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Alphonso de Alcala (in Latin ALPHONSUS COMPLUTENSIS), a Spanish rabbi, was a native of Alcala de Henares, and lived in the beginning of the 16th century. He embraced Christianity, and was employed by Cardinal Ximenes in the revision of the celebrated Polyglot. Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1, 193. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Alphonso (Alfonso) Of Santa Maria archbishop of Burgos, distinguished himself at the Council of Basle (1431- 43), from which, with the other Spanish prelates, he withdrew when the synod proceeded to depose Eugenius IV. He left an abridged History of the Kings of France and Spain, the Emperors, and Popes. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Alphonso (Alfonso) Of Santa Maria”

Alphonso (Alfonso) De San Victor was bishop of Zamora, and a Benedictine. He moved to the see of Toledo, thence to Orense, and lastly to Zamora, where he died, in 1660. He composed the Rule of St. Benedict, in Spanish (vol. 1, Madrid, 1415; vol. 2, Toledo, 1651). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Alphonso (Alfonso) De San Victor”

Alphonse Ratisbonne Catholic priest, visionary and missionary. Born in 1814 in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine; died in 1884 at Ain Karim, near Jerusalem. Born Jewish, by 1842 he had completely lost his faith. He was converted to Catholicism by a miraculous apparition of the Blessed Virgin at the church of San Andrea delle Fratte at Rome, Italy. … Continue reading “Alphonse Ratisbonne”

Alphonsa Hawthorne Also known as Rose Hawthorne Mother Alphonsa Profile Daughter of the New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Convert to Catholicism. Foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Rose of Lima. Her Cause for Canonization has opened. Born 20 May 1851 in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA as Rose Hawthorne Died 9 July 1926 in Hawthorne, New … Continue reading “Alphonsa Hawthorne”

Alphitomancy a kind of divination (q.v.) performed with barley, first among the pagans, and from them introduced among Christians. A person suspected of crime was brought before a priest, who made him swallow a piece of barley-cake; if this was done without difficulty, he was declared to be innocent; otherwise, not. Delrio, Disq. Magic, lib. … Continue reading “Alphitomancy”

Alpheus in Greek mythology, was a god of a river, the son of Oceanus and Tethys, famous for his love for the nymph Arethusa, who bathed in the river which he ruled over. She refused his proposal and fled, leaving her dress behind her. Alpheus was already close upon her, when she prayed to Diana, … Continue reading “Alpheus”

Alphery, Nicephorus (or Nikipher) a Russian, allied by birth to the imperial family. In consequence of political troubles, he went to England, studied theology, and, in 1618, became curate of Warlen, Huntingdonshire. It is said that he was repeatedly called from his retirement to return to Russia, even with offers of the imperial throne; but … Continue reading “Alphery, Nicephorus (or Nikipher)”

Alphen, Jerome Simon Van a Dutch theologian, was born at Hanau, May 23, 1665; studied at Franeker and Leyden; became pastor at Warmond, and afterward at Amsterdam; and finally, in 1715, professor of theology at Utrecht, which office he filled until his death at Utrecht, Nov. 7, 1742. His principal work is Specimina Analytica, in … Continue reading “Alphen, Jerome Simon Van”

Alpheius (Or Alypius) was bishop of Apamea, in Syria Secunda, and attended the councils of Neocaesarea (A.D. 315), Nicsea (325), and Antioch (341). He was one of the bishops by whom Eusebius of Caesarea was elected to the see of Antioch. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature