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Caballero, Fernán de - Nom de plume of Cecilia Böhl von Faber, a noted Spanish novelist. (1796-1877) |
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Cabas - Titular see of Egypt. |
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Cabassut - French theologian and priest. (1604-1685) |
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Cadalous - Bishop and antipope. (d.1072) |
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Caddo Indians - In the earlier period they were commonly known to the Spaniards as Tejas, whence the name of the State, and to the French as Cenis or Assinais. |
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Cades - The name, according to the Vulgate and the Septuagent, of three, or probably four cities mentioned in Scripture. |
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Caedmon, Saint - Article on the laborer for the double monastery of Whitby, composer of hymns and other Biblical poems in Anglo-Saxon, who died between 670 and 680. |
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Caen, University of - Founded in 1432 by Henry VI of England, who was then master of Paris and of a large part of France. |
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Caeremoniale Episcoporum - A book containing the rites and ceremonies to be observed at Mass, Vespers, and other functions, by bishops and prelates of inferior rank, in metropolitan, cathedral, and collegiate churches. |
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Caesarea - A Latin titular see, and the seat of a residential Armenian bishopric, in Cappadocia. |
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Caesarea Philippi - A Greek Catholic residential see, and a Latin titular see, in Syria. |
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Cagliari, Archdiocese of - Cagliari, called by the ancient Caralis, is the principal city and capital of the Island of Sardinia, and an important port on the Gulf of Cagliari. |
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Caiazzo, Diocese of - Situated in the province of Caserta, Italy, amid the mountains of Tifati near the river Volturno. |
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Cain - First-born of Adam and Eve. |
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Cainites - A name used for (1) the descendants of Cain, (2) a sect of Gnostics and Antinomians. |
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Caius - Third-century Christian author. |
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Cajetan, Saint - Also known as St. Gaetano. Biography of the founder of the Theatines. |
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Calabozo, Diocese of - A town in the State of Miranda, Venezuela, on the River Guárico, 120 miles south-southwest of Caracas. |
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Calama - Titular see in Africa. |
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Calas Case, The - Jean Calas was a French Calvinist, born 19 March, 1698, at La Caparède near Castres, in the department of Tarn; executed 10 March, 1762, at Toulouse. |
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Caleb - Six people with this name are described. |
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Calendar, Reform of the - Such alterations were too obvious to be ignored, and throughout the Middle Ages many observers both pointed them out and endeavoured to devise a remedy. |
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California - Includes history, population, education, resources, and religion. |
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Callistus III, Pope - Born near Valencia in Spain, 31 December, 1378; died at Rome, 6 August, 1458. |
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Cally, Pierre - Philosopher and theologian, b. at Mesnil-Hubert, department of Orne, France, date of birth uncertain; d. 31 December, 1709. |
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Caloe - A titular see of Asia Minor. |
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Caltagirone - A city in the province of Catania, Sicily, built on two eminences about 2000 feet above sea-level, connected by a bridge. |
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Caltanisetta - The city is situated in a fertile plain of Sicily, on the River Salso, in the vicinity of the most extensive sulphur mines in the world. |
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Calumny - Etymologically any form of ruse or fraud employed to deceive another, particularly in judicial proceedings. |
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Calvert, Charles - Third Baron of Baltimore, and Second Proprietary Governor of Maryland. (1629-1715) |
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Calvert, George - First Lord Baltimore, statesman and colonizer. (1580-1632) |
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Calvin, John - Born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564. |
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Calvinism - Calvin succeeded Luther in point of time and was committed to a struggle with Zwingli's disciples at Zurich and elsewhere, known as Sacramentarians. |
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Calynda - A titular see of Asia Minor. |
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Camaldolese - A joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century. |
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Camargo, Diego Muñoz - Born of a Spanish father and Indian mother soon after 1521; died at a very advanced age, the exact date unknown. |
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Cambiaso, Luca - Genoese painter, b. at Moneglia near Genoa, in 1527; d. in the Escorial, Madrid, 1585. |
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Camel, George Joseph - Botanist, born at Brunn, in Moravia, 21 April 1661, died in Manila, 2 May, 1706. |
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Camerino, Diocese of - Situated in the Italian province of Macerata in the Apennines, about 40 miles from Ancona. |
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Camerlengo - The title of certain papal officials. |
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Campagnola, Domenico - Painter of the Venetian school, b. at Padua in 1482; date of death unascertained. |
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Campaña, Pedro - Flemish painter, known in France as Pierre de Champagne, and in Brussels as Pieter de Kempeneer (his actual name), or, as translated in Flemish, Van de Velde, b. at Brussels in 1503; d. there in 1580. |
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Campanella, Tommaso - In-depth article on the strange career of the Italian anti-Aristotelian Dominican writer. |
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Campani, Giuseppe - Italian optician and astronomer who lived in Rome during the latter half of the seventeenth century. |
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Campeche - Diocese in the State of Campeche, Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yucatan. |
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Campeggio, Lorenzo - Cardinal, an eminent canonist, ecclesiastical diplomat, and reformer. |
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Campi, Bernardino - Italian painter of the Lombard School, b. at Cremona, 1522; d. at Reggio, about 1590. |
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Campi, Giulio - Italian painter and architect, b. at Cremona about 1500; died there, 1572. |
