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Faa di Bruno, Francesco
Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)
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Faber, Felix
German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740b.htm
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Faber, Frederick William
Oratorian and devotional writer. (1814-1863)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740c.htm
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Faber, Johann
Theologian. (1478-1541)
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Faber, Johann
Controversialist and preacher. (1504-1558)
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Faber, Johann Augustanus
Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.
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Faber, Matthias
Writer and preacher, born at Altomünster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 April 1653.
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Faber, Peter, Saint
Born 13 April, 1506, at Villaret, Savoy; died 1 Aug., 1546, in Rome. His feast is kept on 8 August.
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Faber, Philip
Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus. (1564-1630)
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Fabian, Pope Saint
Pope (236-250), the circumstances of whose election is related by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., VI, 29).
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Fabiola, Saint
A Roman matron of rank, died 27 December, 399 or 400.
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Fabre, Joseph
Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. (1824-1892)
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Fabri, Honoré
Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688.
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Fabriano and Matelica
Fabriano, a city in the province of Macerata, Central Italy, is noted for its paper manufactories and its trade in salted fish. The town of Matelica possesses some ancient inscriptions. A Roman colony was established there in 89 B.C.
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Fabrica Ecclesiæ
Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction.
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Fabricius, Hieronymus
Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)
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Fabyan, Robert
English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513.
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Facade
The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts.
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Facciolati, Jacopo
Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)
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Fact, Dogmatic
Any fact connected with a dogma and on which the application of the dogma to a particular case depends.
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Faculties of the Soul
Article covers the meaning and classification.
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Faculties, Canonical
In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.
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Facundus of Hermiane
A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.
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Faenza
Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.
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Fagnani, Prospero
Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.
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Fagnano, Guilio Carlo de' Toschi di
Mathematician. (1682-1766)
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Faillon, Etienne-Michel
Historian. (1800-1870)
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Faith
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.
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Faith, Hope, and Charity (Saints)
The names of two groups of Roman martyrs around whom a considerable amount of legendary lore has gathered.
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Faith, The Rule of
The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.
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Faithful, The
Those who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by
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Falco, Juan Conchillos
Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.
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Faldstool
A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.
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Falkner, Thomas
Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)
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Fall River
A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05771a.htm
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Fallopio, Gabriello
Anatomist. (1523-1562)
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Falloux du Coudray
Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)
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False Decretals
A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.
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Falsity
A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.
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Famagusta
A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.
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Familiars
Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In canon law the term usually signifies seculars residing in monasteries and other religious houses, actually employed therein as servants and subject to the a
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Family
In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage, howe
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Fano
Located in Italy.
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Fanon
Shoulder-cape worn by the pope.
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Faraud, Henri
Canadian bishop. (1823-1890)
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Farfa, Abbey of
A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto.
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Fargo
Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.
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Faribault, George-Barthélemy
Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)
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Faribault, Jean-Baptiste
Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)
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Farinato, Paolo
Italian painter. (1524-1606)
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Faringdon, Blessed Hugh
English martyr; b. probably at Faringdon, Berkshire, date unknown; d. at Reading, 15 November, 1539.
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Farlati, Daniele
Ecclesiastical historian. (1690-1773)
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Farnese, Alessandro
Cardinal. (1520-1589)
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Faro
A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve.
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Faroe Islands
A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.
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Fast
Abstinence from food or drink.
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Fatalism
The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.
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Fate
Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict.
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Fathers of Mercy, The
A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.
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Fathers of the Church
The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:
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Fathers, The Apostolic
Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so influenced by them that their writings may be held as echoes of genuine Apostolic teach
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Faunt, Lawrence Arthur
Jesuit theologian. (1554-1590)
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Fauriel, Charles-Claude
French historian. (1772-1844)
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Faustinus and Jovita, Saints
Roman martyrs.
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Faustus of Riez
Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.
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Faversham Abbey
A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.
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Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann
Astronomer. (1814-1902)
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Fear
A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger.
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Fear (from a Moral Standpoint)
Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of hu
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Feast of Fools
A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later middle ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.).
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Feasts, Ecclesiastical
Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special servi
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Febronianism
The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius.
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Feckenham, John de
Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585.
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Feder, Johann Michael
German theologian. (1753-1824)
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Feilding, Rudolph William Basil
English convert. (1823-1892)
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Feilmoser, Andreas Benedict
Theologian and Scripture scholar. (1777-1831)
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Felbiger, Johann Ignaz von
German Augustinian. (1724-1788)
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Felician and Primus, Saints
Suffered martyrdom about 304 in the Diocletian persecution.
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Felician Sisters, O.S.F.
Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela.
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Felicissimus
Third-century schismatic.
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Felicitas and Perpetua, Saints
Martyrs, suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, and Saturninus.
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Felicitas, Saint
Roman martyr.
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Felix and Adauctus, Saints
Roman martyrs. (d. 303)
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Felix and Nabor, Saints
Martyrs during the persecution of Diocletian (303).
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Felix I, Pope Saint
Reigned 269-274.
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Felix II
Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.
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Felix III (II), Pope Saint
Reigned 483-492.
