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• - French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966.
  
• - Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at Innsbruck, 10 June, 1902.
  
• - Capuchin martyr.
  
• - Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449). (1383-1451)
  
• - Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. (1824-1892)
  
• - A statesman and educator. (1729- 1810)
  
• - Christian author of the fourth century.
  
• - In England, during the Middle Ages, fonts called "stoups", or "holy water stones", consisted of a small niche somewhat resembling a piscina and containing a stone basin partly sunk in the wall.
  
• - King of Leon and Castile, member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in 1198 near Salamanca; died at Seville, 30 May, 1252.
  
• - A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve.
  
• - Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700.
  
• - Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839.
  
• - Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela.
  
• - Soldier, convert. (1823-1874)
  
• - Oratorian and devotional writer. (1814-1863)
  
• - French painter. (1809-1864)
  
• - English Jesuit lay brother. (1811-1891)
  
• - Originally a Benedictine monastery of the Savigny Reform it afterwards became Cistercian.
  
• - Mystic of the fifteenth century; born at Rome, of a noble family, in 1384; died there, 9 March, 1440.
  
• - First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville), Kentucky, U.S.A. (1763-1850)
  
• - Martyrs during the persecution of Diocletian (303).
  
• - Irish Jesuit. (1566-1643)
  
• - A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan.
  
• - A fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest.
  
• - Franciscan missionary to South America. (1549-1610)
  
• - Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881.
  
• - Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna; d. at Grinzing, near Vienna, 14 July, 1883.
  
• - Medieval German poet.
  
• - Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so influenced by them that their writings may be held as echoes of genuine Apostolic teaching.
  
• - Born 28 October, 1510, was the son of Juan Borgia, third Duke of Gandia, and of Juana of Aragon; died 30 September, 1572. His feast is celebrated 10 October.
  
• - Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885.
  
• - Origin, foundations, and types.
  
• - Cardinal; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541.
  
• - An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546.
  
• - Third-century schismatic.
  
• - The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.
  
• - Situated on the Sambre, about seven miles southwest of Namur, Belgium, owes its foundation to Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis.
  
• - Also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.
  
• - French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891.
  
• - Controversialist and preacher. (1504-1558)
  
• - Writer and preacher, born at Altomünster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 April 1653.
  
• - A missionary and theologian; d. about 1848.
  
• - Morphologist and Minorite of the Reform of Lombardy; b. at Brescia, 1701; d. at Madrid, 1754.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy), suffragan of Ravenna.
  
• - Spanish writer. (1676-1764)
  
• - Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome.
  
• - Wife of King George IV; b. 26 July, 1756 (place uncertain); d. at Brighton, England, 29 March, 1837.
  
• - An architect and writer; b. at Bruciato, near Como, 1634; d. at Rome, 1714.
  
• - Priest of the Order of Friars Minor; b. 2 Sept., 1251; d. 22 April, 1322.
  
• - Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre. (1506-1552)
  
• - Italian painter. (1524-1606)
  
• - Physicist. (1819-1896)
  
• - Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the funds necessary for such construction.
  
• - The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.
  
• - Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)
  
• - One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated.
  
• - A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.
  
• - Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of Belgium, and cardinal. (1726-1804)
  
• - Benedictine abbey in the Diocese of Dijon, the department of Côte-d'Or, and arroundissement of Semur.
  
• - A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868.
  
• - An ecclesiastical organization in Scotland which includes (in 1908) more than 500,000 of the 1,200,000 inhabitants of that country professing adherence to Presbyterian principles.
  
• - Co-founder with John Augustine Adorno of the Congregation of the Minor Clerks Regular; b. in Villa Santa Maria in the Abrusso (Italy), 13 October, 1563; d. at Agnone, 4 June, 1608.
  
• - Quakers, an Anglo-American religious sect.
  
• - Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith; b. in Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, in 1515(?); d. at Wisbech Castle, 16 Oct., 1585.
  
• - The names of two groups of Roman martyrs around whom a considerable amount of legendary lore has gathered.
  
• - Church historian. (1840-1907)
  
• - Cardinal. (1520-1589)
  
• - As of the time of this article, a department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.
  
• - Bishop of Angers, France; and deputy from Finistère. (1827-1891)
  
• - Reigned 483-492.
  
• - Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688.
  
• - The admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming him or, if possible, preventing his sinful indulgence.
  
• - The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing crime and safeguarding ecclesiastical law.
  
• - Pope (more properly Antipope), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.
  
• - Italian poet. (1496-1544)
  
• - Roman martyrs.
  
• - Jesuit missionary to the American Indians; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, 1691.
  
• - A priest and martyr, b. at Manthorp near York, c. 1558; d. at Warwick, 13 August, 1595.
  
• - Surgeon and missionary. (1707-1784)
  
• - Co-extensive with the State of Ceará in the Republic of Brazil.
  
• - Those who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by confi
  
• - Suffragan of Aix; comprises the whole department of Var (France).
  
• - In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function.
  
• - A monk of Fahan-Mura, County Doneval, Ireland, at the close of the eighth century.
  
• - Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker, b. 1445, d. about 1527.
  
• - Mathematician. (1682-1766)
  
• - In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage, however,
  
• - A member of one of the mendicant orders.
  
• - Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin.
  
• - Pope (236-250), the circumstances of whose election is related by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., VI, 29).
  
• - The name given to the convention of the 26th Messidor, year IX (July 16, 1802), whereby Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte, First Consul, re-established the Catholic Church in France.
  
• - An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, having for its object the cultivation of holiness.
  
• - Dicese in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical province of Gran.
  
• - Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
  
• - Geography, statistics, and history.
  
• - Astronomer. (1814-1902)
  
• - Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. about 1360; d. at Sleaford, 25 Jan., 1431.
  
• - German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250.
  
• - A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.
  
• - Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in 1510; d. at Venice in 1580.
  
• - Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church; born at Thorens, in the Duchy of Savoy, 21 August, 1567; died at Lyons, 28 December, 1622.
  
• - A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York.
  
• - A martyr, b. about 1548; d. 20 April, 1584.
  
• - The earliest mention of the Fisherman's ring worn by the popes is in a letter of Clement IV written in 1265 to his nephew, Peter Grossi. The writer states that popes were then accustomed to seal their private letters with "the seal of the Fisherman&q
  
• - A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698.
  
• - As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.
  
• - Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)
  
• - Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269.
  
• - An Abbot of Lagny, near Paris, d. 16 Jan., about 650.
  
• - A Christian Roman matron of the imperial family who lived towards the close of the first century.
  
• - A Roman matron of rank, died 27 December, 399 or 400.
  
• - Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era.
  
• - A bishop and martyr; d. 21 January, 259.
  
• - City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany.
  
• - The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.
  
• - A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto
  
• - Diocese in the Madeira Islands.
  
• - The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King of Arles.
  
• - English convert. (1823-1892)
  
• - In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word means essentially steadfastness. As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or fiducia.
  
• - Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517.
  
• - Prince of Portugal, b. in Portugal, 29 September, 1402; d. at Fez, in Morocco, 5 June, 1443.
  
• - Bishop. (952-1028)
  
• - Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659.
  
• - Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons. (1759-1843)
  
• - Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)
  
• - Astronomer and naturalist. (1789-1860)
  
• - A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century.
  
• - Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360.
  
• - African bishop. (468-533)
  
• - Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895.
  
• - The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.
  
• - The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius.
  
• - Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago.
  
• - Italian painter; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624.
  
• - Jesuit theologian. (1554-1590)
  
• - The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.
  
• - Italian naturalist and physiologist, b. at Pomarolo in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1730; d. at Florence, 11 January, 1805.
  
• - King of France; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547.
  
• - Italian Jesuit. (1642-1716)
  
• - A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.
  
• - Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's.
  
• - Benedictine abbot, d. 11 March, 1178.
  
• - English martyr, born about 1551; suffered at York on Friday, 3 June, 1586.
  
• - Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, 1768.
  
• - An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order.
  
• - A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, principally in Italy.
  
• - The starting point of the French Revolution was the convocation of the States General by Louis XVI.
  
• - Article covers the meaning and classification.
  
• - The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitiço from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer).
  
• - Chaplain to Maria Theresa and Louis XIV. (1653-1742)
  
• - A Christian poet of the sixth century.
  
• - A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.
  
• - Discusses the history and practice.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.
  
• - Astromomer. (1721-1791)
  
• - Painter, b. at Liège, Flanders, in 1614; d. there in 1675.
  
• - English martyr; b. probably at Faringdon, Berkshire, date unknown; d. at Reading, 15 November, 1539.
  
• - Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.
  
• - In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy).
  
• - The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law.
  
• - A theologian and controversialist; b. at Ortrand, Saxony, 2 Nov., 1543; d. at Ingolstadt, 12 March, 1584.
  
• - A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.
  
• - French historian and poet, b. at Valenciennes, about 1337, d. at Chimay early in the fifteenth century.
  
• - A canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century.
  
• - Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.
  
• - A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202.
  
• - Historian. (1800-1870)
  
• - History, traditions, and saints of the order.
  
• - Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane. (1593-1665)
  
• - Medieval collections of models for the execution of documents (acta), public or private; a space being left for the insertion of names, dates, and circumstances peculiar to each case.
  
• - Florentine painter. (1387-1455)
  
• - Irish bishop. (415-520)
  
• - Theologian. (d. 1545)
  
• - Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711.
  
• - A party of soldiers who suffered a cruel death for their faith, near Sebaste, in Lesser Armenia, victims of the persecutions of Licinius, who, after the year 316, persecuted the Christians of the East.
  
• - Theologian. (d. 1682)
  
• - An appendage which covers the entire front of the altar, from the lower part of the table to the predella, and from the gospel corner to that of the epistle side.
  
• - A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.
  
• - French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer. (1348-1428)
  
• - Intruding Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch; d. 488.
  
• - A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed "the Divine", b. at Alcalá de Henares, c. 1540, d. there, 1620.
  
• - Bishop and patron of Cork, Ireland. (550-623)
  
• - Abstinence from food or drink.
  
• - Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone.
  
• - French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480.
  
• - A Leinster saint, b. about 524; d. 17 February, probably 594.
  
• - The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by the sacred writers to designate the first male child in a family.
  
• - One of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue.
  
• - A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later middle ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (1 Jan.).
  
• - Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.
  
• - A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterion of
  
• - Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580.
  
• - The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:
  
• - The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi.
  
• - The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of his parishioners.
  
• - Also called Quarant' Ore or written in one word Quarantore, is a devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed.
  
• - Sixteenth-century English priest and poet.
  
• - Lazarist missionary in China; b. 1748, martyred, 18 Feb., 1820.
  
• - A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed.
  
• - A Catholic fraternal insurance society.
  
• - Designated in the eighth century a small territory around Bruges; it became later the name of the country bounded by the North Sea, the Scheldt, and the Canche.
  
• - Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678.
  
• - In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong and unfair advantage.
  
• - The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland.
  
• - Shoulder-cape worn by the pope.
  
• - An English martyr; b. at Barnby, near Howden, Yorkshire; executed at York, 8 August, 1586.
  
• - Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538.
  
• - Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great, died c. A. D. 385 or 386.
  
• - Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles in 1732.
  
• - Sixth-century Irish missionary.
  
• - Sister Irene, born in London, England, 12 May, 1823; died in New York, 14 August, 1896.
  
• - Founder of a famous school about the year 540.
  
• - Philosopher, philologist, and physician. (1433-1499)
  
• - John Foxe was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, England, in 1516, and was educated at Magdalen School and College, Oxford.
  
• - Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In canon law the term usually signifies seculars residing in monasteries and other religious houses, actually employed therein as servants and subject to the author
  
• - It expresses the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son as one Principle; and, it was the occasion of the Greek schism.
  
• - Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne (can. 1), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy, and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England.
  
• - Dominican missionary. (1350-1419)
  
• - A special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, etc., or strips of other suitable material, along the edge of a piece of cloth.
  
• - A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions.
  
• - Duchess of Brittany, afterwards Carmelite nun, b. 1427; d. at Nantes, 4 Nov., 1485.
  
• - Located in Italy.
  
• - One of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols.
  
• - Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606.
  
• - Suffered martyrdom about 304 in the Diocletian persecution.
  
• - Canon of Birmingham Diocese. Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865.
  
• - Bishop of Lodève; d. 13 February, 1006.
  
• - Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council; b. 2 December, 1813, at Lochau near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg; d. 25 April, 1872.
  
• - St. Fergus Cruithneach, St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick.
  
• - Ecclesiastical historian. (1690-1773)
  
• - Patroness of Oxford. (650-735)
  
• - This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the Christian faith from those non-essential doctrines, which, as they believed, individual chuches might accept or reject without forfeiting their claim to rank as par
  
• - Optician. (1787-1826)
  
• - Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Rumanian Rite.
  
• - An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.
  
• - Martyrs, suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, and Saturninus.
  
• - A movable folding chair used in pontifical functions by the bishop outside of his cathedral, or within it if he is not at his throne or cathedra.
  
• - An Augustinian hermit friar, a contemporary and great friend of St. Catherine of Siena; the exact place and date of his birth are unknown and those of his death are disputed.
  
