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51Celestial city — Celestial Ce*les tial, a. [OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See {Cell}.] 1. Belonging to the a[ e]rial regions, or visible heavens. The twelve celestial signs. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the… …
52Celestial empire — Celestial Ce*les tial, a. [OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See {Cell}.] 1. Belonging to the a[ e]rial regions, or visible heavens. The twelve celestial signs. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the… …
53City of God, The — by Augustine of Hippo (413–427) Still considered St. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO’s magnum opus, De Civitate Dei, or The City of God, details the great theologian’s view that all human beings are citizens either of the City of God or the earthly city …
54Pearl — (ca. 1375) Pearl is an important Middle English DREAM VISION poem preserved in a single late 14th century manuscript known as Cotton Nero A.x, the same manuscript in which survive three other long poems: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT,… …
55Canons Regular — are members of certain bodies of Canons (priests) living in community under the Augustinian Rule ( regula in Latin), and sharing their property in common as a type of vow of poverty. Distinct from monks, who live a cloistered, contemplative life… …
56Royal Doors — The Royal Doors, Holy Doors, or Beautiful Gates are the central doors of the Iconostasis in an Eastern Orthodox or Greek Catholic Church. In Orthodox Churches, the sanctuary (the entire space of which is referred to as the altar among Eastern… …
57Canons and Canonesses Regular — • According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a canon regular is essentially a religious cleric Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Canons and Canonesses Regular Canons and Canonesses Regular …
58Zion — (‘Sion’ in AV); used for Jerusalem (as 2 Sam. 5:6–10) or for part of Jerusalem, such as the Temple mount (Ps. 2:6; 48:11), though the description (1 Kgs. 8:1) of Solomon bringing the Ark [[➝ ark]] to the Temple from Zion suggests they were once… …
59EZRA, APOCALYPSE OF — (also known as Ezra IV), book of visions ascribed to Ezra the Scribe, written between 95–100 C.E., probably in Ereẓ Israel. It is extant in some Greek fragments, Latin, Syriac, Ethiopic, two separate Arabic versions, Armenian, Georgian, and a… …
60Allegory in the Middle Ages — Noah and the baptismal flood of the Old Testament (top panel) is typologically linked (prefigured) by the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). Allegory in the Middle Ages was a vital element in the synthesis of Biblical and… …
