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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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ELVIRA, COUNCIL OF

National Council of Spain, held about A.D. 306 after a period of persecution. Among the eighty-one canons it passed are severe disciplinary penalties for apostasy and adultery. Celibacy of the clergy was legislated under pain of deposition (canon 33).

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Thursday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. John of Capistrano, Priest

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano (1386-1456). John was a native of Capistrano, in Italy. He became a Franciscan and was one of the great organizers of the struggle against the Mohammedans in the 15th century, when they threatened to overrun the whole of Europe. Mohammed II had taken…

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