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The mission of Kwei-chou embraces the entire province of that name.
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Kwang-tung
This prefecture comprises the whole province of that name except the civil prefecture of Shin-hing,
the three districts of Heung-shan, Yan-ping, and Yeung-tsun, which belong to the Diocese of Macao,
and the three districts of San-on, Kwei-shin, and Hoi-fung, which belong to the Vicariate Apostolic
of Hong-Kong.
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Kwang-si
The mission of Kwang-si comprises the entire province of that name.
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Kwango
The name of a river which flows into the Kassai, which itself is a tributary of the River Congo.
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Kutenai Indians
An important tribe of south-eastern British Columbia and the adjacent portions of Montana and
Idaho.
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Kuhn, Johannes von
Theologian, b. at Waeschenbeuren in Wuertemberg, 19 Feb., 1806; d. at Tübingen, 8 May, 1887.
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Krzycki, Andrew
A typical humanistic poet, a most supple courtier for whom poetry was to be a source of renown and
profit, Krzycki was well-read in Latin poetry and knew the language to perfection. Date of birth
uncertain; d. in 1535.
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Kromer, Martin
A distinguished Polish bishop and historian; b. at Biecz in Galicia in 1512; d. at Heilsberg,
Ermland (now East Prussia), on 23 March, 1589.
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Krain
A duchy and crownland in the Austrian Empire, bounded on the north by Karinthia, on the north-east
by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria.
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Knox, John
Scotch Protestant leader, b. at Haddington, Scotland, between 1505 and 1515; d. at Edinburgh, 24
November, 1572.
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Knighton, Henry
A fourteenth-century chronicler.
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Kisfaludy
Born at Suemeg, Hungary, 27 Sept., 1772; died at Suemeg, 28 October, 1844.
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Kiowa Indians
An important Plains tribe, constituting a distinct linguistic stock.
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Kingston
The Archdiocese of Kingston comprises the territory from the eastern line of Dundas County to the
western boundary of Hastings County in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
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Kingisel
The name of two abbots who ruled Glastonbury in the seventh and eighth centuries respectively.
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Kimberley in Orange
The portion of South Africa which at the present day forms the Vicariate of Kimberley in Orange
became in the division of the Vicariate of Good Hope part of the Eastern District, and later on
part of the Vicariate of Natal.
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Kimberley
Vicariate apostolic; suffragan of Adelaide, erected by Leo XIII, 5 May, 1887.
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Kilwinning, Benedictine Abbey of
Located in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of the same name, where a church was said to have been
founded early in the eighth century by St. Winning.
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Kilmore
Diocese in Ireland, includes almost all Cavan and about half of Leitrim.
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Killaloe
A suffragan diocese of Cashel.
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Kildare and Leighlin
One of the four suffragans of Dublin, Ireland.
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Kildare, School of
Situated in Magh Liffe, or the Plain of the Liffey, came to be known as Cill-Dara, or the Church of
the Oak, from the stately oak-tree so much loved by St. Brigid, who under its branches laid the
foundations of what in process of time became a monastic city.
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Kielce
Diocese in the sourthern part of Russian Poland.
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Kickapoo Indians
Apparently corrupted from a longer term signifying "roamers", a tribe of Algonquian
stock, closely related dialectically to the Sauk and Foxes, and living when first known in south
central Wisconsin.
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Kiang-si, Southern
Separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1879, and organized into an independent
Vicariate Apostolic.
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Kiang-si, Northern
Father Matteo Ricci of the Society of Jesus was the first missionary who entered the province of
Kiang-si at the end of the sixteenth century.
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Kiang-si, Eastern
The mission of Eastern Kiang-si was separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1885.
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Kiang-nan
The Vicariate comprises the two provinces of Kiang-su and Ngan-hwei.
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Kharput
Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850.
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Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von
Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster, in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, 1877.
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Koran, The
The sacred book of the Muslims, by whom it is regarded as the revelation of God.
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Klopp, Onno
Historian, b. on 9 October, 1822, at Leer (East Friesland); d. at Vienna, 9 August 1903.
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Konrad of Würzburg
A Middle High German poet, b. about 1230; d. at Basle, 1287.
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Krasicki, Ignatius
Born in 1735; died at Berlin, 1801. He took orders in early youth, and soon after became a canon,
travelled abroad, preached the coronation sermon for King Stanislaus Poniatowski, by whose favour
he shortly got a bishopric in what was soon to become Prussian Poland.
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Konarski, Stanislaus
Born in 1700; died in 1773. This great reformer of Polish schools was a Piarist who, during a visit
to Rome after his ordination, received there the first idea of his life's mission.
