Monday, June 29, 2009

Pp: Paraklete


The Holy Spirit which Christ promised to His disciples would take His place as their teacher and guide after He left them. Also the name of the monastery founded by Abelard near Nogent-sur-Seine, and of which Heloïse (q.v.) was abbess.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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