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Apathy (Ἀπάθεια) (APATIA (ἈΠΌΘΕΤΑ))
Etymologically it is equivalent to the "absence of passions" and to the imperturbability of the soul. 1. ORIENTAL ASCETICS. - The term a. is used in a moral… -
Apaturia (Ἀπατούρια) (APATURIE (ἈΠΑΤΣΎΡΙΑ))
The etymology is certainly from ἀ copulative and πάτορες, that is, festival of those who have ancestors in common. It was in fact common to all the Ionian… -
Apelles (APELLE)
A disciple of Marcion, from whom he separated, going for a time to Alexandria and then returning to Rome. He wrote a large volume of Syllogisms to prove Moses… -
Apennines (Apennis, Adpennes) (APPENNES (APENNIS, ADPENNES))
This designation is customarily used to distinguish a particular type of document that feudal authorities, both lay and ecclesiastical, issued at the request… -
Aperi Domine
Prayer with which the divine office begins. According to the admonition of Ecclus. (18:23), the soul must prepare itself for prayer; for this reason in the… -
Apertio Aurium (APERITIO AURIUM)
In the Western liturgies the priest, before Baptism, following the example of Our Lord (Mk. 7:34), moistens the ears and nostrils of the catechumen with… -
Apertio Oris (APERITIO ORIS)
An expression in use at the Roman Curia, with a twofold meaning. It means first of all the procedure required for a measure issued by the supreme authority of… -
Apharsachei (Apharsachei, Apharsatachei, Apharsei) (AFARSACHEI (APHARSACHEI, APHARSATACHEI, APHARSEI))
Tribes imported by the Assyrians into Samaria at the time of the second colonization carried out by Esarhaddon or by his son Ashurbanipal. The Aramaic name… -
Aphasia (AFASIA)
Difficulty or impossibility of speaking due to alteration of particular areas of the cerebral cortex (speech centers), on the left in right-handed people, on… -
Aphec (APHEC)
Name of 5 localities in Palestine. 1. Canaanite city in the mountains of Judah, whose king was defeated by Joshua (Josh. 12:18 and 15:52 [Aphecol]); it… -
Aphorism (AFORISMA)
More correctly aphorism, Gr. ἀφωρισμός, "definition," "maxim." In medicine, under the name Aphorisms, what is meant par excellence is the work of the same name… -
Aphraates (AFRAATE)
He is the earliest great Syriac writer whose works we possess. Until 1835 his writings, known only in Armenian translation, were falsely attributed to Jacob… -
Aphrodite (AFRODITE)
Greek goddess of love. Various scholars derive her name from the Indo-European languages and see in A. a Thessalian goddess who later spread to Boeotia… -
Apiary (APIARIO)
An unworthy priest of Sicca Veneria (Africa), known for two appeals to Rome. Excommunicated by his bishop, Urban, he came to Rome and appealed to Pope Zosimus… -
Apion (APIONE)
Alexandrian grammarian of the first half of the 1st century AD, called Pleistonikès "rich in victory," on account of his oratorical successes. He was famous in… -
Apis (API)
The bull Apis (in Egyptian h'p'j, meaning "the runner") was the most popular sacred animal of the Egyptians. It was honored above all at Memphis, where a… -
Apocalypse (APOCALISSE)
A prophetic book that closes the New Testament. The title consists of the first Greek word of the text (Ἀποκάλυψις Ἱησοῦ Χριστοῦ), which does not occur again… -
Apocalypse of Abraham (APOCALISSE DI ABRAMO)
APOCALISSE di ABRAMO: v. ABRAMO. -
Apocalypse of Baruch (APOCALISSE DI BARUCH)
APOCALISSE di BARUCH: v. BARUCH. -
Apocalypse of Elijah and Zephaniah (APOCALISSE DI ELIA E SOFONIA)
APOCALISSE di ELIA e SOFONIA: v. ELIA e SOFONIA. -
Apocalypse of John (APOCALISSE DI GIOVANNI)
APOCALISSE di GIOVANNI: v. GIOVANNI. -
