An online encyclopedia of all Catholic churches, past and present, located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester. Features photographs and historical information.
The garrets and hiding-places which served as churches were always full to their capacity; the catechism was thoroughly taught. In this field the so-called “Klopjes”, a sort of sisterhood that did not live in community, effected a great deal of good. They grew so numerous that the ...
The place of narrative : mural decoration in Italian churches, 431-1600 to a history of music by Renee Cox, to an analysis of ancient and modern myths about mothers and daughters by Ellen Handler Spitz. This volume corrects a surprising lacuna in the journal's history since these articles re...
There was to be not so much a universal Church, as a number of national Churches under their territorial princes, so that feudalism in the ecclesiastical sphere prepared the way for the Renaissance principle, Cujus regio ejus religio. For while at the beginning the Church sanctified the State ...
There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatial dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and ...