• - English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513.
  
• - Founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635.
  
• - Born in 1127; d. at Cerfroi, 4 November, 1212. He is commemorated 20 November.
  
• - Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is distinguished into that of the internal and external forum.
  
• - German King and Roman Emperor. (1123-1190)
  
• - A suppressed order of hermits, which takes its name from their first hermitage in the Apennines.
  
• - A Scottish prelate; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522.
  
• - First-fruit offerings are designated in the Law by a threefold name: Bíkkûrîm, Reshîth, and Terûmôth.
  
• - French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890.
  
• - German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.
  
• - An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, 1849.
  
• - Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. S., 1652.
  
• - Bishop of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; d. at Hypaepa in Lydia, August, 449.
  
• - Anatomist. (1523-1562)
  
• - Canadian journalist and poet. (1839-1908)
  
• - A Jesuit missionary of the eighteenth century noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin.
  
• - Spanish theologian, archeologist, and historian; born at Valladolid, 14 February, 1701; died at Madrid, 20 August, 1773.
  
• - A ninth-century monk, teacher, and writer.
  
• - Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.
  
• - Represented in iconography with a crown at his feet to show that he despised the honours of the world. He was born in Ireland early in the seventh century and was the brother of Saints Ultan and Fursey.
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1582)
  
• - A titular see in Numidia.
  
• - Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa.
  
• - A confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle fought against this pe
  
• - Reigned 526-530.
  
• - Italian-American Jesuit in Colorado. (1817-1879)
  
• - An independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians; it was founded in 1189 by the Abbot Joachim of Flora.
  
• - Jesuit moralist. (1566-1622)
  
• - German theologian. (1753-1824)
  
• - A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger.
  
• - French novelist. (1817-1887)
  
• - A titular see in the province of Honorias.
  
• - Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor.
  
• - Formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors.
  
• - This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.
  
• - Born in Devonshire; died at Tyburn, 28 May, 1582.
  
• - A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.
  
• - An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time
  
• - Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.
  
• - Canadian bishop. (1823-1890)
  
• - Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris. (1765-1841)
  
• - Italian geographer and naturalist, b. at Bologna 10 July, 1658; d. at Bologna 1 Nov., 1730.
  
• - A Roman architect of the Late Renaissance, b. at Merli on the Lake of Lugano, 1543; d. at Naples, 1607.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy); suffragan of Ravenna.
  
• - A Capuchin friar, b. at Cantalice, on the north-western border of the Abruzzi; d. at Rome, 18 May, 1587.
  
• - A well-known children's missioner. (1809-1865)
  
• - An Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian, b. at Siena about the year 1525; supposed to have d. at Florence c. 1590.
  
• - Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9.
  
• - Roman martyr.
  
• - Bishop of Ferns, Ireland. (1604-1678)
  
• - The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples.
  
• - A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481.
  
• - Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at Paris, 1 Jan., 1610.
  
• - Virgin; born towards the middle of the sixth century; died about 612.
  
• - Theologian and Scripture scholar. (1777-1831)
  
• - Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. (1250-1323)
  
• - French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.
  
• - The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multification of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its popularity among Christians was due principally, t
  
• - An English Franciscan friar ot the Capuchin Reform, whose family name was Filch. (1563-1610)
  
• - Cardinal-Archbishop of Cologne. (1840-1912)
  
• - An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837.
  
• - Physicist; b. at Broglie near Bernay, Normandy, 10 May, 1788; d. at Ville d'Avray, near Paris, 14 July, 1827.
  
• - Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.
  
• - A church to which is annexed the cure of souls, but which remains dependent on another church.
  
• - Roman martyrs. (d. 303)
  
• - A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569.
  
• - Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern Italy).
  
• - Spanish theologian; b. about 1480, at Vittoria, province of Avila, in Old Castile; d. 12 August, 1546.
  
• - Friar Minor and ascetical writer. (1631-1682)
  
• - Cardinal and theologian. (1816-1886)
  
• - A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466.
  
• - A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person.
  
• - Italian anatomist and surgeon. 1537-1619)
  
• - The original meaning of the term form, both in Greek and Latin, was and is that in common use - eidos, being translated, that which is seen, shape, etc., with secondary meanings derived from this, as form, sort, particular, kind, nature.
  
• - A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in 1611.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.
  
• - The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d'Arbrissel about the end of 1100.
  
• - Two groups of maryrs commemorated on 8 November.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.
  
