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Modena, Niccoletto da an old Italian painter and engraver, flourished at Modena about the beginning of the 16th century. He is principally known as one of the first engravers of Italy. His plates are well designed, but are rudely executed. The principal productions are, The Adoration of the Shepherds; St. Sebastian, with Niccoletto on a … Continue reading “Modena, Niccoletto da”

Modena, Leon da SEE LEON. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Modena, Barnaba da an esteemed Italian painter of the school of Modena, who flourished in the 14th century, was among the first artists who obtained any reputation in Piedmont. Two pictures exist in the Conventuals of Pisa by this master, one in the church and the other in the convent; both portray the Virgin. In … Continue reading “Modena, Barnaba da”

Modena ARCHDIOCESE OF MODENA (MUTINENSIS) Located in central Italy, between the rivers Secchia and Panaro. The city contains many fine buildings. The Romanesque cathedral, begun in 1099, consecrated by Lucius III in 1184, bears on its interior façade scenes from the Old and from the New Testament sculptured in white marble, and the high altar … Continue reading “Modena”

Mode (Lat. modus, measure, standard, manner) (a) In Augustinisma measure imprinted upon human minds by God, enabling man to know what is good and true. (b) In mediaeval Aristotelianisma determination of being-in-general to some limited condition; also, in Non-Thomism, an entitative component of a composite being, as “union” is called a mode combining matter and … Continue reading “Mode”

Modality (from Lat. modus), a philosophical term applied by Kant, who, in treating of our judgments, reduced them to the four heads of quantity, quality, relation, and modality. In reference to modality, he teaches, they are either problematic, or assertory, or apodictical. Hence the category of modality includes possibility and impossibility, existence and non-existence, necessity … Continue reading “Modality”

Modalist Monarchianism A heretical system, begun about the 2nd century, which so distorts the monarchy (monarchia) of God as to deny the distinction of Persons in the Trinity. It takes the three following forms: (1) Crass Monarchianism absolutely denies any distinction of Persons in the Trinity and concludes naturally that the Father became incarnate and … Continue reading “Modalist Monarchianism”

Modalism (Monarchianism) Heretics of the second and third centuries. The word, Monarchiani, was first used by Tertullian as a nickname for the Patripassian group (adv. Prax., x), and was seldom used by the ancients. In modern times it has been extended to an earlier group of heretics, who are distinguished as Dynamistic, or Adoptionist, Monarchians … Continue reading “Modalism (Monarchianism)”

Modalism is a term applied to the heretical views regarding the Trinity first espoused by Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais, who flourished about the middle of the 3d century. Adopting the notions of the earlier Monarchians, he maintained, in opposition to the doctrine propounded by Origen and his school, that the appellations of Father, Son, … Continue reading “Modalism”

MODALIS MODALIS SERMO.-When Propositions or Enunciations are modal, i.e. Such as are not enunciated simply, but in such a way as that the mode should be at the same time explained in which it is necessary that the thing should be done, or in which it can be done, or cannot be done, and lastly, … Continue reading “MODALIS”