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Amandus (Fayeta) (called Fayeta) was abbot OF ST. BAVON, at Ghent, in the 14th century, and was very zealous against the Flagellants (q.v.); and it was at his instance that pope Clement VII entirely put an end to them. He resigned his abbacy before his death, which happened in 1394. He composed a treatise, De … Continue reading “Amandus (Fayeta)”

Amandus St., bishop of Maestricht, called “the apostle of Belgium,” was born in 589 in Nantes, of a Roman family, and at twenty-one entered a monastery near Rochelle. After visiting Rome, he was in 626 ordained a missionary bishop without any fixed see, and he labored first in Brabant and Flanders, then in Sclavonia near … Continue reading “Amandus”

Amand, Saint Confessor , apostle of Flanders, born Nantes, France , 594; died monastery of Elnon (now Saint Amand), 684. Clotaire II sent him to Flanders; his monasteries at Ghent and Mount Blandin were the first in Belgium . For a while bishop of Maastricht, he later labored in the Basque country (Navarre), returned to … Continue reading “Amand, Saint”

Amancius, St was a priest of Tifernum, or Citta di Castello, in Umbria. He lived in the 6th century, in the time of St. Gregory the Great. The fame of his miracles induced Floridus, bishop of Tifernum, to make him known to St. Gregory, who brought him to Rome and lodged him in the hospital … Continue reading “Amancius, St”

Amanah the correct form of the name ABANA SEE ABANA (q.v.), which has probably crept in by an error of copyists. SEE AMANA. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Amana Society A socialistic settlement of German Protestants founded in Buffalo, New York, 1843 , by Christian Metz and Barbara Heinemann, and located at Amana, Iowa, since 1843. It is the only one of similar settlements which has thrived for any length of time, owing, as its members believe, to religious motives. In 1925 there … Continue reading “Amana Society”

AMANA The southern part or summit of Anti-Lebanon, adjacent to and north of Hermon, from which the river Amana or Abana poured down towards Damascus, Son 4:8 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Amana perennial. (1.) The Hebrew margin of 2 Kings 5:12 gives this as another reading of Abana (q.v.), a stream near … Continue reading “Amana”

Aman (), the Graecized’ form (Tob 14:10; Esther 10:7, etc.) of the name HAMAN SEE HAMAN (q.v.). Ama’na [many Am’ana] (Hebrew Amanahah’, , a covenant, as in Neh 10:1), the name of a river and of a hill. 1. The marginal reading (of many codices, with the Syriac, the Targum, and the Complutensian ed. of … Continue reading “Aman”

Amama, Sixtin a Protestant theologian, and professor of Hebrew at Franecker, was born there Oct. 15, 1593, and died Nov. 9, 1639. He visited England in 1613. He wrote Censura Vulgate Latinae Editionis Pentateuchi (1620), and, in reply to Mersenne, his Antibarbarus Biblicus (Franc. 1628, 4to), containing strictures on other books of the Vulgate, namely, … Continue reading “Amama, Sixtin”

Amam (Hebrew Amam’, , gathering; Sept. ), a city in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, mentioned between Hazor and Shema (Jos 15:26), being apparently situated in the tract afterward assigned to Simeon (Jos 19:1-9); probably about midway on the southern border between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. The enumeration in Jos … Continue reading “Amam”