ACQUAPENDENTE, DIOCESE OF. — In Lazio, in the province of Viterbo, situated in the northeastern part of the region. It borders Umbria and Tuscany, and has an area of 464 km² with a population of 22,514 inhabitants, divided into 14 parishes, with 29 secular priests, 11 regular clergy, 12 female religious congregations, and 4 male religious communities. It has the minor seminary in A., while the major seminary, shared with the other dioceses of upper Lazio, is at La Quercia near Viterbo.
A. most likely corresponds to the ancient *Acula*, also called *Aquesium*, *Aquae Taurinae*, and in the Middle Ages *Aquapendens*, from the hill on which it is situated and from which
ACQUAFORTE — Landscape by Adriaen van Ostade (18th century).
(properly B. Degenhart)
Acquafort — Initial state of an engraving on a copper plate by A. van Dyck, copied from a portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Acquafort — Passage by Adriaen van Ostade (18th century).
they considered wine a poison administered by the prince of darkness. They were therefore condemned along with them by Emperor Theodosius I (Codex Theodosianus, XVI, tit. V). In contrast, the Armenians fell into the opposite error: they completely suppressed the use of water in the Mass and incurred the condemnation of the Council "in Trullo" in 692 (can. 32), in which anyone who did not mix water with the wine for consecration was declared deposed.