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Emanatism (EMANATISMO)
Philosophical and religious doctrine that conceives the world as an emanation, derivation or development of God. E. is usually intimately connected with… -
Emancipation, Act of (EMANCIPAZIONE, ATTO DI)
It concerns the repeal of the laws that in Great Britain and Ireland placed Catholics in a state of legal and political inferiority with respect to… -
Eman (EMAN)
1. One (Vulg. Heman) of the 4 sages inferior to Solomon. He was the son, like Chalcol and Darda, of Mahol (metathesis for Hamul: 1 Chron. 2:5), in 1 Kings 4:31… -
Emanuele of Domodossola (EMANUELE DA DOMODOSSOLA)
Capuchin, apologetic writer, in the world Carlo Prinsecco, b. on an uncertain date, d. 20 April 1802. He belonged to the Roman Capuchin province and for a long… -
Emanuele of Jesus Mary (EMANUELE DI GESÙ MARIA)
Discalced Carmelite theologian and preacher, in the world Michele d'Ambrogio, b. in Saponara-Villafranca (Messina) on 1 Nov. 1621, d. in Naples on 17 Sept.… -
Emanuele Romano
EMANUELE ROMANO: v. IMMANUEL ROMANO. -
Emath (EMATH)
1. A very ancient city of Syria, connected with the ports of Aradus (Arvad) and Simyra (Gen. 18:8), mentioned in the list of Thutmose III and occupied by the… -
Embalmation (IMBALSAMAZIONE)
The ancient Christians generally used two types of e.; the first, inexpensive, consisted in placing a layer of quicklime either directly on the bottom of the… -
Embellishment (ABBELLIMENTO)
Abbellimenti, ornaments or musical embellishments (which the French call agréments, broderies, the Germans Verzierungen, Manieren, Ornamente, the English… -
Ember Days (Ieiunium Quattuor Temporum) (QUATTRO TEMPORA (ICIUNIUM QUATTUOR TEMPORUM))
The three days of fasting and penance (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) at the beginning of each of the four seasons of the year, called by Leo I (d. 461) and… -
Embezzlement (APPROPRIAZIONE INDEBITA)
It is a crime against property, for which anyone is liable who, in order to procure for himself or others an unjust profit, misappropriates the money or… -
Embolismals (EMBOLISMALI)
This was the name given by the Greeks to the months to which intercalary days were added in order to make the lunar cycle coincide with the solar one (in… -
Embriachi (Embriaci)
A family of carvers in bone and ivory active in Venice between the 14th and 15th centuries. BALDASSARRE is the most celebrated, and to him is ascribed the… -
Embroidery (RICAMO)
Needlework on a pre-existing ground, clearly distinct from lace or needle-lace, whose ground is worked after the ornaments in order to hold them together. The… -
Embrun
Ancient diocese and archdiocese of France in the department of the Hautes-Alpes, on the right bank of the Durance. It is the ancient "Eburodunum," on the road… -
Embryology (EMBRIOLOGIA)
Considered in the strict sense, embryology should deal with the development of the organism until it is contained within the membranes of the egg and is not… -
Embryotomy (EMBRIOTOMIA)
Fetal mutilation, which aims at the completion of a delivery obstructed by the mutual disproportion between the diameters of the pelvis and the fetus or by the… -
Emerentiana, Saint, Martyr (EMERENZIANA, SANTA, MARTIRE)
The martyrdom of E. is briefly described at the beginning of the appendix added to the legendary Passio of St. Agnes (v.). The saint, presented as the… -
Emeric of Hungary, Saint (EMMERICO D'UNGHERIA, SANTO)
Son of St. Stephen, king of Hungary, and of Gisela, sister of St. Henry II, king of Germany. Born in the year 1007 at Stuhlweissenburg, he was educated by… -
Emerobaptists (EMEROBATTISTI)
A Jewish sect, so called because of the daily ablution practiced in it. Hegesippus, in Eusebius (Hist. eccl., IV, 22, 7), mentions the H. among the seven… -
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
American thinker and writer, b. in Boston on May 25, 1803 to a Puritan family, d. at Concord on Apr. 25, 1882. He studied at Harvard. He became a Unitarian… -
Emery, Jacques-André
Superior general of the Sulpicians, b. at Gex on 26 Aug. 1732, d. at Paris 28 Apr. 1811. Having entered the novitiate of St. Sulpice in Nov. 1757, he was… -
Emesa
City of Syria, later called Homs, birthplace of Alexander Severus and of Elagabalus. Christianity must have penetrated there from apostolic times. Mention is… -
Emidius, Saint, Martyr (EMIDIO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
Unknown in Christian antiquity; the first reports appear in the 11th century, in papal and imperial documents. Probably at the beginning of that century his… -
Emigrant, Emigration (EMIGRANTE, EMIGRAZIONE)
In its proper meaning it is the abandonment of the national territory by one or more members of the community, who move to another territory, with the… -
Emilia
I. GEOGRAPHY - A region of continental Italy, bounded by the Po, the Adriatic (122 km. of coast) and the Apennine ridge. In this broader and more general sense… -
