Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Stellionatus (from stellio, a tarantula), a name applied in the time of the early Church to all imposture and fraud which has no special title in law such as mortgaging property already engaged; changing wares which have been sold, or corrupting them; substituting baser metal for gold. The chief of these crimes were forgery, calumny, … Continue reading “Stellionatus”

Stellio in Grecian mythology, was a youth whom Ceres changed into a lizard (Ovid, Metam. 5, 461). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Stella, James a French painter, was born at Lyons in 1596. At the age of twenty, being at Florence, he was assigned lodgings and a pension by duke Cosmo de’ Medici. After remaining here several years, he went to Rome, Milan, and finally to Paris, where Richelieu presented him to the king, who honored him … Continue reading “Stella, James”

Stele, Sepulchral These monumental slabs were generally placed at the bottom of the principal chamber of the tombs of the old dynasties of Egypt. They are square, and often of colossal proportions, with large hieroglyphics, sometimes in bas-relief, and spaced out. The representations are the facade of a building or tomb. At the time of … Continue reading “Stele, Sepulchral”

Stele a mediaeval term to describe a stem, stalk, or handle. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Steitz, Georg Eduard a German Protestant divine and doctor of divinity, was born July 25, 1810, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. In 1840 he passed his theological examination; and from 1842 until his death which occurred at his native place, Jan. 1, 1879, he occupied high positions in the Church. Besides his contributions to the first edition of … Continue reading “Steitz, Georg Eduard”

Steins, Frederick a Presbyterian minister, was born in Germany Nov. 18, 1805. He was educated at Mors, in Prussia, studied theology in the University of Bonn, and was licensed and ordained in the ministerium of Cologne in 1835, and for some years had the pastoral charge of a church near the Rhine. He afterwards emigrated … Continue reading “Steins, Frederick”

Steinmeyer, Ferdinand (FARMER) Ferdinand Steinmeyer, Jesuit missionary, born in Swabia, Germany, 13 Oct., 1720; died at Philadelphia, 17 Aug., 1786. He entered the Society of Jesus at Landsberg in Sept., 1743. He desired to labour on the missions in China but was sent to America instead, whither he came in 1752. His first mission was … Continue reading “Steinmeyer, Ferdinand”

Steinmetz, Johann Adam member of consistory abbot of Bergen, and general superintendent of the duchy of Magdeburg, was born in 1689, and died June 10, 1763. He wrote, Esaioe (di. Trani) Commentarius in Josuam, etc., in Versione cum Notis Illustratum (Leips., 1712): Das Buch der. Weisheit, nach dem Grundtext in griechischer Sprache mit philologischen und … Continue reading “Steinmetz, Johann Adam”

Steinle, Eduard Von An historical painter, born at Vienna, 2 July, 1810; died at Frankfort, 19 Sept., 1886. Steinle came successively under the influence of the painters Kupelweiser, Overbeck, and Cornelius, and was thus introduced into the new and vigorous methods of the German painters who had formed themselves into a school at Rome. Steinle … Continue reading “Steinle, Eduard Von”