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Onah (ONA)
A small town in the diocese and province of Burgos (Spain), seat of the monastery of St. Saviour, founded in 1011 by the count of Castile and his wife Doña… -
Onan
Second son of Judah, son of the patriarch Jacob, born to him by his Canaanite wife, Shua. Since his brother Er had died without offspring, on his father's… -
Ondo, Diocese of (ONDO, DIOCESI DI)
In the south-eastern part of Nigeria. The evangelization of the territory began in 1913 through the work of the Fathers of the Society for African Missions.… -
One (UNO)
UNO: V. TRASCENDENTALI. -
O'Neill Family (O'NEILL, FAMIGLIA)
A famous Irish family, descended from Niall, king of Ireland in the 5th century. To it belonged Muircheartach Mac Neill, who was perhaps the first king of… -
Onesimus (ONESIMO)
A fugitive slave, probably Phrygian and from Colossae (Col. 4:9), on whose behalf St. Paul wrote the Epistle to Philemon (v.). The name of O. (=Useful) was… -
Onesiphorus (ONESIFORO)
A figure of the Church of Ephesus, mentioned in II Tim. 1:16 ff. and 4:19 (the "house of O."). From the whole context it appears that he was already dead when… -
Onias (ONIA)
Name of four Jewish high priests of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. (Fl. Josephus, Antiq. Iud., XII-XIII; and Bell. Iud., VII). The first and the third are… -
O Nimis Felix Meritique Celsi
It is the third part of the hymn of the Office for the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, composed by Paul the Deacon, and it is sung at Lauds. In… -
Onitsha, Archdiocese of (ONITSHA, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
In the central-southern part of Nigeria. The missionaries of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, coming from Gabon (French Equatorial Africa), settled there… -
Onofrius, Saint (ONOFRIO, SANTO)
Hermit of the Thebaid in Egypt, died toward the end of the 4th century or at the beginning of the 5th (the date 375 has no foundation). His feast in the Latin… -
Onofri, Vincenzo
Bolognese sculptor, first recorded in 1493 for the payment for two statues of Bl. Albertus Magnus and of Raymond of Peñafort in St. Dominic's in Bologna; he is… -
'Onqēlos ('ONQĒLÒS)
'ONQĒLÒS : v. TABGUM. -
Ontological Argument (ONTOLOGICO, ARGOMENTO)
In the history of philosophy, the o. a. is that form of demonstration which seeks to deduce the existence of God from His own concept. It is also called a… -
Ontologism (ONTOLOGISMO)
A philosophical trend, of varied meaning, characteristic especially of modern philosophy. I. NOTION AND HISTORY. - Many controversies have arisen around the… -
Ontology (ONTOLOGIA)
From ὄν and λόγος, science of being, it is synonymous with metaphysics (v.) and seems to have been introduced for the first time by J. Clauberg (v.), who used… -
O.N.U.
O.N.U.: v. ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLE NAZIONI UNITE. -
Onyx (ONICE)
A term that in the Vulgate denotes both a perfume and a precious stone. In Ex. 30:34 it is the perfume of the fragrant nail (blatta byzantina; Heb. lēhēlētō)…