among divines, one of the three grand theological virtues, consisting in the love of God and of our neighbour, or the habit and disposition of loving God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Charity of St Hippolitus, a religious congregation founded, about the end of the XIVth century, by one Bernardin Alvarez, a Mexican, in honour of St. Hippolitus. Hippolitus the martyr, patron of the city of Mexico; and approved by pope Gregory XIII.