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51Bangor — • Diocese; anciently known as Bangor Vawr, situated in Carnarvonshire on the Menai Straits Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Bangor Bangor …
52Barjesus — • False prophet mentioned in the New Testament Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Barjesus Barjesus † …
53Cuntarar — (ninth century) Cuntarar, with APPAR and CAMPATAR, is one of the three major poet saints of the bhakti sect from the Tamil language area of southern India. The bhakti were a reformist sect of ´Saivism, the religion devoted to ´Siva, one of the …
54laying on of hands — Throughout church history the laying on of hands the purposeful and symbolic touching of one Christian by another has been used for a variety of purposes. It can be a formal public acknowledgment that the church is commissioning a member for… …
55GREGORY, JAMES — 1) inventor of the reflecting telescope, born in Aberdeen; after a three years residence in Padua received the appointment of professor of Mathematics in St. Andrews, which he held from 1669 to 1674, when he was elected to the corresponding… …
56ORION — in the Greek mythology a handsome giant and hunter, was struck blind by Dionysos for attempting an outrage on Merope, but recovered his eyesight on exposing his eyeballs to the arrowy rays of Aurora, and became afterwards the companion of… …
57TIRESIAS — in the Greek mythology a soothsayer, who had been struck blind either by Athena or Hera, but on whom in compensation Zeus had conferred the gift of prophecy, and length of days beyond the ordinary term of existence …
58Paphos — City established in the 4th cent. BCE on the SW coast of Cyprus. Paul and Barnabas met the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus, who was astonished at the teaching about the Lord (Acts 13:12) when Paul caused the magician Elymas to be struck blind …
59Peeping Tom — , LADY GODIVA There are many versions of the famous ride of Lady Godiva. But the one that is most often repeated portrays her as being exceedingly vexed by her husband, Lord Leofric, Lord of Coventry, for imposing exorbitant taxes on his… …
60Godiva, Lady — The wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia, and a devout and generous patron of churches and abbeys, she was Lady of Coventry in her own right. She died in 1067 and about a 100 years after her death, Roger of Wendover, a monk of St Alban s, told how… …
