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Ava
She is the first German poetess whose name is known to us. Toward the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th she composed a poetic history of… -
Avallon
Capital of the department of the Yonne, 52 km. from Auxerre, on the right bank of the river Cousin. It is the ancient Aballo in the Itinerary of Antoninus and… -
Avalokiteśvara
He is one of the great Bodhisattvas, that is, a Buddha in potency, who has renounced entering Nirvāṇa (v.) until all beings have been redeemed by him. An… -
Ávalos, Ferdinando Francesco d', Marquis of Pescara (ÁVALOS, FERDINANDO FRANCESCO D', MARCHESE DI PESCARA)
Born in 1490 and died in Milan, as a result of a war wound, in 1525. As a vassal of Spain he served that king and then that emperor with great success, indeed… -
Avanà (ÀVANA)
ÀVANA : v. SAN CRISTOFORO DELL'ÀVANA. -
Avancini, Nicola
Jesuit writer, b. in Val di Non (Trento) in 1611, d. in Rome on 6 Dec. 1686. Learned in various subjects, he held a chair of letters in Trieste, Ljubljana and… -
Avanzini, Pietro
Priest, b. in Rome in 1832 and d. there on 7 Apr. 1874. In 1865 he began the publication of the Acta Sanctae Sedis (v.); and in 1871 he founded the Seminary of… -
Avarice (AVARIZIA)
Avarice is an excessive love of riches, that is, a love that goes beyond the rule of reason, which requires that means be subordinated to the end and therefore… -
Avars (ÀVARI)
Of Mongol race, coming from the Asian plateau, with a marked affinity to the Huns, the A. turned, a little after the middle of the 5th century, toward the… -
Avatāra
Sanskrit term from the root tar with the prefix ava "to descend": literally "descent," used particularly to indicate the descent, the incarnation on earth of a… -
Avedikian, Gabriel
Mechitarist of Venice, b. in Constantinople in 1750, d. on 24 Dec. 1827, professor of theology and rhetoric at St. Lazarus, master of novices in that monastery… -
Aveia Vestina
Ancient city of Samnium, not far from Fossa. In the Roman Synod of 465 there appears a Gaudentius, bishop aviciensis, whom L. Duchesne, against the editors of… -
Aveiro, Diocese of (AVEIRO, DIOCESI DI)
In Portugal, suffragan of Braga. The city of A. (on the site of ancient Talabuzza) is situated on the estuary of the Vouga and is the capital of a district… -
Aveiro, Pantaleão de
In sixteenth-century Portuguese prose, rich in curious and interesting accounts of travels in foreign countries, a particular place is occupied by the… -
Avellana, Collection (AVELLANA, COLLEZIONE)
It is a collection, compiled by an unknown author in Rome in 553 or shortly thereafter, containing various documents from the years 367-553, above all… -
Avellino, Diocese of (AVELLINO, DIOCESI DI)
In Irpinia, in the province of A. Divided into 50 parishes, it has 124 diocesan priests and 27 regulars; 120,000 inhabitants, all Catholics (1948). The patron… -
Ave Maris Stella
Hymn to the Virgin, which is recited at Vespers on almost all of her feasts. Its structure, left intact in the reform of the hymns under Urban VIII, is… -
Avempace (AVEMPACE)
Philosopher, mathematician, physician and cultivator of music, b. at Saragossa toward the end of the 11th century, d. at Fez in 1139. He appears to have been… -
Avenarius (Latinization of Habermann) (AVENARIUS (LATINIZZAZIONE DI HABERMANN))
Two authors of this name: I. JOHANN, Hebraist and ascetical writer, b. at Eger in 1516, d. at Zeitz in 1590. Having embraced Protestantism in 1540-42, he… -
Avenarius, Richard
Philosopher and physicist, b. in Paris in 1845, d. in Zurich in 1896. He taught philosophy at the University of Zurich. His principal work is the Kritik der… -
Avencebrol
AVENCEBROL: V. AVICEBRON. -
Avendaño, Diego de
Jesuit theologian and canonist, b. at Segovia (Spain) in 1594, d. at Lima (Peru) on 31 Aug. 1688. After studying philosophy at Seville, he went to Peru in 1609… -
Aventinus, Johannes (Johann Turmair)
Born at Abensberg in 1477, died at Regensburg in 1534. He is the author of the Annales Boiorum, for which he earned the name of father of Bavarian history. He… -
Ave Regina Caelorum
It is the second of the four great Marian Antiphons, and, after its official adoption, it is recited from 3 February to Holy Thursday. Its author is unknown… -
Averescu, Alessandro
Romanian marshal and statesman, b. at Ismail on the Danube on 22 Apr. 1859, d. at Bucharest on 3 Oct. 1939. He passed brilliantly through the entire military… -
Averlino, Antonio
AVERLINO, ANTONIO: V. FILARETE (IL). -
Averroës (AVERROË)
While in the East, after Avicenna, Arab philosophy rapidly declined, in Spain, through contact with Jews and Christians, the Arabs, from the 10th century… -
Averroism (AVERROISMO)
From the second half of the 13th century through the whole of the 16th, those who, in the controversies over Aristotle's thought, gave preference to Averroes'… -
Aversa, Diocese of (AVERSA, DIOCESI DI)
In the province of Naples, immediately subject to the Holy See. It has 63 parishes; 251 diocesan priests and 46 regulars. The diocese has an area of 361 sq km… -
Avesta
The collection of the sacred and canonical books of the Mazdeans, that is, of the followers of the religion of Ahuramazda, is called the A. The meaning that is… -
Avetikh of Ezinghā (Jerznglatzī) (AVETIKH DI EZINGHĀ (JERZNGLATZĪ))
Called Kešis Oklū, dissident Armenian patriarch of Constantinople. Born at Tokat (vilayet of Sivas, in Asia Minor) in 1657; he was appointed hegumen of St.… -
Ave Verum Corpus Natum
One of the best-known medieval eucharistic salutationes. It appears in manuscripts from the 14th century onward, and has sometimes been attributed to Pope… -
Avezzano
AVEZZANO: v. MARSI. AVIANO, MARCO d'. : v. MARCO D'AVIANO. -
AVIANO, MARCO d'
AVIANO, MARCO d'. : v. MARCO D'AVIANO. -
Aviat, François de Sales
Born at Sézanne on 16 Sept. 1844, died at Perugia on 10 Jan. 1914. Educated by the Sisters of the Visitation of Troyes under the guidance of Fr. Brisson and of… -
Avicebron
Jewish poet and philosopher of the 11th century. It is barely a century ago (1846) that, thanks to S. Munk, it became possible to identify in the mysterious A.… -
Avicenna
One of the greatest Arab philosophers, a celebrated physician, encyclopedic in his learning and therefore called the "chief sage" and "the third master," after… -
Avidyā
A-vidyā is non-knowing, ignorance, but not in the sense commonly given to this word, rather in the philosophical-religious sense of ignorance of the Supreme… -
Avignon, Archdiocese of (AVIGNONE, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City of southern France, on the Rhône, at the crossing of important natural routes and in a position easy to defend. SUMMARY: I. History - II. Councils of A. -… -
Avignon Exile (ESILIO D'AVIGNONE)
It is customary to unjustly compare to the exile of the Hebrews in Babylon the sojourn in Avignon (1305-76) of the popes Clement V, John XXII, Benedict XII… -
Ávila, Diocese of (ÁVILA, DIOCESI DI)
In Spain, suffragan of Valladolid (1851), with its seat at Á. (Abila, Abela, Abula), a city of Old Castile, on high ground, on a tributary of the Douro 120 km.… -
Ávila, Juan de, Blessed (ÁVILA, JUAN DE, BEATO)
B. at Almodóvar del Campo (Spain) in 1499 or 1500 and d. at Montilla (province of Córdoba) on 10 May 1659. He was a spiritual master, a great preacher and a… -
Avis, Order of Saint Benedict of (AVIS, ORDINE DI SAN BENEDETTO DI)
Military association of Portuguese knights who had returned from the Crusades. Founded around 1146, it received as a gift from the first king of Portugal… -
Avitabile, Pietro
Theatine, missionary, b. 18 Oct. 1590 in Naples, entered religious life in 1608, was first in Georgia (1626-38), then, after a return to Rome, in the Indies… -
Avitrani, Vincenzo
According to Mazzuchelli and Villarosa the name is Avinatri. Ascetical writer, b. at Bergamo in 1612. He spent almost his whole life in Naples, where he… -
Avitus, Alcimus Ecdicius, Saint (AVITO, ALCIMO ECDICIO, SANTO)
Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné, b. around 450, d. shortly after 517. He belonged to a family of bishops of senatorial rank, and the emperor Avitus was… -
Avogadro della Motta, Emiliano
Writer and politician, b. in Vercelli on 8 Oct. 1798, d. 9 Feb. 1865. A doctor of law, a reformer of schools, a promoter of historical, philosophical and… -
Avranches
Located between Brittany and Normandy, near the mouth of the river Sée, in the department of the Manche. In the Roman age Abricantes was part of the second… -
Avrillon, Jean-Baptiste-Élie (AVRILLON, JEAN-BAPTISTE-ELIE)
Ascetical theologian, b. 1 January 1652 in Paris, d. there 16 May 1729. He professed the rule of the Minims there (1671). Ordained a priest, he was directed… -
Avvakum, Petrovich (AVVAKUM, PETROVIC)
Russian protopope; one of the first and most important leaders of the internal schism of the Russian Church (raskol); b. in 1620-21 at Grigorovv, in the… -
Avvertenza
Generally speaking, it is the act of the mind that pays attention to a thing; in matters of morals, it is the act of the mind that thinks about the goodness or… -
Avvocati (Avogadro), Vincenzo
Dominican theologian, b. 12 Sept. 1702, d. 18 Sept. 1767. A precocious talent, at the age of 19 he left the bar to enter the convent of S. Zita in Palermo…