Muniment Chamber i.e., an Ecclesiastical Register-house or Treasury, is a room used for the preservation of charters, fabric and matriculation rolls, terriers, and registers. At Salisbury it is detached, on the south side of the cathedral. At Chichester it was over a chapel of the transept, dedicated to the Four Virgins, and at a later … Continue reading “Muniment Chamber”
Munier, David
Munier, David a Protestant theologian of Geneva, was born in 1798. He studied at his birthplace; and was admitted to the ministry in 1819 on presenting De Evangelio Primitivo. In the same year he went to Havre and then to Paris. In the latter place he made the acquaintance of Cousin, and Jean Monod. In … Continue reading “Munier, David”
Munich Manuscript
Munich Manuscript (CODEX MONACENSIS, designated as X of the Gospels) is a valuable folio MS. of the end of the 9th or early in the 10th century, containing the four Gospels, with serious defects, and a commentary (chiefly from Chrysostom), surrounding and interspersed with the text of all but Mark, in early cursive letter. The … Continue reading “Munich Manuscript”
Munich-Freising
Munich-Freising ARCHDIOCESE OF MUNICH-FREISING (MONASENSIS ET FRISINGENSIS). An archdiocese in Bavaria. This archdiocese originated in the ancient Diocese of Freising. The Church of Freising dates back to St. Corbinian, who, after his consecration came in 716 to organize the Church in Bavaria. On a mountain near Freising the saint erected a Benedictine monastery and a … Continue reading “Munich-Freising”
Munich and Freising, Germany, archdiocese of
Munich and Freising, Germany, archdiocese of Founded in 739 as the diocese of Freising. Elevated to the archdiocese of Munich and Freising on 1 April 1818. Notable bishops include Blessed Joseph of Freising Pope Benedict XVI See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org archdiocese of Munich and Freising patron saints index New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Muni
Muni a Sanscrit title, denoting a holy sage, and applied to a great number of distinguished personages, supposed to have acquired, by dint of austerities, more or less divine faculties. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Muni (Skr.) A philosopher, sage, especially one who has taken upon himself observance of silence. — K.F.L. … Continue reading “Muni”
Mungo, Saint
Mungo, Saint Confessor, Bishop of Glasgow, born probably Culross, Fife, Scotland, 518; died Glasgow, Scotland, 603. He began his missionary labors at Cathures; on the Clyde (modern Glasgow), where he was consecrated Bishop, 540. For thirteen years he preached and taught there, leading a life of great austerity. In 553 an anti-Christian uprising forced him … Continue reading “Mungo, Saint”
Munger, Philip
Munger, Philip a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in South Brimfield, Massachusetts, in 1780; was converted in 1796; entered the New England Conference in 1802; preached in the itinerancy thirty-four years; from 1836 to 1846 was either supernumerary or superannuated, and died October 19, 1846. He was a man of energy and … Continue reading “Munger, Philip”
Mundwiler, Fintan
Mundwiler, Fintan Abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Meinrad, Indiana, born at Dietikon in Switzerland, 12 July, 1835; died at St. Meinrad’s Abbey, 14 February, 1898. He studied at the monastic school of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, where he took the Benedictine habit in 1854, made profession on 14 Oct., 1855, and was raised to … Continue reading “Mundwiler, Fintan”
Mundus sensibilis
Mundus sensibilis (Lat.) The world of things perceived by the human senses. In Platonism, Neo-Platonism, Augustinism, and some Renaissance thought (Ficino) this realm of sensible objects was regarded as an imitation of the superior world of Intelligible realities. See Mundus intelligibilis. — V.J.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy