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Year, Hebrew GENERALITIES FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN CALENDAR The Easter Cycle The Nativity of Christ Saints’ Days OUR EARLIEST CALENDARS FEASTS OF OUR LADY THE APOSTLES AND OTHER NEW TESTAMENT SAINTS LATER DEVELOPMENTS VARIOUS PECULIARITIES OF CALENDARS THE MODERN CALENDAR IMPOSED BY AUTHORITY THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST GENERALITIES All civilized peoples and even those … Continue reading “Year, Hebrew”

Year, Ecclesiastical (Or NICOLLS). English martyr, born at Oxford about 1550; executed at Oxford, 19 October, 1589. He entered Brasenose College in 1564 or 1565, and was readmitted 20 August, 1567, and supplicated for his B.A. degree in 1570-1. He subsequently became an usher at St. Paul’s School, London. He arrived at Reims with Thomas … Continue reading “Year, Ecclesiastical”

year, claustral (Latin: annus claustralis) A year of strict residence, signifying the first year following the appointment of a canon, when he was bound by such strict rules as to suggest the sacredness of enclosure in monastic life. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

YEAR The Hebrews always had years of twelve months. But at the beginning, as some suppose, they were solar years of twelve months, each month having thirty days, excepting the twelfth, which had thirty-five days. We see, by the enumeration of the days of the deluge, Gen 7:1-8 :22, that the original year consisted of … Continue reading “Year”

Yea, Yes a particle of affirmation, is used (a) in answer to a question, Mat 9:28; Mat 11:9; Mat 13:51; Mat 17:25; Mat 21:16; Luk 7:26; Joh 11:27; Joh 21:15-16; Act 5:8; Act 22:27; Rom 3:29; (b) in assent to an assertion, Mat 15:27, RV (AV, “truth”); Mar 7:28; Rev 14:13; Rev 16:7, RV (AV, … Continue reading “Yea, Yes”

Yea I detain the reader at this word in order to mark the peculiar sweetness of it. Our gracious Lord in recommending it to his disciples, evidently shewed that there was somewhat interesting in it. “Let your communication (said Jesus) be Yea, yea, Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil.” (Mat … Continue reading “Yea”

Ye, You, Yourselves, Your own selves * Notes: (1) These are most frequently the translations of various inflections of a verb; sometimes of the article before a nominative used as a vocative, e.g., Rev 18:20, “ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets” (lit., “the saints, etc”). When the 2nd person plural pronouns are used … Continue reading “Ye, You, Yourselves, Your own selves”

Ye Sons and Daughters of the Lord Hymn used at the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on Easter Sunday. It was written by Jean Tisserand (died 1494) and has several translations. The title given above is by E. Caswall. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Yazoo Indians A small tribe formerly living on the lower course of Yazoo River, Mississippi, in close connection with several other tribes, the most important of which was the Tonica. Nothing is definitely known concerning their language, but it seems to have been akin to that of the Tonica, although not the same. In 1699 … Continue reading “Yazoo Indians”

Yatum the religion of the Yatus, a name given to the enemies of Zoroaster in the Zend-Avesta. These were overthrown by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and the religion of Zoroaster re-established. See Lenormant, Chaldaean Magic, page 219. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature