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  • 71Eve — • First woman; wife of Adam Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eve     Eve     † Catholic Encycl …

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  • 72Laicization — • The term laity signifies the aggregation of those Christians who do not form part of the clergy. Consequently the word lay does not strictly connote any idea of hostility towards the clergy or the Church much less towards religion. Laicization …

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  • 73Armella Nicolas —     Armella Nicolas     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Armella Nicolas     Popularly known as La bonne Armelle , a saintly French serving maid held in high veneration among the people, though never canonized by the Church, b. at Campeneac in Brittanny …

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  • 74Ecclesiastical Person —     Ecclesiastical Person     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Person     In its etymological sense this expression signifies every person who forms a part of the external and visible society which constitutes the Church, and who has not… …

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  • 75John X —     Pope John X     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope John X     Born at Tossignano, Romagna; enthroned, 914; died at Rome, 928. First a deacon ( see Deacons ), he became Archbishop of Ravenna about 905, as successor of Kailo. In a document dated 5… …

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  • 76Pope John X —     Pope John X     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope John X     Born at Tossignano, Romagna; enthroned, 914; died at Rome, 928. First a deacon ( see Deacons ), he became Archbishop of Ravenna about 905, as successor of Kailo. In a document dated 5… …

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  • 77Subsistit in — (subsists in) is a Latin phrase, which appears in the eighth paragraph of Lumen Gentium,[1] a landmark document of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church: This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the …

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  • 78mysticism — mys•ti•cism [[t]ˈmɪs təˌsɪz əm[/t]] n. 1) the beliefs, ideas, or mode of thought of mystics 2) the doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul… …

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  • 79marriage — [mar′ij] n. [ME mariage < OFr < marier: see MARRY1] 1. the state of being married; relation between spouses; married life; wedlock; matrimony 2. the act of marrying; wedding 3. the rite or form used in marrying 4. any close or intimate… …

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  • 80weld — weld1 [weld] vt. [altered (with unhistoric d) < obs. well, to weld < ME wellen, to weld, WELL1, v.] 1. to unite (pieces of metal, plastic, etc.) by heating until molten and fused or until soft enough to hammer or press together 2. to bring… …

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