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Catholic Word of the Day: PURSUIVANTS, 08-14-09
CatholicReference.net ^ | 08-14-09 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 08/14/2009 8:33:47 AM PDT by Salvation

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PURSUIVANTS

Minor officials in penal times in England who hunted and captured priests and their protectors for prosecution, resulting in imprisonment and capital punishment for ministering to Catholics. In early days pursuivants assisted the heralds and somewhat later served warrants for the king.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.


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1 posted on 08/14/2009 8:33:49 AM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation
From Merriam Webster:

  • Main Entry: pur·sui·vant 
  • Pronunciation: \ˈpər-si-vənt, -swi-\
  • Function: noun
  • Etymology: Middle English pursevant attendant of a herald, from Anglo-French pursevaunt, pursuant, literally, follower, from present participle of pursure to pursue
  • Date: 14th century

1 : an officer of arms ranking below a herald but having similar duties
2 : follower, attendant

See a map of "pursuivants" in the Visual Thesaurus


2 posted on 08/14/2009 8:37:38 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: JRandomFreeper; Allegra; SuziQ; BlackVeil; Straight Vermonter; Cronos; SumProVita; ...

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3 posted on 08/14/2009 8:40:00 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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4 posted on 08/14/2009 8:41:16 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Salvation
 

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5 posted on 08/14/2009 8:42:25 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Salvation

I knew pursuivants were originally a type of heralds, but I didn’t know they’d become law-enforcement officers. It makes sense, though, historically: if a person is carrying warrants or writs, he’d naturally get involved in enforcing the law or serving the arrest warrant.


6 posted on 08/14/2009 8:45:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Do you like every snake? I like every snake!)
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To: Tax-chick

We often forget that, despite her magnificent contributions to the Western culture, England was a place of most brutal persecutions of Catholic Christians since Nero.


7 posted on 08/14/2009 10:50:25 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

True.


8 posted on 08/14/2009 2:00:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Do you like every snake? I like every snake!)
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To: Salvation
I learn so much from these posts, thanks for all your work on them. Maybe I can add a tiny bit to it by adding these links.

Salvific Will

Holy Spirit

Transplantation of Organs

Spiritual Espousals

Addiction

Coenobium

Irascible Appetite

Development of Doctrine

Equiprobabilism

Advocate

Latency Period

Seven Sacraments

Rosary

Epiklesis/Epiclesis

Consubstantiation

Restitution

Tabgha

Our Lady of Divine Love

Excommunication

The Holy Pillar

Imperfect Contrition

White Russian Byzantines

Lust

Pursuivants

La Salette

Liturgy

Andacollo

Kings, Book of

Physiologus

Old Catholics

Baltimore Catechism

Armagh, Book of

Nature

Eulogia

Orders, Sacrament of

Missionary

Dominus Vocbiscum

Ichthus-Fish

Abbacy of St.Jerome

Invalid

Doctrinal Demythology

Metaphysics

Ecclesia Docens

Apostolic Signatura

Octaves

Religion as feeling

Temperament

Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Congregation for Catholic Education

Sponsor

Mystery Play

Paschal Candle

Imitation of Christ

Voluntarism

Matter, Sacramental

Notion

Chancel

Gabbatha

Gregorian Masses

Ordo

Resolution of Amendment

Supreme Evil

Archives, Vatican

Pride

Solovyevism

Natural Law

Revealed Law

Presbyter

First Saturdays

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Divorce

Jubilee

Procession

Teilhardism

Hysteron Proteron

Bodily Immortality

Vicar Forane

Intercommunion, Eucharistic

Proclamation

Consecration to the Sacred Heart

Nominalism

Rules of Conscience

St. John Lateran

Hermeneutics

Doctrinal Universalism

Good Friday

Our Father

Soul of the Church

Latin Cross

Book of Sentences

Liber Pontificalis

Paraclete

People of God

Bodily Resurrection

Cardinal Electors

Subsidiarity

Striking the Breast

Transfinalization

Ordinary

Titular Sees

Wake

Knowledge

Polygenism

Sede Vacante

Peace Plate or Tablet

Heroic Act

Abbey Nullius

Vulgate

Founder

Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Vow

Impassibility

Vitandus

Dedication of the Months

Solemn Vows

Species

Dark Night of the Soul

Social Sin

Dialectical Materialism

Pharisaical Scandal

Inquisition

Precedence

Holy Chrism

Quietism

Natural Family Planning (practice)

Primitive Religion


9 posted on 08/14/2009 8:52:12 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: annalex

In effect, the pursuivants in England were, as priest-catchers, bounty hunters.


10 posted on 08/15/2009 8:24:26 PM PDT by Savonarola
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To: Straight Vermonter

Oh, wow! I will post that instead of the other two graphs!

Thank you!


11 posted on 08/15/2009 8:35:29 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Check your FReepmail, please.


12 posted on 08/15/2009 8:37:07 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Savonarola

The word, bounty hunters, flew through my mind yesterday too. LOL!


13 posted on 08/15/2009 8:38:33 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Savonarola

A bounty hunter is catching someone at least guilty of jumping bail. What were the priests guilty of?

The analogy is with the NKVD informants in Stalin’s Russia or those who helped the SS look for Jews.


14 posted on 08/17/2009 10:20:21 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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