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 Aaron

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 Charles François d'Abra de Raconis

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 Ven. Ralph Ashley

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 Prefecture Apostolic of Assam

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 Diocese of Assisi

 Assistant at the Pontifical Throne

 Assize of Clarendon

 Volume 1

 Volume 3

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 Juan Santos Atahualpa

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 Athenagoras

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 Christian Athens

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 Joseph Athias

 Mount Athos

 Juan de Atienza

 James Atkinson

 Nicholas Atkinson

 Paul Atkinson of St. Francis

 Sarah Atkinson

 Achab

 Ven. Thomas Atkinson

 Atom

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 Atrib

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 Michael Attaliates

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 Jean Denis Attiret

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 Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarède

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 J. M. Vincent Audin

 Guglielmo Audisio

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 Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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 Ava

 Nicola Avancini

 Avarice

 Avatār

 Pierre du Bois, Baron d'Avaugour

 Ave Maris Stella

 Ave Regina

 Diocese of Achonry

 Diocese of Avellino

 Avempace

 Fernando Avendano

 Averroes

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 Avesta

 Theological Aspects of Avesta

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 Avicenna

 Avignon

 Achor Valley

 University of Avignon

 Diocese of Avila

 Francisco de Avila

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 Order of Aviz

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 Philippe Avril

 Axum

 Diocese of Ayacucho

 Achrida

 Fray Francisco de Ayeta

 Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón

 James Ambrose Dominic Aylward

 Aymará

 Aymeric of Piacenza

 Féliz de Azara

 Aristaces Azaria

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 Luiz de Azevedo

 Juan Azor

 Johann Heinrich Achterfeldt

 Azores

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 Azymes

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 Theodore William Achtermann

 Valens Acidalius

 Diocese of Aci-Reale

 Leopold Ackermann

 Acmonia

 Acoemetae

 Acolouthia

 Acolyte

 Joaquín Acosta

 José de Acosta

 Diocese of Acquapendente

 Acquaviva

 Claudius Acquaviva

 Diocese of Acqui

 Acre

 Acrostic

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 John Francis Edward Acton

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 Adalbert I

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 Ad Apostolicae Dignitatis Apicem

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 Ad Universalis Ecclesiae

 Adam

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 Books of Adam

 Adam of Bremen

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 Adam of Murimuth

 Adam of Perseigne

 Adam of St. Victor

 Adam of Usk

 John Adam

 Nicholas Adam

 Adam Scotus

 Andrea Adami da Bolsena

 Adamites

 St. Adamnan

 James Adams

 Ven. John Adams

 Diocese of Adana

 Adar

 Ferdinando d'Adda

 Addas

 Liturgy of Addeus and Maris

 Ecclesiastical Addresses

 Archdiocese of Adelaide

 St. Adelaide, Abbess

 St. Adelaide (Adelheid)

 John Placid Adelham

 Adelmann

 Adelophagi

 Vicariate Apostolic of Aden

 Adeodatus

 Pope St. Adeodatus

 Adeste Fideles

 Adjuration

 Administrator

 Administrator (of Ecclesiastical Property)

 Canonical Admonitions

 Admont

 St. Ado of Vienne

 Adonai

 Adonias

 Adoption

 Canonical Adoption

 Supernatural Adoption

 Adoptionism

 Adoration

 Perpetual Adoration

 Francis Adorno

 Adoro Te Devote

 Diocese of Adria

 Pope Adrian I

 Pope Adrian II

 Pope St. Adrian III

 Pope Adrian IV

 Pope Adrian V

 Pope Adrian VI

 St. Adrian of Canterbury

 Adrian of Castello

 Adrianople

 Christian Kruik van Adrichem

 Adso

 Diego Francisco Aduarte

 Adullam

 Adulteration of Food

 Adultery

 Advent

 Adventists

 Book of Advertisements

 Advocates of Roman Congregations

 Advocates of St. Peter

 Advocatus Diaboli

 Advocatus Ecclesiæ

 Advowson

 Adytum

 St. Aedan of Ferns

 Aedh of Kildare

 Bl. Aegidius of Assisi

 Ægidius of Viterbo

 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

 Ælnoth

 St. Ælred

 Æneas of Gaza

 St. Aengus (the Culdee)

 Ænon

 Æons

 Aër

 Aërius of Pontus

 Æsthetics

 Æterni Patris (Pius IX)

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 Aëtius

 Affinity (in the Bible)

