James of Edessa
A celebrated Syrian writer, b. most likely in A.D. 633; d. 5 June, 708.
James of the Marches, Saint
Surnamed Gangala, civil lawyer, Franciscan priest, d. 1476.
James the Greater, Saint
What can be known of St. James, son of Zebedee and brother of John, from Scripture. Also discusses the tradition that St. James preached in Spain and that his body was translated t…
James the Less, Saint
Identifies James the Less with James the Apostle, son of Alpheus, and with James the brother of the Lord.
James Thompson, Blessed
Also called James Hudson. Priest who was imprisoned and then martyred at York in 1582.
James, Epistle of Saint
The author is commonly identified with the Lord's brother, the Bishop of Jerusalem; the view that the Lord's brother must be identified with James, the son of Alpheus, is by far th…
Janauschek, Leopold
Cistercian, born at Brünn, Moravia, 13 October, 1827; died 23 July, 1898, at Baden, near Vienna.
Jandel, Alexandre Vincent
General of the Dominican order, born at Gerbevilliers (Lorraine), 18 July, 1810; died at Rome, 11 December, 1872.
Jane Frances de Chantal, Saint
Biography of the widowed baroness, mother, founder of the Congregation of the Visitation, who died in 1641.
Janner, Ferdinand
Theologian, born at Hirschau, in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria), 4 Feb., 1836; died 1 November, 1895.
Janow, Matthew of
A medieval ecclesiastical author, born in the fourteenth century in Bohemia; died at Prague, 30 Nov., 1394.
Jansen, Cornelius
Exegete, born at Hulst, Flanders, 1510; died at Ghent, 11 April, 1576.
Jansenius and Jansenism
The subject of this article lived three-quarters of a century later than his namesake. He was born 28 October, 1585, of a Catholic family, in the village of Accoi, near Leerdam, Ho…
Janssen, Johann
Historian, born 10 April, 1829, at Kanten, Germany; died 24 December, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
Janssens, Abraham
Flemish painter, b. at Antwerp about 1573; d. probably in the same place about 1631.
Janssens, Johann Hermann
Catholic theologian, b. at Maeseyck, Belgium, 7 Dec., 1783; d. at Engis, 23 May, 1853.
Januarius, Saint
Bishop of Beneventum, martyr, believed to have died in the Diocletian persecution, c. 305. Article has a lengthy discussion of the liquefaction of the saint's blood.
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