Catholic Encyclopedia C

The Czech or Bohemian language is spoken by that branch of the Indo-European Slavs who settled in Moravia…

A titular see of Asia Minor, metropolitan of the ancient ecclesiastical province of Hellespontus. The city…

A Melchite patriarch of that see in the seventh century, and one of the authors of Monothelism; d. about…

Celebrated martyrs of the Coptic Church, surnamed thaumatourgoi anargyroi because they healed the sick…

A titular see of Syria. The city of the same name was the capital of the extensive district of Cyrrhestica,…

Bishop of Jerusalem and Doctor of the Church, born about 315; died probably 18 March, 386. In the East his…

General of the Carmelites, d. about 1235. All that is known is that he was prior of Mount Carmel, some say…

Doctor of the Church. St. Cyril has his feast in the Western Church on the 28th of January; in the Greek…

(Or CONSTANTINE and METHODIUS). These brothers, the Apostles of the Slavs, were born in Thessalonica, in…

A titular see of Northern Africa. The city was founded early in the seventh century B.C. by a Dorian colony…

The Cyrenaic School of Philosophy, so called from the city of Cyrene, in which it was founded, flourished…

An island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the Gulf of Alexandretta. It was originally…