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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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COLUMBARIA

Dovecotes. Wall niches for support of beams. Also the niches for burial urns in tombs containing the ashes of the cremated dead. Columbaria (columbaries) are typical of the pagan catacombs in the Roman Empire.

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Memorial of St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Lucy (283-304). St. Lucy (or Lucia) was born in Syracuse, Sicily, where she also died. She was of a noble Greek family, and was brought up as a Christian by her mother, who was miraculously cured at the shrine of St. Agatha in Catania. Lucy made a vow of…

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