Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Camillo, Francisco a reputable Spanish historical painter, was born at Madrid about 1635 (others say 1610), of a Florentine family, and studied under Pedro de las Cuevas. One of his best pictures is in the Church of San Juan Dios, at Madrid, the Nuestra Senora de Belem. Some of his other works are, The Descent … Continue reading “Camillo, Francisco”

Camillianus, Saint confessor and bishop, OF TROYYES, is supposed to have died in 525 (or 536). He was present at the first council of Orleans, A.D. 511. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Camillians A religious order founded at Rome in 1582 by Saint Camillus de Lellis to tend the plague-stricken and to minister to the sick in their homes. It was approved by Pope Sixtus V in 1586 and erected into an order by Pope Gregory XIV in 1591 . The Order maintains a web site . … Continue reading “Camillians”

Camille Lefebvre Apostle of the Acadians, born Saint Philippe, Quebec, 1831; died Saint Joseph, New Brunswick, 1895. He entered the Congregation of the Holy Cross, and was appointed to the Acadian parish of Memramcook, New Brunswick, 1864. He began the erection of Saint Joseph’s College. He was the principal agency, because of his indomitable energy … Continue reading “Camille Lefebvre”

Camilla, Saint, Of Auxerre went with St. Germanus to Ravenna; but is said to have died on her return journey, A.D. 437. See Acta Sanctorum, Boll. Mart. i, 342. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Camerus ordained deacon by Polycarp, succeeded Papirius in the see of Smyrna, according to Metaphrastes. See Tillemont, ii, 372. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cameroon (Cameroons; Cameroon.) Located in German West Africa, between British Nigeria and French Congo, stretching northeast from the coast of the southern shore of Lake Chad. The territory was created a prefecture Apostolic on 22 July, 1890, and given in charge of the Pious Society of Missions (Pallottini). Father Henry Vieter was nominated the first … Continue reading “Cameroon”

Cameronists SEE CAMERONIANS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Cameronists or CAMERONITES, is the denomination of a party of Calvinists in France, who asserted, that the cause of men’s doing good or evil proceeds from the knowledge which God infuses into them; and that God does not move the will physically, but only … Continue reading “Cameronists”

CAMERONIANS A sect in Scotland, who separated from the Presbyterians in 1666, and continued long to hold their religious assemblies in the fields. They took their name from Richard Cameron, a famous field-preacher, who, refusing to accept the indulgence to tender consciences, granted by king Charles II. thinking such an acceptance an acknowledgment of the … Continue reading “Cameronians”

Cameron, William (1) a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Delaware County, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1781. In 1814 he, entered the Genesee Conference, and, with a few years’ exception as a superannuate, he labored faithfully until his death, in 1850 or 1851. Mr. Cameron was an exemplary Christian in all the walks of life. … Continue reading “Cameron, William (2)”