Refugee (Fr. refugie), a name given to persons who have fled from religious or political persecution in their own country and taken refuge in another. The term was first applied to those Protestants who found an asylum in Britain and elsewhere at two different periods, first during the Flemish persecutions under the duke of Alva … Continue reading “Refugee”
Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the
Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the The Institute of Our Lady of Charity was founded (1641) by [St. Jean] Eudes, at Caen, Normandy, under the title of Our Lady of Refuge. Moved by pity for abandoned women living a life of sin, Père Eudes at first attempted to unite the penitent among … Continue reading “Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the”
Refuge, Cities of
REFUGE, CITIES OF To provide security for those who should undesignedly kill a man, the Lord commanded Moses to appoint six cities of refuge, or asylums, that any one who should thus shed blood might retire thither, and have time to prepare his defence before the judges, and that the kinsmen of the deceased might … Continue reading “Refuge, Cities of”
Refuge
Refuge SEE ASYLUM; SEE CHURCH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Refuge This word is of very plain and obvious signification; and it is blessed to see in the Scriptures of truth how sweetly accommodating all the persons of the GODHEAD are brought home to the believer’s heart under the figurative language of … Continue reading “Refuge”
Refrigerium
Refrigerium Refreshment is one of the elements of happiness which the Church implores for her dead: locum refrigerii, says the Memento of the Dead of the mass canon, ut indulgeas deprecamur. These words are found in the oldest liturgies; we find them in a prayer (Ante Sepulturam) of St. Gelasius’s sacramentary (see Muratori, Lit. Rom. … Continue reading “Refrigerium”
Refresh, Refreshing
Refresh, Refreshing re-fresh, re-freshing: Refresh occurs a few times in the Old Testament as the translation of , naphash, to take breath, figurative to be refreshed (Exo 23:12; Exo 31:17; 2Sa 16:14); of , rawah, to have room (1Sa 16:23; Job 32:20, margin find relief, the King James Version margin may breathe); of , saadh, … Continue reading “Refresh, Refreshing”
Refrain
Refrain “to stop,” is used in the Active Voice in the sense of “making to cease, restraining” in 1Pe 3:10, of causing the tongue to refrain from evil; elsewhere in the Middle Voice, see CEASE, No. 1. “to cause to depart,” is used intransitively, in the sense of “departing from, refraining from,” Act 5:38. See … Continue reading “Refrain”
Reformers, Wesleyan
Reformers, Wesleyan SEE UNITED FREE CHURCH; SEE METHODISTS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Reformers (2)
Reformers SEE CAMPBELLITES. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Reformers (2) is a term usually applied in a religious sense to those who were most prominent in bringing about the great reformation of the 16th century, The principal of these were Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melanchthon, (Ecolampadius, Bucer, Beza, Cranmer, Latimer, Ridley, … Continue reading “Reformers (2)”
Reformed Wesleyans
Reformed Wesleyans SEE WESLEYANS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature