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Neapolitanus, Joannes de Regina de (John of Naples) (GIOVANNI DI NAPOLI)
Dominican scholastic of the 13th-14th century. He obtained the licentiate in theology in Paris, where in 1310-11 he lectured on the Sentences (whose… -
Nebi Samwil
NEBI SAMWIL: V. GABAON. -
Nebo
Mountain and city of the Abarim range (v.), situated east of the Dead Sea. The mountain (Heb. har Nèbbô; Septuagint Naβaô) is bounded to the north by the Wâdi… -
Nebuchadnezzar II (NABUCHODONOSOR II)
Second Neo-Babylonian king (Babylonian 'Nabū-kudurri-uṣur = "Nabū protect the heir son"; Hebrew Nēbhūkhadhre'sar, the older and more genuine form of… -
Necchi, Ludovico (Vico)
Physician, b. in Milan on 19 Nov. 1876, d. there on 11 Jan. 1930. In Nov. 1889, he began attending the second gymnasium class at the Parini Gymnasium, a… -
Necessity (NECESSITÀ)
I. PHILOSOPHY. - It is predicated of everything that in some order (ontological, physical, logical and moral) "cannot be otherwise" (τὸ μὴ ἐνδεχόμενον ἄλλως… -
Necessity of the Church (NECESSITÀ DELLA CHIESA)
According to Catholic doctrine it is necessary to belong to the Church in order to attain eternal life. In negative terms this truth is expressed by the… -
Necessity, State of (NECESSITÀ, STATO DI)
I. ITALIAN LAW. - The state of necessity is regulated, in the Italian legal order, by both criminal law and civil law. The criminal legislator conceives the… -
Nechao
Pharaoh of Egypt of the XXVI dynasty (609-595 B.C.), the second of his name, son of Psammetichus I, whose work he continued. Herodotus (II, 158) recalls of him… -
Neckam (Nequam), Alessandro
Polymath and educationist, b. at St. Albans (England) in the year 1157, d. at Kempsey (Worcestershire) in 1217. He was educated at St. Albans, then became… -
Necker de La Saussure, Albertine
Pedagogue, b. in Geneva in 1776, d. at Mornay on 13 April 1841. Precocious of intellect and spiritually educated by her father, she learned various languages… -
Necrology (NECROLOGIO)
NECROLOGIO : v. OBITUARIO. -
Nectarius, Patriarch of Constantinople (NETTARIO, PATRIARCA DI COSTANTINOPOLI)
Born at Tarsus, in Cilicia, in the first half of the 4th century, died 27 September 397 at Constantinople, where he was the eleventh bishop and the first… -
Negeb (NEGHEBH)
In the Hebrew language (from an ancient Semitic root ngb "to be dry, arid") it means an arid region, and, as a general term of orientation, it indicates the… -
Neghelli [Negele Boran], Apostolic Prefecture of (NEGHELLI, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
In the southern part of Ethiopia, it was erected on 25 March 1937, on the occasion of the general reorganization of the ecclesiastical circumscriptions in the… -
Negligence (NEGLIGENZA)
It is generally opposed to diligence (v.), and is a carelessness of the will in one's own duty and in one's own actions. It has repercussions in the moral… -
Negotiorum Gestio (GESTIONE DI AFFARI ALTRUI)
The management of another's affairs (negotiorum gestio) is a form, at least in a broad sense, of quasi-contract (v.) and corresponds practically to a presumed… -
Negri, Ada
Poet, b. of a humble family at Lodi on 3 Feb. 1870, d. at Milan on 11 Jan. 1945. She entrusted to the novel Stella matutina (1921) the memory of her tormented… -
Negri, Francesco
A monk who became a Protestant, b. at Bassano in 1500 into the noble Buonamonti family (a surname he abandoned for that of Negri), d. at Kraków in 1563. He… -
Negri, Gaetano
Historian, b. in Milan on 11 July 1838, d. near Varazze on 31 July 1902. He took part in the campaign of 1859 and in the struggle against brigandage in the… -
Negri, Giovanni Francesco
Cardinal, b. in Genoa on 3 Oct. 1629, d. in Rome on 1 Jan. 1713. Created by Alexander VII prothonotary participant and referendary of both Signatures, he later… -
Negri, Paola Antonia
Mystic, in the world Virginia, b. at Castellanza near Gallarate (Milan) in 1508, d. at Milan on 4 April 1555. She was among the first admitted by St. Anthony… -
Negroni, Veronica, Blessed (NEGRONI, VERONICA, BEATA)
Augustinian mystic, b. at Binasco (Milan) in 1445, d. 13 Jan. 1497 in the convent of St. Martha in Milan, where she had entered at the age of 22 and where she… -
Nehemias (NEEMIA)
Restorer of Jerusalem (5th century B.C.) after the exile; he was the son of Hachaliah (Neh. 1:1). His activity is narrated in autobiographical memoirs that… -
Nelli, Ottaviano (Ottaviano di Martino di Nello)
Painter, b. at Gubbio ca. 1375, d. probably before 1450. He was very active, especially in Umbria. In Gubbio there are preserved, besides his earliest known… -
Nellore, Diocese of (NELLORE, DIOCESI DI)
In south-eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal. In 1701 some French Jesuits began to evangelize the territory of the present diocese of N., which was then part… -
Nelson, Diocese of (NELSON, DIOCESI DI)
In the province of Canadian Colombia. A suffragan of Vancouver, the diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Universorum Christi… -
Nemesian and Companions, Saints, Martyrs (NEMESIANO E COMPAGNI, SANTI, MARTIRI)
They are commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on September 10; the true dies natalis, however, is unknown, as is the martyrdom itself. The laterculus… -
Nemesis (Némisos) (NEMESI (ΝΈΜΙΣΟΣ))
The idea, widespread in the ancient religions, of the hostility of the gods toward the excessive fortune or pride of men, a hostility that reaches genuine… -
Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa (NEMESIO, VESCOVO DI EMESA)
He lived in the 4th-5th century; author of a book De natura hominis, of Neoplatonic inspiration (Porphyry is often cited). The author mentions Eunomius… -
Neoclassicism (NEOCLASSICISMO)
In a broad sense it can mean any deliberate or programmatic return to expressive forms of classical taste; thus one has been able to speak of neoclassical… -
Neocriticism (NEOCRITICISMO)
Term with which the philosophical currents that take up and develop the themes of Kantian philosophy (v. CRITICISM; KANT) are usually designated; it is… -
Neo-Guelphism (NEOGUELFISMO)
The antecedents of N. must be sought in Romanticism, which asserted itself in various ways in the new culture and the new post-revolutionary politics… -
Neo-Kantianism (NEOKANTISMO)
NEOKANTISMO: v. NEOCRITICISMO. -
Neo-Lutheranism (NEOLUTERANESIMO)
It presents itself as a current of theological and ecclesiastical revival and restoration of Lutheranism in the 19th century, in close relation to that… -
Neo-Malthusianism (NEO-MALTHUSIANISMO)
A particular form of birth control (v.) which, originally taking as its starting point the theories of Malthus and freeing itself from the honest means he… -
Neomenia (Neomnēsía) (NEOMÉNIA (ΝΕΟΜΝΗΣΊΑ))
From Gk. νέος = new and μήνη = moon. It is the new moon (Heb. hōdheš, translated in the Latin Bible as kalendae). The observation of the new moon is of… -
Neon, Omeusian Bishop of Seleucia (NEONE, VESCOVO OMEUSIANO DI SELEUCIA)
He was already bishop in 359, since in that year he took part in the Council held in his episcopal city. Having become aware of the machinations of the… -
Neon, Saint, Martyr (NEONE, SANTO, MARTIRE)
NEONE, santo, martire: v. CLAUDIO, ASPERIO, NEONE, DOMNINA E TEONILLA, saints, martyrs. -
Neophytes (NEOFITI)
From the Greek νεόφυτος, meaning a new plant, hence tender. In Sacred Scripture it occurs once, though there are many comparisons, since the Christian life is… -
Neophytos the Recluse (NEOFITO, ENCLEISTRO)
A solitary "recluse," as his name indicates. Born at Leucara (Cyprus) in 1134, but the date of his death is unknown. Very young, he embraced the monastic life… -
Neoplatonism (NEOPLATONISMO)
A philosophical current and school inspired principally by Plato, which arose in Alexandria toward the end of the 2nd century A.D. SUMMARY: I. History and… -
Neopositivism (NEOPOSITIVISMO)
Neopositivism, also called logical positivism, recognizes its formal beginning in the founding of the Wienerkreis (Vienna Circle), which took place in 1928… -
Neopythagoreanism (NEOPITAGORISMO)
A philosophical-mystical current tracing its origin back to Pythagoras and remaining alive, after the violent destruction of the Pythagorean community in 450… -
Neorealism (NEOREALISMO)
An Anglo-American philosophical-scientific movement that forms part of the broader movement of contemporary "realism," different from the classical realism of… -
Neosolio (Slovak Banská Bystrica), Diocese of (NEOSOLIO (SLOVACCO BANSKA BYSTRICA), DIOCESI DI)
Diocese in Slovakia, erected on 13 March 1776, detached from the territory of the archdiocese of Esztergom, of which it remained a suffragan until 1937, when… -
Neot, Saint, Hermit (NEOT, SANTO, EREMITA)
Born in Cornwall into a noble family, related to the English king Alfred, he became a monk at Glastonbury. Ordained a priest, he withdrew to the eremitical… -
NEP
Abbreviation for Novaja ekonomičeskaja politika ("New Economic Policy"). When, as a consequence of the civil war and of war communism (an attempt at the… -
Nepal
I. GEOGRAPHY. - Nepal extends over the southern slope (central section) of the Himalayas, which separate it from Tibet. Among the valleys through which the… -
Nephthali (Hebr. Naphtālī) (NEPHTHALI)
Second-born of Jacob, born of Bilhah, Rachel's slave. His name is interpreted in Gen. 30:8 as "contest," an allusion to the sorrow of Rachel, who for a long… -
Nepi and Sutri, Diocese of (NEPI E SUTRI, DIOCESI DI)
In Lazio, in the province of Viterbo, immediately subject to the Holy See. They have an area of 782 sq km with a population of 63,854 inhabitants, divided into… -
Nepotian, Saint (NEPOZIANO, SANTO)
Nephew of Heliodorus, bishop of Altino, and friend of St. Jerome, he lived in the second half of the 4th century. As a young man he embraced a military career… -
Nepotism (NEPOTISMO)
Term designating the excessive favor shown by certain pontiffs toward members of their own family through the granting of ecclesiastical dignities, privileges… -
Neptune and Neptunalia (NETTUNO E NEPTUNALIA)
Neptunus, an ancient Roman divinity, already appears with his festival, the Neptunalia (23 July), in the oldest Roman Calendar. The literary testimonies… -
Nepveu, François
Spiritual writer, b. at St-Malo on 29 April 1639, d. at Rennes on 17 February 1708. Having entered the Society of Jesus (1639), he taught grammar and… -
Nereus and Achilleus, Saints, Martyrs (NEREO E ACHILLEO, SANTI, MARTIRI)
They are commemorated in the Jeronymian Martyrology on 12 May; the Itineraries of the 7th century record them as buried in the church of St. Petronilla near… -
Nergal
NERGAL: v. BABILONESI, RELIGIONE dei. -
Nergel (Hebr. Nèrghal, Sept. 'Ergél) (NERGEL)
Name of the idol that the Assyrian colonists, sent to populate the Samaritan city of Cuthah, "made" for themselves (II Kings 17:30). It is a deity very well… -
Neriglissar (NERIGLISSOR)
Fourth Neo-Babylonian king (Babylonian Nergal-šar-uşur "may Nergal protect the king"; Hebrew Nérghal Sar'şer), second successor of the great Nebuchadnezzar II… -
Nerini, Paolo Antonio
Barnabite missionary, b. in Milan on 1 Nov. 1711 and killed in 1756 at Siriam in Pegu (Burma) while refusing to hand over to the soldiers of the king of Ava… -
Neroccio di Bartolomeo Landi
Sienese painter, b. 1447, d. 1500, also active as a sculptor (statue of St. Catherine, 1470, Siena, Oratory of Fonte Branda; Testa-Piccolomini monument, 1485… -
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus), Roman Emperor (NERONE, IMPERATORE ROMANO)
N. at Anzio on 15 Dec. 37 A.D., son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina, d. at Rome on 9 June 68. At the age of 11 he was adopted by the emperor… -
Néron, Pierre-François, Blessed (NÉRON, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS, BEATO)
Of the Paris Foreign Missions, martyred in Tonkin on 3 Nov. 1860. Born on 21 Sept. 1818 at Bornay (Jura), he entered the Seminary of the Missions as a layman… -
Nerses II, Astaraketzi
Armenian Katholikós from 548 to 557. He convoked the well-known Council of Duino (554-55), aimed at obtaining a pact of dogmatic union against the sect of the… -
