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Ubaldo Giraldi	Italian canonist; b. 1692; d.1775
Ubaldus, Saint	Confessor, Bishop of Gubbio, b. of noble parents at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, towards the beginning of the twelfth century; d. there, Whitsuntide, 1168
Ubertino of Casale	Leader of the Spirituals, b. at Casale of Vercelli, 1259; d. about 1330
Ubiquitarians	A Protestant sect started at the Lutheran synod of Stuttgart, Dec. 19, 1559, by John Brenz, a Swabian (1499-1570)
Uccello	Painter, b. at Florence, 1397; d. there, 1475
Ugolino Brunforte	Friar Minor and chronicler, born c. 1262; died c. 1348
Uhtred	An English Benedictine theologian and writer, b. at Boldon, North Durham, about 1315; d. at Finchale Abbey, Jan. 24, 1396
Ulfilas	Apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of an alphabet, b. probably in 311 (see Bessel, p. 53); d. at Constantinople in 380 or 381
Ulick Joseph Bourke	Irish scholar and writer, b. Dec. 29, 1829, at Castlebar, Co. Mayo; d. there, Nov. 22, 1887
Ulissi Aldrovandi	Italian naturalist, b. at Bologna, 11 Sept., 1522; d. there 10 Nov., 1607
Ulric Zasius	A famous jurist, b. at Constance in 1461; d. at Freiburg, Nov. 24, 1536
Ulrich Ensingen	Architect, participated in the construction of the most important Gothic buildings of the fifteenth century
Ulrich of Bamberg	A cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg, of whom nothing more is known than that he lived about 1100 at Bamberg
Ulrich of Richenthal	Chronicler of the Council of Constance, date of birth unknown; died about 1438
Ulrich of Zell, Saint	B. at Ratisbon, at the beginning of 1029; d. at Zell, probably on July 10, 1093
Ulrich Zell	Publisher, the first printer of Cologne, b. at Hanau-on-the-Main, date unknown; d. about 1507
Ulrich Zwingli	Founder of the Reformation in Switzerland, b. at Wildhaus in Switzerland, Jan. 1, 1484; d. Oct. 11, 1531
Ulrich, Saint	Bishop of Augsburg, b. at Kyburg, Zurich, Switzerland, in 890; d. at Augsburg, July 4, 973
Ultan of Ardbraccan, Saint	The maternal uncle of St. Brigid, and collected a life of that great Irish saint for his pupil, St. Brogan Cloen of Rostuirc, in Ossory
Ultramontanism	A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as its spiritual head the pope, who, for the greater part of Europe, is a dweller beyond the mountains (ultra montes), that is, beyond the Alps
Unam Sanctam	The Bull on papal supremacy issued November 18, 1302, by Boniface VIII during the dispute with Philip the Fair, King of France
Ungava	Canadian territory
Uniformity Acts	These statutes, passed at different times, were vain efforts to secure uniformity in public worship throughout England.
Unigenitus	A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, condemning 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel
Union of Brest	Famous in the history of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Russia for the union of the Ruthenians with Catholicism
Union of Christendom	The Catholic Church is by far the largest, the most widespread, and the most ancient of Christian communions in the world, and is moreover the mighty trunk from which the other communions claiming to be Christian have broken off at one time or another.
Unions of Prayer	A tendency to form unions of prayer among the faithful has recently manifested itself in the establishment of organizations
Unitarians	A Liberal Protestant sect which holds as its distinctive tenet the belief in a uni-personal instead of a tri-personal God
United Dioceses of Narni and Terni	Located in Central Italy
United Sees of Macerata and Tolentino	Dioceses in Italy
United States of America	The country
Unity	Mark of the Church
Universalists	A Liberal Protestant sect whose distinctive tenet is the belief in the final salvation of all souls, and which is chiefly to be found in North America
Universals	Refers on the one hand to the inclination towards uniformity (uni-versus) existing in different things, in virtue of which different things may be represented by a single idea applicable to all in the same way; and on the other hand to this one idea which
Universities	I. Origin and organization; II. Academic work and development; III. Renaissance and Reformation; IV. Modern period; V. Catholic action.
University of Aberdeen	One of the three universities established in Scotland in Catholic times
University of Alcala	University begun in the thirteenth century
University of Angers	A development of the cathedral school
University of Avignon	Formally constituted in 1303, by a Bull of Boniface VIII
University of Barcelona	Out-growth of the ecclesiastical schools founded in the eleventh century

