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  • - Prefecture Apostolic in Africa.
  • - Bishop of Panama, b. at Berlanga in Spain, date uncertain; d. there 8 August, 1551.
  • - Spanish priest and one of the first to give attention to the education of the deaf and dumb, b. towards the end of the sixteenth century.
  • - Friar Minor and missionary. (1439-1494)
  • - Archdiocese; comprises the entire department of the Gironde and was established conformably to the Concordat of 1802.
  • - A Jesuit missionary, born 1724 at Magnac, Angoumois, France; died 1782.
  • - Born about 1200; died 1 July, 1271.
  • - Situated between the rivers Este and Cavado, in the province of Minho, in the Kingdom of Portugal.
  • - Son of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini.
  • - A titular see taking its title from one of the many Egyptian cities of the same name.
  • - Canonist, historian, and theologian. (1697-1766)
  • - Titular (united) sees of Servia.
  • - Founder of the Catholic publishing house that bears his name. (1762-1841)
  • - Painter of the Swabian school. (1473-1531)
  • - Brothers and writers from Kilkenny, Ireland.
  • - Suffragan diocese of the Spanish province of Huesca.
  • - French Jesuit humanist. (1704-1742)
  • - Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 April, 1757.
  • - A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
  • - Abbot (d. 680) after whom Boston was named.
  • - A titular see of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
  • - Author, b. at Dunfermline, Scotland, 1539; d. 1613.
  • - A Catholic clergyman, b. in Yorkshire, England; d. at Douai, France, 7 October, 1591.
  • - Archbishop of Trier and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, born 1285; died 1354.
  • - Cardinal and author. (1609-1674)
  • - A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris.
  • - A Cistercian house in Hampshire, one of the three monasteries founded by King John (c. 1204) and peopled by thirty monks from Cîteaux.
  • - The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms, born about 1303; died 23 July, 1373.
  • - German physician, novelist, and poet, b. at Thannhausen in Swabian Bavaria, 3 March, 1809; d. at the same place, 8 February, 1883.
  • - The conception is that in the tabernacle Jesus Christ, as it were, holds his court, and is prepared to grant audience to all who draw near to him.
  • - Friar Minor and chronicler.
  • - Controversialist, b. at Blois, France, 9 June, 1592; entered the Society of Jesus in 1619, d. at Blois, 10 September, 1668.
  • - Spanish Dominican bishop, patriot, and diplomat. (1382-1469)
  • - The exact list or catalogue of books, the reading of which was once forbidden to Catholics by the highest ecclesiastical authority.
  • - Coextensive with the Department of Calvados, is suffragan to the Archbishopric of Rouen.
  • - Mexican statesman and historian. (1774-1848)
  • - Name given to the place where the "Sermon on the Mount", was delivered.
  • - A canonist who lived at the end of the seventeenth century.
  • - Bishop of Caesarea. Born probably 329; died 1 January, 379.
  • - A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions; or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one; or whose episcopal see has attached to it
  • - The name was first aplied to a practice which had its origin in Ireland during the most stirring days of the land agitation.
  • - An altar that is subordinate to the central or high altar.
  • - Born at Tours about 999; died on the island of St. Cosme, near that city, in 1088.
  • - Better know under the assumed name of Southwell, a Jesuit priest and bibliographer, b. in the county of Norfolk, England, in 1598; d. at Rome, 2 Dec., 1676.
  • - Born 26 March, 1748 at Amettes in the Diocese of Boulogne, France; died in Rome 16 April, 1783.
  • - A Jansenist writer, b. at Paris, 1686; d. 1763.
  • - Confessor, first Bishop of Dorchester, died 3 December, 650.
  • - Superior of Melrose Abbey, d. 664.
  • - A mixed style, i.e. a style composed of Graeco-Roman and Oriental elements which, in earlier centuries, cannot be clearly separated.
  • - A French theologian, b. at Rouen, 29 November, 1741; d. at Saint-Laurent, 26 September, 1825.
  • - U.S. Navy Captain. (1745-1803)
  • - The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital Byzantium, or Constantinople.
  • - A basin or vase, serving as a receptacle for baptismal water in which the candidate for baptism is immersed, or over which he is washed, in the ceremony of Christian initiation.
  • - Third Bishop of Vincennes (now the Diocese of Indianapolis). (1796-1848)
  • - St. Basil drew up his Rule for the members of the monastery he founded about 356 on the banks of the Iris in Cappadocia.
  • - Painter of the Venetian school. (1500-1570)
  • - The last survivor of the seven first companions of Ignatius of Loyola. (1511-1590)
  • - A priest and founder of two religious congregations. (1544-1607)
  • - The Coptic language is now recognized in four principal dialects, Bohairic (formerly Memphitic), Fayumic, Sahidic (formerly Theban), and Akhmimic.
  • - Bishop of Saragossa, date of birth unknown, d. at Saragossa c. 651.
  • - One of the thirteen dioceses erected by the Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, 27 September, 1850, which restored a hierarchy to the Catholic church in England.
  • - Known as the "Deaf Man of the Barozzo", a painter of distinction, b. in Rome, 1571; d. there 1644.
  • - French missionary among the Caribbean Indians. (1609-1679)
  • - Philosopher, essayist, reviewer, b. at Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S.A., 16 September, 1803; d. at Detroit, Michigan, 17 April, 1876.
  • - Professor of apologetics and church history, born at Orléans. (1823-1888)
  • - Diocese in Portugal, suffragan of Evora.
  • - Balsam is an oily, resinous, and odorous substance, which flows spontaneously or by incision from certain plants, and which the Church mixes with olive oil for use as chrism.
  • - Sixth Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • - An architect and sculptor, born at Florence, 1377; died there 16 April, 1446.
  • - English composer. (1542-1623)
  • - Bavarian historian. (1756-1829)
  • - Born probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; called the "Nun of Kent".
  • - Authority of Holy Writ is twofold on account of its twofold authorship. The various books which make up the Bible are authentic because of their respective authors. They also possess a higher authenticity because they're the inspired word of God.
  • - The westernmost province of the Dominion of Canada.
  • - Irish monk and associate of St. Columba. (d. 600)
  • - Illegitimacy, a canonical impediment to ordination.
  • - Founded 1648, in the Church of the Gesu, by Father Vincent Carrafa, seventh General of the Society of Jesus, and approved by the Sovereign Pontiffs Innocent X and Alexander VII.
  • - An academy founded at Bonn in 1777 by Max Friedrich, Prince-Archbishop of Cologne.
  • - First Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (1846-1903)
  • - Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian. (1538-1607)
  • - Ascetical writer. (1458-1527)
  • - A Benedictine monk of the first half of the twelfth century, poet, satirist, and hymn-writer, author of "On the Contempt of the World".
  • - Friar Minor and chronicler, born c. 1262; died c. 1348.
  • - Jesuit missionary to China. (1606-1682)
  • - Carthusian monk, b. in 1403; d. 19 February, 1473.
  • - Swiss poet and writer. (1841-1910)
  • - Bollandist, born at Brussels, 19 October, 1686; died 14 November, 1736.
  • - French mathematician and astronomer. (1786-1856)
  • - Earliest existing dated examples are of the thirteenth century.
  • - Roman and son of Ferrucius; was intruded into the Chair of St. Peter in 974; reinstalled 984; died July, 985.
  • - St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, known also as Brendan the Voyager, was born in Ciarraighe Luachra, near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, in 484; he died at Enachduin, now Annaghdown, in 577.
  • - Known also as Aquapontanus, historian of the Catholic confessors under Queen Elizabeth, born in Yorkshire about 1532; died probably at Trier, about 1596.
  • - Scottish jurist, b. 1546; d. at Angers, France, 3 July, 1608.
  • - It is ordinarily an afternoon or evening devotion and consists in the singing of certain hymns, or litanies, or canticles, before the Blessed Sacrament, which is exposed upon the altar in a monstrance and is surrounded with lights.
  • - Born in 1090, at Fontaines, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153.
  • - French prelate and writer, b. in Besançon early in the seventeenth century; d. 29 April, 1677.
  • - Irish Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and writer of Latin prose and verse. (1610-1696)
  • - An Italian-American historical painter, celebrated for his fresco work in the Capitol at Washington. (1805-1880)
  • - Archbishop of Vienne. (778-842)
  • - Bishop and Martyr.
  • - Includes history of Dutch and British rule.
  • - The saint is usually depicted in adoration before a vision of the Host.
  • - French advocate, orator, and statesman. (1790-1868)
  • - Franciscan of the monastery of that city and the most powerful preacher of repentance in the thirteenth century, b. about 1210; d. at Ratisbon, 14 December, 1272.
  • - An early fifth-century writer, known only through two treatises which warrant the conjecture that he was a monk, possibly an abbot, and a Spaniard.
