Monaco, Principality and Diocese of
Situated on the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded on all sides by the French department of the Maritime Alps, and has an area of 5337 acres.
Monarchia Sicula
A right exercised from the beginning of the sixteenth century by the secular rulers of Sicily, according to which they had final jurisdiction in purely religious matters, independe…
Monarchians
The so-called Dynamic Monarchians were actually a form of adoptionism. Monarchianism, properly speaking, refers to the Modalists. Denial of the Trinity, assertion that there is on…
Monasteries in Continental Europe, Suppression of
The suppressions of religious houses (whether monastic in the strict sense or houses of the mendicant orders) since the Reformation.
Monasteries in England, Suppression of
From any point of view the destruction of the English monasteries by Henry VIII must be regarded as one of the great events of the sixteenth century.
Monasteries, Double
Religious houses comprising communities of both men and women, dwelling in contiguous establishments, united under the rule of one superior, and using one church in common for thei…
Monastery, Canonical Erection of a
Details the conditions for the legitimate erection of a monastery.
Monasticism
The act of "dwelling alone" (Greek monos, monazein, monachos), has come to denote the mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows an…
Monasticism, Eastern, Before Chalcedon (A.D. 451)
Egypt was the Motherland of Christian monasticism. It sprang into existence there at the beginning of the fourth century.
Monasticism, Western
The introduction of monasticism into the West may be dated from about A.D. 340 when St. Athanasius visited Rome accompanied by the two Egyptian monks Ammon and Isidore, disciples o…
Moncada, Francisco De
Count of Osona, Spanish historian, son of the Governor of Sardinia and Catalonia, born at Valencia, 29 December, 1586; died near Goch, Germany, 1635.
Mondino dei Lucci
Anatomist, b. probably at Bologna, about 1275; d. there, about 1327.
Mondoñedo, Diocese of
It comprises the civil Provinces of Lugo and Corunna, and is bounded on the north by the Bay of Biscay, on the east by the Austurias, on the south by the Diocese of Lugo, and on th…
Mone, Franz
A historian and archeologist, born at Mingolsheim near Bruchsal, Baden, 12 May, 1796; died at Karlsruhe, 12 March, 1871.
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