Romish
111AQUI`NAS, THOMAS — the Angelic Doctor, or Doctor of the Schools, an Italian of noble birth, studied at Naples, became a Dominican monk despite the opposition of his parents, sat at the feet of Albertus Magnus, and went with him to Paris, was known among his… …
112BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE — a ceremony at one time attending the greater excommunication in the Romish Church, when after sentence was read from the book, a bell was rung, and the candle extinguished …
113BLOODY STATUTE — statute of Henry VIII. making it a crime involving the heaviest penalties to question any of the fundamental doctrines of the Romish Church …
114CANONISATION — in the Romish Church, is the solemn declaration by the Pope that a servant of God, renowned for his virtue and for miracles he has wrought, is to be publicly venerated by the whole Church, termed Saint, and honoured by a special festival. A… …
115CONRADIN THE BOY — , or CONRAD V the last representative of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Romish Kaisers, had fallen into the Pope s clutches, who was at mortal feud with the empire, and was put to death by him on the scaffold at Naples, October 25, 1265, the… …
116DONNE, JOHN — English poet and divine, born in London; a man of good degree; brought up in the Catholic faith; after weighing the claims of the Romish and Anglican communions, joined the latter; married a young lady of sixteen without consent of her father …
117EMBER DAYS — four annually recurring periods of three days each, appointed by the Romish and English Churches to be devoted to fasting and praying; they are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Pentecost, after the 14th …
118HOHENSTAUFFENS, THE — the third dynasty of the Romish kaisers, which held the imperial throne from 1138 to 1254, commencing with Frederick I., or Barbarossa, and ending with Conrad IV., five in all; derived their name from a castle on the Hohenstauffen Berg, by the …
119PONTIFICAL — a service book of the Romish Church, containing prayers and rites for a performance of public worship by the Pope or bishop; also in the plural the name of the full dress of an officiating priest …
120REAL PRESENCE — the assumed presence, really and substantially, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist of the body and blood, the soul and divinity, of Christ, a doctrine of the Romish and certain other Churches …