  • - The popes very often delegated to others the power to give this blessing in answer to petitions from princes, at the close of missions, and on such occasions.
  • - Prince-Bishopric seated at Breslau, on the River Oder in the Prussian Province of Silesia.
  • - Coextensive with the civil department of Ain and a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Besançon.
  • - Martyr, b. at Brill in Oxfordshire, England, dated uncertain; d. 5 July 1589.
  • - Wife of King Clovis II. (d. 680)
  • - Article covers origin, benediction, uses, archaeology and inscriptions, and points of law.
  • - English Jesuit martyr. (1616-1679)
  • - Born at Worcester, 1538, died at Harrow-on the-Hill, 1581.
  • - French prelate and diplomat. (1643-1715)
  • - Historian, b. at Reims, 1692; d. at Paris, 1785.
  • - Jesuit missionary to China. (1607-1671)
  • - The chief town of the Province of West Flanders in the Kingdom of Belgium.
  • - Situated in Sardinia, in the province of Sassari, district of Nuoro, and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Sassari.
  • - Military and hospitaller orders.
  • - Founder of western monasticism, born at Nursia, c. 480; died at Monte Cassino, 543.
  • - Memorials of a St. Balbina are to be found at Rome in three different spots which are connected with the early Christian antiquities of that city.
  • - The upper part of the tower or steeple of a church, for the reception of the bells; or a detached tower containing bells, as the campanile of the Italians.
  • - A Scotch poet, b. at Haddington or Berwick in the latter part of the fifteenth century; d. at Rome, c. 1587.
  • - Town in Syria; also called Heliopolis.
  • - A liturgical act prescribed in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
  • - Controversialist, born at Hilvarenbeck, Brabant, Holland, 6 January, 1563; died at Vienna, 24 January, 1624.
  • - An English Catholic who suffered imprisonment in the closing years of the seventeenth, and during the earlier half of the eighteenth, centuries; died in 1748.
  • - Historian and critic. (1573-1641)
  • - Martyr honoured as the patron saint and first herald of Christianity of Dijon.
  • - Benedictine, abbot, and historian. (1672-1749)
  • - A naval officer of the Republic of Argentina. (1777-1857)
  • - Bishop of Dol, in France, chronicler, b. about 1050; d. 7 January, 1130.
  • - Archdiocese; comprises Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties in the State of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • - Theologian and author of a system known as Baianism. (1513-1589)
  • - Educator, b. at Bellgarde (Loiret), France, in 1828.
  • - Together, form the north-western corner of the Balkan Peninsula.
  • - Jesuit theologian. (1540-1587)
  • - Friar Minor and medieval philosopher, b. in 1275 and d. in 1337.
  • - Last Catholic Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, son of Philip Bourne of Worcestershire, date of birth unknown; d. 10 Sept., 1569.
  • - A mountainous district of South Africa, bounded on the north and west by the Orange River Colony, on the easy by Natal, and on the south by Cape Colony.
  • - A collection of pictures representing scenes from Jesus' life with the corresponding prophetic types.
  • - Barnabite theologian, b. at Castelnuovo, Italy, in 1552; d. at Milan, 27 August, 1630.
  • - Beads variously strung together, according to the kind, order, and number of prayers in certain forms of devotion, are in common use among Catholics as an expedient to ensure a right count of the parts occurring in more or less frequent repetition.
  • - A French cardinal, writers, and statesman. (1748-1824)
  • - Jesuit missionary. (d. 1732)
  • - Italian Dominican painter (1475-1517)
  • - Italian painter of the sixteenth century, born at Brescia about 1498; died at the same place, 1555.
  • - A canonist of the early thirteenth century.
  • - Formerly an electoral principality, and a diocese in the heart of the present Kingdom of Prussia.
  • - Information on the history, site, and construction of the tower.
  • - Scottish ecclesiastic and author of "The Bruce", a historical poem in the early Scottish or Northern English dialect, b. about 1320; d. 1395.
  • - One of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries in Germany in the Middle Ages. Founded in 1093 by Duke Henry of Nordheim and his wife Gertrude.
  • - Capital of the republic of Colombia.
  • - The Diocese takes its name from the principal city in the province of the same name in Lombardy, between the Mella and the Naviglio.
  • - French theologian and founder of the Congregation of the Priests of St. Mary.
  • - Manuscripts are written, as opposed to printed, copies of the original text or of a version either of the whole Bible or of a part thereof.
