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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for Q</title><script defer data-domain="newadvent.org" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="description" content="Index for Q (Abridged)"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.newadvent.org/bestoftheweb?format=xml"><link rel="icon" href="../images/icon1.ico" type="image/x-icon"><link rel="shortcut icon" href="../images/icon1.ico" type="image/x-icon"><meta name="robots" content="noodp"><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../utility/screen6.css" media="screen"></head> <body class="cathen" id="q.htm">  <br/> <div id="capitalcity"><table summary="Logo" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr valign="bottom"><td align="left"><a href="../"><img height=36 width=153 border="0" alt="New Advent" src="../images/logo.gif"></a></td><td align="right"> <form id="searchbox_000299817191393086628:ifmbhlr-8x0" action="../utility/search.htm">  <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="000299817191393086628:ifmbhlr-8x0"/> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9"/>  <label for="searchQuery" id="searchQueryLabel">Search:</label> <input id="searchQuery" name="q" type="text" size="25" aria-labelledby="searchQueryLabel"/>  <label for="submitButton" id="submitButtonLabel" class="visually-hidden">Submit Search</label> <input id="submitButton" type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" aria-labelledby="submitButtonLabel"/> </form> <table summary="Spacer" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td height="2"></td></tr></table> <table summary="Tabs" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../"> Home </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_white_on_color" href="../cathen/index.html"> Encyclopedia </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../summa/index.html"> Summa </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../fathers/index.html"> Fathers </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../bible/gen001.htm"> Bible </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../library/index.html"> Library </a></td> </tr></table> </td> </tr></table><table summary="Alphabetical index" width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td class="bar_white_on_color"> <a href="../cathen/a.htm"> A </a><a href="../cathen/b.htm"> B </a><a href="../cathen/c.htm"> C </a><a href="../cathen/d.htm"> D </a><a href="../cathen/e.htm"> E </a><a href="../cathen/f.htm"> F </a><a href="../cathen/g.htm"> G </a><a href="../cathen/h.htm"> H </a><a href="../cathen/i.htm"> I </a><a href="../cathen/j.htm"> J </a><a href="../cathen/k.htm"> K </a><a href="../cathen/l.htm"> L </a><a href="../cathen/m.htm"> M </a><a href="../cathen/n.htm"> N </a><a href="../cathen/o.htm"> O </a><a href="../cathen/p.htm"> P </a><a href="../cathen/q.htm"> Q </a><a href="../cathen/r.htm"> R </a><a href="../cathen/s.htm"> S </a><a href="../cathen/t.htm"> T </a><a href="../cathen/u.htm"> U </a><a href="../cathen/v.htm"> V </a><a href="../cathen/w.htm"> W </a><a href="../cathen/x.htm"> X </a><a href="../cathen/y.htm"> Y </a><a href="../cathen/z.htm"> Z </a> </td></tr></table></div> <div id="mobilecity" style="text-align: center; "><a href="../"><img height=24 width=102 border="0" alt="New Advent" src="../images/logo.gif"></a></div>  <div id="mi5"><span class="breadcrumbs"><a href="../">Home</a> > <a href="../cathen/">Catholic Encyclopedia</a> > Q</span></div> <div id="springfield2"> <div class='catholicadnet-728x90' id='cathen-728x90-top' style='text-align: center; width: 100%; '></div> <h1>Q</h1> <p><em><a href="https://gumroad.com/l/na2"><strong>Please help support the mission of New Advent</strong> and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more  all for only $19.99...</a></em></p> <p><span class="stiki">This list represents only a tiny fraction of articles available on the New Advent website. For a more complete list, please use the <strong>search box</strong> at the top of this page.