Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Camargo, Ignacio a Spanish Jesuit and professor of theology at Salamanca, was born Dec. 26, 1650, and died Dec. 22, 1722. He published Regula Honestatis Moralis, a theological treatise on the way to act morally (Naples, 1702, fol.), in which he combats the doctrine of probability; viz., that it is allowable for a man to … Continue reading “Camargo, Ignacio”

Camargo, Diego Mu#241;oz (According to Beristain de Souza, Muñoz should be the surname). Born of a Spanish father and Indian mother soon after 1521; died at a very advanced age, the exact date unknown. He acquired the knowledge of letters and rudimentary acquaintance with other branches of learning from the Franciscans at Mexico in the … Continue reading “Camargo, Diego Mu#241;oz”

Camara (Y Murga), Christopher De La a learned Spanish prelate, was born at Arciniega. near Burgos, towards the end of the 16th century. He was professor of Holy Scripture at Toledo, and afterwards bishop of the Canaries, and eventually of Salamanca, where he died in 1641. He published a sort of early ecclesiastical history of … Continue reading “Camara (Y Murga), Christopher De La”

Camara (Or. Camarra), Lucio, Of Chieti an Italian antiquary in the middle of the 17th century, wrote De Teate Amntiquo Marrucinorum in Italia Metropoli Lib. 3 (Rome, 1651, 4to). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Landon, Eccles. Diet. s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Camaldules (Camaldulani, Camaldulenses, Ordo Camaldulanus), a religious order founded about 1009 by Romualdus, who built a monastery at Campo Maldloti, or Camaldoli, a village thirty miles east of Florence, and belonging to a lord named Maldoli, whence the order, some time after the death of Romualdus, took its name. Up to the end of the … Continue reading “Camaldules”

CAMALDOLITES An order founded by St. Romuald, and Italian fanatic, in the eleventh century. The manner of life he enjoined his disciples to observe was this: They dwelt in separate cells, and met together only at the time of prayer. Some of them, during the two Lents in the year, observed an inviolable silence, and … Continue reading “CAMALDOLITES”

Camaldoli (or Camaldules) were a reformed order of Benedictines founded by Romuald of Ravenna in 1009. They wore a cassock, scapular, and hood, of white wool, and a large-sleeved gown. They lived in mountainous and solitary places. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Camaldolese Order Hermits and cenobites living under a modified form of the Rule of Saint Romuald by whom they were founded at Camaldoli, Italy , c.1012 . The object of the founder was to introduce into the West the eremitical life led by the Eastern monks and the Fathers of the Desert. For six centuries … Continue reading “Camaldolese Order”

Camaldolese (CAMALDOLITES, CAMALDULENSIANS). A joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century. About 1012, after having founded or reformed nearly a hundred unconnected monasteries and hermitages, St. Romuald arrived in the Diocese of Arezzo seeking place for a new hermitage. It was here, according to the … Continue reading “Camaldolese”

Camail in ecclesiastical usage, is a French name for (1) a tippet or mozetta of black silk, worn by French clergy, but edged, lined, or furred to mark canons. (2) An aumusse, or cape of fur, adopted by the English dignitaries, with edging of the animal’s tail, or pendants, and worn by canons in a … Continue reading “Camail”