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See also:VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST , See also:deacon and See also:martyr, whose festival is celebrated on the 22nd of See also:January. In several of his discourses St See also:Augustine pronounces the eulogy of this martyr, and refers to Acts which were read in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. It is doubtful whether the Acts that have come down to us (Ada Sanctorum, January, ii. 394–397) are those referred to by St Augustine, since it is not certain that they are a contemporary document. According to this See also:account, Vincent was See also:born of See also:noble parents in See also:Spain, and was educated by See also:Valerius, See also:bishop of See also:Saragossa, who ordained him to the diaconate. Under the persecution of See also:Diocletian, Vincent was arrested and taken to See also:Valencia. Having stood See also:firm in his profession before Dacianus,
the See also:governor, he was subjected to excruciating tortures and thrown into See also:prison, where angels visited him, See also:lighting his See also:dungeon with See also:celestial See also:light and relieving his sufferings. His warders, having seen these wonders through the chinks of the See also:wall, forthwith became Christians. He was afterwards brought out and laid upon a soft See also:mattress in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that he might regain sufficient strength for new torments; but, while Dacianus was meditating See also:punishment, the See also:saint gently breathed his last. The See also:tyrant exposed his See also:body to See also:wild beasts, but a See also:raven miraculously descended and protected it. It was then thrown into the See also:sea, but was See also:cast up on the See also:shore, recovered by a pious woman and buried outside Valencia. See also:Prudentius devoted one of his See also:hymns (Peristeph. v.) to St Vincent, and St Augustine attests that in his lifetime the festival of the saint was celebrated throughout the See also:Christian See also:world (Seem. 276, n. 4).
See T. Ruinart, A eta martyrum sincera (See also:Amsterdam, 1713), pp. 364—66; Le Nain de See also:Tillemont, Memoires pour servir a l'hisloire ecclesiastique (See also:Paris, 1701, seq.), v. 215-225, 673-675. (H.
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