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Hilarion of Kiev (ILARIONE DI KIEV)
The second metropolitan of Kiev whose history can be documented (1051-54). He was not Greek but Slavic. At the invitation of Grand Prince Yaroslav I the Wise… -
I (IO)
I. - In the most comprehensive and most current sense, it designates in the human individual the character of "wholly autonomous," the principle of one's own… -
Iabne
IABNE: v. IAMNIA. -
Iacobello del Fiore
Painter. There is evidence of him from 1400 onward; d. in 1439. In his youthful paintings (the antependium of St. Ubald in Pesaro, a polyptych in Teramo… -
Iacobus de Zocchis de Ferraria
A not obscure canonist of the 15th century, born at Ferrara (hence the added appellation) at an uncertain date. At Ferrara he perhaps also taught, before… -
Iacobus Faber Stapulensis
IACOBUS FABER STAPULENSIS: v. LEFEVRE D'ETAPLES. -
Iacopino da Tradate
Lombard sculptor, he took part in the works for the construction of Milan Cathedral from 1401 to 1425, and in 1407 he was head of the stonecutters. In 1440 he… -
Iacopino del Conte
Painter b. in Florence in 1510, d. in Rome on 9 January 1598. A pupil of Andrea del Sarto, he also came under the influence of Michelangelo and of the leading… -
Iacopino di Francesco dei Bavosi or dei Papazzoni, known as Iacopo da Bologna (IACOPINO DI FRANCESCO DEI BAVOSI O DEI PAPAZZONI, DETTO IACOPO DA BOLOGNA)
Bolognese painter, recorded in documents from 1360 to 1383 and certainly already active before 1350. He was the greatest in art among the various Iacopi… -
Iacopo da Camerino
Mosaicist friar, assistant to Torriti in the apse mosaic of St. John Lateran, completed ca. 1292. In the lower mosaic band, on the right, there is a tiny… -
Iacopo Dacciesola
IACOPO DACCIESOLA : v. GIACOMO di CESSOLLES. -
Iacopo de' Barbari
IACOPO de' BARBARI: v. DE' BARBARI, IACOPO. -
Iacopo della Lana
Called il Lanèo, born in Bologna ca. 1290, died there ca. 1365. He is the author of a commentary in the vernacular on La Comedia di Dante degli Allighieri (1st… -
Iacopo di Porta Ravegnana
Bolognese jurist, b. in an uncertain year, already on the chair before 1140, d. in Bologna on 11 Oct. 1178. He was one of the four doctors, immediate disciples… -
Iacopo (Lapo) Tedesco
Legendary 13th-century architect, whom Vasari in the second edition of the Vite (1568) says came from Germany to build the basilica of St. Francis of Assisi… -
Iacopone da Todi
Franciscan mystic and poet, b. at Todi ca. 1230, d. at Collazzone on 25 Dec. 1306. He studied law at Bologna, practiced the art of the attorney in his native… -
Iaddua
IADDUA: v. IEDDOA. -
Iahel
IAHEL : v. GIAELE. -
Iajo (Le Jay), Claudio
Theologian, controversialist, b. around 1500 at Mieussy (Savoy), d. at Vienna, in Austria, on 6 Aug. 1552. Having obtained at the Sorbonne (1534) the degree of… -
Iamblichus (GIAMBLICO (ἸΆΜΒΛΙΟΣ, IAMBLICHUS))
Neoplatonic philosopher, b. at Chalcis in Coele-Syria, d. under Constantine the Great around 330. Of his life there is scant information, mixed with fantastic… -
Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat
It is the hymn of Matins on the feast of Pentecost, of Ambrosian origin. The descent of the Holy Spirit in tongues of fire upon the Apostles gathered in prayer… -
Iam Lucis Orto Sidere
Hymn sung at the beginning of the hour of Prime, composed by an unknown author of the school of St. Ambrose, and therefore called Ambrosian. St. Benedict… -
Iam Morte Victor Obruta
Hymn of Lauds for the feast of the Holy Rosary, composed by the Dominican Th. A. Ricchini (cf. A. Walz, Compendium historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum [Rome 1948]… -
Iam Sol Recedit Igneus
Hymn at Vespers on Saturday, by an unknown author, belonging to the "Irish-Anglo-Saxon" group. With the fading of the daylight and the onset of darkness, the… -
Iam Toto Subito Vesper Eat Polo
Hymn of Vespers for the feast of the Sorrowful Virgin, in Asclepiadean strophes, composed in the 17th century when Innocent XI instituted the feast, with an… -
Iasi
IASI: v. JASSI. -
Iasura
IASURA: v. SYRIA DEA. -
Iavelli, Crisostomo
