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Reigned 604-606. The son of Bonus, he was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo. In 593 he was sent by
St. Gregory I as apocrisiarius or Apostolic nuncio to Constantinople; but in some respects his
administration of the office did not come up to Gregory's expectations.
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Seraphic Crown
The Franciscan Crown, also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how
one prays this chaplet.
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Sacrament, Reservation of the Blessed
The practice of preserving after the celebration of the Liturgy a portion of the consecrated
elements for the Communion of the sick or for other pious purposes. The extreme antiquity of such
reservation cannot be disputed.
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Society, The Catholic Church Extension
The first active agitation for a church extension or home mission society for the Catholic Church
in North America was begun in 1904 by an article of the present writer, published in the
"American Ecclesiastical Review" (Philadelphia).
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Saint Paul-without-the Walls
An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the great Apostle in the Via Ostia was marked
by a cella memoriæ, near which the Catacomb of Comodilla was established.
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Sozomen, Salaminius Hermias
One of the famous historians of the early Church, born at Bethelia, a small town near Gaza in
Palestine.
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Strossmayer, Joseph Georg
Josip Juraj, Bishop of Diakovár, born at Essegg in Croatia-Slavonia, 4 February, 1815; died 8
April, 1905.
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Sabbatine Privilege
The name Sabbatine Privilege is derived from the apocryphal Bull "Sacratissimo uti
culmine" of John XXII, 3 March, 1322.
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Stigmata, Mystical
Their existence is so well established historically that, as a general thing, they are no longer
disputed by unbelievers, who now seek only to explain them naturally.
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Swinomish Indians
A tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely connected with the Skagit. They formerly held the
territory about the mouth of the river Skagit together with the adjacent portion of Whidbey Island.
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Saba and Sabeans
This Saba (Sheba) must not be confounded with Saba (Seba) in Ethiopia of Is., xliii, 3; xlv, 14. It
lies in the Southern Arabian Jôf about 200 miles north-west of Aden.
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Steno, Nicolaus
An eminent Danish anatomist and geologist, convert and saintly bishop, born at Copenhagen, 1
January, 1638; died at Schwerin in Germany, 25 November, 1686.
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Syriac Hymnody
To the general consideration set forth in the article hymnody and hymnology must be added some
bearing particularly on the structure and liturgical use of hymns (madrashe), exclusive of poetical
homilies or discourses (mimre), which belong to the narrative and epic class, while the hymns are
lyrical.
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Staff, Pastoral
The crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops at their consecration and
on mitred abbots at their investiture, and which is used by these prelates in performing certain
solemn functions.
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Sylvestrines
A minor monastic order or, strictly speaking, congregation following in general the Rule of St.
Benedict but distinct from the Black monks and not forming a part of the confederation of
Benedictine congregations.
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Syndicalism
Derived from the French syndicats, associations of workingmen uniting members of the same trade or
industry for the furtherance of common economic interests.
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Synoptics
The name given since Griesbach's time (about 1790) to the first three canonical Gospels.
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Sabbath
The seventh day of the week among the Hebrews, the day being counted from sunset to sunset, that
is, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
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Sabaoth
In Hebrew, plural form of "host" or "army". The word is used almost exclusively
in conjunction with the Divine name as a title of majesty: "the Lord of Hosts", or
"the Lord God of Hosts".
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Sunday
Sunday (Day of the Sun), as the name of the first day of the week, is derived from Egyptian
astrology.
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Sabina, Saint
St. Sabina, martyr in 126 or 127, at Rome. Feast day is 29 August.
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Seroux d'Agincourt, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-George
Born at Beauvais, 5 April, 1730; died at Rome, 24 September, 1814. He was a descendant of the
counts of Namur.
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Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern
This mission was separated in 1894 from Northern Shan-Tung and erected into a vicariate Apostolic.
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, Society of the
An institution of religious women, taking perpetual vows and devoted to the work of education.
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Shan-si, Vicariate Apostolic of Southern
Erected in 1890; the mission is entrusted to the Franciscan Fathers.
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, Missionary Sisters of the
A religious congregation having its general mother house at Rome, founded in 1880 by Mother Francis
Xavier Cabrini.
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Syncelli
A name which in the early Church was given to those monks or clerics who lived in the same room
with their bishops, and whose duty it was to be witnesses to the purity of their lives or to
perform the daily spiritual exercises in common with them.
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Sault St. Louis
Also known as Caughnawaga. An Iroquois reservation, situated on the south bank of the St. Lawrence,
about ten miles above Montreal.
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Sacrifice
This term is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer.
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Sabran, Louis de
Jesuit (1652-1732)
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Sacrilege
The violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense any transgression
against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege.
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Sumatra
Erected by a Decree of 30 June, 1911, and entrusted to the Dutch Capuchins.
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Sacristan
An officer who is charged with the care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents. In ancient
times many duties of the sacristan were performed by the doorkeepers (ostiarii), later by the
mansionarii and the treasurers.
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Slavonic Language and Liturgy
Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is
celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes
next to it among the languages widely used throughout the world in the liturgy of the Church.
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Streber, Franz Ignaz Von
Numismatist and theologian, born at Reisbach, Lower Bavaria, 11 Feb., 1758; died at Munich, 26
April, 1841.
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Sacris Solemniis
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of Corpus Christi and of the Votive Office of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Suburbicarian Dioceses
A name applied to the dioceses nearest Rome, viz. Albano, Frascati (Tusculum), Palestrina, Sabina,
Ostia and Velletri, Porto and S. Rufina, the bishops of which form the order of cardinal bishops.
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Supernatural Adoption
That adoption of man by God in virtue of which man becomes His sons and heirs.
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Sadoleto, Jacopo
Cardinal, humanist, and reformer (1477-1547)
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Solanus, Saint Francis
Franciscan missionary to South America. (1549-1610)
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Stripping of an Altar
Removal of the altar-cloths, vases of flowers, antipendium, and other ornaments, so that nothing
remains but the cross and the candlesticks with the candles extinguished.
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Sadler, Thomas Vincent Faustus
Missionary born 1604; died at Dieulward, Flanders, 19 Jan., 1680-1.
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Sahagún, Bernardino de
Missionary and Aztec archeologist, b. at Sahagún, Kingdom of Leon, Spain, in or before the year
1500; d. at Mexico, 23 Oct., 1590.
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Sacra Jam Splendent
The opening words of the hymn for Matins of the Feast of the Holy Family.
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Sailer, Johann Michael
Professor of theology and Bishop of Ratisbon, b. at Aresing in Upper Bavaria 17 October, 1751; d.
20 May, 1832, at Ratisbon.
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San Salvador
Diocese. The Republic of Salvador, often incorrectly called San Salvador from the name of its
capital, is the smallest and most thickly populated state of Central America.
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Sullivan, Alexander Martin
Irish politician, lawyer and journalist, b. at Bantry in 1830; d. at Dartry Lodge, Rathmines,
Dublin, 17 Oct., 1884.
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Sabbatarians, Sabbatarianism
The name, as appears from its origin, denotes those individuals or parties who are distinguished by
some peculiar opinion or practice in regard to the observance of the Sabbath or day of rest.
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Singing, Congregational
In his Instruction on sacred music, commonly referred to as the Motu Proprio (22 Nov., 1903), Pius
X says (no. 3): "Special efforts are to be made to restore the use of Gregorian chant by the
people, so that the faithful may again take a more active part in ecclesiastical offices, as was
the case in ancient times".
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Syriac Language and Literature
Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic.
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Sadlier, Mary Anne Madden
Authoress, b. at Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, 30 Dee., 1820; d. at Montreal, Canada, 5 April,
1903.
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Sylvester, Bernard, of Chartres
A twelfth-century philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.
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Saint Andrews, Priory of
One of the great religious houses in Scotland and the metropolitan church in that country before
the Reformation.
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Saint Cloud
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minn., comprises the counties of Stearns, Sherburne,
Benton, Morrison, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Isanti, Traverse, Douglas, Wilkin,
Otter-Tail, Todd, Wadena, in the State of Minnesota, an area of 12,251 square miles. The bishop
resides in St. Cloud, Stearns county.
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Sykes, Edmund
Born at Leeds; martyred at York Tyburn 23 March, 1586-7.
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Saint Albert
Diocese in Canada.
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Saint-Brieuc
Diocese; comprises the Department of the Côtes du Nord. Re-established by the Concordat of 1802 as
suffragan of Tours, later, in 1850, suffragan of Rennes.
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Servants of Mary (Order of Servites)
Order founded on the feast of the Assumption, 1233 when the Blessed Virgin appeared to seven noble
Florentines.
