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• - Irish bishop and King of Cashel (836-908).
  
• - A term commonly used to designate that period of European history between the Fall of the Roman Empire and about the middle of the fifteenth century.
  
• - The Company of Mary was founded by Blessed Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in 1713.
  
• - Biography of the Countess of Salisbury, martyred in 1541.
  
• - A word coined in comparatively modern times to designate belief in the one supreme God, the Creator and Lord of the world, the eternal Spirit, All-powerful, All-wise, and All-good, the Rewarder of good and the Punisher of evil, the Source of our happiness
  
• - A titular see, suffragan of Naxos in the Cyclades.
  
• - Founder and first Abbot of Tamalcht (Tallacht), in the County of Dublin, Ireland.
  
• - A tribe that occupied some fifteen towns on Mayo and Fuerte rivers, southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, Mexico.
  
• - A historian and archeologist, born at Mingolsheim near Bruchsal, Baden, 12 May, 1796; died at Karlsruhe, 12 March, 1871.
  
• - Writer, b. at the château of Montaigne, in Périgord, France, on 28 Feb., 1533; d. there, 13 Sept., 1592.
  
• - An obscure writer of the fourth century of whom nothing is known but his name at the head of a "Sermon against the Arians", discovered by Wetsten in a manuscript codex of St. Athanasius at Basle.
  
• - A conventual Mass sung or said in all cathedrals and collegiate churches that have a chapter; in this case it is often called the "chapter" Mass.
  
• - Italian philologist and physician (1530-1606).
  
• - Roman cardinal and celebrated philologist, b. at Schilpario, in the Diocese of Bergamo, 7 March 1782; d. at Albano, 9 September 1854.
  
• - The canonists of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries who taught canon law by commenting on the Decretum of Gratian and on the various collections of the Decretals, gave the most varied forms and diverse names to their treatises. The "Margaritae"
  
• - In medieval history it was known as Myddilburga or Middilburga, with many other variations of form.
  
• - Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.
  
• - The texts (e.g. antiphons, psalms, hymn) sung in Vespers vary according to the feast or the season of the church year.
  
• - Taking the term in its widest sense, matter signifies that out of which anything is made or composed.
  
• - Date and place of birth unknown; d. in Mexico in 1632. According to some he was of Spanish descent; Humboldt says that he was either a German or Dutchman, and according to others a Mexican educated in Spain, but in all probability he was a Frenchman.
  
• - Orientalist, exegete, and editor of the "Antwerp Polyglot", born at Frejenal de la Sierra in Estremadura, Spain, 1527; died at Seville, 1598.
  
• - Writer and controversialist. Born in London, 14 October, 1752: died at Wolverhampton, 19 April, 1826.
  
• - Christian apologist, flourished between 160 and 300; the exact date is not known.
  
• - A Spanish missionary; born at Vitoria, Spain, 1525; died in the City of Mexico, 9 May, 1604.
  
• - French philosophical writer, b. at Chambéry, in Savoy, in 1753, when Savoy did not belong to France; d. at Turin, 26 Feb., 1821.
  
• - Lawyer and judge, born at Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, in 1789; died 1846.
  
• - Morality is antecedent to ethics: it denotes those concrete activities of which ethics is the science. It may be defined as human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting.
  
• - Born March 6, 1791 at Tubbernavine, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died at Tuam, November 4, 1881.
  
• - An important tribe of Algonquian stock formerly claiming prior dominion over the whole of what is now Indiana and western Ohio, including the territories drained by the Wabash, St. Joseph, Maumee, and Miami rivers.
  
• - Originally a pious association of ladies formed in 1626 for the care of the sick in the hospital of St. Charles at Nancy, but constituted a religious community in 1652 after being generously endowed by the father of Emmanuel Chauvenel, a young advocate wh
  
• - An editor, convert, born at Duanesburg, New York, U. S. A., 1 April, 1820; died in Brooklyn, New York, 29 December, 1886.
  
• - Born near Novogrodek, Lithuania, 1798; died at Constantinople, 1855.
  
