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• Kabbala

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08590a.htm
  It primarily signifies reception, and, secondarily, a doctrine received by oral tradition.

• Kafiristan and Kashmir, Prefecture Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08591a.htm
  Created (1887) by Leo XIII in the extreme North of India.

• Kafirs

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08591b.htm
  A term popularly to nearly all the natives of South Africa. It was originally imposed by the Arab traders of the East coast, and means "unbeliever".

• Kager, Johann Matthias

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08592a.htm
  German historical painter, born at Munich, 1566; died at Augsburg, 1634.

• Kaiser, Kajetan Georg von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08592b.htm
  Chemist, born at Kelheim on the Danube (Bavaria), 5 January, 1803; died at Munich, 28 August, 1871.

• Kaiserchronik

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08592c.htm
  A German epic poem of the twelfth century.

• Kaiserwilhelmsland

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08592d.htm
  Prefecture Apostolic, comprises the German part of the island of New Guinea.

• Kalands Brethren

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08593a.htm
  The name given to religious and charitable associations of priests and laymen especially numerous in Northern and Central Germany, which held regular meetings for religious edification and instruction, and also to encourage works of charity and prayers for the dead.

• Kalcker, Jan Stephanus van

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08593b.htm
  Flemish painter, native of the Duchy of Cleves; b. between 1499 and 1510; d. at Naples, 1546.

• Kalinka, Valerian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08593c.htm
  Polish historian, born near Cracow in 1826; died at Jaroslaw in 1886.

• Kalispel Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08594a.htm
  Popularly known under the French name of Pend d'Oreilles, "ear pendants", an important tribe of Salishan stock originally residing about Pend d Oreille lake and river, in northern Idaho and northeast Washington.

• Kalocsa-Bacs, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08594b.htm
  This archdiocese embraces within its territories an archdiocese and a diocese founded by St. Stephen of Hungary in 1010.

• Kamerun, Vicariate Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08596a.htm
  Located in German West Africa, between British Nigeria and French Congo.

• Kan-Su, Prefecture Apostolic of Southern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08602b.htm
  Separated from the Northern Kan-su mission in 1905, and committed to the Belgian Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutveld, Brussels).

• Kan-Su, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08602c.htm
  This vicariate includes the territory of Ku-ku-nor, northern part of Tibet, and the five northern prefectures of the Chinese province of Kan-su: Lan-chou-fu, Si-ning-fu, Liang-chou-fu, Kan-chou-fu, and Su-chou.

• Kandy, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08596b.htm
  Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a diocese on 1 September, 1886.

• Kansas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08597a.htm
  One of the United States of America, is the central state of the Union, to which it was admitted 29 January, 1861.

• Kansas City, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08602a.htm
  Established 10 September, 1880.

• Kant, Philosophy of Immanuel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08603a.htm
  A detailed evaluation by William Turner.

• Karnkowski, Stanislaw

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08608a.htm
  Archbishop of Gnesen and Primate of Poland, born about 1526; died at Lowicz,in the Government of Warsaw, 25 May (al., 8 June), 1603.

• Kaskaskia Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08608b.htm
  Formerly chief tribe of the confederacy of Illinois Indians.

• Kassai, Upper

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08609a.htm
  Erected as a simple mission in 1901, and detached, as a prefecture Apostolic, from the Vicariate of Belgian Congo since 20 August, 1901.

• Kateri Tekakwitha, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14471a.htm
  Biographical article on the "Lily of the Mohawks," who died in 1680. Also known as Catherine Tegakwitha or Takwita.

• Kauffmann, Angelica

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08609b.htm
  Artist's biography with bibliography.

• Kaufmann, Alexander

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08610a.htm
  Poet and folklorist, born at Bonn, 14 May, 1817; died at Wertheim, 1 May, 1893.

• Kaufmann, Leopold

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08610b.htm
  Chief Burgomaster of Bonn, brother of the poet and folklorist Alexander Kaufmann, born 13 March, 1821; died 27 Feb., 1898.

• Kaulen, Franz Philip

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08611a.htm
  Scriptural scholar, born 20 March, 1827, at Düsseldorf; died at Bonn, 11 July, 1907.

• Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08611b.htm
  An Austrian prince and statesman, born at Vienna 2 February, 1711; died there 27 June, 1794.

• Kavanagh, Edward

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08612a.htm
  American statesman and diplomat, born at Newcastle, Maine, 27 April, 1795; died there, 21 Jan., 1844.

• Kavanagh, Julia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08613a.htm
  Novelist and biographer, born 7 Jan., 1824, at Thurles, Ireland; died 28 October, 1877, at Nice, France.

• Kearney, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16048a.htm
  By Decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 8 March, 1912, Pius X divided into two parts the territory of the Diocese of Omaha, erecting the western part into a new and distinct diocese with its see at Kearney.

• Keating, Geoffrey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16048b.htm
  Irish theologian, historian, and poet, b. at Burgess in the parish of Tubbrid, Co. Tipperary, about 1569; d. at Tubbrid about 1644.

• Keewatin, Vicariate Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16049a.htm
  Includes the northern half of the Province of Saskatchewan.

• Kehrein, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08613b.htm
  Educator, philologist, and historian of German literature, born at Heidesheim, near Mainz, 20 October, 1808; died at Montabaur, Hesse-Nassau, 25 March, 1876.

• Keller, Jacob

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08613c.htm
  Controversialist, born at Sackingen, Baden, Germany, in 1568; died at Munich, Bavaria, 23 February, 1631.

• Kellner, Lorenz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08614a.htm
  Educationist, born at Kalteneber in the district of Eichsfeld, 29 January, 1811; died at Trier, 18 August, 1892.

• Kells, Book of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08614b.htm
  An Irish manuscript containing the Four Gospels, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the Eusebian canons, known also as the "Book of Columba".

• Kells, School of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08615a.htm
  Kells (in Gaelic Cenannus) was the chief of the Irish Columban monasteries.

• Kemp, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08616b.htm
  Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England. (1380-1454)

• Kenia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08616c.htm
  Vicariate Apostolic in Africa.

• Kennedy, James

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08616d.htm
  Bishop of St. Andrews, Scotland. Born about 1406; died 10 May, 1466.

• Kenosis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08617a.htm
  A term derived from the discussion as to the real meaning of Phil. 2:6.

• Kenraghty

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08617b.htm
  Irish priest, d. 30 April, 1585, at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

• Kenrick, Francis Patrick and Peter Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08618a.htm
  Archbishops of Baltimore, Maryland, and of St. Louis, Missouri.

• Kentigern, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08620a.htm
  Also known as Mungo. First bishop of Glasgow, died in 603. Biography.

• Kentucky

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08620b.htm
  A state situated between the parallels of latitude 36° 30 and 39°6' N., and between the meridians 82° and 89°38' W.

• Keon, Miles Gerard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08626a.htm
  Irish journalist. (1821-1875)

• Kerkuk

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08626b.htm
  Chaldean Catholic diocese.

• Kernan, Francis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08626c.htm
  Lawyer, statesman; born in Steuben County, New York, 14 January, 1816; d. at Utica, New York, 7 September, 1892.

• Kerry and Aghadoe

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08627a.htm
  The Diocese of Kerry and Aghadoe (Kerriensis Et Aghadoensis), suffragan of Cashel, Ireland, is sixty-six miles in length, and sixty-one in breadth, containing a superficial area of 983,400 acres, and extending over the whole County of Kerry and a portion of that of Cork; in 1901 the Catholic population was 187,346.

• Kerssenbroch, Hermann von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08628a.htm
  A teacher and historian, b. at Monchshof, near Barntrup (Lippe), about 1520; d. at Osnabruck, 5 July, 1585.

• Kervyn de Lettenhove, Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin, Baron

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08629a.htm
  Belgian statesman and historian, b. at Saint-Michel-lez-Bruges, 17 August, 1817; d. there, 3 April, 1891.

• Kessels, Matthias

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08629b.htm
  Sculptor, b. at Maastricht, 1784; d. at Rome, 3 March, 1836.

• Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08629c.htm
  Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster, in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, 1877.

• Kevin (Coemgen), Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04092c.htm
  Abbot of Glendalough, d. 618.

• Keyes, Erasmus Darwin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08631a.htm
  Soldier, convert, b. at Brimfield, Massuchusetts, U.S.A., 29 May, 1810; d. at Nice, France, 14 October, 1895.

• Keys, Power of the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08631b.htm
  The expression "power of the keys" is derived from Christ's words to St. Peter (in Matthew 16:19).

• Kharput

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08633a.htm
  Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850.

• Kiang-nan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08633b.htm
  The Vicariate comprises the two provinces of Kiang-su and Ngan-hwei.

• Kiang-si, Eastern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08634a.htm
  The mission of Eastern Kiang-si was separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1885.

• Kiang-si, Northern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08635a.htm
  Father Matteo Ricci of the Society of Jesus was the first missionary who entered the province of Kiang-si at the end of the sixteenth century.

• Kiang-si, Southern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08635b.htm
  Separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1879, and organized into an independent Vicariate Apostolic.

• Kickapoo Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08635c.htm
  Apparently corrupted from a longer term signifying "roamers", a tribe of Algonquian stock, closely related dialectically to the Sauk and Foxes, and living when first known in south central Wisconsin.

• Kickham, Charles Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16049b.htm
  Patriot, novelist, and poet, b. at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1828; d. at Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 22 Aug., 1882.

• Kielce

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08636a.htm
  Diocese in the southern part of Russian Poland.

• Kieran, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08636b.htm
  Of the many Irish saints of this name, the most famous is St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise. SS. Kieran of Seir-Kieran and Kieran of Disert-Kieran are fairly well-known. There is also a St. Kieran, patron of Clonsost, and a St. Kieran, son of Colga.

• Kildare and Leighlin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08637a.htm
  One of the four suffragans of Dublin, Ireland.

• Kildare, School of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08636c.htm
  Situated in Magh Liffe, or the Plain of the Liffey, came to be known as Cill-Dara, or the Church of the Oak, from the stately oak-tree so much loved by St. Brigid, who under its branches laid the foundations of what in process of time became a monastic city.

• Kilian, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08639a.htm
  Missionary, bishop of Würzburg, martyred with his companions Colman and Totnan in about 689.

• Killala

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08640a.htm
  Diocese, one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province of Tuam.

• Killaloe

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08641a.htm
  A suffragan diocese of Cashel.

• Kilmore

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08642a.htm
  Diocese in Ireland, includes almost all Cavan and about half of Leitrim.

• Kilwardby, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08644a.htm
  Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 1279)

• Kilwinning, Benedictine Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08644b.htm
  Located in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of the same name, where a church was said to have been founded early in the eighth century by St. Winning.

• Kimberley

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08645a.htm
  Vicariate apostolic; suffragan of Adelaide, erected by Leo XIII, 5 May, 1887.

• Kimberley in Orange

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08645b.htm
  The portion of South Africa which at the present day forms the Vicariate of Kimberley in Orange became in the division of the Vicariate of Good Hope part of the Eastern District, and later on part of the Vicariate of Natal.

• Kingdom of God

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08646a.htm
  In this expression the innermost teaching of the Old Testament is summed up, but it should be noted that the word kingdom means ruling as well; thus it signifies not so much the actual kingdom as the sway of the king.

• Kingisel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08647a.htm
  The name of two abbots who ruled Glastonbury in the seventh and eighth centuries respectively.

• Kings, Chronology of the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08654a.htm
  Offers a table with the kings from the Bible.

• Kings, First and Second Books of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08647b.htm
  Known as the First and Second Books of Kings in the Authorized Version, in the Hebrew editions and the Protestant versions these are known as 1st and 2nd Samuel, with the Third and Fourth Books of Kings being styled First and Second Books of Kings.

• Kings, Third and Fourth Books of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08652a.htm
  The historical book called in the Hebrew Melakhim, i.e. Kings, is in the Vulgate, in imitation of the Septuagint, styled the Third and Fourth Book of Kings.

• Kingston

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08658a.htm
  The Archdiocese of Kingston comprises the territory from the eastern line of Dundas County to the western boundary of Hastings County in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

• Kinloss

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08659a.htm
  Cistercian abbey on the coast of Morayshire, Scotland, founded in 1150 or 1151 (authorities differ) by King David I, in gratitude, according to the popular legend, for having been guided into safety by a white dove when he had lost his way hunting in the adjacent forest.

• Kino, Eusebius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08660a.htm
  A famous Jesuit missionary of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. 10 August, 1644, in Welschtirol (Anauniensis); d. 15 March, 1711.

• Kiowa Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08660b.htm
  An important Plains tribe, constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

• Kircher, Athanasius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08661a.htm
  Celebrated for the versatility of his knowledge and particularly distinguished for his knowledge of the natural sciences, b. 2 May, 1601, at Geisa, a small town on the northern bank of the Upper Rhone (Buchonia); d. at Rome, 28 Nov., 1680.

• Kirkwall

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08662a.htm
  A parish, also a royal and parliamentary burgh and chief or county town of Orkney, in the north of Scotland.

• Kisfaludy

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08662b.htm
  Born at Suemeg, Hungary, 27 Sept., 1772; died at Suemeg, 28 October, 1844.

• Kiss

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08663a.htm
  Four times in the Epistles of St. Paul is met the injunction, used as a sort of formula of farewell, "Salute one another in a holy kiss" (en philemati hagio), for which St. Peter (1 Pet., v, 14) substitutes "in a kiss of love" (en philemati agapes).

• Klaczko, Julian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08665a.htm
  Polish author, b. at Vilna, 6 November, 1825, of Jewish parents; d. at Cracow, 26 November, 1906.

• Klee, Heinrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08666a.htm
  German theologian and exegete, b. at Münstermaifeld, in the Rhine province, 20 April, 1800; d. at Munich, 28 July, 1840.

• Klesl, Melchior

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08666b.htm
  A cardinal and Austrian statesman, b. at Vienna, 19 February, 1552; d. at Wiener-Neustadt, 18 September, 1630.

• Kleutgen, Josef Wilhelm Karl

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08667a.htm
  German theologian and philosopher, b. at Dortmund, Westphalia, 9 April, 1811; d. at St. Anton near Kaltern, Tyrol, 13 Jan., 1883.

• Klinkowström

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08667b.htm
  Artist, author and teacher; b. at Ludwigsburg in Swedish Pomerania on 31 August, 1778; d. at Vienna, 4 April, 1835.

• Klopp, Onno

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08668a.htm
  Historian, b. on 9 October, 1822, at Leer (East Friesland); d. at Vienna, 9 August 1903.

• Knabl, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08669a.htm
  A master of religious plastic art, b. at Fliess, Tyrol, in 1819; d. at Munich in 1881.

• Kneipp, Sebastian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08669b.htm
  Bavarian priest and hydrotherapist, b. at Stephansreid, Bavaria, 17 May, 1821; d. at Wörishofen, 17 June, 1897.

• Knight, Venerable William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08670a.htm
  Put to death for the Faith at York, on 29 November, 1596; with him also suffered Venerables George Errington of Herst, William Gibson of Ripon, and William Abbot of Howden, in Yorkshire.

• Knighton, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08670b.htm
  A fourteenth-century chronicler.

• Knights of Columbus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08670c.htm
  Brief explanation and history of the organization.

• Knights of the Cross

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08671a.htm
  A religious order famous in the history of Bohemia, and accustomed from the beginning to the use of arms, a custom which was confirmed in 1292 by an ambassador of Pope Nicholas IV.

• Knoblecher, Ignatius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08672a.htm
  Catholic missionary in Central Africa, born 6 July, 1819, at St. Cantian in Lower Carniola; died 13 April, 1858, at Naples.

• Knoll, Albert (Joseph)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08672b.htm
  Dogmatic theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, born at Bruneck in northern Tyrol, 12 July, 1796; died at Bozen, 30 March, 1863.

• Knowledge

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm
  Knowledge, being a primitive fact of consciousness, cannot, strictly speaking, be defined; but the direct and spontaneous consciousness of knowing may be made clearer by pointing out its essential and distinctive characteristics.

• Knowledge of Jesus Christ

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08675a.htm
  "Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we know about Jesus Christ, but a survey of the intellectual endowment of Christ.

• Knownothingism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm
  Article on this 1850s United States anti-immigrant movement.

• Knox, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08680a.htm
  Scotch Protestant leader, b. at Haddington, Scotland, between 1505 and 1515; d. at Edinburgh, 24 November, 1572.

• Kober, Franz Quirin von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08684a.htm
  German canonist and pedagogist, b. of simple countryfolk on 6 March, 1821, at Warthausen, Biberach, Würtemberg; d. at Tübingen, 25 January, 1897.

• Koberger, Anthony

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08684b.htm
  German printer, publisher, and bookseller, b. about 1445; d. at Nuremberg, 3 October, 1513.

• Kobler, Andreas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08685a.htm
  An historian, b. at Muhldorf in Bavaria, 22 June, 1816; d. at Klagenfurt, 15 November, 1892.

• Kochanowski, Jan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08685b.htm
  Born at Sycyna, 1530, died at Lublin, 22 August, 1584.

• Kochowski, Vespasian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08686a.htm
  Born at Sandomir?, 1633; died at Krakow, 1699. He received his education at the Jesuit College, Sandomir, served in the army, and then spent the rest of his life on his estate.

• Kögler, Ignaz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08686b.htm
  Jesuit missionary to China. (1680-1746)

• Kohlmann, Anthony

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08686c.htm
  Educator and missionary. (1771-1836)

• Koller, Marian Wolfgang

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08687a.htm
  Scientist and educator. (1792-1866)

• Konarski, Stanislaus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08687b.htm
  Born in 1700; died in 1773. This great reformer of Polish schools was a Piarist who, during a visit to Rome after his ordination, received there the first idea of his life's mission.

• Konig, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08688a.htm
  Theologian and exegete. (1819-1900)

• Koniggrätz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08688b.htm
  Diocese in Bohemia.

• Konigshofen, Jacob

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08689a.htm
  Medieval chronicler. (1346-1420)

• Konings, Anthony

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08689b.htm
  Born at Helmond, Diocese of Bois-1e-Duc, Holland, 24 August, 1821; died 30 June, 1884.

• Konrad

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08690a.htm
  A German epic poet of the twelfth century.

• Konrad of Lichtenau

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08690b.htm
  Medieval German chronicler. (d. 1240)

• Konrad of Megenberg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08691a.htm
  Scholar and writer, b. probably at Mainberg, near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, 2 February, 1309; d. at Ratisbon, 11 April, 1374.

• Konrad of Würzburg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08691b.htm
  A Middle High German poet, b. about 1230; d. at Basle, 1287.

• Konsag, Ferdinand

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08691c.htm
  A German missionary of the eighteenth century, b. 2 December, 1703, at Warasdin, Croatia; d. 10 September, 1758.

• Koran, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08692a.htm
  The sacred book of the Muslims, by whom it is regarded as the revelation of God.

• Kosciuszko, Tadeusz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08694a.htm
  Polish patriot and soldier, b. near Novogrudok, Lithuania, Poland, 12 February, 1752; d. at Solothurn, Switzerland, 15 October, 1817.

• Kottayam, Vicariate Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16050a.htm
  Located on the Malabar Coast, India.

• Kozmian, Stanislaus and John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08695a.htm
  Two brothers who took part in the Polish insurrection of 1831, and subsequently fled the country.

• Krafft, Adam

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08695b.htm
  Sculptor, b. about 1440 at Nuremberg; d. Jan., 1509 at Schwabach.

• Krain

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08696a.htm
  A duchy and crownland in the Austrian Empire, bounded on the north by Karinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria.

• Krämer, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08697a.htm
  Born about the end of the fourteenth century, he must have died between 1437 and 1440, as a manuscript of the Carthusian monastery of Memmingen speaks of the gift made to it by Krämer in 1437, and the general chapter of the Carthusian Order held in 1440 mentions his death.

• Krasicki, Ignatius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08698a.htm
  Born in 1735; died at Berlin, 1801. He took orders in early youth, and soon after became a canon, travelled abroad, preached the coronation sermon for King Stanislaus Poniatowski, by whose favour he shortly got a bishopric in what was soon to become Prussian Poland.

• Krasinski, Sigismund

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08698b.htm
  Count, son of a Polish general, b. at Paris, 19 Feb., 1812; d. there, 23 Feb., 1859.

• Kraus, Franz Xaver

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08699a.htm
  An ecclesiastical and art historian, b. at Trier, 18 September, 1840; d. at San Remo, 28 December, 1901.

• Kreil, Karl

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08700a.htm
  Austrian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Ried, Upper Austria, 4 Nov., 1798; d. at Vienna, 21 Dec., 1862.

• Kreiten, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08700b.htm
  Literary critic and poet, b. 21 June, 1847, at Gangelt near Aschen; d. 6 June, 1902, at Kerkrade (Kirchrath) in Dutch Limburg.

• Kremsmünster

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08701a.htm
  A Benedictine abbey in Austria, on the little river Krems, about twenty miles south of Linz, founded A.D. 777 by Tassilo II Duke of Bavaria, who richly endowed it, as did subsequently Charlemagne and his successors.

• Kromer, Martin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08702b.htm
  A distinguished Polish bishop and historian; b. at Biecz in Galicia in 1512; d. at Heilsberg, Ermland (now East Prussia), on 23 March, 1589.

• Krzycki, Andrew

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08702c.htm
  A typical humanistic poet, a most supple courtier for whom poetry was to be a source of renown and profit, Krzycki was well-read in Latin poetry and knew the language to perfection. Date of birth uncertain; d. in 1535.

• Kuhn, Johannes von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08703a.htm
  Theologian, b. at Waeschenbeuren in Wuertemberg, 19 Feb., 1806; d. at Tübingen, 8 May, 1887.

• Kulturkampf

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08703b.htm
  The name given to the political struggle for the rights and self-government of the Catholic Church, carried out chiefly in Prussia and afterwards in Baden, Hesse, and Bavaria.

• Kumbakonam

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08710a.htm
  Kumbakonam, signifying in English the "Jug's Corner," is a town of 60,000 inhabitants, and is situated in the fertile plain of the Tanjore District about half-way on the railroad which connects Madras with Tuticorin.

• Kutenai Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08711a.htm
  An important tribe of south-eastern British Columbia and the adjacent portions of Montana and Idaho.

• Kwang-si

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08712a.htm
  The mission of Kwang-si comprises the entire province of that name.

• Kwang-tung

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08712b.htm
  This prefecture comprises the whole province of that name except the civil prefecture of Shin-hing, the three districts of Heung-shan, Yan-ping, and Yeung-tsun, which belong to the Diocese of Macao, and the three districts of San-on, Kwei-shin, and Hoi-fung, which belong to the Vicariate Apostolic of Hong-Kong.

• Kwango

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08711b.htm
  The name of a river which flows into the Kassai, which itself is a tributary of the River Congo.

• Kwei-chou

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08713a.htm
  The mission of Kwei-chou embraces the entire province of that name.

• Kyrie Eleison

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08714a.htm
  Greek for "Lord have mercy"; the Latin transliteration supposes a pronunciation as in Modern Greek, is a very old, even pre-Christian, expression used constantly in all Christian liturgies.

 

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