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Sullivan, Peter John
Soldier, lawyer, born at Cork, Ireland, 15 March, 1821; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 2 March 1883.
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Syncretism
An explanation is given by Plutarch in a small work on brotherly love ("Opera Moralia",
ed. Reiske, VII, 910). He there tells how the Cretans were often engaged in quarrels among
themselves, but became immediately reconciled when an external enemy approached.
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Saint George, Orders of
Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually
independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of
knighthood.
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Steinmeyer, Ferdinand
Jesuit missionary, born in Swabia, Germany, 13 Oct., 1720; died at Philadelphia, 17 Aug., 1786.
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Sadducees
A politico-religious sect of the Jews during the late post-Exile and New-Testament period. The old
derivation of the name from tsaddiqim, i.e. the righteous; with assumed reference to the adherence
of the Sadducees to the letter of the Law as opposed to the pharasaic attention to the superadded
"traditions of the elders", is now generally discredited.
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Sacraments
Presents the necessity, the nature, the origin/cause, the number, the effects, the minister, and
the recipient of the Sacraments.
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Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann
Foundress of the Sisters of Charity (1774-1821).
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Saint Boniface
Archdiocese; the chief ecclesiastical division of the Canadian West, so-called after the patron
saint of the German soldiers who were among its first settlers.
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Sabbatical Year
The seventh year, devoted to cessation of agriculture, and holding in the period of seven years a
place analogous to that of the Sabbath in the week; also called "Year of Remission".
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Saint Augustine, Abbey of
Benedictine monastery, originally dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul, founded in 605 outside of the
City of Canterbury, on the site of the earlier Church of St. Pancras.
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Saint Vincent de Paul, Society of
International association of Catholic laymen engaging in personal service of the poor.
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Sagalassus
A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch.
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Sainctes, Claude de
French controversialist, b. at Perche, 1525; d. at Crèvecoeur, 1591.
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Saint Gall
A Swiss bishopric directly subject to the Holy See. It includes the Canton of St. Gall and, as a
temporary arrangement, the two half-cantons of Appenzell Outer Rhodes and Appenzell Inner Rhodes.
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Saint Benedict, Medal of
A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
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Saint Albans, Abbey of
Located in Hertfordshire, England; founded about 793 by Offa, king of the Mercians.
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Saavedra, Fajardo Diego de
Statesman and author, b. at Algezares, Murcia, Spain, in 1584; d. at Madrid in 1648.
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Saint Isidore, College of
In Rome, originally founded for the use of Spanish Franciscans during the pontificate of Gregory
XV.
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Saint Louis (Missouri)
Created a diocese 2 July, 1826; raised to the rank of an archdiocese 20 July, 1847.
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Sutton, Sir Richard
Co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford, date of birth unknown; d. September or October, 1524.
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Saint Omer, College of
Well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer, often spoken of under the anglicized form of St. Omers or
St. Omer's, founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593.
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Saint Andrews, University of
The germ of the university is to be found in an association of learned ecclesiastics, formed in
1410, among whom were: Laurence of Lindores, Abbot of Scone, Richard Cornwall, Archdeacon of
Lothian, Wm. Stephen, afterwards Archbishop of Dunblane. They offered courses of lectures in
divinity, logic, philosophy, canon and civil law.
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Saint Joseph, Diocese of
The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a Catholic. At the Second Plenary
Council of Baltimore in 1866, St. Joseph was among the new episcopal sees proposed.
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Suso, Blessed Henry
Also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings. German mystic, born at Constance on 21 March,
about 1295; died at Ulm, 25 January, 1366.
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Spalding, Martin John
Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore. (1810-1872)
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Saint-Ouen, Abbey of
Located in Rouen, France, this abbey was a Benedictine monastery of great antiquity dating back to
the early Merovingian period.
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Sahaptin Indians
A prominent tribe formerly holding a considerable territory in Western Idaho and adjacent portions
of Oregon and Washington.
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Saint Mark, University of
The highest institution of learning in Peru, located at Lima, under the official name of
Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Reputed to be the oldest university in the New World, created by a
royal decree of 12 May, 1551.
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Saint-Cosme, Jean-François Buisson de
Born in Quebec, Canada, February, 1667; killed, 1707. Entering the SÈminaire des Missions
Etrangères of Quebec, he was ordained in 1690 and after serving for a time at Minas, Nova Scotia
(then Acadia), was assigned to the western mission.
