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Anvers, Henry D SEE DANVERS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anvers City in Belgium , on the Scheldt, 60 miles from the sea. In the 10th and 11th centuries, capital of the Margravate of Antwerp, it rose to the height of its prosperity in the 16th century under Charles V, at whose death it fell to Austria . France held it from 1794 to 1815 … Continue reading “Anvers”

Anuvarta is the first rank of ascetics among the Jainas (q.v.). This degree of asceticism can be attained only by him who forsakes his family; entirely cuts off his hair, holds always in his hand a bundle of peacock’s feathers and an earthen pot, and wears only clothes of a tawny color. Fuente: Cyclopedia of … Continue reading “Anuvarta”

Anus ( v. r. ), one of the Levites who expounded the law read by Ezra (1Es 9:48); evidently the BANI SEE BANI of the genuine text (Neh 8:7). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Anus anus. See ANNUS (Apocrypha). Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Anuph (Anub, Or Nob), St was a monk of Scetis in the 4th century, and brother of St. Pcemen. When the monasteries there were devastated by the Mazici, a Moorish tribe, he retired with his brother to Terenuthi. So strong were his ascetic principles that it is said he refused to see his own mother. … Continue reading “Anuph (Anub, Or Nob), St”

Anunnage was the Accadian deity called the Archangel of the Abyss, a form of Hea. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anunit was an Assyrian or Chaldmean goddess worshipped by the early monarchs. She is supposed to have resembled the Venus of the Greeks. Anunit was also a star which was identified by the Assyrians with the goddess Ishtar, the daughter of the moon god, Sin. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anunciacin, Fray Juan de la Born at Granada in Spain, probably 1514; died 1594. He went to Mexico, where he joined the Augustinians in 1554. He was several times prior of the convents of his order at Mexico and Pueblo, and twice definidor. He died at the age of eighty. He was also rector of … Continue reading “Anunciación, Fray Juan de la”

Anunciacin, Fray Domingo de la Dominican missionary, b. at Fuenteovejuna, 1510; d. in Mexico, 1591. In the world his name was Juan de Ecija; his father was Hernando de Ecija. At the age of thirteen he asked to be admitted into the Order of St. Francis, but was refused. His father having died, he emigrated … Continue reading “Anunciación, Fray Domingo de la”

Anumana (Skr.) Inference. — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy