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Lérida Lérida
Lérida- Diocese; suffragan of Tarragona. ...
Leros Leros
Leros- Titular see of the Cyclades, suffragan of Rhodes. ...
Lesbi Lesbi
Lesbi- A titular see in Mauretania Sitifensis, suffragan of Sitifis, or Sétif, in Algeria. ...
Lescarbot, Marc Lescarbot, Marc
Lescarbot, Marc- French lawyer, writer, and historian, b. at Vervins, between 1565 and 1570; d. about 1629. ...
Lescot, Pierre Lescot, Pierre
Lescot, Pierre- One of the greatest architects of France in the pure Renaissance style, b. at Paris about 1510; d. there, 1571. ...
Lesina Lesina
Lesina- Diocese in Dalmatia; includes the three islands of Hvar (Lesina), the ancient Pharia colonized by the Greeks in 385 B.C.; Brac, formerly Brattia or Brachia, also colonized by the Greeks; and Lissa, formerly Issa. ...
Leslie, John Leslie, John
Leslie, John- Bishop of Ross, Scotland, born 29 September, 1527, died at Guirtenburg, near Brussels 30 May, 1596. ...
Lessius, Leonard Lessius, Leonard
Lessius, Leonard- A Flemish Jesuit and a theologian of high reputation, born at Brecht, in the province of Antwerp, 1 October, 1554; died at Louvain, 15 January, 1623. ...
Lessons in the Liturgy Lessons in the Liturgy
Lessons in the Liturgy- The reading of lessons from the Bible, Acts of Martyrs, or approved Fathers of the Church, forms an important element of Christian services in all rites since the beginning. ...
Lestrange, Louis-Henri de Lestrange, Louis-Henri de
Lestrange, Louis-Henri de- Born in 1754, in the Château de Colombier-le-Vieux, Ardèche, France; died at Lyons, 16 July, 1827. ...
Le Tellier, Michel Le Tellier, Michel
Le Tellier, Michel- Born 16 October, 1643, of a peasant family, not at Vire as has so often been said, but at Vast near Cherbourg; died at La Flèche, 2 September, 1719. ...
Letourneux, Nicolas Letourneux, Nicolas
Letourneux, Nicolas- A well-known French preacher and ascetical writer of Jansenistic tendencies, born at Rouen, 30 April, 1640; died at Paris, 28 November, 1686. ...
Letters, Ecclesiastical Letters, Ecclesiastical
Letters, Ecclesiastical- Publications or announcements of the organs of ecclesiastical authority, e.g. the synods, more particularly, however, of popes and bishops, addressed to the faithful in the form of letters. ...
Leubus Leubus
Leubus- A celebrated ancient Cistercian abbey, situated on the Oder, northwest of Breslau, in the Prussian Province of Silesia. ...
Mickiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz, Adam
Mickiewicz, Adam- Born near Novogrodek, Lithuania, 1798; died at Constantinople, 1855. ...
Metastasio, Pietro Metastasio, Pietro
Metastasio, Pietro- Brief biography of the Italian librettist. ...
Levadoux, Michael Levadoux, Michael
Levadoux, Michael- One of the first band of Sulpicians who, owing to the distressed state of religion in France, went to the United States and founded St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore; born at Clermont-Ferrand, in Auverg ...
Levau, Louis Levau, Louis
Levau, Louis- A contemporary of Jacques Lemercier and the two Mansarts, and the chief architect of the first decade of Louis XIV's independent reign, born 1612; died at Paris, 10 Oct., 1670. ...
Le Verrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph
Le Verrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph- An astronomer and director of the observatory at Paris, born at Saint Lô, the ancient Briodurum later called Saint-Laudifanum, in north-western France, 11 May, 1811; died at Paris, 25 Sept ...
Liberia Liberia
Liberia- A republic on the west coast of Africa. ...
Lex Lex
Lex- While official or private collections of Roman Law made under the Empire are called codices, e. g. "Codex Theodosianus", probably because they were written on parchment sheets bound together in book form, the title ...
Libel Libel
Libel- A malicious publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign, or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes any living person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloq ...
Libellatici, Libelli Libellatici, Libelli
Libellatici, Libelli- The libelli were certificates issued to Christians of the third century. ...
Liberalism Liberalism
Liberalism- A free way of thinking and acting in private and public life. ...
Liberatore, Matteo Liberatore, Matteo
Liberatore, Matteo- A philosopher, theologian, and writer, born at Salerno, Italy, 14 August, 1810; died at Rome, 18 October, 1892. ...
Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum
Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum- A miscellaneous collection of ecclesiastical formularies used in the papal chancery until the eleventh century. ...
Lichfield Lichfield
Lichfield- This diocese took its rise in the conversion of Mercia by St. Cedd and his three companions in 652 and subsequent years. ...
Lieber, Ernst Maria Lieber, Ernst Maria
Lieber, Ernst Maria- Born at Camberg in the Duchy of Nassau, 16 Nov., 1838; died 31 March, 1902. ...
Lieber, Moriz Lieber, Moriz
Lieber, Moriz- Politician and publicist, b. at the castle of Blankenheim in the Eifel, 1 Oct., 1790, d. at Kamberg, in Hesse-Nassau, 29 Dec., 1860. ...
Liebermann, Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann, Bruno Franz Leopold
Liebermann, Bruno Franz Leopold- Catholic theologian, b., at Molsheim in Alsace 12 Oct., 1759; 4. at Strasburg, 11 Nov., 1844. ...
Liesborn Liesborn
Liesborn- A former noted Benedictine Abbey in Westphalia, Germany, founded in 815; suppressed in 1803. ...
Lights Lights
Lights- Article concerned with the general aspects and in particular with the charge so often levelled against Catholicism of adopting wholesale the ceremonial practices of the pagan world. ...
Lille Lille
Lille- The ancient capital of Flanders, now the chief town of the Département du Nord in France. ...
Lillooet Indians Lillooet Indians
Lillooet Indians- An important tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, in southern British Columbia. ...
Limbourg, Pol de Limbourg, Pol de
Limbourg, Pol de- A French miniaturist. With his two brothers, he flourished at Paris at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. ...
Limoges Limoges
Limoges- Diocese comprising the Departments of Haute Vienne and Creuse in France. ...
Limyra Limyra
Limyra- A titular see of Lycia, and was a small city on the southern coast of Lycia, on the Limyrus, and twenty stadia from the mouth of this river. ...
Linares Linares
Linares- In 1777, at the request of Charles III of Spain, Pius VII erected the episcopal See of Linares as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico. ...
Lincoln Lincoln
Lincoln- Suffragan of Dubuque, erected 2 August, 1887, to include that part of the State of Nebraska, U.S.A., south of the Platte River. ...
Lincoln Lincoln
Lincoln- This see was founded by St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 678, when he removed the Lindiswaras of Lincolnshire from the Diocese of Lindisfarne. ...
Lindanus, William Damasus Lindanus, William Damasus
Lindanus, William Damasus- Bishop of Ruremonde and of Ghent, b. at Dordrecht, in 1525; d. at Ghent, 2 November, 1588; he was the son of Damasus van der Lint. ...
Liverpool Liverpool
Liverpool- One of the thirteen dioceses into which Pius IX divided Catholic England, 29 September, 1850, when he re-established the Catholic hierarchy. ...
Linde, Justin Timotheus Balthasar, Freiherr von Linde, Justin Timotheus Balthasar, Freiherr von
Linde, Justin Timotheus Balthasar, Freiherr von- Hessian jurist and stateman, b. in the village of Brilon, Westphalia, 7 Aug., 1797; d. at Bonn during the night of 8-9 June, 1870. ...
Lindemann, Wilhelm Lindemann, Wilhelm
Lindemann, Wilhelm- A Catholic historian of German literature, b. at Schonnebeck near Essen, 17 December, 1828; d. at Niederkruechten near Erkelenz (Rhine Province) 20 December, 1879. ...
Linoe Linoe
Linoe- A titular see of Bithynia Secunda, known only from the "Notitiae Episcopatuum" which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of Nicaea. ...
Lippomano, Luigi Lippomano, Luigi
Lippomano, Luigi- A cardinal, hagiographer, b. in 1500; d. 15 August, 1559. Of a noble Venetian family, he devoted himself from his youth to the study of the classical languages and later to the pursuit of the sacred sci ...
Lipsanotheca Lipsanotheca
Lipsanotheca- A term sometimes used synonymously with reliquary, but signifying, more correctly, the little box containing the relics, which is placed inside the reliquary. ...
Lisbon Lisbon
Lisbon- Patriarchate of Lisbon (Lisbonensis). ...
Lismore Lismore
Lismore- The Diocese of Lismore extends over a territory of 21,000 square miles in the north-east of New South Wales (Australia). ...
Lismore, School of Lismore, School of
Lismore, School of- Founded in the year 635 by St. Carthach the Younger. ...

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