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• Tabæ

  Titular see in Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis

• Tabasco

  Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Yucatan

• Tabb, John Bannister

  American poet and educator (1845-1909)

• Tabbora

  A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage

• Tabernacle

  Vessel holding the Blessed Sacrament

• Tabernacle

  Old Testament precursor to the Temple

• Tabernacles, Feast of

  One of the three great feasts of the Hebrew liturgical calendar

• Tabernacle Societies

  The Association of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and of work for poor churches was founded at Brussels in 1848 by Anne de Meeus

• Tabernacle Society

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Tabor, Mount

  Distinguished among the mountains of Palestine for its picturesque site, its graceful outline, the remarkable vegetation which covers its sides of calcareous rock, and the splendour of the view from its summit

• Tacana Indians

  The collective designation for a group of tribes constituting the Tacanan linguistic stock in different dialects, occupying the upper valleys of the Beni and Madre de Dios Rivers, on the eastern slope of the Andes, Department of Beni, northwestern Bolivia

• Tacapæ

  Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa

• Taché, Alexandre-Antonin

  First Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, missionary, prelate, statesman, and writer of Western Canada (1823-1894)

• Taché, Etienne-Pascal

  Statesman, b. at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Genevieve Michon; d. 30 July, 1865

• Tadama

  A titular see in Mauretania Caesariensis

• Tænarum

  A titular see in Greece, suffragan of Corinth

• Taensa Indians

  A Muskhogean tribe living when first known on the west bank of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Tensas parish, Louisiana

• Tahiti

  Located in the Society Islands, has an area of 600 square miles

• Taigi, Ven. Anna Maria

  Happily married for 48 years, became a Third Order Trinitarian, d. 1837

• Tait Indians

  A collective term for those members of the Cowichan tribe, occupying the Lower Fraser River, Yale District, British Columbia (Canada), between Nicomen and Yale

• Takkali

  The hybrid name by which the Carrier Indians of the northern interior of British Columbia were originally made known by the fur traders

• Talbot, James

  Fourth son of George Talbot and brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Chiefly known for having been the last priest to be indicted in the public courts for saying Mass (1726-1790)

• Talbot, John

  English Catholic layman

• Talbot, Peter

  Archbishop of Dublin, 1669-1680; b. at Malahide, Dublin, in 1620

• Talbot, Thomas Joseph

  Brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, and of Bishop James Talbot

• Tallagaht, Monastery of

  Situated in the barony of Uppercross

• Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de

  Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, French minister and ambassador (1754-1838)

• Tallis, Thomas

  Focusing especially on his contributions to Catholic liturgics and hymnody, even after the English Reformation

• Talmud

  A post-Biblical substantive formation of Pi'el ('to teach'), and originally signified 'doctrine' or 'study'

• Talon, Jean

  First intendant in exercise of New France

• Talon, Nicolas

  French Jesuit, historian, and ascetical writer (1605-1691)

• Talon, Pierre

  A French-Canadian explorer, born at Quebec, 1676

• Tamanac Indians

  A tribe of Cariban linguistic stock occupying the territory about the Cuchivero River, a tributary of the lower Orinoco, Venezuela

• Tamassus

  A titular see in Cyprus, suffragan of Salamis

• Tamaulipas

  Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Linares

• Tamburini, Michelangelo

  Fourteenth General of the Society of Jesus (1648-1730)

• Tamburini, Thomas

  Moral theologian (1591-1675)

• Tametsi

  The first word of Chapter 1, Session 24, of the Council of Trent

• Tamisier, Marie-Marthe-Baptistine

  Initiator of international Eucharistic congresses, born at Tours, 1 Nov., 1834; died there 20 June, 1910

• Tanagra

  A titular see in Hellas, suffragan of Corinth

• Tancred

  Prince of Antioch, born about 1072; died at Antioch, 12 Dec., 1112

• Taney, Roger Brooke

  Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

• Tanguay, Cyprien

  Genealogist, born at Quebec, 1819; died 1902

• Tanis

  A titular see, suffragan of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima, capital of the fourteenth district of Lower Egypt

• Tanner, Adam

  Controversialist, born at Innsbruck in 1571; died at Unken, 25 May, 1632

• Tanner, Conrad

  Abbot of Einsiedeln, born at Arth in the Canton of Schwyz, 28 Dec., 1752; died 7 April, 1825

• Tanner, Edmund

  Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, 1574-1579; born about 1526; died 1579

• Tanner, Matthias

  Taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and Scripture, was made rector of the imperial university, and guided for six years the Bohemian province of his order

• Tantum Ergo

  The opening words of the penultimate stanza of the Vesper hymn of Corpus Christi

• Tanucci, Bernardo

  Marchese, Italian statesman, born at Stia in Tuscany, of poor family, in 1698 died at Naples, 29 April, 1793

• Taoism

  Religion derived from the philosophical doctrines of Lao-tze

• Taos Pueblo

  Town of the Pueblo group, inhabited by Indians speaking the Tigua language of Shoshonean linguistic stock

• Taparelli, Aloysius

  Philosopher and writer on sociological subjects (1793-1862)

