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Possessio, Presa di (POSSESSO, PRESA DI)
It is one of the subsequent acts by which canonical provision is carried out. I. GENERAL CONCEPT. - In order to prevent harmful uncertainties in the… -
Possevino, Antonio
Jesuit, diplomat, b. at Mantua on 10 July 1533, d. at Ferrara on 26 Feb. 1611. Having gone to Rome in 1550, he was chosen as tutor to the nephews of Cardinal… -
Possibility (POSSIBILITÀ)
In the logical sense, possible is that which, once posited, has no absurd consequence; it is that which can be and not be, to which there corresponds in the… -
Possidius, Saint (POSSIDIO, SANTO)
Biographer of St. Augustine, he was among the first disciples who gathered around the Saint in the monastery founded by him at Hippo shortly after his… -
Post, Albert Hermann
Jurist, b. in Bremen on 8 Oct. 1839, d. there on 25 Aug. 1895. After completing his legal studies, he was a judge at the Obergericht and subsequently at the… -
Postcommunio
In the Latin rite (Roman, Ambrosian, Gallican and Mozarabic) it is the prayer said by the priest after Communion and after the people's chant at the Communio… -
Postliminium (POSTLIMINIO)
It is an institution characteristic of Roman law which, applied in various ways in medieval law and in canon law, still retains certain reflections in modern… -
Postulancy and Postulant (POSTULATO E POSTULANTE)
In the strict sense, p. is the period of time during which the aspirant to a religious order is considered such for legal purposes. In the broad sense, it is… -
Postulate (POSTULATO)
From Lat. postulare (to require; Gk. αἰτησίω), it is a proposition (v.) that is admitted as true without demonstration (v.) and whose affirmation is necessary… -
Postulazione and Postulator (POSTULAZIONE E POSTULATORE)
By p. is meant the function of one who legitimately promotes a cause before the competent ecclesiastical authority (pontifical and diocesan); and… -
Potamiaena and Basilides, Saints, Martyrs (POTAMIENA E BASILIDE, SANTI, MARTIRI)
They are commemorated in the Martyrologies on June 28 and June 30 respectively, but they belong to the group of Plutarch (v.). The daughter of Marcella, who… -
Potamion, Bishop of Heraclea, Saint (POTAMIONE, VESCOVO DI ERACLEA, SANTO)
In the Hieronymian Martyrology he is commemorated on May 18 as a martyr of the pagan persecutions and is called a presbyter. In the Roman Martyrology, however… -
Potamius (POTAMIO)
First bishop of Lisbon, d. 360. As with Priscillian, there is a critical disagreement over P.'s literary personality between the testimonies of his… -
Potenza
POTENZA: V. ATTO E POTENZA. -
Potenza e Marsico Nuovo, Diocese of (POTENZA E MARSICO NUOVO, DIOCESI DI)
P. is the capital of Basilicata: the Cathedral is under the invocation of St. Gerard, a suffragan of Acerenza and Matera. It has a population of 87,050… -
Pothier, Joseph
Benedictine of the Congregation of Solesmes, b. at Bouzemont (Vosges) on 7 Dec. 1835, d. at St-Wandrille on 8 Dec. 1923. Dom Guéranger entrusted him with the… -
Pothier, Robert-Joseph
Jurist, b. at Orléans on 9 Jan. 1699, d. there on 2 March 1772. Having completed his early studies in his native city at a college of Jesuits, he also attended… -
Pothinus, Saint, Martyr (POTINO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 2 June together with the group of the martyrs of Lyons of 177. A disciple of St. Polycarp, like his presbyter… -
Potij, Ipatij
Bishop of Volodymyr-Berest and later metropolitan of Kiev, b. in 1541 and d. at Vilna in 1613. He was a state official at Berest and as such worked, this time… -
Potosí in Bolivia, Diocese of (POTOSÌ IN BOLIVIA, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese of Bolivia in South America, suffragan of the archdiocese of Sucre. > POTIJ, IPATIJ - Portrait. Painting in the residence of the Jesuits of Vilna. It… -
Potter, Mary
Foundress of the "Little Company of Mary," b. in London on 22 Nov. 1847, d. in Rome on 9 Apr. 1913. Having renounced marriage and after an attempt at… -
Potthast, August
German historian and bibliographer, b. at Höxter (Westphalia) on 13 Aug. 1824, d. at Leobschütz (Upper Silesia) on 13 Feb. 1898. After completing his studies… -
Pottier, Antoine
Sociologist, b. at Spa (Belgium) on 22 Feb. 1849, d. at Rome on 24 Nov. 1923. A boarder at the Collegio Capranica in Rome (1868-1875), he earned his degree in… -
Poulain, Augustin-François
Jesuit, writer on mysticism, b. at Cherbourg on 15 Dec. 1836, d. at Paris on 19 July 1919. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1858, from 1881 to 1897 he… -
Poulpiquet, Ambroise de
Dominican apologist, b. at Lesmel in Plouguerneau (Finistère) on 25 June 1878, d. at Brest on 22 Apr. 1915. A religious in 1896, ordained a priest in 1902, he… -
Pouso Alegre
City and diocese in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has a population of 530,000 inhabitants, of whom 525,000 are Catholics, distributed in 34 parishes… -
Poussin, Nicolas
French painter, b. at Villers in Normandy in 1594, d. in Rome on Nov. 19, 1665. Trained in his homeland under the guidance of Quentin Varin, around 1612 he… -
Poveda, Pedro
Spanish priest, founder of the Teresian Institution, b. December 3, 1874 at > (phot. Alinari) > POUSSIN, NICOLAS - Ecstasy of St. Paul - Paris, Louvre. Linares… -
Poverty (POVERTÀ)
The state of one who, lacking the superfluous and the fitting, and often even the necessities of life, is exposed to privations and hardships. It concerns not… -
Powder Plot (POLVERI, CONGIURA DELLE)
A conspiracy to blow up, on Nov. 5, 1605, the English Parliament and with its members also King James I. Motive: the long and unbearable vexations and… -
Powell, Edward, Blessed (POWELL, EDWARD, BEATO)
Theologian, b. ca. 1478 in Wales, suffered martyrdom on 30 July 1540 in London. A member of Oriel College, Oxford, he held various ecclesiastical benefices; as… -
Poznań, Archdiocese of (POSNANIA-POZNAŃ, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
City and archdiocese in Poland, founded in 968. A suffragan of Gniezno until 1821. In that year, with the bull De salute animarum, Pope Pius VII raised it to a… -
Pozzetti, Pompilio
Born at Mirandola on 17 January 1760; a Piarist on 17 September 1775, died at Bologna on 18 April 1815. An illustrious historian and polygraph, he was one of… -
Pozzo, Andrea
Born in Trento in 1642, after an initial pictorial education there and in Como he moved to Milan, where in 1665 he entered the Society of Jesus as a "coadjutor… -
Pozzuoli, Diocese of (POZZUOLI, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the province of Naples. It has an area of 77 sq km with a population of 153,364 inhabitants, of whom 152,307 are Catholics; it has 40…