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Assisi, Clare of, Saint (Latin: clarus, famous) (1194 -1253 ) Virgin, cofoundress with Saint Francis of Assisi of the Poor Clares, born Assisi, Italy ; died there. A daughter of Blessed Ortolana, and endowed from early childhood with the rarest virtues, she was won over by Saint Francis to the service of Christ, pronouncing her … Continue reading “Assisi, Clare of, Saint”

Assisi, Agnes of, Saint (Greek: agnos, lamb) Born Assisi, Italy , c.1198; died there, 1253. She was a younger sister of Saint Clare, and in spite of opposition adopted a life of poverty and was chosen by Saint Francis to found and govern a community of Poor Clares at Monticelli, near Florence. From there she … Continue reading “Assisi, Agnes of, Saint”

Assisi Diocese located in the civil province of Umbria, Italy. The town of Assisi (Assisium), which takes its name from Mount Asi, on which it is situated, lies amost in the centre of the province of Umbria, about halfway between the cities of Perugia and Foligno, and forty-one miles north of Rome. The beginnings of … Continue reading “Assisi”

Assiri (), a city of Manasseh, mentioned in the Talmud (Tosephtah Mikvaoth, iv), and, according to rabbi Schwarz (Palest. p. 160), identical with Azirah, a village five miles (one hour) north of Nablfs (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 291), meaning, probably, the Asiret el-Hatab laid down on the Ordnance Map two miles north of Nablis. … Continue reading “Assiri”

Assir (Heb. Assir’, , prisoner), the name of two or three men. 1. (Sept. v. r. .) A son of Korah (of the Kohathite Levites), father (brother) of Elkanah, and grandfather (brother) of Abiasaph (q.v.) or Ebia.’ saph (Exo 6:24; 1Ch 6:22). B.C. cir. 1740. 2. (Sept. v. r. or and .) A great-grandson of … Continue reading “Assir”

Assimilation, Psychological As applied to a mental process, assimilation derives all its force and meaning from the analogy which many educationists have found to exist between the way in which food is incorporated into the living tissue and the manner in which truth is acquired by the growing mind. That education means the assimilation of … Continue reading “Assimilation, Psychological”

Assimilation, Physiological In this sense the word may be defined as that vital function by which an organism changes nutrient material into living protoplasm. Most modern scientists admit that the notion of assimilation is not exhausted by the eventual chemical changes that may take place. Their definition of assimilation, moreover, is most frequently the true … Continue reading “Assimilation, Physiological”

Assignies, Jean D a French monk of Citeaux, and a Brabantine theologian, was born in 1562. He became subprior of the Monastery of Cambron; then, in 1618, priest of the Monastery of Nizelle, in Brabant. He died in 1642. He wrote, Vies des Personnes Illustres en Sainteti de l’Ordre de Citeaux (Douay and Mons, 1598,1606): … Continue reading “Assignies, Jean D”

Assign a-sn (, nathan, to give, or grant, i.e. apportion): Used (Jos 20:8) of Moses setting apart Bezer as one of the three cities of refuge on the East of the Jordan (compare Deu 4:41-43); also of Joab’s stationing Uriah in a place of mortal peril in battle (2Sa 11:16). Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Assiduous a-sidu-us: Occurs only in The Wisdom of Solomon 8:18 the Revised Version (British and American), In assiduous communing with her is understanding, i.e. in continued exercise of fellowship. The idea expressed in the adjective is contained in the prepositional prefix, sun of the original suggumnasa, giving the verb intensive force. Fuente: International Standard Bible … Continue reading “Assiduous”