• Tapestry

  A fabric in which the two processes of weaving and embroidering are combined

• Tapis, Esteban

  Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786

• Tarabotti, Helena

  Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652

• Taranto

  Diocese in southern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Taranto

• Tarapacá

  Situated in Chile, bounded on the north by the canon of the Camarones and on the south by the Loa River

• Tarasius, Saint

  Layman who became Patriarch of Constantinople by acclamation, called for the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, champion of Church unity and of the veneration of the holy ikons. Died 806

• Tarazona

  The Diocese of Tarazona comprises the Spanish provinces of Saragossa, Soria, Navarre, and Logrono

• Tarbes

  The Diocese of Tarbes comprises the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees (ancient territory of Bigorre)

• Tarentaise

  Comprises the arrondissement of Moutiers in the Department of Savoie; it is also sometimes called the Diocese of Moutiers en Tarentaise, and is suffragan of Chambery

• Targum

  The distinctive designation of the Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament

• Tarisel, Pierre

  Master-mason to the king, b. about 1442; d. in August, 1510

• Tarkin, Saint

  Eighth-century Scottish bishop

• Tarnow

  Diocese in western Galicia, Austria

• Tarquini, Camillus

  Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist (1810-1874)

• Tarragona

  Its suffragans are Barcelona, Lerida, Gerona, Urgel, Vich, Tortosa, and Solsona

• Tarsicius, Saint

  Was carrying the Blessed Sacrament on his person, and refused to surrender it when beset by a pagan mob. Martyr of the third or early fourth century

• Tarsus

  A metropolitan see of Cilicia Prima

• Tartaglia, Nicolò

  Italian mathematician (1500-1557)

• Tartini, Giuseppe

  Provides biography and background on his becoming a musician against his parents' wishes. Includes noted works and evaluation of his technical and theoretical brilliance

• Taschereau, Elzéar-Alexandre

  Archbishop of Quebec and first Canadian cardinal (1820-1898)

• Tassach, Saint

  Irish saint, born in the first decade of the fifth century; died about 497

• Tassé, Joseph

  Writer and journalist (1848-1895)

• Tassin, René-Prosper

  French historian, belonging to the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Maur (1697-1777)

• Tassoni, Alessandro

  Italian poet (1565-1635)

• Tasso, Torquato

  Italian poet (1544-1595)

• Tatian

  A second-century apologist about whose antecedents and early history nothing can be affirmed with certainty except that he was born in Assyria and that he was trained in Greek philosophy

• Tatwin, Saint

  Archbishop of Canterbury; died 30 July, 734

• Taubaté

  Diocese in Brazil, South America, established on 29 April, 1908, as a suffragan of San Paulo

• Tauler, John

  Article on the life and teachings of this 14th-century German Dominican mystic and author

• Taunton, Ethelred

  Writer, born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, 17 Oct., 1857; died in London, 9 May, 1907

• Taverner, John

  English composer (1475-1535)

• Tavistock Abbey

  Located on the Tavy River in Devonshire, England, founded for Benedictine monks in 961

• Tavium

  A titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan of Ancyra

• Taxa Innocentiana

  A Decree issued by Innocent XI, 1 Oct., 1678, regulating the fees that may be demanded or accepted by episcopal chancery offices for various acts, instruments, or writings

• Taxster, John de

  Sometimes erroneously called Taxter or Taxston. A thirteenth-century chronicler, of whose life nothing is known except that he was professed as a Benedictine at Bury St. Edmund's 20 Nov., 1244

• Taylor, Frances Margaret

  Superior General, and foundress of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God (1832-1900)

• Taylor, Ven. Hugh

  The first (November 1585) to suffer martyrdom for the crime of being a priest in England who had studied abroad; the following day, a layman who had outwardly conformed was martyred for the newly defined felony of harboring such a person

• Tebaldeo, Antonio

  Italian poet, born at Ferrara, in 1463; died. in 1537

• Te Deum, The

  An abbreviated title commonly given a hymn in rhythmical prose, of which the opening words, Te Deum Laudamus, formed its earliest known title

• Tegernsee

  Benedictine abbey of Bavaria

• Tehuantepec

  Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Oaxaca

• Teleology

  From Greek telos, end, and logos, science

• Telese

  A small town in the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy

• Telesio, Bernardino

  Short article on the life and teachings of this 16th-century scholar, by William Turner

• Telesphorus of Cosenza

  A name assumed by one of the pseudo-prophets during the time of the Great Schism

• Telesphorus, Pope Saint

  Martyr, died c. 136

• Tell el-Amarna Tablets, The

  A collection of some 350 clay tablets found in 1887 amid the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton

• Téllez, Gabriel

  Spanish priest and poet, better known by his pseudonym of Tirso de Molina (1571-1648)

• Tellier, Michel Le

  Commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin to organize the royal army

• Telmessus

  Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra

• Te Lucis Ante Terminum

  The hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary

• Temiskaming

  The Vicariate Apostolic of Temiskaming, suffragan of Ottawa, Canada

• Temnus

  A titular see in Asia, a suffragan of Ephesus

• Tempel, Wilhelm

  German astronomer (1821-1889)

