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	Fulda - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313b.htm This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.
	Fulcran, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06313a.htm Bishop of Lodève, d. 1006.
	Fuhrich, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311d.htm Artist. (1800-1876)
	Fructuosus of Tarragona, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311b.htm Bishop, was martyred along with his deacons Augurius and Eulogius in 259.
	Fructuosus of Braga, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311a.htm Hermit, abbot, archbishop, d. around 665.

	Friedrich von Hausen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06304a.htm Medieval German poet.
	Fridolin, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303c.htm Irish missionary, founded the Monastery of Säckingen sometime before the ninth century.
	Free-Thinkers - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258b.htm Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone.
	Franco, Giovanni Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235a.htm Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in 1510; d. at Venice in 1580.
	Francis Xavier, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233b.htm Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

	Francis Solanus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233a.htm Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America, d. 1610. Short biographical article.
	Francis Regis Clet, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06232b.htm French Lazarist missionary to China, martyred in 1820.
	Francis of Paula, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06231a.htm Founder of the Order of Minims, d. 1507.
	Francis of Assisi, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm Long article on St. Francis, founder, mystic, perhaps the most beloved Catholic saint of all.
	Francis of Fabriano, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06230a.htm Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322.

	Francis Ingleby, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007c.htm Brief biography of the Yorkshire priest and martyr, who died in 1586.
	Francis de Sales, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06220a.htm Biographical article on the Bishop of Geneva, and Doctor of the Church, who died in 1622.
	Francis de Geronimo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218b.htm Italian Jesuit, a popular preacher with a flair for the dramatic, d. 1716.
	Francia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206b.htm Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517.
	Frances of Rome, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205c.htm Wife and mother, Benedictine oblate, mystic, d. 1440.

	Four Masters, Annals of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163b.htm The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland.
	Foundation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06157b.htm An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time.
	Fathers of Mercy, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05794a.htm A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.
	Farfa, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05785d.htm A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto.
	False Decretals - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05773a.htm A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.

	Falloux du Coudray - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05772b.htm Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)
	Fall River - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05771a.htm A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.
	Falkner, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770c.htm Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)
	Faldstool - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770b.htm A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.
	Faith, Hope & Charity, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766a.htm Two groups of martyrs. The first were martyred along with their mother Sophia during the reign of Hadrian, and buried on the Aurelian Way. The second band, also along with someone named Sophia, were martyred at a later date, and buried along the Appian Way.

	Fagnani, Prospero - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751c.htm Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.
	Faenza - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751b.htm Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.
	Facundus of Hermiane - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05751a.htm A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.
	Faculties, Canonical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05748a.htm In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.
	Facciolati, Jacopo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05747a.htm Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)

	Facade - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745c.htm The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts.
	Fabiola, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743a.htm Divorced, remarried, widowed, penitent, renowned for her generosity. She died in 399 or 400.
	Fabian, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742d.htm Biography of this pope who was martyred in 250.
	Faber, Johann Augustanus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742a.htm Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.
	Faber, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741b.htm Controversialist and preacher. (1504-1558)

	Faber, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05741a.htm Theologian. (1478-1541)
	Forty Martyrs - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153a.htm Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia about this group of soldiers who, for professing Christianity, were ordered by the prefect to lie naked on a frozen lake. One of these threw himself into a warm bath which had been set up for defectors, but one of the guards was so impressed with the others that he declared himself a Christian and died with them. Early fourth century.
	Furstenberg, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06325a.htm A statesman and educator. (1729- 1810)
	Fulgentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06315a.htm Bishop of Ecija, died sometime between 619 and 633.
	Funeral Pall - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322a.htm A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person.

	Felix III, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030b.htm Felix II was an antipope, irregularly imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, so St. Felix III is sometimes called Felix II. Pope St. Felix III was much involved in battling heresy, and died in 492.
	Florida - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115b.htm The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi.
	Florence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105c.htm Located in the province of Tuscany (Central Italy).
	Ferns - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06045a.htm Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.
	Fonseca Soares, Antonio da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06126a.htm Friar Minor and ascetical writer. (1631-1682)

	Forli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137a.htm Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy); suffragan of Ravenna.
	Fraud - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06249a.htm In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong and unfair advantage.
	Friar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06280b.htm A member of one of the mendicant orders.
	Florus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121b.htm A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century.
	Flavias - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099a.htm A titular see of Cilicia Secunda.

	Fortitude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06147a.htm One of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue.
	Fate - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05793a.htm Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict.
	Francis I - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06207a.htm King of France; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547.
	First-Born - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06081a.htm The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family.
	Floyd, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06122a.htm English missionary. (1572-1649)

	Franks, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06238a.htm A confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle fought against this people about the year 241.
	Fredegarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251c.htm The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.
	Forbes, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133b.htm Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606.
	Flabellum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089a.htm A fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest.
	Fowler, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06164a.htm Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9.

	Felix II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06030a.htm Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.
	Florians, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06115a.htm An independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians; it was founded in 1189 by the Abbot Joachim of Flora.
	Fortunatus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06149a.htm Lengthy biographical article on the talented sixth-century poet and hymn-writer.
	Fonseca, José Ribeiro da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125b.htm Friar Minor; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752.
	Feckenham, John de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06025a.htm Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585.

	Florentina, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114b.htm Sometimes called Florentia. Spanish nun, d. about 612.
	Flavian, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06098c.htm Bishop of Constantinople, excommunicated Eutyches, was the recipient of the famous "Tome of Leo," deposed by the Latrocinium, died from severe beatings in exile in 449.
	Fintan, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078a.htm Brief biographical sketches of two saints of this name: St. Fintan of Clonenagh, and St. Fintan (Munnu) of Taghmon.
	Finnian of Moville, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06077a.htm Irish monk, author of a monastic rule and a penitential. Also the founder of a famous school in County Down. St. Finnian died in 589.
	Finbarr, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076a.htm Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland. (550-623)

	Finan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075c.htm Irish monk, second Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 661.
	Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06069a.htm Former lawyer who joined the Capuchins, and was sent as a missionary to the Calvinists. Martyred in 1622.
	Fiacre, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06067a.htm Biography of this Irish priest and hermit, patron saint of gardeners, d. 670.
	Fiacc, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066b.htm Poet, chief bishop of Leinster, d. around 520.
	Fergus, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042c.htm There are at least ten Irish saints named Fergus. This article gives details on three of them: St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, bishop, d. about 730; St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, d. 778; and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, d. 583.

	Ferdinand III, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042a.htm King of León and Castile, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1252.
	Felix of Valois, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033c.htm Co-founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, d. 1212.
	Felix of Nola, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033b.htm Third-century confessor. Possibly the same as St. Felix of Nola, bishop and martyr.
	Felix I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029b.htm The successor of Pope St. Dionysius, Felix died in 274. He is sometimes confused with a Roman martyr of the same name.
	Felix of Cantalice, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06033a.htm Biography of this Capuchin lay brother, known for his goodness, popular with children, d. 1587.

	Felix IV, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06031a.htm Since Felix II was an antipope imposed by the Arians while Pope Liberius was still alive, St. Felix IV is sometimes called Felix III. Pope St. Felix IV died in 530.
	French Catholics in the United States - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271c.htm History and statistics of French Canadian immigration to the United States.
	Frankenberg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235c.htm Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of Belgium, and cardinal. (1726-1804)
	Fort Wayne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06150a.htm The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., established in 1834, comprised the whole State of Indiana till the Holy See, on 22 September, 1857, created the Diocese of Fort Wayne, assigning to it that part of Indiana north of the southern boundary of Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware, and Randolph Counties.
	Foligno - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06124b.htm Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.

