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Protectorate (PROTETTORATO)
I. NATURE AND ORIGIN. - The religious or missionary protectorate consists in a convention by which the Christian powers protect Christians or Christian… -
Proterius, Saint (PROTERIO, SANTO)
Unknown to the Latin Martyrologies, he is commemorated by the Greeks on February 28. He was elected patriarch of Alexandria after the Council of Chalcedon, at… -
Protestant Confessions of Faith (CONFESSIONI DI FEDE PROTESTANTI)
Formulas or summaries in which the various Protestant churches officially make known their principal religious doctrines. SUMMARY: I. Lutheran C. - II.… -
Protestant Diets (DIETE PROTESTANTI)
Assemblies of religious-political representatives of the German states, of the primates of the Kingdom of Hungary, and of emissaries from Switzerland and the… -
Protestant Ecumenism (ECUMENISMO PROTESTANTE)
I. TENDENCIES. - The pseudo-reformation of the 16th century gave rise among Protestants to two divergent and opposing tendencies that still endure in our own… -
Protestantism (PROTESTANTESIMO)
The term "P." enters history on 19 April 1529, when the Diet of Speyer confirmed the decree of the Diet of Worms against Luther and strictly forbade the… -
Protestant Missionary Societies (SOCIETÀ MISSIONARIE PROTESTANTI)
SOCIETÀ MISSIONARIE PROTESTANTI: V. PROTESTANTESIMO. -
Protestant Missions (MISSIONI PROTESTANTI)
MISSIONI PROTESTANTI: V. PROTESTANTESIMO. -
Protestant Reformation (RIFORMA PROTESTANTE)
RIFORMA PROTESTANTE: V. PROTESTANTESIMO. -
Prothesis (PROTESI)
As "diaconicum," it is a term used to indicate, in Byzantine architecture or architecture derived from it, one of the two minor apses that flank the central… -
Prothyron (PROTIRO)
A small structure attached to the entrance of a church building, of a quadriportico or of a portico, is called a p.; in its simplest form it consists of a… -
Proto-Canonical Books (PROTOCANONICI, LIBRI)
PROTOCANONICI, LIBRI: v. BIBBIA. -
Protocol (PROTOCOLLO)
PROTOCOLLO: v. DOCUMENTO. -
Protoevangelium (PROTOEVANGELO)
This is the customary designation for Gen. 3:15, because it contains the "first joyful announcement" of salvation for humanity after sin > (phot. Enc. Catt.)… -
Protus and Hyacinth, Saints, Martyrs (PROTO E GIACINTO, SANTI, MARTIRI)
They are already mentioned in the Depositio Martyrum on September 11, buried in the cemetery of Bassilla on the old Via Salaria. On the same date they are… -
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
French political thinker and economist, b. at Besançon on 15 Jan. 1809, d. at Paris on 19 Dec. 1864. Of a humble family, he had to take employment as a printer… -
Proust, Marcel
Writer, b. in Paris on 10 July 1871, d. there on 18 Nov. 1922. His life can be summed up in his assiduous visits to the most elegant Parisian salons and in the… -
Provençal, Language and Literature (PROVENZALE, LINGUA E LETTERATURA)
Strictly speaking, there is no longer today a Provençal language, but only a system of dialects of southern France, distinguished from that of the French… -
Provencher, Joseph-Norbert
Missionary bishop, b. 12 Feb. 1787 at Nicolet, in Lower Canada, d. at St-Boniface on 7 June 1853. Ordained priest on 21 Dec. 1811, he spent his first years in… -
Proverbs, Book of (PROVERBI, LIBRO DEI)
Third (after Job and the Psalms) of the didactic books of the Old Testament, first of the "sapiential" books. Ecclesiasticus (v.) drew inspiration from it not… -
Providence (PREVIDENZA)
PREVIDENZA : V. ASSICURAZIONE; PREVENZIONE; RISPARMIO. -
Providence (PROVVIDENZA)
I. NOTION AND EXISTENCE. - It indicates in general the divine government of the world insofar as the divine intelligence embraces the entire development of… -
Providence, Diocese of (PROVIDENCE, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the State of Rhode Island (U.S.A.), suffragan of Boston, today it covers a territory of 1,085 square miles with a total population (1950… -
Providentissimus Deus
Encyclical letter of Leo XIII (18 Nov. 1893) directed at promoting and regulating the study of Sacred Scripture (Acta Leonis XIII, 13 [1893], pp. 326-64; Acta… -
Prudence (PRUDENZA)
I. NATURE. - It was defined by Aristotle (Ethics, I, VI, ch. 5; Sum. Theol., 2ᵃ-2ᵃ, q. 47, a. 2, arg. Sed contra) as right discernment concerning what is to be… -
Prudentius (PRUDENZIO)
Latin Christian poet (b. 348, d. after 405). Between Saragossa and Calahorra, which both claim the honor of his birth, preference goes to Calahorra because the… -
Prudentius of Troyes (PRUDENZIO DI TROYES)
Theologian and writer of Spanish origin, d. at Troyes on 6 April 861, he changed his name from Galindo to P. and was educated in France, where he became court… -
Prudenzani, Simone (Simone di Golino di Prudenzano)
From Prodo (Orvieto), he took part in the public life of Orvieto from 1387 to about 1440. He is known only for his literary activity. The Sollazzo (Liber… -
Prümmer, Dominikus
Dominican moral theologian, b. at Kalterherberg on 3 Sept. 1866, d. at Fribourg (Switzerland) on 9 June 1931. A religious from 1884, he studied at Venlo and… -
Pruner, Johann Evangelist
Moral theologian, b. in Nuremberg on 25 February 1827, d. in Eichstätt on 11 July 1907. Having completed his theological studies in Rome at the Collegio… -
Przemyśl (PRZEMYSL)
PRZEMYSL: V. PREMISLIA. -
Przemyśl of the Latins, Diocese of (PREMISLIA (PRZEMYSL) DEI LATINI, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese of the Latin rite in Poland. As early as the 13th century there is record of an episcopatus Russiae comprising the vast territory of Ruthenia, or… -
Przemyśl of the Ruthenians (PREMISLIA DEI RUTENI)
With the united titles of Sanok and Sambor (in Ukrainian Peremysl-Sanok i Sambor; in Polish Przemysl-Sanok-Sambor), a Ruthenian diocese of the Byzantine-Slavic…