Assicus, Saint
St. Patrick's coppersmith, also a renowned bellfounder, Bishop of Elphin.
Assimilation, Physiological
The vital function by which an organism changes nutrient material into living protoplasm.
Assimilation, Psychological
As applied to a mental process, assimilation derives all its force and meaning from the analogy which many educationists have found to exist between the way in which food is incorp…
Assistant at the Pontifical Throne
Those prelates who belong to the Papal Chapel and hold toward the Pope much the same relation as cathedral canons do to the bishop.
Assizes of Jerusalem
The code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Assmayer, Ignaz
An Austrian musician, born at Salzburg, 11 February, 1790; died in Vienna, 31 August, 1862.
Association of Ideas
A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states.
Association of Priestly Perseverance
A sacerdotal association founded in 1868 at Vienna, and at first confined to that Archdiocese.
Association, Right of Voluntary
Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.
Associations, Pious
Under this term are comprehended all those organizations, approved and indulgenced by Church authority, which have been instituted especially in recent times, for the advancement o…
Assumption, Augustinians of the
Had its origin in the College of the Assumption, established in Nîmes France, in 1843.
Assumption, Little Sisters of the
A congregation whose work is the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes.
Assumption, Sisters of the
A congregation of French nuns devoted to the teaching of young girls.
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