the observation of religious customs
1observation */*/*/ — UK [ˌɒbzə(r)ˈveɪʃ(ə)n] / US [ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃ(ə)n] noun Word forms observation : singular observation plural observations 1) [uncountable] the process of watching someone or something carefully, in order to find something out She s been admitted to… …
2observation — ob|ser|va|tion [ ,abzər veıʃn ] noun *** 1. ) uncount the process of watching someone or something carefully, in order to find something out: She s been admitted to the hospital for observation. observation of: a detailed observation of the birds …
3The Seal of Confession — The Law of the Seal of Confession † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Law of the Seal of Confession In the Decretum of the Gratian who compiled the edicts of previous councils and the principles of Church law which he published about 1151,… …
4The Bollandists — The Bollandists † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Bollandists An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum. This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth… …
5The Blessed — The Blessed † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed There are at present two ways in which the Church allows public worship to be paid those who have lived in the fame of sanctity or died as martyrs. Of these some are beatified, others… …
6The Society of Jesus — The Society of Jesus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Society of Jesus (Company of Jesus, Jesuits) See also DISTINGUISHED JESUITS, JESUIT APOLOGETIC, EARLY JESUIT GENERALS, and fou …
7The Jesuits (The Society of Jesus) — The Society of Jesus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Society of Jesus (Company of Jesus, Jesuits) See also …
8Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period — The Temple Mount …
9History of the Cyclades — The Cyclades (Greek: Κυκλάδες / Kykládes ) are Greek islands located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; just 33 islands are inhabited. For the ancients, they formed a circle… …
10History of religion in the United States — The religious history of the United States begins more than a century before the former British colonies became the United States of America in 1776.Some of the original settlers were men and women of deep religious convictions. The religious… …