</span></p> <a href="../cathen/12589a.htm">Quadragesima</a> - Denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ<br> <a href="../cathen/12589b.htm">Quadratus</a> - Second-century Christian apologist<br> <a href="../cathen/06304b.htm">Quakers</a> - Quakers, an Anglo-American religious sect<br> <a href="../cathen/12589c.htm">Quality</a> - Various definitions of quality and its forms or divisions<br> <a href="../cathen/12590b.htm">Quam singulari</a> - 1910 decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments on the age at which children are to be admitted to first Communion<br> <a href="../cathen/12590a.htm">Quamichan Indians</a> - Small tribe attached to Cowachan agency, at the southeast end of Vancouver, British Columbia<br> <a href="../cathen/12591a.htm">Quantity</a> - Interpretations of quantity as either a physical or theoretical abstraction<br> <a href="../cathen/12591b.htm">Quapaw Indians</a> - An early tribe from the lower Mississippi region<br> <a href="../cathen/12593a.htm">Quarantines</a> - A strict ecclesiastical penance of forty days<br> <a href="../cathen/12593b.htm">Quaresmius, Franciscus</a> - Seventeenth-century writer and Orientalist (1583-1650)<br> <a href="../cathen/12593c.htm">Quebec, Archdiocese of</a> - Comprises thirteen counties in Canada<br> <a href="../cathen/12598a.htm">Quebec, The Province of</a> - Gives a brief history of this Canadian province and talks about Quebec at the beginning of the twentieth century. Article originally published in 1911<br> <a href="../cathen/12600a.htm">Quelen, Hyacinthe-Louis De</a> - Archbishop of Paris (1778-1839)<br> <a href="../cathen/12600b.htm">Quem terra, pontus, sidera</a> - Ancient hymn in honour of the Blessed Virgin<br> <a href="../cathen/16069a.htm">Queen's Daughters</a> - American religious and charitable society, organized to supplement the work done by the members of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul<br> <a href="../cathen/12601a.htm">Quercia, Jacopo Della</a> - Italian sculptor (1374-1438)<br> <a href="../cathen/12601b.htm">Querétaro, Diocese of</a> - Located in Mexico; suffragan of Michoacan<br> <a href="../cathen/12601c.htm">Quesnel, Pasquier</a> - French writer (1634-1719)<br> <a href="../cathen/12603a.htm">Quevedo, Juan de</a> - Spanish Franciscan (b. 1519)<br> <a href="../cathen/12604a.htm">Quiche</a> - Principal aboriginal tribe of Guatemala<br> <a href="../cathen/12604b.htm">Quichua Indians</a> - Peruvian and Ecuadoran tribe<br> <a href="../cathen/12607a.htm">Quicumque Christum Quæritis</a> - Opening line of the twelfth and last poem in the 'Cathemerinon' of Prudentius<br> <a href="../cathen/12608a.htm">Quierzy, Councils of</a> - Series of five councils held in a French village between 838 and 858<br> <a href="../cathen/12608b.htm">Quiet, Prayer of</a> - A degree of contemplation in which the soul experiences an extraordinary peace and rest<br> <a href="../cathen/12608c.htm">Quietism</a> - Doctrine which declares that man's highest perfection consists in a sort of psychical self-annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life<br> <a href="../cathen/12610a.htm">Quilon, Diocese of</a> - Indian diocese, suffragan of Verapoly<br> <a href="../cathen/12611a.htm">Quimper, Diocese of</a> - French diocese, including the Department of Finistere<br> <a href="../cathen/12613a.htm">Quin, Michael Joseph</a> - Irish journalist (1796-1843)<br> <a href="../cathen/12613b.htm">Quinctianus, Saints</a> - Several saints named Quinctianus appear in martyrologies, but almost nothing is known about most of them<br> <a href="../cathen/12613c.htm">Quiñones, Francis</a> - Spanish Cardinal (1482-1540)<br> <a href="../cathen/12614a.htm">Quinquagesima</a> - The period of fifty days before Easter<br> <a href="../cathen/12614b.htm">Quintana, Agustín</a> - Missionary and Indian philologist (d. 1784)<br> <a href="../cathen/12614c.htm">Quiricus and Julitta</a> - Martyrs in the Diocletian persecution<br> <a href="../cathen/12614d.htm">Quirini, Angelo Maria</a> - Cardinal and scholar (1680-1755)<br> <a href="../cathen/12615a.htm">Quirinus, Saints</a> - Article discusses several saints of this name<br> <a href="../cathen/12615b.htm">Quito, Archdiocese of</a> - Comprises two dioceses and four sees in Ecuador<br> <a href="../cathen/08692a.htm"><strong>Qur'an, The</strong></a> - The sacred book of the Muslims, by whom it is regarded as the revelation of God<br> <div class='catholicadnet-728x90' id='cathen-728x90-bottom' style='text-align: center; width: 100%; '></div> </div> <div id="ogdenville"><table summary="Bottom bar" width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td class="bar_white_on_color"><center><strong>Copyright © 2023 by <a href="../utility/contactus.htm">New Advent LLC</a>. 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