Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Ultramontanism A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as its spiritual head the pope, who, for the greater part of Europe, is a dweller beyond the mountains (ultra montes), that is, beyond the Alps. The term “ultramontane”, indeed, is relative: from the Roman, or Italian, point of view, the French, … Continue reading “Ultramontanism”

Ultor (the Avenger), in Roman mythology, was a surname of Mars, in whose honor a temple was built by Augustus for the revenge upon the murderers of Julius Caesar. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Ultimate Value See Value, ultimate. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Ultimate Appeal to Scripture Authority It is the opinion of some persons that a considerable portion of the essentials of Christianity is not to be found in Scripture but in a supplementary tradition, which is to be sought in the works of those early fathers who were orthodox. Others, again, utterly oppose such notions; and, … Continue reading “Ultimate Appeal to Scripture Authority”

Ultan of Ardbracca St. Ultan of Ardbraccan, Ireland, was the maternal uncle of St. Brigid, and collected a life of that great Irish saint for his pupil, St. Brogan Cloen of Rostuirc, on Ossory. There seems to be some difficulty in his chronology inasmuch as the assumption of his relation to St. Brigid must involve … Continue reading “Ultan of Ardbracca”

Ulster, Synod of the chief body of Presbyterians in the North of Ireland. SEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, No. 7. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Ulrick, Henry a German engraver, who flourished at Nuremberg from about 1590 to 1628. He engraved some portraits, etc., among which were twelve circular prints, one of them a Crucifixion. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of Fine Arts, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Ulrici, Hermann a philosophical writer of Germany, was born March 23, 1806, at Pforten, Lower Lusatia. He studied law at Halle and Berlin, and commenced to practice in 1827. Upon the death of his father, in 1829, he gave up the practice of law, and began studies which were more congenial to him. In 1833 … Continue reading “Ulrici, Hermann”

Ulrich, Saint Bishop of Augsburg, born at Kyburg, Zurich, Switzerland, in 890; died at Augsburg, 4 July, 973. He was the son of Count Hucpald and Thetbirga, and was connected with the dukes of Alamannia and the imperial family of the Ottos. As a child he was sickly; when old enough to learn he was … Continue reading “Ulrich, Saint”

Ulrich of Zell (Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of Ratisbon), born at Ratisbon, at the beginning of 1029; died at Zell, probably on 10 July, 1093. Feast, 14 July (10). Two lives of him are extant: the first, written anonymously c. 1109 by a monk of Zell at the request of Adalbert, a recluse … Continue reading “Ulrich of Zell”