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Prayer beads

Religion; General religion

Beads variously strung together, according to the kind, order, and number of prayers in certain forms of devotion, are in common use among Catholics as an expedient to ensure a right count of the ...

A system of religion where the existence of other gods is acknowledged, but the believer or group worships only one god and sees the gods of other groups as inferior. Early Israelite worship under ...

Codex bezae

Religion; General religion

One of the five most important Greek New Testament manuscripts, and the most interesting of all on account of its peculiar readings; scholars designate it by the letter D.

Blessed

Religion; General religion

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 are canonized.

Cathari

Religion; General religion

It was a general designation for the dualistic sects of the later Midde Ages. Numerous other names were in vogue to denominate these heretics.

Crib

Religion; General religion

The crib or manger in which the Infant Saviour was laid after his birth is properly that place in the stable or khan where food for domestic animals is put, formed probably of the same material out ...