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Cana - A city of Galilee, Palestine. |
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Canada - Comprises all that part of North America north of the United States, with the exception of Newfoundland, and Labrador. |
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Canada, Catholicity in - Treated under three headings: I. Period of French domination, from the discovery of Canada to the Treaty of Paris, in 1763; II. Period of British rule, from 1763 to the present day; III. Present conditions. |
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Canary Islands, The - An archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean facing the western coast of Africa. |
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Candia - The residence of the Greek Metropolitan of Crete, who has seven suffragan sees, Khania, Kisamos, Rethymnon (Retimo), Sitia, Lampa, Arkadia, and Chersonesos. |
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Candidus - The name of two scholars of the Carlovingian revival of letters in the ninth century. |
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Candlemas - Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. |
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Candles - The word candle (candela, from candeo, to burn) was introduced into the English language as an ecclesiastical term, probably as early as the eighth century. |
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Candlesticks - Provides the history of their use in Christian churches. |
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Canea - Formerly a titular see of Crete, suppressed by a decree of 1894. |
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Canes, Vincent - Friar Minor and controversialist, born on the borders of Nottingham and Leicestershire, date uncertain; died in London, June, 1672 |
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Canice, Saint - Irish priest, monastic founder, missionary to Scotland, d. 600. |
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Cano, Alonso - Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor. (1601-1667) |
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Cano, Melchior - Article by John R. Volz on the character, teachings, and life of this Dominican bishop and theologian. |
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Canon - Musical term, the strictest of all contrapuntal forms. |
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Canon - Ecclesiastical person. |
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Canon of the Mass - Article divided into four sections: (I) Name and place of the Canon; (II) History of the Canon; (III) The text and rubrics of the Canon; (IV) Mystical interpretations. |
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Canon of the New Testament - The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. |
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Canon of the Old Testament - Signifies the authoritative list or closed number of the writings composed under Divine inspiration, and destined for the well-being of the Church. |
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Canoness - The assistance of women in the work of the Church goes back to the earliest time, and their uniting together for community exercises was a natural development of religious worship. |
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Canons, Apostolic - A collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and discipline of the Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions. |
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Canopy - An ornamental covering of cloth, stone, wood, or metal, used to crown an altar, throne, pulpit, or statue. |
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Canossa - A former castle of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the foothills of the Apennines. |
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Canterbury - The Ancient Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558. |
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Canticle - Used in the English Catholic translation of the Bible as the equivalent of the Vulgate canticum in most, but not all, of the uses of that word; for where canticum is used for a sacred song. |
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Canticle of Canticles - One of three books of Solomon, contained in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Christian Canon of the Scriptures. |
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Cantor - The chief singer (and sometimes instructor) of the ecclesiastical choir, called also precentor. |
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Cantù, Cesare - Italian historian and poet, b. at Brivio, 8 December, 1807; d. at Milan, 11 March, 1895. |
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Canute - King of the English, Danes, and Norwegians, b. about 994; d. at Shaftesbury, 12 November 1035. |
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Cap Haïtien - Erected by Pius IX, 3 October, 1861, in the ecclesiastical Province of Port au Prince. |
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Capgrave, John - Augustinian friar, historian, and theologian, b. at Lynn in Norfolk, 21 April, 1393. |
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Capitolias - A titular see of Palestine, suffragan to Scythopolis in Palestina Secunda. |
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Capitulations, Episcopal and Pontifical - Agreements, by which those taking part in the election of a bishop or pope imposed special conditions upon the candidate to be fulfilled by him after his election. |
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Capponi, Gino, Count - Historian and litterateur; born at Florence, Italy, 13 September, 1792; died 3 February, 1876. |
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Capranica, Domenico - Cardinal, theologian, canonist, and statesman, b. at Capranica near Palestrina, Italy, in 1400; d. at Rome, 14 July, 1458. |
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Capreolus, John - A theologian, born towards the end of the fourteenth century, (about 1380), in the diocese of Rodez, France; died in that city 6 April, 1444. |
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Capsa - Titular see of North Africa. |
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Captain (in the Bible) - In the Douay version captain represents several different Hebrew and Latin words, and designates both civil and military officers. |
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Capua - Situated in the province of Caserta, Southern Italy. |
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Capuchinesses - A branch of the Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance, instituted at Naples, in 1538, by the Venerable Maria Longo. |
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Capuciati - From caputium, hood - So named from the headgear which was one of their distinctive marks. |
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Caquetá - Apostolic prefecture situated in South America on the southern border of the Republic of Colombia. |
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Carabantes, José de - Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694. |
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Caracalla - Roman Emperor, son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, b. 188; d. 217. |