• - Bavarian Prince-Abbot. (1709-1791)
  
• - An Archbishop, d. 16 April, c. 665.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino.
  
• - German Augustinian. (1724-1788)
  
• - The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was the continuation of the Council of Ferrara.
  
• - Artist. (1800-1876)
  
• - Bishop of London, b. early in the twelfth century.
  
• - Friar Minor; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752.
  
• - Reigned 891-896.
  
• - Systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes.
  
• - Born 13 April, 1506, at Villaret, Savoy; died 1 Aug., 1546, in Rome. His feast is kept on 8 August.
  
• - French historian. (1772-1844)
  
• - Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707.
  
• - The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., established in 1834, comprised the whole State of Indiana till the Holy See, on 22 September, 1857, created the Diocese of Fort Wayne, assigning to it that part of Indiana north of the southern boundary of Warren
  
• - Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)
  
• - Writer, born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884.
  
• - In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.
  
• - Writer, born at the château of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794.
  
• - Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at Nuremberg; d. at Munich, 16 January, 1847.
  
• - English missionary. (1572-1649)
  
• - The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux (now Toulouse) named it Fuliens, later Les Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans.
  
• - Knight of St. John, martyr, b. about 1476, executed 10 July, 1539.
  
• - Includes history and its use in scripture.
  
• - Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)
  
• - French writer and artist. (1820-1876)
  
• - The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to designate the west front; sometimes the transept fronts.
  
• - Chemist and mineralogist. (1774-1856)
  
• - A celebrated Scotist theologian and philosopher of the Order of Friars Minor; b. near Peronne, France, in 1620; d. at Paris, 26 February, 1711.
  
• - The compound term Freemason occured first in 1375 and means primarily a mason of superior skill, though later it also designated one who enjoyed the freedom, or the privilege, of a trade guild.
  
• - A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599.
  
• - English chronicler, died in 1118.
  
• - Bishop; b. at Pernes, France, 1632; died at Montpellier, 1710.
  
• - Franciscan friar b. at Lagan, Couny Louth, Ireland, 17April, 1599; d. 7 November, 1631.
  
• - Second Bishop of Lindisfarne; died 9 February, 661.
  
• - An English priest and martyr; b. probably c. 1580 at Weston, Yorkshire, England; d. at York, 21 March, 1607.
  
• - History and statistics of French Canadian immigration to the United States.
  
• - Located in England.
  
• - Fabriano, a city in the province of Macerata, Central Italy, is noted for its paper manufactories and its trade in salted fish. The town of Matelica possesses some ancient inscriptions. A Roman colony was established there in 89 B.C.
  
• - Developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist's Day, 24 June, 1841.
  
• - Located in the province of Tuscany (Central Italy).
  
• - Reigned 269-274.
  
• - Born at Nola, near Naples, and lived in the third century. After his father's death he distributed almost all his goods amongst the poor, and was ordained priest by Maximum Bishop of Nola.
  
• - Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special services a
  
• - The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty.
  
• - American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 26 Aug., 1811.
  
• - Abbot, born in Ireland about the end of the sixth century; died 18 August, 670.
  
• - A term commonly used to designate the members of the various foundations of religious, whether men or women, professing to observe the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi in some one of its several forms.
  
• - A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood. (1785-1844)
  
• - Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.
  
• - Lat. fatum, from fari, to tell or predict.
  
• - A titular see in the Island of Cyprus.
  
• - Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of Mexico; date of death unknown.
  
• - Any fact connected with a dogma and on which the application of the dogma to a particular case depends.
  
• - A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries.
  
• - A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes practising the custom of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means.
  
• - Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181 or 1182.
  
• - A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection.
  
• - German entomologist. (1810-1884)
  
• - Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.
  
• - The preservation of the state of grace till the end of life.
  
• - Frédéric Alfred Pierre. (1811-1885)
  
• - Viewed from the moral standpoint, that is, in so far as it is a factor to be reckoned with in pronouncing upon the freedom of human acts, as well as offering an adequate excuse for failing to comply with positive law, particularly if the law be of human o
  
• - Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus. (1564-1630)
  
• - A Benedictine monastery in Normandy (Seine-Inférieure), near Caudebec-en-Caux.
  
• - Founder of the Order of Minims; b. in 1416, at Paula, in Calabria, Italy; d. 2 April, 1507.
  
• - A titular see of Cilicia Secunda.
  
• - A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.
  
• - A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little is known.
  
• - One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church.
  
  

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