Ashton, John
An early Jesuit missionary in Maryland; born in Ireland, 1742; died in Maryland, 1814, or 1815.
Ashton, Venerable Roger
Martyr, third son of Richard Ashton of Croston, in Lancashire. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, 23 June, 1592.
Asia Minor
The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizon…
Asiongaber
More properly Ezion-geber, a city of Idumea, situated on the northern extremity of the Ælanitic Gulf, now called the Gulf of Akabah.
Ass in Caricature of Christians, The
The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians.
Assemblies of the French Clergy
Meetings of the Clergy of France for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the Church by the kings of France, and incidentally for other ecclesiastical purpos…
Asser, John
A learned monk of St David's, Menevia, b. in Pembrokeshire; d. probably, 910.
Asses, Feast of
The feast dates from the eleventh century, though the source which suggested it is much older.
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