  • - Third Bishop of Detroit, Michigan. (1824-1890)
  • - Orientalist. (1838-1906)
  • - Historical and geographical writer. Born at Oaxaca about 1600; d. at Teopozotlan in 1681.
  • - An orientalist, and a monk of Rennes in Brittany; date of birth and death unknown.
  • - Founded during the English domination, under King Henry VI, in 1441.
  • - Term employed to designate the Eastern survival of the ancient Roman Empire.
  • - Also called Bartholomaeus Parvus (the Little), born at Bologna, year not known; died 15 August, 1333.
  • - A renowned Franciscan preacher of the fifteenth century.
  • - This work holds the first place among monastic legislative codes, and was the most important factor in the organization and spread of monasticism in the West.
  • - A titular see of Albania.
  • - Theologian, born at Rennes, in France, 9 July, 1591, died at Paris, 23 August, 1664.
  • - Cardinal, Minor conventual, and theologian. (1612-1693)
  • - Defined as the backing of an affirmation or forecast by offering to forfeit, in case of an adverse issue, a sum of money or article of value to one who, by accepting, maintains the opposite and backs his opinion by a corresponding stipulation.
  • - This English diocese, which takes its very origin from measures directed against the Church, has a very brief Catholic history, for it only had one bishop acknowledged by the Holy See.
  • - Exegete and Orientalist. (1807-1884)
  • - Canonist and bishop. (d. 1213)
  • - The Diocese of Banjaluka in Western Bosnia.
  • - A suffragan diocese of the archiepiscopal See of Reims.
  • - A city of the Amorrhites in the valley-plain east of the Jordan.
  • - The separate building in which the Sacrament of Baptism was once solemnly administered, or that portion of the church-edifice later set apart for the same purpose.
  • - Regular Canon and economist, b. at Amboise, France, 25 April, 1730; d. in 1792.
  • - A notable Florentine painter, b. in Florence, 14 October, 1427; d. there, 29 August, 1499.
  • - The title of an ecclesiastical dignitary who possesses the fullness of the priesthood to rule a diocese as its chief pastor, in due submission to the primacy of the pope.
  • - Italian missionary. (1552-1625)
  • - A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus, in Asia Minor.
  • - Theologian and controversialist. (1733-1811)
  • - First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, U.S.A. (1797-1868)
  • - The four cultural elements included are the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental.
  • - Jesuit missionary and author. (1549-1619)
  • - A German Catholic association for the encouragement and diffusion of edifying, instructive, and entertaining literature.
  • - Cardinal and senator, b. at Paris, 1800; d. 1883.
  • - French Dominican theologian of the convent of Evreux; died c. 1479.
  • - French monk and preacher, b. at Paris in 1578; d. 27 September, 1657.
  • - A titular see of Albania.
  • - A Jacobite Syrian bishop, philosopher, poet, grammarian, physician, Biblical commentator, historian, and theologian. (1226-1286)
  • - A famous painter of religious subjects. (1591-1666)
  • - Established by Most Rev. Dr. Delaney, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, at Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland, in 1807.
  • - Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French.
  • - A titular see of Egypt which was situated at the end of Major Syrtis where Bengazi stands today.
  • - Abbé, professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique at Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects. (1834-1895)
  • - Medieval books on animals, in which the real or fabulous characteristics of actually existent or imaginary animals (such as the griffin, dragon, siren, unicorn, etc.) were figuratively treated as religious symbols of Christ, the devil, the virtues and vic
  • - A collegiate church at Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire, served by a chapter of secular canons until the Reformation.
  • - Thirty-ninth Archbishop, a native of Exeter, date of birth unknown; d. 19 Nov., 1190.
  • - French poet. (1636-1711)
  • - Explorer, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of Central America. (1475-1517)
  • - Alias John Jones; alias John Griffith; in religion, Godfrey Maurice. Priest and martyr, born at Clynog Fawr, Carnarvonshire, Wales, England, 12 July 1598.
  • - Details domestic, political, and sacred antiquities.
  • - A Cistercian monk and learned Hebrew scholar, b. at Celleno in the old kingdom of Naples, 1 April, 1613; d. at Rome, 19 October, 1687.
  • - A German novelist, son of a rich merchant, b. 9 August, 1828, at Niedergeilbach, a village of the Palatinate.
  • - Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, Minister General of the Friars Minor. (1221-1274)
  • - French statesman, writer, and philosopher. (1754-1840)
  • - German poet. (1778-1842)
  • - A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the Apapahoes and Cheyennes, constitute the Western division of the Algonquin family.
  • - Before its annexation by the British, Burma consisted of the kingdoms of Ava and Pegu.
  • - The bearer of this name was an antipope in the days of Nicholas II, 1056-61.
  • - Archbishop of Dublin, date of birth unknown; d. 1349.
  • - Baronet, English writer on jurisprudence, as well as a prominent defender of the Holy See and of Catholic interests in general. (1811-1883)
  • - Diocese in Venezuela, South America.
  • - French Orientalist. (1809-1878)
  • - The offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant.
  • - French Jesuit author. (1632-1702)
  • - The federal capital of the Argentine Republic.
  • - Friar Minor and English martyr. (1590-1643)
  • - Found frequently as a personal name in the Vulgate and various English translations of the Bible, is commonly used as a synonym of Satan, or the personification of evil.
  • - A square cap with three ridges or peaks on its upper surface, worn by clerics of all grades from cardinals downwards.
  • - For his mastery of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, sometimes called the Spanish Michelangelo, b. at Paredes de Nava, in Castile, about 1480; d. at Toledo, 1561.
  • - Titular see of Phoenicia.
  • - Bishop of Sutri in Central Italy, in the eleventh century.
  • - A French cardinal, b. probably c. 1421, in Poitou; d. 5 October, 1491, at Ripatransone.
  • - A french benedictine canonist and bishop, b. during the first quarter of the fourteenth century at Laredorte.
  • - French Jesuit missionary in Canada. (1600-1652)
  • - Several Oriental liturgies, or at least several anaphoras, have been attributed to the great St. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia from 370 to 379.
  • - French physicist. (1794-1872)
  • - A French writer who flourished about the middle of the twelfth century.
  • - Benedictine historical writer. (1599-1681)
  • - Named after the German tribe called Boiarii.
  • - French composer. (1803-1869)
  • - The curial title of a Latin archbishopric, also of a Chaldean patriarchate, and of a Syrian archbishopric.
  • - The principal city of the province of the same name in Campania.
  • - Missionary and educator. (1780-1833)
  • - Canonist. (1719-1768)
  • - A Syrian Monophysite bishop, born in Tella, towards the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century, died in 578.
  • - Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. 1441; d. 21 December, 1504.
  • - Confessor of the Faith, imprisoned and tortured as manager of a secret press for the publication of devotional and controversial works in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
  • - Diocese situated in the Dutch province of Brabant and suffragan of Utrecht.
  • - Signifies etymologically gross irreverence towards any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem.
  • - Jesuit moral theologian. (1600-1668)
  • - Fifth superior of the Sulpicians at Montreal, b. at Grenoble, France, 1645; d. 1732.
  • - A Spanish poet, born in Val de Peñas, 1568; died in Porto Rico, 1627.
  • - Priest and martyr, b. at Warrington in Lancashire, England, probably about 1520; d. 20 April, 1584.
  • - Catholic writer. (1743-1827)
  • - Reigned 418-422.
  • - Third of the Avignon popes. (1334-1342)
  • - A German cartographer and navigator. (1459-1507)
  • - The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of sacraments and for various blessings, sacramentals, and exorcisms, of the Church of Constantinople.
  • - Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897.
  • - German humanist, born probably at Cannstatt, 1500; died at Vienna, 25 November, 1539.
  • - Born at Bourbourg, France, 1814; died at Nice in January, 1874.
  • - Bishop of Ephesus (444-448).
  • - Information includes history, religion, climate, education, and economy.
  • - A German poet. (1604-1668)
  • - French theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne, born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626.
  • - Bishop of Segni. (1048-1123)
  • - At Quaracchi, near Florence, Italy, famous as the centre of literary activity in the Order of Friars Minor, was founded 14 July, 1879.
  • - Italian painter and architect, b. Milan, c. 1455, d. at Milan, 1523.
  • - Martyrs, died in the Diocletian persecution in Coele-Syria about 303.
  • - A Franciscan theologian, born at Genera, date uncertain; d. 23 February, 1439.
  • - Cardinal, Archbishop of St. Andrews, b. 1494; d. 29 May, 1546.
  • - Born at Angers, 1520, probably of Jewish origin: died at Laon, 1596.
  • - Confessor c. 1588.
  • - Original name, Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac.
  • - A manner of honouring the Holy Eucharist, by exposing it, with proper solemnity, to the view of the faithful in order that they may pay their devotions before it.
  • - Italian architect and sculptor. (1598-1680)
  • - Merchant and philanthropist. (1785-1875)
  • - Ecclesiastical writer, b. in Dublin, 8 January, 1825; d. in Rome, 19 March, 1894.
