Age of Man From Adam to Noah men lived much longer than in the period that followed. Adam lived 930 years, Noah 950, and Methuselah 969, the longest recorded. After the flood, Shem lived 600 years, but no one after him reached 500. In Peleg is another decline, he lived 239 years; Abraham only 175 … Continue reading “Age of Man”
Age of Discretion
Age of Discretion In history, period of the French Revolution inaugurated 10 November 1793, when an actress, typifying the “Goddess of Reason,” was enthroned upon the high altar of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris ; and ending when the Law of 21 February 1795, restored some measure of religious liberty. Thomas Paine wrote his “Age of … Continue reading “Age of Discretion”
age, impediment of
age, impediment of Means that a party is too young for valid matrimony. see also Youth, Impediment of Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Age, Canonical
age, canonical The age fixed by canon law at which the Church permits or requires her members to receive the sacraments, enjoins observaooe of the rules of fasting and abstinence, determines for entrance into the religious state, for making simple or solemn vows, holding ecclesiastical offices, or receiving benefices. This age is given in the … Continue reading “Age, Canonical”
Age, Aged, Old Age
Age, Aged, Old Age AGE, AGED, OLD AGE.In the OT advancing age is represented by words of different root-meanings. The aged man is zqen, perhaps grey-bearded (Gen 48:10, 2Sa 19:32, Job 12:20; Job 32:9, Psa 71:18, Jer 6:11); old age is also sbhh, i.e. hoary-headedness (Gen 15:15, 1Ki 14:4; cf. Gen 42:38, Psa 71:18). According … Continue reading “Age, Aged, Old Age”
Age
Age The general significance of age is a period of time, or a measure of life. Specially, it expresses the idea of advancement in life, or of oldness. Several Greek words are employed in NT for age. (1) (see aeon). (2) , a generation, loosely measured as extending from 30 to 33 years. In Eph … Continue reading “Age”
Agdus
Agdus an immense mythical stone from which Deucalion and Pyrrha took those which they threw over their heads to people the world. Jupiter, enamoured of this stone, changed it into a woman, who bore to him Agdistis. . Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Agde, Council Of
Agde, Council of Held in 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the presidency of St. Caesarius of Arlos. It was attended by thirty-five bishops, and its forty-seven genuine canons deal with ecclesiastical discipline. One of its canons (the seventh), forbidding ecclesiastics to sell or alienate the property of the church whence they drew … Continue reading “Agde, Council Of”
Agazzari, Agostini
Agazzari, Agostini A musical composer, born 2 December 1578, of a noble family of Sienna; died probably 10 April, 1640. He is said to have passed the first years of his professional life in the service of the Emperor Matthias. He went to Rome about 1600, succeeding Anerio as maestro di cappella at the German … Continue reading “Agazzari, Agostini”
Agaunum
Agaunum (Today ST. MAURICEEN-VALAIS). Agaunum, in the diocese of Sion, Switzerland, owes its fame to an event related by St. Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons, the martyrdom of a Roman legion, known as the “Theban Legion”, at the beginning of the fourth century. For centuries this martyrdom was accepted as an historical fact, but since the … Continue reading “Agaunum”