Adrian V, Pope
A Genoese, and nephew of Innocent IV. He was elected at Viterbo 12 July 1276, but died 18 August.
Adrianople
According to legend, Orestes, son of Agamemnon, built this city at the confluence of the Tonsus (Toundja) and the Ardiscus (Arda) with the Hebrus (Maritza).
Adulteration of Food
This act is defined as the addition of any non-condimental substance to a food.
Adventists
A group of six American Protestant sects which hold in common a belief in the near return of Christ in person.
Advertisements, Book of
A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75).
Advocates of Roman Congregations
Persons, ecclesiastical or lay, versed in canon and civil law, who plead causes before the ecclesiastical tribunals in Rome.
Advocates of St. Peter
A body of jurists constituting a society whose statutes were confirmed by a brief of Leo XIII, 5 July, 1878.
Advocatus Diaboli
A title given to an officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, established in 1587, by Sixtus V, to deal juridically with processes of beatification and canonization.
Advocatus Ecclesia
A name applied, in the Middle Ages, to certain lay persons, generally of noble birth, whose duty it was, under given conditions, to represent a particular church or monastery, and …
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