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...denburg St Gallus-Kirche.JPG|thumb|250px|Mite box in the St.-Gallus-Kirche in [[Ladenburg]], Germany]] ...x that is used to collect coins for charitable purposes. They can be found in most [[Christian]] churches built before the 19th century and were the main ...

...35.jpg|thumb|250px|Fresco of Theophylact of Nicomedia in Archangels Chapel in the Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, 1835.]] ...ylact''' or '''Theophylaktos''' (d. 845 AD) became [[bishop of Nicomedia]] in [[Asia Minor]] during the [[Iconoclastic Controversy]] of the eighth centur ...

{{short description|People employed to make special prayers in Medieval Britain}} ...-85244-615-2 | page = 16 | accessdate = 24 November 2010}}.</ref> who died in 1483|right|thumb]] ...

...; line-height: 1em">Illustration of Matthew 6:4 "... that your alms may be in secret" by Christoffel van Sichem (1629).</div>}} ...on on the Mount]]. This is the final verse of the Sermon's discussion of [[alms]] giving. ...

==In religion== * [[Alms]], voluntary gifts to others, especially poor people, as an act of virtue ...

{{short description|Chaplain in charge of assisting the poor}} ...ord derives from the {{langx|grc|ἐλεημοσύνη}} ''{{lang|grc|eleēmosynē}}'' (alms), via the [[popular Latin]] ''{{lang|la|almosinarius}}''.<ref>{{OEtymD|almo ...

[[File:Kollektstav.JPG|thumb|Collection bag used in [[Fru Alstad Church]]]] ...> is the part of a [[Eucharist]]ic service when the bread and wine for use in the service are ceremonially placed on the [[altar]]. ...

{{Short description|Person who relies primarily on alms}} ...t|A Japanese Buddhist pilgrim on alms round (during [[Shikoku Pilgrimage]] in Shikoku, Japan)]] ...

{{Short description|Verse of the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew}} ...cond verse of [[Matthew 6|the sixth chapter]] of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] in the [[New Testament]] and is part of the [[Sermon on the Mount]]. This vers ...

...ived either in monasteries, as at Mount Athos and [[Meteora]] or insulated in [[hermit]]ages, devoted to [[agriculture]] and [[prayer]]. ...ir lents, some did not eat more than once in three days, others only twice in seven. ...

{{Short description|Verses of the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew}} .... These verses open the discussion of wealth. These verses are paralleled in {{bibleverse|Luke|12:33|KJV}}. ...

{{Short description|Verse of the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew}} ...hird verse of [[Matthew 6|the sixth chapter]] of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] in the [[New Testament]] and is part of the [[Sermon on the Mount]]. This vers ...

...lusion to [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]) and meets a friend, Critias, who is in a state of great excitement.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=439}} ...σκόμενος}}, refers to this "instruction" of Critias in matters relating to Christianity).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=439}} ...

[[File:School in Moscow tsardom by B.Kustodiev.jpg|thumb|''A School in Muscovite Russia'', painting by [[Boris Kustodiev]] (1908)]] ...ions were [[fasting]], [[prayer]], [[icon]] veneration and the giving of [[alms]]. ...

...52-6 | page=1582}}</ref> were the members of a brotherhood, who in [[early Christianity]] voluntarily undertook the care of the sick and the [[burial]] of the dead ...nts to local bishops and were sometimes used by them as [[bodyguard]]s and in violent clashes with their opponents. ...

...nd nuns in mission areas. The society was founded in [[Lyon]], [[France]], in 1822, by [[Pauline-Marie Jaricot|Pauline Jaricot]]. It is the oldest of fou ...]]s, which suggestion she cordially embraced, but could procure only small alms among her friends and acquaintances.<ref name=Freri>[http://www.newadvent.o ...

...civil administration of the temporalities and in particular the pecuniary alms destined for the support and benefit of Franciscan convents, and thence pro ...servation in their own behalf. But as the civil administration of property in one's own interest is an act of ownership, and this was prohibited by the r ...

...and Church History at [[St Andrew's College, Sydney|St Andrew's College]] in the [[University of Sydney]] from 1915 to 1943. ...rship to [[Queen's College, Galway]], receiving a B.A. in 1902 and an M.A. in 1903. He earned a second M.A. and a PhD from [[Princeton University]]. He a ...

...eplies of Jerome, the last through the Panarion of Epiphanius. They figure in Catholic church history among the heretics, while they have received from m ...raging about [[Origen of Alexandria]] ({{circa | 184}} – {{circa | 253}}), in the course of which Vigilantius accused Jerome of Origenism.<ref name="Dict ...

...Presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton]</ref>{{page needed|reason=could not find in book - only mention of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd appears on p.115, but no mentio ...Wales]] before being brought to [[London]] and paraded through the streets in May 1285 at the head of a procession that included the king, the queen, the ...