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BARBARIANS foreigners Act 28:4; Rom 1:14; 1Co 14:11; Col 3:11 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Barbarian, Barbarous bar-bari-an, barba-rus (, barbaros): A word probably formed by imitation of the unintelligible sounds of foreign speech, and hence, in the mouth of a Greek it meant anything that was not Greek, language, people or customs. With the spread of Greek language and culture, it came to be used generally for all that … Continue reading “Barbarian, Barbarous”

BARBARIAN According to the Greek idiom, all other nations, however learned and polite they might be, were “barbarians.” Hence Paul comprehends all mankind under the names of “Greeks and barbarians,” 1Ch 1:14 . Luke calls the inhabitants of the island of Malta, “barbarians,” Mal 28:2,4 . Indeed, “barbarian” is used in Scripture for every stranger … Continue reading “Barbarian”

Barbarelli, Gorgio (called Giorgione), a distinguished Italian painter, was born at Castel- franco, near Treviso, in 1477, and attended the school of Giovanni Bellini at Venice. He soon manifested great ability, and wvas the first of the Venetian painters who broke through the timid and constrained style that prevailed at the time of Bellini, and … Continue reading “Barbarelli, Gorgio”

Barbarano, Francesco an Italian theologian of the Capuchin Order, was a native of Vicenza, aind died in 1656. He wrote Orologio Spirituale; cioe Prediche per Tutte le Feste della S.V. (Vicenza, 1641): Direttorio alla Vinta Spirituale e Cristiana (Venice, 1647): Historia Ecclesiacstica della Citta, Territorio e Diocesi di Vicenza (Vicenza, 1649-53): Giojello Spirituale del Cristiano … Continue reading “Barbarano, Francesco”

Barbara, St whose day is observed in the Greek and Roman churches December 4th, is said to have suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis, Egypt, under Galerius, A.D. 306 (Assemani, Bibl. Orient. 1:63). Another account makes the place Nicomedia, the time A.D. 235, and says that after her conversion she exhorted her father to be converted, but … Continue reading “Barbara, St”

Barbara, Saint Virgin, martyr (235 or 238). According to her legendary acts she was the daughter of the rich heathen, Dioscorus. When she professed Christianity, she was cruelly tortured, condemned to death, and was beheaded by her father. Juliana was her companion in martyrdom . The place of her death is uncertain. Hieropolis in Egypt, … Continue reading “Barbara, Saint”

Barbalissos A titular see of Mesopotamia. It was a city in Provincia Augusta Euphratensis, where the Equites Dalmatae Illyriciani kept garrison (Notit. Dignitat. Orientis, ed. Boecking, 88, 389). Justinian raised anew its walls (Orocop., Deaedific., II, 19; Malalas, Chronograph., XVIII, in Migne, P.G., XCVII, 676). At an early date it was a suffragan of Hierapolis, … Continue reading “Barbalissos”

Barbadoes one of the Windward group of the West India Islands, which in 1850 had a population of 125,864 inhabitants, seven eighths of whom are blacks. It is the see of a bishop of the Church of England, whose diocese comprises all the British Windward Islands, and had, in 1859, 88 clergymen, including two archdeacons. … Continue reading “Barbadoes”

Barba, Saint SEE BARBARA, ST. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature