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Angoulecirc;me (ENGOLIEIMA). Diocese; comprises the Department of the Charente in France, and has always been suffragan to the Archbishopric of Bordeaux, under the old régime as well as under the Concordat. Its first bishop was Ausonius, a disciple, it is said, of St. Martial, concerning whom we have two historical authorities: St. Gregory of Tours, … Continue reading “Angoulecirc;me”

Angora Armenian rite diocese in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey). The Europeans now call Angora, and the Turks, Enguru, the ancient capital of Galatia, in Asia Minor, which was known to the Greeks and Romans as Ancyra. Midas was its legendary founder, and it witnessed the triumphal march of Alexander the Great. Under the Seleucid king, … Continue reading “Angora”

Angola and Congo Also known as SANTA CRUD DE REINO DE ANGOLA, and as SAO PAOLO DE LOANDA, diocese of Portuguese West Africa, suffragan of Lisbon. Its territory was discovered by the Portuguese in the latter part of the fifteenth century, and after 1514 was subject to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Grand Prior of … Continue reading “Angola and Congo”

Angola Country in Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nearly 40% of the population is Roman Catholic. Ecclesiastically, the country is governed by the archdioceses of Huambo Luanda Lubango and the dioceses of Angola e Congo Benguela Cabinda Carmona e So Salvador Dundo Henrique de Carvalho … Continue reading “Angola”

Ango, Pierre a French Jesuit, lived in the last half of the 17th century. He taught mathematics at Caen, and wrote several works on physics: L’Optique, divisee en trois livres, ou l’on demontre: 1 La’ Propagation et les Proprietez de la Lumiere; 2 La Vision; 3. La Figure et la Disposition des Verres qui servent … Continue reading “Ango, Pierre”

Anglus, Thomas a Roman Catholic theologian, was born in England in 1582. and died July 6, 1676. He was for some time principal of the English College at Lisbon, and assistant principal of the English College at Douai. He lived for a lonr time at Rome and Paris, defended the peripatetic philosophy against Descartes, tried … Continue reading “Anglus, Thomas”

Anglona-Tursi An Italian diocese comprising twenty-seven towns and three villages in the province of Potenza and nine towns and one village in the province of Cosenza, Archdiocese of Acerenza. The diocese is sometimes called Tursi because to this last-named city was transferred the See of Anglona, after the latter’s destruction, in the days of Queen … Continue reading “Anglona-Tursi”

Anglo-Saxon Versions of The Holy Scriptures No translation of the entire Bible was made into the language of the Anglo- Saxons; although the substance of the Bible history was fragmentarily thrown into verse by the bards, especially Caedmon (Metrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures in Anglo-Saxon, with an English translation, notes, etc. by … Continue reading “Anglo-Saxon Versions of The Holy Scriptures”

Anglo-Saxon Versions The gospels, besides being published by Marshall and Thorpe, were also published in 1865 by Bosworth; and an admirable edition of the Anglo- Saxon gospels is now in course of publication at the Cambridge University Press, under the editorship of the Rev. W. W. Skeat. In this edition the readings of all the … Continue reading “Anglo-Saxon Versions”

Anglo-Saxon Church, The I. ANGLO-SAXON OCCUPATION OF BRITAIN The word Anglo-Saxon is used as a collective name for those Teutonic settlers — the foundation stock of the English race — who after dispossessing the Celtic inhabitants of Britain in the middle of the fifth century, remained masters of the country until a new order of … Continue reading “Anglo-Saxon Church, The”