Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Maria-Laach Near Andernach, Germany, founded 1093 by the Palsgrave Henry II of Lorraine and placed under the Cluniac Benedictines from Afflighem in Belgium. It remained a center of religious and literary activity until the secularizing movement of 1802. The buildings went first to the French, then to the Prussian Government, 1815; they became private property … Continue reading “Maria-Laach”

Maria, De Liincarnation a French female missionary, whose original name was Guyard, was born at Tours in 1599. She early joined the Ursuline nuns; visited Canada in 1639, where she made many converts among the Indians; and founded a conlvent of her order. She died in 1672. See Charlevoix, Vie de la Mere Marie de … Continue reading “Maria, De Liincarnation”

Maria de Agreda (Or, according to her conventual title, Maria of Jesus) A discalced Franciscan nun; born 1602; died 24 May, 1665. Her family name was Coronel, but she is commonly known as Maria de Agreda, from the little town in Old Castile, on the borders of Aragon, where some ancestor, it is said, had … Continue reading “Maria de Agreda”

Maria castis osculis Hymn for Matins on feast of Saint Mary Magdalen, 22 July . It has been attributed to Pope Saint Gregory the Great (540-604). Four translations exist; the English title given above is by E. CaswaIl. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756 -1837 ) Catholic wife of George IV of England ; died Brighton, England. The daughter of Walter Smythe of Brambridge, Hampshire, and the widow of Edward Weld, and of Thomas Fitzherbert, she married George, Prince of Wales, 1785 . She separated from him during his union with Caroline of Brunswick, and … Continue reading “Maria Anne Fitzherbert”

Maria Angelica, De S. Magdalena is the name by which Jaqueline, one of the daughters of Anthony Arnauld (q.v.), was known after she became the prioress of the noted convent of Port Royal. She at first led a very dissolute life, such as was common at that time in the French nunneries; but in 1609 … Continue reading “Maria Angelica, De S. Magdalena”

Maria (Latin: Mary) Name of Our Lady. See also: Name of Mary. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Mari Mari. [See NESTORIAN CHURCH.] Fuente: Wace’s Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature

Marheineke, Philip Konrad an eminent German theologian and writer, was born at Hildesheim May 1, 1780. He studied theology at Gttingen, where he was made a professor in 1805. He afterwards became successively professor in the University of Heidelberg in 1807, and professor in the university, and, in 1810, minister of the Trinity Church of … Continue reading “Marheineke, Philip Konrad”

Margunius, Maximus an Eastern theologian, was born in Crete in 1522; studied divinity at Padua and Venice; became a monastic; in 1589 bishop of Cythera (Cerigo); and died at Crete in 1602. He published and , as well as a collection of sacred poems in Old Greek (Leyden, 1592). and . Regensburger Real- Encyklopdie, vol. … Continue reading “Margunius, Maximus”