Council of Constance — Council of Constance † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Constance A (partly) ecumenical council held at Constance, now in the Grand Duchy of Baden, from 5 Nov., 1414, to 22 April, 1418. Its forty five general sessions were devoted… … Catholic encyclopedia
Paderborn — • Suffragan diocese of Cologne, Germany Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Paderborn Paderborn † … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Pisa — Council of Pisa † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Pisa Preliminaries. The great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or… … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Vienne (1311-12) — Council of Vienne (1311 12) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Vienne (1311 12) Pope Clement V, by the Bull Regnans in coelis of 12 Aug., 1308, called a general council to meet on 1 Oct., 1310, at Vienne in France for the purpose of … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Trent — The Council in Santa Maria Maggiore church; Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento. Council of Trent Date 1545–63 … Wikipedia
Vatican Council — • The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vatican Council Vatican Council … Catholic encyclopedia
University of Paderborn — infobox University name=University of Paderborn native name=Universität Paderborn motto= Die Universität der Informationsgesellschaft ( The University of the Information Society ) established=1972 type=Public rector=Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nikolaus… … Wikipedia
Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… … Wikipedia
Witch trials in Early Modern Europe — The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were early trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a big issue again and peaking in the 17th … Wikipedia
Christian views on magic — vary widely across denominational and individual barriers, and are often influenced by Biblical, theological, and historical considerations. Some Christians actively condemn any form of magic as Satanic while others simply dismiss it as… … Wikipedia
