Apostles' Islands

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

or THE TWELVE APOSTLES, a group of 27 islands in Lake Superior. They belong to Wisconsin. The principal islands of the group are Ile au Chene, Stockton, Bear, Madeline, and Outer. They have an area of 200 square miles. Brown sandstone is exported, and the islands are covered with a rich growth of timber. La Pointe, on Madeline island, formerly the county-seat of Ashland county, Wis., was settled by the French in 1680. POSTOLIC, or APOSTOLICAL, pertaining or relating to the the apostles. Apostolic Church. - The Church in the time of the apostles, constituted accord, ing to their design. The name is also given to the four churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, and is claimed by the Roman Catholic Church, and occasionally by the Episcopalians. Apostolic Constitutions and Canons.- A collection of regulations attributed to the apostles, but generally supposed to be spurious. They appeared in the 4th century; are divided into eight books, and consist of rules and precepts relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly called Judas, or Jude; Simon the Canaan- to the ceremonies and discipline of the ber, Simon Peter, John, James the Apostolic Delegate. - A permanent repgreater, and Andrew were fisher-resentative of the Pope in a foreign country. It is sometimes confounded with the word ablegate, the latter meaning a temporary representative of the Pope for some special function. Apostolic Fathers. - The Christian writers who, during any part of their lives, were contemporary with the apostles. There are five-Clement, Barnabas, Hermas, Ignatius, Polycarp. Apostolic King. A title granted by the Pope to the Kings of Hungary, first conferred on St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line of Hungary, on account of what he accomplished in the spread of Christianity. Apostolic See. - The see of the Popes or Bishops of Rome; so called because the Popes profess themselves the successors of St. Peter, its founder. Apostolic Succession. -The uninterrupted succession of bishops, and, through them, of priests and deacons (these three orders of ministers being called the apostolical orders), in the Church by regular ordination from the first apostles down to the present day. All Episcopal churches hold theoretically, and the Roman Catholic Church and many members of the English Church strictly, that such succession is essential to the officiating priest, in order that grace may be communicated through his administrations.