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No-AmonVol. VIII, p. 1114 NO-AMON: v. TEBE D'EGITTO.
Noah (Heb. Nōah; Septuagint Nōe; cf. Old Babylonian Nuḫīja)(NOÈ (EBR. NŌAH, SETTANTA NŌE; CF. ANTICO BABIL. NUHIJA))Vol. VIII, p. 1116 NOAH (Heb. Nōah; LXX Nōe; cf. Old Babylonian Nuhija). — The tenth of the “antediluvian patriarchs” (Gen 5:28–31), son of Lamech, who lived to the age of 950…
Noaillat, Marthe DeVol. VIII, p. 1113 NOAILLAT, MARTHE de. - Marta Devuns, apostle of devotion to Christ the King, b. at Crotoy (Somme) on 26 Nov. 1865, d. at Paray-le-Monial on 5 Feb. 1926.…
Noailles, Louis-AntoineVol. VIII, p. 1114 NOAILLES, LOUIS-ANTOINE. - Cardinal, b. at Noailles on 27 May 1651, d. at Parigi on 4 May 1729. Bishop of Cahors from 1679 and of Châlons-sur-Marne from 1680,…
Noailles, Pierre-BienvenuVol. VIII, p. 1114 NOAILLES, PIERRE-BIENVENU. - Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Bordeaux, born there on 27 Oct. 1793, died there on 8 Feb. 1861. Converted at the age…
Nobili, Flaminio DeVol. VIII, p. 1114 NOBILI, FLAMINIO de. - Theologian and biblical scholar, b. ca. 1530, d. at Lucca in 1590. He devoted special attention to the Greek version of the Septuagint,…
Nobili, Roberto DeVol. VIII, p. 1114 NOBILI, ROBERTO de: v. DE NOBILI, ROBERTO.
Nocera De' Pagani (Alfaterna), Diocese Of(NOCERA DEI PAGANI (ALFATERNA), DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1114 NOCERA DEI PAGANI (ALFATERNA), DIOCESE of. — City and diocese in the province of Salerno, with a population of 90,000 inhabitants, all Catholics, distributed…
Nocera Umbra, Diocese of(NOCERA UMBRA, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1115 NOCERA UMBRA, DIOCESE of. – An ancient diocese in north-eastern Umbria. It is immediately subject to the Holy See. It has an area of 1,500 sq. km., with 60,320…
Nocte Surgentes Vigilemus OmnesVol. VIII, p. 1116 «NOCTE SURGENTES VIGILEMUS OMNES». — Hymn of Matins, used from the third Sunday after Pentecost to 27 September, by an unknown author. In the silence of the…
Nocturns (Vigiliae Nocturnae, Nocturna Laus)(NOTTURNO (VIGILIAE NOCTURNAE, NOCTURNA LAUS))Vol. VIII, p. 1146 NOTTURNO (Vigiliae nocturnae, Nocturna laus). — It was the canonical hour of the night already in use during the earliest Christian centuries (Tertullian, Ad…
Nogaret, GuglielmoVol. VIII, p. 1118 NOGARET, GUGLIELMO. – Born around 1260 at St-Felix de Caraman (Toulouse). Professor of law at Montpellier (1291), then judge of Beaucaire (1294), he was…
Nola, Diocese of(NOLA, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1118 NOLA, DIOCESE of. – City and diocese of Campania, in the province of Naples. It has an area of 200 sq. km, with a population of 260,000 inhabitants, of whom…
Noldin, HieronymusVol. VIII, p. 1120 NOLDIN, HIERONYMUS. — Jesuit, moral theologian, born at Salorno (South Tyrol) on 30 January 1838, died at Vienna-Lainz on 7 November 1922. Having already…
Nolens, Willem HubertVol. VIII, p. 1120 NOLENS, WILLEM HUBERT. – Dutch sociologist and politician, b. at Venlo on 7 September 1860, d. at The Hague on 27 August 1931. Ordained a priest in 1887, from…
Noli, Diocese of(NOLI, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1121 NOLI, DIOCESI di: v. SAVONA e NOLI, DIOCESI di.
Nomina SacraVol. VIII, p. 1125 NOMINA SACRA. – Alongside the abbreviations (v.) by suspension, in the Christian age one encounters words of a sacred character abbreviated by contraction…
Nominalism(NOMINALISMO)Vol. VIII, p. 1123 NOMINALISM. - A philosophical tendency that denies the existence of general concepts, or at least denies that any proper real content corresponds to them. The…
Nomocanons(NOMOCANONI)Vol. VIII, p. 1126 NOMOCANONI. — This is the name given, beginning in the 11th century, to collections containing imperial laws and conciliar canons. Among the most famous are…
Non ExpeditVol. VIII, p. 1127 NON EXPEDIT. — This is the formula that prohibited Italian Catholics from participating in political life, following the seizure of territories suffered by the…
Non-Catholic(ACATTOLICÓ)Vol. I, p. 123 ACATTOLICÓ. — By a., according to the etymology (privative à and καθόλιλος), is understood anyone who is not Catholic; hence: 1) in the broad sense, not only…
Non-Christian Missions(MISSIONI NON CRISTIANE)Vol. VIII, p. 677 NON-CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. — In the history of religions, a mission is the charge that a person vested with religious authority—either personal, as the founder of…
Non-Intervention(NON INTERVENTO)Vol. VIII, p. 1128 NON INTERVENTO : v. INTERVENTO, PRINCIPIO DEL NON.
Non-Jurors ("Non-Giurati")(NON-JURORS (« NON-GIURATI »))Vol. VIII, p. 1128 NON-JURORS (« non-giurati »). – When, after the revolution of 1688, the Prince of Orange, husband of Maria, daughter of Giacomo II, wished to be recognized as…
NonaVol. VIII, p. 1126 NONA. – This is that part of the Divine Office which is recited at the ninth hour (= 3 p.m.), according to the Greco-Roman division of the day. This hour of…
Nona (Aenona), Ancient Diocese Of(NONA (AENONA), ANTICA DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1126 NONA (Aenona), ancient diocese of. — The small town of N. (Nin), situated at one of the northernmost points of the Dalmatian coast, near Zara, played a most…
Nonantola, Abbey Nullius Of(NONANTOLA, ABBAZIA NULLIUS DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1126 NONANTOLA, ABBEY nullius. — Founded in 751–52 in honor of the holy Apostles, to whose names that of St. Silvester was added in 756, by St. Anselmo, formerly a…
Nonconformists(NONCONFORMISTI)Vol. VIII, p. 1127 NONCONFORMISTS. – During the reign of Elisabetta d'Inghilterra (1558–1603), the name n. was given to those who had not conformed to the doctrine and ritual…
Nonna, Saint(NONNA, SANTA)Vol. VIII, p. 1128 NONNA, saint. — She is commemorated by the Greeks and Latins on 5 August. A woman of outstanding virtue, pious, charitable, and deeply devoted to religion, she…
Norbert of Lorraine(NORBERTO DI LORENA)Vol. VIII, p. 1129 NORBERTO di LORENA: v. PARISOT, PIETRO.
Norbert, Saint(NORBERTO, SANTO)Vol. VIII, p. 1129 NORBERTO, saint. — Founder of the Canons Regular of Prémontré (hence the Premonstratensians), presently in the department of Aisne, born at Xanten, in the…
NorciaVol. VIII, p. 1129 NORCIA. – City and diocese in the province of Perugia (Umbria). It comprises 8 municipalities, 3 of which are in the province of Macerata (Castel S. Angelo,…
Noris, EnricoVol. VIII, p. 1130 NORIS, ENRICO. – Augustinian theologian and cardinal, born in Verona on 29 Aug. 1631, died in Rome on 23 Feb. 1704. He entered religious life in 1646; he was…
NormaVol. VIII, p. 1130 NORMA. — In Latin, as in the Greek γνώμοι ο κανών, it properly signifies the “square,” which, by making it possible to draw a perpendicular (normal) line to…
Norman Sicilian, Art(SICULO NORMANNA, ARTE)Vol. XI, p. 336 SICULO NORMANNA, ARTE. – Also called Siculo-Arab-Norman art: this is the designation that nineteenth-century historians assigned to the artistic manifestations…
Normans(NORMANNI)Vol. VIII, p. 1131 NORMANNI. – I. SCANDINAVIAN ORIGINS. – The Scandinavian peoples enter history only at the end of the eighth century, when the “men of the north” (Northmen,…
