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Ahab (ACAB)
ACAB: v. ACHAB. -
Ahaus (Ahuis), Heinrich von
Founder of the Brethren of the Common Life in Germany, b. in 1371, d. at Münster on 14 February 1439. He was the son of Ludolf, lord of Ahaus (near Münster in… -
Ahaz (ACAZ)
ACAZ: v. ACHAZ. -
Ahiah (ACHIA)
ACHIA (Heb. 'Abiyyah, "brother of Yahweh"; the name of about 20 persons in the Old Testament, rendered by the Vulgate as Achias or Ahia [v.]; Septuagint… -
Ahiah (AHIA)
Prophet of Shiloh (hence called the Shilonite), the only one of the reign of Solomon and of the time of the schism of the tribes. He revealed to his fellow… -
Ahiai
He was elected archbishop of Seleucia in 411 and died in 415 or 416. He had been a disciple of Abda, the founder of a monastery and of a school over which he… -
Ahikar
AHIKAR : v. AHIQAR. -
Ahimaaz (ACHIMAAS)
The swift and heroic son of the high priest Zadok. Having remained with his father in Jerusalem and joined with Jonathan, son of Abiathar, both of them from… -
Ahimsa
AHIMSA : v. BUDDISMO. -
Ahiqar (AHIQAR)
Assyrian sage, chancellor of Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.) then of Esarhaddon (681-669). He is mentioned by the Vulgate, under the name Achior (v.) only in Tob.… -
Ahithophel (ACHITOFEL)
A shrewd counselor, and later a traitor, of David, a native of Giloh (Gilo) in the mountains of Judah, father of the hero Eliam (II Kings 23:24). In Absalom's… -
Ahlborn, Augusto Guglielmo Giulio
Landscape painter, b. at Hannover in 1796, d. in Rome in 1857. A pupil of the Berlin academy, he followed the neoclassical manner of Schinkel, showing a… -
Ahle, Johann Rudolph
Theologian and musician, b. 24 Dec. 1626 at Mülhausen in Thuringia, d. there 9 July 1673. Among his many works are noteworthy the motets, the sacred concertos… -
Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD : v. BOMBAY, ARCIDIOCESI di. -
Ahriman
In the Mazdean religion he is the evil principle, the one from which every evil originates, also called in older forms angro mainyush. The second part of the… -
Ahuis, Hendrik van
AHUIS, HENDRIK van: v. AHAUS HEINRICH von. -
Ahura Mazda (AHURAMAZDÀ)
It is the name of the supreme deity in the doctrine of Zarathustra (in recent times transcribed Ormazd), from which the religion takes the name Mazdean. The…