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Tabbora - A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.
Tabernacle - Old Testament precursor to the Temple.
Tabernacle - Vessel holding the Blessed Sacrament.
Tabernacle Societies - The Association of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and of work for poor churches was founded at Brussels in 1848 by Anne de Meeûs.
Tabernacles, Feast of - One of the three great feasts of the Hebrew liturgical calendar.
Tabor, Mount - Distinguished among the mountains of Palestine for its picturesque site, its graceful outline, the remarkable vegetation which covers its sides of calcareous rock, and the splendour of the view from its summit.
Tacana Indians - The collective designation for a group of tribes constituting the Tacanan linguistic stock in different dialects, occupying the upper valleys of the Beni and Madre de Dios Rivers, on the eastern slope of the Andes, Department of Beni, north-western Bolivia.
Tacapæ - Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa.
Taché, Alexandre-Antonin - First Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, missionary, prelate, statesman, and writer of Western Canada. (1823-1894)
Taché, Etienne-Pascal - Statesman, b. at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Geneviève Michon; d. 30 July, 1865.
Taenarum - A titular see in Greece, suffragan of Corinth.
Taensa Indians - A Muskhogean tribe living when first known on the west bank of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Tensas parish, Louisiana.
Tait Indians - A collective term for those members of the Cowichan tribe, occupying the Lower Fraser River, Yale District, British Columbia (Canada), between Nicomen and Yale.
Takkali - The hybrid name by which the Carrier Indians of the northern interior of British Columbia were originally made known by the fur traders.
Talbot, James - Fourth son of George Talbot and brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Chiefly known for having been the last priest to be indicted in the public courts for saying Mass. (1726-1790)
Tametsi - The first word of Chapter 1, Session 24, of the Council of Trent.
Tamisier, Marie-Marthe-Baptistine - Initiator of international Eucharistic congresses, born at Tours, 1 Nov., 1834; died there 20 June, 1910.
Tanagra - A titular see in Hellas, suffragan of Corinth.
Tancred - Prince of Antioch, born about 1072; died at Antioch, 12 Dec., 1112.
Taney, Roger Brooke - Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Tanguay, Cyprien - Genealogist, born at Quebec, 1819; died 1902.
Tanis - A titular see, suffragan of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima, capital of the fourteenth district of Lower Egypt.
Tanner, Adam - Controversialist, born at Innsbruck in 1571; died at Unken, 25 May, 1632.
Tanner, Conrad - Abbot of Einsiedeln, born at Arth in the Canton of Schwyz, 28 Dec., 1752; died 7 April, 1825.
Tanner, Edmund - Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, 1574-1579; born about 1526; died 1579.
Tanner, Matthias - Taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and Scripture, was made rector of the imperial university, and guided for six years the Bohemian province of his order.
Tantum Ergo - The opening words of the penultimate stanza of the Vesper hymn of Corpus Christi.
Tanucci, Bernardo - Marchese, Italian statesman, born at Stia in Tuscany, of poor family, in 1698 died at Naples, 29 April, 1793.
Taoism - Religion derived from the philosophical doctrines of Lao-tze.
Taos Pueblo - Town of the Pueblo group, inhabited by Indians speaking the Tigua language of Shoshonean linguistic stock.
Taparelli, Aloysius - Philosopher and writer on sociological subjects. (1793-1862)
Tapestry - A fabric in which the two processes of weaving and embroidering are combined.
Tapis, Esteban - Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786.
Tarabotti, Helena - Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652.
Taranto - Diocese in southern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Taranto.
Tarapacá - Situated in Chile, bounded on the north by the canon of the Camarones and on the south by the Loa River.
Tarasius, Saint - Layman who became Patriarch of Constantinople by acclamation, called for the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, champion of Church unity and of the veneration of the holy ikons. Died 806.
Tarazona - The Diocese of Tarazona comprises the Spanish provinces of Saragossa, Soria, Navarre, and Logroño.
Tarbes - The Diocese of Tarbes comprises the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees (ancient territory of Bigorre).
Tarentaise - Comprises the arrondissement of Moutiers in the Department of Savoie; it is also sometimes called the Diocese of Moutiers en Tarentaise, and is suffragan of Chambéry.
Targum - The distinctive designation of the Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament.
Tarisel, Pierre - Master-mason to the king, b. about 1442; d. in August, 1510.
Tarquini, Camillus - Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist. (1810-1874)
Tarragona - Its suffragans are Barcelona, Lérida, Gerona, Urgel, Vich, Tortosa, and Solsona.
Tarsicius, Saint - Was carrying the Blessed Sacrament on his person, and refused to surrender it when beset by a pagan mob. Martyr of the third or early fourth century.
Tartini, Giuseppe - Provides biography and background on his becoming a musician against his parents' wishes. Includes noted works and evaluation of his technical and theoretical brilliance.
Tatian - A second-century apologist about whose antecedents and early history nothing can be affirmed with certainty except that he was born in Assyria and that he was trained in Greek philosophy.
Tatwin, Saint - Archbishop of Canterbury; died 30 July, 734.
Taubaté - Diocese in Brazil, South America, established on 29 April, 1908, as a suffragan of Sãn Paulo.
Tauler, John - Article on the life and teachings of this 14th-century German Dominican mystic and author.
Taunton, Ethelred - Writer, born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, 17 Oct., 1857; died in London, 9 May, 1907.
Tavistock Abbey - Located on the Tavy River in Devonshire, England, founded for Benedictine monks in 961.
Tavium - A titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan of Ancyra.
Taxa Innocentiana - A Decree issued by Innocent XI, 1 Oct., 1678, regulating the fees that may be demanded or accepted by episcopal chancery offices for various acts, instruments, or writings.
Taxster, John de - Sometimes erroneously called Taxter or Taxston. A thirteenth-century chronicler, of whose life nothing is known except that he was professed as a Benedictine at Bury St. Edmund's 20 Nov., 1244.
Taylor, Frances Margaret - Superior General, and foundress of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. (1832-1900)
Te Deum, The - An abbreviated title commonly given a hymn in rhythmical prose, of which the opening words, Te Deum Laudamus, formed its earliest known title.
Tehuantepec - Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Oaxaca.
Teilo, Saint - Archbishop of Llandaff, born at Eccluis Gunniau, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire; died at Llandilo Vawr, Carmarthenshire, probably in or before 560.
Teleology - From Greek telos, end, and logos, science.
Telepathy - A term introduced by F.W.H. Myers in 1882 to denote "the ability of one mind to impress or to be impressed by another mind otherwise than through the recognized channels of sense".
Telese - A small town in the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy.
Telesio, Bernardino - Short article on the life and teachings of this 16th-century scholar, by William Turner.
Telesphorus of Cosenza - A name assumed by one of the pseudo-prophets during the time of the Great Schism.
Temple - The Latin form, templum, from which the English temple is derived, originally signified an uncovered area marked off by boundaries; especially the place marked off by the augurs to be excepted from all profane uses.
Temple of Jerusalem - In the Bible the sanctuary of Jerusalem bears the Hebrew name of Bet Yehovah (house of Jehovah).
Temple, Sisters of the - Established in London for educational purposes at the time of the Crusades.
Temptation - An incitement to sin whether by persuasion or by the offer of some good or pleasure.
Temptation of Christ - Christ endured temptation only from without, inasmuch as His human nature was free from all concupiscence.
Tenebræ - The name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week.
Tenedos - A titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades.
Teneriffe - Suffragan of Seville, formerly called Nivariensis from Nivaria, the ancient name of the island.
Teniers, David - The name of two eminent Flemish landscape painters; the elder, born at Antwerp in 1582; died there in 1649; the younger; born at Antwerp in 1610; died at Brussels in 1694.
Tennessee - Includes geography, history, and demographics.
Tenney, William Jewett - An author, editor, born at Newport, Rhode Island, 1814; died at Newark, New Jersey, 20 Sept., 1883.
Tentyris - Seat of a titular suffragan see of Ptolemais in Thebaid Secunda.
Tenure, Ecclesiastical - System of feudal tenure was not always restricted to lands, as church revenues and tithes were often farmed out to secular persons as a species of ecclesiastical fief.
Teos - Titular see; suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
Tepic - A diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Guadalajara.
Tepl - A Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia.
Tertiaries - Known as "Third Orders", those persons who live according to the Third Rule of religious orders, either outside of a monastery in the world, or in a religious community.
Tertullian - Ecclesiastical writer in the second and third centuries.
Testament, New - Jesus Christ uses the words "new testament" as meaning the alliance established by Himself between God and the world, and this is called "new" as opposed to that of which Moses was the mediator.
Testament, Old - The Apostle St. Paul declares himself (II Cor., iii, 6) a minister "of the new testament", and calls (iii, 14) the covenant entered into on Mount Sinai "the old testament".
Testem Benevolentiae - An Apostolic Letter of Leo XIII addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, 22 January, 1899.
Test-Oath, Missouri - The terms of the oath required the affiant to deny, not only that he had ever been in armed hostility to the United States, or to the lawful authorities thereof, but that he had ever "by act or word", manifested his adherence to the cause of the enemies of the United States.
Tetzel, Johann - First public antagonist of Luther. (1465-1519)
Thanksgiving Before and After Meals - The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day - The custom originated in 1621, when Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony appointed a day for public praise and prayer after the first harvest.
Theatines - A religious order of men, founded by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa, afterwards Pope Paul IV.
Theatre, The - All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.
Thebaid - The valley of the Nile, under Roman domination, was divided into four provinces: Lower and Upper Egypt, Lower and Upper Thebaid.
Thebes - A metropolitan titular see of Achaia Secunda.
Thebes - Titular see of Thebais Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais, and the seat of a Coptic Catholic diocese.
Thecla, Saint - Short biography of the eighth-century Benedictine abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt.
Thecla, Saints - The most famous of several saints named Thecla is Thecla of Iconium. Other saints of this name include a martyr from Gaza, an African martyr, one or two Roman martyrs, one who is purely legendary (Boniface and Thecla), and one St. Thecla of whom almost nothing is known.
Theft - The secret taking of another's property against the reasonable will of that other.
Thegan (Degan) of Treves - Chronicler, died about 850. Assistant Bishop of Trier and friend of Walafrid Strabo.
Theodore of Amasea, Saint - Soldier saint, martyred in 306. After refusing a court order to sacrifice to the gods, St. Theodore was released for a time of reflection--and burnt a pagan temple.
Theodore of Gaza - A fifteenth-century Greek Humanist and translator of Aristotle.
Theodore of Studium, Saint - Biography of this monk, priest, and abbot. He was a champion of the independence of the Church, and of the veneration of icons. St. Theodore died in 826.
Theodoret - Bishop of Cyrus and theologian, born at Antioch in Syria about 393; died about 457.
Theodorus and Theophanes, Saints - Brothers, natives of Jerusalem. Championed the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy in the East.
Theodorus Lector - A lector attached to the Church of St. Sophia of Constantinople in the early part of the sixth century.
Theodosiopolis - A titular metropolitan see of Thracia Prima.
Theodosius Florentini - Born at Münster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May, 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 Feb., 1865.
Theodosius I - Roman Emperor (also known as Flavius Theodosius), born in Spain, about 346; died at Milan, 17 January, 395.
Theodulf - Bishop of Orléans, a writer skilled in poetic forms and a learned theologian, born in Spain about 760; died at Angers, France, 18 December, 821.
Theology, Ascetical - Briefly defined as the scientific exposition of Christian asceticism.
Theology, Dogmatic - That part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and His works.
Theology, Moral - Limited to those doctrines which discuss the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end, and propose the means instituted by God for the attainment of that end.
