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• - Physically and psychologically abused by her husband Bertolf and mother-in-law, until finally she was murdered at Bertolf's orders in 1070.
  
• - Cardinal, scholar, and author, died 1713.
  
• - A novelist, dramatist, lyricist; b. 12 December, 1803, at Limerick, Ireland; d. at Cork, 12 June, 1840.
  
• - Priest and writer. Born at Cologne, or according to some, at Broich, 6 December, 1648; died 11 August, 1719.
  
• - Founded immediately after the Revolutionary War, by the incorporated Catholic Clergy of Maryland, who selected from their Body Trustees, and invested them with full power to choose a President and appoint Professors. Since the year 1805, it has been under
  
• - The great doxology (hymnus angelicus) in the Mass is a version of a very old Greek form". It begins with the words sung by the angels at Christ's birth (Luke, ii, 14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology.
  
• - First Bishop of Southwark; b. at Ligny-les-Aires, Arras, France, 25 Nov., 1816; d. at Rome, 1 June, 1870.
  
• - An archbishop of that city, died 8 July, 873.
  
• - Venetian painter. (1712-1793)
  
• - Bishop of Brescia. (387-410)
  
• - An object of worship among the Hebrews, mention of which occurs principally in Ex., xxxii, where the story of the molten calf of Aaron is narrated, and in III Kings, xii (cf. II Par., xi), in connection with the policy of Jeroboam after the schism of the
  
• - Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy).
  
• - Princess, religious of the Sacred Heart; born at St. Petersburg, 22 February, 1797; died in Louisiana, 8 December, 1843.
  
• - Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees.
  
• - Moral theologian; born at Charmoilles, in the Diocese of Basil, now in the Department of the Doubs, France, 1 July, 1600; died 23 March, 1679.
  
• - A supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures (men, angels) for their eternal salvation.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Lydia, suffragan of Sardis.
  
• - Born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1759; died there, 8 Oct., 1829, famous chiefly for his collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites.
  
• - Galerius, a native of Illyria, was made Caesar 1 March, 293, by Diocletian, whose daughter Valeria he married and who in turn adopted her husband.
  
• - Brother of the foregoing; b. in Washington county, Pa., 19 January 1831; d. at St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana, 12 November, 1874.
  
• - Historian of Peru. (1539-1617)
  
• - A titular see, and in the Greek Church metropolitan see, of the Island of Crete.
  
• - Duke of Saxony, b. at Dresden, 27 August, 1471; d. in the same city, 17 April, 1539.
  
• - The name Orthodox Church is generally used to distinguish those of the Greek Rite who are not in communion with the Holy See.
  
• - To it the prophets of the Old Testament refer when they speak of the "Day of the Lord" (Joel 2:31; Ezekiel 13:5; Isaiah 2:12), in which the nations will be summoned to judgment. In the New Testament the second Parusia, or coming of Christ as Jud
  
• - Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, Orientalist; b. at Galatia (now Cajazzo) in Apulia; d. at Rome, soon after 1539.
  
• - Reigned 1621-1623.
  
• - A law passed by the senate and chamber of the Italian parliament, 13 May, 1871, concerning the prerogatives of the Holy See, and the relations between State and Church in the Kingdom of Italy.
  
• - Ascetic writer and spiritual director; born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July, 1607.
  
• - English chronicler, b. about 1141; d. in, or soon after, 1210.
  
• - Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904.
  
• - Ecclesiastical author; b. at Rouen, France, 28 Sept., 1787; d. at Paris, 27 Nov., 1858.
  
• - Jesuit missionary; born 1607, in Anjou; martyred in New York State, 23 September, 1642.
  
• - Reigned 1370-1378.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia.
  
• - Prince, priest, and missionary. (1770-1840)
  
• - Reigned 827-44.
  
• - Covered as natural reason and faith.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.
  
• - Reigned 1590-1591.
  
• - Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.
  
• - Provost of that place and Austin canon, one of the most distinguished theologians of Germany in the twelfth century, b. at Polling, Bavaria, 1093; d. at Reichersberg, 27 June, 1169.
  
• - Bishop of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony; born about the year 960.
  
• - Martyr Prince of the Wends; d. at Lenzen on the Elbe, 7 June 1066.
  
• - Spiritual director of St. Teresa and first Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites; born at Valladolid, 6 June, 1545; died at Brussels, 21 September, 1614.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - The third Sunday of Advent, so called from the first word of the Introit at Mass (Gaudete, i.e. Rejoice).
  
• - The Aramaic appellation of a place in Jerusalem, designated also under the Greek name of Lithostrotos.
  
• - Bishop and church historian, b. at Rapperswyl, Switzerland, 25 May, 1897; d. at St. Gall, 17 May, 1882.
  
• - Pasionist student; renowned for sanctity and miracles; born at Assisi, 1 March, 1838; died 27 February, 1862.
  
• - Philosopher, b. at Tropea, in Calabria, 2 April, 1770; d. at Naples, 13 Dec., 1846, where from 1831 he was a professor in the university.
  