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Kernan, Francis
Lawyer, statesman; born in Steuben County, New York, 14 January, 1816; d. at Utica, New York, 7
September, 1892.
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Kreil, Karl
Austrian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Ried, Upper Austria, 4 Nov., 1798; d. at Vienna, 21
Dec., 1862.
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Konigshofen, Jacob
Medieval chronicler. (1346-1420)
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Konrad of Lichtenau
Medieval German chronicler. (d. 1240)
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Koniggrätz
Diocese in Bohemia.
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Kateri Tekakwitha, Blessed
An Indian virgin of the Mohawk tribe, known as the "Lily of the Mohawks", and the
"Genevieve of New France".
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Knights of Columbus
A fraternal and beneficent society of Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Keyes, Erasmus Darwin
Soldier, convert, b. at Brimfield, Massuchusetts, U.S.A., 29 May, 1810; d. at Nice, France, 14
October, 1895.
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Krafft, Adam
Sculptor, b. about 1440 at Nuremberg; d. Jan., 1509 at Schwabach.
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Keys, Power of the
The expression "power of the keys" is derived from Christ's words to St. Peter (in
Matthew 16:19).
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Knighthood
In the military sense, chivalry was the heavy cavalry of the Middle Ages which constituted the
chief and most effective warlike force. The knight or chevalier was the professional soldier of the
time; in medieval Latin, the ordinary word miles (soldier) was equivalent to "knight."
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Kraemer, John
Born about the end of the fourteenth century, he must have died between 1437 and 1440, as a
manuscript of the Carthusian monastery of Memmingen speaks of the gift made to it by Krämer in
1437, and the general chapter of the Carthusian Order held in 1440 mentions his death.
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Kochowski, Vespasian
Born at Sandomir?, 1633; died at Krakow, 1699. He received his education at the Jesuit College,
Sandomir, served in the army, and then spent the rest of his life on his estate.
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Kober, Franz Quirin von
German canonist and pedagogist, b. of simple countryfolk on 6 March, 1821, at Warthausen, Biberach,
Würtemberg; d. at Tübingen, 25 January, 1897.
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Koberger, Anthony
German printer, publisher, and bookseller, b. about 1445; d. at Nuremberg, 3 October, 1513.
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Knabl, Joseph
A master of religious plastic art, b. at Fliess, Tyrol, in 1819; d. at Munich in 1881.
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Kleutgen, Josef Wilhelm Karl
German theologian and philosopher, b. at Dortmund, Westphalia, 9 April, 1811; d. at St. Anton near
Kaltern, Tyrol, 13 Jan., 1883.
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Knoblecher, Ignatius
Catholic missionary in Central Africa, born 6 July, 1819, at St. Cantian in Lower Carniola; died 13
April, 1858, at Naples.
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Kögler, Ignaz
Jesuit missionary to China. (1680-1746)
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Konig, Joseph
Theologian and exegete. (1819-1900)
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Kneipp, Sebastian
Bavarian priest and hydrotherapist, b. at Stephansreid, Bavaria, 17 May, 1821; d. at Wörishofen,
17 June, 1897.
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Kickham, Charles Joseph
Patriot, novelist, and poet, b. at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1828; d. at Blackrock, Co.
Dublin, 22 Aug., 1882.
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Klee, Heinrich
German theologian and exegete, b. at Münstermaifeld, in the Rhine province, 20 April, 1800; d. at
Munich, 28 July, 1840.
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Knight, Venerable William
Put to death for the Faith at York, on 29 November, 1596; with him also suffered Venerables George
Errington of Herst, William Gibson of Ripon, and William Abbot of Howden, in Yorkshire.
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Kenraghty
Irish priest, d. 30 April, 1585, at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
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Kells, School of
Kells (in Gaelic Cenannus) was the chief of the Irish Columban monasteries.
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Kenneth, Saint
St. Canice, also called Kenneth or Kenny, Irish priest, monastic founder, missionary to Scotland,
d. 600.
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Kager, Johann Matthias
German historical painter, born at Munich, 1566; died at Augsburg, 1634.
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Knights of the Cross
A religious order famous in the history of Bohemia, and accustomed from the beginning to the use of
arms, a custom which was confirmed in 1292 by an ambassador of Pope Nicholas IV.
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Kafiristan and Kashmir, Prefecture Apostolic of
Created (1887) by Leo XIII in the extreme North of India.
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Kottayam, Vicariate Apostolic of
Located on the Malabar Coast, India.
