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Tunki [Tunxi], Apostolic Prefecture of (TUNKI, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
In the south-eastern part of the province of Anhwei, in central China. It was erected on 22 February 1937 with 6 civil sub-prefectures of the mission of Wuhu… -
Tunstall, Cuthbert
Theologian and bishop, b. at Hackforth c. 1474, d. in London on 18 Nov. 1559. Having graduated at Oxford, he was appointed bishop of London by Henry VIII in… -
Tuntang, Archdiocese of (TUNTANG, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
TUNTANG, ARCIDIOCESI di: v. PECHINO, ARCIDIOCESI di. -
Tura, Cosimo, called Cosmè (TURA, COSIMO, DETTO COSMÉ)
Painter, b. at Guarda Ferrarese around 1430 and d. at Ferrara in April 1495. From an examination of his youthful works, such as the precious small panel of the… -
Turati, Filippo
Politician, founder of the Italian Socialist Party, b. at Canzo (Como) on 27 Nov. 1857, d. in exile in Paris on 30 March 1932. He made his debut in 1883 with… -
Turchi, Adedato
Capuchin, orator, bishop. Born at Parma on 5 Aug. 1724, died there on 2 Sept. 1803. He entered the Capuchins at Carpi on 21 Aug. 1739. Within his Order he held… -
Turco-Mongols (TURCO-MONGOLI)
I. The Turkish peoples have spread across Asia and Europe. In southeastern Europe there are the Ottoman Turks of Anatolia, the only ones who have preserved the… -
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEEVIĆ)
Russian writer, b. at Orel on 28 Oct. 1818, d. on 22 Aug. 1883 at Bougival in France. He spent a great part of his life in France and in Germany and is… -
Turibius, Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Saint (TORIBIO, ALFONSO DE MOGROVEJO, SANTO)
Born in 1538 (?), died on 23 March 1606. He was a student of jurisprudence at the University of Salamanca, and in 1575 president of the "Consejo de la… -
Turibius (Thoribus, Turribus), Saint (TURIBIO (THORIBUS, TURRIBUS), SANTO)
Bishop of Astorga (Galicia) in the middle of the 5th century. After being absent from his homeland for many years, apparently for the purpose of ascertaining… -
Turibulum (TURIBOLO)
From Lat. thus, thuris "incense", it is a metal vessel for burning perfumes, whose religious use is attested, in the West as in the East, by archaeological… -
Turigicati
TURIGICATI: v. LAPSI. -
Turin, Archdiocese of (TORINO, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
At the time of its foundation the diocese of Turin comprised the whole territory between the dioceses of Ivrea, Asti, Acqui, Alba, Albenga and Embrun, from the… -
Turinaz, Charles-François
Bishop, b. at Chambéry on 2 Feb. 1838, d. at Nancy on 19 Oct. 1918. In Rome he took his doctorate in theology and in canon law at the Collegio Romano. For some… -
Turin Society of Saint Joseph (PIA SOCIETÀ TORINESE DI SAN GIUSEPPE)
It was founded in Turin on 19 March 1873 by the servant of God Fr. Leonardo Murialdo, to give poor and abandoned youth a Christian education, professional and… -
Turio
Ancient city of Magna Graecia in the Gulf of Taranto, founded by the survivors of Sybaris, a short distance from the ancient and opulent city. Pliny places it… -
Turkey (TURCHIA)
The Turkish Republic, proclaimed on 31 Oct. 1923, is the state that emerged from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and from the national revival promoted… -
Turkmenistan, Republic of (TURKMENISTAN, REPUBBLICA DEL)
TURKMENISTAN, REPUBBLICA del: v. U.R.S.S. -
Turmel, Joseph
Modernist theologian, b. at Rennes on 13 Dec. 1859, d. there on 5 Feb. 1943. He was ordained a priest on 3 June 1882 and appointed professor of dogmatic… -
Turpiloquy (TURPILOQUIO)
It is speech about base things, which supply the intellect and the will with matter for dishonest thoughts and actions. Already St. Paul warned Christians… -
Turpin (Tulpino, Turpino) (TILPINO (TULPINO, TURPINO))
Benedictine, archbishop of Reims, b. in the first half of the 8th century, d. at Reims on 2 September 800. A monk at St. Denis, elected archbishop of Reims in… -
Turrettini
A Lucchese family, whose founder, FRANCESCO, left Lucca in 1574 and settled in Geneva in 1593. Among his descendants the following became famous: BENEDETTO… -
Tursi, Diocese of (TURSI, DIOCESI DI)
TURSI, DIOCESI di: v. ANGLONA E TURSI, DIOCESE of. > TUSCANIA, DIOCESE of - The 8th-century crypt. - Tuscania, church of St. Peter. -