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Sahara, Vicariate Apostolic of
Vast desert of northern Africa, measuring about 932 miles from north to south and 2484 miles from
east to west, and dotted with oases which are centres of population.
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Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Prefecture apostolic comprising the only French possession in North America, a group of islands.
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Saint-Sulpice, Society of
Founded at Paris by M. Olier (1642) for the purpose of providing directors for the seminaries
established by him.
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Saint Peter, Basilica of
The present Church of St. Peter stands upon the site where at the beginning of the first century
the gardens of Agrippina lay.
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Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
The exact date of the foundation of the See of St. Andrews is, like any others in the earliest
history of the Scottish Church, difficult, if not impossible, to fix.
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Saint Paul (Minnesota)
Archdiocese comprising the counties of Ramsey, Hennepin, Chisago, Anoka, Dakota, Scott, Wright,
Rice, Lesueur, Carver, Nicollet, Sibley, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Kandiyohi, Lyon, Lincoln,
Yellow Medicine, Lac-Qui-Parle, Chippewa, Swift, Goodhue, Big Stone, and Brown, which stretch
across the State of Minnesota from east to west, in about the center of its southern half.
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Saint Asaph, Ancient Diocese of
Founded by St. Kentigern about the middle of the sixth century when he was exiled from his see in
Scotland.
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Saint Thomas of Guiana
Diocese; suffragan of Caracas, erected by Pius VI on 19 Dec., 1791, comprises the former state of
Bermúdez, districts of Nueva Esparta and Guayana, and territories of Amazonas, Caura, Colón,
Orinoco, and Yuruary, in the south and east of Venezuela.
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Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Diocese of Mauramanensis. Includes the arrondissement of Saint Jean-de-Maurienne in the Department
of Haute Savoie.
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Schäzler, Constantine, Baron von
Theologian, b. at Ratisbon, 7 May, 1827; d. at Interlaken, 9 September, 1880.
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Saint-John, Ambrose
Oratorian; b. 1815; d. at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 24 May, 1875; son of Henry St. John, descended
from the Barons St. John of Bletsoe.
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Saint-Victor, Abbey of
In 1108 William of Champeaux retired to a small hermitage dedicated to St. Victor, the martyr
soldier. He was followed by many disciples and induced again to take up his lectures. Hence the
origin of the Royal Abbey and School of St. Victor.
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Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, 17 Oct., 1760; died there, 19
May, 1825. He belonged to the family of the author of the "Memoirs".
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South American College in Rome
The Rev. Ignatius Victor Eyzaguirre went to Rome, in 1857, and proposed to the Pope the erection of
a college for students from Latin American countries.
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Saint Lucius, Monastery of
Located in Chur, Switzerland. The Church of St. Lucius was built over the grave of this saint,
whose relics were preserved in it until the sixteenth century.
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Spiritual Direction
In the technical sense of the term, spiritual direction is that function of the sacred ministry by
which the Church guides the faithful to the attainment of eternal happiness.
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State, Allegiance to the
The duty of loyalty and obedience which a person owes to the State of which he is a citizen.
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Saint-Denis
Diocese erected in 1850 as suffragan of Bordeaux, includes the Island of Réunion in the Indian
Ocean about 350 miles cast of Madagascar.
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Saint-Denis, Abbey of
Situated in a small town to which it has given its name, about four miles north of Paris.
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Saint-Victor, Achard de
Canon regular, Abbot of St-Victor, Paris, and Bishop of Avranches, b. about 1100; d. 1172.
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Saint Peter, Tomb of
The history of the confusion and conflicting authorities surrounding the location of the tomb of
Saint Peter.
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Salve Regina
The opening words (used as a title) of the most celebrated of the four Breviary anthems of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Saavedra Remírez de Baquedano, Angel de
Spanish poet and statesman, b. at Cordova, 10 March, 1791; d. at Madrid, 22 June, 1865.
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Saint Thomas, University of
University in Manila, founded in 1619 by the Dominican Miguel de Benavides, Archbishop of Manila.
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Saint-Dié
Diocese comprising the Department of the Vosges.
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Saint Thomas, Diocese of
Diocese comprising the Islands of São Thomé and Principe, in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Sacred Heart, Brothers of the
A congregation founded in 1821 by Père André Coindre, of the Diocese of Lyons, France. Its
constitutions were modeled upon the constitutions of St. Ignatius based upon the Rule of Saint
Augustine. Its members bind themselves for life by the simple vows of religion.
