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ATHOL, a township of Worcester county, northern Massachusetts, U.S.A., having an area of 35 sq. m. Pop. (1900) 7061, of whom 986 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 8536. Its surface is irregular and hilly. The village of Athol is on Miller's river, and is s ...

ATHOLL, EARLS AND DUKES OF. The Stewart line of the Scottish earls of Atholl, which ended with the $th Stewart earl in 1595, the earldom reverting to the crown, had originated with Sir John Stewart of Balveny (d. 1512), who was created earl of Atholl about 145 ...

ATHOS (Gr. 'A-yioi-'Opos; Turk. Aineros; Itol. Monte Santo), the most eastern of the three peninsular promontories which extend, like the prongs of a trident, southwards from the coast of Macedonia (European Turkey) into the Aegean Sea. Before the iqth century

ANTHON, CHARLES (1797-1867), American classical scholar, was born in New York city on the igth of November 1797. After graduating with honours at Columbia College in 1813, he began the study of law, and in 1819 was admitted to the bar, but never practised. In

HATHOE, whose name means " house of Horus,' was at all times a very important deity. She is depicted as a cow, or with a broad human countenance, the cow's ears just showing from under a massive wig. Probably at first a goddess of the sky, she is early mention

THOLOS (06Xos), the term given in Greek architecture to a circular building, with or without a peristyle; the earliest examples are those of the beehive tombs at Mycenae and in other parts of Greece, which were covered by domes built in horizontal courses of m

THYMOL, C10H140 or CeHstOH) (CH3) (C3H7) [1:3:6], a methylisopropylphenol isomeric with carvacrol (q.v.), is an aromatic substance found with the hydrocarbons cymene, Ci0H,4, and thymene, CioH16, in oil of thyme (from Thymus vulgaris) and in other essential oi

... W. It is the headquarters of a military command, and the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop; its principal buildings are the cathedral, military college, arsenal and observatory. The harbour, now of little commercial or strategic importance, but formerly a ...

... -long to the upper Saxon race, are, with the exception of about i .',000 Roman Catholics and 1700 Jews, members of the Evangelical (Union) Church. The supreme ecclesiastical authority is the consistory in Dessau; while a synod of 39 members, elected for six ye ...

... k recently done by J. O. Wakelin Barnttt, it has been shown that under certain pathological conditions a warm-blooded (homoiothermic) animal may become 99'2 for a time cold-blooded (poiki- 990 lothermic). He has shown conclusively that this condition exists in ...

... to the prime minister and nobles, the French residency, the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, several stone churches, as well as others of brick, colleges, schools, hospitals, courts of justice and other government buildings, and hundreds of good dwellin ...

... ugh the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development. The E ...

... England by the Local Government Board, and an elaborate investigation into the pathology of what was then called " woolsorters' disease " was at the same time conducted at the Brown Institution, London, by Professor W. S. Greenfield. Among the results of this ...

... veness in the matter of marriages than that practised by Protestants and Roman Catholics (Andree, Volkskunde der Juden, p. 58). Unfortunately, these distinctive elements, though not very serious in themselves, became strongly accentuated by concentration. Had ...

... za, an Austrian military station. Antivari contains the residence of its Roman Catholic archbishop, and, in the centre of the shore, Topolitsa, the square undecorated palace of the crown prince. Antivari is the name applied both to Prstan and the old town. The ...

... out 50 % are Presbyterians, about 20 % each Protestant Episcopalians and Roman Catholics; Antrim being one of the most decidedly Protestant counties in Ireland. Of the Presbyterians the greater part are in connexion with the General Synod of Ulster, and the ot ...

... 20 he was created earl of Antrim. In 1621 he was charged with harbouring Roman Catholic priests, confessed his offence and was pardoned. He offered his assistance in 1625 during the prospect of a Spanish invasion, but was still regarded as a person that needed ...

... ; it cannot e.g. simply ignore the Old Testament with F. E. D. Schleiermacher. Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late sect ...

... apoplexy. Such terms are no longer used, owing to the better knowledge of the pathology of brain disease. Having thus narrowed down the application of the term " apoplexy," we are in a position to consider its chief features, and the mechanism by which it is ...

... ng incense to a heathen deity or blaspheming the name of Christ.1 In the Roman Catholic Church the word is also applied to the renunciation of monastic vows (apostasis a monachalu), and to the abandonment of the clerical profession for the life of the world (a ...