• - Writer and professor of physics. (1776-1848)
  
• - Moral theologian, b. at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 June, 1856; d. at Louvain, 21 February, 1900.
  
• - Founder of the Theatines, born October, 1480 at Vicenza in Venetian territory; died at Naples in 1547.
  
• - Martyrs, suffered under Julian the Apostate, 362, commemorated on 10 May.
  
• - Bishop and historian, born in 538 or 539; died at Tours, 17 Nov., in 593 or 594.
  
• - Leads to four articles on the subject.
  
• - French statesman and writer, born at Lyons, 29 February, 1772; died at Paris, 10 November, 1842.
  
• - Benedictine and mystic writer; born in Germany, 6 Jan., 1256; died at Helfta, near Eisleben, Saxony, 17 November, 1301 or 1302.
  
• - History of the country and church.
  
• - A French translator and literary critic; b. at Orleans, 17 June, 1667; d. 10 August, 1744.
  
• - Italian physicist, b. at Bologna, 2 April, 1618; d. in the same city, 28 Dec., 1663.
  
• - A fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire; probably the best known of all the many ordinances of the imperial diet.
  
• - Philosopher; b. 17 Nov., 1783, at Lindenau, near Leitmeritz, Bohemia; d. at Vienna, 24 February, 1863.
  
• - A twelfth-century student of Arabic science and translator from Arabic into Latin; born at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187.
  
• - English poet and grammarian, who lived in the middle of the thirteenth century.
  
• - Bishop of Paris; born near Autun, Saône-et-Loire, c. 496; died at Paris, 28 May, 576.
  
• - A musician, born at Ballygar Galway, Ireland, 25 Dec., 1829; died at St. Louis, 24 Sept., 1892.
  
• - A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810.
  
• - French Canadian historian. (1809-1866)
  
• - The arguments for God's existence are variously classified and entitled by different writers, but all agree in recognizing the distinction between a priori, or deductive, and a posteriori, or inductive reasoning in this connection.
  
• - Benedictine and polygraph; b. 4 April, 1805, at Sablé-sur-Sarthe; d. at Solesmes, 30 January, 1875.
  
• - Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.
  
• - Of the Russian family which traces its origin to the ancient rulers of Starodub; born at Moscow, 1 August, 1814; died at Paris, 19 July, 1882.
  
• - The Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  
• - A titular see in Caesarea Mauretania, Africa.
  
• - Born 29 August, 1709; died 16 June, 1777, at Amiens.
  
• - An island stretching from within the Arctic Circle south to about 59 degrees N. latitude, being between 20 degrees and 75 degrees W. longitude.
  
• - A renowned cardinal, general, and statesman; b. about 1310 at Cuenca in New Castile; d. 23 Aug., 1367.
  
• - These are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will.
  
• - Founder of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine of Florence; b. at Florence of obscure parentage, 12 October. 1565; d. 20 March, 1619.
  
• - Names adopted by the two factions that kept Italy divided and devastated by civil war during the greater part of the later Middle Ages.
  
• - An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa.
  
• - Chaplain to Cortés. (b. 1510)
  
• - A historian of Christian art, b. at Naples, 22 January, 1812; d. at Rome, 5 May, 1885.
  
• - (1)Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with happiness; (2)Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty; (3)Rational Eudæmonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the
  
• - The place of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  
• - An abbey of the Order of Reformed Cistercians, commonly called Trappists, established in 1848 in Nelson Co., Kentucky, in the Diocese of Louisville, being the first abbey on American soil.
  
• - Count and Marquess de Grasse-Tilly, lieutenant-general of the naval forces; b. near Toulon, 1723; d. at Paris, 11 January, 1788.
  
• - A celebrated German pulpit orator, b. at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 16 March, 1445; d. at Strasburg, 10 March, 1510.
  
• - Luigia Torelli, Countess of Guastalla (b. about 1500; d. 29 Oct., 1559 or 1569), widowed for the second time when she was twenty-five, resolved to devote her life to the service of God.
  
• - Definitions include: a definite period of time, with a special reference to the average length of man's life; an indefinite period of time, of time past; the men who lived in the same period of time who were contemporaries; a race or class of men; and a d
  
• - The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews.
  
• - An antipope, known as Clement III, 1080 (1084) to 1100; born at Parma about 1025; died at Cività Castellana, 8 Sept., 1100.
  
• - Bishop of Mayo, an English monk, date of birth unknown; died 13 March, 731.
  
• - Augustinian theologian. (d. 1358)
  
• - In the English versions of both Testaments it collectively designates the nations distinct from the Jewish people.
  
• - Last martyr under Henry VIII; date of birth unknown; died at Tyburn, 7 March, 1544.
  
• - Second Norman Bishop of Winchester from 1100 to 1129.
  
• - A composer, b. at Naples in 1738; d. at Dublin, Ireland, February 1806.
  
• - Cardinal and theologian; b. at Samoëns in Savoy, 20 June, 1718; d. at Rome, 12 August 1802.
  
• - Chief Justiciar of England; b. at Stratford, Suffolk, England, date unknown; d. before Acre, Palestine, 1190.
  
• - Founder of the Sylvestrines, b. of the noble family of the Gozzolini at Osimo, 1177; d. 26 Nov., 1267.
  
• - A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Gröningen in 1420; died there on 4 Oct., 1489.
  
• - This term is used to designate a certain group of religious opinions for some time peculiar to the Church of France, or Gallican Church, and the theological schools of that country.
  
• - An Italian statesman and philosopher; b. at Turin, 5 April, 1801; d. at Paris, 26 October, 1852.
  
• - Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, born at Havre about 1627; died at Jumieges, 24 September, 1694.
  
• - Priest and schoolmaster; b. at Asti, Piedmont, about 1745; d. at Paris, 18 Sept., 1818.
  
• - Of the ninety-eight bishops who have occupied the see of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) the sixteenth and twenty-third bore the name of Gal, and both are numbered among the twenty-nine bishops of this church who are honoured as saints.
  
• - A phrase employed to designate the mental and moral state of honest, even if objectively unfounded, conviction as to the truth or falsehood of a proposition or body of opinion, or as to the rectitude or depravity of a line of conduct.
  
• - The name of two Abbots of Croyland.
  
• - An Austrian poet, b. at Vienna, 15 January, 1791, d. 21 January, 1872.
  
• - A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1628-1711)
  
• - A celebrated Jesuit writer; b. at Markdorf in the Diocese of Constance in 1562; d. at Ingolstadt in 1625.
  
• - Regarded in traditional lore as the greatest Irish architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban; b. at Turvey, near Malahide, Co. Dublin, about 560.
  
• - Martyr. (d. 304)
  
• - German humanist; b. in 1477, at Speyer; d. 1512, at Mainz.
  
• - History of the style.
  
• - The Blessed Trinity. The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one fr
  
• - Medieval Carthusian. (1083-1137)
  
• - Professor of the University of Ingolstadt, b. at Medina, Spain); d. at Naples, 25 April, 1603.
  
• - A celebrated French mystic of the seventeenth century; born at Montargis, in the Orléanais, 13 April, 1648; died at Blois, 9 June, 1717.
  
• - There were three Roman emperors of this name, who reigned between A.D. 237-44, and all of whom met with violent deaths.
  
• - Known for his monumental labours on the Vatican Council.
  
• - The doctrine of salvation by knowledge.
  
• - With the exception of the didactic literature, there is no book in the Bible which, to a greater or less extent, does not contain mention of, or allusions to, the geography and topography of the Holy Land.
  
• - Naturalist, and the first aeronaut; b. in 1685 at Santos in the province of São Paulo, Brazil; d. 18 November, 1724, in Toledo, Spain.
  
• - Bishop. (d. 623)
  
• - Priest and controversialist; b. at Southampton, date unknown; d. at sea on a voyage to Lisbon, 2 October, 1704.
  
• - Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887.
  
• - In the English version of the Bible the word Glory, one of the commonest in the Scripture, is used to translate several Hebrew terms in the Old Testament, and the Greek doxa in the New Testament. Sometimes the Catholic versions employ brightness, where ot
  
• - The word genealogy occurs only twice in the New Testament: I Tim., i, 4, and Tit., iii, 9. In these passages commentators explain the word as referring to the Gentile theogonies, or to the Essene generation of angels, or to the emanation of spirits and ae
  
• - Master of ceremonies to Julius II and Leo X; b. at Bologna, about 1470; d. at Rome, 10 June, 1528.
  
• - A diocese of the Latin Rite in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa-Bács.
  
• - Cardinal, statesman, and writer. (1356-1420)
  
• - A famous architect and painter, the best-known of Raphael's pupils, and the unique representative of the so-called "Roman School"; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546.
  
• - Their beatification took place on 14 Nov., 1675, and their canonization on 29 June, 1865.
  
• - Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia.
  
• - The Western vicariate and the Central prefecture, although different in name, are virtually one.
  
• - The term in common usage among archaeologists to designate a class of rude inscriptions scratched on the walls of ancient monuments, generally sepulchral, as distinguised from the formal inscriptions engraved on the tombs of the deceased.
  
• - Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals.
  
• - The native land of Jesus Christ, where He began His ministry and performed many of His works, and whence He drew His Apostles.
  
• - Brother of Father John Gibbons, born at Winchester, 1550 or 1549; died at Douai, 23 June, 1632.
  
• - An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612.
  
• - Born in Muro, in April, 1726; died 16 October, 1755; beatified by Leo XIII, 29 January, 1893, and canonized by Pius X, 11 December, 1904.
  
• - Roman Emperor; son of Valentinian I; born at Sirmium, 359; died at Lyons, 383.
  
• - Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.
  
• - Comprises the Department of Isère and the Canton of Villeurbanne (Rhône).
  
• - Popularly known as St. Elmo, b. in 1190 at Astorga, Spain; d. 15 April, 1246, at Tuy.
  
• - The first, a martyr for the Catholic Faith, and the second, the restorer of the English province of Franciscan friars, were brothers and converts to the Church.
  
• - Jesuit missionary, born at Connerai, France, 6 January, 1642; d. in Quebec, 1730.
  
• - Jesuit preacher; b. in London, 26 July, 1779; d. at East Sheen, Surrey, 9 July, 1821.
  
• - German Jesuit missionary in China and noted explorer of the seventeenth century.
  
• - French engraver and painter; b. at Paris, 7 Jan., 1834; d. there, 27 Jan., 1887.
  
• - Vicariate erected 12 September, 1905, and formed from the prefecture Apostolic of the same name organized 29 May, 1882.
  
• - Born about the year 640, at Boves, a few leagues from Amiens, in France; died about the beginning of the eighth century, at Noyon (Oise), the ancient Noviomagus.
  
• - In religion Mother Mary of St. Angela. Born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, 21 February, 1824; died at St. Mary's convent, Notre Dame, Indiana, 4 March, 1887.
  
• - The staking of money or other thing of value on the issue of a game of chance.
  
• - Archdiocese in Mexico, separated from the Diocese of Michoacan by Paul III, 31 July, 1548.
  
• - French Canadian writer, b. at Quebec, 30 Oct., 1786, of a family ennobled by Louis XIV in 1693, d. 29 Jan., 1871.
  
• - History starting with the pre-Christian period to 800 A.D.
  
• - Flemish painter; b. about 1472; d. at Middelburg about 1533.
  
• - Martyr, patron of England, suffered at or near Lydda, also known as Diospolis, in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine.
  
• - A titular see of Syria Prima.
  
• - His original name was George Scholarius. Born about 1400, was first a teacher of philosophy and then judge in the civil courts under the Emperor John VIII.
  
• - By this name is designated in Mark, vi, 53, a district of Palestine bordering on the Sea of Galilee, and which in the parallel passage of Matthew (xiv, 34) is called "the country of Genesar".
  
• - Three saints by this name commemorated on 25 June.
  
• - Cardinal, and Bishop of Verona, the natural son of Francesco Giberti, a Genoese naval captain, b. at Palermo in 1495; d. at Verona, 30 Dec., 1543.
  
• - Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy).
  
• - Antipope placed upon the papal chair by Emperor Henry V, 8 March, 1118.
  
• - Diocese in Spain, comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almeria.
  
• - Situated in the southwest of Scotland.
  
• - The discover of the sea route to East Indies; born at Sines, Province of Alemtejo, Portugal, about 1469; died at Cochin, India, 24 December, 1524.
  
• - A precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year, and occasionally confer upon illustrious churches and sanctuaries as a token of special reverence and devotion,
  
• - Born at Neocaesarea in Pontus (Asia Minor) about 213; died there 270-275.
  
• - Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, b. 5 February, 1796, at Gimmeldingen, in the Palatinate; d. 8 September, 1864, at Cologne.
  
• - Bishop of that city and strenuous defender of papal rights against imperial encroachments during the Investitures conflict; b. about 1040; d. 12 November, 1110.
  
• - Inventor of printing. (1400-1467)
  
• - French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731.
  
• - Names, respectively, of a king and of his supposed kingdom, mentioned several times in chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezechiel, and once in the Apocalypse (20:7).
  
• - A Byzantine poet who lived in the first half of the seventh century.
  
• - First Archbishop of St. Andrews and Metropolitan of Scotland, date of birth uncertain; d. 1478.
  
• - A tribal group of South America, having the former home territory chiefly between the Uruguay and lower Paraguay Rivers, in what is now Paraguay and the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios of Argentina.
  
• - Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, born at Paris, 12 August, 1591, daughter of Louis de Marillac, Lord of Ferri res, and Marguerite Le Camus; died there, 15 March, 1660.
  
• - Founder of the Order of Gilbertines, b. at Sempringham, on the border of the Lincolnshire fens, between Bourn and Heckington.
  
• - Benedictine monk. (995-1050)
  
• - Reigned 1073-1085.
  
• - Martyr; born about 1550 at Wigan; executed at Rochester 13 (30?) April, 1590.
  
• - Reigned 996-999.
  
• - French missionary; born at Verdun, 4 June, 1654; died at Peking, China, 27 March, 1707.
  
• - Archdiocese in the south-west of Scotland.
  
• - Theologian, ascetical writer, and preacher; born at Soissons, 8 Sept., 1640; died at Paris, 28 Feb., 1715.
  
• - Reigned 1045-46.
  
• - Oratorian and patristic scholar, born at Venice, 7 December, 1709; died there 12 January, 1779, or 1780.
  
• - Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.
  
• - People who speak of the Greek Rite generally mean that of Constantinople.
  
• - Dominican and hellenist. (1601-1653)
  
• - The rite which prevailed in Gaul until about the middle or end of the eighth century.
  
• - A theologian, b. at Bergamo, Italy, 3 March, 1722; d. at Vicenza, 11 Dec., 1799.
  
• - French Jesuit. (1663-1749)
  
• - A Greek scholar of the early Italian Renaissance; b. in Crete (a Venetian possession from 1206-1669), 1395; d. in Rome, 1486.
  
• - An eminent Florentine architect; born 1691; died 1737.
  
• - Priest and poet; born at Zamora, Spain, 14 December, 1777; died at Madrid, 9 January, 1853.
  
• - The excessive indulgence in food and drink.
  
• - Ecclesiastical historian. (1816-1892)
  
• - Gravina is a town in the Province of Bari (Southern Italy), since the ninth century an episcopal see, suffragan of Acerenza and Matera. In 1818 it was united aeque principaliter with Montepeloso, which dates back to the twelfth century (some say the fifte
  
• - The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ's words and deeds.
  
• - Diocese in the West Indies, comprises the islands of Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the French portions of St. Martin and St Bartholomew.
  
• - Priest and controversialist; b. at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, 1799; d. at Newport, Shropshire, 27 Feb., 1883.
  
• - Italian jurist and littérateur of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. at Rogliano, Calabria, 21 January, 1664; d. at Rome, 6 January, 1718.
  
• - Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).
  
• - A celebrated exorcist; b. 22 Aug., 1727, at Braz, Vorarlberg, Austria; d. 4 April, 1779.
  
• - The moral good (bonum honestum) consists in the due ordering of free action or conduct according to the norm of reason, the highest faculty, to which it is to conform.
  
• - Cardinal, Archbishop of Michlin (Belgium), b. at Perck, near Vilvorde, 18 July, 1827; d. at Michlin, 25 January, 1906.
  
• - Named Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 and cardinal in 1561.
  
• - Includes all German-speaking people, whether originally from Germany proper, Austria, Switzerland, or Luxemburg.
  
• - French cardinal and theologian; b. at Montigny-les-Charlieu, a village of Franche-Comté, in 1792; d. at Reims in 1866.
  
• - Poet; born between 1327-1330, probably in Kent; died October, 1408.
  
• - A French bishop; b. at Montpellier (department of Herault) 3 Dec., 1806; d. there 17 Nov., 1875.
  
• - Patriarch of Constantinople. (d. 733)
  
• - Bishop of Auxerre, born at Auxerre c. 380; died at Ravenna, 31 July, 448.
  
• - Doctor of the Church, born at Arianzus, in Asia Minor, c. 325; died at the same place, 389.
  
• - Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.
  
• - A Basilian monastery near Rome.
  
• - A Florentine painter, and founder of the Italian school of painting, b. most probably, in the village of Vespignano near Florence; d. at Milan, 8 Jan., 1337.
  
• - French painter, b. at Tournus in Ardeche, 21 August, 1725; d. at Paris, 21 March, 1805.
  
• - The name of a legendary sacred vessel, variously identified with the chalice of the Eucharist or the dish of the Pascal lamb, and the theme of a famous medieval cycle of romance.
  
• - Originally founded by St. Louis Grignon de Montfort in 1705, but it did not spread much till it was amalgamated with one founded in 1835 by Monsignor Deshayes. Vicar-General of Rennes.
  
• - Links to five articles about the subject.
  
• - A noted sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV, b. at Troyes, France, 1630; d. at Paris, 1715.
  
• - Second superior-general of the Society of the Sacred Heart, daughter of Joseph Goetz of Strasburg and Marie Anne Wagner; b. 7 March, 1817; d. 4 January, 1874.
  
• - Duke of Lower Lorraine and first King of Jerusalem, son of Eustache II, Count of Boulogne, and of Ida, daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine; b. probably at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1060; d. at Jerusalem, 18 July, 1100.
  
• - Discalced Carmelite, b. at Paris, 1660; d. at Reclus, France, 1761.
  
• - Italian painter; b. probably about 1378 in the District of the Marches; d. probably 1427.
  
• - Dramatist; b. at Venice, 25 Feb., 1707; d. at Paris, 6 Jan., 1793.
  
• - The lowest orders of angels are sent to men.
  
• - Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734
  
• - Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide.
  
• - Founded by St. Gilbert, about the year 1130, at Sempringham, Gilbert's native place, where he was then parish priest.
  
• - Reigned 1406-1415.
  
• - The name is often taken as synonymous with plain chant, comprising not only the Church music of the early Middle Ages, but also later compositions (elaborate melodies for the Ordinary of the Mass, sequences, etc.) written in a similar style down to the si
  
• - This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar.
  
• - Bishop of Worcester, b. about 1235; d. 26 Jan., 1301.
  
• - Confessor and anchorite in Belgium; b. in the first half of the seventh century.
  
• - The word gloss designates not only marginal notes, but also words or remarks inserted for various reasons in the very text of the Scriptures.
  
• - Reigned 1187.
  
• - Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart; b. at Versailles, 17 September, 1788; d. at Paris, 19 November, 1846.
  
• - Created by Pope Pius X, 18 May, 1904; comprises the following counties in the State of Montana: Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Dawson, Fergus, Park, Rosebud, Sweet Grass, Valley, and Yellowstone.
  
• - A humanist, b. 1370, at Verona, Italy; d. 1460, at Ferrara.
  
• - German historian; b. at Calw, Würtemberg, 5 March, 1803; d. at Karlsbad, 6 July, 1861.
  
• - German convert to the Catholic faith from the Protestant ministry; b. 11 April, 1596, at Cassel; d. February, 1680.
  
• - Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 11 November, 1542; d. at San Martino, 11 January, 1593.
  
• - This agitation, so called from the head and spirit of the movement, Lord George Gordon, convulsed the metropolis of England from 2 June till 9 June, 1780.
  
• - Ecclesiastical writer, son of a priest of Cyzicus, and wrote in Bithynia, about 475, to prove against the Eutychians, that the Nicene Fathers did not teach Monophysitism.
  
• - In Switzerland, Canton St. Gall, 30 miles southeast of Constance; for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe; founded about 613, and named after Gallus, an Irishman, the disciple and companion of St. Columbanus in his exile from Luxe
  
• - The gift of miracles is one of those mentioned by St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians (xii, 9, 10), among the extraordinary graces of the Holy Ghost.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - Born at Udligerschwyl, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 25 August, 1782; died at Lucerne, 28 February, 1827.
  
• - Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715.
  
• - German novelist of the seventeenth century.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - French Jesuit missionary. (1618-1697)
  
• - Soldier, born at Parkstown, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, on 15 Jan., 1835; died at Boston, 21 March, 1877.
  
• - In religion, Brother Mary Joseph; Abbot and procurator-general of La Trappe, came of a noble and ancient family in Hungary; b. in Lyons, 14 Jan., 1772; d. at Rome, 15 March, 1848.
  
• - Confessor; born about 1635; died 11 March, 1680.
  
• - An Irishman by birth, one of the twelve disciples who accompanied St. Columbanus to Gaul, and established themselves with him at Luxeuil.
  
• - Reigned 1831-1846.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia.
  
• - Although in the popular mind Galileo is remembered chiefly as an astronomer, it was not in this character that he made really substantial contributions to human knowledge, but rather in the field of mechanics, and especially of dynamics, which science may
  
• - True name Tylden. Born at Addington, Kent, 1624; died in London, 1 Dec., 1688.
  
• - The moral power of command, supported (when need be) by physical coercion, which the State exercises over its members.
  
• - The Diocese of Geronia in Catalonia, Spain, suffragan of Tarragona, is bounded on the north by the Pyrenees, on the south and east by the Mediterranean, and on the west by the dioceses of Barcelona and Vich.
  
• - Bishop and orator. (1548-1631)
  
• - Benedictine exegete and Orientalist, b. 12 December, 1535, at Riom, in the department of Puy-de-Dôme; d. 16 Feb., 1597.
  
• - Reigned 590-604.
  
• - Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806.
  
• - From the very earliest times the public reading of parts of the Bible was an important element in the Liturgy inherited from the service of the Synagogue.
  
• - Details the history and various divisions of the church.
  
• - Founder of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood.
  
• - A wreath of flowers or evergreens formerly used in connection with baptismal, nuptial, and funeral rites, as well as in solemn processions.
  
• - Jurist: b. at Newbern, North Carolina, U.S.A., 19 Sept., 1778: d. at Raleigh, North Carolina, 28 January 1844.
  
• - Theologian and thirteenth general of the Society of Jesus, b. at Arganda, Spain, 18 January, 1624; died at Rome, 27 October, 1705.
  
• - Irish archivist and historian, b. in Dublin, 23 January, 1829; d. there, 23 May, 1898.
  
• - Feast is kept in the Diocese of Toulouse on 15 June.
  
• - Benedictine biographical writer. (d. 1099)
  
• - Missionary, b. at Montreal, Canada, 1737; d. at New Madrid, about 1804.
  
• - The aim of this institute is to provide a shelter for girls and women of dissolute habits, who wish to do penance for their iniquities and to lead a truly christian life.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium in the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
  
• - Scientist, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1763; d. in the same city, l5 December, 1817.
  
• - The largest of the original thirteen United States; bounded on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the east by the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Florida, and on the west by Florida and Alabama.
  
• - Humanist; b. 1475 at Holtwick, near Coesfeld, Westphalia; d. at Cologne, 22 May, 1542.
  
• - The doxology in the form in which we know it has been used since about the seventh century all over Western Christendom, except in one corner.
  
• - Italian painter, b. at Castelfranco in or before 1477; d. in Venice in October or November, 1510.
  
• - The name of three saints, of whom one was Bishop of Tongres (Maestricht), the second Bishop of Metz, while the third is known as Gondulphus of Berry.
  
• - A titular see of Palaestina Prima, in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
  
• - To gloss is to interpret or explain a text by taking up its words one after another. A glossary is therefore a collection of words about which observations and notes have been gathered, and a glossarist is one who thus explains or illustrates given texts.
  
• - Formerly called the Vicariate Apostolic of the Two Guineas.
  
• - The daily assembling of a community for purposes of discipline and administration of monastic affairs has always included the reading of a chapter of the rule, and thus the assembly itself came to be called the chapter and the place of meeting the chapter
  
• - French theologian and author, b. at Fuans (Franche-Comté) in 1802; d. in 1879.
  
• - Reigned 1271-1276.
  
• - A medieval collection of anecdotes, to which moral reflections are attached.
  
• - Originally signified, in common law, any farm, estate, or parcel of land, and the word is so used in the Theodosian Code. But in ecclesiastical law it has become the technical term for land permanently assigned for the maintenance of the incumbent of a pa
  
• - An historian and statesman; born at Florence, 1483; died there, 23 May, 1540.
  
• - French professor and writer, b. 19 July, 1839, at Nancy; d. 22 April, 1908.
  
• - Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268.
  
• - French priest and writer; b. at Lille, 30 March, 1805; d. at Montreux, Switzerland, 7 February, 1872.
  
• - Born at Cologne, 935; died at Toul, 23 April, 994.
  
• - One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible.
  
• - A disciple of Bernard, was b. between the years 1115 and 1120, at Auxerre; d. some time after the year 1188.
  
• - Señor de Batres; Spanish historian and poet (1376-1458).
  
• - Proficient in poetry, displayed considerable musical aptitude, had a taste for mechanical and electrical science and was devoted to the cultivation of modern languages, applying himself more particularly to the study of English. (1801-1848)
  
• - Fifteen psalms, namely Psalms 119-133.
  
• - The apostle, national saint, and patron of Armenia.
  
• - Dominican, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist, and writer on aeronautics; b. 1699.
  
• - Vicariate apostolic; comprises the group of that name, besides the islands of Ellice and Panapa.
  
• - A rugged promontory in the province of Andalusia, Spain, about 6 miles in circumference. Its almost perpendicular walls rise to a height of 1396 feet.
  
• - Bishop of Chartres, France; b. at Talcy, near Blois, 1647; d. at Chartres, 1709.
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - The author of one of the more important medieval Byzantine chronicles, died after 810.
  
• - Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050.
  
• - A Maronite residential see.
  
• - A learned Maronite, famous for his share in the publication of the Parisian polyglot of the Bible; b. 1577, at Edden on the Lebanon; d. 1648.
  
• - Priest and martyr, born at Boscham, Suffolk, England, 1571; died at Tyburn, 11 April, 1608.
  
• - Anchorite of Aquitaine. (585-649)
  
• - The Order of Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal, commonly called Grey Nuns because of the colour of their attire, was founded in 1738.
  
• - German writer of the twelfth century.
  
• - German Catholic societies for the religious, moral, and professional improvement of young men.
  
• - Medieval writer, b. probably at Tilbury, in the County of Essex, England, about 1150; d. at Arlington, about 1220.
  
• - Surnamed the Wise; b. about 516; d. at Houat, Brittany, 570.
  
• - Reigned 1227-1241.
  
• - Catholic theologian. (1817-1882)
  
• - An accomplished German historical and portrait painter, b. 6 March, 1800, at Wangen, Würtemberg; d. 31 January, 1876, at Rome.
  
• - A Provençal troubadour, b. about the middle of the twelfth century, at Excideuil in the Viscounty of Limoges.
  
• - The most northern portion of South America is a peninsula running into the Caribbean Sea.
  
• - The oldest university of Prussia, founded in 1456.
  
• - A person intrusted by law with the interests of another whose youth, inexperience, mental weakness or feebleness of will, disqualifies him from acting for himself in the ordinary affairs of life, and who is known as the ward.
  
• - Vicariate Apostolic embracing the territory of the Galla or Oromo tribes in Abyssinia.
  
• - Prefecture Apostolic in the French Sahara, separated in 1901 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Sahara and the Soudan.
  
• - Title adopted by Guibert de Nogent (died about 1124) for his history of the First Crusade.
  
• - A prince-bishopric of Carinthia, suffragan to Salzburg.
  
• - Bishop, poet and exegete; b. at Dreux in the diocese of Chartres, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April, 1672.
  
• - Five people with this name including: Genesius of Rome; Genesius of Arles; Genesius, Bishop of Clermont; Genesius Count of Clermont; and Genesius of Lyons.
  
• - Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563.
  
• - Reigned 1118-1119.
  
• - Painter and etcher, b. in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, 31 March, 1746; d. in Bordeaux, 16 April, 1828.
  
• - Diocese established 3 March, 1868, from the territory of the Diocese of Milwaukee.
  
• - A pseudonym for Anton Alexander (Maria), Count von Auersperg, an Austrian poet; b. at Laibach in 1806. d. at Graz in 1876.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Lecce (Southern Italy).
  