• Temperance

  One of the four cardinal virtues

• Temperance Movements

  Covers the history in Europe, the United States, and Canada

• Temple

  The Latin form, templum, from which the English temple is derived, originally signified an uncovered area marked off by boundaries; especially the place marked off by the augurs to be excepted from all profane uses

• Temple of Jerusalem

  In the Bible the sanctuary of Jerusalem bears the Hebrew name of Bet Yehovah (house of Jehovah)

• Temple, Sisters of the

  Established in London for educational purposes at the time of the Crusades

• Temptation

  An incitement to sin whether by persuasion or by the offer of some good or pleasure

• Tencin, Pierre-Guérin de

  French statesman and cardinal (1680-1758)

• Tenebræ

  The name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week

• Tenedos

  A titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades

• Teneriffe

  Suffragan of Seville, formerly called Nivariensis from Nivaria, the ancient name of the island

• Teniers, David

  The name of two eminent Flemish landscape painters; the elder, born at Antwerp in 1582; died there in 1649; the younger; born at Antwerp in 1610; died at Brussels in 1694

• Tennessee

  Includes geography, history, and demographics

• Tenney, William Jewett

  An author, editor, born at Newport, Rhode Island, 1814; died at Newark, New Jersey, 20 Sept., 1883

• Tentyris

  Seat of a titular suffragan see of Ptolemais in Thebaid Secunda

• Tenure, Ecclesiastical

  System of feudal tenure was not always restricted to lands, as church revenues and tithes were often farmed out to secular persons as a species of ecclesiastical fief

• Teos

  Titular see; suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor

• Tepic

  A diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Guadalajara

• Tepl

  A Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia

• Teramo

  Diocese in southern Italy

• Terce

  Essay on the office of Terce, the earliest of the 'little hours' in the day

• Terenuthis

  Titular see, suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima

• Teresa of Avila, Saint

  Carmelite reformer and founder, mystic, author, d. 1582

• Teresa of Lisieux, Saint

  Short biographical article by Edith Donovan

• Terill, Anthony

  English theologian (1623-1676)

• Termessus

  A titular see, suffragan of Perge in Pamphylia Secunda

• Termoli

  Located on the Italian coast of the Adriatic, having a small harbour near the mouth of the Petraglione

• Ternan, Saint

  Brief biography of this sixth-century bishop of the Picts

• Terracina, Sezze, and Piperno

  Located in the Province of Rome

• Terrasson, André

  A French preacher, born at Lyons in 1669; died at Paris, 25 April, 1723

• Terrien, Jean-Baptiste

  Dogmatic theologian (1832-1903)

• Tertiaries

  Known as 'Third Orders', those persons who live according to the Third Rule of religious orders, either outside of a monastery in the world, or in a religious community

• Tertullian

  Ecclesiastical writer in the second and third centuries

• Teruel

  A suffragan of Saragossa

• Testem Benevolentiae

  An Apostolic Letter of Leo XIII addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, 22 January, 1899

• Tetzel, Johann

  First public antagonist of Luther (1465-1519)

• Teuchira

  A titular see in Libyan Pentapolis

• Teutonic Order

  A medieval military order modeled on the Hospitallers of St. John

• Tewdrig

  Brief introduction to the Welsh martyr

• Texas

  Includes geography, history, demographic, and government information

• Thabraca

  A titular see of Numidia near the sea, between the Armua and the Tusca

• Thacia Montana

  A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage

• Thænæ

  A titular see in Africa Byzacena

• Thagaste

  A titular see in Numidia

• Thagora

  Titular see in Numidia, mentioned by the 'Rabula Peutingeriana', which calls it Thacora

• Thais, Saint

  A penitent in Egypt in the fourth century

• Thalberg, Sigismond

  Life, musical highlights, comparisons with Liszt, and comments on his better and worse works

• Thalhofer, Valentin

  German theologian (1825-1891)

• Thangmar

  Historian (d. 1022)

• Thanksgiving before and after Meals

  The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving

• Thanksgiving Day

  The custom originated in 1621, when Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony appointed a day for public praise and prayer after the first harvest

• Thapsus

  Titular see in Macedonia

• Thasos

  A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica

• Thaumaci

  Titular see in Thessaly

• Thayer, John

  New England convert and priest (1755-1815)

• Theatines

  A religious order of men, founded by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa, afterwards Pope Paul IV

• Theatre, The

  All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation

• Thebaid

  The valley of the Nile, under Roman domination, was divided into four provinces: Lower and Upper Egypt, Lower and Upper Thebaid

• Thébaud, Augustus

  Jesuit educator and publicist (1807-1885)

• Thebes

  A metropolitan titular see of Achaia Secunda

• Thebes

  Titular see of Thebais Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais, and the seat of a Coptic Catholic diocese

• Thecla, Saint

  Short biography of the eighth-century Benedictine abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt

• Thecla, Saints

  The most famous of several saints named Thecla is Thecla of Iconium. Other saints of this name include a martyr from Gaza, an African martyr, one or two Roman martyrs, one who is purely legendary (Boniface and Thecla), and one St. Thecla of whom almost nothing is known

