Lourdel, Simeon Apostle of Uganda, born France, 1854; died Uganda, Africa, 1890. In 1874 he was admitted to the noviceship of the White Fathers at Algiers. With a band of ten, he was sent in 1878 to found a mission at Uganda. Received by King Matesa, in spite of the opposition of Arabs and Protestants, … Continue reading “Lourdel, Simeon”
Loup, Saint, Of Troyes
Loup, Saint, Of Troyes SEE LUPUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Loup, Saint, Bishop Of Lyons
Loup, Saint, Bishop Of Lyons September 25, 542. He began as a monk in the monastery of the Isle of Sainte-Barbe, on the Saone, near Lyons. He became the superior of it, and Saint Virentiol, in the see of Lyons, in 523. He presided at the third council of Orleans, May 7, 538, at which … Continue reading “Loup, Saint, Bishop Of Lyons”
Loup (Lat. Lupus), Saint
Loup (Lat. Lupus), Saint a French prelate, was born in the neighborhood of Bayeux. There is a legend, according to which St. Ruffinian, bishop of Bayeux, educated the young Loup, who soon became the most learned and most distinguished among all the clerks at Bayeux. Thus, at the death of Ruffinian, he was elected by … Continue reading “Loup (Lat. Lupus), Saint”
Lounsbury, THOMAS, D.D
Lounsbury, THOMAS, D.D a Presbyterian minister, was born at Florida, N.Y., October 4, 1789. He graduated with the highest honors from Union College in 1817; studied theology for more than a year at Princeton, N.J.; then became missionary in Sullivan County, N.Y., from 1821 to 1823; was ordained by the presbytery of Geneva, September 4 … Continue reading “Lounsbury, THOMAS, D.D”
Loundres, Henry De
Loundres, Henry De an Irish prelate, previously archdeacon of Stafford, succeeded to the see of Dublin in 1213. In July of the same year he was appointed lord-justice of Ireland, where he continued until 1215. He was present, June 15 of that year, in England, when the king executed the Magna Charta at Runnymede. In … Continue reading “Loundres, Henry De”
Louisville, Kentucky, archdiocese of
Louisville, Kentucky, archdiocese of Comprises north central Kentucky. Founded as the diocese of Bardstown, a suffragen of Baltimore, on 8 April 1808. Transferred to the diocese of Louisville on 13 February 1841 and made a suffragan of Cincinnati. Elevated to the archdiocese of Louisville on 10 December 1938. Suffragen dioceses include Covington, Kentucky Knoxville, Tennessee … Continue reading “Louisville, Kentucky, archdiocese of”
Louisville, Diocese of
Louisville, Diocese of Comprises that part of Kentucky west of the Kentucky River and western borders of Carroll, Owen, Franklin, Woodford, Jessamine, Garrard, Rockcastle, Laurel, and Whitley Counties, embracing an area of 22,714 square miles. Prior to the erection of the Covington Diocese (29 July, 1853), it embraced all the State of Kentucky with an … Continue reading “Louisville, Diocese of”
Louisiana
Louisiana The 18th state to be admitted to the United States, 8 April 1812. When La Salle sailed down the Mississippi to its mouth, 1682, and so completed the earlier discoveries of De Soto, 1541, and Father Marquette and Louis Joliet, 1673, he was accompanied by Father Zenobius Membre and Father Anastase Douay, the former … Continue reading “Louisiana”
Louise, Sister
Louise, Sister Educator and organizer, b. at Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland, 14 Nov., 1813; d. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 Dec., 1886. Josephine Susanna Vanderschriek was the tenth of the twelve children of Cornelius Vandersehriek, advocate, and his wife Clara Maria Weenan. Soon after her birth her father removed with his family to Antwerp, gave up the practice … Continue reading “Louise, Sister”