Dominican theologian, b. at Casale Monferrato ca. 1470, d. at Bologna after 1538. A religious of the Dominican province "utriusque Lombardiae," he devoted… -
Ibagué, Diocese of (IBAGUÉ, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese and capital city of the department of Tolima, Colombia, South America. It has an area of 30,000 sq. km., has 500,000 inhabitants of whom 499,500 are… -
Ibáñez, Pedro
Spanish Dominican theologian, b. at Calahorra perhaps at the beginning of the sixteenth century, d. in the convent of St. Mary of Trianos, of which he was… -
Ibarra, Diocese of (IBARRA, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese and city in the north of Ecuador (South America). It has an area of 10,130 sq km, with a population of 218,800 inhabitants, of whom 218,400 are… -
Ibas (Hibā)
Bishop of Edessa, d. 28 Oct. 457. He was head of the school of Edessa (v.) under Bishop Rabbūlā, together with whom he attended the Council of Ephesus, but on… -
Ibero-American Archive (ARCHIVO IBERO-AMERICANO)
A historical periodical, now quarterly, of the Friars Minor of the Iberian peninsula, published in Madrid since 1914. Its contributions on the American and… -
Ibiza
IBIZA : v. IVIZA. -
Ibiza, Diocese of (IVIZA (IBIZA), DIOCESI DI)
I. is one of the islands of the Balearic group. The diocese of Ebusus is made up of the islands of I. (Eivissa or Ervissa in Catalan) and Formentera and of… -
Ibn al-'Assāl
Arab jurist, who lived in the 13th century in Egypt. To him is owed a compilation of canon and civil law, of the type of those called nomocanons. The… -
Ibn At-Tayyib (IBN AT-TAJJIB)
IBN AT-TAJJIB: v. ABŪ 'L-FARAŌ' ABDALLAH IBN AT-TAYYIB. -
Ibn 'Ezrā' Abrāhām ben Mē'īr
Grammarian, biblical commentator, poet, philosopher and astrologer, b. at Toledo (Castile) or at Tudela (Navarre) ca. 1092, d., according to tradition, at… -
Ibn Gebhīrōl (IBN GĒBHĪRŌL)
IBN GĒBHĪRŌL: v. AVICEBRON. -
Ibn Rushd (IBN RUŠD)
IBN RUŠD: v. AVERROĒ. -
Ibn Sīnā
IBN SĪNĀ: v. AVICENNA. -
Ibn Tufayl (IBN TUFAJL)
IBN TUFAJL: v. ABUBACER. -
Ibrišimović, Luka (IBRIŠIMOVIĆ, LUCA)
Franciscan, Croatian national hero, b. at Požega in 1620, d. there in 1698. A defender of the Christian people of Slavonia against the oppression of the Turks… -
Ibsen, Henrik
Poet, b. at Skien, in southern Norway, on 20 March 1828, d. at Christiania (Oslo) on 23 May 1906. His life unfolded from the closed circle of a small town… -
Ica, Diocese of (ICA, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese of Peru, erected as an episcopal see by Pope Pius XII on 10 Aug. 1946 with the apostolic constitution Ad maiorem Christifidelium utilitatem… -
Iceland (ISLANDA)
I. GEOGRAPHY. - It is the largest European island after Great Britain (102,819 sq. km.; more than four times the size of Sicily); it lies about 900-950 km.… -
Ichabod (ICHABOD)
Son of Phinehas and grandson of the high priest Eli (v.). In a clash with the Philistines, when the ark (v.) of the covenant was also captured (I Sam. 4:11)… -
Ichang [Yichang], Diocese of (ICHANG, DIOCESI DI)
Mission established on 11 Sept. 1870 by division of the apostolic vicariate of Hupeh, in central China (v. HANKOW). It then bore the name of apostolic… -
Ichow [Linyi], Diocese of (ICHOW, DIOCESI DI)
Erected as an apostolic vicariate on 1 July 1937 by division of the apostolic vicariate of Tsingtao, in the civil province of Shantung, in northern China, it… -
Ichthys
ICHTHYS : v. PESCE. -
Iconium (ICONIO)
A city of Asia Minor, on a fertile plain at the foot of Mount Taurus and near a small lake. Originally it belonged to Phrygia (Xenophon, An., I, 2, 19), but… -
Iconoclasm (ICONOCLASTIA)
Heresy of those who opposed the veneration of images of Jesus Christ and the saints, especially in the 8th-9th centuries. SUMMARY: I. Historical synthesis. -… -
Iconostasis (ICONÒSTASI)
From the Greek εἰκοναστάσων. In itself, it is any fixture on which an icon is hung or fastened (G. Codinus, De officiis Magnae Ecclesiae et Aulae… -
Icons (ICONE)
A Greek word meaning image, which has come into use to indicate portable paintings with sacred images from the early centuries, and generally those of the… -
Idacius (IDACIO)
Chronicler, b. at Lemica, in Galicia (today Jinzo de Lima, in Portugal), ca. 395, d. ca. 468. Bishop of Aquae Flaviae (today Chaves in Portugal) from 427, he… -
Idaia
Name of several figures of the Old Testament. 1. Descendant of the patriarch Simeon (I Chron. 4:37; Heb. Jedhājāh "who praises Yahweh", Vulg. Idaia). 2. Son of… -
Ida of Leuven, Blessed (IDA DI LOVANIO, BEATA)
Flemish mystic, lived in the 13th century, died perhaps on April 13, 1300 or 1290. Of a noble family, even as a child she was favored with ecstasies and… -
Ida of Toggenburg, Blessed (IDA DI TOGGENBURG, BEATA)
Conversa or recluse among the Benedictines of Fischingen from 1218, where she was buried. Died in 1226. Feast on 3 November. In 1481 Albrecht von Bonstetten… -
Idea
The term, of Greek origin (ἰδία and εἶδος, from ἰδεῖν, to see), indicates, in its primitive reference, figure, visible aspect, form: ἰδεῖν τῆς γῆς (Plato… -
Idea
Name of two periodicals founded and directed by Monsignor Pietro Barbieri. The first is a "monthly of political and social culture," which first appeared in… -
Idealism (IDEALISMO)
In general it is the doctrine that makes reality depend on thought. SUMMARY: I. Overall concept and division. - II. Historical development. - III. Critical… -
Identity (IDENTITÀ)
It indicates the reflected unity of being in the variety of its forms and in the multiplicity of its elements, and it can be either logical or real (Aristotle… -
Ideology (IDEOLOGIA)
Etymologically (from ἰδέα and λόγος) it is the science of ideas. The term was used for the first time by Destutt de Tracy: «L'idéologie est la science des… -
Idiocy, Idiots (IDIOZIA, IDIOTI)
The idiots, or "cerebropathic mental defectives" (S. de Sanctis), belong to the group of the most severe or major mental defectives (v.), together with… -
Idiomelon (ἰδιόμελον) (IDIOMELO (ἸΔΕΎΜΕΛΩΝ))
It is a troparion or poetic strophe composed with a fixed number of syllables and with its own rhythm and melody, which does not serve as a model or prototype… -
Idiot (IDIOTA)
IDIOTA: v. RAIMONDO GIORDANO. -
Idithun (IDITHUN)
One of the three masters of music placed over the choirs by David. It is said that these men "prophesied," which may refer either to an authentic prophetic… -
Idola
IDOLA: v. BACONE FRANCESCO; DEMOCRITO. -
Idolatry (Eidōlon Latreia) (IDOLATRIA (ΕἸΔΩ͂ΛΟΝ ΛΑΤΡΕΊΑ))
I. NOTION. - In its literal meaning it indicates the worship of idols. The term idol (εἰδῶλον) in Sacred Scripture is used with various meanings: it serves to… -
Idolotite (IDOLOTITO)
Meat sacrificed to idols (biblical noun εἰδικόθυντος, synonym of ἱερόθυτον) > (photo R. Sansini) > IDOLATRY - Clovis points out to Christ the pagan idols that… -
Iduhsien [Qingzhou], Apostolic Prefecture of (IDUHSIEN, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
In the central part of the civil province of Shantung, in northern China; it was erected on 16 June 1931, by division of the apostolic vicariate of Chefoo… -
Idumea and Idumeans (IDUMEA E IDUMEI)
IDUMEA e IDUMEI: v. EDOM; EDOMITI. -
Iesu Redemptor Omnium
Hymn of Lauds in the Office of the Common of confessor pontiffs, in which the merits of the Saint whose feast is being celebrated are extolled in a generic… -
Iesu Redemptor Omnium, Quem Lucis (IESU REDEMPTOR OMNIUM-QUEM LUCIS)
It is the hymn of Vespers and Matins for the feast of Christmas, by an unknown author, from around the beginning of the 10th century. The birth of Jesus ab… -
Iglesias, Diocese of (IGLESIAS, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese and city in the province of Cagliari, in Sardinia. It has an area of 1,600 sq km with a population of 122,000 inhabitants, of whom 121,950 are… -
Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr (IGNAZIO, VESCOVO DI ANTIOCHIA, MARTIRE)
Feast: Dec. 20 in the Greek Church, Feb. 1 in the Roman Church. I., condemned ad bestias (Irenaeus, Haeres., V, 28, 4), wrote seven letters during his… -
Ignatius of Bergamo (IGNAZIO DA BERGAMO)
IGNAZIO da BERGAMO: v. LUPI IGNAZIO. -
Ignatius of Jesus (Carlo Leonelli) (IGNAZIO DI GESÙ (CARLO LEONELLI))
Carmelite missionary. He was born at Sorbolongo (Pesaro, Italy) in 1596. Having earned a doctorate in utroque iure, he became a Discalced Carmelite in the… -
Ignatius of Laconi, Blessed (IGNAZIO DA LÁCONI, BEATO)