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Sainte Anne d'Auray
A little village three miles from the town of Auray, in the Diocese of Vannes, famous for its
sanctuary and for its pilgrimages, or pardons, in honour of St. Anne.
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Sidon
Titular metropolis of Pamphylia Prima.
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Saint Francis Mission
A noted Catholic Indian mission village under Jesuit control near Pierreville, Yamaska district,
Province of Quebec, Canada.
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Salesian Society, The
Founded by Saint John Bosco, takes its distinctive name from its patron, Saint Francis de Sales.
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Salamon, Louis-Siffren-Joseph
Bishop of Saint-Flour; b. at Carpentras, 22 Oct., 1759; d. at Saint-Flour, 11 June, 1829.
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Saint George's
Diocese in Newfoundland. Beginning at Garnish it takes in the western portion of the south coast
and then stretches along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northwards, almost as far as the Straits of
Belle Isle, lying between 55° 20' and 59° 30' west longitude and between 47° 30' and 51° 20'
north latitude.
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Saint-Vallier, Jean-Baptiste de
Second Bishop of Quebec, b. at Grenoble, France, 14 Nov. 1653; d. at Quebec, Canada, 26 Dec., 1727;
son of Jean de La Croix de Chevrières, and Marie de Sayne.
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Synod
A general term for ecclesiastical gatherings under hierarchical authority, for the discussion and
decision of matters relating to faith, morals, or discipline. It corresponds to the Latin word
concilium.
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Society of Jesus, The
A religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola.
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Stoning in Scripture
At first an expression of popular fury analogous to "lynching", later came to be a
natural and legally recognized method of execution.
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Salazar, Domingo de
Born in La Rioja, in the village of La Bastida on the banks of the Ebro, 1512; died in Madrid, 4
December, 1594. Devoted to the conversion of natives of the new world.
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Salmas
A Chaldean see, included in the ancient Archdiocese of Adhorbigan, or Adherbaidjan.
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Sale
Saliensis. Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland.
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Syntagma Canonum
A canonical collection made in 1335 by Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is
known.
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Saints, Communion of
The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the
Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".
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Salimbene degli Adami
Chronicler, b. at Parma, 9 Oct., 1221; d. probably at Montefalcone about 1288.
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Soul
The question of the reality of the soul and its distinction from the body is among the most
important problems of philosophy, for with it is bound up the doctrine of a future life.
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Salmanticenses and Complutenses
Authors of the courses of scholastic philosophy and theology, and moral theology.
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Salamanca
Diocese in Spain; comprises the civil Provinces of Salamanca, Cáceres, Avila, and LÈon, and is
bounded on the north by Zamora, on the east by Avila and Valladolic, on the south by Cáceres, and
on the west by Portugal.
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Scholasticism
A term used to designate both a method and a system. It is applied to theology as well as to
philosophy.
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Saints, Canonization of
Traces the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic Church.
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Salvation
Salvation has in Scriptural language the general meaning of liberation from straitened
circumstances or from other evils, and of a translation into a state of freedom and security.
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Saint Petersburg
The imperial residence and second capital of Russia, lies at the mouth of the Neva on the Gulf of
Finland.
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Saint Hyacinthe
Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of Montreal.
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Salt Lake, Diocese of
Includes the State of Utah, and slightly more than half of the State of Nevada.
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Salto
Diocese in Uruguay, suffragan to Montevideo.
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Salvianus
Fifth-century Latin writer.
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Samoa
A group of islands situated in the south Pacific.
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Sacristy
A room in the church or attached thereto, where the vestments, church furnishings and the like,
sacred vessels, and other treasures are kept, and where the clergy meet and vest for the various
ecclesiastical functions.
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Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, The
One of the many examples of the legend about a man who falls asleep and years after wakes up to
find the world changed.
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Stylites
Solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days
amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism. This practice
may be regarded as the climax of a tendency which became very pronounced in Eastern lands in the
latter part of the fourth century.
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Salzmann, Joseph
Founder of St. Francis Provincial Seminary (St. Francis, Wisconsin) known as the
"Salesianum", one of the best known pioneer priests of the North-west, b. at Münzbach,
Diocese of Linz, Upper Austria, 17 Aug., 1819; d. at St. Francis, Wisconsin, 17 Jan., 1874.