• Theft

  The secret taking of another's property against the reasonable will of that other

• Thegan (Degan) of Treves

  Chronicler, died about 850. Assistant Bishop of Trier and friend of Walafrid Strabo

• Theiner, Augustin

  Theologian and historian (1804-1874)

• Thelepte

  A titular see in Byzacene

• Themiscyra

  A titular see, suffragan of Amasea in the Hellespont

• Themisonium

  A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea

• Thénard, Louis-Jacques, Baron

  Chemist (1777-1857)

• Thennesus

  A titular suffragan see of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima

• Theobald

  Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1161)

• Theobald, Saint

  Hermit, joined the Camaldolese late in life, died in 1066

• Theocracy

  A form of civil government in which God Himself is recognized as the head

• Theodard, Saint

  Archbishop of Narbonne, died 893

• Theodicy

  Term was introduced into philosophy by Leibniz

• Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Seventh Archbishop of Canterbury (602-690)

• Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia

  Bishop in Cilicia and ecclesiastical writer

• Theodore II, Pope

  Son of Photius

• Theodore I, Pope

  Reigned from 642 to 649

• Theodore of Amasea, Saint

  Soldier saint, martyred in 306. After refusing a court order to sacrifice to the gods, St. Theodore was released for a time of reflection--and burnt a pagan temple

• Theodore of Gaza

  A fifteenth-century Greek Humanist and translator of Aristotle

• Theodore of Studium, Saint

  Biography of this monk, priest, and abbot. He was a champion of the independence of the Church, and of the veneration of icons. St. Theodore died in 826

• Theodoret

  Bishop of Cyrus and theologian, born at Antioch in Syria about 393; died about 457

• Theodoric the Great

  King of the Ostrogoths

• Theodoric (Thierry) of Chartres

  A Platonist philosopher of the twelfth century

• Theodorus and Theophanes, Saints

  Brothers, natives of Jerusalem. Championed the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy in the East

• Theodorus Lector

  A lector attached to the Church of St. Sophia of Constantinople in the early part of the sixth century

• Theodosiopolis

  A titular metropolitan see of Thracia Prima

• Theodosius Florentini

  Born at Muenster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May, 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 Feb., 1865

• Theodosius I

  Roman Emperor (also known as Flavius Theodosius), born in Spain, about 346; died at Milan, 17 January, 395

• Theodotus of Ancyra, Saint

  Patron of innkeepers

• Theodulf

  Bishop of Orleans, a writer skilled in poetic forms and a learned theologian, born in Spain about 760; died at Angers, France, 18 December, 821

• Theonas

  Bishop of Alexandria from about 283 to 301

• Theophanes Kerameus

  Twelfth-century archbishop and writer

• Theophanes, Saint

  He and his wife both entered monastic life. He signed the decrees of Nicaea II

• Théophane Vénard

  French missionary to West Tonkin, martyred in 1861

• Theophilanthropists

  A deistic sect formed in France during the latter part of the French Revolution

• Theophilus

  Second-century Bishop of Antioch

• Theophilus

  Patriarch of Alexandria (385-412)

• Theosophy

  A term used in general to designate the knowledge of God supposed to be obtained by the direct intuition of the Divine essence

• Thera (Santorin)

  Diocese in the Cyclades

• Thermae Basilicae

  A titular see in Cappadocia Prima, suffragan of Caesarea

• Thermopylae

  A titular see and suffragan of Athens in Achaia Prima

• Thessalonians, Epistles to the

  Two of the canonical Epistles of St. Paul

• Thessalonica

  Titular metropolis in Macedonia

• Theveste

  Titular see of Numidia

• Thibaris

  Titular see in Byzacena

• Thibaut de Champagne

  Thibaut IV, count of Champagne and King of Navarre, and French poet (1201-1253)

• Thierry of Freburg

  A philosopher and physician of the Middle Ages, and a member of the Order of Saint Dominic

• Thiers, Louis-Adolphe

  French statesman and historian, first president of the Third French Republic (1797-1877)

• Thignica

  A titular see in Numidia

• Thijm, Joseph Albert Alberdingk

  Dutch poet of the nineteenth century

• Thijm, Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk

  President of the Association Tijd en Vlijt and of Constantius Buter, also a member of the Flemish Academy, and for a time, its president

• Thimelby, Richard

  Missionary priest (1614-1672)

• Third Orders

  Lay members of religious orders, i.e. men and women who do not necessarily live in community and yet can claim to wear the habit and participate in the good works of some great order

• Thirty Years War

  Though pre-eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe

• Thmuis

  A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium

• Thomas á Jesu

  Discalced Carmelite, writer on mystical theology (1564-1627)

• Thomas à Kempis

  Author of the 'Imitation of Christ', born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471

• Thomas, Charles L.A.

