Glossary
- Advent: the coming of Christ
- Anthony of Padua: a popular Catholic saint later made a Doctor of the Church by the pope
- Apostles’ Creed: a prayer containing the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith, supposedly composed by Christ’s twelve apostles
- arcanum: a mystery or deep secret
- Athanasian Creed: a Christian statement of belief that focuses on the Trinity
- Augsburg Confession: the primary profession of faith of the Lutheran Church
- Beelzebub: Satan, the devil
- Calvin: John Calvin, a sixteenth-century French theologian and reformer
- Daniel: an Old Testament prophet
- Decalogue: the Ten Commandments
- Descartes: René Decartes, a prominent seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
- Dives and Lazarus: a reference to one of Christ’s parables in the Gospel of Luke, about a rich man (Dives) who refuses to share his plenty with a poor beggar (Lazarus)
- Elijah: an Old Testament prophet in Israel
- Elisha: Elijah’s successor as an Old Testament prophet in...
Cardinal Richelieu, who helped finance the Thirty Years‘ War (Library of Congress)
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