Sylvester, Bernard, of Chartres
A twelfth-century philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.
Sylvestrines
A minor monastic order or, strictly speaking, congregation following in general the Rule of St. Benedict but distinct from the Black monks and not forming a part of the confederati…
Sylvius, Francis
Theologian, born at Braine-le-Comte, Hainault, Belgium, 1581; died at Douai, 22 February, 1649.
Symmachus the Ebionite
Author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla. Some fragments of this version survive in what remains of the Hexapla.
Symphorosa, Saint
Martyr, d. circa 138. According to legend, her seven sons were martyred with her, and her acts were extant in the fifth century, but today we have no reliable testimonies about her…
Synaxarion
The name of a liturgical book of the Byzantine Church. The exact meaning of the name has changed at various times.
Syncretism
An explanation is given by Plutarch in a small work on brotherly love ("Opera Moralia", ed. Reiske, VII, 910). He there tells how the Cretans were often engaged in quarrels among t…
Synderesis
Synderesis, or more correctly synteresis, is a term used by the Scholastic theologians to signify the habitual knowledge of the universal practical principles of moral action.
Syndic, Apostolic
A layman, who in the name, and by the authority, of the Holy See assumes the care and civil administration of the temporalities and in particular the pecuniary alms destined for th…
Syndicalism
Derived from the French syndicats, associations of workingmen uniting members of the same trade or industry for the furtherance of common economic interests.
Synesius of Cyrene
Bishop of Ptolomais, neo-Platonist, date of birth uncertain; d. about 414.
Synods, National
According to the recent canon law, national councils are the deliberating assemblies at which all the bishops of a nation are convoked by the patriarch or primate (Cf. Bened. XIV, …
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