... eus's conception of the episcopate, says: " But it is mainly as preserving the catholic traditions that Irenaeus regards the apostolic succession " (p. 120). 4 See Lightfoot's essay for Cyprian's contribution, as also for that of the Clementines, which fix on ...

... the type of teaching in the New Testament to that which meets us in the early Catholic Fathers, from- the last quarter of the 2nd century onwards. The Apologists no doubt show us certain fresh factors entering into this development; but on the whole the Apost ...

... for the dead and belief in purgatory, denied transubstantiation, declared the Catholic priesthood worthless, and considered the whole church of their time corrupted by the " negotia saecularia " which absorbed all 1 One result is their inability to form a tru ...

... (Gr. Arvp«(la, from A-. privative, wvp to be in a fever, wvp, fire, fever), in pathology, the nortn.il interval or IM-IUX! »f intrrmission in a fever.

... sis of their theological position. In 1880 he was declared patron of all Roman Catholic educational establishments. In a monastery at Naples, near the cathedral of St Januarius, is still shown a cell in which he is said to have lived. The writings of Thomas ar ...

... ness " of his attitude on all public questions won for him the commendation of Catholic writers; he is not included in Nicol Burne's list of " periurit apostatis " ; but his policy and influence were misliked by James VI., who, when the Assembly had elected Ar ...

... the pope. At the present day, the title of archbishop is retained in the Roman Catholic Church, the various oriental churches, the Anglican Church, and certain branches of the Lutheran (Evangelical) Church. 1 In the Roman Church it is safe to say that all metr ...

... cceeded as 7th earl by his young son Archibald (1576-1638), who became a Roman Catholic, fought for Philip III. of Spain in Flanders, whither he had gone to avoid his creditors, and, having entrusted the care of his estates to his son, died in London.

... ngland 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 archpriest (Erzpriester) was in some ...

... ften taken and pillaged. During the Religious Wars it remained attached to the Catholic party. Francois Eudes de Mezeray, the historian, was born near the town, and a monument has been erected to his memory.

... cceeded as 7th earl by his young son Archibald (1576-1638), who became a Roman Catholic, fought for Philip III. of Spain in Flanders, whither he had gone to avoid his creditors, and, having entrusted the care of his estates to his son, died in London. ARCHIBAL ...

... and Dunoon. Both Presbyterian bodies are strongly represented; there are Roman Catholic and (Anglican) Episcopal bishops of Argyll and the Isles, and there is a Roman Catholic pro-cathedral at Oban. Campbeltown, Dunoon and Oban have secondary schools, Tarbert ...

... riously than the majority of Irish counties. Of the total about 45 % are Roman Catholics, 32 % Protestant Episcopalians, and 16 % Presbyterians, the Roman Catholic faith prevailing in the mountainous districts and the Protestant in the towns and lowlands. Abou ...

... ntities near the town. Annidale is a cathedral town, being the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop and belonging to the joint Anglican diocese of Graf ton; Annidale St Peter's, the Anglican cathedral, and St Mary's, the Roman Catholic, are both fine buildings. The ...

... od of severe systematizing. The Reformed strengthened itself against the Roman Catholic theology by working itself, on the one hand, into vigorous logical consistency, and supporting itself, on the other, on the supreme authority of the Scriptures. Calvin's fi ...

... languages, has served as the foundation of many books of devotion, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. Arndt here dwells upon the mystical union between the believer and Christ, and endeavours, by drawing attention to Christ's life in His people, to correct t ...

... s armour. The fine lofty tower contains a chime of forty-five bells. The Roman Catholic church of St Walburgis is of earlier date, and a new Roman Catholic church dates from 1 894. The town hall was built as a palace by Maarten van Rossum, Duke Charles's gener ...

... ame author. To him has sometimes been ascribed the anonymous treatise, Arnobii catholici et Serapionis conflictus de Deo trino et uno . . . de gratiae liberi arbitrii concordia, which was probably written by a follower of Augustine. The opinions of Arnobius, a ...

... para (see Cotelerius, Eccl. grace, monum., 1677, i. pp. 353-372). In the Roman Catholic Church his festival is on the igth of July, in the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 8th of May. His biography by Simeon Metaphrastes is largely fiction. ARSENIUS AUTORIANUS ( ...

... rk of another Arsenius, a monk of Athos (see L. Petit in Vacant's Diet, theol. cathol. i. col. 1994); the ascription depends on whether the patriarch Arsenius did or did not sojourn at Mount Athos. See Georgius Pachymeres ii. 15, iii. passim, iv. 1-16; Nicepho ...