Emiliana, Saint (EMILIANA, SANTA)
Aunt of St. Gregory the Great, she lived in sixth-century Rome and consecrated her virginity to God, together with her sisters Tarsilla and Gordiana. While… -
Emiliani, Girolamo, Saint (EMILIANI, GIROLAMO, SANTO)
EMILIANI, GIROLAMO, santo: v. GIROLAMO -
Emiliani-Giudici, Paolo
Man of letters, b. at Mussomeli (Caltanissetta) on 3 June 1812, d. at Ore (Hastings) on 14 Aug. 1872. A Dominican, he taught philosophy in the Order's Palermo… -
Emilian, Saint (EMILIANI, SANTO)
EMILIANI, santo. -
Emilian, Saint, Martyr (EMILIANO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
A servant of a pagan of Durostorum in Moesia, in July 362, during a festival organized by the vicar of Thrace, Capitolinus, he entered an unguarded temple… -
Emilia, Saint (EMILIA, SANTA)
EMILIA, santa: v. BASILIO e EMMELLA, saints. -
Émilie de Rodat, Saint (EMILIA MARIA GUGLIELMA DE RODAT, SANTA)
Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Family, b. in the castle of Drouello (Rodez) on Sept. 6, 1787, d. at Villefranche on Feb. 19, 1852. From her earliest… -
Emily, Diocese of (EMILY, DIOCESI DI)
EMILY, DIOCESI di: v. CASHEL E EMILY, ARCIDIO- CESI di. -
Eminescu, Mihai (EMINESCU, MIRAI)
The greatest Romanian poet, b. at Ipotești (Botoșani) on 15 Jan. 1850, d. at Bucharest on 15 June 1889. At sixteen he published verses in the journal Familia… -
Emma (Hemma) of Gurk, Saint (EMMA (HEMMA) DI GURK, SANTA)
Born in the second half of the 10th century, of a noble family, died at Gurk on 29 June 1945. After the death of her husband William (1016), count of… -
Emmanuel (EMANUELE)
Symbolic name (from a customary expression of good wishes: Ex. 3:12; Josh. 1:5, etc.) of the child foretold by Isaiah (7:14) as the "son of the Virgin", to… -
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (EMANUELE FILIBERTO, DUCA DI SAVOIA)
B. at Chambéry on 19 Oct. 1528, d. at Turin on 30 Aug. 1580. After the death of his elder brothers, he abandoned the ecclesiastical career for which he had… -
Emmaus
1. A city famous in the history of the Maccabees (1 Macc. 3:40; 4:3; 9:50), capital of a toparchy in 47 B.C. (Fl. Josephus, Bell. Jud., III, 5), reduced to… -
Emmeram, Saint (EMMERANO, SANTO)
Missionary bishop in Bavaria or at the court of the Bavarian dukes in the 7th century or at the beginning of the 8th. His biographer Aribo, bishop of Freising… -
Emmerick, Anna Katharina
Mystic, b. September 8, 1774 at Fiamale near Coesfeld (Westphalia), d. February 9, 1824 at Dülmen. Daughter of poor but deeply religious peasants, who raised… -
Emorroissa
Early Christian funerary art depicted the healing of the H. narrated by the three Synoptics (Mt. 9:20-22; Mk. 5:25-34; Lk. 7:43-48), either at the moment when… -
Emotion (EMOZIONE)
I. PSYCHOLOGY. - It is the reaction to a sensation, or image, that comes to disturb our organic or psychic equilibrium, a reaction constituted, as a single… -
Emotional or Passional States (STATI EMOTIVI O PASSIONALI)
STATI EMOTIVI O PASSIONALI : V. EMOZIONE; PASSIONE. -
Empedocles of Agrigento (EMPEDOCLE DI AGRICENTO (ἘΜΠΕΔΟΚΛΗ͂Σ, EMPEDOCLES))
A complex figure of physician, naturalist, philosopher and politician, about whom legend and history are not easily separable, he lived between c. 490-430 B.C.… -
Empedocles of Agrigento (EMPEDOCLE DI AGRIGENTO)
E. [depicted] by Luca Signorelli in the chapel of B. Bozio in the cathedral of Orvieto (1502-1504). between the physical interpretation and the mystical… -
Emphyteusis (ENFITEUSI)
I. CONCEPT. - Emphyteusis (from the Greek ἐκράτευσις = planting) is a real right over an immovable property (usually rural) by which one has, in perpetuity or… -
Empire of the East (ORIENTE, IMPERO D')
I. ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE EAST. - The Byzantine Empire, which historically has always been called and ought to be called the Roman Empire of the East, had a… -
Empiricism (EMPIRISMO)
It is the valuing of the facts of common experience. Against the abstractions of pure speculation, this recourse to the concreteness of experience often… -
Empoli, Jacopo Chimenti detto L'
Painter b. at Empoli ca. 1554, d. at Florence on 30 Sept. 1640, a pupil of Maso di S. Friano, a mannerist in the orbit of Cecchino Salviati; E. remained… -
Emser, Hieronymus
Theologian and polemicist, b. at Weidenstetten near Ulm on 28 March 1478, d. at Dresden on 8 Nov. 1527. Magister artium (1499), a priest before 1502, he… -
Ems, Punctuation of (EMS, PUNTAZIONE DI)
This is the name given to the declaration made by the Rhenish episcopate on the occasion of the erection of the apostolic nunciature of Munich. In this city… -
Emulation (EMULAZIONE)
Psychologically it is the feeling that drives one to equal and even to surpass others in the possession of a good or of a personal quality (wealth, praise…