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Roman Catholic Missionaries In India
The following list refer to list of Roman Catholic missionaries in India. Early missionaries * Thomas the Apostle * St. Francis Xavier * Giacomo Fenicio * Roberto de Nobili * John Marignolli Roman Catholic missionaries These include: * Jordan Catala * Giovanni de' Marignolli alias ''John De Marignolli'' * Roberto de Nobili * St. Francis Xavier (1506–52) * Matheus de Castro (1594–1677) * Thomas de Castro (d. 1684) * Ephrem de Nevers (d. 1695) * John de Brito (d. 1647–1693) * Joseph Vaz (1651–1711) * Costantino Giuseppe Beschi (1680–1747) * Mother Teresa (1910–1997)Blessed Mother Teresa . (2007). ''''. Retrieved 4 July 2010. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas The Apostle
Thomas the Apostle (; , meaning 'the Twin'), also known as Didymus ( 'twin'), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus Christ, resurrection of Jesus when he was told of it (as is related in the Gospel of John); he later confessed his faith ("John 20:28, The lord of me and the God of me") on seeing the places where the Five Holy Wounds, wounds appeared still fresh on the holy body of Jesus after the Crucifixion of Jesus. According to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of Tamilakam (modern-day states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala) in India, Thomas travelled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling as far as the modern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in South India, and eventually reached Muziris (modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor in Kerala State) in 52. He started the Church of the East in the region around the Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that was initially dedicated to serving "the poorest of the poor" in the slums of Calcutta. Over the decades, the congregation grew to operate in over 133 countries, , with more than 4,500 nuns managing homes for those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Indian People
Lists of Indian people are lists of people from India. They are grouped by various criteria, including ethnicity, states and union territories and city. By state or union territory States * List of people from Andhra Pradesh *List of people from Arunachal Pradesh *List of people from Assam * List of people from Bihar * List of people from Chhattisgarh * List of people from Goa * List of people from Gujarat * List of people from Haryana * List of people from Himachal Pradesh * List of people from Jharkhand * List of people from Karnataka *List of people from Kerala * List of people from Madhya Pradesh * List of people from Maharashtra * :People from Manipur * :People from Meghalaya * :People from Mizoram * List of people from Nagaland * List of people from Odisha * List of people from Punjab, India * List of people from Rajasthan * List of people from Sikkim *List of people from Tamil Nadu *List of people from Telangana * List of people from Tripura * List of people from Ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Roman Catholics
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide, . Lists General * List of former Catholics * List of converts to the Catholic Church * List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church Saints, and martyrs * List of Catholic saints ** Military saint * List of saints from Africa * List of Persian Catholic saints * List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation Clergy * List of popes * List of Catholic priests * List of Catholic clergy scientists * List of Catholic missionaries * List of fictional clergy and religious figures#Catholic Church * List of Pakistani Catholic priests Episcopacy * List of Catholic bishops in the United States * List of Catholic bishops of India * List of Catholic bishops of Lviv * List of Catholic bishops in the Philippines * List of Slovenian Catholic Bishops * List of bishops and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Missionaries In India
The following list refer to list of Roman Catholic missionaries in India. Early missionaries * Thomas the Apostle * St. Francis Xavier * Giacomo Fenicio * Roberto de Nobili * John Marignolli Roman Catholic missionaries These include: * Jordan Catala * Giovanni de' Marignolli alias ''John De Marignolli'' * Roberto de Nobili * St. Francis Xavier (1506–52) * Matheus de Castro (1594–1677) * Thomas de Castro (d. 1684) * Ephrem de Nevers (d. 1695) * John de Brito (d. 1647–1693) * Joseph Vaz (1651–1711) * Costantino Giuseppe Beschi (1680–1747) * Mother Teresa (1910–1997)Blessed Mother Teresa . (2007). ''''. Retrieved 4 July 2010. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In India
Christianity is Religion in India, India's third-most followed religion with about 28 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. Christianity is the largest religion in parts of Northeast India, specifically in Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya. It is also a significant religion in Arunachal, where about 30 percent of the state is Christian. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of India's Christians are found in South India, Goa and Bombay. The oldest known Christian group in North India are the Hindustani language, Hindustani-speaking Bettiah Christians of Bihar, formed in the early 1700s through a Order_of_Friars_Minor_Capuchin, Capuchin mission and under the patronage of ''Rajas'' (kings) in the Moghal Empire. The Church of North India and the Church of South India are a United Protestant denomination; which resulted from the evangelism/ ecumenism of Anglicans in India, Anglicans, Calvinists, Methodists and other Protesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission (Christian)