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 Affirmation

 Afflighem

 Denis Auguste Affre

 St. Afra

 Africa

 Early African Church

 African Liturgy

 African Synods

 Agabus

 Agape

 Agapetae

 Agapetus

 Pope St. Agapetus I

 Pope Agapetus II

 William Seth Agar

 St. Agatha

 Agathangelus

 Agathias

 Pope St. Agatho

 Agaunum

 Agostini Agazzari

 Council of Agde

 Canonical Age

 Age of Reason

 Diocese of Agen

 Agents of Roman Congregations

 Aggeus (Haggai)

 Unjust Aggressor

 Raymond d'Agiles

 St. Agilulfus

 Agios O Theos

 Giuseppe Agnelli

 Fra Guglielmo Agnelli

 Bl. Agnellus of Pisa

 Andreas Agnellus of Ravenna

 St. Agnes of Assisi

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 St. Agnes of Montepulciano

 St. Agnes of Rome

 Maria Gaetana Agnesi

 Agnetz

 Agnoetae

 Agnosticism

 Agnus Dei

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 Agonistici

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 Paolo Agostini

 Bl. Agostino Novello

 Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult

 Archdiocese of Agra

 Agram

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 Maria de Agreda

 Agria

 St. Agricius

 Alexander Agricola

 George Agricola

 Rudolph Agricola

 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim

 Agrippinus

 Diocese of Aguas Calientes

 Joseph Saenz de Aguirre

 Ahicam

 Ahriman and Ormuzd

 Johann Caspar Aiblinger

 Gregor Aichinger

 St. Aidan of Lindisfarne

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 Mary Aikenhead

 St. Ailbe

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 Family of d'Ailleboust

 Pierre d'Ailly

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 Giacomo Maria Airoli

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 Michael and Nicetas Akominatos

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 Lucas Alaman

 Niccolò Alamanni

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 Alb

 Diocese of Alba Pompeia

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 Niccolo Albergati

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 Giulio Alberoni

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 Albert II

 Bl. Albert

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 Leandro Alberti

 Leone Battista Alberti

 Nicolò Albertini

 John Baptist Albertrandi

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 Juan de Albi

 Sigismund Albicus

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 Johann G. Albrechtsberger

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 Afonzo de Albuquerque

 University of Alcalá

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 Antonio de Alcedo

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 Andrea Alciati

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 John Alcock

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 St. Aldric

 Ulissi Aldrovandi

 Leonard Alea

 Phillipe Alegambe

 Francisco Xavier Alegre

 Joseph Sadoc Alemany

 Giulio Alenio

 Archdiocese of Aleppo

 Diocese of Ales and Terralba

 Diocese of Alessandria della Paglia

 Galeazzo Alessi

 Diocese of Alessio

 Alexander

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 Pope Alexander III

 Pope Alexander IV

 Pope Alexander V

 Pope Alexander VI

 Pope Alexander VII

 Pope Alexander VIII

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 Michael Alford

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 St. Alfwold

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 Algonquins

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 Allah

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 Paul Allard

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 Gregorio Allegri

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 Jean Allemand

 Edward Patrick Allen

 Frances Allen

 George Allen

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 William Allen

 August Allerstein

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 Joseph Franz Allioli

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 Claude Allouez

 Alma

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 Diego de Almagro

 John Almeida

 Diocese of Almeria

 Camillo Almici

 Ven. John Almond

 John Almond

 Oliver Almond

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 Alogi

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 A and Ω

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 St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

 Prospero Alpini

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 Altar (in Liturgy)

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 History of the Christian Altar

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 St. Alto

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 Diocese of Altoona

 Altruism

 Alumnus

 Niccolò Alunno

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 Pedro d'Alva y Astorga

 Alonzo de Alvarado

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 Pedro de Alvarado

 Balthazar Alvarez

 Diego Alvarez

 Manoel Alvarez

 Alvarez de Paz

 St. Alypius

 José Antonio Alzate

 Johann Baptist Alzog

 Ama

 Giovanni Antonio Amadeo

 Dioceses of Amadia and Akra

 Amalarius of Metz

 St. Amalberga (1)

 St. Amalberga (2)

 Amalec

 Archdiocese of Amalfi

 Amalricians

 Amalricus Augerii

 St. Amandus

 Amasia

 Amastris

 Thaddeus Amat

 Amathus

 Diocese of Amazones

 Peter Ambarach

 Ambition

 Ambo

 Ambo (in the Russian and Greek Church)

