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• Faa di Bruno, Francesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740a.htm
  Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)

• Faber, Felix

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740b.htm
  German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.

• Faber, Frederick William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740c.htm
  Oratorian and devotional writer. (1814-1863)

• Faber, Johann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741a.htm
  Theologian. (1478-1541)

• Faber, Johann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741b.htm
  Controversialist and preacher. (1504-1558)

• Faber, Johann Augustanus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742a.htm
  Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.

• Faber, Matthias

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742b.htm
  Writer and preacher, born at Altomünster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 April 1653.

• Faber, Philip

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742c.htm
  Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus. (1564-1630)

• Fabian, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742d.htm
  Biography of this pope who was martyred in 250.

• Fabiola, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743a.htm
  Divorced, remarried, widowed, penitent, renowned for her generosity. She died in 399 or 400.

• Fabre, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743b.htm
  Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. (1824-1892)

• Fabri, Honoré

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743c.htm
  Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688.

• Fabriano and Matelica

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05744a.htm
  Fabriano, a city in the province of Macerata, Central Italy, is noted for its paper manufactories and its trade in salted fish. The town of Matelica possesses some ancient inscriptions. A Roman colony was established there in 89 B.C.

• Fabrica Ecclesiæ

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05744b.htm
  Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction.

• Fabricius, Hieronymus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745a.htm
  Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)

• Fabyan, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745b.htm
  English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513.

• Facade

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745c.htm
  The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts.

• Facciolati, Jacopo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05747a.htm
  Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)

• Faculties of the Soul

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05749a.htm
  Article covers the meaning and classification.

• Faculties, Canonical

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05748a.htm
  In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.

• Facundus of Hermiane

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751a.htm
  A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.

• Faenza

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751b.htm
  Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.

• Fagnani, Prospero

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751c.htm
  Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.

• Fagnano, Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752a.htm
  Mathematician. (1682-1766)

• Faillon, Etienne-Michel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752b.htm
  Historian. (1800-1870)

• Faith

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm
  In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.

• Faith, Hope & Charity, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766a.htm
  Two groups of martyrs. The first were martyred along with their mother Sophia during the reign of Hadrian, and buried on the Aurelian Way. The second band, also along with someone named Sophia, were martyred at a later date, and buried along the Appian Way.

• Faith, The Rule of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766b.htm
  The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.

• Faithful, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05769a.htm
  Those who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by confirmation.

• Falco, Juan Conchillos

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770a.htm
  Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.

• Faldstool

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770b.htm
  A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.

• Falkner, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770c.htm
  Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)

• Fall River

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05771a.htm
  A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.

• Fallopio, Gabriello

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772a.htm
  Anatomist. (1523-1562)

• Falloux du Coudray

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772b.htm
  Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)

• False Decretals

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05773a.htm
  A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.

• Falsity

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm
  A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.

• Famagusta

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781b.htm
  A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.

• Familiars

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781c.htm
  Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In canon law the term usually signifies seculars residing in monasteries and other religious houses, actually employed therein as servants and subject to the authority of the regular prelate to the same extent as servants are subject to their masters.

• Family

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05782a.htm
  In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage, however, excludes servants.

• Fano

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785a.htm
  Located in Italy.

• Fanon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785b.htm
  Shoulder-cape worn by the pope.

• Faraud, Henri

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785c.htm
  Canadian bishop. (1823-1890)

• Farfa, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785d.htm
  A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto.

• Fargo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05786a.htm
  Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.

• Faribault, George-Barthélemy

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787a.htm
  Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)

• Faribault, Jean-Baptiste

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787b.htm
  Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)

• Farinato, Paolo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787c.htm
  Italian painter. (1524-1606)

• Farlati, Daniele

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788a.htm
  Ecclesiastical historian. (1690-1773)

• Farnese, Alessandro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788b.htm
  Cardinal. (1520-1589)

• Faro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789a.htm
  A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve.

• Faroe Islands

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789b.htm
  A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.

• Fast

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789c.htm
  Abstinence from food or drink.

• Fatalism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05791a.htm
  The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.

• Fate

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05793a.htm
  Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict.

• Fathers of Mercy, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05794a.htm
  A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.

• Fathers of the Church

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06001a.htm
  The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:

• Faunt, Lawrence Arthur

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06018a.htm
  Jesuit theologian. (1554-1590)

• Fauriel, Charles-Claude

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06018b.htm
  French historian. (1772-1844)

• Faustinus and Jovita, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019a.htm
  Brothers martyred at Brescia in 120.

• Faustus of Riez

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019b.htm
  Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.

• Faversham Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019c.htm
  A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.

• Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020a.htm
  Astronomer. (1814-1902)

• Fear

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020b.htm
  A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger.

• Fear (from a Moral Standpoint)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm
  Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of human origin.

• Feast of Fools

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06132a.htm
  A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later Middle Ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.).

• Feasts, Ecclesiastical

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm
  Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special services and rest from work.

• Febronianism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06023a.htm
  The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius.

• Feckenham, John de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06025a.htm
  Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585.

• Feder, Johann Michael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026a.htm
  German theologian. (1753-1824)

• Feilding, Rudolph William Basil

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026b.htm
  English convert. (1823-1892)

• Feilmoser, Andreas Benedict

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026c.htm
  Theologian and Scripture scholar. (1777-1831)

• Felbiger, Johann Ignaz von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027a.htm
  German Augustinian. (1724-1788)

• Felician Sisters, O.S.F.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027b.htm
  Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela.

• Felicissimus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027c.htm
  Third-century schismatic.

• Felicitas and Perpetua, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029a.htm
  Martyred at Carthage in 203.

• Felicitas, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06028a.htm
  Roman martyr. Article explains how she and the seven martyrs who are called her sons have come to have different feast days.

• Felix and Adauctus, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06032b.htm
  Martyrs at Rome in 303. "Adauctus" is not the second martyr's proper name--it means "added."

• Felix I, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029b.htm
  The successor of Pope St. Dionysius, Felix died in 274. He is sometimes confused with a Roman martyr of the same name.

• Felix II

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030a.htm
  Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.

• Felix III, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030b.htm
  Felix II was an antipope, irregularly imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, so St. Felix III is sometimes called Felix II. Pope St. Felix III was much involved in battling heresy, and died in 492.

• Felix IV, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031a.htm
  Since Felix II was an antipope imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, St. Felix IV is sometimes called Felix III. Pope St. Felix IV died in 530.

• Felix of Cantalice, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033a.htm
  Biography of this Capuchin lay brother, known for his goodness, popular with children, d. 1587.

• Felix of Nola, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033b.htm
  Third-century confessor. Possibly the same as St. Felix of Nola, bishop and martyr.

• Felix of Valois, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033c.htm
  Co-founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, d. 1212.

• Felix V

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031b.htm
  Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449). (1383-1451)

• Felix, Célestin Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06032a.htm
  French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891.

• Feller, François-Xavier de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034a.htm
  An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.

• Feneberg, Johann Michael Nathanael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034b.htm
  Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.

• Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06035a.htm
  French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.

• Fenn, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039a.htm
  Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor.

• Ferber, Nicolaus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039b.htm
  A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.

• Ferdinand II

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06040a.htm
  Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.

• Ferdinand III, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042a.htm
  King of León and Castile, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1252.

• Ferdinand, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039c.htm
  Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity. When a military mission of his brother failed, Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage, and died in captivity in 1443.

• Ferentino, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042b.htm
  In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.

• Fergus, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042c.htm
  There are at least ten Irish saints named Fergus. This article gives details on three of them: St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, bishop, d. about 730; St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, d. 778; and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, d. 583.

• Feria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043a.htm
  A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions.

• Ferland, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043b.htm
  A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.

• Fermo, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043c.htm
  In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy).

• Fernández de Palencia, Diego

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044c.htm
  A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.

• Fernández, Antonio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044a.htm
  A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.

• Fernández, Juan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044b.htm
  A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan.

• Ferns

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06045a.htm
  Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.

• Ferrara

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06046a.htm
  Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.

• Ferrari, Gaudenzio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06047a.htm
  An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546.

• Ferraris, Lucius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06048a.htm
  An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order.

• Ferre, Vicente

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049a.htm
  Theologian. (d. 1682)

• Ferreira, Antonio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049b.htm
  A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569.

• Ferrer, Rafael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049c.htm
  A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in 1611.

• Ferrières, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049d.htm
  Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.

• Ferstel, Heinrich, Freiherr von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050a.htm
  Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883.

• Fesch, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050b.htm
  Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839.

• Fessler, Josef

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06051a.htm
  Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council; b. 2 December, 1813, at Lochau near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg; d. 25 April, 1872.

• Feti, Domenico

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06052a.htm
  Italian painter; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624.

• Fetishism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06052b.htm
  The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitiço from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer).

• Feuardent, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058a.htm
  Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at Paris, 1 Jan., 1610.

• Feuchtersleben, Baron Ernst von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058b.htm
  An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, 1849.

• Feudalism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06058c.htm
  The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law.

• Feuillants

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06064a.htm
  The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans.

• Feuillet, Louis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065a.htm
  Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732.

• Feval, Paul-Henri-Corentin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065b.htm
  French novelist. (1817-1887)

• Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066a.htm
  Spanish writer. (1676-1764)

• Fiacc, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066b.htm
  Poet, chief bishop of Leinster, d. around 520.

• Fiacre, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06067a.htm
  Biography of this Irish priest and hermit, patron saint of gardeners, d. 670.

• Ficino, Marsilio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06067b.htm
  Entry on this Renaissance Platonist, by M. Schumacher. Details his life and explores his relation to the classical thinkers.

• Ficker, Julius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06068a.htm
  Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at Innsbruck, 10 June, 1902.

• Fideism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06068b.htm
  A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterion of certitude is authority.

• Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06069a.htm
  Former lawyer who joined the Capuchins, and was sent as a missionary to the Calvinists. Martyred in 1622.

• Fiesole

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06070a.htm
  Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.

• Figueroa, Francisco de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071a.htm
  A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed "the Divine", b. at Alcalá de Henares, c. 1540, d. there, 1620.

• Figueroa, Francisco García de la Rosa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071b.htm
  Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown.

• Fiji, Vicariate Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16040a.htm
  Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago.

• Filelfo, Franscesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071c.htm
  A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481.

• Filial Church

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06072a.htm
  A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church.

• Filicaja, Vincenzo da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06072b.htm
  Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707.

• Filioque

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06073a.htm
  It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism.

• Fillastre, Guillaume

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06074a.htm
  French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer. (1348-1428)

• Filliucci, Vincenzo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075a.htm
  Jesuit moralist. (1566-1622)

• Filliucius, Felix

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075b.htm
  An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590.

• Finan, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075c.htm
  Irish monk, second Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 661.

• Finbarr, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076a.htm
  Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland. (550-623)

• Finland

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076d.htm
  As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.

• Finnian of Moville, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06077a.htm
  Irish monk, author of a monastic rule and a penitential. Also the founder of a famous school in County Down. St. Finnian died in 589.

• Finotti, Joseph M.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06077b.htm
  Italian-American Jesuit in Colorado. (1817-1879)

• Fintan, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078a.htm
  Brief biographical sketches of two saints of this name: St. Fintan of Clonenagh, and St. Fintan (Munnu) of Taghmon.

• Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078b.htm
  Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

• Fire, Liturgical Use of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06079a.htm
  One of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols.

• Firmament

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06079b.htm
  The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples.

• Firmicus Maternus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080a.htm
  Christian author of the fourth century.

• Firmilian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080b.htm
  Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269.

• First-Born

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06081a.htm
  The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family.

• First-Fruits

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06082a.htm
  First-fruit offerings are designated in the Law by a threefold name: Bíkkûrîm, Reshîth, and Terûmôth.

• Fiscal Procurator

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06082b.htm
  The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing crime and safeguarding ecclesiastical law.

• Fischer, Antonius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16040b.htm
  Cardinal-Archbishop of Cologne. (1840-1912)

• Fish, Symbolism of the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083a.htm
  The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multification of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its popularity among Christians was due principally, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish (Ichthys), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and His claim to the worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.

• Fisher, Philip

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083b.htm
  Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. S., 1652.

• Fitter, Daniel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084a.htm
  Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700.

• Fitton, James

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084b.htm
  Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881.

• Fitz-Simons, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06087b.htm
  American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 26 Aug., 1811.

• Fitzalan, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084c.htm
  Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580.

• Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06085b.htm
  Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538.

• Fitzherbert, Maria Anne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06085a.htm
  Wife of King George IV; b. 26 July, 1756 (place uncertain); d. at Brighton, England, 29 March, 1837.

• Fitzherbert, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086a.htm
  Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome.

• Fitzpatrick, William John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086b.htm
  Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895.

• Fitzralph, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086c.htm
  Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360.

• Fitzsimon, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06087a.htm
  Irish Jesuit. (1566-1643)

• Fixlmillner, Placidus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06088a.htm
  Astronomer. (1721-1791)

• Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06088b.htm
  Physicist. (1819-1896)

• Flabellum

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089a.htm
  A fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest.

• Flaccilla, Aelia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089b.htm
  Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great, died c. A. D. 385 or 386.

• Flagellants

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089c.htm
  A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries.

• Flagellation

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06092a.htm
  Includes history and its use in scripture.

• Flaget, Benedict Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06093a.htm
  First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville), Kentucky, U.S.A. (1763-1850)

• Flanagan, Thomas Canon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094a.htm
  Canon of Birmingham Diocese. Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865.

• Flanders

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094b.htm
  Designated in the eighth century a small territory around Bruges; it became later the name of the country bounded by the North Sea, the Scheldt, and the Canche.

• Flandrin, Jean-Hippolyte

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06096a.htm
  French painter. (1809-1864)

• Flathead Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06097a.htm
  A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes practising the custom of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means.

• Flavia Domitilla

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06098b.htm
  A Christian Roman matron of the imperial family who lived towards the close of the first century.

• Flavian, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06098c.htm
  Bishop of Constantinople, excommunicated Eutyches, was the recipient of the famous "Tome of Leo," deposed by the Latrocinium, died from severe beatings in exile in 449.

• Flavias

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099a.htm
  A titular see of Cilicia Secunda.

• Flavigny, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099b.htm
  Benedictine abbey in the Diocese of Dijon, the department of Côte-d'Or, and arroundissement of Semur.

• Flaviopolis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099c.htm
  A titular see in the province of Honorias.

• Flechier, Esprit

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100a.htm
  Bishop; b. at Pernes, France, 1632; died at Montpellier, 1710.

• Flemael, Bertholet

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100b.htm
  Painter, b. at Liège, Flanders, in 1614; d. there in 1675.

• Fleming, Patrick

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06100c.htm
  Franciscan friar b. at Lagan, County Louth, Ireland, 17April, 1599; d. 7 November, 1631.

• Fleming, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101a.htm
  Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. about 1360; d. at Sleaford, 25 Jan., 1431.

• Fleming, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101b.htm
  Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane. (1593-1665)

• Fletcher, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06101c.htm
  A missionary and theologian; d. about 1848.

• Flete, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102a.htm
  An Augustinian hermit friar, a contemporary and great friend of St. Catherine of Siena; the exact place and date of his birth are unknown and those of his death are disputed.

• Fleuriot, Zénaide-Marie-Anne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102b.htm
  French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890.

• Fleury, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102c.htm
  One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated.

• Fleury, André-Hercule de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06103a.htm
  Chaplain to Maria Theresa and Louis XIV. (1653-1742)

• Flodoard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105a.htm
  French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966.

• Floreffe, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105b.htm
  Situated on the Sambre, about seven miles southwest of Namur, Belgium, owes its foundation to Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis.

• Florence

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105c.htm
  Located in the province of Tuscany (Central Italy).

• Florence of Worcester

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114a.htm
  English chronicler, died in 1118.

• Florence, Council of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06111a.htm
  The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was the continuation of the Council of Ferrara.

• Florentina, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114b.htm
  Sometimes called Florentia. Spanish nun, d. about 612.

• Florez, Enrique

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114c.htm
  Spanish theologian, archeologist, and historian; born at Valladolid, 14 February, 1701; died at Madrid, 20 August, 1773.

• Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris, Chevalier de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114d.htm
  Writer, born at the château of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794.

• Florians, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115a.htm
  An independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians; it was founded in 1189 by the Abbot Joachim of Flora.

• Florida

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115b.htm
  The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi.

• Florilegia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121a.htm
  Systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes.

• Florus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121b.htm
  A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century.

• Floyd, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06122a.htm
  English missionary. (1572-1649)

• Fogaras

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123a.htm
  Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Romanian Rite.

• Foggia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123b.htm
  Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern Italy).

• Foillan, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123c.htm
  Blood brother of SS. Fursey and Ultan. Irish-born abbot of Cnoberesburg until it was captured by the Mercians, whereupon Foillan fled to Nivelles. He was murdered in 652.

• Folengo, Teofilo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124a.htm
  Italian poet. (1496-1544)

• Foley, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041a.htm
  English Jesuit lay brother. (1811-1891)

• Foligno

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124b.htm
  Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.

• Folkestone Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125a.htm
  Located in England.

• Fonseca Soares, Antonio da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126a.htm
  Friar Minor and ascetical writer. (1631-1682)

• Fonseca, José Ribeiro da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125b.htm
  Friar Minor; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752.

• Fonseca, Pedro Da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125c.htm
  A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599.

• Fontana, Carlo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126b.htm
  An architect and writer; b. at Bruciato, near Como, 1634; d. at Rome, 1714.

• Fontana, Domenico

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126c.htm
  A Roman architect of the Late Renaissance, b. at Merli on the Lake of Lugano, 1543; d. at Naples, 1607.

• Fontana, Felice

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06127a.htm
  Italian naturalist and physiologist, b. at Pomarolo in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1730; d. at Florence, 11 January, 1805.

• Fontbonne, Jeanne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06127b.htm
  Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons. (1759-1843)

• Fonte-Avellana

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06128a.htm
  A suppressed order of hermits, which takes its name from their first hermitage in the Apennines.

• Fontenelle, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06129a.htm
  A Benedictine monastery in Normandy (Seine-Inférieure), near Caudebec-en-Caux.

• Fontevrault, Order and Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06129b.htm
  The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d'Arbrissel about the end of 1100.

• Foppa, Ambrogio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133a.htm
  Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker, b. 1445, d. about 1527.

• Forbes, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133b.htm
  Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606.

• Forbin-Janson, Comte de Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133c.htm
  A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood. (1785-1844)

• Forcellini, Egidio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134a.htm
  Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, 1768.

• Fordham University

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15203b.htm
  Developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist's Day, 24 June, 1841.

• Foreman, Andrew

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134b.htm
  A Scottish prelate; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522.

• Forer, Laurenz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134c.htm
  Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659.

• Foresters, Catholic Orders of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06135a.htm
  A Catholic fraternal insurance society.

• Forgery, Forger

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06135b.htm
  The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty.

• Forli

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137a.htm
  Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy); suffragan of Ravenna.

• Form

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137b.htm
  The original meaning of the term form, both in Greek and Latin, was and is that in common use - eidos, being translated, that which is seen, shape, etc., with secondary meanings derived from this, as form, sort, particular, kind, nature.

• Formby, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139a.htm
  Writer, born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884.

• Formosus, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139b.htm
  Reigned 891-896.

• Formularies

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06141a.htm
  Medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case.

• Forrest, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144a.htm
  Sixteenth-century English priest and poet.

• Förster, Arnold

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144b.htm
  German entomologist. (1810-1884)

• Forster, Fobrenius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144c.htm
  Bavarian Prince-Abbot. (1709-1791)

• Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06145a.htm
  Astronomer and naturalist. (1789-1860)

• Fort Wayne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06150a.htm
  The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., established in 1834, comprised the whole State of Indiana till the Holy See, on 22 September, 1857, created the Diocese of Fort Wayne, assigning to it that part of Indiana north of the southern boundary of Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware, and Randolph Counties.

• Fortaleza, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06145b.htm
  Co-extensive with the State of Ceará in the Republic of Brazil.

• Fortitude

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06147a.htm
  One of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue.

• Fortunato of Brescia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06148a.htm
  Morphologist and Minorite of the Reform of Lombardy; b. at Brescia, 1701; d. at Madrid, 1754.

• Fortunatus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06149a.htm
  Lengthy biographical article on the talented sixth-century poet and hymn-writer.

• Forty Hours' Devotion

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06151a.htm
  Somewhat dated with regard to the liturgical details, but otherwise an accurate depiction. An Eucharistic devotion.

• Forty Martyrs

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153a.htm
  Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia about this group of soldiers who, for professing Christianity, were ordered by the prefect to lie naked on a frozen lake. One of these threw himself into a warm bath which had been set up for defectors, but one of the guards was so impressed with the others that he declared himself a Christian and died with them. Early fourth century.

• Forum, Ecclesiastical

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153b.htm
  Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is distinguished into that of the internal and external forum.

• Fossano

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154a.htm
  Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin.

• Fossombrone

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154b.htm
  Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino.

• Fossors

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155a.htm
  Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era.

• Foster, John Gray

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155b.htm
  Soldier, convert. (1823-1874)

• Fothad, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156a.htm
  St. Fothad Na Canoine ("of the Canon"), late eighth-century monk in County Donegal, bard.

• Fouard, Constant

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156b.htm
  An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837.

• Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156c.htm
  A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868.

• Foulque de Neuilly

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06157a.htm
  A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202.

• Foundation

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06157b.htm
  An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time.

• Foundling Asylums

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06159a.htm
  Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.

• Fountains Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06161a.htm
  A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York.

• Fouquet, Jehan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06161b.htm
  French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480.

• Four Crowned Martyrs

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163a.htm
  The Four Crowned Martyrs are actually two groups, with a total of nine or ten martyrs. The first five were masons or sculptors in Pannonia, martyred in 305. The second was a group of four martyrs, names unknown. They have been venerated since the fourth century and share a feast day on 8 November.

• Four Masters, Annals of the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163b.htm
  The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland.

• Fowler, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06164a.htm
  Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9.

• Fractio Panis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06165a.htm
  The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.

• France

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06166a.htm
  Geography, statistics, and history.

• Frances d'Amboise, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205b.htm
  Biographical article on the Duchess of Brittany. While married, she was a great friend of the Poor Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites. After she was widowed, she became a Carmelite herself, and died in 1485.

• Frances of Rome, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205c.htm
  Wife and mother, Benedictine oblate, mystic, d. 1440.

• Franceschini, Marc' Antonio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205a.htm
  Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's.

• Franchi, Ausonio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206a.htm
  Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa.

• Francia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206b.htm
  Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517.

• Francis Borgia, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06213a.htm
  Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit.

• Francis Caracciolo, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218a.htm
  Co-founder of the Congregation of the Minor Clerks Regular, d. 1608.

• Francis de Geronimo, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218b.htm
  Italian Jesuit, a popular preacher with a flair for the dramatic, d. 1716.

• Francis de Sales, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06220a.htm
  Biographical article on the Bishop of Geneva, and Doctor of the Church, who died in 1622.

• Francis I

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06207a.htm
  King of France; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547.

• Francis Ingleby, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007c.htm
  Brief biography of the Yorkshire priest and martyr, who died in 1586.

• Francis of Assisi, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm
  Long article on St. Francis, founder, mystic, perhaps the most beloved Catholic saint of all.

• Francis of Fabriano, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06230a.htm
  Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322.

• Francis of Paula, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06231a.htm
  Founder of the Order of Minims, d. 1507.

• Francis of Vittoria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06232a.htm
  Spanish theologian; b. about 1480, at Vittoria, province of Avila, in Old Castile; d. 12 August, 1546.

• Francis Regis Clet, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06232b.htm
  French Lazarist missionary to China, martyred in 1820.

• Francis Solanus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233a.htm
  Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America, d. 1610. Short biographical article.

• Francis X. Seelos, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13681b.htm
  Short biographical article on the missionary priest.

• Francis Xavier, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233b.htm
  Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

• Francis, Rule of Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06208a.htm
  As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule.

• Franciscan Order

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm
  An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic Church.

• Franck, Kasper

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06234a.htm
  A theologian and controversialist; b. at Ortrand, Saxony, 2 Nov., 1543; d. at Ingolstadt, 12 March, 1584.

• Franco, Giovanni Battista

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235a.htm
  Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in 1510; d. at Venice in 1580.

• Frank, Michael Sigismund

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235b.htm
  Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at Nuremberg; d. at Munich, 16 January, 1847.

• Frankenberg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235c.htm
  Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of Belgium, and cardinal. (1726-1804)

• Frankfort, Council of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06236a.htm
  Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne (can. 1), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy, and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England.

• Frankfort-on-the-Main

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06237a.htm
  Formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors.

• Franks, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06238a.htm
  A confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle fought against this people about the year 241.

• Franzelin, Johann Baptist

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06242a.htm
  Cardinal and theologian. (1816-1886)

• Frascati

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06243a.htm
  One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church.

• Frassen, Claude

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06244a.htm
  A celebrated Scotist theologian and philosopher of the Order of Friars Minor; b. near Peronne, France, in 1620; d. at Paris, 26 February, 1711.

• Fraticelli

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06244b.htm
  A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, principally in Italy.

• Fraud

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06249a.htm
  In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong and unfair advantage.

• Fraunhofer, Joseph von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06250a.htm
  Optician. (1787-1826)

• Frayssinous, Denis de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251a.htm
  Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris. (1765-1841)

• Frechette, Louis-Honoré

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251b.htm
  Canadian journalist and poet. (1839-1908)

• Fredegarius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251c.htm
  The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.

• Fredegis of Tours

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06252a.htm
  A ninth-century monk, teacher, and writer.

• Frederick I (Barbarossa)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06252b.htm
  German King and Roman Emperor. (1123-1190)

• Frederick II

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm
  German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250.

• Fredoli, Berenger

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257a.htm
  Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. (1250-1323)

• Free Church of Scotland

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257b.htm
  Short introduction and history of the United Free Church. Briefly covers the secession, notes the events leading up to the disruption and deals with the events during the unification.

• Free Will

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm
  The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.

• Free-Thinkers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258b.htm
  Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone.

• Fregoso, Federigo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06263a.htm
  Cardinal; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541.

• Freiburg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06264a.htm
  City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany.

• Frejus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06269a.htm
  Suffragan of Aix; comprises the whole department of Var (France).

• Fremin, James

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271a.htm
  Jesuit missionary to the American Indians; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, 1691.

• French Catholics in the United States

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271c.htm
  History and statistics of French Canadian immigration to the United States.

• French Literature

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06190a.htm
  Origin, foundations, and types.

• French, Nicholas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271b.htm
  Bishop of Ferns, Ireland. (1604-1678)

• Freppel, Charles-Emile

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06277a.htm
  Bishop of Angers, France; and deputy from Finistère. (1827-1891)

• Frequent Communion

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06278a.htm
  Discusses the history and practice.

• Fresnel, Augustin-Jean

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280a.htm
  Physicist; b. at Broglie near Bernay, Normandy, 10 May, 1788; d. at Ville d'Avray, near Paris, 14 July, 1827.

• Friar

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280b.htm
  A member of one of the mendicant orders.

• Friars Minor, Order of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06281a.htm
  History, traditions, and saints of the order.

• Fridelli, Xavier Ehrenbert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303a.htm
  Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)

• Frideswide, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303b.htm
  Patron saint of Oxford, d. 735. Biographical entry.

• Fridolin, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303c.htm
  Irish missionary, founded the Monastery of Säckingen sometime before the ninth century.

• Friedrich von Hausen

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06304a.htm
  Medieval German poet.

• Friends of God

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06306a.htm
  An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, having for its object the cultivation of holiness.

• Friends, Society of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06304b.htm
  Quakers, an Anglo-American religious sect.

• Frigolet, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307a.htm
  The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King of Arles.

• Fringes (in Scripture)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307b.htm
  A special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, etc., or strips of other suitable material, along the edge of a piece of cloth.

• Fritz, Samuel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06308a.htm
  A Jesuit missionary of the eighteenth century noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin.

• Froissart, Jean

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06308b.htm
  Biography of the French historian and poet.

• Fromentin, Eugène

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06309a.htm
  French writer and artist. (1820-1876)

• Frontenac, Louis de Baude

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310a.htm
  A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698.

• Frowin, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310b.htm
  Abbot of Engelberg, renowned for learning as well as sanctity, d. 1178.

• Fructuosus of Braga, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311a.htm
  Hermit, abbot, archbishop, d. around 665.

• Fructuosus of Tarragona, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311b.htm
  Bishop, was martyred along with his deacons Augurius and Eulogius in 259.

• Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311c.htm
  Chemist and mineralogist. (1774-1856)

• Fuhrich, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311d.htm
  Artist. (1800-1876)

• Fulbert of Chartres

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06312a.htm
  Bishop. (952-1028)

• Fulcran, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313a.htm
  Bishop of Lodève, d. 1006.

• Fulda

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313b.htm
  This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.

• Fulgentius Ferrandus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06317a.htm
  A canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century.

• Fulgentius, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06315a.htm
  Bishop of Ecija, died sometime between 619 and 633.

• Fulgentius, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06316a.htm
  Full name, Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius. Monk, abbot, Bishop of Ruspe, anti-Arian theologian, d. 533.

• Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318a.htm
  Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885.

• Fumo, Bartolommeo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318b.htm
  Theologian. (d. 1545)

• Funchal

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318c.htm
  Diocese in the Madeira Islands.

• Fundamental Articles

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06319a.htm
  This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the Christian faith from those non-essential doctrines, which, as they believed, individual churches might accept or reject without forfeiting their claim to rank as parts of the Church universal.

• Funeral Dues

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06321a.htm
  The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of his parishioners.

• Funeral Pall

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322a.htm
  A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person.

• Fünfkirchen, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322b.htm
  Diocese in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical province of Gran.

• Funk, Franz Xaver von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322c.htm
  Church historian. (1840-1907)

• Furness Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324a.htm
  Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian.

• Furni

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324b.htm
  A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed.

• Furniss, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324c.htm
  A well-known children's missioner. (1809-1865)

• Fursey, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324d.htm
  Blood brother of St. Foillan. Fursey was an Irish monk and visionary, the abbot of Lagny. He died in about 650.

• Furstenberg, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06325a.htm
  A statesman and educator. (1729- 1810)

• Fussola

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06326a.htm
  A titular see in Numidia.

• Fust, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06326b.htm
  A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466.

• Fytch, William Benedict

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06327a.htm
  An English Capuchin, whose family name was Filch. (1563-1610)

• William Freeman, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258a.htm
  English priest, martyred at Warwick in 1595.

 

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