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Anti-Slavery, Italian Society (ANTISCHIAVISTA, SOCIETÀ ITALIANA)
The founding of antislavery societies in Europe is connected with the antislavery movement and with the part played in it by Leo XIII. When the Pope received… -
Antistes (ANTISTITE)
From antistes, etymologically one who stands above others, hence one who presides, directs. In this sense it is used by Latin writers, both pagan and… -
Antithesis (ἈΝΤΊΘΕΣΙΣ) (ANTITESI (ἈΝΤΊΘΕΣΙΣ))
Opposition of meaning between two notions or judgments. The terminology is Aristotle's, in whose works "antithesis" has a generic scope, encompassing under… -
Antitrinitarians (ANTITRINITARI)
This name designates all heretics who profess some error against the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, whether they affirm that there are three natures in it… -
Antivari, Archdiocese of (ANTIVARI, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
A maritime city on the border between Dalmatia and Albania, whose origin is unknown; it begins to be mentioned as an episcopal city in the 8th century, now as… -
Antofagasta, Diocese of (ANTOFAGASTA, DIOCESI DI)
The city of A. rises in northern Chile, in a nearly desert region, but one rich in mineral resources (nitrates), and it has a good port; it is the capital of a… -
Antoine, Paul-Gabriel
French theologian, b. at Lunéville on 19 Jan. 1678, d. at Pont-à-Mousson on 22 Jan. 1743. Having entered the Society of Jesus at a very young age, he was… -
Antolínez, Agustín (ANTOLINEZ, AGUSTIN)
Augustinian theologian, b. at Valladolid on 6 Dec. 1554, d. at Compostela on 19 June 1626. He made his religious profession in the Augustinian convent of his… -
Antolini, Gianantonio
Architect, b. at Castel Bolognese in 1754. Having begun his artistic education in Bologna, he moved to Rome, where he devoted himself to the study of ancient… -
Antologion (Τὸ Ἀνθολόγιον) (ANTOLOGIO (ΤῸ ἈΝΘΑΛΌΓΙΟΝ))
Among the Greeks it is a collection of the principal offices of the sanctoral and temporal cycles scattered throughout the various liturgical books. The first… -
Antommarchi, Francesco
Physician, b. at Morsiglia (Corsica) in 1790, d. at Santiago de Cuba on 3 April 1838. He was chosen by Cardinal Fesch and by Madame Letizia to replace O'Meara… -
Antonacci, Pietro
Jesuit writer, b. at Tolentino on 1 July 1801 and d. at Rome on 31 Oct. 1874. Received into the Society as a coadjutor brother in 1828, after having studied… -
Antonelli, Alessandro
Born at Ghemme (Novara) in 1798, an engineer, a pupil of Bonsignore, then a lecturer at the Accademia Albertina from '36 to '57. He built the dome of S.… -
Antonelli, Giacomo
Cardinal, b. 12 April 1806 at Sonnino of a modest family that had enriched itself in government contracts and in the reclamation works of the Pontine marshes… -
Antonelli, Giovanni
Piarist scientist, b. at Candeglia, a suburb of Pistoia, on 10 January 1818, d. at Florence on 14 January 1871. Having become a Piarist on 7 November 1834, he… -
Antonelli, Leonardo
Cardinal, b. at Senigallia on 6 Nov. 1730, d. there on 23 Jan. 1811. After having been secretary of the Cipher and prefect of Castel S. Angelo, he was… -
Antonelli, Nicola Maria
Born at Senigallia on 8 July 1698, died at Rome on 24 Sept. 1767. Cardinal, historian, canonist and orientalist. He was also secretary of Propaganda Fide and… -
Antonello da Messina
Painter, b. at Messina ca. 1430, d. there in 1479. His activity begins to be known in 1457, when he received a commission for a painting for Reggio Calabria.… -
Antonello da Saliba
Painter, b. in Messina around 1466, d. around 1535, nephew of Antonello da Messina. He was a pupil of Iacobello di Antonio and resided, it seems, in Venice; he… -
Antonello da Serravalle
Venetian painter of the 15th century about whom precise information is lacking; in 1485 he signed a fresco depicting the Madonna enthroned with the Child and… -
Anton, Gabriel
