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21Cemeteries — • The word coemeterium or cimiterium (in Gr. koimeterion) may be said in early literature to be used exclusively of the burial places of Jews and Christians Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Cemeteries Cemetery …
22Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus The treatment of this subject is divided into two parts: I. Doctrinal Explanations; II. Historical Ideas. I. DOCTRINAL… …
23Lady Margaret Beaufort — Lady Margaret Beaufort † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Lady Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 1443; d. 1509, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, first Duke of Somerset. Her father, the grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke… …
24Sir Richard Sutton — Sir Richard Sutton † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sir Richard Sutton Co founder of Brasenose College, Oxford, date of birth unknown; d. September or October, 1524. He was the younger son of Sir William Sutton, of Sutton, Leicestershire. It …
25The Church — The Church † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …
26SMITH, Sir Edwin Thomas (1830-1919) — politician and public man was born at Walsall, Staffordshire, England, on 6 April 1830. He was educated at Queen Mary s Grammar School, Walsall, and on leaving school had business experience with an uncle. When only 20 years of age he was taking… …
27donation — donation, benefaction, contribution, alms are comparable when they denote a gift of money or its equivalent for a charitable, philanthropic, or humanitarian object. Donation is freely used for such a gift {blood donations} {seeking small… …
28DINA DE-MALKHUTA DINA — (Aram. דִּינָא דְּמַלְכוּתָא דִּינָא), the halakhic rule that the law of the country is binding, and, in certain cases, is to be preferred to Jewish law. The problem of dina de malkhuta dina is similar to – but not identical with – the problem of …
29GOLDSMITH, HORACE WARD — (1894–1980), U.S. businessman and philanthropist. Goldsmith was born in Chicago, but moved to New York as a youth and in 1927 he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and founded the brokerage firm of H.W. Goldsmith and Company. He held… …
30Charitable — Char i*ta*ble, a. [F. See {Charity}.] 1. Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. [1913 Webster] Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on …
