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Slater, ThomasVol. XI, p. 480 SLATER, THOMAS. - Moral theologian, b. at Dinckley (Lancashire) on 16 Sept. 1855, d. at Liverpool on 3 Dec. 1928. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1874,…
Slavophilism(SLAVOFILIA)Vol. XI, p. 482 SLAVOPHILIA. - I. LITERATURE. - The Slavophile movement represents in Russian culture a reaction of a national and spiritual character to eighteenth-century…
Slavs(SLAVI)Vol. XI, p. 480 SLAVI. — Collective name for a large Indo-European family. The prehistoric homeland of the S. was probably situated between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The…
Sleep(SONNO)Vol. XI, p. 578 SONNO. — Sleep, from a biological point of view, appears as an aspect of a phenomenon common to all living beings, in both the animal and plant kingdoms, which…
Sleeping Saints, Martyrs(DORMIENTI, SANTI, MARTIRI)Vol. IV, p. 1091 DORMIENTI, santi, martiri: v. SETTE DORMIENTI.
Sleidanus, JohannVol. XI, p. 485 SLEIDANUS, JOHANN. – He was the most celebrated annalist of the German Reformation, born probably in 1506 at Schleiden in the Eifel, into the Philippi family.…
Slotanus (Sloten), JohannVol. XI, p. 486 SLOTANUS (SLOTEN), JOHANN. - Dominican theologian, b. at Geffen (Brabant) at the beginning of the 16th century, d. at Cologne on 9 July 1560. He studied at…
Sloth(ACCIDIA)Vol. I, p. 143 ACCIDIA. – (From Greek ἀκῆδία = unconcern, α priv. and κῆδομα). Commonly, the term a. denotes that vice whereby one neglects to do good; hence a. is properly…
Sloth(IGNAVIA)Vol. VI, p. 929 IGNAVIA. – “It is a tendency toward idleness or at least toward negligence and torpor in one’s activity” (A. Tanquerey, Compendio di teologia ascetica e…
Slovakia (Slovensko)(SLOVACCHIA (SLOVENSKO))Vol. XI, p. 487 SLOVACCHIA (SLOVENSKO). – Historical region of central Europe, formerly part of Hungary (906–1918), then of Czechoslovakia (1918–39), subsequently an…
SloveniaVol. XI, p. 491 SLOVENIA. – This is the northernmost of the historical regions of the Yugoslav State, in which it occupies a place of its own, given the originality of its…
Sluter, ClausVol. XI, p. 492 SLUTER, CLAUS. - Sculptor, probably b. at Haarlem during the first half of the 14th cent., d. at Digione between September 1405 and January 1406. He appears as…