Lay Capuchin brother of the province of Sardinia, b. at Láconi (Nuoro) on 17 (or 10?) Dec. 1701. During a serious illness he made a vow to become a religious… -
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint (IGNAZIO DI LOYOLA, SANTO)
Last son of Beltrán Yáñez de Oñaz y Loyola and of Marina Sáenz de Licona y Balda, born in 1491 before 23 October in the palace-fortress of Loyola near Azpeitia… -
Ignatius of Saint Paul (IGNAZIO DI SAN PAOLO)
Passionist, in the world George Spencer, b. in London on 21 Dec. 1799, d. at Carstairs (Scotland) on 1 Oct. 1864. He completed his studies at Eton College and… -
Ignatius of the Cross (IGNAZIO DELLA CROCE)
IGNAZIO della CROCE: v. DANISI, IGNAZIO. -
Ignatius, Patriarch of Constantinople, Saint (IGNAZIO, PATRIARCA DI COSTANTINOPOLI, SANTO)
Nicetas (I. is the later name), b. at Constantinople in 797; he was patriarch in 847-58 and in 867-77; his father was the emperor Michael (811-13). After his… -
Ignorance (IGNORANZA)
In its broadest sense, it is the privation of knowledge or of science in a subject capable of having it. If the subject is incapable, one speaks rather of… -
Ignoratio Elenchi
IGNORATIO ELENCHI: v. SOFISMA. -
Ignudi, Stefano
Theologian and Dante scholar of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. in Genoa on 28 Feb. 1865, d. in Rome on 2 June 1945. Having entered the Order in 1886, he… -
Iguaçu, Prelature of (IGUASSU, PRELATURA NULLIUS)
IGUASSU, PRELATURA NULLIUS: v. FOZ DE IGUASSU, prelature nullius. > (courtesy of Fr. Gaetano Stano, O.F.M. Conv.) > IGNUDI, STEFANO - Portrait. -
Il Conciliatore (CONCILIATORE, IL)
"Foglio scientifico-letterario" ("Scientific-literary sheet"), called "il foglio azzurro" ("the blue sheet") from the color of the paper on which it was… -
Ildebrando
ILDEBRANDO : v. GREGORIO VII, PAPA. -
Ildefonsus of Toledo, Saint (ILDEFONSO DA TOLEDO, SANTO)
Archbishop of Toledo, b. at Toledo in 617, d. there on 23 January 667. He was called El Capellán de la Virgen, in the comedy of that title which Lope de Vega… -
Ildibad, King of the Goths of Italy (ILDIBADO, RE GOTO D'ITALIA)
After Ravenna fell into the hands of the Byzantines through the action of Belisarius in May 540, the Goths of northern Italy, not yet occupied by the Greeks… -
Ilduin, Abbot of St-Denis (ILDUINO, ABATE DI ST-DENIS)
Born of a noble family in the second half of the 8th century, died on 22 November 844. He completed his studies under Alcuin and had as a disciple Hincmar of… -
Il Fiore (FIORE, IL)
Allegorical-didactic poem of 232 sonnets in Italian vernacular, from the 14th century. It has been preserved only in codex H 438 of the Library of the Faculty… -
Ilhéos, Diocese of (ILHÉOS, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the State of Bahia in Brazil, erected by Pope Pius X on 20 Oct. 1913 by dismemberment of the territory of the archdiocese of San Salvador… -
Illegitimacy (ILLEGITTIMITÀ)
ILLEGITTIMITÀ: v. LEGITTIMITÀ. -
Illiberi
ILLIBERI: v. ELVIRA, CONCILIO di. -
Illness (INFERMITÀ)
I. is one of the causes for excuse or dispensation from ecclesiastical laws. Sometimes a slight i. is sufficient, at other times a grave i. is required, and in… -
Illuminati
A secret society with an ethico-political-religious basis, founded in Germany in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt on 1 May 1776 through the work of Adam… -
Illumination (ILLUMINAZIONE)
Per il significato gnoseologico del termine. - For the epistemological meaning of the term: v. AGOSTINO AURELIO, V. L'illuminazione. -
Illumination (MINIATURA)
Properly, the art of painting or adorning manuscripts; an ornamentation that in antiquity was executed predominantly with the red color, minium, whence the… -
Illumination in Ancient Churches (ILLUMINAZIONE NELLE CHIESE ANTICHE)
Monuments of a certain value are the paleochristian lamps, whether in terracotta, or in bronze, or hanging, as well as combined with supports; they were used… -
Illyricum (ILLIRICO (ILLYRICUM))
A coastal region east of the Adriatic, originally comprising Dalmatia and Albania, which under the Roman Empire gradually extended inland as far as the Danube… -
Illyricus, Matthias Flacius (ILLIRICO, MATTIA FLACIO)
