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Alexis, Guillaume a learned French Benedictine who lived near the close of the 15th century and at the commencement of the 16th. He was surnamed the good monk of the Abbey of Lyre, in the diocese of Evreux, and became prior of Bussy in Perche. He is supposed to have died in 1486, though the … Continue reading “Alexis, Guillaume”

Alexis Falconieri, Saint Confessor, born Florence, Italy c.1200; died Mount Senario, near Florence in 1310 . He became a member of the Laudesi, or Praisers of Mary, a society of laymen . On 15 August 1233 , an apparition of the Blessed Virgin appeared to him and six of his companions. Retiring to La Camarzia, … Continue reading “Alexis Falconieri, Saint”

Alexirhoe a nymph who was wife to Pan. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Alexicacus was an appellation under which Neptune was worshipped. by the tunny- fishers, that their nets might not be torn by the sword-fish. It was also an epithet of Apollo in Athens, given him for having freed the city from a spreading pestilence. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Alexians Congregation under patronage of Saint Alexius of Edessa, founded by Tobias at Mechlin, Brabant, in the 15th century , to nurse the sick and bury the dead during the Black Death. They became an order under the Rule of Saint Augustine in 1469 . The mother-house is Aix-la-Chapelle . They have 18 houses in … Continue reading “Alexians”

Alexian Nuns Early in the fifteenth century religious women began to be affiliated to the Alexian Brotherhood (see below). These sisters adopted the Rule of St. Augustine and devoted themselves to the same corporal works of mercy as those of the Brothers of St. Alexius, or Cellites. Their habit is black, with a mantle of … Continue reading “Alexian Nuns”

Alexas (, contracted from Alexander, q.v.), a favorite of Herod the Great, and by his influence the husband of Salome (Josephus, Ant. 17, 1, 1; War, 1, 28, 6), by whom he had a son, also named Alexas, and married to Cypros, a daughter of Antipater (Ant. 18, 5, 4). SEE HERODIAN FAMILY. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Alexas”

Alexandroschene (for , Alexander’s tent), a place mentioned in the Jerusalem Itinerary as 12 R. miles from Tyre, and the same distance from Ecdippa; evidently the ruin now called Iskanderuna, at the southern foot of Ras el-Abiad on the Mediterranean. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Alexandrium (), a place frequently referred to by Josephus as having been originally built by Alexander (hence, doubtless, the name), apparently Jannaeus (Ant. 13:16, 3), on a hill near Coreae (q.v.), toward Jericho (Ant. 14, 3, 4); fortified by Alexander the son of Aristobulus (Ant. 14, 5, 2; War, 1, 8, 2), and demolished by … Continue reading “Alexandrium”

Alexandrists A term applied to a group of Aristotelians in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Besides the Scholastic followers of Aristotle there were some Greeks, whose teaching was tinged with Platonism. Another group, the Averroists, followed Aristotle as interpreted by Ibn Rushd, while a third school interpreted Aristotle in the light of the … Continue reading “Alexandrists”