Tuscania, Diocese of (TUSCANIA, DIOCESI DI)
In Lazio, in the province of Viterbo, united with the diocese of Viterbo (v., also for the statistical data). T. rises on the slope of a tufa hill; of Etruscan… -
Tuscany (TOSCANA)
I. GEOGRAPHY. - It is the largest of the historical regions of peninsular Italy (23,000 sq. km.). As such it comprises terrains of very different nature and… -
Tusculum, Counts of (TUSCOLO, CONTI DI)
A great family of the 11th century, descended from Theophylact (v.). In their eagerness to contest primacy with the Crescenzi (v.), whose fortune was bound up… -
Tusculum, Diocese of (TUSCOLO, DIOCESI DI)
TUSCOLO, DIOCESI di: v. FRASCATI, DIOCESI di. -
Tutelage-Tutor (TUTELA-TUTORE)
Guardianship (tutela, patrocinium, praesentia) is, according to the jurist Servius (fr. 1, pr. D. 26, 1): « vis ac potestas ad tuendum eum, qui propter aetatem… -
Tuticorin [Thoothukudi], Diocese of (TUTICORIN, DIOCESI DI)
Located in south-eastern India, it faces the Gulf of Mannar (ancient Pescaria or Pearl Fishery Coast) in the sea that separates India from the island of… -
Tu Trinitatis Unitas
Hymn of Friday Matins, by an unknown author of the 5th century. It is found in codices of the 9th century. It is a profession of faith and a song of love to… -
Tuy, Diocese of (TUY, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the westernmost part of Spain; suffragan of the metropolitan see of St. James of Compostela. It has an area of 1,895 sq km with a… -
Tuziorism (TUZIORISMO)
From opinio tutior (= "safer opinion"), it is one of the moral systems (v.) that arose to resolve problems relating to conscience (v.), when it finds itself in… -
Twelve Brothers, Saints, Martyrs (DODICI FRATELLI, SANTI, MARTIRI)
A very fabulous Passio, composed toward the end of the 8th century, speaks of twelve brothers, sons of Boniface and Tecla, natives of Hadrumetum in Africa… -
Twelve Tables (DODICI TAVOLE)
A collection of legislative norms, drafted by extraordinary magistrates (decemviri legibus scribundis) appointed for the years 451 and 450 B.C., and… -
Twentieth Century, Christian Art of the (NOVECENTO, ARTE CRISTIANA DEL)
NOVECENTO, ARTE CRISTIANA del: v. MODERNA ARTE SACRA. -
Tyche (Τύχη)
Greek divinity symbolizing adverse or favorable fate (her name shares the same root as τυγχένω = to obtain by lot), and therefore parallel to the Roman Fortuna… -
Tychicus (Τυχικός « fortunate », Tychicus) (TICHICO (ΤΥΧΙΚΌΣ « FORTUNATO », TYCHICUS))
A Christian of proconsular Asia, probably from Ephesus, a faithful companion and collaborator of St. Paul. He appears for the first time toward the end of the… -
Tympanum (TIMPANO)
TIMPANO : v. FRONTONE. -
Tynemouth, Diocese of (TYNEMOUTH, DIOCESI DI)
TYNEMOUTH, DIOCESI di: v. HEXHAM E NEWCASTLE, DIOCESI di. -
Type (TIPO)
By "type" or "typical phenomenon" is meant that which, given a collectivity of phenomena that within certain limits differ from one another, is best able to… -
Typical (TIPICO)
From the Greek "musév", it means rule, regulation. These Typika, which exercised so much influence on the development of Byzantine law, especially monastic… -
Typical, Sense (TIPICO, SENSO)
That of the biblical senses (v.) which, beyond the literal sense, expresses a reality (person, event, institution) signified by another reality that is its… -
Typographic Enterprises (IMPRESE TIPOGRAFICHE)
IMPRESE TIPOGRAFICHE: v. MARCHE TIPOGRAFICHE. -
Typography (TIPOGRAFIA)
The discovery of printing, whose consequences were to be incalculable, was favored by the circumstance that copyists could no longer satisfy the orders of the… -
Tyranny and Tyrannicide (TIRANNIA E TIRANNICIDIO)
Tyrant (τύραννος) and tyranny are relative terms, of which the second indicates a form of regime and the first the person who establishes it or draws his… -
Tyre (TIRO)
Principal city of Phoenicia. The origins of the maritime city of T. are perhaps due to fishing stations (settlers from Sidon?) at the beginning of the 3rd… -
Tyropoeon
Name given by Flavius Josephus (Antiq. Ind., V, 4, 1: ἡ τῶν τυροποιῶν φάραγξ "valley of the cheesemakers") to the valley that in his time divided the hill of… -
Tyrrell, George
English Modernist theologian, b. in Dublin on 6 February 1861, d. at Storrington (Sussex) on 15 July 1909. Raised in Calvinism, while still young he turned…