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Jacobite Church
Jacobite Church , Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarded by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox as heretical. It was founded (6th cent.) as a Monophysite church in Syria by Jacob Baradaeus, greatly helped by Empress Theodora. It is thus analogous in position to the Coptic Church, the Monophysite church of Egypt. For many centuries the Jacobites were under Muslim dominion. Most Jacobites live in Iraq, while their patriarch resides at Damascus. They resemble other Eastern Christians in custom; their rite is the Antiochene or West Syrian; the liturgical language is Syriac. Since the 17th cent. there has been constant contact with Rome; as a result there is a community in communion with the pope having practices and rite in common with the Jacobites. These "Syrian Catholics" number about as many as the Jacobites; their head, another patriarch of Antioch, lives at Beirut. They have a separate church organization from the Melchites, Maronites, and Chaldaean Catholics, which are other communities of Syria and Iraq in communion with Rome. In Malabar, India, there is a Christian sect of "Malabar Jacobites" ; this group came into existence in the 17th cent., when the bulk of the Malabar Christians left the Roman communion and established relations with the Jacobite patriarch. They now use the Antiochene rite, with some differences. They are divided into two disputing jurisdictional parties, and there is a quasi-Protestant group of "Reformed Jacobites." In the 20th cent. a large number of Malabar Jacobites entered into communion with the pope, retaining their liturgy and practices. These "Malankarese Catholics" are ecclesiastically separate from both the Syrian Catholics, whose rite they share, and from the "Syro-Malabar Catholics" (Chaldaean rite), who represent the Malabar Christians who did not leave the Roman communion when the Malabar Jacobites did.
Bibliography: See D. Attwater, The Christian Churches of the East (1947-48).
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The Jacobites and Russia, 1715-1750.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Rebecca Wills. The Jacobites and Russia, 1715...every aspect of the Jacobite diaspora during the...European projects of the Jacobite court, the ever-shifting...recruitment standards, the Jacobites employed were invariably...by the way in which Jacobite agents, intriguing...
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Could the Jacobites have won? (the 1745 military attempt of Bonnie Prince Charlie to restore the Stuarts to the English throne)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...as a result. At the Jacobite Council meeting at Exeter...support from the English Jacobites and no idea of when...November 15th, and the Jacobites pressed south. Wade...After Carlisle the Jacobites encountered no resistance...exposed. The speed of the Jacobite advance thwarted ...
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Engraved Jacobite glasses.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...engraved glasses of this period. Jacobites espoused the right of the...version of James, Jacobus, the Jacobites worked tirelessly to engineer...Charlie. The activities of Jacobite clubs have been reasonably...immediately after the best-known Jacobite uprising, that of 1745...
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Myth of 'primitive' Jacobite army at Culloden laid to rest
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/8/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...there are swords and the Jacobites thought 'real soldiers...plus cannon were in Jacobite hands in 1745." A...dragoons to ride at the Jacobites and break the frontline...this was controlled Jacobite fire bringing down a...happened because the Jacobites were outnumbered, did...
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Jacobite history to national song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne).
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...identity. Both drew on a Jacobite heritage of disaffection...injunction from the Jacobites, and that was to define...last battle in the last Jacobite war, was fought on...but he also employs Jacobite speakers to convey his...songs opened up the Jacobites often coded references...
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1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...clear that the Scots Jacobites took the decision to...moment." When a Scots Jacobite army fnay managed to...further developed. Jacobite psychology soon takes...Explaining how Scots Jacobites took the final step...downplays the extent of Jacobite support. The Nonjurors...
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 "Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)")
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Jacobites to rise again - at Banff
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK); 2/17/2007; ; 561 words
; The turbulent days of the Jacobite rising, and the effects on one corner...will explain the life and times of a Jacobite clansman and examine the background...firing of a musket. Next Saturday's Jacobite Day will also include a project to...
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Will the glory days of the Jacobites no' come back again?
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 12/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...you will stumble across a Jacobite. The don't-give-a...Scot is almost certainly a Jacobite. The best songs, the best...dress are all part of our Jacobite inheritance. Where it is...much to get excited about. Jacobites are, for instance, in lamentably...
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Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...identity. Both drew on a Jacobite heritage of disaffection...injunction from the Jacobites, and that was to define...last battle in the last Jacobite war, was fought on...but he also employs Jacobite speakers to convey his...songs opened up the Jacobites' often coded references...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The truth behind 'caricature of the Culloden savages'; Muskets ready: A re-enactment of Jacobite troops at Prestonpans.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 2/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...tactics employed by the Jacobite commanders. He said...there are swords and the Jacobites believed real soldiers...dragoons to ride at the Jacobites and break the frontline...opening fire - controlled Jacobite fire, bringing down...the historian, the Jacobites were defeated at Culloden...
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Jacobites
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...none Orientation The Jacobites, today numbering some...commonly known as the Jacobite church. They are to...a patriarchate. The Jacobites were driven from Antioch...in 538. The term "Jacobite" was not even their...accepted it, however. The Jacobites' conflict with the...
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Jacobite risings
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Jacobite risings were attempts...dynasty were known as Jacobites from the Latin form...emigration after the last Jacobite army surrendered...reluctantly by many Jacobite Scots. Even the...Inverness, where the Jacobites were totally routed...
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Jacobite Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jacobite Church , Christian...many centuries the Jacobites were under Muslim...sect of "Malabar Jacobites" ; this group came...relations with the Jacobite patriarch. They...group of "Reformed Jacobites." In the 20th cent...
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Jacobite
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Jacobite, a term used to describe supporters of...Bonnie Prince Charlie’. Jacobite hopes were effectively crushed in the...Cumberland (1721–65). The Jacobite cause was taken up by many writers (including...
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Jacobitism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the definition of a Jacobite, with the sparseness...treasonable activity Jacobites took care not to leave...believe that once a Jacobite always a Jacobite, whereas it seems...hard core of lifelong Jacobites, most drifted in and...
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