Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Quadrangle is an architectural term used to describe a square or court surrounded by buildings. The buildings of monasteries were generally arranged in quadrangles. SEE QUADRATUM. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

quadragesima (Latin: quadragesima, fortieth) Any season of 40 days’ preparation by prayer and fasting, especially Lent, week days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Eve numbering 40. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Quadragesima (Lat., the fortieth). Quadragesima denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ (Matthew 4). Several such were … Continue reading “Quadragesima”

Quade, Michael Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born July 28, 1682, at Zachau, Pomerania. He studied at Wittenberg and Greifswalde; was in 1716 rector of the gymnasium at Stettin, and died July 11, 1757. He wrote, De Dionysio Areopagita Scriptisque eidem Suppositis (Greifswalde, 1708): De Apostasia a Lutheranismo ad Papismum AEternum Exitiosa (1711′): … Continue reading “Quade, Michael Friedrich”

Qoph kof (, k). See KOPH. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Prigueux (PETROCORICENSIS) Comprises the Department of Dordogne and is suffragan to the Archbishopric of Bordeaux. By the Concordat of 1801, the Dioceses of Périgueux and Sarlat were united to the See of Angoulême; in 1821 Périgueux was again the seat of a bishopric which united the former Dioceses of Périgueux and Sarlat, excepting 60 parishes … Continue reading “Périgueux”

Prez de Hita, Gin&s Spanish writer, born at Murcia. Little is known of his life except that he lived during the second half of the sixteenth century, and probably took part in campaigns against the Moors in 1560 and following years. The work that has made him famous is his “Guerras civiles de Granada”. It … Continue reading “Pérez de Hita, Gin&és”

Pguy, Charles Essayist and poet; born Orleans, France, 1873; killed at the first battle of the Marne, 1914. A pupil of the College Sainte Barbe and of the Ecole Normale Superieure, and an ardent admirer of Renan and Taine, he lost his faith and became a decided atheist and Socialist. His devotion to Joan of … Continue reading “Péguy, Charles”

pyx (Greek: pyxos, box-tree) A vessel in which the Sacred Host is either preserved or carried. It is made of precious metal, gold or silver, and if made of silver, is usually gold-plated. The pyx, or ciborium, is the ordinary receptacle for the preservation of the Sacred Host in the tabernacle. A smaller pyx is … Continue reading “Pyx”

Pythonism (from Pythonissa, a prophetess inspired by the Pythian god in Delphi, Apollo, who killed the serpent Python in the country called Pytho, near Mount Parnassus) is the ecstatic striving after supernatural enlightenment, in order to be able to foresee the future: it is oracular mania. This degeneracy of the natural instinct of curiosity is … Continue reading “Pythonism”

Python The primitive Aryans worshipped a deity named, from , the fold, or , he of the fold, the special god of the cattle-pen, the patron deity of cattle-rearing. He was also called , he who frightens away the wolf. As , the sun-god, was the deity who opened the (cattle-pens) in the morning and … Continue reading “Python”