Apocalypse of Moses (APOCALISSE DI MOSÈ)
APOCALISSE di MOSÈ: v. MOSÈ. -
Apocalypse of Paul (APOCALISSE DI PAOLO)
APOCALISSE di PAOLO: v. PAOLO. -
Apocalypse of Peter (APOCALISSE DI PIETRO)
APOCALISSE di PIETRO: v. PIETRO. -
Apocalypse of Stephen (APOCALISSE DI STEFANO)
APOCALISSE di STEFANO: v. STEFANO. -
Apocalypse of Thomas (APOCALISSE DI TOMMASO)
APOCALISSE di TOMMASO: v. TOMMASO. -
Apocalyptic Letters (APOCALITTICHE, LETTERE)
APOCALITTICHE, LETTERE: V. ALFA E OMEGA -
Apocalyptic, Literature (APOCALITTICA, LETTERATURA)
A body of pseudonymous Jewish writings, arising between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., which for about a century critics have placed in a… -
Apocatastasis (APOCATÄSTASI)
A Greek word (ἀποκατάστασις) which etymologically means "to put a thing back in its original place." It is used only once in Sacred Scripture, by St. Peter… -
Apocauco, Giovanni
Metropolitan of Naupactus (12th-13th centuries). Educated in Constantinople, he was a deacon (ca. 1175-87) in the household of his uncle Manasses, metropolitan… -
Apocrisiary (APOCRISARIO)
From the Greek ἀποκρίνο, "I answer," Latin responsalis, but also apocrisarius and apocrisarius, in the late empire it was an official charged with dispatching… -
Apocrypha, Books (APOCRIFI, LIBRI)
Jewish and Christian writings that present themselves as biblical books, composed between the 2nd century B.C. and the 4th-6th centuries A.D. The origin of the… -
Apocryphal Acts (ATTI APOCRIFI)
ATTI APOCRIFI: v. ANDREA, ATTI di; BARNABA, ATTI di; EDESSINI, ATTI; FILIPPO, ATTI di; GIOVANNI, ATTI di; MATTEO, ATTI di; PAOLO, ATTI di; PIETRO, ATTI di… -
Apocryphal Epistles to the Corinthians (CORINTI, EPISTOLE APOCRIFE AI)
A brief letter of the Corinthians and a somewhat longer reply of Paul (III Cor.), suggested, it seems, respectively by I Cor. 7:1 and 5:9. In the name of the… -
Apodeipnon (Ἀπόδειπνον) (APODIPNON (ἈΠΌΔΕΙΠΝΟΝ))
In the churches of the Byzantine rite it is a divine office intended to implore blessing during sleep, which originated in the monasteries of the East. It came… -
Apodosis (Ἀπόδοσις) (APODOSI (ἈΠΌΔΟΣΙΣ))
It is the deposition, or conclusion of a feast that has been prolonged over several days. In the Byzantine rite, in fact, the principal feasts are commemorated… -
Apodyterium (Ἀποδυτήριον)
It was the dressing room near the bathing place. In Eastern churches it corresponds to the sacristy. -
Apolitikion (Ἀπολυτίκιον)
It is a troparion, that is, a brief hymnographic stanza, which in the Greek liturgy is mostly sung at the end of an office. Generally it summarizes in brief… -
Apollinare, Bishop of Hierapolis (APOLLINARE, VESCOVO DI GERAPOLI)
Placed over the see of Gerapoli in the second half of the 2nd century, an authoritative opponent of nascent Montanism. A., whose name was Claudius Apollinaris… -
Apollinare della Concezione (Da Conceição)
Portuguese Franciscan, historian and ascetical writer. Born in Lisbon on 23 July 1692, died there in the earthquake of 1 November 1755. He took the habit at S.… -
Apollinaris
A quarterly juridical review (predominantly of canon law), published by the Pontificium Institutum Utriusque Iuris (Faculty of Canon Law and of Civil Law at… -
Apollinarisberg
APOLLINARISBERG: V. REMAGEN. -
Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea (APOLLINARE, VESCOVO DI LAODICEA)
Son of the Alexandrian grammarian of the same name, he was born at Laodicea in Syria around 310. He was already ordained a lector when, around 330-35, he was… -
Apollinaris, Bishop of Ravenna, Saint (APOLLINARE, VESCOVO DI RAVENNA, SANTO)
He was the first to occupy the episcopal see of Ravenna; the presence of his 11th successor at the Council of Sardica in 342 suggests that he lived toward the… -
Apollinaris, Bishop of Valence, Saint (APOLLINARE, VESCOVO DI VALENCE, SANTO)
Son of the senator Isicius and brother of the poet St. Avitus, both bishops of Vienne. Born around 453; a disciple, it seems, of the rhetorician Sapaudus and… -
Apollinaris Sidonius (APOLLINARE SIDONIO)
Gaius Sollius Modestus A. S. was born in Lyon, between 430 and 433. After the usual course of studies, in which he cultivated poetry with particular passion… -
Apollo
God of Greece, among the most popular of the Hellenic religion. His origin is uncertain and the name resists the efforts of philologists to reach a… -
Apollonia of Macedonia (APOLLONIA DI MACEDONIA)
A city of Mygdonia, later of eastern or "first" Macedonia: today Pollina, located south of Lake Bolbe (today Besik). Dedicated to Apollo, like other cities of… -
Apollonia, Saint, Martyr (APOLLONIA, SANTA, MARTIRE)
An Alexandrian virgin, martyred in Alexandria in Egypt during a local uprising against the Christians, shortly before the outbreak of the persecution of Decius… -
Apolloni, Gibolamo
Josephite missionary, b. at Carrè (Vicenza) in 1865, d. on 20 Nov. 1932 in Rome. Among the best disciples of the theologian Murialdo, founder of the Pious… -
Apollonius (APOLLONIO)
Four (or three) officials of the Seleucid kings, mentioned by I and II Macc. 1. A., son of Mnestheus, military governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia under… -
Apollonius, Antimontanist (APOLLONIO, ANTIMONTANISTA)
News of him is preserved by Eusebius (Hist. eccl., V, 18), from whose citations we learn that he was writing about 40 years after the appearance of the heresy… -
Apollonius of Tyana (APOLLONIO DI TIANA)
What relates to this figure is the product of the reaction that Eastern-Hellenistic religious syncretism opposed to the advent and spread of Christianity. This… -
Apollonius the Senator, Saint, Martyr (APOLLONIO IL SENATORE, SANTO, MARTIRE)
Put to death in c. 185, a Roman senator according to St. Jerome, while Eusebius makes him a man notable among the Christians of the City for his learning and… -
Apologetics (APOLOGETICA)
Apologetics is the science that demonstrates the rational credibility of the Catholic faith. In this definition the word "science" is not understood according… -
Apologetics, Literature (APOLOGETICA, LETTERATURA)
If apologetics, considered as an autonomous science, is of recent date, the apologies that prepared the way for it go back to the origins of Christianity and… -
Apologia in the Mass (APOLOGIA NELLA MESSA)
Under this name, in the ancient liturgy, certain prayers were designated that the priest recited to implore forgiveness for his own sins. They were also… -
Apolysis (Ἀπόλοισις) (APOLISI (ἈΠΌΛΟΙΣ))
In the Byzantine rite it indicates the dismissal of the faithful at the end of the sacred liturgy and of the other divine services. In its essential form it is… -
Apomirism (τὸ Ἀπομίρισμα) (APOMIRISMO (ΤῸ ἈΠΟΜΎΡΙΣΜΑ))
It was the act of anointing the body or some diseased part with ointment that came from the relics or the tomb of certain saints, called for this reason… -
Aponius (APONIO)
The biographical data of this writer are lacking; one can only say that he was probably of Eastern origin and that he seems to have written at Rome, in the 5th… -
Apophthegmata Patrum
Apophthegma means a saying or a witty and sententious reply, uttered by an oracle or by an illustrious personage. Among the Greeks there are sentences… -
Apophthegms (APOFTEGMI)
APOFTEGMI: v. APOPHTEGMATA PATRUM. -
Apoplexy (stroke or apoplectic fit) (APOPLESSIA (ICTUS O COLPO APOPLETTICO))
Sudden abolition of sensation, motility and external consciousness of the individual (v. COMA) due to destructive lesions of the brain (cerebral hemorrhage… -
Aporti, Ferrante
The name of A., b. at S. Martino dell'Argine in the Mantuan territory on 20 Nov. 1791 and d. at Turin on 29 Nov. 1858, is linked to the pedagogical movement of… -
Apostasy (APOSTASIA)
It is the total abandonment of the faith by one who has received Baptism, and is distinguished from heresy, which consists in the conscious denial of or… -
Apostles (APOSTOLI)
In medieval canon procedural law, this was the name given to the letters that the lower judge had to transmit, within a fixed time, to the appellate judge, in… -
Apostles' Creed (APOSTOLI, SIMBOLO DEGLI)
APOSTLES' CREED: V. SIMBOLO DEGLI APOSTOLI. -
Apostles (APOSTOLI)
Title of the twelve collaborators chosen by Jesus, to whom he entrusted the continuation and completion of his redemptive mission (Mt. 28:18-20; Jn. 15:16).… -
Apostleship of Prayer (APOSTOLATO DELLA PREGHIERA)
A religious association in which the faithful participate in the establishment of the reign of the Sacred Heart through the merits of their actions, offered… -
Apostleship of the Sea (APOSTOLATO DEL MARE)
A complex of Catholic initiatives for the religious, moral and social assistance of seafarers throughout the world. The nature, purpose and organization of… -
Apostolate (APOSTOLATO)
1) In its proper and literal sense it generally means the work of one who consecrates himself entirely to the diffusion of religious, moral and civil truths.… -
Apostolic Administrator (AMMINISTRATORE APOSTOLICO)
This is the name given to the ecclesiastic charged by the Holy See with governing, by extraordinary means, a diocese or a part of it. The a. a. can be… -
Apostolicae Curae
APOSTOLICAE CURAE: V. ORDINAZIONI ANGLICANE. -
Apostolicae Sedis
These are the first words of the celebrated constitution promulgated by Pius IX on 12 Oct. 1869 for the purpose of reorganizing, adapting it to the times, the… -
Apostolic Almonry (ELEMOSINERIA APOSTOLICA)
It is the palatine office that regulates the granting of pontifical subsidies and of rescripts of the Apostolic Blessings. It seems that its institution, as a… -
Apostolic Brethren (APOSTOLICI)
1. Followers of a heretical movement that sought to re-establish a rigorous ascetic life on the example of the apostles. The first notice is provided by St.… -
Apostolic Brothers (FRATELLI APOSTOLICI)
FRATELLI APOSTOLICI: V. APOSTOLICI. -
Apostolic Camera (CAMERA APOSTOLICA)
By the word C. A., which with the beginning of the 11th century prevailed over the other similar terms fiscus, palatium, arca, saccus, it was intended to… -
Apostolic Canons (CANONI APOSTOLICI)
To the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions are appended 85 Apostolic Canons (Didascalia et Constitutiones apostolorum, ed. F. X. Funk, I, Paderborn… -
Apostolic Constitutions (COSTITUZIONI APOSTOLICHE)
A pseudo-apostolic writing. One reads in it (VI, 18, 11) that it was sent to the Church by the Apostles through Clement and other disciples. According to the… -
Apostolic Dataria (DATARIA APOSTOLICA)
It is one of the offices of the Roman Curia. The name derives from datare (datum apud S. Petrum), since it was its special task to affix the date to pontifical… -
Apostolic Fathers (APOSTOLICI, PADRI)
APOSTOLICI, PADRI: v. PADRI APOSTOLICI. -
Apostolic Fathers (PADRI APOSTOLICI)
Da quando J.-B. Cotelier (m. nel 1686) uni in una collezione le opere di Barnaba, Clemente di Roma, Ignazio, Policarpo ed Erma come « patres aevi apostolici »… -
Apostolic Internuncio (INTERNUNZIO APOSTOLICO)
The term internuntius is used in the briefs of Leo X to designate an envoy who exercises the office of ambassador until the sovereign has sent the actual… -
Apostolicity (APOSTOLICITÀ)
It is the last of the four marks of the Church proclaimed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed (v. CHIESA). In saying that the Church is apostolic, the… -
Apostolic Nunciature (NUNZIATURA APOSTOLICA)
The right of legation (v.) active and passive, that is, to send and receive diplomatic representatives, derives to the Holy See from the juridical perfection… -
Apostolic Nuncio (NUNZIO APOSTOLICO)
According to the modern concept, he is a titular archbishop who is sent by the Pontiff as his representative, with a permanent appointment and diplomatic… -
Apostolic Penitentiary (PENITENZIERIA APOSTOLICA)
PENITENZIERIA APOSTOLICA: v. TRIBUNALI DELLA S. SEDE. -
Apostolic Penitentiary Signatura (SEGNATURA DELLA PENITENZIERIA APOSTOLICA)
SEGNATURA DELLA PENITENZIERIA APOSTOLICA: v. TRIBUNALI DELLA S. SEDE. > (from P. S. Opere, Parma 1781, plate after p. 8) > SEGNERI, PAOLO - Portrait. Engraving… -
Apostolic Preacher (PREDICATORE APOSTOLICO)
He is the orator chosen by the Supreme Pontiff to preach on appointed days before him, the cardinals, bishops, superiors and procurators general of the… -
Apostolic Prefect (PREFETTO APOSTOLICO)
An apostolic prefecture is governed by a prelate who takes the name of apostolic prefect; he, together with the vicar apostolic and the superior of a mission… -
Apostolic Prefecture and Apostolic Prefect (PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA E PREFETTO APOSTOLICO)
The a. p. is an ecclesiastical territory with fixed boundaries, not erected into a diocese, governed by an apostolic prefect. Together with the apostolic… -
Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Jameson [Chipata] (FORT JAMESON, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
The territory of the apostolic prefecture of F. J. was detached from the apostolic vicariate of Nyassa and from that of Loangwa on 1 July 1937. It has an area… -
Apostolic Prefecture of Sokode (SOKODE, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
It is located in French Togo and was erected on 18 May 1937 with the northern territory of the apostolic vicariate of Togo, to which on 14 June 1938 the… -
Apostolic Prefecture of Thakhek (THAKHEK, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
It is located in Laos - a country governed as a constitutional monarchy - and comprises four civil provinces, namely, Cammon, Savannakhet, Saravane and Bassac.… -
Apostolic Protonotaries (PROTONOTARI APOSTOLICI)
The title of protonotary is found for the first time in the 14th century (Ordo romanus XIV, ch. 70; cf. also P. Hinschius, Kirchenrecht der Kath. u. Prot., I… -
Apostolic Signatura (SEGNATURA APOSTOLICA)
SEGNATURA APOSTOLICA: v. TRIBUNALI DELLA S. SEDE. -
Apostolic Union (UNIONE APOSTOLICA)
A priestly association, founded under the title "A. U. of the diocesan priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus" in France in 1862 by the honorary canon of… -
Apostolic Vicariate of Fort-Dauphin [Tôlanaro] (FORT-DAUPHIN, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
The evangelization of the territory of the present apostolic vicariate of F.-D. (Madagascar) began in 1648, when St. Vincent de Paul sent into that area some… -
Apostolic Vicariate of Thai-Binh (THAI-BINH, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
Located in eastern Tonkin (Vietnam), it comprises the province of the same name, the most densely populated in Indochina, and the province of Hung-yen, with a… -
Apostolic Vicariate of Thare (THARÉ, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
It is located in Siam or Thailand, comprising its entire northeastern part, that is, Phak Isan, divided into fifteen departments. It has an area of 145,000 sq… -
Apostolic Vicariate of Toungoo [Taungoo] (TOUNGOO, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
Located in south-eastern Burma west of the Salween River, it comprises the Karen State, the southern federated Shan States west of the Salween, the part of the… -
Apostolic Work for the Missionary's Trousseau (OPERA APOSTOLICA PER IL CORREDO DEL MISSIONARIO)
It originated in France in 1838 through the initiative of Marie Zoé Du Chesne, to send missionaries items of personal equipment, furnishings and sacred… -
Apostolines (Apostolic Friars) (APOSTOLINI (FRATI APOSTOLICI))
A religious congregation of the 15th century, so called by the people because its members, renouncing the vanities of the world, led a poor life according to… -
Apostolios, Aristobulus (APOSTOLIOS, ARISTOBULO)
Greek ecclesiastic and scholar, archbishop of Monemvasia, son of the famous scholar Michael, b. in 1465 at Candia (Crete), d. in 1535 at Venice. Summoned to… -
Apostolios, Michael (APOSTOLIOS, MICHELE)
Greek humanist, died at about the age of sixty around 1480. Taken prisoner by the Turks at the conquest of Constantinople, he was later freed and came to… -
Apostolos (Ὁ Ἀπόστολος)
In the Byzantine liturgy it is the book that contains the Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles, or parts of them. It is handed to the anagnostes after his… -
Apostolus
APOSTOLUS: v. EPISTOLARIO. -
Apotactics (APOTATTICI)
A sect (ἀποτακτικοί, from ἀποτάσσομαι "I renounce"), with ascetic pretensions, that arose in the 3rd century and was widespread in Asia Minor. St. Basil, who… -
Apotheosis (APOTEOSI)
In Rome it is the deification of the emperor after death. The origin of the rite is to be sought in the Syrian East, where it is common to find on funerary… -
Apothesis (APOTESI)
APOTESI: v. DIACONICO. -
Apotropaic Rites (APOTROPAICI, RITI)
APOTROPAICI, RITI: v. RITO. -
Apparition (APPARIZIONE)
A supernatural and sensory manifestation by which a spiritual or corporeal object makes itself present to the external or internal senses. The apparition is… -
Apparitor (APPARITORE)
He is a kind of bailiff, attached to ecclesiastical tribunals, to whom are entrusted the functions relating to the coercive enforcement of sentences and other… -
Appeal (APPELLO)
In its broadest meaning this word can designate any complaint brought against a measure of authority by one who claims to be harmed by it. Thus the ancient… -
Appeal (RICORSO)
The term is used in the various legal systems with different meanings, which can, however, be summed up in a single one, namely as a means of challenge in… -
Appeal for Abuse (APPELLO PER ABUSO)
This expression designates the recourse to the civil authority - on grounds of lack of jurisdiction, violation of law, or abuse of power - against a measure… -
Appeal to the Ecumenical Council (APPELLO AL CONCILIO ECUMENICO)
APPELLO AL CONCILIO ECUMENICO: v. AUTORITÀ ECCLESIASTICHE, delitti contro le. -
Appel, Johannes
Born at Grünsfeld in 1645, died at Rome in 1700. Ordained priest at Würzburg, he resided from 1680 onward at Rome as procurator of the Bartholomites and rector… -
Appellants (APPELLANTI)
APPELLANTI: v. GIANSENISMO. -
