Search results for "Communion of Saints" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 – December 14, 1591), born ... Best known for his introspective poetry and writings on the growth ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- Saint Agnes (291–304 C.E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the ... Traditionally, Agnes was martyred for her faith during the persecution ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- a table or platform, for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices ... historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Roman, ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... Fasting for religious and spiritual reasons has been a part of human ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Silverius lived during the later stages of the Monophysite controversy ... Stripped of his episcopal dignity and degraded to the rank of a simple ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 11:43, 13 February 2022
- Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ... God and us, us and God. “The Communion of Saints” is a phrase which ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the ... Hus was a precursor to the Protestant movement and many of his ideas ...28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
- Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church ... Leo was a native of Tuscany. He appears to have taken orders at an ...15 KB (2,335 words) - 20:05, 25 October 2022
- Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- a nail), his head (bleeding from a crown of thorns), and his heart (one ... The causes of stigmata are largely mysterious, but some observers ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... is traditionally understood to be the cause of "original sin." While ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- the Christian church after the legalization of Christianity by Emperor Constantine ... in 325. The Nicene Creed rejected the tenets of Arianism and exiled its main ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- on individual merit although the forgiveness of sins was an unmerited act of ... The rigorous ascetic life of his adherents contrasted with the spiritual ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of ... Zürich against an attack by an alliance of Swiss Catholic forces. His ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...15 KB (2,289 words) - 07:29, 18 November 2022
- community, or a body or organization of Christian believers. The word ... former includes the entire communion of saints and the latter is ...66 KB (9,769 words) - 20:37, 9 June 2024
- Saint Teresa of Ávila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptized ... permission to found a separate province of Descalced (shoeless) Carmelites ...22 KB (3,548 words) - 03:48, 30 April 2023
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