German psychiatrist (1858-1944), professor at the University of Halle. He was the rapporteur of the famous "Declaration" of the Medical Faculty of Halle (1917)… -
Antonia
Fortress that arose in Jerusalem, on the eastern hill, northeast of the Temple, at the foot of the Bezeta rock. Its purpose was to protect the most vulnerable… -
Antoniano, Silvio
Cardinal, humanist, educationist, b. at Castello (diocese of Penne) on 31 Dec. 1540, d. on 16 Aug. 1603 in Rome. Of humble origins, having from childhood… -
Antonians (ANTONIANI)
They are the disciples of St. Anthony Abbot. In the Vita Antonii written by St. Athanasius, there is mention of a colony of hermits who placed themselves… -
Antonians of Vienna (ANTONIANI DI VIENNE)
This Order is connected with the epidemics of "holy fire," so frequent in the Middle Ages. The "holy fire" or "St. Anthony's fire," a disease today known by… -
Antonianum
ANTONIANUM: v. ISTITUTI DI STUDI SUPERIORI. ANTONIAZZO ROMANO. - Painter, b. in Rome, d. there after 1508. His formation took place through contact with the… -
Antonia of Brescia (ANTONIA DI BRESCIA)
Dominican mystic, b. in Brescia around 1407, d. in Ferrara on 27 Oct. 1507. Of the Guaineri family, she grew up most virtuous from infancy. Having entered the… -
Antoniazzo Romano
Christ in majesty - Rome, apse of S. Croce in Gerusalemme. so much influenced throughout the rest of his activity that for several works the attribution to one… -
Antoniewicz (Boloż-Antoniewicz), Karol (ANTONIEWICZ (BOLOZ-ANTONIEWICZ), KAROL)
Polish Jesuit preacher and ascetical writer, b. of a noble family of the Armenian rite on 6 Nov. 1807, at Skwarzawa (district of Zółkiew, Lwów), d. at Obra on… -
Antonii, Pietro and Giovanni Battista degli (ANTONII, PIETRO E GIOVANNI BATTISTA DEGLI)
Pietro, musician, b. in Bologna in 1648, and d. there in 1720. Maestro di cappella in various churches of his city, he wrote masses, psalms, motets, the… -
Antonij Khrapovickij, Metropolitan of Kiev (ANTONIO CHRAPOVIZKIJ, METROPOLITA DI KIEV)
In the world Alessio C., he was for about 50 years one of the most significant representatives of the dissident hierarchy and of Russian theology. Born in… -
Antonini, Egidio da Viterbo (ANTONINI EGIDIO DA VITERBO)
ANTONINI EGIDIO da VITERBO : v. EGIDIO DA VITERBO. -
Antonini, Giovanni Battista
Sculptor of the 18th century who worked in Rome; he is remembered by Titi as being part of the group of artists who, at the wish of Clement XI, completed the… -
Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint (ANTONINO, ARCIVESCOVO DI FIRENZE, SANTO)
Dominican, of the Pierozzi family, b. in Florence in March 1389, d. at Montughi, near that same city, on 2 April 1459. The family environment inspired in the… -
Antoninus of Lodi (ANTONINO DA LODI)
Missionary, in the world Agostino Pezzoni, b. 19 Nov. 1777, became a Capuchin at Orta on 4 Apr. 1796. After having worked for some years with zeal in the… -
Antoninus of Piacenza (ANTONINO DA PIACENZA)
ANTONINO da PIACENZA: v. ANONIMO PIACENTINO. -
Antoninus of Reschio (ANTONINO DA RESCHIO)
Missionary, b. 28 Oct. 1832 in S. Martino di Fisciano near Perugia, d. at Foligno on 19 July 1907. He took the Capuchin habit in 1847 and was ordained a priest… -
Antoninus Pius (ANTONINO PIO)
Born in the year 86 A.D. at Lanuvium, he passed through the entire career of public offices until he reached the empire in 138; he was gentle, upright, wise… -
Antonio da Aleppo
Friar Minor, missionary in Egypt, b. in 1709, d. in Akmin on 31 Aug. 1766. His baptismal name was Fatah 'Alah "Happiness of God." A dissident Melkite, he… -
Antonio da Aquila
Franciscan missionary, d. 22 Aug. 1679. He studied Arabic at the missionary college of St. Peter in Montorio in Rome, under the guidance of Fr. Tommaso da… -
Antonio da Bitonto
Famous Franciscan theologian and preacher, d. 25 Sept. 1459 at Atella in Apulia, where he had been provincial vicar of the Observants. From 1440 he taught… -
Antonio da Butrio
Famous lay canonist, b. ca. 1338 in Bologna, d. there on 4 Oct. 1408. He studied civil law at the school of Pietro d'Ancarano, receiving his doctorate in 1384… -