Nerses Klajetzi, Saint (NERSES KLAJETZI, SANTO)
Also called Snorhali, that is, Gracious, on account of the gentleness and evangelical charity he showed toward all: born in 1102 to Prince Apirat Pahlavouni… -
Nerva (M. Cocceius Nerva), Roman Emperor (NERVA (M. COCCEIUS NERVA), IMPERATORE ROMANO)
Born at Narni in 26 A.D., died at Rome in Jan. 98. Of an aristocratic family, he was consul in 71 and in 90. On the death of Domitian, in 96, he was acclaimed… -
Nervous Diseases (NERVOSE, MALATTIE)
Nervous diseases and mental diseases together constitute the group of morbid affections that affect the nervous system. Although the former form a fairly… -
Nervous System (of Man) (NERVOSO, SISTEMA (DELL'UOMO))
I. GENERALITIES. - It is a general property of protoplasm to be excitable, that is, to perceive stimuli of various kinds and to react to them with appropriate… -
Nesqually, Diocese of (NESQUALLY, DIOCESI DI)
NESQUALLY, DIOCESI di: v. SEATTLE, DIOCESI di. -
Nesterov, Michele
Russian painter, b. in 1862 at Ufa, d. in the early years of the 20th century. He was influenced by Perov and Kramskoj. He made his debut with the "Wanderers"… -
Nestorius and Nestorianism (NESTORIO E NESTORIANESIMO)
I. LIFE OF N. - Little is known of N. before his episcopate at Constantinople, because legend has embroidered much upon his name. Born at Germanicia (today… -
Nestor, Saint, Martyr (NESTORIO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
He is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on February 25, in the Roman Martyrology on the 26th, and among the Greeks on the 28th. The original Passion… -
Netherlands (PAESI BASSI)
The N[etherlands] (Nederland), of which Holland (or Holland) is only the central-western part, correspond to the northwestern edge of the Germanic plain, from… -
Netter, Thomas
Carmelite controversialist, b. at Saffron Walden (Essex) ca. 1375. From his place of origin, he is better known under the appellation Waldensis. A religious in… -
Neudecker, Sigismund
Franciscan theologian, b. 21 Oct. 1664 at Geisenhausen (southern Bavaria), d. at Munich on 3 Sept. 1736. He taught philosophy, theology and canon law; he was… -
Neue Zeitschrift für Missions-Wissenschaft
A quarterly scholarly missionary journal, published since 1945 by J. Beckmann at the Seminary of Schöneck (Switzerland), with the aim of replacing the… -
Neumayr, Franz
Jesuit, preacher and spiritual writer, b. in Munich on 17 Jan. 1697, d. in Augsburg on 1 May 1765. A professor of belles-lettres and director of the great… -
Neurasthenia (NEVRASTENIA (NEURASTENIA))
Of all the terms of scientific medicine, few have enjoyed the fortune and diffusion that this one has enjoyed and still enjoys, introduced by the American… -
Neuroses (NEVROSI (NEVROSI))
The term n. was used for the first time (1769) by the Scottish physician Cullen to designate all nervous and psychic anomalies and diseases. In Italy it was… -
Neurovegetative, System (NEUROVEGETATIVO, SISTEMA)
The nervous system is divided into two great sections: a) the system of the life of relation, which regulates the voluntary functions, that is, voluntary acts… -
Neutrality (NEUTRALITÀ)
In the etymological sense, n. means an impartial attitude between contending parties; in the specific sense that international law attributes to it, it means… -
Nevers, Diocese of (NEVERS, DIOCESI DI)
Capital city of the department of the Nièvre at the confluence of the river of the same name with the Loire. The territory of the diocese coincides with that… -
Nevolone (Novellone) da Faenza, Blessed (NEVOLONE (NOVELLONE) DA FAENZA, BEATO)
A shoemaker, who turned from a pleasure-seeker into a penitent, a Franciscan tertiary, a pilgrim, and then a hermit near the Camaldolese of Faenza, where he… -
New Antwerp, Apostolic Vicariate of (NUOVA ANVERSA, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
It was erected on 3 April 1919 and after various territorial changes on 27 Jan. 1936 it received the name of apostolic vicariate of Lisala (v.). Saverio Paventi -
New Apostolic Church (CHIESA NEO-APOSTOLICA)
CHIESA NEO-APOSTOLICA: v. IRVING, EDWARD. -
Newark, Archdiocese of (NEWARK, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese of the United States of America, erected as a diocese by Pius IX in 1853 for the State of New Jersey. Today it has a population of… -
New Cáceres, Diocese of (NUOVA CACERES, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese in the Philippine Islands. It measures 17,617 sq. km.; it has 1,666,459 inhabitants, of whom 1,583,137 are Catholics. It has 110 parishes served by 196… -
New Caledonia, Apostolic Vicariate of (NUOVA CALEDONIA, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DELLA)
It comprises the island of the same name between Australia and the New Hebrides and the islands: La Grande Terre, of Pines, Loyauté or Mare, Lifou, Ouvéa, the… -
Newcastle, Diocese of (NEWCASTLE, DIOCESI DI)
NEWCASTLE, DIOCESI di: v. HEXHAM E NEWCASTLE, DIOCESI di. -
New Covenant (NUOVA ALLEANZA)
A Jewish sect, about which information is given by an incomplete Hebrew codex, discovered in the winter of 1896-97 and published in 1910 by S. Schechter, today… -
New Hebrides, Apostolic Vicariate of the (NUOVE EBRIDI, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DELLE ISOLE)
In southern Melanesia (northeast of New Caledonia), under Franco-British condominium. The territory, detached from the apostolic vicariate of New Caledonia… -
New Lisbon, Diocese of (NUOVA LISBONA, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese > (from Enc. Ital., XXV, 140 f.) > DUTCH NEW GUINEA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE of - House of the famous - Dutch New Guinea. in Angola, a Portuguese… -
Newman, John Henry
Cardinal and distinguished writer, b. in London on 22 Feb. 1801, d. in Birmingham on 11 Aug. 1890. I. LIFE. - From a Protestant family (his father was an… -
New Norcia, Abbey Nullius of (NUOVA NORCIA, ABBAZIA NULLIUS DI)
In Western Australia. In Jan. 1846 the first Catholic bishop of Perth, Msgr. G. Brady (d. 1871), reached the Colony of West Australia with two Spanish… -
New Orleans, Archdiocese of (NUOVA ORLEANS, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese in the United States of America. It has an area of 13,090 square miles with 1,247,894 inhabitants (1951), of whom 483,028 are Catholics… -
New Pamplona, Diocese of (NUOVA PAMPLONA, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese and city in the department of Santander del Norte, in Colombia (South America). It extends over 25,931 sq km with 646,471 inhabitants, of whom 645,960… -
Newport, Diocese of (NEWPORT, DIOCESI DI)
NEWPORT, DIOCESI di: v. CARDIFF, ARCIDIOCESI di. -
New Scholasticism, The
A quarterly organ of the "American Catholic Philosophical Association," which, after the Congress of American Neo-Scholastic philosophers held in 1926 at the… -
New Segovia, Diocese of (NUOVA SEGOVIA, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese in the province of Ilocos Sur in the Philippine Islands. It has an area of 11,559 sq. km., with 851,673 inhabitants, of whom 589,676 are Catholics… -
Newton, Isaac (NEWTON, JSAAC)
Scientist, b. at Woolsthorpe, county of Lincoln, England, on 25 Dec. 1642 (5 Jan. 1643 according to the Gregorian calendar). He showed, from a very young age… -
New Westminster, Diocese of (NEW WESTMINSTER, DIOCESI DI)
NEW WESTMINSTER, DIOCESI di: v. VANCOUVER, DIOCESI di. -
New Year's Day (CAPODANNO)
The feast of New Year's Day closes, among all human groups, a period of time, generally calculated on the astronomical cycle of the seasons, and opens a new… -
New York, Archdiocese of (NUOVA YORK, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese in the State of N. Y. The founding of the diocese of N. Y. coincides with the multiplication of dioceses in the United States, when the… -
New Zealand (NUOVA ZELANDA)
I. GEOGRAPHY. - This name — given by S. Cook in 1769 to the lands already known to Tasman, discovered and christened Terra degli Stati in 1642 — designates the…