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Quadragesima - Denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ.
Quadratus - Second-century Christian apologist.
Quality - Various definitions of quality and its forms or divisions.
Quam singulari - 1910 decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments on the age at which children are to be admitted to first Communion.
Quamichan Indians - Small tribe attached to Cowachan agency, at the southeast end of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Quantity - Interpretations of quantity as either a physical or theoretical abstraction.
Quapaw Indians - An early tribe from the lower Mississippi region.
Quarantines - A strict ecclesiastical penance of forty days.
Quaresmius, Franciscus - Seventeenth-century writer and Orientalist. (1583-1650)
Quebec, Archdiocese of - Comprises thirteen counties in Canada.
Quebec, The Province of - Gives a brief history of this Canadian province and talks about Quebec at the beginning of the twentieth century. Article originally published in 1911.
Queen's Daughters - American religious and charitable society, organized to supplement the work done by the members of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul.
Quelen, Hyacinthe-Louis De - Archbishop of Paris. (1778-1839)
Quem terra, pontus, sidera - Ancient hymn in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
Quercia, Jacopo Della - Italian sculptor. (1374-1438)
Querétaro, Diocese of - Located in Mexico; suffragan of Michoacan.
Quesnel, Pasquier - French writer. (1634-1719)
Quevedo, Juan de - Spanish Franciscan. (b. 1519)
Quiche - Principal aboriginal tribe of Guatemala.
Quichua Indians - Peruvian and Ecuadoran tribe.
Quicumque Christum Quærtis - Opening line of the twelfth and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius.
Quierzy, Councils of - Series of five councils held in a French village between 838 and 858.
Quiet, Prayer of - A degree of contemplation in which the soul experiences an extraordinary peace and rest.
Quietism - Doctrine which declares that man's highest perfection consists in a sort of psychical self-annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life.
Quilon, Diocese of - Indian diocese, suffragan of Verapoly.
Quimper, Diocese of - French diocese, including the Department of Finistère.
Quin, Michael Joseph - Irish journalist. (1796-1843)
Quinctianus, Saints - Several saints named Quinctianus appear in martyrologies, but almost nothing is known about most of them.
Quiñones, Francis - Spanish Cardinal. (1482-1540)
Quinquagesima - The period of fifty days before Easter.
Quintana, Agustín - Missionary and Indian philologist. (d. 1784)
Quiricus and Julitta, Saints - Martyrs in the Diocletian persecution.
Quirini, Angelo Maria - Cardinal and scholar. (1680-1755)
Quirinus, Saints - Article discusses several saints of this name.
Quito, Archdiocese of - Comprises two dioceses and four sees in Ecuador. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.