  French composer (1811-1896)

• Thomas of Beckington

  Bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Beckington, Somerset, about 1390; died at Wells, 14 January, 1465

• Thomas of Bradwardine

  Theologian known as the Doctor Profundus

• Thomas of Cantimpré

  Medieval writer, preacher, and theologian (1201-1272)

• Thomas of Celano

  Franciscan poet and writer (1200-1255)

• Thomas of Dover

  Martyr (d. 1295)

• Thomas of Hereford

  Bishop of Hereford (1218-1282)

• Thomas of Jesus

  Reformer and preacher (1529-1582)

• Thomas of Jorz

  English theologian and cardinal (d. 1310)

• Thomas of Strasburg

  A fourteenth-century scholastic of the Augustinian Order

• Thomas of Villanova, Saint

  Spanish Augustinian, d. 1555. Educator, diligent in almsgiving, Archbishop of Valencia

• Thomassin, Louis

  Theologian and French Oratorian (1619-1695)

• Thomas the Apostle, Saint

  Article on Thomas in Scripture and in legend

• Thomas Thwing, Venerable

  Priest, missionary to his native England, convicted of plotting to murder the king on the same evidence by which the other accused had been acquitted, martyred in 1680

• Thomas Woodhouse, Blessed

  Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573

• Thomism

  In a broad sense, the name given to the system which follows the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophical and theological questions

• Thompson, Edward Healy and Harriet Diana

  English converts

• Thompson, Francis

  Poet (1859-1907)

• Thompson, Right Honourable Sir John Sparrow David

  Jurist and first Catholic Premier of Canada (1844-1894)

• Thompson River Indians

  Also known as Knife Indians

• Thonissen, Jean-Joseph

  Professor of law at the University of Louvain, minister in the Belgian Government (1817-1891)

• Thorney Abbey

  For some three centuries the seat of Saxon hermits, or of anchorites living in community, before it was refounded in 972 for Benedictine monks by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, with the aid of King Edgar

• Thorpe, Venerable Robert

  Brief account of the martyrdom of the Yorkshire priest, who was hanged in 1591

• Thou, Jacques-Auguste de

  French historian (1553-1617)

• Thou, Nicolas de

  Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1528-1598)

• Three Chapters

  (1) the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia; (2) certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrus; (3) the letter of Ibas to Maris

• Three Rivers

  Formed from the Archdiocese of Quebec, to which it is suffragan

• Throne

  The seat the bishop uses when not engaged at the altar

• Thuburbo Minus

  A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage

• Thugga

  Titular see of Numidia

• Thugut, Johann Amadeus Franz de Paula

  Austrian statesman, born at Linz, 31 March, 1736; died at Vienna, 28 May, 1818

• Thulis, Venerable John

  Lancashire priest and martyr, converted some of his fellow prisoners. Was executed together with Roger Wrenno in 1615 or 1616

• Thundering Legion

  The story of an expedition against the Quadi led by Emperor Marcus Aurelius

• Thun-Hohenstein, Count Leo

  Austrian statesman (1811-1888)

• Thuringia

  A large part of Central Germany, bounded by the Werra River, the Saale, the Harz Mountains, and the Thuringian Forest

• Thurmayr, Johannes

  German scholar (1477-1534)

• Thyatira

  A titular suffragan see of Sardes in Lydia

• Thynias

  A titular see, suffragan of Nicomedia, in Bithynia Prima

• Thyräus, Hermann

  German Jesuit (1532-1591)

• Tiara

  The papal crown, ornamented with precious stones and pearls, which is shaped like a bee-hive, has a small cross at its highest point

• Tibaldi, Pellegrino

  Known also as Pellegrino da Bologna and as Pellegrino Pellegrini, decorator, mural painter, and architect. 1527-1592)

• Tiberias

  Titular see, suffragan of Scythopolis, in Palaestina Secunda

• Tiberias, Sea of

  So called in John 21:1 (cf. 6:1), otherwise known as 'the sea of Galilee'

• Tiberiopolis

  Titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana

• Tiberius

  Brief biography of the second Roman emperor

• Tibet

  Includes information on geography, history, and missions

• Ticelia

  Titular see, suffragan of Cyrene, in the Libya Pentapolis

• Tichborne, Ven. Nicholas

  Martyr, born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire; suffered at Tyburn, London, 24 Aug., 1601

• Tichborne, Ven. Thomas

  Born at Hartley, Hampshire, 1567; martyred at Tyburn, London, 20 April, 1602

• Ticonius

  An African Donatist writer of the fourth century who appears to have had some influence on St. Augustine

• Ticuna Indians

  A tribe along the north bank of the upper Amazon

• Tieffentaller, Joseph

  Jesuit missionary and noted geographer in Hindustan. 1710-1785)

• Tiepolo

  Article on Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

• Tierney, Mark Aloysius

  Wrote 'The History and Antiquities of the Castle of Arundel' (London, 1834) and several controversial pamphlets. Also acted as editor of the 'Dublin Review', succeeding Quin, the first editor

• Tigris, Saint

  Sister of St. Patrick

• Tillemont, Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de

  French historian and priest (1637-1698)

• Tilly, Johannes Tserclæs, Count of

  Born at Brabant in 1559; died at Ingolstadt in April, 1632

• Timbrias

  A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch

• Time

  Article explores two questions, What are the notes, or elements, contained in the subjective representation of time? and To what external reality does this representation correspond?