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Caracas - Located in the Republic of Venezuela, a metropolitan see with the Barquisimeto, Calabozo, Guayana, Merida, and Zulia as suffragans. |
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Caraites - A Jewish sect professing to follow the text of the Bible (Miqra) to the exclusion of Rabbinical traditions, and hence opposed to the Talmud. |
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Carbonari - The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century. |
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Carcassonne - Diocese comprising the entire department of Aude, and suffragan to Toulouse. |
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Cardica - A titular see of Thessaly. |
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Cardinal - A dignitary of the Roman Church and counsellor of the pope. |
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Cardinal Protector - Since the thirteenth century it has been customary at Rome to confide to some particular cardinal a special solicitude in the Roman Curia for the interests of a given religious order or institute, confraternity, church, college, city, or nation. |
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Cardinal Vicar - The vicar-general of the pope, as Bishop of Rome, for the spiritual administration of the city, and its surrounding district, properly known as Vicarius Urbis. |
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Cardinal Virtues - The four principal virtues upon which the rest of the moral virtues turn or are hinged. |
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Carem - Name of a town in the Tribe of Juda. |
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Carey, Mathew - Author and publisher, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 28 January, 1760; d. in Philadelphia, U.S.A., 15 September, 1839. |
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Carheil, Etienne de - French missionary among the Indians of Canada, born at Carentoir, France, November 1633; died at Quebec, 27 July, 1726. |
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Cariati - Suffragan of Santa Severina. |
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Caribs - Next to the Arawaks, probably the most numerous Indian stock, of more or less nomadic habits, in South America. |
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Carlisle - The Catholic was smaller in extent than the present Anglican diocese, which was enlarged in 1856. |
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Carlovingian Schools - Established under the Merovingian Kings, a school, scola palatina, the chroniclers of the eighth century styled it for the training of the young Frankish nobles in the art of war and in the ceremonies of the court. |
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Carmel - Designates in the Old Testament a certain city and its adjacent territory in the tribe of Juda. |
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Carmel, Mount - A well-known mountain ridge in Palestine, usually called in the Hebrew Bible Hakkarmel. |
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Caroline Books - A work in four books (120 or 121 chapters), purporting to be the composition of Charlemagne, and written about 790-92. |
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Caroline Islands - A group of about 500 small coral islands, east of the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Caron, Raymond - Franciscan friar and author, b. at Athlone, Ireland, in 1605; d. at Dublin, 1666. |
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Carpaccio, Vittore - Venetian painter whose real name was Scarpazza, b. at Venice about 1455; d. in the same city between 1523 and 1526. |
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Carpasia - A titular see of Cyprus. Carpasia, Karpasia, also Karpasion is said to have been founded by King Pygmalion near Cape Sarpedon. |
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Carpi - Situated in the province of Modena, Central Italy. |
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Carracci - Italian painter, engraver, and etcher, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1557; d. at Parma, 22 March, 1602. |
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Carranza, Bartolomé - Archbishop of Toledo; b. at Miranda de Arga, Spain, 1503; d. at Rome, 2 May, 1576. |
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Carrera, Rafael - In 1847 Carrera was, by a kind of election, made President of Guatemala, and seven years later he became dictator, that is, president for life with the right to designate his successor. |
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Carrhae - A titular see of Mesopotamia. |
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Carrière, Joseph - Moral theologian, thirteenth superior of the seminary and Society of Saint-Sulpice. (1795-1864) |
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Carrières, Louis de - Born in the chateau de la Plesse in Avrille, Angers, France, 1 September, 1662; d. at Paris, 11 June 1717. |
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Carroll, Daniel - Brother of Archbishop Carroll, b. at upper Marlboro, Maryland, U. S. A., 1733; d. at Washington, 1829. |
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Cartagena - The city of the same name, residence of the archbishop, is situated on an island to the north of Tierra Bomba, Colombia. |
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Cartagena - Suffragan of Granada in Spain since the concordat of 1851, previously of Toledo. |
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Carthage - Founded by Phoenician colonists, and long the great opponent of Rome in the duel for supremacy, was destroyed by a Roman army, 146 B.C. A little more than a century later (44 B.C.), a new city composed of Roman colonists was founded on the site. |
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Carthage, Saint - Also known as Mochuda. Irish monk, priest, hermit, founder. He composed a monastic rule in Irish verse. Died in 637. |
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Carthusian Order, The - The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption. |
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Cartier, Georges-Etienne - French Canadian statesman, son of Jacques Cartier and Marguerite Paradis, b. at St. Antoine, on the Richelieu, 16 Sept., 1814; d. in London 20 May, 1873. |
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Cartier, Jacques - The discoverer of Canada, b. at Saint-Malo, Brittany, in 1491; d. 1 September, 1557. |
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Carvajal, Gaspar de - Dominican missionary, b. in Estremadura, Spain, c. 1500; d. at Lima, Peru, 1584. |
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Carvajal, Juan - Cardinal; b. about 1400 at Truxillo in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome, 6 December, 1469. |
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Carvajal, Luis de - Friar Minor and Tridentine theologian, b. about 1500; the time of his death is uncertain. |
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Carvajal, Luisa de - Born 2 Jan., 1568, at Jaraizejo, Spain; died 2 Jan., 1614, at London, a lady of high birth, who received from God what appears to have been a special vocation to go to England and minister to those who were suffering for the Faith. |
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