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Salome
Daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias at whose request John the Baptist was beheaded.
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Samson
Most famous of the Judges of Israel.
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Samuel, First and Second Books of
Known as the First and Second Books of Kings in the Authorized Version, in the Hebrew editions and
the Protestant versions these are known as 1st and 2nd Samuel, with the Third and Fourth Books of
Kings being styled First and Second Books of Kings.
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Saliva Indians
The principal of a small group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock (the Salivan),
centring in the eighteenth century, about and below the junction of the Meta and Orinoco, in
Venezuela.
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San Gallo
A celebrated family of architects, sculptors, painters, and engravers, which flourished in Italy
during the Renaissance period, from the middle of the fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth
century. The founder of the family was Francesco Giamberti (1405-80), a Florentine wood-carver; he
had two sons, Giuliano and Antonio.
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Salvete Christi Vulnera
The Roman Breviary hymn at Lauds of the feast of the Most Precious Blood, is found in the Appendix
to Pars Verna of the Roman Breviary (Venice, 1798).
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Salmeron, Alphonsus
Jesuit Biblical scholar, born at Toledo, 8 Sept., 1515; died at Naples, 13 Feb., 1585.
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Sainte Anne de Beaupré
Devotion to Saint Anne, in Canada.
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Sámar and Leyte
The names of two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines.
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San José de Costa Rica
The Republic of Costa Rica, Central America, constitutes this diocese as a suffragan see of the
Archdiocese of Guatemala.
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Sánchez, Alonzo Coello
Painter - Born at Benyfayro, Valenciz, Spain, in 1513 or 1515; died at Madrid, 1590.
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Sánchez, Alonzo
Jesuit missionary and writer, born in Mondejar, Guadalajara, Spain, in 1547; died at Alcalá, 27
May, 1593.
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Salta, Diocese of
Comprises the civil Provinces of Salta and Jujuy in the northern part of the Republic of Argentina.
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Samosata
A titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis, capital of Commagenum.
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San Carlos de Ancud
The most southern of the Chilian dioceses.
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Sanction
Sanction signifies the authoritative act whereby the legislator gives a law value and binding force
for its subjects.
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Sanctifying Grace
Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.
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Sanctuary
Church architecture term.
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Soter and Caius, Saints
They have their feast together on 22 April, on which day they appear in most of the martyrologies,
though Notker and a few others give Soter on the 21st and Caius on the 19th or 21st.
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Synods, National
According to the recent canon law, national councils are the deliberating assemblies at which all
the bishops of a nation are convoked by the patriarch or primate (Cf. Bened. XIV, "De
Synodo", I, i), but, in order to include the ancient national synods, it would be more correct
to say a legitimate assemblage of the episcopate of a nation, the decisions of which are valid for
an entire national Church.
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Sabrata
A titular see in Tripolitana. Sabrata was a Phoenician town on the northern coast of Africa,
between the two Syrta. With Oca and Leptis Magna it caused the Greek name Tripolis to be given to
the region.
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Sacchoni, Rainerio
A learned and zealous Dominican, born at Piacenza about the beginning of the thirteenth century;
died about 1263.
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Saint-Claude
The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only twenty-six parishes, subject
previously to the Abbey of Saint-Claude, and some parishes detached from the Dioceses of Besançon
and Lyons.
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Saltillo, Diocese of
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Linares, or Monterey.
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Sa, Manoel de
Portuguese theologian and exegete, b. at Villa do Conde (Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro), 1530; d. at
Arona (Italy), 30 Dec., 1596.
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Sampson, Richard
English bishop (d. 1554)
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Samogitia
A Russian diocese, also called Telshi (Telshe), including the part of Lithuania lying on the
Baltic.
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Sanctity
Explains the meaning of the term "sanctity" as employed in somewhat different senses in
relation to God, to individual men, and to a corporate body.
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Saint Sylvester, Order of
The Order is neither monastic nor military but a purely honorary title created by Gregory XVI, 31
Oct., 1841.
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Sanchez, Thomas
Religious scholar/author - Born at Cordova, 1550; died in the college of Granada, 19 May, 1610.
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San Francisco
Archdiocese established 29 July 1853 to include multiple counties in the State of California,
U.S.A.
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Sandwich Isands
Vicariate Apostolic comprising all the islands of the Hawaiian group.
