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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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MARCOSIANS

Followers of the Gnostic Marcus, who flourished in Gaul in the middle of the second century. Marcus was a magician who had women serve as his prophetesses, and whose disciples indulged in elaborate sacramental rites and fantastic speculation about numbers. Ignoring the canonical New Testament, their favorite scriptures were the Acts of St. Thomas.

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop

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The Universal Calendar offers two saints, Blaise and Ansgar, for separate celebration as Optional Memorial. St. Blaise (or Blase) (d. 320) enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western Churches due to many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and…

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