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Quadragesimo Anno
Encyclical of the pontiff Pius XI commemorating the Rerum novarum ("de ordine sociali instaurando et ad evangelicae legis normam perficiendo", 15 May 1931).… -
Quadrant (QUADRANTE)
The smallest Roman bronze coin, equivalent to a quarter of an as. It weighed three ounces; it bore on the obverse the effigy of Hercules and on the reverse the… -
Quadratus, Apologist (QUADRATO, APOLOGISTA)
Eusebius (Hist. eccl., IV, 23, 3) knows through Dionysius of Corinth a bishop Q. of Athens, successor of the bishop and martyr Publius. This Q., who lived… -
Quadriportico
Varro in "De Lingua latina" (V, 161) specifies the peculiar function of the atrium or q. as an environment "qui esset ad communem omnium usum." Such in… -
Quadrivium (QUADRIVIO)
QUADRIVIO: v. ARTI LIBERALI. -
Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe
Barnabite, preacher "tota Italia celeberrimus," b. at Induno (Varese) in 1740, d. there on 14 July 1806. He was provost of S. Alessandro in Milan and… -
Quaestor Sacri Palatii
He is one of the great central officials of the absolute Roman Empire; his institution probably dates back to Constantine. Connected in origin to the quaestor… -
Quaglia, Giovanni
Franciscan theologian and writer, b. at Parma at the beginning of the 14th century, d. ca. 1398. Biographical information is scarce; he is found as doctor and… -
Quails (QUAGLIE)
La presa delle q., che fu uno dei cibi apprestati dal Signore agli Ebrei nel deserto, come si narra in Ex. 16,13, venne scolpita in alcuni sarcofagi cristiani… -
Quakers and Quakerism (QUACCHERI E QUACCHERISMO)
I. ORIGINS AND DOCTRINE. - The name of Quakers or "tremblers" is a derogatory term given to the Society of Friends (Friends' Society) founded by George Fox in… -
Quality (QUALITÀ)
Q. (ποιότης) means, in a generic sense, mode of being. The universe, material and spiritual, not only presents a multiplicity of entities (v. PLURALISM), but… -
Quam Singulari
Opening words of the decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments (Aug. 8, 1910), which determines the age and requirements for children to be admitted… -
Quandel, Giuseppe
Abbot of Montecassino, b. in Naples on 22 Aug. 1833, d. at Montecassino on 27 Feb. 1897. Son of General Giovan Battista, he entered the military college of the… -
Quanti, Hypotheses and Theory of (QUANTI, IPOTESI E TEORIA DEI)
The hypothesis of quanta is the first, in order of time and importance, of the two singular hypotheses that physics, at the beginning of this century, had to… -
Quantity (QUANTITÀ)
Q. (ποσότης) is the property by which a body is "how much" or extended, capable of occupying a space. It is among the fundamental concepts of thought, not… -
Quarantine, Mount of the (QUARANTENA, MONTE DELLA)
Mount (Arabic Gebel Qurantal) to the west of Jericho, to which is linked the memory of the fast and the temptations of Our Lord (Lk. 4:1-8; Mt. 4:1-4).… -
Quarantore
To honor Jesus Christ during the 40 hours in which he lay dead in the tomb, at a time not precisely determined, the liturgical practice arose of placing the… -
Quarenghi, Giacomo
Architect, b. in 1744 at Valle Imagna (Bergamo), d. in 1817 at St. Petersburg. His father and his grandfather were painters. He first studied painting and in… -
Quaresmio (Quaresmi), Francesco
Franciscan Palestinologist, b. at Lodi on 4 April 1583, d. at Milan on 25 October 1656. President of the Holy Land (1618-19), he was sent by Urban VIII in 1629… -
Quarta
QUARTA (FUNERABIA): v. PORZIONE. -
Quartodecimans (QUARTODECIMANI)
This name designates the followers of the ancient Hebrew computation, which placed the feast of Easter on 14 Nisan (the lunar month of March), whatever day of… -
Quartus (Kouvétos) (QUARTO (QUARTUS, ΚΟΥΒΈΤΟΣ))
A Christian who in Rom. 16:23 sends greetings, from Corinth, to the community of Rome. His name and his connection with this community suggest that he was a… -
Quasi Contract (QUASI CONTRATTO)
It is, according to doctrine and in certain positive legal systems (among them the Italian Civil Code of 1865), one of the sources of obligation (v.). I.… -
Quasi Delict (QUASI DELITTO)
QUASI DELITTO: v. DELITTO. -
Quasi Diocese (QUASI DIOCESI)
With this term, which is not found in the Code or in official documents, some authors designate sui iuris missions, apostolic prefectures and apostolic… -
Quasi Domicile (QUASI DOMICILIO)