	Frederick I (Barbarossa) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06252b.htm German King and Roman Emperor. (1123-1190)
	Frechette, Louis-Honoré - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251b.htm Canadian journalist and poet. (1839-1908)
	Frayssinous, Denis de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06251a.htm Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris. (1765-1841)
	Fraticelli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06244b.htm A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, principally in Italy.
	Frascati - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06243a.htm One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church.

	Frankfort-on-the-Main - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06237a.htm Formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors.
	Frank, Michael Sigismund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06235b.htm Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at Nuremberg; d. at Munich, 16 January, 1847.
	Francis Caracciolo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06218a.htm Co-founder of the Congregation of the Minor Clerks Regular, d. 1608.
	Francis Borgia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06213a.htm Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit.
	Francis, Rule of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06208a.htm As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule.

	Frances d'Amboise, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205b.htm Biographical article on the Duchess of Brittany. While married, she was a great friend of the Poor Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites. After she was widowed, she became a Carmelite herself, and died in 1485.
	Franchi, Ausonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06206a.htm Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa.
	Franceschini, Marc' Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205a.htm Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's.
	Four Crowned Martyrs - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06163a.htm The Four Crowned Martyrs are actually two groups, with a total of nine or ten martyrs. The first five were masons or sculptors in Pannonia, martyred in 305. The second was a group of four martyrs, names unknown. They have been venerated since the fourth century and share a feast day on 8 November.
	Fouquet, Jehan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06161b.htm French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480.

	Foundling Asylums - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06159a.htm Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.
	Fothad, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06156a.htm St. Fothad Na Canoine ("of the Canon"), late eighth-century monk in County Donegal, bard.
	Foster, John Gray - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155b.htm Soldier, convert. (1823-1874)
	Fossors - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06155a.htm Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era.
	Fossombrone - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154b.htm Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino.

	Fossano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06154a.htm Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin.
	Formularies - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06141a.htm Medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case.
	Francis X. Seelos, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13681b.htm Short biographical article on the missionary priest.
	Fursey, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324d.htm Blood brother of St. Foillan. Fursey was an Irish monk and visionary, the abbot of Lagny. He died in about 650.
	Furness Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324a.htm Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian.

	Funk, Franz Xaver von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322c.htm Church historian. (1840-1907)
	Fünfkirchen, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06322b.htm Diocese in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical province of Gran.
	Fulgentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06316a.htm Full name, Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius. Monk, abbot, Bishop of Ruspe, anti-Arian theologian, d. 533.
	Frowin, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310b.htm Abbot of Engelberg, renowned for learning as well as sanctity, d. 1178.
	Frontenac, Louis de Baude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06310a.htm A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698.

	Fromentin, Eugène - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06309a.htm French writer and artist. (1820-1876)
	Froissart, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06308b.htm Biography of the French historian and poet.
	Fringes (in Scripture) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307b.htm A special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, etc., or strips of other suitable material, along the edge of a piece of cloth.
	Frigolet, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307a.htm The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King of Arles.
	Friends of God - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06306a.htm An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, having for its object the cultivation of holiness.

	Frideswide, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303b.htm Patron saint of Oxford, d. 735. Biographical entry.
	French, Nicholas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271b.htm Bishop of Ferns, Ireland. (1604-1678)
	Fremin, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271a.htm Jesuit missionary to the American Indians; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, 1691.
	Frejus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06269a.htm Suffragan of Aix; comprises the whole department of Var (France).
	Freiburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06264a.htm City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany.

	Fregoso, Federigo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06263a.htm Cardinal; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541.
	William Freeman, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258a.htm English priest, martyred at Warwick in 1595.
	Free Church of Scotland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257b.htm Short introduction and history of the United Free Church. Briefly covers the secession, notes the events leading up to the disruption and deals with the events during the unification.
	Fredoli, Berenger - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06257a.htm Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. (1250-1323)
	Frederick II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250.

	Fitzpatrick, William John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086b.htm Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895.
	Fitzherbert, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086a.htm Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome.
	Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06085b.htm Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538.
	Fitzalan, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084c.htm Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580.
	Fitton, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084b.htm Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881.

	Fitter, Daniel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06084a.htm Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700.
	Fisher, Philip - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083b.htm Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. S., 1652.
	Firmilian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080b.htm Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269.
	Firmicus Maternus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080a.htm Christian author of the fourth century.
	Finland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06076d.htm As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.

	Filliucius, Felix - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06075b.htm An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590.
	Fillastre, Guillaume - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06074a.htm French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer. (1348-1428)
	Filial Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06072a.htm A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church.
	Fiesole - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06070a.htm Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.
	Feuillet, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065a.htm Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732.

	Feuillants - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06064a.htm The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans.
	Ferrara - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06046a.htm Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.
	Ferdinand II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06040a.htm Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.
	Ferdinand, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039c.htm Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity. When a military mission of his brother failed, Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage, and died in captivity in 1443.
	Ferber, Nicolaus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06039b.htm A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.

	Faustinus and Jovita, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019a.htm Brothers martyred at Brescia in 120.
	Feast of Fools - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06132a.htm A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later Middle Ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.).
	Faustus of Riez - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019b.htm Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.
	Formosus, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139b.htm Reigned 891-896.
	Formby, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06139a.htm Writer, born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884.

	Form - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06137b.htm The original meaning of the term form, both in Greek and Latin, was and is that in common use - eidos, being translated, that which is seen, shape, etc., with secondary meanings derived from this, as form, sort, particular, kind, nature.
	Forgery, Forger - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06135b.htm The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty.
	Forer, Laurenz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134c.htm Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659.
	Foreman, Andrew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134b.htm A Scottish prelate; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522.
	Fordham University - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15203b.htm Developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist's Day, 24 June, 1841.

	Forcellini, Egidio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134a.htm Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, 1768.
	Forbin-Janson, Comte de Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06133c.htm A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood. (1785-1844)
	Fontevrault, Order and Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06129b.htm The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d'Arbrissel about the end of 1100.
	Foillan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123c.htm Blood brother of SS. Fursey and Ultan. Irish-born abbot of Cnoberesburg until it was captured by the Mercians, whereupon Foillan fled to Nivelles. He was murdered in 652.
	Foggia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123b.htm Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern Italy).

	Fogaras - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06123a.htm Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Rumanian Rite.
	Florilegia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06121a.htm Systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes.
	Flodoard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06105a.htm French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966.
	Flaviopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06099c.htm A titular see in the province of Honorias.
	Flandrin, Jean-Hippolyte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06096a.htm French painter. (1809-1864)

	Flanders - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094b.htm Designated in the eighth century a small territory around Bruges; it became later the name of the country bounded by the North Sea, the Scheldt, and the Canche.
	Flanagan, Thomas Canon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06094a.htm Canon of Birmingham Diocese. Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865.
	Flaget, Benedict Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06093a.htm First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville), Kentucky, U.S.A. (1763-1850)
	Flagellants - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06089c.htm A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries.
	Fitz-Simons, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06087b.htm American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 26 Aug., 1811.

	Fitzralph, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06086c.htm Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360.
	Felbiger, Johann Ignaz von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06027a.htm German Augustinian. (1724-1788)
	Feilding, Rudolph William Basil - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026b.htm English convert. (1823-1892)
	Ferstel, Heinrich, Freiherr von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06050a.htm Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883.
	Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020a.htm Astronomer. (1814-1902)

	Feneberg, Johann Michael Nathanael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034b.htm Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.
	Fagnano, Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752a.htm Mathematician. (1682-1766)
	Feasts, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special services and rest from work.
	Falsity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.
	Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06066a.htm Spanish writer. (1676-1764)

	Figueroa, Francisco García de la Rosa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06071b.htm Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown.
	Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris, Chevalier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06114d.htm Writer, born at the château of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794.
	Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe- - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06035a.htm French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.
	Farlati, Daniele - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788a.htm Ecclesiastical historian. (1690-1773)
	Febronianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06023a.htm The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius.

	Forum, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06153b.htm Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is distinguished into that of the internal and external forum.
	Fabrica Ecclesiæ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05744b.htm Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction.
	Faribault, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787b.htm Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)
	Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318a.htm Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885.
	Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06311c.htm Chemist and mineralogist. (1774-1856)

	Fridelli, Xavier Ehrenbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303a.htm Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)
	Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06145a.htm Astronomer and naturalist. (1789-1860)
	Fathers of the Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06001a.htm The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:
	Ferrer, Rafael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049c.htm A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in 1611.
	Faroe Islands - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789b.htm A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.

	Feller, François-Xavier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06034a.htm An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.
	Fear - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06020b.htm A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger.
	Feval, Paul-Henri-Corentin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06065b.htm French novelist. (1817-1887)
	Ferre, Vicente - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049a.htm Theologian. (d. 1682)
	Franciscan Order - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic Church.

	Felicitas, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06028a.htm Roman martyr. Article explains how she and the seven martyrs who are called her sons have come to have different feast days.
	Fernández, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044a.htm A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.
	Faversham Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06019c.htm A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.
	Faith, The Rule of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05766b.htm The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.
	Ferentino, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06042b.htm In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.

	Fonseca, Pedro Da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06125c.htm A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599.
	Fargo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05786a.htm Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.
	Förster, Arnold - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06144b.htm German entomologist. (1810-1884)
	Fernández de Palencia, Diego - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06044c.htm A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.
	Feder, Johann Michael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06026a.htm German theologian. (1753-1824)

	Fiji, Vicariate Apostolic of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16040a.htm Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago.
	Falco, Juan Conchillos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05770a.htm Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.
	Fear (from a Moral Standpoint) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of human origin.
	Free Will - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.
	Ferland, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06043b.htm A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.

	Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06088b.htm Physicist. (1819-1896)
	Faith - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.
	Faribault, George-Barthélemy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787a.htm Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)
	Furni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324b.htm A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed.
	Famagusta - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781b.htm A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.

	Filioque - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06073a.htm It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism.
	France - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06166a.htm Geography, statistics, and history.
	Frequent Communion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06278a.htm Discusses the history and practice.
	Fabri, Honoré - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743c.htm Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688.
	Fast - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05789c.htm Abstinence from food or drink.

	Funeral Dues - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06321a.htm The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of his parishioners.
	Fabre, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743b.htm Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. (1824-1892)
	Furniss, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324c.htm A well-known children's missioner. (1809-1865)
	Fabyan, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745b.htm English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513.
	French Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06190a.htm Origin, foundations, and types.

	Fumo, Bartolommeo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06318b.htm Theologian. (d. 1545)
	Fundamental Articles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06319a.htm This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the Christian faith from those non-essential doctrines, which, as they believed, individual churches might accept or reject without forfeiting their claim to rank as parts of the Church universal.
	Fabricius, Hieronymus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05745a.htm Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)
	Friars Minor, Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06281a.htm History, traditions, and saints of the order.
	Faa di Bruno, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740a.htm Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)

	Fytch, William Benedict - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06327a.htm An English Capuchin, whose family name was Filch. (1563-1610)
	Fioretti di San Francesco d'Assisi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06078b.htm Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
	Faber, Philip - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742c.htm Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus. (1564-1630)
	Faber, Felix - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05740b.htm German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.
	Fulbert of Chartres - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06312a.htm Bishop. (952-1028)

	Fleuriot, Zénaide-Marie-Anne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102b.htm French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890.
	Farnese, Alessandro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05788b.htm Cardinal. (1520-1589)
	Faunt, Lawrence Arthur - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06018a.htm Jesuit theologian. (1554-1590)
	Farinato, Paolo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05787c.htm Italian painter. (1524-1606)
	Faillon, Etienne-Michel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752b.htm Historian. (1800-1870)