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Slander (MALDICENZA)
MALDICENZA: V. DETRAZIONE. -
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, he was professor… -
Slavery (SCHIAVITÙ)
From the ancient German slav, a word applied by the Germans to the Slavic peoples whom they took captive, and it may be defined as the state of a person who… -
Slave Trade (TRATTA DEI NEGRI)
TRATTA DEI NEGRI: v. SCHIAVITÙ. -
Slavophilism (SLAVOFILIA)
I. LITERATURE. - The Slavophile movement represents in Russian culture a reaction of a national and spiritual character against eighteenth-century… -
Slavs (SLAVI)
Collective name of a large Indo-European family. The prehistoric homeland of the Slavs was probably located between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Slavic… -
Sleep (SONNO)
From a biological point of view, sleep reveals itself as an aspect of a phenomenon common to all living beings, in the animal and plant kingdoms, which have… -
Sleeping Saints, Martyrs (DORMIENTI, SANTI, MARTIRI)
DORMIENTI, santi, martiri: v. SETTE DORMIENTI. -
Sleidanus, Johann
He was the most celebrated annalist of the German Reformation, born probably in 1506 at Schleiden in the Eifel, of the Philippi family; he was educated at… -
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 Cologne and was promoted master… -
Sloth (ACCIDIA)
(From the Greek ἀκῆδία = carelessness, from α privative and κῆδομα). Commonly the term a. is used to indicate that vice by which one neglects to do good; hence… -
Sloth (IGNAVIA)
"It is a tendency to idleness or at least to negligence and torpor in acting" (A. Tanquerey, Compendio di teologia ascetica e mistica, 7th ed., Rome 1927, no.… -
Slovakia (Slovensko) (SLOVACCHIA (SLOVENSKO))
Historical region of Central Europe, formerly part of Hungary (906-1918), then of Czechoslovakia (1918-39), then an independent State (1939-45), now, once… -
Slovenia
It 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 population, which… -
Sluter, Claus
Sculptor, probably b. in Haarlem during the first half of the 14th century, d. at Dijon between Sept. 1405 and Jan. 1406. He appears as one of the masters of…