  • - Dominican theologian and preacher. (1604-1674)
  • - In Phoenicia, a titular Latin see, and the residential see of several prelates of Oriental rites.
  • - Founder of the Salesian Society. (1815-1888)
  • - Article provides religious and historic information.
  • - Italian Cardinal, nephew of Blessed Gregorio Barbarigo (1625-97), born in 1658 at Venice; died in 1730.
  • - Italian missionary to the Indians. (1612-1672)
  • - Publisher and author. (1808-1871)
  • - Covered as; I. Definition; II. Contents; III. The hours; IV. Component parts of the office; V. History of the breviary; VI. Reforms.
  • - A sympathizer with Mary Queen of Scots.
  • - Cardinal, author, papal legate, born at Modena, 1483; died at Rome, 6 September, 1547.
  • - Theologian, b. in 1564 at Mouzon, Ardennes, France; d. 3 December, 1649, at Saint Pol de Léon.
  • - A receptacle in which, for reasons of convenience xnd reverence, the folded corporal is carried to and from the altar.
  • - Founded by William the Conqueror on the site of the Battle of Senlae or Hastings (1066).
  • - Chronicler and one of the founders of the University of Aberdeen, b. at Dundee c. 1465; d. 1536.
  • - Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland; date of birth unknown; d. 3 November, 1197.
  • - Born at Diest in Brabant, 13 March, 1599; died at Rome, 13 August, 1621.
  • - A Portuguese exegete and preacher, born at Lisbon in 1543; died at Coimbra in 1615.
  • - German chronicler of the eleventh century and author of the "Historia de Bello Saxonico".
  • - English Augustinian friar and poet, b. 1393, d. probably in 1447.
  • - A collection of writings recognized as inspired.
  • - Last Catholic Bishop of Gloucester, England. (1512-1560)
  • - This system takes its name from its founder, Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, statesman and philosopher, born 22 January, 1561; died 9 April, 1626.
  • - Information on the history, education, and cemeteries of the country.
  • - A diocese situated in the district of Viterbo, Italy, and immediately subject to the Holy See.
  • - Offers details of several councils held here.
  • - Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583.
  • - A theologian and physician, b. probably at Paris, date unknown; d. at Lyons c. 1584.
  • - Third English Cardinal, date of birth uncertain, d. at Rome, about 1181.
  • - A Jesuit professor and writer, born at Issoudun, 1704; died at Bourges, 1782.
  • - French martyr. (1824-1852)
  • - The first religious house in Bath was a monastery of nuns founded by King Osric, A.D. 676.
  • - Benedict Levita (of Mainz), or Benedict the Deacon, is the name given to himself by the author of a forged collection of capitularies which appeared in the ninth century.
  • - Massacre of Protestants which occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks.
  • - A fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire; probably the best known of all the many ordinances of the imperial diet.
  • - A historian of the councils, b. at Rimini, Italy, 25 March, 1645; d. at Cesena, 19 September, 1717.
  • - Includes history and statistics for the Archdiocese of Bamberg, in the kingdom of Bavaria.
  • - A noted canonist, b. at Guimaraens, Portugal, in 1589; consecrated in Rome, 22 March, 1649, Bishop of Ugento in Otranto, Italy, died seven months later.
  • - Flourished in the sixth or seventh century. Several persons in repute for holiness seem to have borne this name, which is variously written Brogan, Broccan, Bracan, Bearchan, and Bearchanus.
  • - Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.
  • - Composer, born in Rome, 21 October, 1775; died there 21 May, 1844.
  • - Canonized by Clement X in 1671. Feast is observed on 10 October.
  • - Spanish Franciscan.
  • - Diocese in the province of Benevento, Italy, suffragan to the Archbishopric of Benevento.
  • - Vicariate Apostolic, erected 1874.
  • - That state of the mind by which it assents to propositions, not by reason of their intrinsic evidence, but because of authority.
  • - Titular see of Albania.
  • - French missionary and philosopher. (1806-1866)
  • - Beatification is a permission for public worship restricted to certain places and to certain acts.
  • - French historian, b. in the beginning of the seventeenth century at Saint-Ellier; d. 16 October, 1678.
  • - A German jurist and publicist. (1577-1638)
  • - A committee of cardinals at Rome who, with the assistance of consultors, have to secure the observance of the prescriptions contained in the Encyclical "Providentissimus Deus" for the proper interpretation and defence of Sacred Scripture.