• Timucua Indians

  A principal group or confederacy of ancient Florida

• Tincker, Mary Agnes

  Novelist (1833-1907)

• Tingis

  A titular see of Mauretania Tingitana (the official list of the Roman Curia places it in Mauretania Caesarea)

• Tinin

  Located in Dalmatia; suffragan to Kalocsa-Bacs

• Tinos and Mykonos

  A Latin diocese of the Cyclades

• Tintern Abbey

  In Monmouthshire, England, founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare for Cistercian monks

• Tintoretto, Il

  Italian painter, b. at Venice, 1518; d. there 1594

• Tipasa

  A titular see of Numidia

• Tiraboschi, Girolamo

  Italian scholar (1731-1794)

• Tiraspol

  Diocese in Southern Russia suffragan of Mohilev

• Tisio da Garofalo, Benvenuto

  An Italian painter of the Ferrarese school (1481-1559)

• Tissot, James

  French draughtsman and painter (1836-1902)

• Tithes

  The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, alotted to the clergy for their support or devoted to religious or charitable uses

• Titian

  Biography of the artist, with bibliography

• Titopolis

  Titular see, suffragan of Seleucia Trachaea in Isauria

• Titulus

  In pagan times titulus signified an inscription on stone, and later the stone which marked the confines of property

• Titus

  Biography of the first-century Roman Emperor

• Titus, Bishop of Bostra

  Born about 362-371

• Tius

  Titular see, suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honorias

• Tivoli

  Diocese in the Province of Rome

• Tlaxcala

  A former diocese of the colony of New Spain

• Tlos

  A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra

• Toaldo, Giuseppe

  Priest and physicist (1719-1797)

• Toba Indians

  Tribe of the great Chaco wilderness of South America

• Tobias

  Name of various persons and a book in the Bible

• Tocqueville, Charles-Alexis-Henri-Maurice-Clerel de

  Writer and statesman (1805-1859)

• Todi

  Diocese in Central Italy; immediately dependent on the Holy See

• Tokio

  Archdiocese comprising 21 provinces or 15 departments

• Toledo, Francisco

  Philosopher, theologian, and exegete, son of an actuary (1532-1596)

• Toledo (Ohio)

  A diocese in Ohio, U.S.A., formed out of the Diocese of Cleveland and erected into a separate jurisdiction, 15 April, 1910

• Toledo (Spain)

  Primatial see of Spain, whose archbishop, raised almost always to the dignity of cardinal, occupies the first place in the ranks of the higher Spanish clergy

• Toleration, History of

  Explores the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration

• Toleration, Religious

  The magnanimous indulgence one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a 'false faith'

• Tolomei, John Baptist

  Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1653-1726)

• Tomb

  A memorial for the dead at the place of burial, customary, especially for distinguished persons

• Tomi

  A titular metropolitan see in the Province of Scythia, on the Black Sea

• Tongerloo, Abbey of

  Founded in 1128 near Antwerp, Belgium

• Tongiorgi, Salvator

  Italian philosopher (1820-1865)

• Tonica Indians

  A small tribe living, when first known to the French, in small villages on the lower Yazoo River, Mississippi

• Tonkawa Indians

  A tribal group formerly ranging about the middle Trinity and Colorado Rivers, in Eastern Texas

• Tonsure

  A sacred rite instituted by the Church by which a baptized and confirmed Christian is received into the clerical order

• Tootell, Hugh

  Historian commonly known as Charles Dodd. Died 1743

• Torah

  Signifies first 'direction, instruction', as, for instance, the instruction of parents, or of the wise

• Torbido, Francesco

  Veronese painter and engraver

• Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo, Saint

  Pioneering missionary archbishop of Lima, founded first seminary in the Americas, d. 1606

• Tornielli, Girolamo Francesco

  Italian Jesuit, preacher and writer (1693-1752)

• Torone

  A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica

• Toronto

  Located in the Province of Ontario, Canada

• Torquemada, Tomás de

  Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420-1498)

• Torres, Francisco

  Hellenist and polemicist (1509-1584)

• Torres Naharro, Bartolemé de

  Spanish poet and dramatist, born at Torres, near Badajoz, towards the end of the fifteenth century

• Torricelli, Evangelista

  Italian mathematician and physicist, born at Faenza, 15 October, 1608; died at Florence, 25 October, 1647

• Torrubia, José

  A linguist, scientist, collector of fossils and of books, writer on historical, political, and religious subjects. Born towards the end of the seventeenth century at Granada, Spain; died in 1768

• Tortona

  Diocese in Piedmont, Italy

• Tortosa

  Located in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona

• Toscanella and Viterbo

  The city of Viterbo in the Province of Rome stands at the foot of Monte Cimino, in Central Italy

• Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo

  Mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer (1397-1482)

• Tosephta

  Hebrew, addition, supplement

• Tostado, Alonso

  Exegete, born at Madrigal, Castile, about 1400; died at Bonilla de la Sierra, near Avila, 3 Sept., 1455

