Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Caelig;sarea Philippi A Greek Catholic residential see, and a Latin titular see, in Syria. The native name is unknown; under Antiochus the Great it bore already the Greek name Panion owing to a grotto concecrated to Pan’s worship. It was given (20 B.C.) by Augustus to Herod, who built there a magnificent temple in honour … Continue reading “Caelig;sarea Philippi”

Caelig;sarea Palestinæ (Caesarea Maritima.) A titular see of Palestine. In Greek antiquity the city was called Pyrgos Stratonos (Straton’s Tower), after a Greek adventurer or a Sidonian King; under this name it antedates, perhaps, Alexander the Great. King Herod named it Caesarea in honour of Augustus, and built there temples, palaces, a theatre, an amphitheatre, … Continue reading “Caelig;sarea Palestinæ”

Caelig;sarea Mauretaniæ A titular see of North Africa. There was on the coast of Mauretania a town called Iol, where the famous Bocchus resided, that belonged occasionally to the Numidian kings. Juba II, when he had obtained Mauretania from Augustus, made it his capital and named it Caesarea. After the deposition of his son Ptolemy, … Continue reading “Caelig;sarea Mauretaniæ”

Caelig;sarea A Latin titular see, and the seat of a residential Armenian bishopric, in Cappadocia (Asia Minor). The native name of this city was Mazaka, after Mosoch, the legendary Cappadocian hero. It was also called Eusebeia after King Ariarathes Eusebius, and took its new name, Caesarea, from Tiberius in A.D. 17, when Cappadocia became a … Continue reading “Caelig;sarea”

Caelig;sar of Speyer Friar Minor, first minister provincial of the order in Germany, and leader of the Caesarines, born towards the close of the twelfth century; died in 1239. He became renowned as a preacher, and the number of Albigenses who abandoned their errors as the result of his zealous efforts so enraged the heretics … Continue reading “Caelig;sar of Speyer”

Caelig;rularius, Michael (Keroulários). Patriarch of Constantinople (1043-58), author of the second and final schism of the Byzantine Church, date of birth unknown; d. 1058. After the reconciliation following the schism of Photius (d. 801), there remained at Constantinople an anti-Latin party that gloried in the work of that patriarch, honoured him as the great defender … Continue reading “Caelig;rularius, Michael”

Caelig;remoniale Episcoporum A book containing the rites and ceremonies to be observed at Mass, Vespers, and other functions, by bishops and prelates of inferior rank, in metropolitan, cathedral, and collegiate churches. It treats also of the manner of precedence among ecclesiastics and official lay persons. From the earliest centuries of the Church there were many … Continue reading “Caelig;remoniale Episcoporum”

Caelig;dmon, Saint Author of Biblical Poems in Anglo-Saxon, date of birth unknown; died between 670 and 680. While Caedmon’s part in the authorship of the so-called Caedmonian poems has been steadily narrowed by modern scholarship, the events in the life of this gifted religious poet are definitively established by the painstaking Bede, who lived in … Continue reading “Caelig;dmon, Saint”

Caeli Deus Sanctissime (O God, Whose Hand Hath Spread The Sky) Hymn for Vespers on Wednesday. This hymn was probably written by Pope Saint Gregory the Great (540 -604 ). There are 13 translations. The English title given is by J. Neale. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Caelestius SEE CELESTIUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Caelestius. (1) One of the chief presbyters of Carthage, who summoned the neighboring bishops and those of Numidia to elect a bishop; and being disappointed at the election of Galilian, made a party against him. (2.) The Pelagian. SEE CAELESTIUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, … Continue reading “Caelestius. (1)”