ILLIRICO, MATTIA FLACIO: v. FLACIO, MATTIA. -
Illyricus, Thomas, Blessed (ILLIRICO, TOMMASO, BEATO)
Franciscan preacher and theologian, b. ca. 1485 at Vrana (Dalmatia, whence the surname Illyricus), d. at Menton (Ventimiglia) in 1528. At Osimo, where he had… -
Il Quotidiano (QUOTIDIANO, IL)
Political and news newspaper, organ of the Italian Catholic Action. It is published in Rome and is distributed in various regional editions in central-southern… -
Images, Cult of (IMMAGINI, CULTO DELLE)
It is the honor rendered to sacred images, that is, to the painted or sculpted representations of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the saints. The same honor… -
Imagination (IMMAGINAZIONE)
It is usually taken as a synonym for fantasy (v.). In medieval Aristotelianism Avicenna distinguished them, assigning to the i. the function of elaborating the… -
Imam
An Arabic term, from the root 'mm ("to direct oneself toward a place," "to march at the head"), meaning "guide," antistes. In Islam, it designates: 1) the one… -
Imbart de La Tour, Pierre-Gilbert-Jean-Marie
French historian, b. 22 Aug. 1860 at Valenton (Seine-et-Oise), d. 18 Dec. 1925 in Paris. A pupil of the École normale supérieure and of Fustel de Coulanges, he… -
Imbecility, Imbeciles (IMBECILLITÀ, IMBECILLI)
Imbeciles or "biopathic frenasthenics (v.)" are individuals in whom mental insufficiency, more or less severe but always less than that of idiots (v.), is due… -
Imbonati, Carlo Giuseppe
A Cistercian Hebraist of the 17th century, about whom little biographical information survives; born in Milan, he lived for a long time in Rome, and died in… -
Imbreviatura
In medieval terminology, it is the draft act drawn up by the rogatory notary on a separate sheet and sometimes also on the verso of the parchment itself… -
Imbriani, Vittorio
Writer, b. in Naples on 27 Oct. 1840, d. at Pomigliano d'Arco on 1 Jan. 1886. He was an art and literary critic, a collector of popular songs and tales, a… -
Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (IMITAZIONE DI CRISTO (DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI))
A medieval ascetical work, one of the most sublime and most widely diffused in the world. It consists of four books or treatises: Book I, Admonitiones ad… -
Immaculate Conception (IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE)
By these terms is indicated the Catholic doctrine according to which "the most Blessed Virgin, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and… -
Immaculate Conception of the B (IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE DELLA B)
Prelature nullius in Honduras in Central America. It has an area of 33,634 sq km with 68,133 inhabitants; it has 5 parishes with 10 regular priests (1949). The… -
Immanence (IMMANENZA)
It is said of that which in its operation does not go out from itself or outside itself, but remains within itself. SUMMARY: I. Ontological i. in classical… -
Immanentism (IMMANENTISMO)
A neologism that has been very successful in modern and contemporary thought, both in philosophical discussions with the development of transcendental idealism… -
Immanuel the Roman (Manuello the Jew) (IMMANUEL ROMANO (MANUELLO GIUDEO))
Poet, b. in Rome ca. 1268-72; d. after 1328. He belonged to the circle of Jewish scholars and poets of Rome. For reasons that are little known he left Rome and… -
Immaterial Property (PROPRIETÀ IMMATERIALE)
The problem concerning the classification of so-called "rights over immaterial goods" has been seriously debated. Against the thesis that ranks such rights in… -
Immemorial (IMMEMORABILE)
IMMEMORABILE: v. CONSUETUDINE; TEMPO. -
Immensa Caeli Conditor (IMMENSE CAELI CONDITOR)
Hymn of Vespers on Monday, belonging to the Irish-Anglo-Saxon group. The inspiration from the second day of creation, with the division of the earth from the… -
Immigration (IMMIGRAZIONE)
IMMIGRAZIONE: v. EMIGRANTE, EMIGRAZIONE. -
Immodesty (IMMODESTIA)
IMMODESTIA: v. MODESTIA. -
Immodesty (IMPUDICIZIA)
IMPUDICIZIA: v. LUSSURIA. -
Immolations (IMMOLAZIONE)
IMMOLAZIONE: v. MESSA; SACRIFICIO. -
Immortal Dei (IMMORTALE DEI)