• Tosti, Luigi

  Benedictine historian (1811-1897)

• Totemism

  Constitutes the group of superstitions and customs of which the totem is the center

• Totonac Indians

  One of the smaller cultured nations of ancient Mexico, occupying at the time of the Spanish conquest the coast province of Totonicapan

• Touchet, George Anselm

  Born at Stalbridge, Dorset; died about 1689

• Toulouse

  Includes the Department of Haute-Garonne

• Tournai

  Diocese in Belgium

• Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de

  French botanist (1656-1708)

• Tournély, Honoré

  Theologian (1658-1729)

• Tournon, Charles-Thomas Maillard de

  Papal legate to India and China, cardinal, born of a noble Savoyard family at Turin, 21 December, 1668; died in confinement at Macao, 8 June, 1710

• Touron, Antoine

  Dominican biographer and historian (1686-1775)

• Tours

  Archdiocese in France

• Toustain, Charles-François

  French Benedictine, and member of the Congregation of St-Maur (1700-1754)

• Touttée, Antoine-Augustin

  French Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation (1677-1718)

• Tracy, Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de

  Viceroy of New France, born in France, 1603, of noble parents; died there in 1670

• Traditionalism

  A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude

• Traducianism

  In general the doctrine that, in the process of generation, the human spiritual soul is transmitted to the offspring by the parents

• Trajan

  Emperor of Rome (A.D. 98-117), b. at Italica Spain, 18 September, 53; d. 7 August, 117

• Trajanopolis

  Titular metropolitan see of Rhodope

• Trajanopolis

  A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea

• Tralles

  A titular see, suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor

• Trani and Barletta

  Diocese in Italy

• Transcendentalism

  The terms transcendent and transcendental have antithetical reference to experience or the empirical order

• Transept

  A rectangular space inserted between the apse and nave in the early Christian basilica

• Transfiguration

  Culminating point of Christ's public life, as His Baptism is its starting point, and His Ascension its end

• Transfiguration of Christ, Feast of the

  Observed on August 6 to commemorate the manifestation of the Divine glory recorded by St. Matthew (Chapter 17)

• Transvaal

  Vicariate apostolic. Portion of south Africa

• Transylvania

  Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa Bacs

• Trapani

  Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo

• Trapezopolis

  A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan to Laodicea

• Trappists

  The Cistercians who follow the reform inaugurated by the Abbot de Rance (b. 1626; d. 1700) in the Abbey of La Trappe, and often now applied to the entire Order of Reformed Cistercians

• Treason, Accusations of

  A common misrepresentation concerning the Elizabethan persecution of English and Irish Catholics from 1570 onwards is the statement that the victims devoted to imprisonment, torture, and death suffered not for their religious belief but for treason against the queen and her government

• Trebizond

  An Armenian Catholic diocese

• Trebnitz

  A former abbey of Cistercian nuns, situated north of Breslau in Silesia

• Tredway, Lettice Mary

  Abbess of the Convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion

• Tregian, Francis

  Confessor, born in Cornwall, 1548; died at Lisbon, 25 Sept., 1608

• Tremithus

  Titular see, suffragan of Salamis in Cyprus

• Trent

  Diocese; suffragan of Salzburg

• Trent, Council of

  Main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants

• Trenton

  Diocese created 15 July, 1881, suffragan of New York

• Tresham, Sir Thomas

  Knight Bachelor (in or before 1524), Grand Prior of England in the Order of Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem

• Treviso

  Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy)

• Tricarico, Diocese of

  Located in the Province of Potenza in the Basilicata (Southern Italy), near the River Perrola

• Tricassin, Charles Joseph

  Theologian of the Capuchin Order, b. at Troyes; d. in 1681

• Tricca

  Titular see, suffragan of Larissa in Thessaly

• Trichinopoly, Diocese of

  Located in India, suffragan of Bombay

• Trichur

  Vicariate Apostolic in India, one of the three vicariates of the Syro-Malabar Rite

• Tricomia

  Titular see, suffragan of Caesarea in Palaestina Prima

• Triduum

  Three days. Frequently chosen for prayer or for other devout practices

• Trier

  Diocese; suffragan of Cologne

• Triesnecker, Francis a Paula

  Astronomer (1745-1817)

• Triest-Capo d'Istria

  Suffragan diocese of Goerz-Gradiska

• Trincomalee

  Located in Ceylon, suffragan of Colombo

• Trinità di Cava dei Tirrenti, Abbey of

  Located in the Province of Salerno

• Trinitarians, Order of

  Towards the end of the twelfth century the order had 250 houses throughout Christendom, where its benevolent work was manifested by the return of liberated captives

• Trinity College

  An institution for the higher education of Catholic women, located at Washington, D.C

• Trinity Sunday

  The first Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honour the Most Holy Trinity

• Trissino, Giangiorgio

  Italian poet and scholar (1478-1550)

• Tritheists

  Heretics who divide the Substance of the Blessed Trinity

• Trithemius, John

  Scholar and Benedictine abbot (1462-1516)

• Trivento

  Diocese in southern Italy

• Trivet, Nicholas

  Author of a large number of theological and historical works and commentaries on the classics, more especially the works of Seneca

• Troas

  A suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespont

• Trocmades

  Titular see of Galatia Secunda, suffragan of Pessinus

• Trokelowe, John de

  A Benedictine monk of St. Albans and monastic chronicler still living in 1330, but the dates of whose birth and death are unknown

• Trondhjem, Ancient See of

  In 997 Olaf Trygvesson founded at the mouth of the River Nid the city of Nidaros, afterwards called Trondhjem

• Trope

  A collective name which, since about the close of the Middle Ages or a little later, has been applied to texts of great variety (in both poetry and prose) written for the purpose of amplifying and embellishing an independently complete liturgical text

• Tropology, Scriptural

  The theory and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of Holy Writ

• Troyes

  Diocese comprising the Department of Aube

• Troy, John Thomas

  Archbishop of Dublin (1739-1823)

• Truce of God

  A temporary suspension of hostilities, as distinct from the Peace of God which is perpetual

• Truchsess von Waldburg, Otto

  Cardinal-Bishop of Augsburg (1514-1573)

• Trudo, Saint

  Late seventh century priest and monastic founder

• Trudpert, Saint

  Seventh-century missionary in Germany

• Trueba, Antonio de

  Spanish poet and folklorist (1821-1889)

• Trujillo

  Diocese comprising the Departments of Lambayeque, Libertad, Pinra, and the Province of Tumbes, in North-west Peru, formed by Gregory XIII

• Trumwin, Saint

  Seventh-century missionary bishop among the Picts

• Trustee System

  In the exercise of inherent rights of administering property, the Church often appoints deputies

• Trusts and Bequests

  Defined as the right enforceable solely in equity to the beneficial enjoyment of property of which the legal title is in another

• Truth

  Defines ontological, logical, and moral truth

• Truth Societies, Catholic

  Covers their establishment in various countries

• Tschiderer zu Gleifheim, Johann Nepomuk von

  Bishop of Trent, d. 1860

• Tschupick, John Nepomuk

  A celebrated preacher, b. at Vienna, 7 or 12 April, 1729; d. there, 20 July, 1784

• Tuam

  The Archdiocese of Tuam, the metropolitan see of Connacht, extends, roughly speaking, from the Shannon westwards to the sea, and comprises half of County Galway, and nearly half of Mayo, with a small portion of south Roscommon

• Tuam, School of

  Founded by St. Jarlath, it rivalled Clonmacnoise as a center of Celtic art in the eleventh century

• Tübingen, University of

  Located in Wuertemberg; founded by Count Eberhard im Bart on 3 July, 1477

• Tubunae

  A titular see in Mauretania Caesariensis

• Tucson

  Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe

• Tucumán

  Suffragan to Buenos Aires, erected from the Diocese of Salta on 15 February, 1897

• Tudela

  Diocese in Spain

• Tuguegarao

  Diocese in the Philippines

• Tulancingo

  Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Mexico

• Tulasne, Louis-René

  Botanist (1815-1885)

• Tulle

  Diocese comprising the Department of Correze

• Tunic

  A vestment shaped like a sack, which has in the closed upper part only a slit for putting the garment over the head, and, on the sides, either sleeves or slits through which the arms can be passed

• Tunis

  French protectorate on the northern coast of Africa

• Tunja

  Diocese established in 1880 as a suffragan of Bogota, in the Republic of Colombia, South America

• Tunstall, Cuthbert

  Bishop of London, later of Durham (1474-1559)

• Tunstall, Venerable Thomas

  Martyred at Norwich, 13 July, 1616

• Tunsted, Simon

  English Minorite (d. 1369)

• Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques

  Baron de L'Aulne, French minister (1727-1781)

• Turin

  The chief town of a civil province in Piedmont and was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia

• Turin, University of

  Founded in 1404, when the lectures at Piacenza and Pavia were interrupted by the wars of Lombardy

• Turkestan

  Details of Chinese Turkestan and Russian Turkestan

• Turkish Empire

  Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, from the caliphate of Baghdad and independent Turkish principalities

• Turnebus, Adrian

  Philologist (1512-1565)

• Turpin

  Archbishop of Reims

• Tuscany

  A division of central Italy, includes the provinces of Arezzo, Florence, Grosseto, Livorno, Massa and Carrara, Pisa, and Siena

• Tuy

  Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Santiago

• Twiketal of Croyland

  English abbot (d. 975)

• Tyana

  Titular see of Cappadocia Prima

• Tychicus

  Disciple and companion of St. Paul

• Tynemouth Priory

  Located on the east coast of Northumberland, England, occupied the site of an earlier Saxon church built first in wood, then in stone, in the seventh century, and famous as the burial-place of St. Oswin, king and martyr

• Types in Scripture

  Offers several definitions

• Tyrannicide

  The killing of a tyrant, and usually is taken to mean the killing of a tyrant by a private person for the common good

• Tyre

  Melchite archdiocese and Maronite diocese

• Tyrie, James

  Scottish theologian (1543-1597)