Theology, Mystical - Mysticism and mystical prayer or contemplation considered from a Catholic perspective, along with a bibliography of famous Christian mystics.
Thijm, Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk - President of the Association Tijd en Vlijt and of Constantius Buter, also a member of the Flemish Academy, and for a time, its president.
Third Orders - Lay members of religious orders, i.e. men and women who do not necessarily live in community and yet can claim to wear the habit and participate in the good works of some great order.
Thirty Years War - Though pre-eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe.
Thmuis - A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.
Thomas á Jesu - Discalced Carmelite, writer on mystical theology. (1564-1627)
Thomas a Kempis - Author of the "Imitation of Christ", born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471.
Thomas Abel, Blessed - Biography of the priest and martyr, chaplain to Catherine of Aragon.
Thomas Aquinas, Saint - Lengthy article on the life, writings, and influence of this philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. Called the Angelic Doctor. Died in 1274.
Thomas Christians, Saint - An ancient body of Christians on the east and west coasts of India, claiming spiritual descent from the Apostle St. Thomas.
Thomas Cottam, Blessed - A convert to Catholicism, entered the Jesuit novitiate, was ordained a priest. Imprisoned and tortured for a year and a half, he died a martyr in 1582.
Thomas Garnet, Saint - Biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1608.
Thomas Holland, Blessed - Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1642.
Thomas Johnson, Blessed - The last of nine London Carthusians to die of starvation in prison in 1537. He died 20 September, after nearly 5 months of barbaric treatment.
Thomas Maxfield, Blessed - Real name, Thomas Macclesfield. Short biographical article on the priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1616.
Thomas More, Saint - Biographical article on the Lord Chancellor of England, and martyr. Beheaded 1535.
Thomas of Beckington - Bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Beckington, Somerset, about 1390; died at Wells, 14 January, 1465.
Thomas of Jorz - English theologian and cardinal. (d. 1310)
Thomas of Strasburg - A fourteenth-century scholastic of the Augustinian Order.
Thomas of Villanova, Saint - Spanish Augustinian, d. 1555. Educator, diligent in almsgiving, Archbishop of Valencia.
Thomas Palasor, Blessed - English priest and martyr. Article also has some details on the his companions in martyrdom the Bl. John Norton and John Talbot. Died in 1600.
Thomas Percy, Blessed - Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572.
Thomas Pilchard, Blessed - Or Pilcher. Short biography of the English priest and martyr. He was executed at Dorchester, 21 March 1586/7.
Thomas Pormort, Blessed - English priest twice imprisoned. The second time he was tortured, and finally martyred in 1592.
Thomas Sherwood, Blessed - Was imprisoned, tortured, and finally martyred (in 1578) for denying the royal supremacy.
Thomas Sprott, Blessed - Also called Thomas Spratt. English priest and martyr. Article also has information on his companion in martyrdom the Bl. Thomas Hunt. The two died in 1600.
Thomas Thwing, Blessed - Priest, missionary to his native England, convicted of plotting to murder the king on the same evidence by which the other accused had been acquitted, martyred in 1680.
Thomas Whitbread, Blessed - A native of Essex and Jesuit provincial, refused Titus Oates admission to the Society of Jesus. And the rest, as they say, is history. Whitbread died a martyr in 1679.
Thonissen, Jean-Joseph - Professor of law at the University of Louvain, minister in the Belgian Government. (1817-1891)
Thorney Abbey - For some three centuries the seat of Saxon hermits, or of anchorites living in community, before it was refounded in 972 for Benedictine monks by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, with the aid of King Edgar.
Thurston Hunt, Blessed - When Robert Middleton was arrested, Hunt tried to rescue him but was captured. The two priests were martyred at Lancaster in 1601. Efforts by the government to bring the condemned men into public disrepute were failures.
Thyatira - A titular suffragan see of Sardes in Lydia.
Thynias - A titular see, suffragan of Nicomedia, in Bithynia Prima.