 George d'Amboise

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 August Wilhelm Ambros

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 Bl. Ambrose of Sienna

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 Ambrosians

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 Diocese of Amelia

 Denis Amelote

 Amen

 Amende Honorable

 Veit Amerbach

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 South American College

 American Protective Association

 Francis Kerril Amherst

 Ven. John Amias

 Amice

 Antonio Amico

 Francesco Amico

 Diocese of Amida

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 Joseph Maria Amiot

 Amisus

 Daniel Ammen

 St. Ammon

 Ammon

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 Amorbach

 Amorios

 Amorrhites

 Eusebius Amort

 Amos

 Amovibility

 Vicariate Apostolic of Amoy

 André Marie Ampère

 Amphilochius of Iconium

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 Amphoræ

 Abbey of Ampleforth

 Ampullæ

 Diocese of Ampurias

 Amra

 Amrah

 Amraphel

 Amsterdam

 Amulet

 Use and Abuse of Amulets

 Amyclae

 Jacques Amyot

 Anabaptists

 Pope St. Anacletus

 Anacletus II

 Anæsthesia

 Diocese of Anagni

 Analogy

 Analysis

 Anaphora

 Anarchy

 St. Anastasia

 Anastasiopolis

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 Pope St. Anastasius I

 Pope Anastasius II

 Pope Anastasius III

 Pope Anastasius IV

 St. Anastasius (2)

 St. Anastasius Sinaita

 Anathema

 Anathoth

 St. Anatolia

 St. Anatolius (1)

 St. Anatolius (2)

 Anatomy

 Anazarbus

 Pedro de Añazco

 Joseph Anchieta

 Anchor

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 Ancilla Dei

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 Ancren Riwle

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 William Henry Anderdon

 Anthony Maria Anderledy

 Henry James Anderson

 Lionel Albert Anderson

 Patrick Anderson

 James Anderton

 Ven. Robert Anderton

 Roger Anderton

 Thomas Anderton

 Heinrich Bernhard, Freiherr von Andlaw

 Ven. William Andleby

 Alonso Andrada

 Antonio de Andrada

 Diego Andrada de Payva

 Bernard André

 Yves Marie André

 Giovanni d'Andrea

 Bl. Andrea Dotti

 Andrea Pisano

 Andreas of Ratisbon

 Felix de Andreis

 Juan Andres

 St. Andrew (1)

 St. Andrew (2)

 St. Andrew Avellino

 Bl. Andrew Bobola

 St. Andrew Corsini

 Andrew of Caesarea

 St. Andrew of Crete

 Andrew of Lonjumeau

 Andrew of Rhodes

 St. Andrew the Scot

 William Eusebius Andrews

 Diocese of Andria

 Anemurium

 Felice Anerio

 Giovanni Francesco Anerio

 Filippo Anfossi

 Ange de Saint Joseph

 Ange de Sainte Rosalie

 Angel

 St. Angela Merici

 Bl. Angela of Foligno

 Francesco degli Angeli

 Girolamo degli Angeli

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 Bl. Angelo Carletti di Chivasso

 Angelo Clareno da Cingoli

 Early Christian Representations of Angels

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 Angelus

 Angelus Bell

 Angelus Silesius

 Anger

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 Notre Dame des Anges

 St. Angilbert

 Francesco Angiolini

 Priory of Anglesea

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 Timothy Warren Anglin

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 Angola and Congo

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 Diocese of Angoulême

 Diocese of Angra

 Pedro Angulo

 Vicariate Apostolic of Anhalt

 Pope St. Anicetus

 College and Church of the Anima (in Rome)

 Anima Christi

 Animals in Christian Art

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 Animism

 Giovanni Animuccia

 Anise

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 Ecclesiastical Annals

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 François Annat

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 Sainte Anne de Beaupré

 Diocese of Annecy

 Joseph Annegarn

 Annibale d'Annibaldi

 Giuseppe d'Annibale

 Annius of Viterbo

 St. Anno

 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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 Orders of the Annunciation

 Louis-Pierre Anquetil

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 Giordano Ansaloni

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 St. Anselm (2)

 Anselm of Laon

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 Antoine Anselme

 Reyer Anslo

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 Joseph Anthelmi

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 Church of Antioch

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 Antiochene Liturgy

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Archdiocese of Armagh


Archdiocese founded by St. Patrick about 445, as the primatial and metropolitan see of Ireland. The Archdiocese of Armagh at present comprises almost the whole of the counties Armagh and Louth, a great part of Tyrone, and portions of Derry and of Meath. It is divided into fifty-five parishes, two of which, Armagh and Dundalk, are mensal parishes attached to the see. The Diocesan Chapter, re-established in 1856, consisted in 1906 of thirteen members, including a dean, archdeacon, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, theologian, and canons. Diocesan clergy, 139; regulars, 39; churches and chapels, 156; primary schools, 227; Catholic population (1901), 147,358. The suffragan sees are Meath, Ardagh, Clogher, Derry, Down and Connor, Dromore, Kilmore, Raphoe.