It is one of the great encyclicals of Leo XIII (19 Nov. 1885), in which, taking up again the principles of Gregory XVI (encyclical Mirari vos) and Pius IX… -
Immortality of the Human Soul (IMMORTALITÀ DELL'ANIMA UMANA)
It is the property of the human soul to survive the death of the body. SUMMARY: I. Immortality in the history of religions. - II. Immortality in the history of… -
Immunity, in Biological Sense (IMMUNITÀ, IN SENSO BIOLOGICO)
IMMUNITY, in the biological sense: v. MICROBIOLOGIA. -
Immutability of Dogma (IMMUTABILITÀ DEL DOGMA)
IMMUTABILITÀ DEL DOGMA: v. DOGMA. -
Immutability of God (IMMUTABILITÀ DI DIO)
IMMUTABILITÀ DI DIO: v. ATTRIBUTI DIVINI. -
Imola, Diocese of (IMOLA, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the province of Bologna. It has a population of 144,450 inhabitants, of whom 144,226 are Catholics; it has 132 parishes with 193 diocesan… -
Impanation (IMPANAZIONE)
IMPANAZIONE : v. EUCARISTIA; TRANSUSTANZIAZIONE. -
Impeccability of Jesus Christ (IMPECCABILITÀ DI GESÙ CRISTO)
IMPECCABILITÀ di GESÙ CRISTO : v. PSICOLOGIA di GESÙ CRISTO. -
Impediments (IMPEDIMENTI)
From the Latin impedimentum (the verb impedio expresses the action by which the feet are entangled), i. means in general and in the abstract everything by… -
Impenitent (IMPENITENTE)
From the eccl. Lat. impenitens, i.e. the sinner is called impenitent who, directly or indirectly, through culpable ignorance or negligence, refuses to repent… -
Imperial Diets of Roncaglia (RONCAGLIA, DIETE IMPERIALI DI)
A fraction of Piacenza, on the border between it, Lodi and Pavia (Runcalea, from runcare), near the Lambro and the Po, at the crossing of the land and river… -
Imperial, Francisco
Spanish poet of Italian origin, b. in Genoa around 1360, d. between the first and second decade of the 15th century in Seville, where his father, a jeweler… -
Imperialism (IMPERIALISMO)
The name imperialism should be given to a specific mode of action inspired by a precise theory: to speak of imperialism for the centuries before the 19th is… -
Imperial Rescripts (RESCRITTI IMPERIALI)
RESCRITTI IMPERIALI : v. EDITTO, II. E. imperiale. -
Imperial Style (IMPERO, STILE)
Designation of the phase of Neoclassical style adopted and diffused as the official aesthetic expression of the Napoleonic Empire: current usage, however… -
Impotence (IMPOTENZA)
I. (Latin impotentia) is the impossibility of doing something. Law and morality deal with the i. of man in the field of his duties, that is, with his… -
Imprecation (IMPRECAZIONE)
A wish for some evil, material or spiritual, directed against oneself or against others. In pagan antiquity there was much abuse of imprecation, especially… -
Impression (IMPRESSIONE)
The term acquires a technical meaning in those theories of knowledge that study the relationship between the external world and sensory experience, starting… -
Impressionism (IMPRESSIONISMO)
The term I. and the adjectives derived from it generally serve to indicate a painting in patches, summary, rapid, intended to render the momentary aspect or… -
Imprimatur
"Let it be printed": this is the formula by which the local Ordinary or the competent dicastery of the Roman Curia grants permission to print a book, a leaflet… -
Impropers (IMPROPERI)
This is the name given to a series of reproaches that the Lord addresses to the Jewish people for the ingratitude shown toward his benefits. The concepts… -
Impuberes (IMPUBERI)
IMPUBERI: v. ETÀ; FANCIULLEZZA. -
Impulsivity (IMPULSIVITÀ)
In common language it indicates the tendency to perform, under the pressure of a sudden conscious or subconscious ideational-affective psychic state, sudden… -
Impurity (IMPURITÀ)
From Latin impuritas, the state of being impure, it is one of the terms used to indicate the vice against purity (v.). In general it consists in mixture with a… -
Imputability (IMPUTABILITÀ)
From the Latin noun imputabilitas and the verb imputare, that is, to charge to an account, to ascribe, to attribute, it is the quality or property of an act or… -
Inability (INABILITÀ)
Impediment to validly performing certain determined acts. To protect the common good of society, whether civil or religious, it is at times necessary that the… -
