Agnosticism
A philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, professing doubt of or disbelief in some or all of the powers of knowing possessed by the human mind.
Agnus Dei (in Liturgy)
A name given to the formula recited thrice by the priest at Mass in the Roman rite.
Agonistici
One of the names given by the Donatists to those of their followers who went through cities and villages to disseminate the doctrine of Donatus.
Agony of Christ
The word is used only once in Sacred Scripture (Luke, xxii, 43) to designate the anguish of Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemani.
Agostino Novello, Blessed
Counselor to the King of Sicily, joined the Augustinians, renowned for his knowledge of civil and ecclesiastical law, served as the pope's confessor, was General of his Order.
Agoult, Charles Consstance César Joseph Matthieu d'
A French prelate, born at Grenoble, 1747; died at Paris, 1824.
Agrarianism
Theories and movements intended to benefit the poorer classes of society by dealing in some way with the ownership of land or the legal obligations of the cultivators.
Agricola, Alexander
Biography of the composer, mentioning the possibility of unpublished manuscripts still in Spanish libraries.
Agricola, George
Physician, mineralogist, historian, and controversialist. (1494-1555)
Agricola, Rudolph
Humanist of the earlier period, and a promoter of the study of the classics in Germany, born in 1442, or 1443, at Bafflo, hear Groningen, Holland; died at Heidelberg, 28 October, 1…
Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Described as a "knight, doctor, and by common reputation, a magician".
Agrippinus
Bishop of Carthage at the close of the second and beginning of the third century.
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