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GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Eccl. Hist.) the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.
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“Andrew, sent royal crown and sceptre to King Johannitius of Bulgaria and had his legate crown him king at Tirnovo, in 1204; he restored ecclesiastical discipline in Poland; arbitrated between the two claimants to the royal crown of Sweden; made partly successful attempts to reunite the Greek with the Latin Church and extended his beneficent influence practically over the whole Christian world.”
“Philastrius of Brescia, a few years later (383), gave to the Latin Church what St. Epiphanius had given to the Greek.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“But the Latin Church had one incontestable superiority over its rival: it had one centre of gravity, Rome, and always recognized the papacy as the visible head of the Church.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“In the Latin Church follow the Rogation Days; in the Greek Church on Tuesday is kept the apodosis or conclusion of the feast of Easter.”
“The Greeks sing the Canons of Easter up to this Tuesday in the same manner as during Easter Week, whilst in the Latin Church the specific Easter Office terminates on Saturday following the feast.”
“It enters largely into the order of the Latin Church for the services of passion-week.”
“Pius VI confirmed this arrangement on 15 November, 1798, by the Bull "Maximis undique pressi", which forms the substantial basis of the constitution of the Latin Church in Russia to-day.”
“The Latin Church has placed him among its martyrs, and commemorates him on 27 May, the ninth lesson in the Roman Breviary for that date being consecrated to him.”
“The Latin Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthias on 24”
“Peculiar to the Latin Church is the monogram (see Greek word 7), which occurs in the sixth century Greek-Latin Codex Claramontanus, as an abbreviation of both Our Lord's Greek names.”
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