Contarini, Gasparo
Venetian statesman and cardinal, born 16 October, 1483, of an ancient and noble family in Venice; died at Bologna, 24 August, 1542.
Contarini, Giovanni
Italian painter of the Venetian School, born at Venice about 1549; died in 1605.
Contemplative Life
A life ordered in view of contemplation; a way of living especially adapted to lead to and facilitate contemplation, while it excludes all other preoccupations and intents.
Contingent
Aside from its secondary and more obvious meaning (as, for instance, its qualification of the predicable accident, of a class of modal propositions, and so on), the primary and tec…
Contumacy (in Canon Law)
Contumacy, or contempt of court, is an obstinate disobedience of the lawful orders of a court.
Convent Schools (Great Britain)
Convent education is treated here not historically but as it is at the present day. (Article written in 1908.)
Conventuals, Order of Friars Minor
One of the three separate bodies, forming with the Friars Minor and the Capuchins what is commonly called the First Order of St. Francis.
Conversano
Suffragan to Bari. Conversano, situated in the province of Bari, in Apulia (Southern Italy), is the ancient Cupersanum, a city of the Peucetians.
Conversion
Refers to a moral change, a turning or returning to God and to the true religion.
Convocation of the English Clergy
The technical name given in the Church of England to what corresponds in some respects to a provincial synod, though in other respects it differs widely from it.
Conwell, Henry
Second Bishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A., b. at Moneymore, County Derry, Ireland, in 1745; d. at Philadelphia, 22 April, 1842.
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