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• Waagen, Wilhelm Heinrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15521a.htm
  Geologist and palaeontologist. (1841-1900)

• Wace, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15521b.htm
  Poet, born at Jersey, about 1100; died at Bayeux, 1174.

• Wachter, Eberhard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15521c.htm
  Painter, born at Stuttgart, (1762-1852)

• Wadding, Luke

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15521d.htm
  Historian and theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1588-1657)

• Wadding, Michael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15524a.htm
  Mystical theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1591-1644)

• Waire, Venerable

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15525a.htm
  English friar and martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at St. Thomas Waterings in Camberwell, 8 July, 1539.

• Waitzen, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15525b.htm
  Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen.

• Wakash Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15525c.htm
  A linguistic family inhabiting the western coast of British Columbia, and the west and northwest of Vancouver Island, as well as a small region around Cape Flattery, Washington.

• Walafrid

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15526a.htm
  German poet and theologian of the ninth century.

• Walburga, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15526b.htm
  Fairly lengthy biographical article on this abbess of a double monastery, and author, who died in 777.

• Waldeck, Principality of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15527a.htm
  A former state of the German Empire.

• Waldenses

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15527b.htm
  An heretical sect which appeared in the second half of the twelfth century.

• Waldsassen, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15530a.htm
  Cistercian monastery founded by Gerwich von Wolmundstein.

• Waldseemüller, Martin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15531a.htm
  Learned humanist and celebrated cartographer. A canon of St-Dié in Lorraine. (1475-1522)

• Walenburch, Adrian and Peter von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15531b.htm
  Auxiliary bishops of Cologne and celebrated controversial theologians, born at Rotterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

• Wales

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15532a.htm
  Located in the western portion of Great Britain.

• Walkenried

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15537a.htm
  Cistercian abbey of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen. Founded in 1127 by Countess Adelheid of Klettenberg.

• Walla-Walla Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15538a.htm
  A Shahaptian tribe dwelling on the Walla-Walla River and the Columbia in Washington and Oregon, from Snake River to the Umatilla.

• Wallenstein, Albrecht von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15538b.htm
  Born at Hermanic, Bohemia. (1583-1634)

• Wallon Henri-Alexandre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15539a.htm
  Historian and statesman, born at Valenciennes. (1812-1904)

• Walmesley, Charles

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15539b.htm
  Bishop of Rama, Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, England. (1722-1797)

• Walsh, Edward

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15540b.htm
  Irish poet, born at Derry in 1805; died at Cork, 6 August, 1850.

• Walsh, Patrick

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16085a.htm
  Irish-American journalist and senator. (1840-1900)

• Walsh, Peter

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15541a.htm
  Irish Franciscan, born at Mooretown, County Kildare, about 1608; died in London, 15 March, 1688.

• Walsh, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15541b.htm
  Publicist, diplomat, born at Baltimore, MD., 1785; died at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859.

• Walsh, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15541c.htm
  Bishop of Cambysopolis, born in London in 1777.

• Walsh, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15542a.htm
  Bishop of Meath, Ireland.

• Walsingham Priory

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15543a.htm
  It stood a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk, England.

• Walsingham, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15542b.htm
  Benedictine historian, died about 1422.

• Walter of Châtillon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15543c.htm
  Poet in the second half of the twelfth century, born at Lille; died of the plague in the beginning of the thirteenth century.

• Walter of Merton

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15544a.htm
  Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford.

• Walter of Mortagne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15544b.htm
  A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

• Walter of St-Victor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15544c.htm
  Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelfth century.

• Walter of Winterburn

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15544d.htm
  An English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, and theologian in the thirteenth century.

• Walter, Ferdinand

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15543b.htm
  Jurist, born at Wetzlar. (1794-1879)

• Waltham Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15545a.htm
  Formerly located near London.

• Walther von der Vogelweide

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15545b.htm
  Minnesinger and old poet, born about 1170; died in 1228.

• Walton, Brian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15545c.htm
  English Biblical scholar. (1600-1661)

• Wandelbert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15546a.htm
  Benedictine monk and theological writer. (813-850)

• Wangnereck, Heinrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15546b.htm
  German theologian, preacher, and author. (1595-1664)

• War

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15546c.htm
  In its juridical sense, a contention carried on by force of arms between sovereign states, or communities having in this regard the right of states.

• Ward, Hugh

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15550a.htm
  Irish Hagiographer. (1590-1635)

• Ward, James Harman

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15551a.htm
  The first Union naval officer to fall in the Civil War.

• Ward, Mary

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15551c.htm
  Founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

• Ward, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15552a.htm
  English controversialist. (1652-1708)

• Ward, William George

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15552c.htm
  English writer and convert. (1812-1882)

• Warde, Mary Francis Xavier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15553a.htm
  Irish-American nun. (1810-1884)

• Warham, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15554a.htm
  Archbishop of Canterbury. (1450-1532)

• Warsaw, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15555a.htm
  Located in Poland.

• Wartenberg, Franz Wilhelm, Count von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15557a.htm
  Bishop and cardinal. (1593-1661)

• Washing of Feet and Hands

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15557b.htm
  Owing to the general use of sandals in Eastern countries the washing of the feet was almost everywhere recognized from the earliest times as a duty of courtesy to be shown to guests.

• Washington, D.C.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15558a.htm
  The capital of the United States.

• Washington, State of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15560a.htm
  One of the Pacific coast states, popularly known as the "Evergreen State".

• Water, Liturgical Use of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15564a.htm
  Besides the holy water which is used in rites of blessing, and the water employed in the washing of feet and hands, and in the baptismal font, water has its recognized place in the ritual of every Mass.

• Waterford and Lismore

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15564b.htm
  Suffragan of Cashel.

• Waterton, Charles

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15567a.htm
  English naturalist and explorer. (1782-1865)

• Waterworth, James

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15567b.htm
  English priest. (1806-1876)

• Watteau, Jean Antoine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15568a.htm
  Artist's biography with bibliography.

• Waverley, Cistercian Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15568b.htm
  Founded by William Gifford, the first monastery of the Order of Citeaux in England.

• Way of the Cross

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm
  Historical background on this devotion.

• Wealth, Use of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15571a.htm
  The term "wealth" is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on economic subjects.

• Wearmouth Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15572a.htm
  Benedictine monastery in Durham, England.

• Weathers, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15572b.htm
  English bishop. (1814-1895)

• Webb, Benjamin Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16086a.htm
  Kentucky editor and historian. (1814-1897)

• Webbe, Samuel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15573a.htm
  English composer. (1742-1816)

• Weber, Beda

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15573b.htm
  Benedictine professor, author, statesman. (1798-1859)

• Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15573c.htm
  Physician, poet, statesman. (1813-1894)

• Weber, Heinrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15574a.htm
  German Church historian. (1834-1898)

• Weber, Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15574b.htm
  Composer. (1786-1826)

• Weedall, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15575a.htm
  English priest. (1788-1859)

• Week, Liturgical

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15575b.htm
  The week was regarded as a sacred institution among the Jews owing to the law of the Sabbath rest and its association with the first chapter of Genesis.

• Wegg-Prosser, Francis Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15576a.htm
  Prominent English convert. (1824-1911)

• Weingarten

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15576b.htm
  Suppressed Benedictine abbey.

• Weis, Nicolaus von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15577a.htm
  Bishop in Lorraine. (1796-1869)

• Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15577b.htm
  Polemical writer. (1691-1755)

• Weiss, Johann Baptist

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15577c.htm
  Historian. (1820-1899)

• Weissenau, Monastery of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15577d.htm
  Suppressed Premonstratensian house in Würtemberg.

• Weitenauer, Ignatius von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15578a.htm
  Littérateur, exegete, and Orientalist. (1709-1783)

• Weld

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15578c.htm
  Name of a prominent English Catholic family.

• Weld, Frederick Aloysius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15579a.htm
  New Zealand colonist. (1823-1891)

• Welle, Prefecture Apostolic of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15579b.htm
  Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa.

• Wellington, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15580a.htm
  Located in New Zealand.

• Wells in Scripture

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15581a.htm
  It is difficult to realize the importance which a country like Palestine attaches to any source of fresh water.

• Welser, Bartholomeus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15582a.htm
  German merchant prince. (1488-1561)

• Welsh Church

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15582b.htm
  The term Welsh Church covers "the British Church during the Roman period", "the British Church during the period of Saxon Conquest", and "the Church of Wales".

• Welsh Monastic Foundations

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15585a.htm
  The British church was driven into Wales in the fifth century

• Welte, Benedict

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15587a.htm
  Exegete, born at Ratzenried in Würtemberg. (1825-1885)

• Wenceslaus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15587b.htm
  The patron saint of Bohemia, murdered by his brother c. 929.

• Wendelin of Trier, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15587c.htm
  Patron of shepherds. Died c. 617.

• Weninger, Francis Xavier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15587d.htm
  Jesuit missionary and author. (1805-1888)

• Wenrich of Trier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15588a.htm
  Eleventh-century German ecclesiastico-political writer.

• Werburgh, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15588b.htm
  Benedictine abbess, died 699 or 700. Biographical article.

• Werden

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15589a.htm
  Suppressed Benedictine monastery.

• Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15589b.htm
  Prussian convert, poet, and pulpit orator. (1768-1823)

• Wessel Goesport, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15590a.htm
  A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Gröningen in 1420; died there on 4 Oct., 1489.

• Wessenberg, Ignaz Heinrich von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15590b.htm
  Vicar-General and Administrator of the Diocese of Constance. (1774-1860)

• Wessobrunn

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15591a.htm
  Suppressed Benedictine abbey in Bavaria.

• West Virginia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15605a.htm
  The state bounded by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and on Kentucky.

• Westcott, Sebastian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592a.htm
  English organist. (1524-1583)

• Westeraas, Ancient See of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592b.htm
  Located in Sweden.

• Westminster Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15598a.htm
  This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the precincts of the Royal Palace of Westminster.

• Westminster Cathedral

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15599a.htm
  A national expression of religious faith given by Roman Catholics to England.

• Westminster, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592c.htm
  Comprises the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, and London north of the Thames.

• Westminster, Matthew of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15597a.htm
  The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English chronicle, the "Flores Historiarum".

• Weston, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15601a.htm
  Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone.

• Westphalia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15601b.htm
  Province of Prussia.

• Wettingen-Mehrerau, Abbacy Nullius of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15607a.htm
  Cistercian abbey in Austria.

• Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15607b.htm
  Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel. (1801-1853)

• Wheeling, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15608a.htm
  Located in West Virginia.

• Whipple, Amiel Weeks

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15608b.htm
  American military engineer and soldier. (1818-1863)

• Whitby, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15609c.htm
  Formerly called Streoneshalh. A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded about 657, as a double monastery, by Oswy, King of Northumberland.

• Whitby, Synod of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15610a.htm
  A conference at the monastery of St. Hilda at Whitby or Streanoeshalch. King Oswy with Bishops Colman and Chad represented the Celtic tradition; Alchfrid, son of Oswy, and Bishops Wilfrid and Agilbert that of Rome.

• White Fathers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613d.htm
  Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria.

• White, Andrew

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15610b.htm
  Missionary. (1579-1656)

• White, Charles Ignatius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15611a.htm
  American editor and historian. (1807-1878)

• White, Edward

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613b.htm
  Grandfather of Stephen Mallory White, born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died December, 1863.

• White, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15612b.htm
  English composer. (1530-1574)

• White, Stephen

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15612c.htm
  Irish antiquarian and polyhistor. (1574-1646)

• White, Stephen Mallory

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613a.htm
  American statesman. (1853-1901)

• White, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613c.htm
  Several of White's opinions were censured by the Inquisition.

• Whithorn Priory

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15614a.htm
  Founded in Scotland in the twelfth century.

• Whitty, Ellen

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15615b.htm
  Australian nun. (1819-1892)

• Whitty, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15615c.htm
  English Jesuit. (1817-1895)

• Whitty, Rose

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15615a.htm
  Irish nun. (1831-1911)

• Wibald

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15615d.htm
  Medieval Belgian Abbot. (1098-1158)

• Wichita Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15616b.htm
  A confederacy of Caddoan stock, formerly dwelling between the Arkansas River, Kansas, and the Brazos River, Texas.

• Wichita, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15616a.htm
  Erected in 1887, from the Diocese of Leavenworth.

• Wichmans, Francis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15617a.htm
  Belgian Augustinian. (1596-1661)

• Widmer, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15617b.htm
  Swiss theologian. (1779-1844)

• Widow

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15617c.htm
  Canonical prescriptions concerning widows in the Old Testament refer mainly to the question of remarriage.

• Widukind

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15618a.htm
  Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility.

• Widukind of Corvey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15618b.htm
  Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany.

• Wiener-Neustadt, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15618c.htm
  Suppressed see in Lower Austria.

• Wiest, Stephan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15618d.htm
  Member of the Order of Cistercians. (1748-1797)

• Wigand, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15619a.htm
  Three saints of this name are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

• Wigbert, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15619b.htm
  English-born companion of St. Boniface. Wigbert was abbot of Hersfeld and, for a time, of Ohrdruf. He died in about 746.

• Wigbod

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15619c.htm
  Theological writer of the eighth century.

• Wigley, George J.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15620a.htm
  By profession he was an architect, but subsequently devoted himself to journalism in Paris.

• Wilberforce, Henry William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15620b.htm
  Third son of William Wilberforce, and younger brother of Robert Wilberforce.

• Wilberforce, Robert Isaac

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15620c.htm
  Second son of William Wilberforce, and a younger brother of Samuel Wilberforce.

• Wilcannia, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15620d.htm
  Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney.

• Wild, Johann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15621b.htm
  Scriptural commentator and preacher. (1495-1554)

• Wilfrid, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15621c.htm
  Biographical article on this abbot and bishop, who died in 709.

• Wilgefortis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15622a.htm
  The legend makes her a Christian daughter of a pagan King of Portugal.

• Wilhelm of Herle

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15623b.htm
  Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century.

• Wilhelm V

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15623a.htm
  Duke of Bavaria. (1548-1626)

• Wilhering, Cistercian Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15623c.htm
  Situated on the right bank of the Danube, in the Diocese of Linz, Austria.

• Will

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15624a.htm
  This article discusses will in its psychological aspect.

• Will and Testament of Clerics

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15626b.htm
  Roman law allowed clerics to dispose of their property by will or otherwise.

• Willaert, Adrian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15626a.htm
  Biography of the composer (1480-1562).

• Willehad, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15628a.htm
  Short biography of the missionary and bishop, d. 789.

• Willems, Pierre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15628b.htm
  Philologist. (1840-1898)

• William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630a.htm
  Abbot of Saint-Bénigne on Dijon. (962-1031)

• William Andleby, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01468b.htm
  An English convert to Catholicism, he became a priest. He was martyred in 1597.

• William Carter, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630b.htm
  English printer, martyred in 1584.

• William Davies, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04646a.htm
  Biography of the Welsh priest concentrates especially on his imprisonment and martyrdom. Fr. Davies died in 1593.

• William Dean, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04660a.htm
  Short article on the career of this English priest, martyred in 1588.

• William Exmew, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630c.htm
  A learned Carthusian, martyred at Tyburn in 1535.

• William Filby, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630d.htm
  English priest, martyred in 1582. Article also has details on Bl. Laurence Richardson and St. Luke Kirby, his companions in martyrdom.

• William Harrington, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07142a.htm
  Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1594.

• William Hart, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15631a.htm
  English priest, was betrayed by an apostate on Christmas Day of 1582, chained in an underground dungeon, and martyred at York in 1583.

• William Hartley, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07146a.htm
  Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1588. Also some information on his companions in martyrdom John Hewitt, Robert Sutton, and John Harrison.

• William Howard, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07504a.htm
  Biography of the Viscount Stafford, who headed the list of Catholic lords pursued by Titus Oates in the so-called Popish Plot. Imprisoned in the Tower and tried before the House of Lords, Stafford was executed in 1680.

• William Ireland, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08130a.htm
  English Jesuit who was arrested by Titus Oates himself, and martyred along with layman John Grove in 1679.

• William Lacy, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15631b.htm
  English widower, became a priest. He was martyred at York in 1582.

• William of Auvergne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15631c.htm
  Short article on this thinker, by William Turner.

• William of Auxerre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15631d.htm
  Thirteenth-century theologian.

• William of Champeaux

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15632a.htm
  A concise summary of his life and thought, by William Turner.

• William of Conches

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15632b.htm
  Scholastic philosopher and theologian. (b. 1100)

• William of Digulleville

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15632c.htm
  Fourteenth-century French poet.