Appelmans, Gheraert
Flemish hermit, who lived between c. 1250 and 1325, known only as a mystical writer, for his original and profound commentary on the « Pater Noster » (Glose op… -
Appendini, Francesco
Born at Poirino in Piedmont on 6 Nov. 1769. A Piarist on 15 Apr. 1787. Sent at a very young age to Ragusa, he made that city his second homeland, which he… -
Apperception (APPERCEZIONE)
Term that came into use with Leibniz (v.), who, by distinguishing between perception and apperception, claimed to avoid the difficulties into which both the… -
Appetite (APPETITO)
APPETITO: v. INCLINAZIONE. -
Appia, Giorgio
Waldensian pastor, son of Paolo, b. in 1827, d. in 1910. At Torre Pellice, between 1854 and 1855, A. founded a hospice for boys, an orphanage for girls and the… -
Appiani, Andrea
Painter, b. in Milan on 23 May 1754, d. there on 8 Nov. 1817. From his master Carlo Maria Giudici, wholly taken with the theories of Mengs, he received his… -
Appiani, Luigi Antonio
Lazarist missionary, b. at Dogliani (Cuneo) in 1663, d. at Canton > (phot. Alinari) > APPIANI, ANDREA - Self-portrait - Florence, Uffizi Gallery. in 1732.… -
Appregation (APPREGAZIONE)
APPREGAZIONE: v. DOCUMENTO. -
Apprehension (APPRENSIONE)
In philosophical language, chiefly Scholastic, a. (from ad-prehendere, to take, to grasp) designates, in a broad sense, every perceptive act by which the mind… -
Apprenticeship, Contract of (TIROCINIO, CONTRATTO DI)
The apprenticeship contract (or tirocinio) is for the most part found in manual and technical work, but it can also exist for clerical work, save for… -
Appropriation (APPROPRIAZIONE)
«Manifestation of the divine person through the attributes proper to the divine essence» (Sum. theol., 1ᵃ, q. 39, a. 1). This term belongs to trinitarian… -
Apringius (APRINGIO)
He was bishop of Pax Iulia (now Beja) in southern Lusitania (Portugal), at the time of Theudis, king of the Visigoths (531-48). His writings cannot have had… -
A Priori and A Posteriori (A PRIORI E A POSTERIORI)
Technical expressions of philosophical language, of varied meaning. Their origin goes back to Aristotle, who in the Analyt. Poster., I, 2, 71 b, 33 had… -
Apriorism (APRIORISMO)
A philosophical term derived from the expression a priori. In its most common meaning today, it designates any method of study and research that starts from… -
Apsaras (APSÀRAS)
This name means "she who moves in the water" and designates an Indian divinity of the waters, akin to the Greek Nereid. Already in the Rgveda, X, 123, 5, the… -
Apse (ABSIDE)
2. Chiusi, S. Vittore (11th cent.). (Toesca, St. dell'arte ital.). - 3. Sampierdarena, S. Bartolomeo (12th cent.). (Toesca, op. cit.). - 4. Porto, Basilica of… -
Apse, or Exedra (ABSIDE, OVVERO EXEDRA)
It is a semicircular structure with a hemispherical vault, in use in Roman architecture, both in public buildings (cella of temples, basilicas, libraries… -
Apsel (Absel), Wilhelmus van
Pious Carthusian writer, b. at Breda (Holland) at the beginning of the 16th century; d. at the charterhouse of La Chapelle, on 4 August 1471. He entered the… -
Apsu
It is a Semitized Sumerian word, which in Sumerian was written ZU-AB and read abzu, with the meaning of "house of wisdom" (?). This etymology (ab "house," zu… -
Apt
City in the department of Vaucluse, on the river Coulon (France). It was founded by the Celtic tribe of the Vulgientes, occupied by the Romans at the end of… -
Apulia (PUGLIA)
I. GEOGRAPHY. - A historical region formed by the Adriatic slope of the Apennines southeast of the Fortore and by the Salento Peninsula. Four distinct natural…