Antonio da Cordova
Spanish Franciscan, a most learned writer on sacred and profane disciplines, b. in 1485, d. at Guadalajara in 1578. He took the Franciscan habit in the… -
Antonio da Encarnação (ANTONIO DA ENCARNACÃO)
Portuguese Dominican, b. in the last years of the 16th century at Evora. Having embarked at a very young age for India, on the return voyage he stopped in… -
Antonio da Fabriano (Antonio Agostino di Ser Giovanni)
Painter; he was active from 1451 to 1489, and perhaps beyond, in his native town, where he left his major works, among which, of secure attribution, are the… -
Antonio da Firenze
Of the Order of Friars Minor; he was lecturing on the Divine Comedy in Florence toward the end of the 14th century (not in the first half of the following… -
Antonio da Fuentelapeña
Spanish ascetical theologian, who entered the Capuchins of the province of Castile in 1643, was visitor and commissary general of his Order in Sicily (1678)… -
Antonio da Gaeta
Missionary, son of Francesco Laudati, duke of Marzano. He was first a knight of Malta and then a Capuchin (1632). After some years of fruitful apostolate in… -
Antonio da Gerusalemme
Franciscan missionary in Palestine. It is not well known where or when he was born; he knew four Oriental languages. In 1717 he was appointed lecturer in the… -
Antonio da Gradisca
Capuchin missionary, born at Gradisca in 1663, of the barons Zucchelli. He entered the convent of Gradisca and set out as a missionary from Genoa (1697)… -
Antonio da Königstein (Coningsteyn)
Dutch Franciscan (his surname is Bruich, or Brockwy, or Brakwy), preacher and controversialist at the time of the Protestant Reformation, b. around the year… -
Antonio d'Alatri
Painter, active in the second quarter of the 12th century, of whom a single signed work survives: the triptych in the capitular Museum of S. Maria Maggiore in… -
Antonio da Moneglia (A Monelia)
Franciscan mystical theologian, died, it seems, in 1527. A Ligurian, he belonged to the Bolognese province, in which he was successively lector of theology… -
Antonio da Monza
Miniaturist, perhaps also an engraver, a Franciscan active in Milan at the end of the 15th century. His only known work is a signed pontifical leaf, which… -
Antonio da Negroponte (erroneously Ferruccio) (ANTONIO DA NEGROPONTE (ERRONEAMENTE FERRUCCIO))
Venetian painter of the 15th century. Through the only > (photo Alinari) > ANTONIO DA NEGROPONTE - Madonna in throne. > Venice, S. Francesco della Vigna. known… -
Antonio da Olivadi, Venerable (ANTONIO DA OLIVADI, VENERABILE)
Preacher and ascetical writer, b. in 1653 at Olivadi (Catanzaro), entered the Capuchins of the province of Reggio Calabria in 1670, d. 22 Feb. 1720. For more… -
Antonio da Parma
ANTONIO da PARMA: v. GERARDO DA PRATO. -
Antonio da Pisticci
Franciscan missionary. From Rome, where he studied Oriental languages at the missionary college of S. Pietro in Montorio, he set out in 1670 for Egypt. On 5… -
Antonio da Rampecolo
ANTONIO da RAMPECOLO: v. RAMPECOLO ANTONIO. -
Antonio da Rimini
Observant Friar Minor, b. at Rimini, in an unspecified year. He flourished around 1450. He was vicar of the Umbrian province and is chiefly remembered as a… -
Antonio das Chagas (ANTONIO DAS CHAGAS)
Portuguese Franciscan, ascetical writer and preacher, b. at Vidigueyra on 25 June 1631, d. at Torres Vedras on 30 Oct. 1682. In his youth he led a dissolute… -
Antonio da Vercelli
Friar Minor born in the first decades of the 15th century, perhaps in Balocco (province of Vercelli), from which he would have taken his name, as some… -
Antonio de Aranda
Spanish Franciscan theologian of the 16th century, b. at Aranda de Duero, d. around 1555. He was confessor to Mary, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and to… -
Antonio de Guevara
ANTONIO de GUEVARA: v. GUEVARA, ANTONIO de. -
Antonio della Madre di Dio
1. Spanish exegete, Discalced Carmelite, b. at Valladolid, d. in 1679. He was general visitor of the West Indies and taught at Salamanca in the college of his… -
