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Shani SEE CRIMSON; SEE SCARLET. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Shanghai, China, diocese of Founded on on 13 December 1933 as the Vicariate Apostolic of Shanghai. Elevated to a diocese on 11 April 1946. Suffragen of the archdiocese of Nanking. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org patron saints index New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Shang t’ung ‘The principle of agreement with the superior’ by Mo Tzu that all people must without the slighest divergence put themselves in agreement with their superior. — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Shang ti Anthropomorphis, Supreme Emperor or Ruler or High, who as the highest authority, presides over an elaborate hierarchy of spirits; the supreme object of veneration used interchangeably with the above. Also called Heaven (Tien’ien), August Heaven (Huang T’ien), and Sovereign (Ti). — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Shang-te a deity of the Chinese, often spoken of in terms which seem to point him out as, in their view, the Supreme Being, the only true God. This is, however, a much disputed point. Mr. S.C. Malan, in his work Who is God in China? argues in favor of Shang-te as identical with the … Continue reading “Shang-te”

Shane, Joseph a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Jefferson County, O., April 9, 1834, and united with the Church when about seventeen years old. He was licensed as a local preacher April 25, 1857, and in 1859 was received into the Pittsburgh Conference. In the spring of 1865 he was compelled … Continue reading “Shane, Joseph”

Shane, John Dabney a Presbyterian minister, was born in Cincinnati, O., in 1812. He graduated at Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edward Co., Va., and studied theology at the Union Theological Seminary in that state. He was licensed by the Cincinnati Presbytery on May 31, 1842, and shortly after ordained by the West Lexington Presbytery, laboring … Continue reading “Shane, John Dabney”

Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Southern On 2 Jan., 1882, the then vicar Apostolic of Shan-tung, Rt. Rev. Mgr. D. Cosi, elected as pro-vicar Apostolic for the southern part of his vicariate Father John Baptist Anzer, a member of the Steyl Seminary. Father Anzer with another missionary of the same seminary went to this part of … Continue reading “Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Southern”

Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Erected by Gregory XVI in 1839. The first vicar Apostolic was Louis de Besi, formerly Pro-Vicar of Hu-pe and Hu-nan. The vicariate Apostolic had to undergo many wars and persecutions. In 1885 it was divided into Northern and Southern Shan-tung; in 1894, the Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Shan-tung was erected. … Continue reading “Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern”

Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern This mission was separated in 1894 from Northern Shan-Tung and erected into a vicariate Apostolic. It includes the three civil Prefectures of Yen-Chu-Fu, Lai-Chu-Fu, and Teng-Chu-Fu. There are about 10,000,000 inhabitants. The climate is very healthy. On Nov., 1897, two German missionaries, Fathers Francis Xavier Nies and Richard Henle, were … Continue reading “Shan-tung, Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern”