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Billart, Saint Julie (Also Julia). Foundress, and first superior-general of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur, born 12 July, 1751, at Cuvilly, a village of Picardy, in the Diocese of Beauvais and the Department of Oise, France; died 8 April, 1816, at the motherhouse of her institute, Namur, Belgium. She was … Continue reading “Billart, Saint Julie”

Billard Pierre a French priest of the Oratory, was born at Ernee in Maine (department of Mayenne), Feb. 13, 1653, and died in May, 1726, at Charento. He accompanied M. Picquet, who was nominated bishop over the missions in Persia and Syria. He wrote La Bete a Sept Tetes (1693), against the Jesuits, for which … Continue reading “Billard Pierre”

Bill of Rights The name usually given to the solemn declaration of the rights and liberties of English subjects, which also settled the Protestant succession to the British crown, drawn up, 1689 , and accepted by William III and Mary before their accession. In the United States the Bill of Rights means the first ten … Continue reading “Bill of Rights”

Bill of Divorcement di-vorsment. See DIVORCE IN OLD TESTAMENT. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Bill, Bond (1) In the parable of the Unjust Steward (Luk 16:6 f) bill, the King James Version, better bond, the Revised Version (British and American), is used to translate the Greek grammata, which is the equivalent of the contemporary Hebrew legal term shetar, writing. This writing, in the usage of the times, was an … Continue reading “Bill, Bond”

Bill of Divorce See DIVORCE. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary Bill of Divorce See Divorce Divorce Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Bill (, se’pher, ), any thing written, and usually rendered book. The passage in Job 31:35, ” Oh! that one would hear me! …. that mine adversary had written a book,” would be more properly rendered, ” that mine adversary had given me a written accusation,” or, in modern phraseology, “a bill of indictment.” In … Continue reading “Bill”

Biliverti Giovanni a Florentine painter, was born in 1576, and studied under Cigoli, and blended the style of that master with that of Paolo Veronese and Titian. He finished some pictures which Cigoli left unfinished at his death, and executed a number of pictures in the churches of San Gaetano and San Marco. Of these, … Continue reading “Biliverti Giovanni”

Bilit is the Assvrian feminine Sacti of the god Bel. She was called the Mother of the Gods, and was Mylitta of Greek mythology. SEE BELTIS; SEE BELAT. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bilhan (Heb. Bilhan’, ; Sept. , ; Balaan, Balan; the same root [, to fail] as Bilhah, Gen 30:3, etc. The final is evidently a Horite termination, as in Zaavan, Akan, Dishan, Aran, Lotan, Alvan, Hemdan, Eshban, etc., but is also found in Heb. names). 1. A Horite chief, son of Ezer, son of Seir, … Continue reading “Bilhan”