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Bath Kol
Bath Kol, also written Bat Qol, Bat Kol, or Bath Qol, is a form of divine communication in Jewish religious tradition. The Hebrew expression is usually translated as “daughter of the voice,” “voice of a voice,” or more n…
St. Peter Claver
St. Peter Claver was a seventeenth-century Jesuit priest best known for his ministry among enslaved Africans brought to Cartagena de Indias, a major Spanish port in present-day Colombia. Catholic tradition remembers him …
St. Katharine Drexel
St. Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator, philanthropist and founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, she devoted her inheritan…
Baruchiel
Baruchiel is an angelic name found chiefly in later Christian angelology, especially Eastern Orthodox and related devotional traditions. The name is also written Barachiel, Barakiel, Baraquel or Barchiel. He is commonly …
St. Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian was an eleventh-century Italian Benedictine monk, bishop, cardinal, theologian and writer who became one of the strongest voices for reform in the medieval Latin Church. He lived during a period when pop…
Barquiel
Barquiel is an uncommon name associated with angelological and occult traditions. It is often treated as a variant spelling of Barachiel, Barakiel, or related forms derived from a Hebrew expression meaning “lightning of …
St. Peter Of Verona
St. Peter of Verona, also known as Peter Martyr or Pietro da Verona, was a thirteenth-century Italian Dominican friar, preacher and inquisitor who was killed in 1252. The Catholic Church venerates him as a martyr and sai…
Barman
Barman is an obscure name associated in some modern reference works with Persian or Iranian angelology. It is sometimes described as an angel connected with the month of Bahman, animals, or benevolent thought. However, t…
St. Peter Nolasco
St. Peter Nolasco was a thirteenth-century Christian religious founder associated with the redemption of captives and the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, commonly called the Mercedarians. He lived during the p…
Bariel
Bariel is an obscure and uncertain angelic name found in some later angelological and esoteric lists. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels with substantial scriptural and liturgical traditions, Bariel does n…
St. Peter Of Alcántara
St. Peter of Alcántara was a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan friar, ascetic, writer and reformer of religious life. Born in Alcántara in Extremadura around 1499 and dying at Arenas in 1562, he became known for sever…