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Winona, Minnesota, diocese of Comprises the counties of Winona, Wabasha, Olmsted, Dodge, Steele, Waseca, Blue Earth, Watonwan, Cottonwood, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Faribault, Martin, Freeborn, Mower, Fillmore, and Houston. Founded on 26 November 1889. Suffragen of the diocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org diocese of Winona patron saints index New Catholic … Continue reading “Winona, Minnesota, diocese of”

Winona, Diocese of (WINONENSIS). Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, comprises the following counties in southern Minnesota: Winona, Wabasha, Olmstead, Dodge, Steele, Waseca, Blue Earth, Watonwan, Cottonwood, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Faribault, Martin, Freeborn, Mower, Fillmore, and Houston. The area of the diocese is 12,282 square miles. The early Catholic voyagers and missionaries … Continue reading “Winona, Diocese of”

Winnowing of Grain Rth 3:2; Isa 30:24; Mat 3:12 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Winnowing SEE AGRICULTURE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Winnowing (2) (, lit. to scatter). Among the Hebrews, as still in Palestine, when the gram had been threshed, or, rather, crushed and trodden, in the open threshing-floor, it was thrown out, altogether, into the middle of the floor; it was then tossed up … Continue reading “Winnowing”

WINNOW See FAN, and THRESHING. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Winnow Corn was winnowed, (1.) By being thrown up by a shovel against the wind. As a rule this was done in the evening or during the night, when the west wind from the sea was blowing, which was a moderate breeze and fitted … Continue reading “Winnow”

Winnoc, Saint Abbot or Prior or Wormhoult, died 716 or 717. Three lives of this saint are extant: the best of these, the first life, was written by a monk of St. Bertin in the middle of the ninth century, or perhaps a century earlier. St. Winnoc is generally called a Breton, but the Bollandist … Continue reading “Winnoc, Saint”

Winner, ISAAC a Methodist Episcopal minister. Scarcely any data of his life are obtainable. He was admitted into the Philadelphia Conference in 1822, and some time later joined the New Jersey Conference. He died July 4, 1868. He was a remarkable man every way; original, strong in his convictions, peerless in self-respect and self-possession. He … Continue reading “Winner, ISAAC”

Winnebald and Willibald, Saints (WUNIBALD, WYNNEBALD). Members of the Order of St. Benedict, brothers, natives probably of Wessex in England, the former, first Bishop of Eichstätt, born on 21 October, 700 (701); died on 7 July, 781 (787); the latter, Abbot of Heidenheim, born in 702; died on 18 (19) December, 761. They were the … Continue reading “Winnebald and Willibald, Saints”

Winnebago Indians A tribe of Siouan stock closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more remotely to the Dakota and Ponca. The name Winnebago signifies “filthy water” (Chippewa, winipeg), and was originally applied to the lake near which the tribe was living in the seventeenth century. They called themselves Horogi, “fish-eaters”, … Continue reading “Winnebago Indians”

Winkler, Johann Priedrich (1) father of Johann Dietrich, was born December 13, 1679, at Wertheim, in Franconia. He studied at Greifswalde, and, after completing his course, travelled extensively through Holland and England. With the large material which he had collected in England he went to Frankfort, with the view of preparing a new edition of … Continue reading “Winkler, Johann Priedrich (1)”