Roman Catholic Diocese of Tongeren information

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tongeren was an ancient bishopric of Belgium, now a Latin titular bishopric in present Belgium. In 344, it was established...

province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium. Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium, as the only Roman administrative...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maastricht (Latin Traiectum ad Mosam) was a Roman Catholic jurisdiction in parts of present Netherlands (including the see...

founder of several early Christian churches in the diocese of Tongeren. Two likely candidates are the Basilica of Our Lady in Tongeren and the Basilica of Our...

Empire until the end of the 9th century. From the center of the Diocese of Tongeren-Maastricht-Liège, successively the cities of Tongeren, Maastricht and Liège...

of people and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints. According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision. Many of the...

of Aywières (Dutch: Sint-Ludgardis; 1182 – 16 June 1246; also spelled Lutgarde) is a saint from the medieval Low Countries. She was born in Tongeren,...

became part of the Roman Empire. Also like other such districts, it became the basis for a medieval bishopric, but the bishops of Tongeren moved first...

living in Orvieto, established the feast of Corpus Christi as a Solemnity and extended it to the whole Roman Catholic Church. The feast is liturgically celebrated...

which was part of the Diocese of Tongeren-Maastricht-Luik (Liege). From the center of the diocese, successively the cities of Tongeren, Maastricht and...

bishop of Tongeren and Maastricht, and is revered as a Roman Catholic saint. Little is known about his life. The Acta Sanctorum only lists two vitae of Monulph...

and remained the name of a large diocese of the Catholic church during the Middle Ages, under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège, which was originally...

commonly called Saint Amand, was a bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht and one of the catholic missionaries of Flanders. He is venerated as a saint, particularly...

Christian Roman Empire — the period from the rise of Christianity under Emperor Constantine (c. 313), until the fall of the Western Roman Empire (c....

cradle of Western civilization and Western Christian culture, and the centre of the Catholic Church. Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology...

This is a complete list of basilicas of the Catholic Church. A basilica is a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope. Not all churches...

in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire. Christianity "emerged as a sect of Judaism in Roman Judea"...

Tongeren-Maastricht-Liège. The see of this diocese, successively the cities of Tongeren, Maastricht and Liège, made up the base by which this part of...

regret the loss of his other works." Phoebadius figured prominently at the Council of Rimini in 359, where, along with Servatius of Tongeren, he advocated...

concession after another in the course of his desperate struggle to preserve the Catholic church".: 325  Roman emperors had always been religious leaders...

invoked as a healing saint for diseases of the skin and eyes. Hellerius or Helier was born to pagan parents in Tongeren (now in Belgium). His father was Sigebert...

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