St. Patrick, having received some grants of land from the chieftain Daire, on the hill called Ard-Macha (the Height of Macha), built a stone church on the summit and a monastery and some other religious edifices round about, and fixed on this place for his metropolitan see. He also founded a school in the same place, which soon became famous and attracted thousands of scholars. In the course of time other religious bodies settled in Armagh, such as the Culdees, who built a monastery there in the eighth century. The city of Armagh was thus until modern times a purely ecclesiastical establishment. About 448, St. Patrick, aided by Secundinus and Auxilius, two of his disciples, held a synod at Armagh, of which some of the canons are still extant. One of these expressly mentions that all difficult cases of conscience should be referred to the judgment of the Archbishop of Armagh, and that if too difficult to be disposed of by him with his counsellors they should be passed on to the Apostolic See of Rome. In Irish times, the primacy of Armagh was never questioned, and for many centuries the primates were accustomed to make circuits and visitations through various parts of the country for the collection of their dues. This was called the "Cattlecess", or the "Law of St. Patrick". Beginning in 734, during the incumbency of Primate Congus, it continued till long after the English invasion, but ceased as soon as English prelates succeeded to the see. Two kings gave it their royal sanction: Felim, King of Munster, in 822, and the famous Brian Boru, in 1006. The record of the latter's sanction is preserved in the Book of Armagh, in the handwriting of Brian Boru's chaplain. To add solemnity to their collecting tours, the primates were in the habit of carrying with them the shrine of St. Patrick, and as a rule their success was certain. These collections seem to have been made at irregular intervals and were probably for the purpose of keeping up the famous school of Armagh, said at one time to contain 7,000 students, as well as for the restoration, often needed, of the church and other ecclesiastical buildings when destroyed by fire or plundered in war. The Irish annals record no fewer than seventeen burnings of the city, either partial or total. It was plundered on numerous occasions by the Danes and the clergy driven out of it. It was also sacked by De Courcy, Fitz-Aldelm and Philip of Worcester during the conquest of Ulster by the Anglo-Normans.

The seizure of the primacy of Armagh by laymen in the eleventh century has received great prominence owing to St. Bernard's denunciation of it in his life of St. Malachy, but the abuse was not without a parallel on the continent of Europe. The chiefs of the tribe in whose territory Armagh stood usurped the position and temporal emoluments of the primacy and discharged by deputy the ecclesiastical functions. The abuse continued for eight generations until Cellach, known as St. Celsus (1105-29), who was intruded as a layman, had himself consecrated bishop, and ruled the see with great wisdom. In 1111 he held a great synod at Fiadh-Mic-Aengus at which were present fifty bishops, 300 priests, and 3,000 other ecclesiastics, and also Murrough O'Brian, King of southern Ireland, and his nobles. During his incumbency the priory of Sts. Peter and Paul at Armagh was re-founded by Imar, the learned preceptor of St. Malachy. This was the first establishment in Ireland into which the Canons Regular of St. Augustine had been introduced. Roderic O'Connor, monarch of Ireland, afterwards granted it an annual pension for a public school. After a short interval, Celsus was succeeded by St. Malachy O'Morgair (1134-37), who later suffered many tribulations in trying to effect a reformation in the diocese. He resigned the see after three years and retired to the Bishopric of Down. In 1139 he went to Rome and solicited the Pope for two palliums, one for the See of Armagh and the other probably for the new Metropolitan See of Cashel. The following year he introduced the Cistercian Order into Ireland, by the advice of St. Bernard. He died at Clairvaux, while making a second journey to Rome. St. Malachy is honoured as the patron saint of the diocese. Gelasius succeeded him and during a long incumbency of thirty-seven years held many important synods which effected great reforms. At the Synod of Kells, held in 1152 and presided over by Cardinal Paparo, the Pope's legate, Gelasius received the pallium and at the same time three others were handed over to the new metropolitan sees of Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam. The successor of Gelasius in the see, Cornelius Mac Concaille, who died at Chambery the following year, on a journey to Rome, has been venerated ever since in that locality as a saint. He was succeeded by Gilbert O'Caran (1175-80), during whose incumbency the see suffered greatly from the depredations of the Anglo-Norman invaders. William Fitz-Aldelm pillaged Armagh and carried away St. Patrick's crosier, called the "Staff of Jesus". O'Caran's successor was Thomas O'Conor (1181-1201). In the year after his succession to the see, Pope Lucius III, at the instance of John Comyn, the first English prelate in the See of Dublin, tried to abolish the old Irish custom according to which the primates claimed the right of making solemn circuits and visitations in the province of Leinster as well as those of Tuam and Munster. The papal bull issued was to the effect that no archbishop or bishop should hold any assembly or ecclesiastical court in the Diocese of Dublin, or treat of the ecclesiastical causes and affairs of the said diocese, without the consent of the Archbishop of Dublin, if the latter were actually in his see, unless specially authorized by the Papal See or the Apostolic legate. This Bull laid the groundwork of a bitter and protracted controversy between the Archbishops of Armagh and of Dublin, concerning the primatial right of the former to have his cross carried before him and to try ecclesiastical cases in the diocese of the latter. This contest, however, must not be confounded with that regarding the primacy, which did not arise till the seventeenth century.