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Felix IV (III), Pope Saint
Reigned 526-530.
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Felix of Cantalice, Saint
A Capuchin friar, b. at Cantalice, on the north-western border of the Abruzzi; d. at Rome, 18 May, 1587.
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Felix of Nola, Saint
Born at Nola, near Naples, and lived in the third century. After his father's death he distributed almost all his goods amongst the poor, and was ordained priest by Maximum Bishop of Nola.
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Felix of Valois, Saint
Born in 1127; d. at Cerfroi, 4 November, 1212. He is commemorated 20 November.
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Felix V
Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449). (1383-1451)
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Felix, Célestin Joseph
French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891.
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Feller, François-Xavier de
An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.
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Feneberg, Johann Michael Nathanael
Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.
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Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-
French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.
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Fenn, John
Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor.
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Ferber, Nicolaus
A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.
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Ferdinand II
Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.
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Ferdinand III, Saint
King of Leon and Castile, member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in 1198 near Salamanca; died at Seville, 30 May, 1252.
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Ferdinand, Blessed
Prince of Portugal, b. in Portugal, 29 September, 1402; d. at Fez, in Morocco, 5 June, 1443.
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Ferdinando, Luigi, Count de Marsigli
Italian geographer and naturalist, b. at Bologna 10 July, 1658; d. at Bologna 1 Nov., 1730.
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Ferentino, Diocese of
In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.
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Fergus, Saints
St. Fergus Cruithneach, St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick.
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Feria
A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions.
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Ferland, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine
A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.
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Fermo, Archdiocese of
In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy).
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Fernández de Palencia, Diego
A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.
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Fernández, Antonio
A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.
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Fernández, Juan
A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan.
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Ferns
Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.
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Ferrara
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.
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Ferrari, Gaudenzio
An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546.
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Ferraris, Lucius
An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order.
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Ferre, Vicente
Theologian. (d. 1682)
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Ferreira, Antonio
A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569.
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Ferrer, Rafael
A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in 1611.
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Ferrer, Saint Vincent
Dominican missionary. (1350-1419)
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Ferrières, Abbey of
Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.
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Ferstel, Heinrich, Freiherr von
Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883.
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Fesch, Joseph
Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050b.htm
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Fessler, Josef
Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council; b. 2 December, 1813, at Lochau near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg; d. 25 April, 1872.
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Feti, Domenico
Italian painter; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624.
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Fetishism
The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitiço from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer).
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Feuardent, François
Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at Paris, 1 Jan., 1610.
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Feuchtersleben, Baron Ernst von
An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, 1849.
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Feudalism
The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law.
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Feuillants
The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans.
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Feuillet, Louis
Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732.
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Feval, Paul-Henri-Corentin
French novelist. (1817-1887)
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Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo
Spanish writer. (1676-1764)
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Fiacc, Saint
Irish bishop. (415-520)
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Fiacre, Saint
Abbot, born in Ireland about the end of the sixth century; died 18 August, 670.
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Ficino, Marsilio
Philosopher, philologist, and physician. (1433-1499)
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Ficker, Julius
Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at Innsbruck, 10 June, 1902.
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Fideism
A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterio
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Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Saint
Capuchin martyr.
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Fiesole
Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.
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Figueroa, Francisco de
A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed "the Divine", b. at Alcalá de Henares, c. 1540, d. there, 1620.
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Figueroa, Francisco García de la Rosa
Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown.
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Fiji, Vicariate Apostolic of
Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago.
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Filby, Blessed William
English martyr. (d. 1582)
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Filelfo, Franscesco
A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481.
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Filial Church
A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church.
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Filicaja, Vincenzo da
Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707.
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Filioque
It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism.
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Fillastre, Guillaume
French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer. (1348-1428)
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Filliucci, Vincenzo
Jesuit moralist. (1566-1622)
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Filliucius, Felix
An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590.
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Final Perseverance
The preservation of the state of grace till the end of life.
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Finan, Saint
Second Bishop of Lindisfarne; died 9 February, 661.
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Finbarr, Saint
Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland. (550-623)
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Finch, Blessed John
A martyr, b. about 1548; d. 20 April, 1584.
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Finglow, Ven. John
An English martyr; b. at Barnby, near Howden, Yorkshire; executed at York, 8 August, 1586.
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Finland
As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.
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Finnian of Moville, Saint
Founder of a famous school about the year 540.
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Finotti, Joseph M.
Italian-American Jesuit in Colorado. (1817-1879)
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Fintan, Saints
A Leinster saint, b. about 524; d. 17 February, probably 594.
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Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi
Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
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Fire, Liturgical Use of
One of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols.
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Firmament
The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples.
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Firmicus Maternus
Christian author of the fourth century.
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Firmilian
Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269.
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First-Born
The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family.
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First-Fruits
First-fruit offerings are designated in the Law by a threefold name: Bíkkûrîm, Reshîth, and Terûmôth.
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Fiscal Procurator
The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing crime and safeguarding ecclesiastical law.
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Fischer, Antonius
Cardinal-Archbishop of Cologne. (1840-1912)
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