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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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OBELISK, VATICAN

A giant white marble obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. It was brought to Rome from Egypt by Emperor Caligula (12-41) and later stood in Nero's circus. In the sixteenth century Pope Sixtus V had the three-hundred-ton monument moved to its present location on September 10, 1586.

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December 22, O King of the Nations (O Rex Gentium)

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Today is the Sixth of the O Antiphons, O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations). "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return" (Luke 19:12). This nobleman is Christ, the Son of God, King of all nations. His kingdom is over all men and over all things, both…

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