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Kaulen, Franz Philip
Scriptural scholar, born 20 March, 1827, at Düsseldorf; died at Bonn, 11 July, 1907.
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Kircher, Athanasius
Celebrated for the versatility of his knowledge and particularly distinguished for his knowledge of
the natural sciences, b. 2 May, 1601, at Geisa, a small town on the northern bank of the Upper
Rhone (Buchonia); d. at Rome, 28 Nov., 1680.
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Kamerun, Vicariate Apostolic of
Located in German West Africa, between British Nigeria and French Congo.
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Kemp, John
Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England. (1380-1454)
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Kerssenbroch, Hermann von
A teacher and historian, b. at Monchshof, near Barntrup (Lippe), about 1520; d. at Osnabruck, 5
July, 1585.
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Kilwardby, Robert
Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 1279)
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Kirkwall
A parish, also a royal and parliamentary burgh and chief or county town of Orkney, in the north of
Scotland.
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Keller, Jacob
Controversialist, born at Sackingen, Baden, Germany, in 1568; died at Munich, Bavaria, 23 February,
1631.
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Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam, signifying in English the "Jug's Corner," is a town of 60,000 inhabitants,
and is situated in the fertile plain of the Tanjore District about half-way on the railroad which
connects Madras with Tuticorin.
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Kent, Nun of
Nickname for Elizabeth Barton.
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Kalocsa-Bacs, Archdiocese of
This archdiocese embraces within its territories an archdiocese and a diocese founded by St.
Stephen of Hungary in 1010.
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Klaczko, Julian
Polish author, b. at Vilna, 6 November, 1825, of Jewish parents; d. at Cracow, 26 November, 1906.
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Kino, Eusebius
A famous Jesuit missionary of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. 10 August, 1644, in
Welschtirol (Anauniensis); d. 15 March, 1711.
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Kellner, Lorenz
Educationist, born at Kalteneber in the district of Eichsfeld, 29 January, 1811; died at Trier, 18
August, 1892.
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Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
Polish patriot and soldier, b. near Novogrudok, Lithuania, Poland, 12 February, 1752; d. at
Solothurn, Switzerland, 15 October, 1817.
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Kohlmann, Anthony
Educator and missionary. (1771-1836)
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Kiss
Four times in the Epistles of St. Paul is met the injunction, used as a sort of formula of
farewell, "Salute one another in a holy kiss" (en philemati hagio), for which St. Peter
(1 Pet., v, 14) substitutes "in a kiss of love" (en philemati agapes).
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Knights Templars, The
The earliest founders of the military orders.
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Kilian, Saint
Apostle of Franconia and martyr, born about 640 of noble parents probably in Ireland (according to
others in Scotland though Scottica tellus, as it is called by the elder "Passio", may
also in medieval times have meant Ireland.
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Kentucky
A state situated between the parallels of latitude 36° 30 and 39°6' N., and between the meridians
82° and 89°38' W.
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Kearney, Diocese of
By Decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 8 March, 1912, Pius X divided into two parts
the territory of the Diocese of Omaha, erecting the western part into a new and distinct diocese
with its see at Kearney.
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Kingdom of God
In this expression the innermost teaching of the Old Testament is summed up, but it should be noted
that the word kingdom means ruling as well; thus it signifies not so much the actual kingdom as the
sway of the king.
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Killala
Diocese, one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province of Tuam.
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Koller, Marian Wolfgang
Scientist and educator. (1792-1866)
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Keewatin, Vicariate Apostolic of
Includes the northern half of the Province of Saskatchewan.
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Kenia
Vicariate Apostolic in Africa.
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Kennedy, James
Bishop of St. Andrews, Scotland. Born about 1406; died 10 May, 1466.
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Kessels, Matthias
Sculptor, b. at Maastricht, 1784; d. at Rome, 3 March, 1836.
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Kenosis
A term derived from the discussion as to the real meaning of Phil. 2:6.
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Knights of Malta
The most important of all the military orders, both for the extent of its area and for its
duration.
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Kansas City, Diocese of
Established 10 September, 1880.
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Kerkuk
Chaldean Catholic diocese.
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Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton
An Austrian prince and statesman, born at Vienna 2 February, 1711; died there 27 June, 1794.
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Kadlubek, Blessed Vincent
Bishop of Cracow, chronicler. (1160-1223)
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Klesl, Melchior
A cardinal and Austrian statesman, b. at Vienna, 19 February, 1552; d. at Wiener-Neustadt, 18
September, 1630.
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Kirby, Blessed Luke
English martyr. (d. 1582)
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Kieran, Saints
There are many Irish saints of this name, but the most celebrated is St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise.
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Kemble, Venerable John
English martyr. (1599-1679)
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Kenrick, Francis Patrick and Peter Richard
Archbishops of Baltimore, Maryland, and of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Kaiser, Kajetan Georg von
Chemist, born at Kelheim on the Danube (Bavaria), 5 January, 1803; died at Munich, 28 August, 1871.
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Kozmian, Stanislaus and John
Two brothers who took part in the Polish insurrection of 1831, and subsequently fled the country.
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Keon, Miles Gerard
Irish journalist. (1821-1875)
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Kaiserwilhelmsland
Prefecture Apostolic, comprises the German part of the island of New Guinea.
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Kinloss
Cistercian abbey on the coast of Morayshire, Scotland, founded in 1150 or 1151 (authorities differ)
by King David I, in gratitude, according to the popular legend, for having been guided into safety
by a white dove when he had lost his way hunting in the adjacent forest.
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Kulturkampf
The name given to the political struggle for the rights and self-government of the Catholic Church,
carried out chiefly in Prussia and afterwards in Baden, Hesse, and Bavaria.
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Kan-Su, Prefecture Apostolic of Southern
Separated from the Northern Kan-su mission in 1905, and committed to the Belgian Congregation of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutveld, Brussels).
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Kneeling
To genuflect, to bend the knee.
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Kenites
A tribe or family often mentioned in the Old Testament, personified as Qayin from which the nomen
gentilicium Qeni is derived.
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Kuncevyc, Saint Josaphat
Lithuanian martyr. (1580-1623)
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Kells, Book of
An Irish manuscript containing the Four Gospels, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the Eusebian
canons, known also as the "Book of Columba".
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Kabbala
It primarily signifies reception, and, secondarily, a doctrine received by oral tradition.
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Klinkowström
Artist, author and teacher; b. at Ludwigsburg in Swedish Pomerania on 31 August, 1778; d. at
Vienna, 4 April, 1835.
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Knowledge
Knowledge, being a primitive fact of consciousness, cannot, strictly speaking, be defined; but the
direct and spontaneous consciousness of knowing may be made clearer by pointing out its essential
and distinctive characteristics.
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Keating, Geoffrey
Irish theologian, historian, and poet, b. at Burgess in the parish of Tubbrid, Co. Tipperary, about
1569; d. at Tubbrid about 1644.
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Kavanagh, Edward
American statesman and diplomat, born at Newcastle, Maine, 27 April, 1795; died there, 21 Jan.,
1844.
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Kochanowski, Jan
Born at Sycyna, 1530, died at Lublin, 22 August, 1584.
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Kevin of Glendalough, Saint
St. Kevin, or Coemgen, Abbot of Glendalough, d. 618.
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Kyrie Eleison
Greek for "Lord have mercy"; the Latin transliteration supposes a pronunciation as in
Modern Greek, is a very old, even pre-Christian, expression used constantly in all Christian
liturgies.
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Kehrein, Joseph
Educator, philologist, and historian of German literature, born at Heidesheim, near Mainz, 20
October, 1808; died at Montabaur, Hesse-Nassau, 25 March, 1876.
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Kassai, Upper
Erected as a simple mission in 1901, and detached, as a prefecture Apostolic, from the Vicariate of
Belgian Congo since 20 August, 1901.
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Kavanagh, Julia
Novelist and biographer, born 7 Jan., 1824, at Thurles, Ireland; died 28 October, 1877, at Nice,
France.
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Knights of Christ, Order of the
A military order which sprang out of the famous Order of the Temple (see Knights Templars).
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Kaufmann, Leopold
Chief Burgomaster of Bonn, brother of the poet and folklorist Alexander Kaufmann, born 13 March,
1821; died 27 Feb., 1898.
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Kaufmann, Alexander
Poet and folklorist, born at Bonn, 14 May, 1817; died at Wertheim, 1 May, 1893.
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Knownothingism
This was a name applied to a movement in American politics which attracted a large share of public
attention during the period from 1851 to 1858.
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Kalispel Indians
Popularly known under the French name of Pend d'Oreilles, "ear pendants", an important
tribe of Salishan stock originally residing about Pend d Oreille lake and river, in northern Idaho
and northeast Washington.
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Kings, First and Second Books of
Known as the First and Second Books of Kings in the Authorized Version, in the Hebrew editions and
the Protestant versions these are known as 1st and 2nd Samuel, with the Third and Fourth Books of
Kings being styled First and Second Books of Kings.
