Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Urgiaffa in Norse mythology, was one of the nine giant maidens who were mothers of Heimdal. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Urgel, Council of Seo de Urgel is a city of Spain on a plain among the Pyrenees, containing an ancient cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings. A council was held here in 799 by Leidrade, archbishop of Lyons, whom Charlemagne had sent, together with Nefridius of Narbonne, the abbot Benedict, and several other bishops and abbots, … Continue reading “Urgel, Council of”

Urgel (URGELLENSIS). Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona; bounded on the N. by France; E. by the Provinces of Gerona, Barcelona, and Lérida; S. and W. by Lérida, which includes most of the diocese, the latter, however, extends to some towns of Gerona, Huesca, and the valleys of Andorra. The capital, Seo de Urgel, is … Continue reading “Urgel”

Urge * Notes: (1) In Act 13:50, AV, parotruno, “to urge on” (RV), is rendered “stirred up.” (2) In Act 13:43, peitho, “to persuade,” is rendered “urged,” RV (AV, “persuaded”). (3) For enceho, rendered “to urge” in Luk 11:53, AV, see ENTANGLE, No. 3. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Urdu Version SEE HINDUSTANI VERSION. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Urdaneta, Andrs Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568. He had studied Latin and philosophy, but having been left an orphan resolved to devote himself to military life, and in the Italian wars obtained the rank of captain. Returning to Spain he took up the study of mathematics … Continue reading “Urdaneta, Andrés”

Urdaborn in Norse mythology, is the spring of the past, at which the three deities sit; from which clear spring they daily draw for themselves new wisdom, and with whose waters they moisten the roots of the tree Ygdrasil. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Urd in Norse mythology, was the destiny of the past, who, with her two sisters, Waranda and Skuld, sits under the tree Ygdrasil, where they daily receive advice. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas (together with a doxology) of the form: Urbs beata Jerusalem, dicta pacis visio, Quæ construitur in coelo vivis ex lapidibus, Et angelis coronata ut sponsata comite. Sung in the Office of the Dedication … Continue reading “Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio”

Urbs Beata Hierusalem This rugged but fine old hymn, composed in dedicatione ecclesiae, and of which the author is not known, belongs to the 8th or 9th century. Trench calls it a hymn of degrees ascending from things earthly to things heavenly, and making the first to be interpreters of the last. The prevailing intention … Continue reading “Urbs Beata Hierusalem”