Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Navarrete, Domingo Fernaacute;ndez Dominican missionary and archbishop, born c. 1610 at Peñafiel in Old Castile; died 1689 at Santo Domingo. He received the religious habit about 1630 and on completing his studies was offered the chair of Thomistic theology in several Spanish universities. He preferred, however, to devote his life to the conversion of the … Continue reading “Navarrete, Domingo Fernaacute;ndez”

Navarre, Henry Of SEE HUGUENOTS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Navarre Former kingdom in the northeastern part of the Iberian peninsula, now forming part of the department of Basses Pyrenees, France, and the districts of Pamplona, Aoiz, Estella, Tafalla, and Tudela in Spain. The inhabitants of the western Pyrenees successfully resisted the Romans, Visigoths, and Arabs, but were vanquished by the Franks in the 9th … Continue reading “Navarre”

Navajo Indians Navajo Indians, numbering about 20,000, constitute the largest group of Indians belonging to the Athapaskan, or Déné stock. Other groups of the same stock are the Apaches (Ndé), Lipanes (Lipa Ndé), Hupas of California, and various Déné tribe inhabiting British Columbia and Alaska (see DÉNÉS). This points to a migration of the Navajo, … Continue reading “Navajo Indians”

Navagero, Bernardo an Italian cardinal, was born at Venice in 1507. He was called to the most important positions of trust in the gift of the republic, being successively sent from home as ambassador to Dalmatia, Constantinople, France, Rome, and the court of the emperor. The doge, Pierre Lando, sought his alliance, and caused him … Continue reading “Navagero, Bernardo”

Nauvoo SEE MORMONS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Nautologoi SEE NAUTOLOGI. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Nautologi (, collecting passengers), a name frequently given to catechists in the early Church. In some authors it was usual to compare the Church to a ship. SEE NAUTE. The bishop was ( ) the pilot, the presbyters ( ) the mariners, the deacons ( ) the chief rowers, the catechists ( ) those who … Continue reading “Nautologi”

Nautae (, sailors) was the name sometimes given in the early Church to the presbyters (q.v.) just as by similitude the catechumens were sometimes called , or , with reference to the wellknown comparison of the Church with a ship, and to the circumstance that the catechumens took their station in the church at the … Continue reading “Nautae”

Nausiphanes a Greek philosopher, was attached to the teachings of Democritus, and, according to Sextus Empiricus, was a disciple of Pyrrho. He had a large number of pupils, and was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus was at one time one of his hearers, and as the latter could not deny this, although he was … Continue reading “Nausiphanes”