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• Quadragesima

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12589a.htm
  Denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ.

• Quadratus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12589b.htm
  Second-century Christian apologist.

• Quality

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12589c.htm
  Various definitions of quality and its forms or divisions.

• Quam singulari

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12590b.htm
  1910 decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments on the age at which children are to be admitted to first Communion.

• Quamichan Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12590a.htm
  Small tribe attached to Cowachan agency, at the southeast end of Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Quantity

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12591a.htm
  Interpretations of quantity as either a physical or theoretical abstraction.

• Quapaw Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12591b.htm
  An early tribe from the lower Mississippi region.

• Quarantines

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12593a.htm
  A strict ecclesiastical penance of forty days.

• Quaresmius, Franciscus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12593b.htm
  Seventeenth-century writer and Orientalist. (1583-1650)

• Quebec, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12593c.htm
  Comprises thirteen counties in Canada.

• Quebec, The Province of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12598a.htm
  Gives a brief history of this Canadian province and talks about Quebec at the beginning of the twentieth century. Article originally published in 1911.

• Queen's Daughters

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16069a.htm
  American religious and charitable society, organized to supplement the work done by the members of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul.

• Quelen, Hyacinthe-Louis De

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12600a.htm
  Archbishop of Paris. (1778-1839)

• Quem terra, pontus, sidera

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12600b.htm
  Ancient hymn in honour of the Blessed Virgin.

• Quercia, Jacopo Della

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12601a.htm
  Italian sculptor. (1374-1438)

• Querétaro, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12601b.htm
  Located in Mexico; suffragan of Michoacan.

• Quesnel, Pasquier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12601c.htm
  French writer. (1634-1719)

• Quevedo, Juan de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12603a.htm
  Spanish Franciscan. (b. 1519)

• Quiche

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12604a.htm
  Principal aboriginal tribe of Guatemala.

• Quichua Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12604b.htm
  Peruvian and Ecuadoran tribe.

• Quicumque Christum Quærtis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12607a.htm
  Opening line of the twelfth and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius.

• Quierzy, Councils of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608a.htm
  Series of five councils held in a French village between 838 and 858.

• Quiet, Prayer of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608b.htm
  A degree of contemplation in which the soul experiences an extraordinary peace and rest.

• Quietism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608c.htm
  Doctrine which declares that man's highest perfection consists in a sort of psychical self-annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life.

• Quilon, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12610a.htm
  Indian diocese, suffragan of Verapoly.

• Quimper, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12611a.htm
  French diocese, including the Department of Finistère.

• Quin, Michael Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12613a.htm
  Irish journalist. (1796-1843)

• Quinctianus, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12613b.htm
  Several saints named Quinctianus appear in martyrologies, but almost nothing is known about most of them.

• Quiñones, Francis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12613c.htm
  Spanish Cardinal. (1482-1540)

• Quinquagesima

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12614a.htm
  The period of fifty days before Easter.

• Quintana, Agustín

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12614b.htm
  Missionary and Indian philologist. (d. 1784)

• Quiricus and Julitta, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12614c.htm
  Martyrs in the Diocletian persecution.

• Quirini, Angelo Maria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12614d.htm
  Cardinal and scholar. (1680-1755)

• Quirinus, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12615a.htm
  Article discusses several saints of this name.

• Quito, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12615b.htm
  Comprises two dioceses and four sees in Ecuador.

 

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