, bard

• Fouard, Constant

  An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837

• Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon

  A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868

• Foulque de Neuilly

  A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202

• Foundation

  An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time

• Foundling Asylums

  Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them

• Fountains Abbey

  A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York

• Fouquet, Jehan

  French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480

• Four Crowned Martyrs

  The Four Crowned Martyrs are actually two groups, with a total of nine or ten martyrs. The first five were masons or sculptors in Pannonia, martyred in 305. The second was a group of four martyrs, names unknown. They have been venerated since the fourth century and share a feast day on 8 November

• Four Masters, Annals of the

  The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland

• Fowler, John

  Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9

• Fractio Panis

  The name given to a fresco in the so-called 'Capella Greca' in the catacomb of St. Priscilla

• France

  Geography, statistics, and history

• Franceschini, Marc' Antonio

  Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's

• Frances d'Amboise, Blessed

  Biographical article on the Duchess of Brittany. While married, she was a great friend of the Poor Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites. After she was widowed, she became a Carmelite herself, and died in 1485

• Frances of Rome, Saint

  Wife and mother, Benedictine oblate, mystic, d. 1440

• Franchi, Ausonio

  Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa

• Francia

  Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517

• Francis Borgia, Saint

  Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit

• Franciscan Order

  An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic Church

• Francis Caracciolo, Saint

  Co-founder of the Congregation of the Minor Clerks Regular, d. 1608

• Francis de Geronimo, Saint

  Italian Jesuit, a popular preacher with a flair for the dramatic, d. 1716

• Francis de Sales, Saint

  Biographical article on the Bishop of Geneva, and Doctor of the Church, who died in 1622

• Francis I

  King of France; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547

• Francis Ingleby, Venerable

  Brief biography of the Yorkshire priest and martyr, who died in 1586

• Francis of Assisi, Saint

  Long article on St. Francis, founder, mystic, perhaps the most beloved Catholic saint of all

• Francis of Fabriano, Blessed

  Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322

• Francis of Paula, Saint

  Founder of the Order of Minims, d. 1507

• Francis of Vittoria

  Spanish theologian; b. about 1480, at Vittoria, province of Avila, in Old Castile; d. 12 August, 1546

• Francis Regis Clet, Blessed

  French Lazarist missionary to China, martyred in 1820

• Francis, Rule of Saint

  As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule

• Francis Solanus, Saint

  Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America, d. 1610. Short biographical article

• Francis Xavier, Saint

  Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552

• Franck, Kasper

  A theologian and controversialist; b. at Ortrand, Saxony, 2 Nov., 1543; d. at Ingolstadt, 12 March, 1584

• Franco, Giovanni Battista

  Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in 1510; d. at Venice in 1580

• Frankenberg

  Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of Belgium, and cardinal (1726-1804)

• Frankfort, Council of

  Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne (can. 1), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy, and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England

• Frankfort-on-the-Main

  Formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors

• Frank, Michael Sigismund

  Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at Nuremberg; d. at Munich, 16 January, 1847

• Franks, The

  A confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle fought against this people about the year 241

• Franzelin, Johann Baptist

  Cardinal and theologian (1816-1886)

• Frascati

  One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church

• Frassen, Claude

  A celebrated Scotist theologian and philosopher of the Order of Friars Minor; b. near Peronne, France, in 1620; d. at Paris, 26 February, 1711

• Fraticelli

  A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, principally in Italy

• Fraud

  In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong and unfair advantage

• Fraunhofer, Joseph von

  Optician (1787-1826)

• Frayssinous, Denis de

  Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris (1765-1841)

• Fréchette, Louis-Honoré

  Canadian journalist and poet (1839-1908)

• Fredegarius

  The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658

• Fredegis of Tours

  A ninth-century monk, teacher, and writer

• Frederick I (Barbarossa)

  German King and Roman Emperor (1123-1190)

• Frederick II

  German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250

• Fredoli, Berenger

  Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1250-1323)

• Free Church of Scotland

  Short introduction and history of the United Free Church. Briefly covers the secession, notes the events leading up to the disruption and deals with the events during the unification

• Freeman, Ven. William

  English priest, martyred at Warwick in 1595

• Freemasonry

  An overview of Freemasonry and description of its condemnation by the Catholic Church

• Free-Thinkers

  Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone

• Free Will

  The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time

• Fregoso, Federigo

  Cardinal; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541

• Freiburg

  City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany

• Fréjus

  Suffragan of Aix; comprises the whole department of Var (France)

• Fremin, James

  Jesuit missionary to the American Indians; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, 1691

• French Catholics in the United States

  History and statistics of French Canadian immigration to the United States

• French Literature

  Origin, foundations, and types

• French, Nicholas

  Bishop of Ferns, Ireland (1604-1678)

• French Revolution

  A view of its effect on the Church

• Freppel, Charles-Emile

  Bishop of Angers, France; and deputy from Finistere (1827-1891)

• Fresnel, Augustin-Jean

  Physicist; b. at Broglie near Bernay, Normandy, 10 May, 1788; d. at Ville d'Avray, near Paris, 14 July, 1827

• Friar

  A member of one of the mendicant orders

• Friars Minor, Order of

  History, traditions, and saints of the order

• Fribourg, University of

  A Catholic institution located in Switzerland

• Fridelli, Xavier Ehrenbert

  Jesuit missionary and cartographer (1673-1743)

• Frideswide, Saint

  Patron saint of Oxford, d. 735. Biographical entry

• Fridolin, Saint

  Irish missionary, founded the Monastery of Saeckingen sometime before the ninth century

• Friedrich von Hausen

  Medieval German poet

• Friends of God

  An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, having for its object the cultivation of holiness

• Friends, Society of

  Quakers, an Anglo-American religious sect

• Frigolet, Abbey of

  The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King of Arles

• Fringes (in Scripture)

  A special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, etc., or strips of other suitable material, along the edge of a piece of cloth

• Fritz, Samuel

  A Jesuit missionary of the eighteenth century noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin

• Froissart, Jean

  Biography of the French historian and poet

• Fromentin, Eugène

  French writer and artist (1820-1876)

• Frontenac, Louis de Baude

  A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698

• Frowin, Blessed

  Abbot of Engelberg, renowned for learning as well as sanctity, d. 1178

• Fructuosus of Braga, Saint

  Hermit, abbot, archbishop, d. around 665

• Fructuosus of Tarragona, Saint

  Bishop, was martyred along with his deacons Augurius and Eulogius in 259

• Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von

  Chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)

• Führich, Joseph

  Artist (1800-1876)

• Fulbert of Chartres

  Bishop (952-1028)

• Fulcran, Saint

  Bishop of Lodeve, d. 1006

• Fulda

  This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda

• Fulgentius Ferrandus

  A canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century

• Fulgentius, Saint

  Bishop of Ecija, died sometime between 619 and 633

• Fulgentius, Saint

  Full name, Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius. Monk, abbot, Bishop of Ruspe, anti-Arian theologian, d. 533

• Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte

  Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885

• Fullo, Peter

  Intruding Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch (d. 488)

• Fumo, Bartolommeo

  Theologian (d. 1545)

• Funchal

  Diocese in the Madeira Islands

• Fundamental Articles

  This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the Christian faith from those non-essential doctrines, which, as they believed, individual churches might accept or reject without forfeiting their claim to rank as parts of the Church universal

• Funeral Dues

  The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of his parishioners

• Funeral Pall

  A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person

• Fünfkirchen

  Diocese in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical province of Gran

• Funk, Franz Xaver von

  Church historian (1840-1907)

• Furness Abbey

  Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian

• Furni

  A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed

• Furniss, John

  A well-known children's missioner (1809-1865)

• Fursey, Saint

  Blood brother of St. Foillan. Fursey was an Irish monk and visionary, the abbot of Lagny. He died in about 650

• Fürstenberg, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von

  A statesman and educator (1729-1810)

• Fussola

  A titular see in Numidia

• Fust, John

  A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466

• Fytch, William Benedict

  An English Capuchin, whose family name was Filch (1563-1610)