Ticelia - Titular see, suffragan of Cyrene, in the Libya Pentapolis.
Tichborne, Ven. Nicholas - Martyr, born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire; suffered at Tyburn, London, 24 Aug., 1601.
Tichborne, Ven. Thomas - Born at Hartley, Hampshire, 1567; martyred at Tyburn, London, 20 April, 1602.
Ticonius - An African Donatist writer of the fourth century who appears to have had some influence on St. Augustine.
Ticuna Indians - A tribe along the north bank of the upper Amazon.
Tieffentaller, Joseph - Jesuit missionary and noted geographer in Hindustan. 1710-1785)
Tiepolo - Article on Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
Tierney, Mark Aloysius - Wrote "The History and Antiquities of the Castle of Arundel" (London, 1834) and several controversial pamphlets. Also acted as editor of the "Dublin Review", succeeding Quin, the first editor.
Timbrias - A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch.
Time - Article explores two questions, What are the notes, or elements, contained in the subjective representation of time? and To what external reality does this representation correspond?
Tissot, James - French draughtsman and painter. (1836-1902)
Tithes - The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
Titian - Biography of the artist, with bibliography.
Titopolis - Titular see, suffragan of Seleucia Trachaea in Isauria.
Titulus - In pagan times titulus signified an inscription on stone, and later the stone which marked the confines of property.
Titus - Biography of the first-century Roman Emperor.
Todi - Diocese in Central Italy; immediately dependent on the Holy See.
Tokio - Archdiocese comprising 21 provinces or 15 departments.
Toledo, Francisco - Philosopher, theologian, and exegete, son of an actuary. (1532-1596)
Toledo (Ohio) - A diocese in Ohio, U.S.A., formed out of the Diocese of Cleveland and erected into a separate jurisdiction, 15 April, 1910.
Toledo (Spain) - Primatial see of Spain, whose archbishop, raised almost always to the dignity of cardinal, occupies the first place in the ranks of the higher Spanish clergy.
Toleration, History of - Explores the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration.
Toleration, Religious - The magnanimous indulgence one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a "false faith".
Torres Naharro, Bartolemé de - Spanish poet and dramatist, born at Torres, near Badajoz, towards the end of the fifteenth century.
Torricelli, Evangelista - Italian mathematician and physicist, born at Faenza, 15 October, 1608; died at Florence, 25 October, 1647.
Torrubia, José - A linguist, scientist, collector of fossils and of books, writer on historical, political, and religious subjects. Born towards the end of the seventeenth century at Granada, Spain; died in 1768.
Totemism - Constitutes the group of superstitions and customs of which the totem is the center.
Totonac Indians - One of the smaller cultured nations of ancient Mexico, occupying at the time of the Spanish conquest the coast province of Totonicapan.
Tournon, Charles-Thomas Maillard de - Papal legate to India and China, cardinal, born of a noble Savoyard family at Turin, 21 December, 1668; died in confinement at Macao, 8 June, 1710.
Touron, Antoine - Dominican biographer and historian. (1686-1775)
Tradition and Living Magisterium - The word tradition refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission.
Traditionalism - A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude.
Traducianism - In general the doctrine that, in the process of generation, the human spiritual soul is transmitted to the offspring by the parents.
Trajan - Emperor of Rome (A.D. 98-117), b. at Italica Spain, 18 September, 53; d. 7 August, 117.
Trajanopolis - A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.
Trajanopolis - Titular metropolitan see of Rhodope.
Tralles - A titular see, suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
Transvaal - Vicariate apostolic. Portion of south Africa.
Transylvania - Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa Bács.
Trapani - Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo.
Trapezopolis - A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan to Laodicea.
Trappists - The Cistercians who follow the reform inaugurated by the Abbot de Rancé (b. 1626; d. 1700) in the Abbey of La Trappe, and often now applied to the entire Order of Reformed Cistercians.