Inadvertence (INAVVERTENZA)
In general, everything that lies outside the field of actual consciousness is called i. I. takes the form and name of forgetfulness if it refers to the past… -
Inamovibility (INAMOVIBILITÀ)
It is a quality inherent in certain ecclesiastical benefices, by virtue of which the holder is invested in them in perpetuity and cannot be removed except for… -
Incapacity (INCAPACITÀ)
In moral theology and in law it is the lack of certain conditions necessary for acting, such that a subject finds himself in the impossibility of performing a… -
Incardination (INCARDINAZIONE)
The canonical order presupposes and requires that every cleric be enrolled in a diocese or a religious order, and in no way admits clerics who are stateless or… -
Incarnation (Σάρκωσις) (INCARNAZIONE (ΣΆΡΚΩΣΙΣ))
A term with a Semitic flavor, derived from the Johannine expression (John 1:14: καὶ ὁ Λόγος σάρξ ἐγένετο), in which the word σάρξ (caro) simply means human… -
Incas
INCAS: v. PERÙ, RELIGIONE del. -
Incense (INCENSO)
A resinous substance which, when burned, gives off a pleasant aromatic odor and smoke. I. SACRED SCRIPTURE. - In the Bible incense is often spoken of (Hebr.… -
Incense Bearer (INCENSIERE)
INCENSIERE: v. TURIBOLO. -
Incerti
A term commonly used to designate those payments intended to procure a dignified sustenance for those who are placed in charge of public ecclesiastical… -
Incest (INCESTO)
I. NOTION. - From incestu (non castus) comes the carnal sin between blood relatives or relatives by marriage, who, according to natural and ecclesiastical law… -
Inchino, Gabriele
Preacher, canon regular of the Lateran, b. at Vicenza in 1548, d. there around 1608. The sermons that I. delivered in various cities of Italy were published… -
Incitement to Crime (INCITAMENTO AL DELITTO)
INCITAMENTO AL DELITTO: V. ISTIGAZIONE AL DELITTO. -
Incitement to Crime (ISTIGAZIONE AL DELITTO)
It is a specific form of the concurrence of several persons in a crime, more precisely a form of moral concurrence or participation, that is, carried out… -
Inclination (INCLINAZIONE)
I. IN PHILOSOPHY. - It is the orientation or disposition of an agent with respect to the object that is the goal or else the term of its acting: in this sense… -
Inclination (Liturgy) (INCLINAZIONE (LITURGIA))
The natural gesture of respect expressed by bowing has been accepted by the Eastern and Western liturgies since the most remote antiquity as an expression of… -
Income (REDDITO)
It is the increase of wealth, referred to the period of one year, deriving from the productive employment of labor or capital, and which can be consumed… -
Incompatibility of Benefices (INCOMPATIBILITÀ DEI BENEFICI)
Incompatibility of benefices. - According to can. 1439, several incompatible benefices cannot be accepted and held in title or in perpetual commendam, that is… -
Inconstancy (INCOSTANZA)
From the Latin inconstantia, lack of constancy, fickleness, it is a vice opposed to prudence, inasmuch as through it one is led to change one's judgment… -
Inconvenience (INCOMODO)
I. (from the Latin incommodum, that is, discomfort, disturbance, harm) in morals and in law denotes that particular difficulty or specific danger accidentally… -
Incorporation (INCORPORAZIONE)
INCORPORAZIONE (a CRISTO): v. CORPO MISTICO. -
Incorporation of Benefices (INCORPORAZIONE DEI BENEFICI)
It is one of the possible innovations in benefices and properly consists in the union, called minus principalis, perpetual, of a benefice with another moral… -
Incubation (INCUBAZIONE)
From Latin in-cubare "to lie within" (with the implied object being a temple or other sacred place; German Tempelschlaf), it is a rite connected with the cult… -
Incunabulum (INCUNABULO)
From the Latin incunabula, "swaddling clothes of a child," a noun denoting any book printed from the year 1455 to the year 1500, a conventional date after… -
Indefectibility of the Church (INDEFETTIBILITÀ DELLA CHIESA)
A supernatural property of the true Church, by which it will remain, until the end of the world, just as Jesus Christ instituted it. This concept includes: a)… -
Indefinite (INDEFINITO)
