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Esau (ESAU)
Firstborn of Isaac and Rebecca. The Bible explains this name, whose scientific etymological meaning escapes us, by a physiological characteristic of the… -
Escardination (ESCARDINAZIONE)
ESCARDINAZIONE : v. INCARDINAZIONE. -
Eschatocol (ESCATOCOLLO)
ESCHATOCOL : v. DOCUMENTO. -
Eschatology (ESCATOLOGIA)
From ἔσχατος, "last," and λόγος, it is the doctrine concerning the final end of humanity. It is generally distinguished into individual and collective e. I. IN… -
Eschius (Van Eesch), Nikolaus
Ascetico-mystical theologian, representative of the practical mysticism of the school of Gerard (v.) Groot, b. at Oosterwijk in Brabant in 1507, d. at Diest… -
Escobar, Andrea de
Very well-known Benedictine theologian and canonist of the 15th century, b. in Lisbon. His works, for the most part unpublished, have been handed down to… -
Escobar, Marina de, Venerable (ESCOBAR, MARINA DE, VENERABILE)
Brigittine mystic, among the most significant figures of Catholic Spain in the early 17th century; b. at Valladolid on 8 February 1554, d. there on 9 July… -
Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio
Jesuit, moralist, b. at Valladolid in 1589, d. there on 4 July 1669. He first displayed his talent in some literary works; but from 1630 he is found intensely… -
Escol ('Eshōl' 'Grape Cluster') (ESCHOL ('ESHŌL «GRAPPOLO D'UVA»))
Aramean, brother of Mamre, one of Abraham's allies, who followed him in the raid against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam (Gen. 14:13, 24). The "valley of E." (Vulg.… -
Escorial (El Escorial) (ESCORIALE (EL ESCORIAL))
Village about 40 km. from Madrid, famous for a grandiose complex of buildings, founded by Philip II, in memory of the victory of St. Quentin. Begun in 1563, on… -
Esdraelon (ESDRELON)
A plain of Palestine, between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, Galilee and Samaria, thus called (Judg. 1:8; 4:5; 7:3) in a Hellenized form of Jizé' (Vulg.… -
Esdras (ESDRA)
Priest and scribe (Heb. 'Esrā'; Septuagint 'Eσ[ē]σ[ē] = 'E[σ]σ; Vulgate Esdras) who played a leading part in the Jewish restoration in Jerusalem after the… -
Esenin, Sergei Aleksandrovich (ESENIN, SERGEJ ALEKSANDROVIĆ)
Russian lyric poet, b. in the village of Kozminsk on 21 Feb. 1895. He is without doubt the best known - outside Russia - and, in many respects, also the… -
Eshmon (ESMÓN)
Dio principale della città fenicia di Sidone, identificato dai Greci costantemente con il loro Asclepio. L'etimologia del nome E. non è certa; sta forse in… -
Eshowe, Apostolic Vicariate of (ESHOWE, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
With territory detached from the apostolic vicariate of Natal, on 27 Aug. 1921 the apostolic prefecture of Zululand was erected. On 11 Dec. 1923 it was… -
Eskimos (ESCHIMESI)
Collective name for a group of small tribes inhabiting Greenland, Labrador, the Canadian Arctic as far as Alaska, and Siberia. The Eskimos were known to… -
Esmein, Jean-Paul-Hippolyte-Emmanuel, known as Adhémar (ESMEIN, JEAN-PAUL-HIPPOLYTE-EMANUEL, DETTO ADHÉMAR)
Legal historian, canonist, b. at Touvérac (Charente) on 1 February 1848, d. at Paris on 20 July 1913. He was first a professor in the faculty of law at Douai… -
Esmeraldas, Apostolic Prefecture of (ESMERALDAS, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
The mission of E. comprises the province of the same name located in the northern part of the Republic of Ecuador. It was erected as an apostolic prefecture in… -
Esparza Artieda, Martín de (ESPARZA ARTIEDA, MARTIN DE)
Jesuit, theologian, b. at Escsároz (Navarre) on 29 March 1606, d. at Rome on 21 April 1689. He taught dogmatics at Valladolid, Salamanca, and Rome, where from… -
Espence, Claude-Togniol de (ESPENCE, CLAUDE-TOGNIEL DE)
French theologian, b. at Châlons-sur-Marne in 1511, d. in Paris on 5 Oct. 1571. Even before taking his degree, in 1540, he was rector of the University of… -
Espen, Zeger-Bernhard van (ESPEN, ZEGER-BERNHARD, VAN)
Belgian theologian and canonist, secular priest, b. at Louvain on 9 July 1646, d. at Amersfoort (Holland) on 2 Oct. 1728. Ordained priest in 1673 and having… -
Espero and Zoe, Saints, Martyrs (ESPERO E ZOE, SANTI, MARTIRI)
They are commemorated together with their sons Theodulus and Cittacus on May 2. They were slaves of a certain Catalus, a pagan, who took them with him from… -
Espinosa, Diego de
Cardinal, b. in 1502 at Martín-Muñoz de las Posadas (Segovia) to a noble but poor family, d. at Madrid on 5 Sept. 1572. The reputation of an excellent jurist… -
Espinosa, Pedro
Spanish poet, b. at Antequera in 1578, d. at Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 21 Oct. 1650. After a disappointment in love, he led a hermit's life under the name of… -
Ess, Carl van (ESS, CARL. VAN)
Theologian, b. at Warburg on 25 Sept. 1770, d. at Huysburg (Paderborn) on 22 Oct. 1824, where he was a Benedictine (1788), priest (1794), prior (1801), parish… -
Essence (ESSENZA)
I. It indicates the nature of a thing as such and therefore of what is signified in its definition. If the "being" (v.) is the concrete subsistent that exists… -
Essenes (ESSENI)
A Jewish religious association that existed in Palestine from about 150 B.C. to A.D. 70. Pliny, Philo, and Josephus speak of it (especially in Bell. Iud., II… -
Esser, Thomas
Last secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Index, b. at Aachen on 7 April 1850, d. at Rome on 13 March 1926. He studied at Bonn, Würzburg and Cologne. A… -
Ess, Leander van
Translator and propagator of the Bible, b. at Warburg (Westphalia) on 15 Feb. 1772, d. at Affolderbach (Odenwald) on 13 Oct. 1847. From 1790 a Benedictine at… -
Estaço, Achilles
Portuguese humanist, b. at Vidigueira (Evora) in 1524, d. at Rome in Sept. 1581. He studied philology and theology at Coimbra, Paris and Louvain. Having… -
Este, House of (ESTE, FAMIGLIA D')
It descended from a branch of the Obertenghi, of Lombard origin. ALBERTO AZZO II (d. 1097), great-grandson of Marquis Oberto I, who lived in the 10th century… -
Esther (ESTER)
Jewish heroine after whom the 8th of the Hagiographa is named, in the Hebrew Bible the 5th of the megilloth or "scrolls" of liturgical use. Ahasuerus (v.)… -
Estienne, Family (ESTIENNE, FAMIGLIA)
Printers who carried on their activity in Paris and Geneva in the 16th century, beginning in 1502. > (from Ch. H. Kleubens, Die Kunst der Letter, Leipzig 1958… -
Estimative Faculty (ESTIMATIVA)
It is the inner faculty by which the animal apprehends things useful or harmful to its life, and it corresponds to what in modern psychology is called… -
Estius, Guilielmus (Messel van Est, Willem) (ESTIUS, GUILLELMUS (MESSEL VAN EST, WILLEM))
Exegete, theologian and hagiographer, b. at Gorkum (Holland) in 1542, d. at Douai on 20 Sept. 1613. After completing his early studies at Utrecht, he attended… -
Estonia
Since November 3, 1940 it has constituted one of the federated republics of the Soviet Union; formerly a Danish, Polish, Swedish (1629) and Russian (1721)… -
Estouteville, Guillaume de
Cardinal from a noble Norman family, b. c. 1403, d. in Rome on 22 January 1483. A Benedictine, after governing (from M. Mollier, Le card. G. E., Paris 1861)… -
Estrées, César D'
Cardinal, b. in Paris on 5 Feb. 1628, d. there on 18 Dec. 1714. Son of François Annibal, he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne and was appointed bishop of… -
Estudios
Catholic monthly review of general culture. It was founded in 1933 in Santiago, Chile, with the task of exerting a beneficial influence in the field of higher… -
Est, Van Wilhelm
EST, VAN WILHELM : V. ESTIUS, GULIRLMUS. -
Esukonziani (ESUCONZIANI)
ESUCONZIANI: v. AEZIO. -
Esztercom, Archdiocese of (ESZTERCOM, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
ESZTERCOM, ARCHDIOCESE OF: v. STRICONIA, ARCHDIOCESE OF. -
Esztergom (Gran), Archdiocese of (STRIGONIA (ESZTERGOM, GRAN), ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese in Hungary. The archdiocese has an area of 7,706 sq km with a population of 1,236,392 inhabitants, of whom 818,773 are Catholics…