Treason, Accusations of - A common misrepresentation concerning the Elizabethan persecution of English and Irish Catholics from 1570 onwards is the statement that the victims devoted to imprisonment, torture, and death suffered not for their religious belief but for treason against the queen and her government.
Tribe, Jewish - The earlier Hebrew term rendered in English versions by the word "tribe" is shebet, while the term matteh, prevails in the post-exilic writings.
Tricarico, Diocese of - Located in the Province of Potenza in the Basilicata (Southern Italy), near the River Perrola.
Trinitarians, Order of - Towards the end of the twelfth century the order had 250 houses throughout Christendom, where its benevolent work was manifested by the return of liberated captives.
Trinity College - An institution for the higher education of Catholic women, located at Washington, D.C.
Trinity Sunday - The first Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honour the Most Holy Trinity.
Trinity, The Blessed - The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one from another.
Triple-Candlestick - A name given along with several others to a church ornament used only in the office of Holy Saturday.
Tripolis - A Maronite and Melchite diocese, in Syria.
Trocmades - Titular see of Galatia Secunda, suffragan of Pessinus.
Trokelowe, John de - A Benedictine monk of St. Albans and monastic chronicler still living in 1330, but the dates of whose birth and death are unknown.
Trondhjem, Ancient See of - In 997 Olaf Trygvesson founded at the mouth of the River Nid the city of Nidaros, afterwards called Trondhjem.
Trope - A collective name which, since about the close of the Middle Ages or a little later, has been applied to texts of great variety (in both poetry and prose) written for the purpose of amplifying and embellishing an independently complete liturgical text.
Tropology, Scriptural - The theory and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of Holy Writ.
Trujillo - Diocese comprising the Departments of Lambayeque, Libertad, Pinra, and the Province of Tumbes, in North-west Peru, formed by Gregory XIII.
Trumpets, Feast of - The first day of Tishri (October), the seventh month of the Hebrew year.
Trumwin, Saint - Seventh-century missionary bishop among the Picts.
Trustee System - In the exercise of inherent rights of administering property, the Church often appoints deputies.
Trusts and Bequests - Defined as the right enforceable solely in equity to the beneficial enjoyment of property of which the legal title is in another.
Truth - Defines ontological, logical, and moral truth.
Tschupick, John Nepomuk - A celebrated preacher, b. at Vienna, 7 or 12 April, 1729; d. there, 20 July, 1784.
Tuam - The Archdiocese of Tuam, the metropolitan see of Connacht, extends, roughly speaking, from the Shannon westwards to the sea, and comprises half of County Galway, and nearly half of Mayo, with a small portion of south Roscommon.
Tuam, School of - Founded by St. Jarlath, it rivalled Clonmacnoise as a center of Celtic art in the eleventh century.
Tübingen, University of - Located in Würtemberg; founded by Count Eberhard im Bart on 3 July, 1477.
Tubunae - A titular see in Mauretania Caesariensis.
Tucson - Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Tucumán - Suffragan to Buenos Aires, erected from the Diocese of Salta on 15 February, 1897.
Tulle - Diocese comprising the Department of Corrèze.
Tunic - A vestment shaped like a sack, which has in the closed upper part only a slit for putting the garment over the head, and, on the sides, either sleeves or slits through which the arms can be passed.
Tunis - French protectorate on the northern coast of Africa.
Tunja - Diocese established in 1880 as a suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of Colombia, South America.
Tunkers - A Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite.
Turin - The chief town of a civil province in Piedmont and was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Turin, University of - Founded in 1404, when the lectures at Piacenza and Pavia were interrupted by the wars of Lombardy.
Turkestan - Details of Chinese Turkestan and Russian Turkestan.
Turkish Empire - Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, from the caliphate of Baghdad and independent Turkish principalities.
Tynemouth Priory - Located on the east coast of Northumberland, England, occupied the site of an earlier Saxon church built first in wood, then in stone, in the seventh century, and famous as the burial-place of St. Oswin, king and martyr.