Besides having the meaning of indeterminate (v. INFINITE), i. denotes a limited magnitude that can grow without end. I. coincides with the mathematical concept… -
Independent, Sect of the (INDIPENDENTI, SETTA DEGLI)
INDIPENDENTI, SETTA degli: v. CONGREGATIONALISTS. -
Indeterminism (INDETERMINISMO)
INDETERMINISMO: V. DETERMINISMO. -
Index Coemeteriorum
INDEX COEMETERIORUM: v. ITINERARI. > INDIA - 1) State boundaries; 2) ecclesiastical district boundaries; 3) railways. -
Index Librorum Prohibitorum (LIBRI PROIBITI)
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Index of Prohibited Books (INDICE DEI LIBRI PROIBITI)
By the expression "forbidden books" are designated the books whose reading is forbidden to the faithful by positive ecclesiastical law, general or particular… -
Index Oleorum
It is a list or notula containing the names of the Roman martyrs whose oils a certain John, in the time of St. Gregory the Great (590-604), collected as they… -
India
This name refers both to the historical region of South Asia corresponding to the triangular peninsula, comprised between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of… -
Indianapolis, Archdiocese of (INDIANAPOLIS, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese in the State of Indiana in the United States of America. It comprises the counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Deaborn… -
Indiction (INDIZIONE)
A chronological computation based on a fifteen-year cycle whose years are numbered progressively from 1 to 15 and designated respectively as indiction I, II… -
Indifference (INDIFFERENZA)
In the ascetic sense, it is the habitual disposition of the will by which it does not prefer one thing to another, until it knows what the will of God is.… -
Indifferentism (INDIFFERENTISMO)
Etymologically it means making no account between a thing and its contrary, not determining oneself for either one side or the other. But here it is considered… -
Indigenous Clergy of the Missions (CLERO INDIGENO DELLE MISSIONI)
The specific purpose of the missions is to establish the Church in territories where it does not yet exist, endowing it with the means necessary for its… -
Indigetes (of the Indigetes) (INDIGETI (DI INDIGETES))
The term, which evidently indicates a category or a group of divinities, occurs, for example, in a Roman formula of collective invocation reported by Livy, and… -
Indigitamenta
From the Latin a(g)io, aio ("I say, I beseech, I invoke"), these are lists of deities of an animistic type who are invoked ("indigitate") with an epithet that… -
Indirect Power (POTERE INDIRETTO)
INDIRECT POWER: V. CHIESA, A, V. C. e Stato. -
Indissolubility of Marriage and Divorce (INDISSOLUBILITÀ DEL MATRIMONIO E DIVORZIO)
Indissolubility is one of the essential properties of marriage, which finds its fullest sanction in Marriage as a Sacrament after its consummation. Divorce is… -
Individual (INDIVIDUO)
I. PHILOSOPHY. - Commonly the term i. is used to signify concrete reality, that is, reality essentially determined in itself and therefore by its nature… -
Individualism (INDIVIDUALISMO)
It is, in general, every system, tendency or orientation that considers the individual (v.) as the most authentic and essential reality (in its extreme form… -
Individuation, Principle of (INDIVIDUAZIONE, PRINCIPIO DI)
The beings existing in the world, although presenting an essential commonality in their specific nature, are singular and individual: the principle of i. is… -
Indochinese, Federation (INDOCINESE, FEDERAZIONE)
This is the name given to the complex of territories controlled by France in the peninsula of the same name; territories which, before the last great war… -
Indo-European (INDOEUROPEI)
They are the peoples speaking Latin, Greek, Germanic, Celtic, Baltic, Slavic, Indian and Persian. SUMMARY: I. General remarks. - II. Religion according to the… -
Indole (INDOLE)
It is meant to indicate the natural disposition, the particular neuro-psychological "native state," proper to each individual, which constitutes an element of… -
Indonesia
The Indonesian Archipelago, also called the East Indies (or Insulindia), links two continental masses, joining the oldest to the newest of the continents, Asia…