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism, in the name of the Christian faith. Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries. Sometimes individuals are sent and are called missionaries, and historically may have been based in mission stations. When groups are sent, they are often called mission teams and they undertake mission trips. There are a few different kinds of mission trips: short-term, long-term, relational and those that simply help people in need. Some people choose to dedicate their whole lives to mission. Missionaries preach the Christian faith and sometimes administer the sacraments, and provide humanitarian aid or services. Christian doctrines (such as the "Doctrine of Love" professed by many missions) permit the provision of aid without requiring religious conversion. Nonetheless, the provision of help has always been closely tied to evangelization efforts. History of Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Protestant Missionaries In India
Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of Tinnevelly and Travancore, which covers most of southern India Kerala. These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the Church of England. The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India. Missionaries * John Anderson – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Founder – Madras Christian College * Elizabeth Baring-Gould * B. Baring-Gould – CMS Missionary * Graham Basanti – women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church * Paul Olaf Bodding * Paul Wilson Brand * Edith Mary Brown * Nathan Brown * William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) – LMS Missionary to south Travancore (firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Borst
Jim Borst (3 August 1932 – 5 September 2018) was a Dutch Roman Catholic missionary of Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, commonly called Mill Hill Missionaries. He was well-known spiritual leader in India and abroad. He was a frequent speaker at many conventions and seminars. In 2011, he was summoned by Sharia court and served a Fatwa in 2012, following which he was given a Quit India Notice from Kashmir's Foreigners Registration Office. He was the last Mill Hill missionary serving in the Kashmir Valley. Early life and education He was born on 3 August 1932 in Ursem, Netherlands to Mr. Leonard and Mrs. Margaret. He completed his secondary education at Hoorn, Tilburg and Burn Hall. He joined Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill in 1945 and from 1951 to 1953 studied philosophy in Roosendaal. He completed his studies of theology in 1957 from Mill Hill, London. He was ordained a priest for Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, in London, United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Glowrey
Mary Glowrey JMJ, religious name ''Mary of the Sacred Heart'', (1887–1957) was an Australian born religious sister and educated doctor who spent 37 years in India, where she set up healthcare facilities, services and systems. She is believed to be the first religious sister to practise as a doctor. The Catholic Church is investigating her cause for beatification and declared her a Servant of God in 2013. Early life Mary Glowrey was born in the Victorian town of Birregurra on 23 June 1887.Mary Glowrey, "God’s Good For Nothing: Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart", ''The Horizon'' (1 June 1987): 8. Her family moved to Garvoc, then north to Watchem, in Victoria’s Mallee region. Her father, Edward Glowrey, operated the general store at Birregurra, then hotels at Garvoc and Watchem. Education In 1900 Glowrey came fourth of 800 entrants in a Victorian State Education secondary scholarship exam. From 1901 to 1904 she attended South Melbourne College (SMC), in Bank Street, Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopædia Britannica
The is a general knowledge, general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopedia, online encyclopaedia. Printed for 244 years, the ''Britannica'' was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costantino Giuseppe Beschi
Constantine Joseph Beschi (8 November 1680 – 4 February 1747), also known under his Tamil name of ''Vīramāmunivar'', was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary in South India, and Tamil language littérateur. Early years Born in Castiglione delle Stiviere, in the district of Mantua, in Italy, on 8 November 1680, Beschi got his secondary education in the Jesuits' High School at Mantua, which taught rhetoric, humanities and grammar. After becoming a Jesuit in 1698, he was trained in Ravenna and Bologna, studying philosophy for three years from 1701–1703 in Bologna, and theology for four years from 1706–1710. His studies also included Latin, French, Portuguese, Greek, and Hebrew. He was ordained as a priest in 1709. On hearing about the work done in India by the Jesuits returning to Italy from India, Beschi was eager to come to India. He requested and obtained permission from Superior General Michelangelo Tamburini to be sent to the Jesuit mission at Madurai in South Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
