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The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...

ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...

adherents, and mark dispensational events in personal life and of the life ... In Christianity, the word "sacrament" (from Latin: "sacramentum ...

with the Jansenists while studying theology in Paris, and collaborated with ... Nicole was a serious theological scholar and sought admission to Holy ...

An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number ... been suggested as the remaining archangels in the different branches of Christianity ...

Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...

associating himself with the Dominicans in the early 1500s, Pfefferkorn ... Pfefferkorn succeeded temporarily in influencing Emperor Maximilian ...

the Christian practice of appointing bishops in lineages of uninterrupted ... and presbyters (priests) ordained by bishops in the apostolic succession can ...

, Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the ... the triune God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, explaining the procession ...

Catholic Church and the coming of a new age of the Holy Spirit. The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...

and a former slave from Panama, he grew up in poverty and was taken in as ... Saint Martin of Porres was beatified in 1837, by Pope Gregory XVI ...

various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... caste. Throughout his life, a person remains in the same caste into which he ...

the office of deacon originated in the selection of seven Hellenistic ... Among the more prominent deacons in history are Saint Stephen, Philip ...

for the miraculous nature of his election, in which a dove is said to have ... Fabian's episcopacy was one of substantial importance in the ...

to the "hellenization" of Christianity. a highly unorthodox and controversial figure in Church history. ...

taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order to dedicate himself to ... (Eremitic Monasticism) while others live in a community with like-minded ...

Child are among the central icons of Christianity, representing the Madonna ... a work of art, rather than a single figure in one, refers to a portrait-style ...

E.), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western ... has been usurped as a result of confidence in human ingenuity inspired by ...

acres, it is the smallest independent nation in the world. It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...

a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar. In his early life, he was a civil ... to Saint Sophronius, who instructed him in the theological teachings of ...

city of India, holds a cherished place in the faith of Hindus, Jains ... (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ascended in Ayodhya, entering a golden ...

is that which is specialized or advanced in nature, available only to a ... Esoteric is an adjective originating in Greece; it comes from the Greek ...

statements of Anglican doctrine that emerged in sixteenth-century England. ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...

Once a serious candidate for inclusion in the New Testament, it was considered ... Written by a Christian author in Peter's name during the first ...

of freedom of conscience was not recognized in what was an age when both Church ... Two quaestores paricidii (Inquisitors of Parricide) were appointed ...

that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080, to provide ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...

and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court ... antipope Clement III (1080, 1084–1100) in Rome; but a series of well ...

were all convoked by Roman Emperors. In later usage, it was applied ... by Roman Catholics to mean only those in full communion with the Bishop ...

within the Catholic Church to reform itself in the wake of the Protestant ... It involved clarification and reform in the areas of doctrine, ecclesiastical ...

throughout the Western monastic tradition in the Middle Ages. After spending his childhood in Rome and then devoting himself to ...

Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet ...

for the revival of the study of logic in England in the early part of ... clergy. Even more radically, he spoke out in favor of granting of civil ...

his divine love for humanity. Depicted in Christian art as a heart shining ... existed to some extent since the Middle Ages in various mystical sects. ...

All later Catholic and Orthodox religious orders (from Franciscans to Cistercians ... In all world religions, Saints (from the Latin: "sanctus" ...

In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ... accordingly the first discrete biprime to be in deficit. All subsequent discrete ...

charitable organization structured in a quasi-military fashion. The ... that of Methodism although it is distinctive in institution and practice. The ...

The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... dreams and visions (chapters 2, 4 and 5). In the second part of the book ...

is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark in Jerusalem. It was completed ... The Dome of the Rock has a striking presence in the holy city of Jerusalem ...

and arché meaning rule) refers to a society in which male members predominate ... around the world, and at different times in history, have attempted to ...

Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... College, at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1626. He was under the patronage ...

This article is about the city in the West Bank. “House of Bread”) is a Palestinian city in Israel's West Bank and ...

Bishop of Caesarea and a leading churchman in the fourth century. The Eastern ... In addition to being recognized as one of the Cappadocian Fathers ...

Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ... of Masovia made a joint invasion of Prussia in 1230, to Christianize the Baltic ...

Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit, in present-day, northern Iraq ... Mesopotamia, Saladin lived for ten years in Damascus in the court of Nur ...

Bishop of Rome (Pope) at a time when the Holy See is vacant (usually due ... In the early centuries of Christianity, the bishop of Rome (like other ...

such as the statue and tower both located in Vilnius Lithuania and a reconstructed ... Lithuania was one of the largest countries in Europe. In union with Poland ...

They have gained fame in modern times due to the discovery of the ... Whether or not they lived at Qumran, the Essenes also lived elsewhere ...

jurisdiction is called the "Holy See" or "Apostolic ... After Christianity became the favored religion of the Roman emperors ...

shows God creating Adam, with Eve in His arm. While not strictly ... the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and are significant ...

constraints bring them greater freedom in various areas of their lives ... and hermits, who withdraw from the world in order to live an ascetic life; ...

Mysteries of the Rosary, which are events in the lives of Jesus Christ and ... mysteries, and the sorrowful mysteries. In 2002, Pope John Paul II announced ...

enormous impact on the unfolding of events in the twilight years of the Joseon ... (that is, the peasant) while followers in South Korea focus on his religious ...

Once considered to be a lost text, the Didache was rediscovered in ... before, some reject it, and others place it in the canon." ...

The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately ... The movement never reached the Holy Land. Many returned home or resumed ...

Gennadios II Scholarios or Gennadius II (in Greek, Γεννάδιος ... Aristotelian thought, and compositions in liturgy, ethics, and poetry ...

and influential set of monastic regulations in the western Christian world ... been one of the most important written works in the shaping of Western society ...

The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ... martyrs and that of the similar dialog found in 2 Maccabees. ...

Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge ostrich ... The path of humans and birds have intersected in many ways throughout ...

Roman Empire) of the Christian Church, held in the city of Nicaea in 325 C ... The council was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in order ...

and literacy, which played key roles in the preservation of morality ... communities were not an invention of Christianity. The example had been ...

1936 he was a Church of Scotland missionary in India, where he was consecrated ... Despite roots in a non-Episcopal tradition, he became convinced that ...

the West Country and north-east Hampshire. In addition to his literary body ... Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819 in Holne Vicarage, near ...

A religious, or devotional medal, in the Roman Catholic faith, is ... These medals have their roots in the very beginnings of Christianity ...

as one of the most important thinkers in the Anglican tradition. Influenced ... first women’s higher education institute in England and the Working Men’s ...

) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ... powers. Macao has many similarities with Goa in India. The presence of Portuguese ...

a popular work, as it has survived in numerous manuscripts in several ... #039; miraculous evangelistic adventures in India, where he traveled after ...

Monasteries may vary greatly in size from a small dwelling accommodating ... The life within the walls of a monastery may be supported in several ...

the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 B.C.E. It differs from ... by including several miraculous accounts in contrast to 1 Maccabees' ...

and established himself as a leading figure in the scientific revolution. ... existence of God and maintained a firm faith in Christianity. For him, nature ...

he appears to have been more interested in furthering the position of ... Boniface VIII was born in Anagni as Benedetto Caetani. Before his election ...

and first Bey later Pasha of Tripoli. Known in different languages under such ... he is popularly depicted as a pirate in European literature, Europeans ...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...

Veliky Novgorod, the third largest city in Russia and the administrative ... The preeminence of Veliky Novgorod in Russian culture is represented ...

brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...

sought to create a Chinese version of Christianity instead of trying to replicate ... years, the matter was decisively resolved in 1742, when Benedict XIV issued ...

of Constantinople known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking ... November 13) and count him among the Three Holy Hierarchs (feast day, January ...

August 3, 1964) was an American author, born in Savannah, Georgia. She is generally ... classic Gothic archetypes, portraying them in a more modern and realistic manner. ...

and poet, considered the foremost satirist in the English language. Swift ... In his own times, Swift aligned himself with the Tories and became ...

Emerging duing the eighth century C.E. in the Middle East, though having ... experiencing God through ecstatic practice in order to efface the obstructing ...

