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William Butler was born in Dublin, Ireland, January 30, 1818. [2] [1] Orphaned early in life, he was for some years in the care of a great-grandmother, who used to induce the boy to mount a chair for a pulpit, and, clad in an improvised surplice, to read the lessons for the day from the Church of England prayer book. This service was a great ...
Clementina Rowe was born in Wexford, Ireland, July 30, 1820. [2] Her parents were English. When but a child past ten years of age, she became immensely interested in missionary work, being made a collector in the Sunday school, which she attended, for the missionaries, and always looked back with considerable interest to the $60 which she collected the first year.
The Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, edited by W. Hepworth Thompson (2 vols., 5856; 2nd ed., 1 vol. 1875) were among the few British works on the history of philosophy. These works include introductory lectures, the early Greek thinkers, and lectures on Plato.
Clementina Butler was born in Bareilly, British India, January 7, 1862. Her father, Rev. Dr. William Butler, was commissioned in 1856 to open mission work for the Methodist Episcopal Church. [5] Her mother, Clementina Rowe Butler, was a co-founder of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Edward Joseph Aloysius Butler was born on 6 May 1858 in Dublin, Ireland, to Edward Butler (1812-1902) and Mary (Cruise) Butler. [7] His father was the first professor of mathematics at the Catholic University of Ireland, from 1854 to 1859, before and after that having worked for the Commission of National Education in Ireland. [8]
The Church Fathers are the early and influential Christian theologians and writers, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history. The earliest Church Fathers, within two generations of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, are usually called Apostolic Fathers for reportedly knowing and studying under the apostles personally.
The traditional social stratification of the Occident in the 15th century. Church and state in medieval Europe was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the various monarchies and other states in Europe during the Middle Ages (between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century to their end in the East in the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Modern era).
The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.