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Black Friars (1) Name popularly applied in Great Britain to the members of the Dominican Order , because of the black mantle which they wore over their white habits. (2) Well-known districts in London and in Glasgow, so called because of the former location of Dominican monasteries in these places. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Black Fast, The This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken. In the first place more than one meal was strictly prohibited. At … Continue reading “Black Fast, The”

black fast A form of fasting with abstinence from flesh meat, eggs, butter, cheese, and milk enjoined. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Black, David a minister of Lady Yester’s Church, Edinburgh, was born in 1762, and died in 1806. He was a most amiable man, a most exemplary Christian, and a most useful and faithful laborer in his Master’s vineyard. In 1808 were published his Sermons on Important Subjects. See (Lond.) Christian Observer, March, 1806, p. 198; … Continue reading “Black, David”

Black, Ewald the, Saint Martyrs (c.695 ), two priests, natives of Northumbria, England , who bore the same name, and were distinguished as the Black and the Fair. They went as missionaries to Saxony where they were the guests of the steward of a Saxon earl. The pagans , recognizing them as Christian priests, and … Continue reading “Black, Ewald the, Saint”

Black, Daniel a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in South Carolina, Nov. 27, 1795. He experienced conversion in 1821, received license to preach in 1823, and shortly afterwards entered the Kentucky Conference. He was exemplary in life, patient in affliction, and triumphant in his death, which occurred in 1828. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1828, … Continue reading “Black, Daniel”

Black Cumin See Cumin; Fitches Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible

Black, Blackness “black,” Mat 5:36; Rev 6:5, Rev 6:12, is derived from a root mal—, meaning “to be dirty;” hence Latin, malus, “bad.” See INK. Heb 12:18, “blackness, gloom,” seems to have been associated with the idea of a tempest. It is related to skotos, “darkness,” in that passage, and in the Sept. of Exo … Continue reading “Black, Blackness”

Black, Asbury Parks a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Cherokee County, Ga., Nov. 8, 1842. He was an example of early piety, joining the Church at the age of nine, but not experiencing conversion until his thirteenth year. At the age of nineteen he became a school-teacher. At the opening … Continue reading “Black, Asbury Parks”

Black, Andrew Watson D.D a Reformed Presbyterian minister, was born near Pittsburg, Pa., in 1808. He graduated at the Western University, Pittsburg, in 1826, and at the Presbyterian Seminary in Philadelphia in 1828; was licensed to preach by the Reformed Presbytery in that year, and ordained and installed pastor of the congregations of Shenango and … Continue reading “Black, Andrew Watson D.D”