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America, Latin Name applied to those parts of North, Central, and South America whose inhabitants speak Latin tongues, i.e., Spanish, Portuguese, or French. There are twenty republics: Mexico , Cuba, Haiti, Dominica, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

America, Central Which physically speaking should comprise all the land between the low-lying isthmuses of Tehuantepec and Panama, is conventionally restricted to the modern political divisions of Guatemala, British Honduras , Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Canal Zone (United States); Mexico , in spite of its including Yucatan and much country east of … Continue reading “America, Central”

America, Catholic Daughters of Society in the United States, Panama, Puerto Rico , Cuba, and Canada , founded 1903 by the Knights of Columbus to propagate and preserve the Faith among Catholic womanhood and to protect Catholic girls. Their activities are religious, educational, charitable, patriotic, social, and civic. Headquarters: New York; publication: “The Catholic Daughters … Continue reading “America, Catholic Daughters of”

America (publication) A national Catholic weekly review founded by the Jesuits of the U.S., 1909. It aims to provide a “review and conscientious criticism of the life and literature of the day, a discussion of actual questions, and a study of vital problems from the Christian standpoint, a record of religious progress, a defense of … Continue reading “America (publication)”

America (land) In the 15th century the New World was called simply Western Indies by the Spaniards who claimed the first right to name it in virtue of the discoveries of Columbus. In the following century Martin Waldseemuller, a German cosmographer, unaware of previous discovery, proposed the name America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci who … Continue reading “America (land)”

America America, also called the Western Continent or the New World, consists of three main divisions: North America, Central America, and South America. The first of these extends from (about) 70° to 15° north latitude. Central America forms an isthmus running from northwest to southeast and narrowing to a strip of thirty miles in width … Continue reading “America”

Ameretat (Immortality), in Zendic mythology, was the name of the sixth of the heavenly Amshaspands. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Amerce a-murs: Found in the King James Version only in Deu 22:19, And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver. Amerce is a legal term derived from the French ( = at; merci = mercy, i.e. literally, at the mercy (of the court)). Here it is used of the imposing of a … Continue reading “Amerce”

Amerbach, Vitus a professed follower of Luther, and afterwards a Roman Catholic, was born at Wedinguen, in Bavaria, and studied law, philosophy, and divinity at Wittenberg. He was professor of philosophy at Ingoldstadt. He translated into Latin the orations of Isocrates and Demosthenes, the treatise of St. Chrysostom on Providence, and that of Epiphanius on … Continue reading “Amerbach, Vitus”

Amerbach, Veit Born at Wembdinden in 1503; died at Ingolstadt, 13 Sept., 1557, humanist, convert from Lutheranism to the Catholic Church. Educated at Eichstaett and Wittenberg, he taught philosophy, law, Oriental languages, and Lutheran theology at the latter place, where he lived in daily intercourse with Luther, Melancthon, and other leaders of the new movement. … Continue reading “Amerbach, Veit”