Normotype(NORMOTIPO)Vol. VIII, p. 1133 NORMOTYPE. - An individual whose characteristics, both in constitution and in temperament and disposition, display values equal to the statistical “norm.”…
Northampton, Diocese Of(NORTHAMPTON, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1133 NORTHAMPTON, DIOCESE of. - City and diocese in England. It includes the counties of Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, Northampton, and…
Northcote, Spencer JamesVol. VIII, p. 1134 NORTHCOTE, SPENCER JAMES. - Archaeologist, b. at Feninton Court (Devonshire) on 26 May 1821, d. at Stoke-upon-Trent (Staffordshire) on 3 March 1907. He studied…
Norway(NORVEGIA)Vol. VIII, p. 1134 NORWAY. – I. GEOGRAPHY. – The territory of N. corresponds to the western part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, from North Cape to the Skager Rak, and consists of…
Notae Iuris(NOTAIE IURIS)Vol. VIII, p. 1142 NOTAIE IURIS. - These are the abbreviations used in ancient manuscripts of legal works, in which, unlike literary manuscripts, many technical terms were…
Notary(NOTAIO)Vol. VIII, p. 1142 NOTARY. — In the modern understanding, the n. is a professional in private practice who has the status of a public official, empowered, within a specified…
NotitiaVol. VIII, p. 1144 NOTITIA. - According to the terminology introduced by Brunner, this is the probative document relating to a juridical act already completed prior to…
Notker(NOTKERO)Vol. VIII, p. 1144 NOTKERO. – Called “Labeone” on account of his thick lips. Monk of S. Gallo, the third and most illustrious of this name, head of that famous monastic school,…
Notker The Stammerer (Balbulus), Blessed(NOTKERO IL BALBUZIENTE (BALBULUS), BEATO)Vol. VIII, p. 1145 NOTKERO il BALBUZIENTE (Balbulus), blessed. — Benedictine, poet and writer, born c. 840 at Heiligau (now Elgg) in the canton of Zurich or, more probably, at…
Noto, Diocese of(NOTO, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1145 NOTO, DIOCESE of. — City and diocese in Sicily, Italy, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Siracusa. Seven municipalities of the diocese are in the province of…
Notoriety of Law and of Fact(NOTORIETÀ DI DIRITTO E DI FATTO (NOTORIETAS IURIS ET FACTI))Vol. VIII, p. 1145 NOTORIETÀ DI DIRITTO E DI FATTO (notorietas iuris et facti). — In the ordinary sense, something notorious is that which is a matter of public knowledge, or is…
Nottingham, Diocese of(NOTTINGHAM, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1146 NOTTINGHAM, DIOCESE of. – City and diocese in England. It comprises the counties of Leicester, Lincoln, Derby, N. and Rutland. It has a population of 2,653,757…
Nouet, JacquesVol. VIII, p. 1147 NOUET, JACQUES. - Ascetical writer, Jesuit, b. at Mainz on 25 March 1605, d. at Paris on 21 May 1680. He entered the Order in 1623 at Rouen. He distinguished…
Noumenon(NOUMENO)Vol. VIII, p. 1147 NOUMENO. — From the Greek νοοῦμενον (νοῦς, intellect), it means, etymologically, intelligible. The term is used by Platone (v.) to refer to the species or…
Nouna, Apostolic Vicariate of(NOUNA, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1147 NOUNA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE of. – In French West Africa, erected as an apostolic prefecture on 12 June 1947 with territory detached from that of Gao and…
Nouvelle Revue ThéologiqueVol. VIII, p. 1147 NOUVELLE REVUE THÉOLOGIQUE. - Belgian monthly theological review, founded in 1869 and now published under the direction of several theology professors of the…
Nova et VeteraVol. VIII, p. 1148 NOVA ET VETERA. — I. Periodical that first appeared in Rome on 10 January 1908 with the subtitle Riv. quindicinale della Soc. inter. scientifico-religiosa. Its…
Novae AudientiaeVol. VIII, p. 1148 NOVAE AUDIENTIAE: v. CONGREGAZIONI ROMANE, SACRE.
Noval, JoséVol. VIII, p. 1148 NOVAL, JOSÉ. - Canonist, b. at Valdesoto (Spain) on 4 Dec. 1861, d. at Madrid on 28 Jan. 1938. Having entered the Dominican Order at the age of sixteen, he was…
NovalesaVol. VIII, p. 1148 NOVALESA. — Benedictine abbey erected in honor of SS. Peter and Andrew by the Frank Abbo in 726, on a delightful hill between the Bar and Cenischia streams,…
NovaliVol. VIII, p. 1148 NOVALI. — From the Middle Ages onward, this name was given to parcels of land that were being brought under cultivation for the first time. Consequently, the…
Novalis (Pseudonym of Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg)(NOVALIS (PSEUDONIMO DI FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD VON HARDENBERG))Vol. VIII, p. 1149 NOVALIS (pseudonym of FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD VON HARDENBERG). — Born at Wiederstedt on 2 May 1772, died at Weissenfels on 25 March 1801. An exceptionally sensitive…
Novara, Diocese of(NOVARA, DIOCESI DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1149 NOVARA, DIOCESE of. — City, capital of the province of the same name and a diocese. The diocese extends from the lower Novarese to the main chain of the Alps.…
Novaro, Angelo-SilvioVol. VIII, p. 1151 NOVARO, ANGELO-SILVIO. - Writer and poet, born at Diano Marina on 12 Nov. 1868, died at Imperia on 10 March 1938. N. began his activity very early, and found…
Novati, Giovanni BattistaVol. VIII, p. 1151 NOVATI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Theologian of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians), born in Milan in 1585, died there on 30 Aug. 1648. For many…
Novatian and Novatianism(NOVAZIANO E NOVAZIANISMO)Vol. VIII, p. 1152 NOVAZIANO and NOVAZIANISM. — N. was a Roman presbyter of the 3rd century, founder of the schismatic Church of the Novatians. The exact form of the name is…
Novatian Cemetery (Cimitero detto di Novaziano)(NOVAZIANO, CIMITERO DETTO DI)Vol. VIII, p. 1151 NOVAZIANO, CIMITERO detto di. — Discovered in 1926 and 1929 on the occasion of the widening of the Via Tiburtina and the opening of the Viale Regina Margherita…
Novellae(NOVELLE)Vol. VIII, p. 1154 NOVELLE: v. CORPUS IUBIS CIVILIS.
Novelli, Pietro, called Il Monrealese(NOVELLI, PIETRO, DETTO IL MONREALESE)Vol. VIII, p. 1154 NOVELLI, PIETRO, known as il MONREALESE. - Painter, born on 2 March 1603 in Monreale, died in August 1647 in Palermo, where he attended Carrera’s studio and…
NovellinoVol. VIII, p. 1154 NOVELLINO. - A collection of 99 tales and a prologue, preserved in cod. Vat. lat. 3214 (of Bembo, 1513), in the Gualteruzzi printing (Bologna 1925), and in the…
Novendiales(NOVENDIALI)Vol. VIII, p. 1155 NOVENDIALI. – These are the obsequies of the supreme pontiffs, celebrated for nine days in the Vatican Basilica by the Sacred College and the entire Curia.…
Novitiate(NOVIZIATO)Vol. VIII, p. 1155 NOVIZIATO. – In the material sense, it is the period that an aspirant to a religious institute spends in a house specifically established for this purpose with…
Nox atra rerum contegitVol. VIII, p. 1156 « NOX ATRA RERUM CONTEGIT ». – Hymn of Matins for Thursday, by an unknown author. Night, the image of sin, veils the colors of the earth with its shadow, and…
Nox et tenebrae et nubilaVol. VIII, p. 1156 « NOX ET TENEBRAE ET NUBILA ». - Hymn of Lauds in the Office for Wednesday. Taken from the second longest hymn in the Liber Cathemerinon of Prudentius, it is…
Nóbrega, Manuel da(NOBREGA, MANUEL DA)Vol. VIII, p. 1114 NOBREGA, MANUEL da. - Jesuit missionary, founder of the missions of Brazil, b. in southern Portugal on 18 Oct. 1517, d. at Rio de Janeiro on 18 Oct. 1570. He…