Nazareth more closely than any other figure in Christian history. His love ... the Third Order for lay-people who remain in secular life. He is the patron ...

1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers (more ... Saint Thomas Aquinas is held in the Roman Catholic Church to be the ...

spent much of his life working with lepers in Hawaii, who were forced by ... the world. Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged in his writings that Father Damien ...

theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during ... Wycliffe was born in the small village of Ipreswell in Yorkshire, ...

between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801 ... were executed. The church's role in France was permanently altered. ...

The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The majority of its membership is in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. ...

The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... the Silk Road was protected and secure. In the mid-thirteenth century ...

one of the first Anglican martyrs; burned in 1556 for heresy. He is commemorated ... a significant contribution to Christianity. Cranmer's detailed ...

to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for publishing the ... theology. He applied his theory of atomism in a variety of scientific fields ...

one of the holiest of all Christian sites in the Catholic tradition and ... Until recently the largest church building in Christianity, ...

Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which ... to the kings. They were suppressed in Gaul and Britain after the ...

Altars continue to be used in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, modern ... The purpose and use of an altar is holy. Altars are places of worship ...

George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ... Dublin, completing a master’s degree in 1707. He remained at Trinity ...

) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... of Roncevaux Pass on August 15, 778 C.E., in which the rearguard of Charlemagne ...

primary focus on attaining oneness with God in the afterlife. His book “Journey ... but incorporated some Aristotelian elements in his theology. He considered ...

than any of his predecessors. Always in debt, however, he impoverished ... monarchy – which could all but collapse in an incompetent reign – to ...

as his pursuit of the questions of science in his thorough analysis of the ... Samuel Clarke is best known for his dialogue with Leibniz, in which ...

Kadar ruled Hungary in the aftermath the failure of the Hungarian ... János Kádár was born as Giovanni Czermanik in Fiume, Hungary (today ...

, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is an ... Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Roman Catholic priest ...

a Christian spiritual movement that arose in the later Middle Ages. The ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...

and 16th Ismaili imam (996-1021). Born in 985, Abu ‘Ali “Mansur” ... state. However, after the latter’s removal in 1000, Hakim held the reins ...

The Gospel of Judas, a second century Gnostic gospel, was discovered ... century C.E., and its text points to a date in the second century, as evidenced ...

, also spelled Faxecura Rocuyemon in period European sources, reflecting ... to the Vatican in Rome, traveling through New Spain (arriving in Acapulco ...

, roughly meh’-joo-gor-yeh) is a town located in Bosnia and Herzegovina ... A Marian apparition is an event in which the Mary, the mother of Jesus ...

on August 29, 1526, near Mohács, Hungary. In the battle, forces of the Kingdom ... and the Muslim world. Conflict having ended in Andalusia following the completion ...

Chancellor and chief justiciar of England, in the late twelfth and early ... Peace," based on selecting four knights in each hundred to administer ...

, also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ... San Marino claims to be the oldest constitutional republic in the ...

organization that arose from obscure origins in the late sixteenth to early ... critics as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by ...

reference to its rites and ceremonies. Used in a more pejorative sense, cult ... term "cult" should be abandoned in favor of the more neutral ...

the Jewish people. While far from monolithic in practice and having no centralized ... revealed his laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish ...

Islamic Party), a political Islamic party in Pakistan. Abul A’la was born ... ancestors were outstanding leaders of Sufi Orders. One of the luminaries among ...

the eighteenth-century evangelical revival in Great Britain and founder of ... the Reformation and modern eras of Christianity. His near death as a child ...

scholarship and apostolic zeal. Founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola ... independence and separate leader in the order (sometimes called ...

of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...

an important theoretical pillar of monarchy in Europe, supported by the Holy ... Mouchet. His parents decided on a career in the church for their fifth ...

of its reigning Bagrationi dynasty in return for prerogatives in ... the mother land and the Muslim empire in the South. Some subsequent ...

Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after ... Islam in India has had a fascinating, and powerful impact. Indeed ...

people to those who are indistinguishable in appearance from the general ... of infant baptism and of participation in the state and its institutions ...

the Nile, to the scene of Moses meeting God in the burning bush, Moses and ... While Exodus is the name assigned to the book in Christian tradition ...

status of a political and military leader in the American Midwest and was ... Joseph Smith, Jr. was born on December 23, 1805, in Haron, Vermont ...

whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico for Spain in 1521 led ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...

of Lithuania and King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377, at first ... Press, 2000, ISBN 9639116424). His reign in Poland lasted a further forty ...

), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ... in Mecca. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a ...

the river Daugava. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states. UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world. ...

In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ... but 3 continues to be written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals ...

on May 19, 1536. Despite this, belief in her innocence was widespread ... at her family's mansion, Blickling Hall in Norfolk, or at their favorite ...

century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short-lived ... population, and plant and animal life. In the nineteenth century alone ...

The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... however, freedom of religion did not exist in Spain or its territories, so ...

As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ... 1918 lynching of the pregnant Mary Turner in Valdosta, Georgia. During the ...

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country. ...

was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland ... his evangelical teachings from his base in Zürich, repressing Anabaptists ...

known as Vlad Dracula or simply Dracula, in Romanian Drăculea (1431 – ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...

is a supernatural and ethereal being found in many religions, whose duty ... The belief in powerful and benevolent spiritual beings is an ancient ...

In 1919 Bratislava became the capital of the independent Slovak Republic ... trials; enduring both difficulty and glory in different times in her history ...

Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... Yet its position as a crossroads also had its benefits, as seen in ...

approach to divorce settlements has emerged in recent years, known as mediation ... unfavorably, if not outright prohibited. In recent times with the secularization ...

) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish ... Historically, the figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind ...

most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity ... ministry that altered the course of Christianity and European history. ...

is a worldwide religious tradition rooted in Indian culture and based on ... It is an English term, probably first used in the 1829 Oxford English Dictionary ...

City State from March 2, 1939 until his death in 1958. Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...

and author. He established himself in Mexico in the 1950s where he ... devotion and articulated this viewpoint in his book, The Perfect Matrimony ...

six centuries, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to Macau's return ... Portugal was Spain's junior partner in the Iberian Union. Although ...

the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II, Hitler, the Nazi ... to establish an authoritarian regime in a Germany that was still coming ...

ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France ... and wealth of the elite, and was perpetrated in the name of liberty, equality ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... largest regions are Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, with 58 percent ...

Order. It was the decisive engagement in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic ... smaller villages, and different names in various languages are attributed ...

was the largest contiguous land empire in history, covering over 33 million ... beginning with the conquests of Western Xia in north China and the Khwarezmid ...

Sea, it is the largest republic of Russia in the North Caucasus, both in ... of the states of Massachusetts and Vermont in the United States. ...

as an avocation. However, it is for his work in astronomy and cosmology that ... Copernicus was born in 1473 in Toruń (Thorn). On account of geographical ...

השואה HaShoah) and the Porrajmos in Romani, is the name applied ... about 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the Holocaust (some estimates ...

objector sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary ... beliefs incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or they may ...

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought ... animosity and rivalry. Chechens were joined in their resistance by volunteers ...

The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi ... that there was a united resistance movement in Germany at any time during ...

long before the state became an Empire. In its territorial peak after ... (September 2, 31 B.C.E.), and the date in which the Roman Senate granted ...

the ideal for most Muslims is a community in which the religious, social ... Muslims fail to see this ideal expressed in Western views of the nation ...

Homosexuality has been widely maligned as deviant or sinful behavior ... the same sex as a part of their identity. In so doing, they may have to ...

In typical usage, the term water refers to its liquid state, but the ... factors, including the Earth's location in the Solar System. If Earth ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

, IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India ... a reference to the black cotton soil found in the Bayaluseeme region of Karnataka ...

In the seventeenth century the Mughal emperor Jahangir set his eyes ... The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Muslim-dominated Kashmir, Hindu ...

granted by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832. The Greeks were ... Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ...

Darwin's interest in natural history developed at the college ... or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (usually ...

'Holy Wisdom'; Ayasofya ; Ἁγία Σοφία|Hagía Sofía ... is a mosque, a former church, and a major cultural and historical ...