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121Mensa, Mensal Revenue — • The Latin word mensa has for its primitive signification a table for meals ; it designates by extension the expenses, or better, the necessary resources of sustenance, and generally, all the resources for personal support. He who lives at the… …
122Right of Presentation — Right of Presentation † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Right of Presentation Out of gratitude for the foundation or endownment of churches and benefices, the Church grants founders, if they wish to reserve it, the right of patronage, the… …
123Tridentine Mass — For the forms of the Mass liturgy prior to 1570, see Pre Tridentine Mass. Tridentine Mass in a chapel of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston The Tridentine Mass is the form of the Roman Rite Mass contained in the typical editions …
124History of the Church of England — This article is an expansion of a section entitled History from within the main article: Church of England The history of the Church of England has its origins sometime in the late 6th century in the Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Kent, and the mission… …
125Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius — Vilnius Cathedral the motherchurch of the archdiocese The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vilnius (Latin: Archidioecesis Vilnensis; Lithuanian: Vilniaus arkivyskupija) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Ca …
126calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …
127Espousals — • A contract of future marriage between a man and a woman, who are thereby affianced Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Espousals Espousals …
128Holy See — • A term derived from the enthronement ceremony of the bishops of Rome Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Holy See Holy See † …
