The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

The Catholic Encyclopedia remarked that " the real story of the antipope was lost and he obtained in local Roman history the status of a saint and a confessor.

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

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The Catholic Encyclopedia has noted that Revelation was " written during the latter part of the reign of the Roman Emperor Domitian, probably in A. D. 95 or 96 ".

* The Roman Curia in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia

The Roman Catholic Encyclopedia reports that Eck made a sermon on the genealogy of Christ, naming Mary's Mother's parents as Emerentia and Stollanus.

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* Bunson, Matthew: Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire ( 1994 ) Facts on File Inc., NY

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire.

*" Index of Prohibited Books ", The Catholic Encyclopedia ( Volume VII, 1910 ): " The first Roman Index of Prohibited Books ( Index librorum prohibitorum ), published in 1559 under Paul IV, was very severe, and was therefore mitigated under that pontiff by decree of the Holy Office of 14 June of the same year.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states that " many of the recent critical students of the document, Donation of Constantine locate its composition at Rome and attribute the forgery to an ecclesiastic, their chief argument being an intrinsic one: this false document was composed in favour of the popes and of the Roman Church, therefore Rome itself must have had the chief interest in a forgery executed for a purpose so clearly expressed ".

*" Roman Law ", in Catholic Encyclopedia New York, Robert Appleton, 1913.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, when the Galician and Roman practices were combined, the September date, for which the Vatican adopted the official name " Triumph of the Cross " in 1963, was used to commemorate the rescue from the Persians and the May date was kept as the " Invention of the True Cross " to commemorate the finding.

* Catholic Encyclopedia 1907: Epistle of Barnabas from a Roman Catholic point-of-view: " the chief importance of the epistle is in its relation to the history of the Canon of the Scriptures.

in: De Imperatoribus Romanis, An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors retrieved on 16 November 2007.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, " Under Sixtus IV, his office was affected by the financial measures of that pope, who frequently withheld the income of the Roman University, applied it to other uses, and reduced the salaries of the professors ".

" An Encyclopedia of World History " ( William L. Langer, Harvard University, 1940 & 1948 ), " The Slavs, an eastern branch of the Indo-European family, were known to the Roman and Greek writers of the 1st and 2d centuries A. D. under the name of Venedi as inhabiting the region beyond the Vistula.

* Roman Historical Institutes, Catholic Encyclopedia

According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, the Lady of Elche ( Alicante, or, Roman Lucentum ), is conjectured as having a direct association with Tanit, the goddess of Carthage, that was worshiped by the Punic-Iberians.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel statue in Chile with a Brown Scapular, an example of the use of the scapular in Roman Catholic Marian art | Marian artThe Catholic Encyclopedia lists 18 small scapulars approved by the Church:

Would we gain by keeping alive his memory and besmirching today's Roman Catholics by saying he had a Catholic heart??

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

Maria goes all out as a Druid princess who gets two-timed by a Roman big shot.

Roman gladiatorial games often referenced classical mythology, and this seems to reference Achilles ' fight with Penthesilea but gives it an extra twist of Achilles ' being " played " by a woman.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

Under Parthian and Sassanian Iranian empires, scholars concentrated on exchanging knowledge and inventions by the countries around them – India, China, and the Roman Empire, when it is thought to be expanded over the other countries.

In the tradition of Roman satire, Swift introduces the reforms he is actually suggesting by paralipsis:

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

* 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.