• William of Ebelholt, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15632d.htm
  Also called William of Paris or William of the Paraclete. Twelfth-century canon.

• William of Gellone, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15633a.htm
  Late eighth century. The second count of Toulouse, founded a Benedictine monastery, then became a monk himself.

• William of Jumièges

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15633b.htm
  Benedictine historian. (d. 1090)

• William of Maleval, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15633c.htm
  Also known as St. William the Great. Hermit, d. 1157.

• William of Malmesbury

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15633d.htm
  Benedictine monk at Malmesbury Abbey.

• William of Moerbeke

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15634a.htm
  Short article by M. de Wulf on this learned man of the 13th century.

• William of Nangis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15634b.htm
  Medieval chronicler. (d. 1300)

• William of Newburgh

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15634c.htm
  English historian. (1136-1198)

• William of Norwich, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15635a.htm
  William's corpse was found showing signs of a violent death. He is the earliest example of a medieval blood libel saint, having died in 1144. His biographer relied on hearsay, and was "a man of unlimited credulity."

• William of Ockham

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15636a.htm
  Biographical article on the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher.

• William of Paris, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15636b.htm
  Abbot of Eskill in Denmark.

• William of Perth, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15637a.htm
  Honored as a martyr because he was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem when murdered by his adopted son.

• William of Poitiers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15637b.htm
  Norman historian, born of a noted family, at Préaux near Pont Audemer, Normandy, about 1020.

• William of Ramsey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15637c.htm
  A monk of Crowland Abbey.

• William of Sens

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15638b.htm
  A twelfth-century French architect, supposed to have been born at Sens.

• William of Shoreham

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15638c.htm
  An English religious writer of the Anglo-Norman period, born at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, in the latter half of the twelfth century.

• William of St-Amour

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15637d.htm
  Thirteenth-century theologian and controversialist. (d. 1273)

• William of St-Thierry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15638a.htm
  Theologian and mystic. (1085-1148)

• William of Turbeville

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15638d.htm
  Bishop of Norwich. (1095-1174)

• William of Tyre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15639a.htm
  Archbishop of Tyre and historian. (1130-1190)

• William of Vercelli, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15639b.htm
  Founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine, died 1142.

• William of Ware

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15640a.htm
  William de Warre, Guard, Guaro, Varro or Varron.

• William of Wayneflete

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15640b.htm
  English bishop and chancellor. (d. 1486)

• William of Wykeham

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15641a.htm
  Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. (1324-1404)

• William Patenson, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11542a.htm
  English priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1592. During his imprisonment, he converted several of the inmates.

• William Perault

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642a.htm
  Thirteenth-century French writer and preacher.

• William Pike, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12083a.htm
  A Dorset layman, a joiner by trade. Converted to Catholicism. He was martyred in 1591.

• William Richardson, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13046a.htm
  Last martyr under Queen Elizabeth. (d. 1603)

• William Southerne, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14162a.htm
  Brief profile of the English martyr, who was arrested while saying Mass, and executed in 1618.

• William Spenser, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14214d.htm
  Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who was executed in 1589.

• William the Clerk (of Normandy)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642b.htm
  French poet of the thirteenth century.

• William the Conqueror

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642c.htm
  King of England and Duke of Normandy.

• William the Walloon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644a.htm
  Medieval abbot. (d. 1089)

• William Ward, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15552b.htm
  Ward, whose real name was William Webster, was over 40 when he began his studies for the priesthood. He labored for 30 years in England, 20 of which were spent in prison. He was martyred in 1641 at the age of about 80, for the crime of being a priest.

• William Way, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15568c.htm
  English priest and martyr, d. 1588.

• William, Abbot of Marmoutiers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15629c.htm
  For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Marmoutiers. (d. 1124)

• William, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15629b.htm
  Biographical article on this Cluniac, abbot of Hirschau, monastic reformer, astronomer, musician, who died in 1091.

• William, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15629a.htm
  Bishop of St-Brieuc, died about 1234.

• William, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15628c.htm
  Biographical article on William Fitzherbert, also called William of Thwayt. Twelfth-century Archbishop of York.

• Williamites

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644b.htm
  Name of two minor religious orders.

• Willibald and Winnebald, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644c.htm
  Members of the Order of St. Benedict.

