Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Clamor an onomatopoeic word, imitating the raven’s cry, akin to krazo and kraugazo, “to cry,” denotes “an outcry,” “clamor,” Act 23:9, RV; Eph 4:31, where it signifies “the tumult of controversy.” See CRY. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Clamenges (Claminges, or Clemangis), Matthieu Nicolas De a French theologian, was born about 1360, in the village of Clamenges (Clemangia), near Chalons, in Champagne. He went to Paris at the age of twelve, and was admitted to the College of Navarre, of which his uncle, Pierre de Clamenges, a celebrated physician, was master. There he … Continue reading “Clamenges (Claminges, or Clemangis), Matthieu Nicolas De”

Clamacteria in ecclesiastical technology, are little bells attached to “crowns of light ” or chandeliers. SEE CORONA LUCIS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Clajus (or Clay), Johann (the elder) a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Herzberg, in Saxony, in 1533. He studied at Grimma and Leipsic, was at first rector at Goldberg, then at Nordhausen, and finally pastor at Bendeleben, where he died April 11, 1592. He. published Elementa Linguae Ebraicae (Wittenlberg, 1573, a.o.): Libri Ties … Continue reading “Clajus (or Clay), Johann (the elder)”

Clajus (or Clay), Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, who died in 1723 while pastor at Falkenstein, is the author of Disp. de Recto usu Rationis (Leipsic, 1696) :- De Rege Agrippa 4 ct. 25, 26 (ibid. eod.): De Die Parasceves (ibid. 1697). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:618; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.) … Continue reading “Clajus (or Clay), Christian”

clairvoyance (French: clairvoyant, clear seeing) Ability, more commonly pretended, to “perceive events at a distance or things not visible to normal sight under ordinary conditions. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Clairvoyance General references 1Sa 28:13-14; 2Ki 6:15-17 Sorcery Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Clairvaux, Bernard of, Saint (1090 -1153 ) Confessor, abbot , Doctor of the Church , born Castle Fontaines, near Dijon, France ; died Clairvaux, France . Particular care was taken with his education, because his great destiny had been predicted before his birth; he showed remarkable interest and talent in litcrature. With his father and … Continue reading “Clairvaux, Bernard of, Saint”

Clairvaux, Abbey of The third daughter of Cîteaux and mother in the fourth line of numerous and celebrated monasteries, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, in a deep valley upon the bank of the Aube, and known as the Vallée d’Absinthe (Valley of Wormwood or Bitterness), then in the Diocese of Langres, today in that … Continue reading “Clairvaux, Abbey of”

Clairvaux Former Cistercian abbey , department of Aube, France , founded in 1115 by Saint Bernard , as a branch of Citeaux, it sent out many colonies of monks who formed other monasteries . Blessed Bernardo Pignatelli, later Pope Eugene III, was a monk of Clairvaux. In the French Revolution the property was confiscated, and … Continue reading “Clairvaux”

Claire, Saint SEE CLARE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature