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Libros de los Padres de la Iglesia, Doctores, Santos, Autores notables

Padres de la Iglesia, Doctores, Santos y autores notables — desde la edad ante-nicena hasta clásicos posteriores de devoción y enseñanza, entre ellos Santo Tomás de Aquino, Santa Teresa de Ávila y Tomás de Kempis — y la Catholic Encyclopedia.

La Catholic Encyclopedia de 1913 — referencia de dominio público sobre doctrina, historia, personas e instituciones. Busca en todo el conjunto arriba; navega por letra abajo.

11,608 artículos

  • Ubaghs, Casimir

    Born at Bergélez-Fauquemont, 26 November, 1800; died at Louvain, 15 February, 1875

  • Ubaldus, Saint

    Confessor, Bishop of Gubbio, born of noble parents at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, towards the beginning of the twelfth centry; died there, Whitsuntide, 1168

  • Ubanghi

    Vicariate Apostolic; formerly part of the Vicariate of French Congo, erected on 14 Oct., 1890

  • Ubanghi, Belgian

    In Belgian Congo, separated on 7 April, 1911, from the Vicariate of the Belgian Congo and entrusted to the Capuchins

  • Ubanghi-Chari

    Prefecture Apostolic in Equatorial Africa

  • Uberaba

    Suffragan diocese of Marianna, in Brazil

  • Ubertino of Casale

    Leader of the Spirituals, born at Casale of Vercelli, 1259; died about 1330

  • Ubiquitarians

    A Protestant sect started at the Lutheran synod of Stuttgart, 19 December, 1559, by John Brenz

  • Ucayali

    Prefecture Apostolic in Peru

  • Uccello

    Painter, born at Florence, 1397; died there, 1475

  • Udine

    The capital of a province and archdiocese in Friuli, northern Italy

  • Ugento

    Situated in the Province of Leece, in Apulia, on the Gulf of Tarentum

  • Ughelli, Ferdinando

    Historian (1595-1670)

  • Uhtred

    An English Benedictine theologian and writer

  • Ujejski, Cornelius

    Polish poet (1823-1897)

  • Ulenberg, Kaspar

    Convert, theological writer and translator of the Bible (1549-1617)

  • Ulfilas

    Apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of an alphabet

  • Ullathorne, William Bernard

    English Benedictine monk and bishop (1806-1889)

  • Ullerston, Richard

    From 1403 held the prebend of Oxford in Salisbury cathedral, and from 1407 the rectory of Beeford in Yorkshire

  • Ulloa, Antoine de

    Naval officer and scientist (1716-1795)

  • Ulloa, Francisco de

    Accompanied Hernan Cortes to California

  • Ulrich of Bamberg

    A cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg

  • Ulrich of Richenthal

    Chronicler of the Council of Constance

  • Ulrich of Zell

    Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of Ratisbon

  • Ulrich, Saint

    Bishop of Augsburg, died 973

  • Ultan of Ardbracca

    Collected a life of the Irish saint for his pupil, St. Brogan Cloen of Rostuirc, on Ossory

  • Ultramontanism

    A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism

  • Unam Sanctam

    The Bull on papal supremacy issued 18 November, 1302, by Boniface VIII during the dispute with Philip the Fair, King of France

  • Ungava

    A Canadian territory lying north of the Province of Quebec

  • Uniformity Acts

    Statutes passed in an effort to secure uniformity in public worship throughout England

  • Unigenitus

    A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, condemning 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel

  • Unions of Prayer

    Details of four unions of prayer

  • Unitarians

    A Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet the belief in a uni-personal instead of a tri-personal God

  • United States of America, The

    Provides geographic, historic, and statistical information

  • Unity

    Characterizes the one Church founded by Christ

  • Universalists

    A liberal Protestant sect whose distinctive tenet is the belief in the final salvation of all souls

  • Universals

    Those ideas which, while excluding whatever constitutes the difference of things of the same genus or species, represent that which is necessary to their constitution, is essential, and is therefore common to all, remaining fixed in all vicissitudes

  • Universe

    Presents a history of astronomy

  • Universities

    The principal Catholic foundations have been treated in special articles; here the general aspects of the subject are presented

  • University College (Dublin)

    A constitutional college of the National University of Ireland

  • Unyanyembe

    Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa

  • Upper Nile

    Vicariate apostolic; separated from the mission of Nyanza, 6 July, 1894, comprises the eastern portion of Uganda

  • Upper Rhine

    Ecclesiastical province; includes the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of Fulda, Mainz, Limburg, and Rottenburg

  • Upsala, Ancient See of

    History of an episcopal see established at Old Upsala, the center of idolatrous worship not only for Sweden but for all Scandinavia

  • Upsala, University of

    The oldest university of Sweden

  • Uranopolis

    A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ancyra in Galatia Prima

  • Urban III, Pope

    Reigned 1185-87, born at Milan; died at Ferrara, 19 October, 1187

  • Urban II, Pope Blessed

    Long article on the canon and later Cluniac prior, assistant to Pope Gregory VII. Urban was elected unanimously to the papacy in 1088, but was forced to spend years wandering southern Italy. He died in 1099

  • Urban I, Pope Saint

    Died 230. Very little is known about his life, and even his burial place was in doubt for some time

  • Urban IV, Pope

    Reigned 1216-64

  • Urban VIII, Pope

    Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644)

  • Urban VII, Pope

    Giambattista Castagna, born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1521; elected pope, 15 September, 1590; died at Rome, 27 September, 1590

  • Urban VI, Pope

    Bartolomeo Prignano, the first Roman pope during the Western Schism

  • Urban V, Pope Blessed

    Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370

  • Urbi et Orbi

    Signifies that a papal document is addressed not only to the City of Rome but to the entire Catholic world

  • Urbino

    Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy

  • Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio

    The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas together with a doxology

  • Urdaneta, Andrés

    Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipuzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568

  • Urgel

    Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona

  • Urim and Thummim

    The sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the Divine will

  • Urmiah

    A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia

  • Urráburu, Juan José

    Article on this Jesuit thinker, by Antonio Nadal

  • Ursperger Chronicle

    A history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninius and extends to the year 1229

  • Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, Society of the Sisters of Saint

    Religious congregation of women founded in 1606 by the Venerable Anne de Xainctonge (1587-1612)

  • Ursula, Saint, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins

    This history rests on ten lines, and these are open to question

  • Ursulines of Quebec, The

    The oldest institution of learning for women in North America

  • Ursulines, The

    Founded by St. Angela de Merici

  • Ursus, Saint

    Member of the Theban Legion, martyr, commemorated from very early times

  • Urubamba

    This prefecture apostolic was created by a Decree of the Holy See in 1899 at the request of the Peruvian Government

  • Uruguay

    The smallest independent state in South America

  • Uruguayana

    Diocese; suffragan of Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Ushaw College

    A combined college and seminary for the six dioceses that were comprised in the old Northern Vicariate of England

  • Usilla

    A titular see of Byzacena in Africa

  • Usuard, Martyrology of

    A Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prxs, Paris

  • Usury

    Defines the church's view on money lending

  • Utah

    The thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an Indian tribe known as the Utes

  • Uthina

    A titular see of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage

  • Utica

    A titular see in Africa Proconsularis

  • Utilitarianism

    A modern form of the Hedonistic ethical theory which teaches that the end of human conduct is happiness, and that consequently the discriminating norm which distinguishes conduct into right and wrong is pleasure and pain

  • Utopia

    A term used to designate a visionary or an ideally perfect state of society first used by Sir Thomas More

  • Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris

    The first line of a hymn in honour of St. John the Baptist

  • Utraquism

    The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or Hussites

  • Utrecht, Archdiocese of

    Situated in the Netherlands, includes the Provinces of Utrecht, Friesland, Overyssel, Drenthe, Groningen, the larger part of Gelderland, and a small part of North Holland

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