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Sandomir
Ancient Polish city with existing traces of prehistoric construction.
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Sandemanians
An English form of the Scottish sect of Glassites, followers of John Glas (b. 1695; d. 1773) who
was deposed from the Presbyterian ministry in 1728, for teaching that the Church should not be
subject to any league or covenant, but should be governed only by Apostolic doctrine.
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Sambuga, Joseph Anton
Theologian, b. at Walldorf near Heidelberg, 9 June; 1752; d. at Nymphenburg near Munich 5 June,
according to Sailer, but 5 January according to other statements, 1815.
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Sanetch Indians
A sub-tribe of the Songish Indians.
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San Antonio, Diocese of
Comprises all that portion of the State of Texas between the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers, except
the land south of the Arroyo de los Hermanos, on the Rio Grande, and the Counties of Live Oak, Bee,
Goliad, and Refugio.
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Saint John
Diocese in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada.
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San León del Amazonas
Prefecture Apostolic in Peru.
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Sergius and Bacchus
Martyrs, died in the Diocletian persecution in Coele-Syria about 303.
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Syon Monastery
Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth.
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Saint-Flour
Diocese comprising the Department of Cantal, and is suffragan of the Archbishopric of Bourges.
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Sanctorum Meritis
The hymn at First and Second Vespers in the Common of the Martyrs in the Roman Breviary. Its
authorship is often attributed to Rabanus Maurus (d. 856), Archbishop of Mainz.
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Sankt Pölten
Diocese in Lower Austria.
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San Salvador
The name given by Columbus to his first discovery in the New World. It is one of the Bahama group
of islands.
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Sandeo, Felino Maria
Often quoted under the name of Felinus, Italian canonist of the fifteenth century.
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San Marino
An independent republic lying between the Italian Provinces of Forli, Pasaro, and Urbino.
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Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast
of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the
subject of knotty historical disputes.
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Sanseverino, Gaetano
Restorer of the Scholastic philosophy in Italy, b. at Naples, 1811; d. there of cholera, 16 Nov.,
1865.
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San Luis PotosÃ
Diocese in Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1854. It includes the State of San Luis PotosÃ, and a
small portion of the State of Zacatecas.
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San Marco and Bisignano
Diocese in the Province of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy.
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San Martino al Cimino
A prelature nullius in the territory of the Diocese of Viterbo, Province of Rome.
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Santa Casa di Loreto
Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, the "Holy House" of Loreto has
been numbered among the most famous shrines of Italy.
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Santa Fe (Argentina)
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires.
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Santa Lucia del Mela
Prelature nullius within the territory of the Archdiocese of Messina, Sicily.
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Sands, Benjamin and James
U.S. Navy admirals.
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San Miniato
A city and diocese in the Province of Florence, central Italy.
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Sandhurst
Diocese in Victoria, Australia; suffragan of Melbourne.
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Santa Maria de Monserrato
An abbey nullius in Brazil.
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Santa Agata dei Goti, Diocese of
In the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy; the city, situated on a hill at the base of Monte
Taburno, contains an ancient castle.
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Sennen and Abdon, Saints
Persian martyrs under Decius (c. A.D. 250)
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Stapleton, Theobald
Nothing is known of his career, except that he was a priest living in Flanders, and that in 1639 he
published at Brussels a book called "Catechismus seu doctrina christiana
latino-hibernica", which was the first book in which Irish was printed in Roman type.
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San Juan
Diocese in the Argentine Republic at the foot of the Cordillera of the Andes.
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Samuco Indians
The collective name of a group of tribes in southwestern Bolivia.
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Sanction, Pragmatic
Pragmatic sanction meant in the latter period of the Roman Empire an edict formally issued by the
emperor.
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Salutati, Coluccio di Pierio di
Italian Humanist b. in Tuscany, 1331; d. 4 May, 1406.
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Salisbury, Ancient Diocese of
The diocese was originally founded by Birinus, who in 634 established his see at Dorchester in
Oxfordshire, whence he evangelized the Kingdom of Wessex. From this sprang the later Dioceses of
Winchester, Sherborne, Ramsbury, and Salisbury.
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Sander, Nicholas
English exile - Born at Charlwood, Surrey, in 1530; died in Ireland, 1581.
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Sainte-Claire Deville, Charles
Geologist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 26 February, 1814; d. in Paris 10 October, 1876.
