Ignatius Loyola, Saint
Biography of the Spanish founder of the Jesuits, who died in 1556.
Ignatius of Antioch, Saint
Biography of the bishop and writer. Ignatius was martyred at Rome sometime between 98 and 117.
Ignatius of Constantinople, Saint
Tells the story of this son of Emperor Michael I, forced into monastic life by a rival. Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed on a wicked pretext. Ignatius died in 877.
Illegitimacy
As generally defined, and as understood in this article, illegitimacy denotes the condition of children born out of wedlock.
Illinois Indians
An important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Miss…
Illtyd, Saint
Also known as Iltutus. Late fifth- to early sixth-century Welsh saint. Biographical article.
Images, Veneration of
It is an uncompromising attitude in the late Jewish history, together with the apparently obvious meaning of the First Commandment, that are responsible for the common idea that Je…
Imagination
The faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses.
Imbonati, Carlo Giuseppe
Cistercian of the Reform of St. Bernard, orientalist, biographer, theologian; born at Milan; flourished in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
Imhof, Maximus von
German physicist, born 26 July, 1758, at Rissbach, in Bavaria; died 11 April, 1817 at Munich.
Imitation of Christ
A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the "Following of Christ". Its purpose is to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model.
Immaculate Conception
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privil…
Immaculate Conception, Congregation of the
Article covers several groups of this name.
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