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The cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind and character in classical philosophy. They are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. They form a virtue theory of ethics. The term cardinal comes from the Latin cardo (hinge); [1] these four virtues are called "cardinal" because all other virtues fall under them and hinge upon them. [2]
The term "cardinal virtues" (virtutes cardinales) was first used by the 4th-century theologian Ambrose, [1] who defined the four virtues as "temperance, justice, prudence, and fortitude". [2] These were also named as cardinal virtues by Augustine of Hippo, and were subsequently adopted by the Catholic Church.
Heroic Virtues Titular Cardinal Santi Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta; Cardinal [28] Maria Cecilia Baij 4 Januatry 1694 6 January 1766 Italy: Viterbo: Heroic Virtues Professed Religious, Benedictine Nuns [29] [30] Akash Bashir: 22 June 1994 15 March 2015 Pakistan: Lahore: Martyr in odium fide: Young Layperson [31] [32] [33] Nemésio Bernardi 9 ...
The Episcopal Church shares this view. "As distinct from the cardinal virtues which we can develop, the theological virtues are the perfection of human powers given by the grace of God." [11] Like the cardinal virtues, an individual who exercises these virtues strengthens and increases them, i.e., they are more disposed to practice them. [16]
In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint. [1] The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process.
Saint Louis [4] Heroic Virtues Introduction of Cause: 1851 Juliette Noel Toussaint: c. 1786 in Haiti 14 May 1851 in New York City, New York, United States Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York New York [4] Heroic Virtues Introduction of Cause: 1858 Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras: 30 August 1792 in Lyon, Rhône, France
The nodes of the tree-diagrams are the Cardinal Virtues and the Cardinal Vices, respectively, often culminating with the Theological Virtues and Vices, each with a number of secondary virtues or secondary vices shown as leaves of the respective nodes. While on a tree of virtues, the leaves point upward toward heaven, on a tree of vices the ...
The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael found on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women seated in a bucolic landscape, and the theological virtues are depicted by putti .