  • - Irish monk, b. in Ireland about 750. He suffered martyrdom in Iona, about 835.
  • - Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal-Priest of the Title of St. Prassede, Papal Secretary of State under Pius IV, and one of the chief factors in the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
  • - Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 1441; d. 1509, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, first Duke of Somerset.
  • - A learned monk and writer of the Green Church, b. about 1198, at Constantinople; d. 1272.
  • - Friar Minor and English martyr. (1604-1642)
  • - French scholastic philosopher of the fourteenth century, b. at Béthune, in the district of Atois towards the end of the thirteenth century; date of death unknown.
  • - A Celtic saint of Brittany who received his education in Ireland and then studied under St. Germanus said to be the famous St. Germanus of Auxerre.
  • - Diocese situated in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.
  • - Preacher, b. at Chusclan, France, 21 March, 1701; d. at Roquemaure, 22 December, 1767.
  • - Ceremonial stockings of silk, sometimes interwoven with gold threads, and even heavily embroidered, worn by the celebrant of a pontifical Mass.
  • - Polish chronicler. (1495-1575)
  • - Archbishop of Goa in the Portuguese Indies.
  • - In general the ecclesiastical announcement of the names of persons contemplating marriage.
  • - A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612.
  • - One of the three suffragan dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Melbourne, Australia.
  • - Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa.
  • - Dominican orator. (1830-1882)
  • - Jesuit theologian. (1805-1881)
  • - German philosopher and theologian; vice-chancellor of the University of Salzburg; born 1660 at Teining in Bavaria; died 5 April, 1726, at the Benedictine monastery of Ettal.
  • - Foundation date unknown, but long before the Norman Conquest.
  • - In the text of St. John's Gospel, i, 28, the author locates the event of Our Lord's baptism by St. John the Baptist at Bethany across the Jordan and there is herein a celebrated variant.
  • - Cardinal; b. at Trebizond, d. at Ravenna 18 November, 1472.
  • - Apostle of the Obotrites, in the latter half of the twelfth century.
  • - Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626.
  • - According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life.
  • - The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven.
  • - Provides history and religious statistics.
  • - Friar Minor Capuchin and Scotist theologian, born at Bologna, 17 December, 1701; died 19 February, 1768.
  • - A town on the southern extremity of Palestine.
  • - Medical writer and teacher. (1806-1870)
  • - Roman elected to succeed Sabinian after an interregnum of nearly a year; he was consecrated 19 February, 607; d. 12 November of the same year.
  • - Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur. (1669-1726)
  • - Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. (1796-1837)
  • - A London hospital originally intended for the poor suffering from any ailment and for such as might have no other lodging, hence its name, Bethlehem, in Hebrew, the "house of bread."
  • - A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII, date of birth uncertain; d. 3 August 1537.
  • - A titular see of Osrhaene.
  • - A village of Palestine.
  • - English Benedictine, b. of East Anglian parentage, end of fifteenth century; d. 20 April, 1534.
  • - Born in 923, probably in the castle Menthon near Annecy, in Savoy; died at Novara, 1008.
  • - French Hellenist. (1467-1540)
  • - Known also as Albertus Bohemus.
  • - The city, called by the ancients Bergonum, is capital of the province of that name in Lombardy.
  • - Italian archæologist and historian. (1388-1463)
  • - Abbot of Bobbio. (d. 639)
  • - A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; died there, after 1195.
  • - Comprises the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, or all of Long Island, in the State of New York, U.S.A.
  • - Spanish painter, born at Cocentaina, 1530; died at Gandia, 1610.
  • - Situated in the civil province of Reggio,in Calabria, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Reggio.
  • - Bishop of Elvira, in the province of Baetica, Spain, from which he derived his surname; d. about 392.
  • - A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711.
  • - Author of the political novel "Argenis" and other Latin works in prose and verse. (1582-1621)
  • - Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622.
  • - A sculpture executed upon and attached to a flat surface.
  • - In the province of Cagliari.
  • - The science on life and living organisms.
  • - Elected 17 September, 530; died October, 532.
  • - The word is derived from the Babylonian bab-ilu, meaning "gate of God".
  • - Dogmatic theologian. (1805-1881)
  • - Historian, antiquary, and poet, born c. 1575; died c. 1633.
  • - Friar Minor and English martyr, died 19 July 1537.
  • - Composer. (1770-1827)
  • - Date of birth unknown; d. 467, son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which is now County Meath.