ENGLISH PERIOD (1215-1539)

As the first Anglo-Norman adventurers who came to Ireland showed very little scruple in despoiling the churches and monasteries, Armagh suffered considerably from their depredations and the clergy were almost reduced to beggary. When the English kings got a footing in the country, they began to interfere in the election of bishops and a contest arose between King John and the Pope regarding Eugene Mac Gillaweer, elected to the primatial see in 1203. This prelate was present at the General Council of the Lateran in 1215 and died at Rome the following year. The English kings also began to claim possession of the temporalities of the sees during vacancies and to insist on the newly-elected bishops suing them humbly for their restitution. Primate Reginald (1247-56), a Dominican, obtained a papal Brief uniting the county of Louth to the See of Armagh. Primate Patrick O'Scanlan (1261-70), also a Dominican, rebuilt to a large extent the cathedral of Armagh and founded a house for Franciscans in that city. Primate Nicholas Mac Maelisu (1272-1302) signalized himself by convening an important assembly of the bishops and clergy of Ireland at Tuam in 1291, at which they bound themselves by solemn oaths to resist the encroachments of the secular power. Primate Richard Fitz-Ralph (1346-60) contended publicly both in Ireland and England with the Mendicant Friars on the question of their vows and privileges. A contest regarding the primacy of Armagh was carried on intermittently during these centuries by the Archbishops of Dublin and Cashel, especially the former as the city of Dublin was the civic metropolis of the kingdom. During the English period, the primates rarely visited the city of Armagh, preferring to reside at the arch-episcopal manors of Dromiskin and Termonfechan, in the county of Louth which was within the Pale. During the reign of Henry VIII, Primate Cromer, being suspected of heresy by the Holy See, was deposed in favour of Robert Wauchope (1539-51), a distinguished theologian, who assisted at the Council of Trent. In the meantime, George Dowdall, a zealous supporter of Henry, had been intruded into the See of Armagh by that monarch, but on the introduction of Protestantism into Ireland in the reign of Edward VI, he left the kingdom in disgust. Thereupon the king in 1552, appointed Hugh Goodacre to the see. He was the first Protestant prelate who assumed the title of Primate and enjoyed the temporalities of the diocese. In the beginning of the reign of Queen Mary, Dowdall (1553-58) was appointed by the Pope to the see on account of the great zeal he had shown against Protestantism, though at the same time, he had acted in a schismatical way.


PERIOD OF PERSECUTION

After the short incumbency of Donagh O'Tighe (1560-62), the see was filled by Richard Creagh (1564-85), a native of Limerick . He was arrested by order of Queen Elizabeth and imprisoned by her in the Tower of London, where he was tortured and maltreated and left to languish in captivity for eighteen years till his death. Edward Mac Gauran, who succeeded him (1587-94), was very active in soliciting aid from the pope and the king of Spain for the Irish who were then engaged in a struggle for liberty of conscience with the English Queen. After an interval of eight years, he was succeeded by Peter Lombard (1601-25), one of the most learned men of his time. He remained in exile, in Rome, during the whole twenty-four years of his incumbency and thus never once visited his diocese. Hugh Mac Cawell, a Franciscan, was consecrated abroad for the see in 1626, but died before he could reach it. Hugh O'Reilly, the next primate (1628-53), was very active in the political movements of his day. In 1642, he summoned the Ulster bishops and clergy to a synod at Kells in which the war then carried on by the Irish was declared lawful and pious. He took a prominent part in the Confederation of Kilkenny and was appointed a member of the Supreme Council of twenty-four persons who carried on the government of the country in the name of King Charles I. After the defeat and death of most of the Catholic Irish chieftains he was elected generalissimo of the Catholic forces and prolonged the heroic though hopeless conflict. Edmund O'Reilly (1657-69) succeeded to the see, but owing to the difficulties of the time was only able to spend two years in the diocese out of the twelve of his incumbency. He was exiled on four different occasions. During the whole time he spent in the diocese, he was hiding in woods and caves and never had any bed but a cloak thrown over straw. He suffered a great deal from the machinations of the notorious Father Walsh, the author of the "Loyal Remonstrance" (1661, 1672) to King Charles II, and died in exile in France.

