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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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CORPSE

The dead body of a human being. From the first days of Christianity the Church insisted on the respect to be paid to a corpse, because it had been the temple of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:19) and was destined to rise glorified on the last day (I Corinthians 15:39-44).

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Tuesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates: —St. Ursula, virgin and martyr and companions (d. 238). In medieval times her legend developed into many versions; but all that may be said with certainty of these martyrs is that they suffered martyrdom at or near Cologne, and were sufficiently well…

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