transubstantiation

Catholic doctrine that, during mass, the substance of the eucharistic bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Jesus, even though external appearance remains unchanged
Intangible religious_concept Q214500
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transubstantiation

Summary

transubstantiation is a religious concept[1]. transubstantiation ranks in the top 5% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,171 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • transubstantiation's religion is recorded as Christianity[3].
  • transubstantiation's image is recorded as Jerusalem (5564340326).jpg[4].
  • transubstantiation's instance of is recorded as religious concept[5].
  • transubstantiation's GND ID is recorded as 4132729-9[6].
  • transubstantiation's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85137088[7].
  • transubstantiation's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12651496q[8].
  • transubstantiation's subclass of is recorded as miracle[9].
  • transubstantiation's subclass of is recorded as change[10].
  • transubstantiation's part of is recorded as Eucharistic theology[11].
  • transubstantiation's part of is recorded as Catholicism[12].
  • transubstantiation's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 7944[13].
  • transubstantiation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07lq1[14].
  • transubstantiation's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX537551[15].
  • transubstantiation's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300066048[16].
  • transubstantiation's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 234.163[17].
  • transubstantiation's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0239787[18].
  • transubstantiation's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • transubstantiation's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • transubstantiation's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • transubstantiation's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[22].
  • transubstantiation's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • transubstantiation's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000170907[24].
  • transubstantiation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/transubstantiation[25].
  • transubstantiation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/tags/transubstantiation[26].
  • transubstantiation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/transubstantiation[27].

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Personal Life

transubstantiation's religion is recorded as Christianity[3].

Why It Matters

transubstantiation ranks in the top 5% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,171 views/month).[2] transubstantiation has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] transubstantiation is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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