Angel de Saavedra Remírez de Baquedano
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Paccanarists)
Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
Ancient Diocese of Saint Asaph
Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme
Henri-Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville
Order of Saint James of Compostela
Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Prefecture Apostolic of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism
Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius
Diocese of Saint Thomas of Guiana
Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapur
Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Vallier
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
Salmanticenses and Complutenses
Coluccio di Pierio di Salutati
Samaritan Language and Literature
Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud
Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands
Diocese of San José de Costa Rica
Prefecture Apostolic of San León del Amazonas
Diocese of San Marco and Bisignano
Diocese of Santa Agata dei Goti
Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Prelature Nullius of Santa Lucia del Mela
Abbey Nullius of Santa Maria de Monserrato
Diocese of Sant' Angelo de' Lombardi
Diocese of Sant' Angelo in Vado and Urbania
Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
Diocese of Santiago del Estero
Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini
Diocese of São Carlos do Pinhal
Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres
Diocese of São Luiz de Maranhão
Archiocese of São Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos
Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Diocese of São Thiago de Cabo Verde
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Constantine, Baron von Schäzler
Theodore, Count von Scherer-Boccard
John Frederick Henry Schlosser
Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools
Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst
Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Established Church of Scotland
Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sebastia
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur
Vicariate Apostolic of Senegambia
Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu Sept-Fons
Jean-Baptiste-Louis-George Seroux d'Agincourt
Congregation of the Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shan-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shan-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shen-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shen-si
Shrines of Our Lady and the Saints in Great Britain and Ireland
Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour
Vicariate Apostolic of Sierra Leone (Sierræ Leonis, Sierra-Leonensis)
St. Simeon Stylites the Younger
Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio
Sisters of the Little Company of Mary
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Catholic Church Extension Society
Society of Foreign Missions of Paris
Society of the Blessed Sacrament
Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Ancient Diocese of Sodor and Man
Prefecture Apostolic of Solimôes Superiore
Prefecture Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands
Prefecture Apostolic of Southern Solomon Islands
Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Diocese of Sovana and Pitigliano
Spanish Language and Literature
Diocese of Spalato-Macarsca (Salona)
Johann and Wendelin von Speyer
Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini
Vicariate Apostolic of Stanley Falls
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart
Diocese of Stuhlweissenburg (Székes-Fehérvàr)
Sulpicians in the United States
Prefecture Apostolic of Sumatra
Sophie-Jeanne Soymonof Swetchine
Syriac Language and Literature
Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Sze-Ch'wan
Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-ch'wan
Metropolitan see of Isauria in the Patriarchate of Antioch. The city was built by Seleucus I, Nicator, King of Syria, about 300 B.C. It is probable that on its site existed one or two towns called Olbia and Hyria, and that Seleucia merely united them, giving them his name. At the same time the inhabitants of Holmi were transported thither (Stephanus Byzantius, s. v.; Strabo, XIV, 670). Under the Romans it was autonomous, eventually becoming the capital of Isauria. A council was held there in 359 which assembled about 160 bishops who declared in favor of the homoiousios and condemned the chief errors of the Anomoeans. St. Hilary of Poitiers assisted at it. Seleucia was famous for the tomb of St. Thecla, a virgin of Iconium, converted by St. Paul, and who died at Seleucia, according to the "Acta Pauli et Theclae", an apocryphal work of the second century. In any case the sanctuary built over this tomb and restored several times, among others by the Emperor Zeno in the fifth century, was one of the most celebrated in the Christian world. Its ruins are called Meriamlik ("Denkschriften der k. Akadem. der Wissenschaft. philos.-histor. Klasse", Vienna, XLIV, 6, 105-08). In the fifth century the imperial governor ( comes Isauriae) in residence at Seleucia had two legions at his disposal, the Secunda Isaura and the Tertia Isaura. From this period, and perhaps from the fourth century, dates the Christian necropolis, lying west of the town and containing many tombs of Christian soldiers with inscriptions. According to the "Notitia episcopatuum" of Antioch, in the sixth century Seleucia had twenty-four suffragan sees (Echoes d'Orient, X, 145). About 732 nearly all ecclesiastical Isauria was incorporated with the Patriarchate of Constantinople; henceforth the province figures in the "Notitiae" of Byzantium, but under the name of Pamphylia.
In the "Notitiae" of Leo the Wise (c. 900) Seleucia has 22 suffragan bishoprics (Gelzer, "Ungedruckte . . . Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum", 557); in that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus (c. 940) it has 23 ("Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani", ed. Gelzer, 76). In 968 Antioch again fell into the power of the Greeks, and with the Province of Isauria Seleucia was restored to the Patriarchate of Antioch (Gelzer, op. cit., 573). At present the title of Seleucia is borne by the Metropolitan of Tarsus-Adana, dependent on the Patriarch of Antioch. Le Quien (Oriens christ., II, 1012-16) mentions 10 metropolitans of this see, the first of whom, Agapetus, attended the Council of Nicaea in 325; Neonas was at Seleucia in 359; Symposius at Constantinople in 381; Dexianus at Ephesus in 431; Basil, a celebrated orator and writer, whose conduct was rather ambiguous at the Robber Council of Ephesus and at the beginning of the Counci lof Chalcedon in 451; Theodore was at the Fifth (Ecumenical Council im 553; Macrobius at the Sixth Council and the Council in Trullo in 692. Three others are mentioned in "The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus" (ed. Brooks, passim). Several Latin titulars are also known after 1345 (Eubel "Hierarchia catholica medii aevi)", I, 468). Seleucia was captured by the Seljuks in the eleventh century, and later by the Armenians of the Kingdom of Cilicia. At the beginning of the thirteenth century it was in the possession of the Hospitallers, as was also its stronghold. The Caramanian Turks captured it in the second half of the thirteenth century and then the Osmanlis, who still possess it. As Liman-Iskelessi, or Selefke-Iskelessi, it is now a caza in the sandjak of Itch-II and the vilayet of Adana. It has about 3000 inhabitants, half of whom are Greek schismatics. Ruins of the theatre and some temples are to be seen. The stronghold which crowns the mountain is of Armenian origin.
SMITH, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Geog., s. v.; TEXIER, Asie Mineure (Paris, 1862), 724; LANGLOIS, voyage dans la Cilicie (Paris, 1861), 180-92; WADDINGTON, Vogage archeologique en Asie Mineure, 339-41; DUCHESNE in Bulletin de correspondance hellenique, IV, 195-202; CUINET, La Turquie d'Asie, II, 67-9; ALISHAN, Sissouan (Venice, 1899), 328-35.
S. VAILHÉ