The next primate was the Venerable Oliver Plunket (1669-81), the cause of whose beatification is at present being promoted. Shortly after his accession to the see, he was obliged to defend the primatial rights of Armagh against the claims put forward for Dublin by its archbishop, Dr. Peter Talbot. At a meeting of the Catholic clergy in Dublin in 1670, each of these prelates refused to subscribe subsequent to the other. Dr. Plunket thereupon wrote a work on the ancient rights and prerogatives of his see, published in 1672, under the title "Jus Primatiale; or the ancient Pre-eminence of the See of Armagh above all the other Archbishops in the Kingdom of Ireland, asserted by O. A. T. H. P". This was replied to two years later by Dr. Talbot in a dissertation styled "Primatus Dublinensis; or the chief reasons on which the Church of Dublin relies in the possession and prosecution of her right to the Primacy of Ireland". A violent persecution stilled the controversy for some time and subsequent primates asserted their authority from time to time in Dublin. In 1719 two Briefs of Clement XI were in favour of the claims of Armagh. Still the matter was not allowed to rest and Dr. Hugh Mac Mahon felt compelled to write a work treating the subject exhaustively in answer to an anonymous pamphlet published by Father John Hennessy, a Jesuit of Clonmel. Dr. Mac Mahon's work, written under great difficulties, appeared in 1728 under the title of "Jus Primatiale Armacanum; or the Primatial Right of Armagh over all the other Archbishops and Bishops and the entire clergy of Ireland, asserted by H. A. M. T. H. P". This learned work contains the last word on the subject and is conclusive. In practice, however, the primatial right has fallen into desuetude in Ireland as in every other part of the Church. In 1679, Venerable Oliver Plunket was arrested on a ridiculous charge of conspiring to bring 20,000 Frenchmen into the country and of having levied moneys on his clergy for the purpose of maintaining 70,000 men for an armed rebellion. After being confined in Dublin Castle for many months, he was presented for trial on these and other charges in Dundalk; but the jury, though all Protestants, refused to find a true bill against him. The venue, however, of his trial was changed by his enemies to London, where he was tried by an English jury before he was able to gather his witnesses and bring them across, though he made the request to the judge. The principal witnesses against him were some disreputable priests and friars of Armagh whom he had censured and suspended for their bad conduct. He was dragged on a sledge to Tyburn on 1 July, 1681, where he was hanged, drawn, and quartered in presence of an immense multitude. His head, still in a good state of preservation, is in the possession of the Dominican nuns of Drogheda.


PENAL TIMES

During this trying period, the primates had to live in the greatest obscurity in order to disarm the malice of the enemies of the Catholic clergy. Dominic Maguire (1683-1707), a Dominican, succeeded to the see after the death of the Venerable Oliver Plunket. This primate, having to go into exile after the surrender of Limerick in 1691, spent the sixteen years that intervened between that time and his death in a very destitute condition. In the meantime the See of Armagh was administered by a vicar, Patrick Donnelly, a priest of the diocese, who in 1697 was appointed Bishop of Dromore, though retaining the administration of Armagh for several years afterwards. His name occurs in the government register of the "popish clergy" of Armagh, made in 1704, as the pretended popish priest of that part of the parish of Newry that lies in the county of Armagh. The sureties for his good conduct were Terence Murphy of Lurgan and Patrick Guinnisse of the same town. Altogether the names of nineteen parish priests appear on the register for the county of Armagh. From the returns made in 1731 by the Protestant archbishops and bishops regarding the growth of popery in Ireland, we find that in the Diocese of Armagh there were 26 Mass-houses, 77 officiating priests, 5 friaries, 22 friars, 1 nunnery with 9 nuns, 7 private chapels and 40 popish schools. Owing to the severity of the laws there was no primate resident in Ireland for twenty-three years after the flight of Primate Maguire, in 1691. Hugh Mac Mahon (1714-37), Bishop of Clogher, was at last appointed to the bereft see. Living during the worst of the penal times, the primate was obliged constantly to wander from place to place, saying Mass and administering Confirmation in the open air. Nevertheless, in spite of these difficulties he has left his name to posterity by the learned work "Jus Primatiale Armacanum", written by command of the pope in defence of the primatial rights of Armagh. He was succeeded by his nephew, Bernard Mac Mahon (1737-47), then Bishop of Clogher, who is described as a prelate remarkable for zeal, charity, prudence, and sound doctrine. He also suffered considerably from the persecution, and spent most of his time in hiding. Bernard was succeeded in the primacy by his brother, Ross Mac Mahon (1747-48), also Bishop of Clogher. Michael O'Reilly (1749-58), Bishop of Derry, was the next primate. He published two catechisms, one in Irish and the other in English, the latter of which has been in use in parts of the north of Ireland till our own time. On one occasion this primate and eighteen of his priests were arrested near Dundalk. He lived in a small thatched cottage at Termonfechan, and at times had to lie concealed in a narrow loft under the thatch. Anthony Blake (1758-86) was his successor. The persecution having subsided to a great extent, he was not harried like his predecessors, but nevertheless could not be induced to live permanently in his diocese, a circumstance which was the occasion of much discontent among his clergy and led to a temporary suspension from his duties. Richard O'Reilly (1787-1818) was his successor in the primacy. Having an independent fortune, he was the first Catholic prelate since the Revolution who was able to live in a manner becoming his dignified station. By his gentleness and affability he succeeded in quieting the dissensions which had distracted the diocese during the time of his predecessor and was thenceforward known as the "Angel of Peace". In 1793, he laid the foundation-stone of St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, which was to serve as his pro-cathedral, one of the first Catholic churches to be built within the walls of a town in Ireland since the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Corporation of Drogheda, wearing their robes and carrying the mace and sword, appeared on the scene and forbade the ceremony to proceed, but their protest was disregarded.


MODERN TIMES

Patrick Curtis (1819-32), who had been rector of the Irish College of Salamanca, was appointed to the see in more hopeful times and lived to witness the emancipation of the Catholics of Ireland. He was one of the first to join the Catholic Association, and being on friendly terms with the Duke of Wellington, whom he had met in Spain during the Peninsular War, was able to advance considerably the cause of Catholic Emancipation. Thomas Kelly succeeded (1832-35). He drew up the statutes which are still in use in the diocese and lived and died with the reputation of a saint. William Crolly succeeded (1835-49). He was the first Catholic primate to reside in Armagh and perform episcopal functions there since the persecution began, and signalized himself by beginning the noble cathedral which it has taken more than sixty years to bring to completion. The foundation-stone was laid 17 March, 1840, and before the primate's death the walls had been raised to a considerable height. Paul Cullen succeeded in 1849, but was translated to the See of Dublin in 1852. In 1850 he presided over the National Synod of Thurles, the first of the kind held in Ireland since the convention of the bishops and clergy in Kilkenny, in 1642. Joseph Dixon (1852-66), the next primate, held a synod in Drogheda in 1854, at which all the northern bishops assisted. In 1856, the Diocesan Chapter, consisting of thirteen members, was formed. Archbishop Dixon resumed the building of the cathedral, but did not live to see it finished. Michael Kieran (1866-69) succeeded, residing in Dundalk during his tenure of the primatial see. His successor, Daniel Mac Gettigan (1870-87), spent three years of earnest labour in the completion of the cathedral, and was able to open it for divine worship in 1873. The present illustrious occupant of the see, Cardinal Michael Logue, succeeded to the primacy in 1887. He is the first Primate of Armagh to become a member of the Sacred College. He has devoted himself for several years to the task of beautifying and completing in every sense the noble edifice erected by his predecessors. In the building of the sacristy, library, synod-hall, muniment-room, the purchase in fee-simple of the site, and the interior decorations and altars, he has spent more than £50,000 on what is now known as the National Cathedral. This great temple was consecrated on 24 July, 1904. Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, representing Pope Pius X, was present at the consecration.


RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE ARCHDIOCESE

There is a Franciscan and an Augustinian friary in Drogheda, and the Dominicans have one founded by Primate Netterville in 1224. They also have one in Dundalk, established originally at Carlingford in the early part of the fourteenth century. Of the modern congregations, the Vincentians were introduced into Armagh by Primate Dixon in 1861, to take charge of the ecclesiastical seminary. The Marist Fathers, also at Primate Dixon's request, came to Dundalk the same year to conduct a college. The Redemptorists were brought there by Primate Mac Gettigan in 1876. Primate Cullen brought the Irish Christian Brothers to Armagh in 1851, Primate Dixon brought them to Drogheda in 1857, and Primate Kieran to Dundalk in 1869. The French Congregation of Christian Brothers (de la Salle) have schools in Dundalk, Keady, and Ardee. The Presentation Brothers have schools at Dungannon. The Dominican Nuns, invited to Drogheda in 1722 by Primate Hugh Mac Mahon, conduct a boarding-school and a day-school. The Presentation Nuns, who settled in Drogheda in 1813, and in Portadown in 1882, have large poor schools in both towns. The Sisters of Mercy, also devoted to the education of the poor, came to Dundalk in 1847, to Ardee in 1859, and to Dungannon in 1894. They also have convents at Bessbrook and Cookstown. The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul came to Drogheda in 1855, where they conduct an industrial school for little boys and an orphanage for girls. The Ladies of the Sacred Heart were brought to Armagh by Primate Cullen in 1850. There is a missionary school for girls attached to their convent. There is a convent of Poor Clares at Keady, one of St. Louis at Middletown, and one of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at Magherafelt, all recent foundations. The Academy of St. Patrick, Dungannon, is conducted by the diocesan clergy. The Catholic Diocesan Orphan Society is under the direction of the Primate.


PROTESTANT ARCHBISHOPS

Hugh Goodacre, the first Protestant prelate who presided over the diocese, was appointed by Edward VI, in 1552. He was consecrated according to the Protestant ordinal and survived his consecration only three months. Adam Loftus (1563-67), from whom the Irish Protestant hierarchy claim to derive their orders, was consecrated by Hugh Curwin, Archbishop of Dublin, according to the form annexed to the second Book of Common Prayer of the time of Edward VI. The most learned of the Protestant primates was James Ussher (1625-56), whose most important works were "Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge", published in 1632, and "Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates", which appeared in 1639. He left his valuable library, comprising several thousand printed books and manuscripts, to Trinity College, Dublin, and his complete works were published by that institution in twenty-four volumes at the cost of 3,000. In spite of his learning, this prelate's character was marked by a most intolerant spirit of bigotry against the Irish Catholics. His judgment against toleration of Papists, i.e. "to consent that they may freely exercise their religion and profess their faith and doctrine is a grievous sin", was a signal for the renewal of persecution and led to the Rising of the Irish Catholics in 1641. John Bramhall (1660-63), another learned Protestant divine, succeeded Ussher. His works on polemic and other subjects have been published in four folio volumes. Narcissus March (1702-13), another learned prelate, built the noble library of St. Sepulchre's in Dublin, which bears his name, filled it with a valuable collection of theological and Oriental works and liberally endowed it for the support of a librarian and deputy. Hugh Boulter (1724-42), John Hoadly (1742-46), and George Stone (1746-64) are principally famous as politicians and upholders of the "English Interest" in Ireland. The first two supported and promoted the penal laws against the Catholics, but Stone was opposed to persecution. Richard Robinson, first Baron Rokeby (1765-94), raised Armagh by his munificence from extreme decay to a state of opulence and embellished it with various useful public institutions. He built an episcopal palace, a public library, an infirmary, and an observatory. Lord John George Beresford (1822-62) was also distinguished by his munificence. He restored Armagh Cathedral at a cost of 34,000 and is said to have spent 280,000 in acts of public benevolence. On his successor, Marcus Gervais Beresford (1862-65), fell a large portion of the task of providing for the future organization and sustentation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland, which was disestablished from 1 January 1871. After the flight of the Earls O'Neill and O'Donnell, large portions of their forfeited estates were made over to the Protestant see, which, together with the land previously belonging to the see in Catholic times, made up a total of 100,563 acres, producing in modern times a gross revenue for the Protestant primate of 17,670. By the Church Temporalities' Act of 1833, this was considerably reduced, and the net income of the see before the disestablishment was 12,087. Since that event the primate receives an annual salary from the Church Representative Body of 2,500, with the palace free of rent. The glebe lands belonging to the eighty-eight benefices in the diocese comprised 19,290 acres. Since disestablishment, about 9,000 are contributed annually by the voluntary system for sustentation funds and about 5,000 for various other Church purposes. Before disestablishment, the Irish Episcopalians formed twenty-two per cent of the population of the diocese, Presbyterians seventeen per cent, and Catholics sixty-one per cent, a proportion which has remained almost the same ever since. The non-Catholic population in 1901 was 100,451.

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AMBROSE COLEMAN