  • - The youngest son of Jacob born of Rachel.
  • - Catholic priest and antiquary, claiming descent from the Broughtons of Lancashire.
  • - Described as the Sarum Office in a Scottish form.
  • - French-Canadian lawyer and member of the Assembly of Lower Canada, b. at Charlesbourg near Quebec, 13 November, 1762; d. at Three Rivers, 26 April 1829.
  • - A city in Chanaan, one of the confederation of cities under the headship of Gabaon.
  • - Details the city, pool, and titular see of this name.
  • - Jacobite bishop and writer. (813-903)
  • - One of the Twelve Apostles.
  • - Diocese lies within the Dutch province of Brabant, and is suffragan to Utrecht.
  • - An engraver, etcher, and painter, b. at Florence, 1727; d. at Lisbon, 1815.
  • - Bollandist, born at Ypres, 25 August, 1651; died at Antwerp, 27 October, 1719.
  • - Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1460, and d. probably in 1525 rather than in 1518, the date usually given.
  • - German humanist and poet, born at Stasburg in 1457 or 1458; died at the same place, 1521.
  • - Bishop of Corinth.
  • - Since the tenth century an episcopal see of Spain, to which in the eleventh century the ancient Sees of Oca and Valpuesta were transferred.
  • - Carmelite and Renaissance poet, born at Mantua, 17 April, 1447, where he also died, 22 March, 1516.
  • - Historian and ascetical writer. (1420-1503)
  • - A Jesuit historian of Bohemia. (1621-1688)
  • - Capital of the Kingdom of Belgium.
  • - Physician, poet, author, and editor. (1811-1877)
  • - Vicariate Apostolic on the coast of Benin.
  • - French theologian of the Jansenist School. (1600-1678)
  • - Friar Minor and martyr; d. 16 January, 1220.
  • - Jurist, b. 23 March, 1803 at Zell in Baden; d. 31 January, 1878, at Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • - Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 or 1477.
  • - Titular Bishop of Siga. (1787-1843)
  • - Seven people with this name are described.
  • - Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375.
  • - Theologian, d. about 1390.
  • - Mexican bibliographer, b. in Puebla, Mexico, 22 May, 1756; d. at Mexico, 23 March, 1817.
  • - Generally called Parmensis from his birthplace, Parma in Italy, a noted canonist of the thirteenth century.
  • - Bankruptcy must be considered not only from the legal but also from the moral point of view; for sound morality prescribes that debts must be paid.
  • - One of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Tarragona.
  • - A titular see of Asia Minor.
  • - A German canonist. (1697-1771)
  • - Archbishop of Bordeaux. (1375-1457)
  • - Controversialist, died c. 1657.
  • - Italian Oratorian, Biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. (1704-1764)
  • - Native of Milan who went to Mexico in 1736 by permission of the Spanish government and remained there eight years, familiarizing himself with the Nahuatl or Mexican language.
  • - Writer and educator. (1816-1903)
  • - An architectural term used in the Ethiopic Church for the oven or bakehouse for baking the Korban or Eucharistic bread.
  • - Writer, daughter of Orestes A. Brownson, b. at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 7 June, 1839; married William J. Tenney, 26 November, 1873; died at Elizabeth, 30 October, 1876.
  • - Third son of Sir Alexander Barlow of Barlow Hall, date of birth uncertain; d. at Douai, 19 Sept., 1656.
  • - A Florentine Dominican of the seventeenth century.
  • - These councils have a unique importance for the Church in the United States, inasmuch as the earlier ones legislated for practically the whole territory of the Republic, and furnished moreover a norm for all the later provincial councils of the country.
  • - French theologian and patrologist, b. about 1546 at Bernières-le-Patry, Normandy; d. about 1595.
  • - Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, England, b. at Knowsthorp, Yorks, date of birth uncertain; d. 18 November, 1559.
  • - A member of the Society of Jesus, born at Leucate in 1587; died at Avignon, 28 July, 1661.
  • - The name of several men mentioned in the Bible.
  • - An ancient Cansanitish town.
  • - Polish-American priest (1838-1899)
  • - German bishop and theological writer. (1465-1543)
  • - Bishop of Laval in France. (1823-1888)
  • - Popularly the term is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls.
  • - English Jesuit and martyr. (1556-1581)
  • - Philosopher and theologian. (1796-1867)
  • - History includes colonial and American periods.
  • - The payment or the promise of money or other lucrative consideration to induce another, while under the obligation of acting without any view to private emolument, to act as the briber shall prescribe.