The Origins of the Parish Mission in England and the Early Passionist Apostolate, 1840–1850

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conrad Charles
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Rapid Propagation ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

The history of the Parish Mission in England begins with a petition addressed to pope Gregory XVI by Monsignor Wiseman at the end of January 1840.In this document, Mgr. Wiseman expressed his belief that the situation in England gave well-founded hopes for the rapid propagation of the Roman Catholic faith, so long as favourable circumstances were seconded by energetic measures. He said that his own journeys throughout England, the opinion of the Vicars Apostolic, of the clergy and of the people, had confirmed him in his conviction that an Institute of missionary priests would be most efficacious, even necessary, if this rapid growth of Catholicism was to become a reality.

scholarly journals Psychiatry in Mauritius

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 119-119
Author(s):  
D. R. Greedharry
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Chinese Origin ◽  
The People ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Mauritius is a 720 sq mile island situated in the Indian Ocean. It has a population of about a million, made up of various racial backgrounds: Indian, African, European and Chinese. Those of Indian descent belong to the Hindu and Muslim faiths; those of African and European descent belong to the Roman Catholic faith (by and large), as do most of the people of Chinese origin. The economy rests on the export of sugar and tobacco, making the country an agricultural one. Diversification of the economy is under way.

Devasahayam: The First Martyr For Jesus Christ In Travancore

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Pushpa Raj ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
South India ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The People ◽  
Malabar Coast ◽  
History Of

Travancore was the first and foremost among the princely states of India to receive the message of Jesus Christ. According to tradition, St. Thomas the Apostle came to India in 52 A.D. He made many conversions along the west coast of India. It had to the beginning of Christian Community in India from the early Christian era. He attained martyrdom in 72 A.D. at Calamina in St. Thomas mount, Madras. He was the first to be sacrificed for the sake of Christ in India. During the close of the second century A.D. the Gospel reached the people of southern most part of India, Travancore. Emperor Constantine deputed Theophilus to India in 354 A.D. to preach the Gospel. During this time the persecution of Christians in Persia seemed to have brought many Christian refugees to Malabar coast and after their arrival it strengthened the Christian community there. During the 4th century A.D. Thomas of Cana, a merchant from West Asia came to Malabar and converted many people. During the 6th century A.D. Theodore, a monk, visited India and reported the existence of a church and a few Christian groups at Mylapore and the monastery of St. Thomas in India. Joannes De Maringoly, Papal Legate who visited Malabar in 1348 has given evidence of the existence of a Latin Church at Quilon. Hosten noted many settlements from Karachi to Cape Comorin and from Cape Comorin to Mylapore. The Portuguese were the first European power to establish their power in India. Under the Portuguese, Christians experienced several changes in their general life and religion. Vas-co-da-gama reached Calicut on May 17, 1498. His arrival marked a new epoch in the history of Christianity in India. Many Syrian Catholics were brought into the Roman Catholic fold and made India, the most Catholic country in the East. Between 1535 to 1537 a group of Paravas were converted to Christianity by the Portuguese. In 1544 a group of fishermen were converted to Christian religion. St. Francis Xavier came to India in the year 1542. He is known as the second Apostle of India. He laid the foundation of Latin Christianity in Travancore. He could make many conversions. He is said to have baptized 30,000 people in South India. Roman Congregation of the propagation of Faith formed a Nemom Mission in 1622. The conversion of the Nairs was given much priority. As a result, several Nairs followed Christian faith particularly around Nemom about 8 k.m. south of Trivandrum. Ettuvitu pillaimars, the feudal chiefs began to persecute the Christians of the Nemom Mission. Martyr Devasahayam, belonged to the Nair community and was executed during the reign of Marthandavarma (1729-1758). It is an important chapter in the History of Christianity in South India in general, and of Travancore in particular.

A Second Moses in Bonnet and Shawl: Caroline Chisholm, 1808–1877

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-423
Author(s):  
Carole Walker ◽  
Jane L. Littlewood
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Pioneers

Caroline Chisholm was a Victorian philanthropist designated by the Australian Encyclopaedia as ‘the greatest of women pioneers in the history of Australia’. She was born in Northampton in 1808, the daughter of William Jones, hog-jobber of some substance. She married Archibald Chisholm in 1830, a lieutenant in the East India Company Army, ten years her senior, on the understanding that she be allowed to undertake philanthropic works. It is assumed she converted to her husband's Roman Catholic faith either just before or after the marriage. It was in Madras, where her husband was based, that her philanthropic endeavours began and she founded a ‘school of industry for the daughters of European soldiers’. The school educated the sadly-neglected girls in general education and domestic duties.

Ecumenism and Rome

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
T. F. Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
The Church

Few people in our time have been more deeply concerned with thinking into each other again the inner substance of the evangelical and catholic emphases in the Church of Jesus Christ, than Oscar Cullmann. This has been especially evident in the way in which he has consistently sought to penetrate into the essential harmony of the Gospel that not only underlies the whole history of the Church but underpins the divisions between the Evangelical Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, bringing his unusually fresh understanding of the NT and the Early Church to bear constructively upon the areas of discord and friction, not least in respect of the concept of the Papacy. His many writings reveal unparalleled sensitivity and appreciation for the centrality of the biblical message, the sanctity of tradition and the continuity of worship in the redeemed life of the people of God, which have allowed him to bring together, without compromise, the concentration upon the core of the Gospel which has characterised the Evangelical Churches and the universal task and unifying order which have characterised the Catholic Churches.

scholarly journals Katolik di Tanah Karo: Kabanjahe, 1942-1970an

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Ranika Br Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Mission Schools ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Karo Batak

This research has three main goals, namelyto examine the introduction and development of Catholicism, changes to the community after conversion and the retension of the Catholic in Tanah Karo between the years of 1942 until the 1970s. The main problem is to construct the history of the missionary activities in the Batak Karo land and the social dynamics that resulted from these activities. The period in question is one that saw the conversion of the people in Tanah Karo to Catholicism. The year of 1942 represented a crisis to the missionary activities under the Japanese occupation and the forced honouring of the Japanese sun God. Since the 1950s until 1970s, the spread and number of Catholics in the area has expanded rapidly. The result of the research is that Catholicism has been successful in spreading their faith in Tanah Karo, especially in the area of Kabanjahe. This success was the result of several factors. First, the mission was able to mingle and adapt to Karo Batak society. Second, the founding of mission schools was based on the Catholic faith.

scholarly journals Peter Christopher Caldwell, 25 January 1927 - 7 June 1979

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 153-172
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Industrial Accident ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up

Peter Christopher Caldwell was born on 25 January 1927 in Appleton (Cheshire) near Warrington (Lancashire). His father’s family had lived in Warrington and the villages around this town for many generations. Its members w ere well respected but, unlike most of their neighbours, they held firm to the Roman Catholic faith during and after the Reformation. Because of this steadfastness they had not only been subjected to heavy fines but, since the two universities and many professions were closed to them, they had made their careers in business. Peter, and this Christian name appears time and time again in the history of the Caldwells, was proud of his family’s industrial achievements and, for example, the fact that ‘Caldwells’ had manufactured many of the shovels used to dig the canals and construct the railways of Britain. Peter’s great-great grandfather, another Peter and the founder of the firm, lost an arm in an industrial accident and, in 1780, used the compensation paid to him to set up a forge. A remarkably resourceful man he continued, with an artificial arm, to play the violin in a local string quartet.

Der Alexandrismus an den Universitäten im späten Mittelalter

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 81-109
Author(s):  
Olaf Pluta
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Albert The Great ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Universities

Abstract This essay outlines the history of Alexandrism in the Middle Ages, focusing on the reception of Alexander of Aphrodisias in the late-medieval universities. Alexander of Aphrodisias met with severe criticism in the 13th century from William of Auvergne, Albert the Great and Thomas of Aquinas among others, but in the 14th century this attitude changed completely with John Buridan, giving way to a positive and productive adoption of his theories. The centerpiece of the controversy was Alexander's doctrine that the human soul is similar to the animal soul and hence mortal "like the soul of a dog or a donkey." Previously condemned as the absurd thesis of an outsider - wrongly so, because Alexander was perfectly in line with a long peripatetic tradition beginning with Dikaiarch of Messene and Straton of Lampsakos -, this doctrine was now considered philosophically superior to and sounder than the competing theories of Averroes and the Roman Catholic faith. In connection with this doctrine, Buridan stated that some higher species of animals have the ability to think like a man or an ape (sicut homo vel simia) and that an ape can even be said to have some reason. Buridan's interpretation of Alexander was disseminated at the universities of the 14th and 15th centuries by his many followers, including Lawrence of Lindores, Marsilius of Inghen (who defended Alexander against Albert the Great), Nicholas of Amsterdam, Biagio Pelacani of Parma and Benedikt Hesse of Kraków.

“The Fumes of Polonism and the Stench of Herzenism”: “Vestnik Zapadnoy Rossii” Against Class Revolution and Clas Reaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 118-134
Author(s):  
Aleksandr E. Kotov
Keyword(s):  
Short History ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stereotypical Image

The journal of Ksenofont A. Govorsky “Vestnik Yugo-Zapadnoy I Zapadnoy Rossii” (“South-West and West Russia Herald”) is known in the history of pubic thought as odious and reactionary. However, this stereotypical image needs some revision: the anti-Polish discourse on the pages of the magazine was not so much nationalistic as anti-aristocratic in nature. Considering the “Poles” primarily as carriers of the aristocratic principles, the editorial board of the magazine claimed to protect the broad masses of the people. Throughout its short history, the magazine consistently opposed both revolutionary and aristocratic propaganda. However, the regional limitations of the problems covered in the magazine did not give it the opportunity to reflect on the essential closeness of the revolutionary and reactionary principles. Yu.F. Samarin and I.S. Aksakov – whose conservative-democratic views, on the whole, were close to “Western Russianism”, promoted by the authors of “Vestnik Yugo-Zapadnoy I Zapadnoy Rossii”, managed to reach that goal.

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