Antonio Dello Spirito Santo
Discalced Carmelite mystical writer, b. at Monte Moro Velho (Coimbra), in Portugal. On the proposal of Peter II, king of Portugal, he was elected and… -
Antonio del Massaro da Viterbo
ANTONIO del MASSARO da VITERBO: v. PASTURA, il. -
Antonio detto Melissa
Greek monk of the 11th century, erroneously called Melissa, from the title of his principal work, Μέλισσα, the Bee. The Melissa is a collection in two books of… -
Antonio di Averara (De Averaria)
Carmelite preacher, b. at Averara (Bergamo), d. at Ferrara in 1523. Having entered the Carmelites of the congregation of Mantua, at Ferrara in 1473, he had as… -
Antonio di Giusto
Florentine sculptor, b. in 1479, who moved to France with his brothers Giovanni (d. 1549) and Andrea. In 1507 he carved the funeral monument of Thomas James… -
Antonio di San Giuseppe
Spanish Discalced Carmelite, b. in 1716 at Zornosa (Biscay), d. at Burgos in 1794. Having become a Carmelite in Tudela in 1732, he taught moral theology for… -
Antonio di Santa Maria
ANTONIO di SANTA MARIA: v. CABALLERO ANTONIO. -
Antonio di Tagrit
Jacobite theologian, known under the title of Rhetor, because in 825 he wrote a treatise on rhetoric, which in Syriac literature of all periods is unique of… -
Antonio di Vincenzo
Architect, b. c. 1350 and d. between 1401 and 1402. His name is particularly linked to the basilica of St. Petronius in Bologna, whose construction was… -
Antonioli, Carlo
Scholar of the Piarist order, b. at Correggio (Modena) on 2 Sept. 1728, d. at Pisa on 1 Nov. 1800. As a very young man he was sent to Pisa, at the request of… -
Antonio Maria da Rignano
Franciscan, theologian and writer, in the world A. Fania, b. at Rignano Garganico (Foggia) on 5 February 1804, d. at Rome on 23 January 1880. Having entered… -
Antonio, Poet (ANTONIO, POETA)
Presumed author of the Carmen adversus gentes, attributed by the manuscripts to Paulinus of Nola. The poem (the 32nd), in 255 hexameters, in which the poet… -
Antoniotti, Amedeo
Ascetical writer, b. at Biella in 1634, d. in 1712. Having become a Barnabite in 1654, he promoted Christian piety by example, word and writings. He is the… -
Antonio Veneziano
Fourteenth-century painter of Venetian origin. Between 1370 and 1388 he worked in Siena, Florence and Pisa. In Florence he came under the influence of the… -
Antra Deserti Teneris Ab Annis
Hymn of the Roman Breviary for Matins of the feast of St. John the Baptist. It is by Paul the Deacon (8th century) and forms the continuation of the hymn… -
Antsirabé, Apostolic Vicariate of (ANTSIRABÉ, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
The mission originates from the apostolic prefecture of Betafé, erected on 15 May 1913, by dismemberment of the vicariate of Madagascar (v. TANANARIVE), and… -
Antwerp, New (ANVERSA, NUOVA)
ANVERSA, NUOVA: v. NUOVA ANVERSA. -
Anu
Babylonian deity who personifies the sky, as his name also indicates (Sumerian An "sky"). In any case his domain is the sky, and the highest part of the sky is… -
Anubis (ANUBI (EGIZ. INP.VO « SCIACALLO »))
He is the jackal, often confused with the warlike wolf of Asyut, which the Greeks believed to be a dog, whence the name of Kynopolis given to the city of Kase… -
Anzengruber, Ludwig
Dramatic poet and narrator, b. in Vienna on 29 Nov. 1839, d. there on 10 Dec. 1889. With the peasant drama Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, published in 1870, a… -
Anzer, Johann Baptist
German bishop, missionary in China, b. 16 May 1851, d. in Rome on 24 Nov. 1903. A member of the Societas Verbi Divini of Steyl (Holland), he was sent to China… -
Anzio
A Volscian city 58 km from Rome, with a famous port (Caenon), subjected in 338 B.C. by the Romans, who, toward the end of the Republic, populated it with… -
Infant School (ASILO D'INFANZIA)
INFANT SCHOOL. «That man's education must begin from earliest infancy is a requirement that can be discerned throughout the entire history of pedagogy. From…