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Keats, John
English poet, b. in London on 31 Oct. 1795, d. in Rome on 23 Feb. 1821. He received a good education and was favored by one of his teachers, C. C. Clarke, who… -
Keble, John
Anglican theologian, preacher and poet, b. at Fairford in Gloucestershire on 25 April 1792, d. at Bournemouth on 29 March 1866. After his early education… -
Keetmanshoop, Apostolic Vicariate of (KEETMANSHOOP, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
The territory of this vicariate was part of German South-West Africa, which after the First World War (17 Dec. 1920) was given as a mandate to the Union of… -
Keewatin, Apostolic Vicariate of (Canada) (KEEWATIN, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI (CANADA))
It was erected by the Sacred Congregation of the Consistory on 4 March 1910 with territory detached from the archdiocese of St. Boniface. It comprises almost… -
Kehr, Paul Fridolin
Born on 28 Dec. 1860 at Waltershausen near Gotha (Thuringia) into a Protestant family, died on 9 Nov. 1944 at Wässerndorf Castle near Würzburg. A distinguished… -
Keil, Karl Friedrich
Protestant-Lutheran exegete, of conservative tendency, an enemy of criticism, b. at Lauterbach, near Oelsnitz (Saxony), on 26 Feb. 1807, d. at Rödnitz, near… -
Keimoes, Diocese of (KEIMOES, DIOCESI DI)
In the South African Union. The ancient mission began in 1873 through the work of the Fathers of the Society of African Missions of Lyon, who ceded it to the… -
Keller, Émile, Count (KELLER, EMILE, CONTE)
French Catholic politician, b. at Belfort on 8 Oct. 1828, d. at Paris on 20 Feb. 1909. He was a deputy in Parliament for Haut-Rhin (1859) and, after the… -
Keller, Paul
German narrator, b. at Arnsdorf, near Schneidewitz in Silesia, on 6 July 1873, d. at Breslau on 20 Aug. 1932. First a teacher, from 1908 a writer, he founded… -
Kellner, Karl Adam Heinrich
Patrologist and liturgist, b. at Heiligenstadt am Eichfeld (Prussian Saxony) on 26 Aug. 1837, d. at Bonn on 6 Jan. 1915. Having become a priest, he devoted… -
Kellner, Lorenz
The greatest Catholic pedagogue in Germany in the last century. Born on 29 January 1811 at Kalteneber near Heiligenstadt (Prussian Saxony), died at Trier on 18… -
Kempe, Margery
English mystic, b. at Kings Lynn (Norfolk) ca. 1373, d. ca. 1440. Married ca. 1393 to a well-to-do fellow citizen, she was the mother of 14 children, but vain… -
Kempf, Nikolaus
German ascetic and mystical writer of the Carthusian Order, also called Nicholas of Strasbourg, where he was born in 1397, and died at Gaming on 20 Nov. 1497.… -
Keng-Tung, Apostolic Vicariate of (KENG-TUNG, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
In southern Burma, in the federated Shan States, and it comprises the States of K., of Tawnpeng, of southern and northern Hsenwi, and the part of the State of… -
Kennicott, Benjamin (KENNIKOTT, BENJAMIN)
English critic of the Hebrew biblical text, b. at Totnes (Devonshire) on 4 April 1718, d. at Oxford on 18 Sept. 1783. Pastor at Culham (Oxfordshire) in 1753… -
Kenosis (KENOSI)
From the Greek ἐκνῶσις (ἐκνῶς "I empty"), it is equivalent to divesting, annihilation, and is the subject of a modern Christological theory, predominantly… -
Kenrick, Francis Patrick
Archbishop of Baltimore, theologian, controversialist, b. in Dublin on 3 Dec. 1797, d. in Baltimore on 8 July 1863, during the American Civil War. A student of… -
Kenrick, Peter Richard
First archbishop of St. Louis; theologian and student of ecclesiastical history. Born in Dublin on August 4, 1806, in 1833 he emigrated to the United States… -
Kenya
I. GEOGRAPHY. - British colony and protectorate in East Africa, south of Ethiopia. The territory (583,000 sq. km., of which 5,645 belong to the protectorate… -
Kepler (Keplero), Johannes
One of the four great founders of modern astronomy, together with Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. Born at Weil (Württemberg, Germany) on 16 March 1571, into a… -
Kepler, Paul Wilhelm
Bishop, b. Sept. 28, 1852 at Schwäbisch-Gmünd, d. July 16, 1926 at Rottenburg. Ordained priest in 1875, he then carried out pastoral activity in the parish of… -
Kerle, Jacob de
Musician, b. at Ypres ca. 1530, d. at Prague on 7 Jan. 1591. In 1555 he was organist at Orvieto, whence he moved as maestro di cappella, in the retinue of… -
Kerll, Johann Kaspar
Organist and composer, b. at Adorf on 9 April 1627, d. at Munich on 13 February 1693. He studied first in Vienna, then in Rome with Carissimi and with… -
Kerry and Aghadoe, Diocese of (KERRY E AGHADOE, DIOCESI DI)
In Ireland. It comprises the whole county of K. (except Kilmurrily) and part of the county of Cork. Out of a population of 160,891 inhabitants, it counts… -
Kersbele (Kersbell), Philippe
Carmelite theologian, b. in Ghent (Belgium) around 1462, d. in Paris on 20 November 1489. An ardent defender of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, he wrote the… -
Keta, Diocese of (KETA, DIOCESI DI)
In British Togo, suffragan of the archdiocese of Cape Coast (formerly the apostolic vicariate of the Gold Coast), entrusted to the Society for African… -
Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel von (KETTELER, WILHELM EMANUEL VON)
Bishop of Mainz, initiator and supporter of the ideological and practical movement of German social Catholicism, b. at Harkotten (Westphalia) on 25 Dec. 1811… -
Keumurghian Komita
KEUMURGHIAN KOMITA: v. COSMA DA CARBONIANO. -
Keynes, John Maynard
English economist, b. in Cambridge on 5 June 1883, d. in London on 21 Apr. 1946. He became known as early as 1912 by directing the Economic Journal, then… -
Keys (CLAVI)
An ornament of the Roman tunic; the clavi were two parallel purple stripes which, passing over the shoulders, ran down in front and behind as far as the lower… -
Keyserling, Hermann, Count (KEYSERLING, HERMANN, CONTE)
Philosopher, b. at Koenno (Livonia) on 20 July 1880, d. at Innsbruck on 26 Apr. 1946. He studied natural sciences and chemistry and took his degree in… -
Keys of the Terms (CLAVES TERMINORUM)
CLAVES TERMINORUM: v. CYCLUS MAGNUS.