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Karnkowski, Stanislaw
Archbishop of Gnesen and Primate of Poland, born about 1526; died at Lowicz,in the Government of
Warsaw, 25 May (al., 8 June), 1603.
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Konrad of Megenberg
Scholar and writer, b. probably at Mainberg, near Schweinfurt, Bavaria, 2 February, 1309; d. at
Ratisbon, 11 April, 1374.
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Kaskaskia Indians
Formerly chief tribe of the confederacy of Illinois Indians.
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Kauffmann, Angelica
Painter, born at Coire, in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, 30 October, 1741; died at Rome, 5
November, 1807.
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Kant, Philosophy of
Kant's philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism tending towards
Agnosticism in theology, and favouring the view that Christianity is a non-dogmatic religion.
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Kaiserchronik
A German epic poem of the twelfth century.
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Kandy, Diocese of
Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a
vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a diocese on 1 September, 1886.
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Krasinski, Sigismund
Count, son of a Polish general, b. at Paris, 19 Feb., 1812; d. there, 23 Feb., 1859.
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Kraus, Franz Xaver
An ecclesiastical and art historian, b. at Trier, 18 September, 1840; d. at San Remo, 28 December,
1901.
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Kings
The "wise men from the East" who came to adore Jesus in Bethlehem (Matthew 2).
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Kafirs
A term popularly to nearly all the natives of South Africa. It was originally imposed by the Arab
traders of the East coast, and means "unbeliever".
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Kansas
One of the United States of America, is the central state of the Union, to which it was admitted 29
January, 1861.
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Kremsmünster
A Benedictine abbey in Austria, on the little river Krems, about twenty miles south of Linz,
founded A.D. 777 by Tassilo II Duke of Bavaria, who richly endowed it, as did subsequently
Charlemagne and his successors.
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Kobler, Andreas
An historian, b. at Muhldorf in Bavaria, 22 June, 1816; d. at Klagenfurt, 15 November, 1892.
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Kalands Brethren
The name given to religious and charitable associations of priests and laymen especially numerous
in Northern and Central Germany, which held regular meetings for religious edification and
instruction, and also to encourage works of charity and prayers for the dead.
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Konings, Anthony
Born at Helmond, Diocese of Bois-1e-Duc, Holland, 24 August, 1821; died 30 June, 1884.
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Kreiten, William
Literary critic and poet, b. 21 June, 1847, at Gangelt near Aschen; d. 6 June, 1902, at Kerkrade
(Kirchrath) in Dutch Limburg.
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Kalinka, Valerian
Polish historian, born near Cracow in 1826; died at Jaroslaw in 1886.
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Konsag, Ferdinand
A German missionary of the eighteenth century, b. 2 December, 1703, at Warasdin, Croatia; d. 10
September, 1758.
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Konrad
A German epic poet of the twelfth century.
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Knoll, Albert (Joseph)
Dogmatic theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, born at Bruneck in northern Tyrol, 12
July, 1796; died at Bozen, 30 March, 1863.
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Kings, Chronology of the
Offers a table with the kings from the Bible.
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Knowledge of Jesus Christ
"Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we
know about Jesus Christ, but a survey of the intellectual endowment of Christ.
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Kalcker, Jan Stephanus van
Flemish painter, native of the Duchy of Cleves; b. between 1499 and 1510; d. at Naples, 1546.
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Kerry and Aghadoe
The Diocese of Kerry and Aghadoe (Kerriensis Et Aghadoensis), suffragan of Cashel, Ireland, is
sixty-six miles in length, and sixty-one in breadth, containing a superficial area of 983,400
acres, and extending over the whole County of Kerry and a portion of that of Cork; in 1901 the
Catholic population was 187,346.
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Kings, Third and Fourth Books of
The historical book called in the Hebrew Melakhim, i.e. Kings, is in the Vulgate, in imitation of
the Septuagint, styled the Third and Fourth Book of Kings.
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Kan-Su, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern
This vicariate includes the territory of Ku-ku-nor, northern part of Tibet, and the five northern
prefectures of the Chinese province of Kan-su: Lan-chou-fu, Si-ning-fu, Liang-chou-fu, Kan-chou-fu,
and Su-chou.
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Kentigern, Saint
Bishop, founder of the See of Glasgow, b. about 518; d. at Glasgow, 13 January, 603.
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Kervyn de Lettenhove, Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin, Baron
Belgian statesman and historian, b. at Saint-Michel-lez-Bruges, 17 August, 1817; d. there, 3 April,
1891.
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