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Saint Lawrence, Gulf of

(Encyclopedia)Saint Lawrence, Gulf of, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.100,000 sq mi (259,000 sq km), SE Canada, extending c.250 mi (400 km) from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River to Newfoundland on the east. At i...

Cajetan, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Cajetan, Saint kăjˈətăn, käˌyātänˈ [key], 1480–1547, Italian churchman and reformer. Son of the count of Thiene, he studied civil and canon law, but abandoned work as a jurist at the papal ...

Marion, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Marion, Fort: see Saint Augustine, Fla. ...

Nevis

(Encyclopedia)Nevis: see Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...

neo-Thomism

(Encyclopedia)neo-Thomism: see Thomas Aquinas, Saint. ...

Areopagite

(Encyclopedia)Areopagite: see Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint. ...

Chrysorrhoas

(Encyclopedia)Chrysorrhoas: see John of Damascus, Saint. ...
 

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