• Willibrord, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15645a.htm
  Article on the Benedictine missionary and bishop, who died in 739.

• Willigis, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15645b.htm
  Archbishop of Mainz, d. 1011.

• Williram

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15646a.htm
  Scripture scholar. (d. 1085)

• Wilmers, Wilhelm

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15646b.htm
  Professor of philosophy and theology. (1817-1899)

• Wilmington, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15646c.htm
  Located in Delaware, U.S.A.

• Wilton Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15647b.htm
  Benedictine convent near Salisbury, England.

• Wilton, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15647a.htm
  English Trinitarian scholar. (d. 1239)

• Wimborne Minster

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15648a.htm
  Monastery in Dorsetshire, England.

• Wimmer, Boniface

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15648b.htm
  Bavarian archabbot. (1809-1887)

• Wimpfeling, Jakob

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15649a.htm
  Humanist and theologian. (1450-1528)

• Wimpina, Konrad

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15649b.htm
  Theologian. (1465-1531)

• Winchester, Ancient See of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15649c.htm
  This diocese came into existence in 635 when the great missionary Diocese of Dorchester, founded by St. Birinus in 634 for the Kingdom of Wessex, was subdivided into the Sees of Sherborne and Winchester.

• Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15650a.htm
  Archaeologist and historian of ancient art. (1717-1768)

• Windesheim

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15651a.htm
  Augustinian monastery in Holland.

• Winding Sheet of Christ, Feast of the Holy

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15652a.htm
  In 1206 one of the (supposed) Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to Besançon by Otto de La Roche, and the feast of its arrival (Susceptio) was ordered to be kept on 11 July.

• Windischmann, Friedrich Heinrich Hugo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15652b.htm
  Orientalist and exegete. (1811-1861)

• Windischmann, Karl Joseph Hieronymus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15652c.htm
  Concise article on this philosopher's life and works, by Friedrich Lauchert.

• Window, Rose

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15653a.htm
  A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the centre, and filled with stained glasses.

• Windows in Church Architecture

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15653b.htm
  A history of the use and form of windows in Christian houses of worship.

• Windsor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15654a.htm
  A town on the Thames, in Berkshire, England; rendered Ventus Morbidus in some medieval documents, the name being really from the Saxon Windels-or, "winding shore".

• Windthorst, Ludwig

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15655a.htm
  German statesman. (1812-1891)

• Winefride, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15656a.htm
  Seventh-century Welsh niece of St. Beuno. According to legend, she was decapitated by a frustrated suitor and restored to life by her uncle.

• Wingham, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15657a.htm
  Pianist, organist, composer and teacher. (1846-1893)

• Winnebago Indians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15657b.htm
  A Siouan tribe closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more remotely to the Dakota and Ponca.

• Winnoc, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15658a.htm
  Early eighth-century Benedictine prior.

• Winona, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15658b.htm
  Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, in southern Minnesota.

• Winslow, Jakob Benignus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15659a.htm
  Physician and anatomist. (1669-1760)

• Winwallus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15659b.htm
  Abbot, contemporary of St. Patrick. There are fifty-some forms of his name, including Bennoc and Winwalloc.

• Winzet, Ninian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15659c.htm
  Benedictine abbot and controversial writer. (1518-1592)

• Wipo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15660a.htm
  Eleventh-century priest and biographer.

• Wireker, Nigel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15660b.htm
  Twelfth-century satirist.

• Wirt, Wigand

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15661a.htm
  Theologian, born at Frankfort about 1460; died at Steyer, 30 June, 1519.

• Wisconsin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15661b.htm
  Known as the "Badger State", admitted to the Union on 29 May, 1848, the seventeenth state admitted, after the original thirteen.

• Wisdom, Book of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15666a.htm
  One of the deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament, placed in the Vulgate between the Canticle of Canticles and Ecclesiasticus.

• Wisdom, Daughters of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15668a.htm
  Founded at Poitiers by Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in 1703.

• Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15670a.htm
  Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. (1802-1865)

• Witchcraft

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm
  As commonly understood, involves the idea of a diabolical pact or at least an appeal to the intervention of the spirits of evil.

• Witness

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15677a.htm
  One who is present, bears testimony, furnishes evidence or proof.

