Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

cellarer Medieval name for the chief purveyor of foodstuffs and drinks for the use of a monastic community. He took charge of the hired servants, superintended the serving of meals, the supplying of fuel, carriage of goods, repairs of the house, etc. In recent times the title procurator is often used for this official. Fuente: … Continue reading “cellarer”

Cellarage is an ecclesiastical name for the store chambers of the cellarer or house- steward, such as were formed under the refectory at Kirkham and Lewes; under the guest-hall at Chester; but more usually below the dormitory. It commonly was divided longitudinally into two alleys by a range of pillars, and laterally by wooden screens, … Continue reading “Cellarage”

Cellar (Li 1, , something laid up in store). This word is in 1Ch 27:28 rendered ” cellar,” but in another verse of the same chapter, “treasure,” and “store-house,” from which we may conclude that subterranean vaults are spoken of in each case. The same word is sometimes applied to the treasury of the Temple … Continue reading “Cellar”

Cellanus was a native of Ireland, and a. monk in France, in the monastery where the uncorrupted body of St. Furseus rested, at Peronne. He wrote to Aldhelm begging some of his discourses, and received from him a favorable reply. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cellah SEE CEOLLACH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cellach (Cellan, or Kellach), a name derived from Ceall, or Cill, a cell, and borne by thirty-three saints between 657 and 1148; but few of them have much bearing on history, or are distinctly identifiable. 1. Commemorated April 1. Seems to be the son of Sarguse, anchoret, abbot, and bishop of Armagh, in the end … Continue reading “Cellach”

Cella And Cellula were employed at a later time for sepulchral chapels built along the side walls of a church, and in this sense the terms are used by Paulinus, of Nola. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

cella (Latin: little room) One of the names of the small memorial chapels erected in earliest Christian cemeteries, also called memoriae martyrum. It is supposed that the edifices erected by Pope Fabian (236 -250 ) were cellae, used for the celebration of the funeral agapae. In form they are cellae trichorae, consisting of a rectangular … Continue reading “Cella”

Cell, Placido an Italian painter, was a native of Messina, and studied under Augustino Scilla. He executed some works for the churches of Messina, and some for the churches dell Anima and Transpontina, at Rome. He died at Messina in 1710. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cell, Jeremiah a Baptist minister, was born in Western Pennsylvania, April 13, 1819. He joined a Presbyterian Church in Ohio in 1839, and a Baptist Church in 1846. Soon after, he began to preach. He studied for a time at Covington, Ky., preaching meanwhile for the Church in Newport. Subsequently he served churches in Aurora, … Continue reading “Cell, Jeremiah”