University of Bologna	Italian university
University of Bonn	Founded in Bonn in 1777 by Prince-Archbishop Max Friedrich of Cologne
University of Bordeaux	French university founded by English King Henry VI in 1441
University of Caen	Founded in 1432 by Henry VI of England
University of Cambridge	Major university in England
University of Cologne	Founded by Urban VI, May 21, 1388
University of Copenhagen	Founded by a Bull which Sixtus IV issued June 19, 1475, at the request of King Christian I
University of Fribourg	Catholic university in Switzerland
University of Granada	Its origin can be traced to the Arab school at Cordova
University of Heidelberg	Heidelberg, a city of 41,000 inhabitants, is situated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, on the left bank of the Neckar
University of Ingolstadt	University founded by Louis the Rich, Duke of Bavaria
University of Leipzig	Oldest university in the German Empire
University of Louvain	Information on the organization of the university and its history
University of Munster	Detailed article on the history of the university
University of Notre Dame Du Lac	In Northern Indiana
University of Ottawa	Conducted by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded in 1848
University of Oxford	The institution
University of Padua	Dates, according to some anonymous chronicles (Muratori, 'Rer. Ital. Script.', VIII, 371, 421, 459, 736), from 1222, when a part of the Studium of Bologna, including professors and students, withdrew to Padua
University of Palermo	The Convent of St. Dominic of Palermo may be considered the nucleus of the future University of Palermo
University of Paris	Origin and Early Organization
University of Pavia	Pavia was, even in Roman times, a literary center (Ennodius); as the capital of the Lombard kingdom it had its 'grammar' schools, and Emperor Lothair erected a 'central' school there (825).
University of Perpignan	In the Kingdom of Majorca
University of Perugia	One of the 'free' universities of Italy, was erected into a studium generale on Sept. 8, 1308, by the Bull 'Super specula' of Clement V
University of Pisa	In Italy
University of Prague	Founded by Charles IV with the consent of the Estates on the model of the universities of Paris and Bologna and confirmed at the emperor's request by Clement VI as a stadium generale
University of Rostock	Located in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, founded in the year 1419
University of Saint Andrews	Oldest university in Scotland, the germ of the university is to be found in an association of learned ecclesiastics
University of Saint Mark	Highest institution of learning in Peru
University of Saint Thomas	Located in Manila, founded in 1619 by the Dominican Miguel de Benavides, Archbishop of Manila
University of Santiago	Founded in 1501 as a school and academy for the study of the humanities
University of Seville	History and influence of the university
University of Siena	Earliest notices of an advanced school (of grammar and medicine) at Siena go back to 1241
University of Tubingen	In Wurtemberg, founded by Count Eberhard im Bart on July 3, 1477
University of Upsala	The oldest and most celebrated university of Sweden
University of Valencia	At the request of Jaime I the Conqueror, Innocent IV in 1246, authorized by a Bull the establishment of estudios generates in Valencia.
University of Vienna	Next to the University of Prague that of Vienna is the oldest university of the former Holy Roman Empire.
Universty of Dillingen	In Swabia, a district of Bavaria
Unjust Aggressor	Concept in moral theology
Upper and Lower Nigeria	A colony of British East Africa extending from the Gulf of Guinea to Lake Chad
Uranopolis	A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ancyra in Galatia Prima

Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier	Astronomer and director of the observatory at Paris, b. May 11, 1811; d. at Paris, September 25, 1877
Urbi et Orbi	A term used to signify that a papal document is addressed not only to the City of Rome but to the entire Catholic world
Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio	The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century
Urim and Thummim	The sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the Divine will.
Urmiah	A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia
Ursperger Chronicle	A history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninus and extends to the year 1229
Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, Saint	The history of these celebrated virgins of Cologne rests on ten lines, and these are open to question.
Ursulines of Quebec, The	The Ursuline monastery of Quebec is the oldest institution of learning for women in North America.
Ursulines, The	A religious order founded by St. Angela de Merici for the sole purpose of educating young girls.
Ursus, Saint	Patron of the principal church of Solothurn (Soleure) in Switzerland
Uruguay	The smallest independent state in South America
Use and Abuse of Amulets	Use and abuse of the pagan object
Use of beads at prayer	Beads strung together, according to the kind, order, and number of prayers in certain forms of devotion, are in common use among Catholics
Use of Numbers in the Church	No attentive reader of the Old Testament can fail to notice that a certain sacredness seems to attach to particular numbers, for example, seven, forty, twelve, etc.
Use of Wealth	The term wealth is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on economic subjects, but rather in its common acceptation, synonymous with riches
Use of York	It was a received principle in medieval canon law that while as regards judicial matters, as regards the sacraments, and also the more solemn fasts, the custom of the Roman Church was to be adhered to, still in the matter of church services (divinis offic
Ushaw College	A combined college and seminary for the six dioceses that were comprised in the old Northern Vicariate of England
Usilla	A titular see of Byzacena in Africa
Usury	Lending money at interest gives us the opportunity to exploit the passions or necessities of other men by compelling them to submit to ruinous conditions; men are robbed and left destitute under the pretext of charity. Such is the usury against which the
Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris	The first line of a hymn in honor of St. John the Baptist
Utah	The state
Uthina	A titular see of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage
Utica	A titular see in Africa Proconsularis
Utilitarianism	A modern form of the Hedonistic ethical theory which teaches that the end of human conduct is happiness, and that consequently the discriminating norm which distinguishes conduct into right and wrong is pleasure and pain
Utopia	A term used to designate a visionary or an ideally perfect state of society
Utraquism	The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or Hussites

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