• Witt, Francis Xavier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15678a.htm
  Composer and reformer of church music. (1834-1888)

• Wittenberg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15678b.htm
  City and University.

• Wittman, George Michael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15679a.htm
  Bishop-elect of Ratisbon. (1760-1833)

• Wittman, Patrizius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15679b.htm
  Catholic journalist. (1818-1883)

• Witzel, Georg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15680a.htm
  Hessian theologian. (1501-1573)

• Wladislaw, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15680b.htm
  The historical origin of this diocese is not known precisely.

• Wolff, George Dering

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15682a.htm
  American editor. (1822-1894)

• Wolfgang, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15682b.htm
  Tenth-century Benedictine bishop of Ratisbon (Regensburg).

• Wolfram von Eschenbach

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15683a.htm
  Middle-High-German epic poet. (d. 1216)

• Wolgemut, Michael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15684a.htm
  Painter and engraver. (1434-1519)

• Wolowski, Louis-François-Michel-Reymond

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15684b.htm
  Polish economist. (1810-1876)

• Wolsey, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15685a.htm
  Cardinal Archbishop of York. (1471-1530)

• Wolstan, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15687a.htm
  Eleventh-century Benedictine, Bishop of Worcester. Biography.

• Woman

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15687b.htm
  The position of woman in society has given rise to a discussion which, is known under the name of the "woman question".

• Wood, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15698a.htm
  Priest and confessor. (1499-1588)

• Wood-Carving

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15698b.htm
  Discusses the branch of wood-carving dealing with artistic objects, belonging either to plastic (as statues, crucifixes, and similar carvings), or to industrial art (as arabesques and rosettes), and which serve mainly for the ornamentation of cabinet work.

• Woodhead, Abraham

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15702b.htm
  English writer. (1609-1678)

• Woods, Julian Edmund Tenison

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15702c.htm
  Priest and scientist. (1832-1889)

• Worcester, Ancient Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15703a.htm
  Located in England, created in 680 when, at the Synod of Hatfield under St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, the great Mercian diocese was divided into five sees.

• Words (in Canon Law)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15704a.htm
  Canonists give many rules for the exact acceptation of words, in order that decrees may be correctly understood and the extent of their obligation determined.

• World, Antiquity of the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15704b.htm
  Various attempts have been made to establish the age of the world.

• Wörndle, Von, Family

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15709a.htm
  Philip, Edmund, and August.

• Worship, Christian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15710a.htm
  In its most general sense, homage paid to a person or a thing.

• Worsley, Edward

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15713a.htm
  English Jesuit. (1605-1676)

• Worthington, Thomas, D.D.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15713b.htm
  Third President of Douai College. (1549-1627)

• Wounds, The Five Sacred

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15714a.htm
  The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of St. Bernard and St. Francis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, together with the enthusiasm of the Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, increased devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ and particularly to practices in honour of the Wounds in His Sacred Hands, Feet, and Side.

• Wouters, G. Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15715a.htm
  Historian. (1802-1872)

• Wright, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15715c.htm
  A professor of philosophy at Gratz and Vienna and chaplain to the Gages at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. (1562-1639)

• Wulfen, Franz Xaver Freiherr von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15715d.htm
  Botanist. (1728-1805)

• Wulfram, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15716a.htm
  Late seventh-century missionary and bishop.

• Würtemberg, Kingdom of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15716b.htm
  Situated between Bavaria and Baden.

• Würzburg Abbeys

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15721a.htm
  Abbey of the Holy Redeemer, St. Andrew's Abbey, St. Stephen's Abbey, and St. James's Abbey.

• Würzburg, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15718a.htm
  Located in Bavaria; suffragan of Bamberg.

• Würzburg, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15720a.htm
  John I of Egloffstein (1400-1411), Bishop of Wurzburg, obtained from Pope Boniface IX a charter, dated 10 December, 1492, for the university.

• Wyart, Théophile-Louis-Henri

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15721b.htm
  French Cistercian. (1839-1904)

• Wyclif, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15722a.htm
  Lengthy biographical article. Includes bibliography.

• Wyntoun, Andrew of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15724a.htm
  Scottish chronicler.

• Wyoming

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15724b.htm
  Forty-fourth state, derives its name from the Delaware Indian word "Maughwauwama", signifying mountains with large plains between.

 

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