QUASI DOMICILIO: v. DOMICILIO E QUASI DOMICILIO. -
Quasi Parish Priests (QUASI PARROCI)
They are secular priests or religious appointed to the quasi-parishes of the vicariates and apostolic prefectures. The territories of these ecclesiastical… -
"Quas primas" (« QUAS PRIMAS »)
Encyclical of 11 December 1925, by which Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King (AAS, 17 [1925], pp. 593-610). After an opening in which he recalls… -
Quebec, Archdiocese of (QUÉBEC, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
Archdiocese and city in the province of Q. (Canada, North America). Q. covers an area of 19,000 sq km with a > (modern photographs E.N.B.G., Québec) > QUÉBEC… -
Queenstown, Diocese of (QUEENSTOWN, DIOCESI DI)
It is located in the eastern part of the Union of South Africa and was erected as a mission sui iuris on 20 February 1929 with territory detached from the… -
Quélen, Hyacinthe-Louis, Count of (QUÉLEN, HYACINTHE-LOUIS, CONTE DI)
French prelate, b. 8 Oct. 1778 in Paris, d. there 31 Dec. 1839. Of an ancient Breton family and the younger son of J. Claude de Q., he was destined for the… -
Quem Terra, Pontus, Sidera
Hymn of Matins in the common of the feasts of the Madonna. It consists of four stanzas taken from the hymn of Venantius Fortunatus, which extol the privilege… -
Quenstedt, Friedrich August
German geologist and mineralogist, b. at > (by courtesy of the rev. father Abbot Salmon) > QUENTIN, HENRI - Portrait. Neues Jahrbuch für Min. Geol. Palaeont.… -
Quental, Antero de
Portuguese poet, b. at Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel (Azores) on 18 April 1842, d. there on 11 September 1891. After a vague youthful intention of… -
Quentin, Henri
Benedictine historian and critic, first abbot of the pontifical abbey of St. Jerome in Urbe, b. at St-Thierry, in the diocese of Reims (France), on 7 Oct.… -
Querétaro, Diocese of (QUERÉTARO, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese in Mexico, suffragan of Morelia. It has an area of 15,306 sq km with a population of 281,000 inhabitants, of whom 280,600 are Catholics; it has 35… -
Querini, Angelo Maria
Cardinal and scholar, b. in Venice on 30 March 1680, d. in Brescia on 6 Jan. 1755. Having entered the Benedictines of Florence in 1696, he attained a vast… -
Quesnel, Pasquier
Jansenist, b. in Paris on 14 July 1634, d. in Amsterdam on 2 Dec. 1719. Spiritual heir of Antoine Arnauld, he represents the phase of rebellious Jansenism… -
Question of Universals (UNIVERSALI, QUESTIONE DEGLI)
A famous controversy, and at certain moments highly clamorous, concerning a problem which, because it was posed in terms that were not always clear, presented… -
Questua
Etymologically it is the act of seeking; in a generic sense it means the action of one who goes begging: stipens quotannis emendicare a populo (Suetonius); in… -
Quétif, Jacques
Dominican scholar and historian, b. in Paris on 6 Aug. 1618, d. there on 2 March 1698. He professed in the convent of the Most Holy Annunciation on 19 Sept.… -
Quevedo y Quintano, Pedro
Cardinal, b. Jan. 12, 1736 at Villanueva del Fresno (diocese of Badajoz), d. March 28, 1818 at Orense. At Salamanca he took his degree in law and in theology… -
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez de
Polymath, b. in Madrid on 17 Sept. 1580, d. in Villanueva de los Infantes on 8 Sept. 1645. Of a noble family, raised as a child at court, he remained bound to… -
Quezaltenango, Diocese of (QUEZALTENANGO, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese of the Republic of Guatemala in South America, suffragan of the archdiocese of Guatemala. It has an area of 25,149 sq km with a population of 1,018,079… -
Quicumque Christum Quaeritis
Hymn of Vespers and Matins on the feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus. It consists of four stanzas (1, 10, 11, 23) taken from hymn XII of the Cathemerinon of… -
Quicumque Vult
A creed that entered the Roman Breviary under the name of the Athanasian Creed, because for some time it was held to be a composition of St. Athanasius. The… -
Quiddity (QUIDDITÀ)
QUIDDITÀ: V. ESSENZA. -
Quietism (QUIETISMO)
A mystical-religious conception that tends toward the attainment of union, indeed of identification, with God, through an acquired state of total passivity… -
Quilon [Kollam], Diocese of (QUILON, DIOCESI DI)
It is located in south-western India. Tradition traces back to St. Thomas the Apostle the erection of a church at Q. It is certain that from remote times there… -
Quimper, Diocese of (QUIMPER, DIOCESI DI)
Diocese and capital city of the department of Finistère in France, situated at the confluence of the Steir with the Odet, which form an estuary. The name comes… -
Quinet, Edgar
French historian and politician, b. at Bourg-en-Bresse on 17 Feb. 1803, d. at Paris on 27 March 1875. In 1839 he was called to teach foreign literatures at the… -
Quinhon [Quy Nhon], Apostolic Vicariate of (QUINHON, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
This mission once constituted the main part of the apostolic vicariate of Cochinchina, Cambodia and Champa, erected in 1658. On 2 March 1844 the territory was… -
Quiñones, Francisco de
Cardinal, b. in 1475 at León, d. on 27 Oct. 1540 at Veroli. He studied at the University of Salamanca. At the age of sixteen he entered the Franciscan Order… -
Quinquagesima
From the Latin, it is the 50th day after or before Easter; Greek πεντηκοστή. 1) Strictly it is the day of Pentecost (v.), but by the early Christian writers… -
Quinquatrus
Festival of March 19 in the most ancient Roman calendar. According to calendrical data, it is a festival of Mars at which the Salii perform their ritual dances… -
Quinquennial, Faculty (QUINQUENNALI, FACOLTÀ)
I. GENERAL NOTIONS. THE FACULTIES OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE CONSISTORY. - The various powers or indults by which a competent ecclesiastical superior… -
Quinquennial, Relation (QUINQUENNALE, RELAZIONE)
The obligation of the periodic report is inherent in the very nature of a subordinate office, for the sake of the necessary coordination and because of the… -
Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius (QUINTILIANO, MARCO FABIO)
Orator and teacher of eloquence, b. at Calahorra (Calagurris) in Spain between 35-40 A.D., d. at Rome ca. 96. Having completed his oratorical training at Rome… -
Quintinus, Saint, Martyr (QUINTINO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
He is commemorated in the Hieronymian and Roman Martyrologies on 31 October. His cult was already flourishing in the 6th century, as St. Gregory of Tours… -
Quinzani, Stefana, Blessed (QUINZANI, STEFANA, BEATA)
B. at Orzinuovi (Brescia) on 5 Feb. 1457, d. at Soncino (Cremona) on 2 Jan. 1530. She lived for many years at Crema, where, while still a young girl, she… -
Quirinius (QUIRINO)
An ancient and important Roman divinity: his particular priest, the flamen Quirinalis, is the third of the flamines maiores after that of Jupiter and that of… -
Quirinius (Κυρίνας, Κυρήνας), Publius Sulpicius (QUIRINIO (ΚΥΡΊΝΑΣ, ΚΥΡΉΝΑΣ), PUBLIO SULPICIO)
Imperial legate in Syria in the time of Augustus, known also for Lk. 2:2: «this census (ordered by Augustus) [which was the] first, took place while Q. was… -
Quirinus, Saint, Martyr (QUIRINO, SANTO, MARTIRE)
Bishop of Siscia (Sissek) in Pannonia, he suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian. According to the Passio (BHL, 7035), a stone would have been… -
Quito, Archdiocese of (QUITO, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
Archdiocese and capital city of Ecuador, at 2,850 m. above sea level. It has an area of 21,362 sq km with a population of 543,735 inhabitants, of whom 542,000… -
Quod Apostolici Muneris
Encyclical of Leo XIII of 28 Dec. 1878. After the Inscrutabili Dei consilio, issued on 21 Apr. 1878, with which the Pontiff presented in panoramic vision the… -
Quodcumque In Orbe Nexibus Revinxeris (QUODCUMQUE INORBE NEXIBUS REVINXERIS)
Hymn of Vespers and Matins for the feast of the Chair of St. Peter. It is a reworking of stanzas 5 and 7 of the hymn Felix per omnes festum mundi cardines… -
Quodlibets (QUODLIBETI)
The quodlibeta, as is evident from the surviving manuscripts, are literary redactions of those solemn disputations that were inaugurated as early as the 13th… -
Quodvultdeus
Friend and disciple of St. Augustine, to whom he suggested the composition of the book De haeresibus. Elected archbishop of Carthage, he was expelled by… -
Quota Part (QUOTA PARTE)
QUOTA PARTE: V. SUCCESSIONE. -
Quo Vadis
QUO VADIS: v. PIETRO, APOSTOLO, SANTO, IX. Legends. -
Qur'an (CORANO)
The most common name of the sacred book of the Muslims. SUMMARY: I. Name. - II. The Qur'an as the work of God. - III. Author. - IV. Redaction. - V. Content. -…