• - Middle High German epic poet.
  
• - Situated in the province of Reggio Emilia (Central Italy) on the left bank of the Po at its junction with the Crostolo.
  
• - Protomartyr of St. Omer and therefore of Stonyhurst College. (1575-1608)
  
• - Journalist, historian. (1842-1911)
  
• - Mystical theologian. (1591-1644)
  
• - Poet, b. at Fontenoy-le-Château, 1751; d. at Paris, 12 November, 1780.
  
• - Liturgist, a member of the Barnabite Order; b. at Monza, 1569; d. at Milan, 14 August, 1638.
  
• - Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659.
  
• - Church historian, patristic scholar, and moral theologian; b. at Paris, 11 Nov., 1612; d. at Bologna, 26 Nov., 1681.
  
• - Soldier; born 26 April, 1821, near Havana, Cuba; killed at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, U.S.A., 31 December, 1862.
  
• - Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455.
  
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• - Bishop of Poitiers, philosopher, theologian and general scholar; b. at Poitiers in 1076; d. in 1154.
  
• - Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798.
  
• - Born in London, 2 June, 1791; died 19 August, 1847; the first and only Vicar Apostolic of the London District educated wholly in England.
  
• - Spanish artist. Born in Crete, between 1545 and 1550; died at Toledo, 7 April, 1614.
  
• - A supernatural gift of the class gratiae gratis datae, designed to aid in the outer development of the primitive Church.
  
• - An Oblate missionary and parish priest. (1822-1895)
  
• - Voluntary associations for religious, social, and commercial purposes.
  
• - Martyr; born about 1584; martyred 19 August, 1642.
  
• - A Bishop of Aversa, a Benedictine monk, theologian, and opponent of Berengarius; born at an unknown place in Normandy during the first quarter of the eleventh century; died between 1090-95, at Aversa, near Naples.
  
• - Eugénie de Guérin, a French writer; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 15 January, 1805; d. there 5 June, 1848. Georges-Maurice de Guérin, a French poet, brother of Eugénie; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 5 August, 1810; d. t
  
• - Westphalian known as an historian and an ardent reformer of monastic life in his native land. (1358-1421)
  
• - Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium.
  
• - French Jesuit and missionary to China, b. at Gaillac (Aveyron), 14 July, 1689; d. at Peking, 24 July, 1759.
  
• - The mother-house of the Carthusian Order lies in a high valley of the Alps of Dauphine.
  
• - A documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants.
  
• - French composer. (1818-1893)
  
• - Gerald de Barry, a distinguished writer, historian, and ecclesiastic of the early Middle Ages.
  
• - Archdiocese in India.
  
• - Priest and martyr; born in the Diocese of Bangor, Wales, 1590; died 1642.
  
• - Historian, publicist, and poet; b. at Coblenz on 28 May, 1805; d. at Munich on 14 July, 1852.
  
• - Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736.
  
• - Bishop; b. at Clifton-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire, 26 Jan., 1777; d. in London, 15 March, 1833.
  
• - Its jurisdiction covers the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Meeklenburg-Strelitz, the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, the free Hanse towns, Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen, the Principality of Lübeck (capital Eutin), belonging to the Grand Duchy
  
• - Archdiocese in Liguria, Northern Italy.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Arabia and the Patriarchate of Antioch.
  
• - Diocese in Ceylon, created by Leo XIII 25 Aug., 1893.
  
• - A Benedictine abbey situated on a hill of the same name, south of Krems, in Lower Austria.
  
• - Bishop of St. Asaph, the last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England; b. between 1501 and 1515; d. in Rome, 3 April, 1585.
  
• - The principal ceremonial rite of an Indian religion which originated about 1887 with Wovoka, alias jack Wilson, an Indian of the Piute tribe in Nevada.
  
• - The origin of this university is to be traced to the Arab school at Cordova, which, when the city was captured by St. Ferdinand in 1236, was removed to Granada and there continued.
  
• - Monk and physicist. (1712-1751)
  
• - Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.
  
• - An eclectic painter of the Bolognese school; b. at Bologna, 1606; d. at Rome, 1680.
  
• - Patroness of Paris. (419-512)
  
• - A hermit in Bohemia in the eleventh century; b. about 955; d. at Hartmanitz, Bohemia, 9 Oct., 1045.
  
• - Born at Zütphen, 1367; died at Windesheim, 1398; a mystical writer and one of the first of the Brothers of the Common Life, founded by Gerhard Groote and Florentius Radewyn at Deventer, in the Netherlands.
  
• - A titular see of Galatia Secunda, a suffragan of Pessinus; mentioned by Hierocles in the sixth century.
  
• - Reigned 492-496.
  
• - Jesuit theologian and controversialist; b. 1544, at or near Wells, Somersetshire; died 16 Aug. or 3 Dec., 1589.
  
• - Reigned 731-41.
  
• - Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, 1 August, 1732.
  
• - French philosopher and scientist. (1592-1655)