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Santa Maria (Brazil)
A Brazilian see, suffragan of Porto Alegre.
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Santiago del Estero
Diocese in the Argentine Republic, erected 25 March, 1907, suffragan of Buenos Aires.
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Sao Carlos do Pinhal
Diocese; suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil, South America, created on 7 June,
l908.
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Santander
Diocese in Spain which takes its name not from St. Andrew as some believe, but from St. Hemeterius
(Santemter, Santenter, Santander), one of the patrons of the city and ancient abbey.
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Saints Vincent and Anastasius, Abbey of
Located near Rome.
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Santini, Giovanni Sante Gaspero
Astronomer, b. at Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. at Padua, 26 June, 1877.
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Salamanca, University of
Spanish university. Had its beginning in the Cathedral School under the direction, from the twelfth
century, of a magister scholarum (chancellor).
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Samos
Titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades. The island, called in Turkish Soussan-Adassi, is
181 sq. miles in area and numbers 55,000 inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Greek schismatics.
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Salt
Always used for the seasoning of food and for the preservation of things from corruption, had from
very early days a sacred and religious character.
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San Severo
Diocese in the Province of Foggia (Capitanata), Southern Italy, situated in a fertile plain,
watered by the Radicosa and Triolo.
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Sao Paulo
Ecclesiastical province in the Republic of Brazil, South America.
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Sao Thiago de Cabo Verde
This diocese has the seat of its bishopric on the Island of S. Nicolau and comprises the Cape Verde
Archipelago, which forms one civil province, and Portuguese Guinea, on the coast of Senegambia,
which forms another.
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, Devotion to the
Special form of devotion to Jesus. Discussion of what it is and what distinguishes it, its object,
its foundations, and its proper act.
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Stephen of Tournai
Canonist, born at Orléans, 1128; died at Tournai, September, 1203.
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Sardinia
The second largest Italian island in the Mediterranean.
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Santos, João dos
Dominican missionary in India and Africa, b. at Evora, Portugal; d. at Goa in 1622.
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Sala, George Augustus Henry
Journalist, b. in London, 24 Nov., 1828; d. at Brighton, 8 Dec., 1895, having been received into
the Church before death.
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Samson
Abbot of St. Edmunds (1135-1211)
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Sanctus
The Sanctus is the last part of the Preface in the Mass, sung in practically every rite by the
people (or choir). One of the elements of the liturgy of which exists the earliest evidence.
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Sao Luiz de Cáceres
Diocese in Brazil, suffragan of Cuyabá.
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Shert, Blessed John
Very brief biographical profile of the English priest, martyred in 1581.
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Sacramentals
In instituting the sacraments Christ did not determine the matter and form down to the slightest
detail, leaving this task to the Church, which should determine what rites were suitable in the
administration of the sacraments. These rites are indicated by the word Sacramentalia, the object
of which is to manifest the respect due to the sacrament and to secure the sanctification of the
faithful.
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Sannazaro, Jacopo
Italian and Latin poet, b. at Naples, 28 July, 1458; d. at Rome, in Aug., 1530.
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Sarabaites
A class of monks widely spread before the time of St. Benedict.
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Saragossa, University of
Not definitively established until 1585, its real founder being Don Pedro Cerbunc, Prior of the
Cathedral of Saragossa, and later Bishop of Tarrazona.
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Sardica
A titular metropolitan see of Dacia Mediterranea. The true name of the city (now Sophia, the
capital of Bulgaria) was Serdica.
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Sao Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos
Brazilian see erected by Julius III, 25 Feb., 1551, as suffragan of Lisbon, and raised to
archiepiscopal rank by Innocent XI, 16 Nov., 1676.
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Sardes
A titular see of Lydia, in Asia Minor probably the ancient Hyde of Homer (Iliad, II, 844; XX, 385),
at the foot of Mount Tmolus.
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Sandals, Episcopal
Unlike the ancient sandals, which consisted merely of soles fastened to the foot by straps, the
episcopal sandals are in the form of low shoes, and resemble slippers.
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Savannah
The Diocese of Savannah comprises the State of Georgia and was created as such by Pius IX, 1850.
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Sassari
Archdiocese in Sardinia, Italy, situated on the River Rossello in a fertile region: a centre of the
oil, fruit, wine, and tobacco industries.
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Sara
Wife of Abraham and also his step-sister.
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