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APOSTOLIC MAJESTY, a title borne by the kings of Hungary. About A.D. 1000 it was conferred by Pope Silvester II. upon St Stephen (075-1038), the first Christian king of Hungary, in return for his zeal in seeking the conversion of the heathen. It was renewed by ...

APOSTOLIC FATHERS, a term used to distinguish those early Christian writers who were believed to have been the personal associates of the original Apostles. While the title " Fathers " was given from at least the beginning of the 4th century to church writers ...

APOSTOLIC CANONS, a collection of eighty-five rule* for the regulation of clerical life, appended to the eighth book of the Apostolical Constitutions (q.v.). They are couched in brief legislative form though on no definite plan, and deal with the vexed questio ...

APOSTOLICI, APOSTOLIC BRETHREN, or APOSTLES, the names given to various Christian heretics, whose common doctrinal feature was an ascetic rigidity of morals, which made them reject property and marriage. The earliest Apostolici appeared in Phrygia, Cilicia, Pi ...

... ble altar, and carry it up to the altar sublime into the presence of the divine majesty. We must not forget that the church of Irenaeus was Greek. To the second century, lastly, belongs in part the evidence of the catacombs, on the walls of which are depicted ...

... st, and chose an administrative career. Created secular prelate, he was sent as apostolic delegate to Viterbo, where he early manifested his reactionary tendencies in an attempt to stamp out Liberalism. Recalled to Rome in 1841, he entered the office of the pa ...

... er, Das apostolische Zfitalter; A. C. McGiffert, History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age.

... postle " used in several tenses, once it emerges as a technical term. 1. In the Apostolic age itself, "apostle" often denotes simply an " envoy," commissioned by Jesus Christ to be a primary witness and preacher of the Messianic Kingdom. This wide sense was sh ...

APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS (^larayai or Atara£ut rdv o.yiuv aroaroXav did. KXi7/i««'Tos roD 'PuuaLtav ifiaubvov rt ical ToXirou. Ka0oXun) Si<5aa/caXia), a collection of ecclesiastical regulations in eight books, the last of which concludes with the eighty-five ...

... , a sect of early Christians, who renounced all their worldly possessions. (See APOSTOLICI ad inil.)

... t of the cardinal-vicar. In England from 1 598 until the appointment of a vicar-apostolic in 1623 the Roman Catholic clergy were placed by the pope under an " archpriest " as superior of the English mission. In the Lutheran Church in Germany the title archprie ...

... a felony punishable by death wilfully and maliciously to set fire to any of His Majesty's ships or vessels of war, or any of His Majesty's arsenals, magazines, dockyards, rope-yards, victualling offices or buildings therein, or any timber, material, stores or ...

... but always fresh and ingenuous. A drama by him, Flodden Field, was acted at His Majesty's theatre in 1903.

... " the most effectual measures to defeat the machinations of the enemies of His Majesty's government and the libertiesof America is to break off all commercial intercourse with Great Britain and the West Indies until these oppressive acts for raising a revenue ...

... sive argument only to one who holds the view of the Tubingen scholars, that the Apostolic Age was all of a piece and was dominated solely by one controversy. The change in the situation is surely not greater than can be imagined within the lifetime of Paul. Th ...

... from ancient prophecy (Is. ii. 2; Mai. iv. i). It was the common belief in the apostolic age that the second advent of Christ was near, and would give the divine completion to the world's history. The use of the term, however, has been extended so as to inclu ...

... ngary, and is famous as the birthplace of St Stephcn.the first prince crowned " apostolic king " of Hungary. During the early times of the Hungarian monarchy it was the most important mercantile centre in the country, and it was the meeting-place of the diets ...

... e (1843) ; History, Liturgies and Literature of the Syrian Churches (1847); The Apostolic Acts and Epistles, from the Peshito or Ancient Syriac (1849); Jerusalem and Tiberias, a Survey of the Religious and Scholastic Learning of the Jews (1856); The Tar gums o ...

... e end of the campaign felt constrained to write to the tsar that he owed to His Majesty the happy issue of the campaign and would never forget the fact. Having thus helped to create the German empire, Alexander II. was not likely to take an active part in dest ...

... ed. On the ist of September 1858 the East India Company ceased to rule, and Her Majesty's government took up the reins of power. On the important question of the army, the opinions and advice of the most distinguished soldiers and civilians were invited. Masse ...

... ginal boundaries. The " spacious arches of stone and other vestiges of departed majesty," with which Ker Porter found it surrounded in 1818, were possibly remains of the college (medresseh) and monastery (zavieh) where Ibn Batuta found shelter during his visit ...

... h proved a complete failure, and Florinda, which fared but little better at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1851. He played in London for the last time in 1863, and afterwards retired to his estate near Naples. He died at Naples on the 27th of April 1871.

... other " Deesses de la Danse," appeared under Lumley's management at the old Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket. Since the memorable tenancy of Sadler's Wells Theatre by Phelps (1844-62), Shakespeare and spectacle have been honourably associated. Charles Ke ...

... doxy. 1 If -Harnack is right in regarding a New Testament canon as one of the " Apostolical authorities " which the Church brought into the field against Gnosticism, we see the truth on historical grounds of the position taught on dogmatic grounds by R. Rainy ...

... ng inaugurated at the Lyceum under Irving. In 1897 Mr Tree moved to the new Her Majesty's (afterwards His Majesty's) theatre, opening with Gilbert Parker's Seats oj the Mighty; but his chief successes were in Stephen Phillips's poetical dramas, and in his sple ...