• - English naturalist and historian, b. in Yorkshire, 22 June, 1735; d. at Prague in Bohemia, 23 Feb., 1809.
  
• - An Italian painter, b. at Camerino, in the March of Ancona, 13 May, 1625, d. in Rome, 15 December, 1713.
  
• - Archdiocese in India.
  
• - There is no constant meaning in the history of philosophy for the word Mechanism. Originally, the term meant that cosmological theory which ascribes the motion and changes of the world to some external force.
  
• - French physicist and theologian; b. at Toulouse, 17 July, 1601; d. at Toulouse, 29 October, 1676.
  
• - The Diocese comprises the upper peninsula and the adjacent islands of the State of Michigan, U.S.A.
  
• - Roman emperor 235-238.
  
• - A Belgian prelate and statesman, born at Brussels, 1820; died at Rome, 1874.
  
• - Diocese of Marseilles (Massiliensis), suffragan of Aix, comprises the district of Marseilles in the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône.
  
• - A kind of folding-cap consisting of two like parts, each stiffened by a lining and rising to a peak; these are sewn together on the sides, but are united above by a piece of material that can fold together.
  
• - Humanist, historian and theologian (1451-1522).
  
• - French Jesuit, b. at Puy, 3 Oct., 1621; d. Toulouse, 3 Jan., 1674.
  
• - Theologian, born at Belalcazar, Spain, 1489; died at Toledo, May, 1578.
  
• - A theologian and ascetic writer of some importance in the fifth century.
  
• - St. Mary Frances of Naples, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1791.
  
• - The charter of liberties granted by King John of England in 1215 and confirmed with modifications by Henry III in 1216, 1217, and 1225.
  
• - In ecclesiastical language, refers to whatever relates to the metropolis, the principal city, or see, of an ecclesiastical province.
  
• - Born at Niort, 28 November 1635; died at Saint-Cyr, 15 April 1719. She was the granddaughter of the celebrated Protestant writer, Agrippa d'Aubigné.
  
• - One of the greatest figures in Armenian history, he was born about 361 at Hassik in the Province of Taron; died at Valarsabad, 441.
  
• - Italian goldsmith and planisher, chiefly known as a medalist, born (according to Forrer) in Breglio near Como or (according to older records) in Lugano; date of death unknown.
  
• - A Spanish diplomat and writer, and one of the greatest figures in the history of Spanish politics and letters; born in Granada, of noble parentage, about 1503; died in Madrid, 1575.
  
• - English Cistercian abbey.
  
• - Reigned 882-884.
  
• - French physicist, b. at Dijon, France, about 1620; d. at Paris, 12 May, 1684.
  
• - Son of Andrew, Lord of Montmirail and Ferté-Gaucher, and Hildiarde d'Oisy, born in 1165; died 29 Sept., 1217.
  
• - Dominican nun, b. at Barcelona, Spain, 16 February, 1594; d. at the convent of the Dominican nuns at Avignon, France, 26 June, 1653.
  
• - Physician; born at Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), 21 November, 1817; died Baltimore, Md., 7 Ocbober, l885, son of Dr. Richard McSherry.
  
• - A titular see of Pamphylia Secunda, suffragan of Perga.
  
• - Milanese painter, b. at Caravaggio in 1569, d. at Porto d' Ercole in 1609.
  
• - Born 13 April, 1519; died 5 January, 1589; she was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici (II), Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d' Auvergne who, by her mother, Catherine of Bourbon, was related to the royal house of France.
  
• - Nun and descendant of St. Thomas More (1606-1633).
  
• - These islands, a German possession since 1885, lying in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Caroline islands, between 4 and 13 N. lat., and 161 and 171 E. longitude, were discovered in 1529 by Saavedra, Villalobos and other Spanish mariners, and explored by Ma
  
• - A diplomat and historian, born at Paris, 31 July, 1772; died at Paris, 12 Nov., 1849.
  
• - Countess of Tuscany, daughter and heiress of the Marquess Boniface of Tuscany, and Beatrice, daughter of Frederick of Lorraine, b. 1046; d. 24 July, 1114.
  
• - Anatomist, b. probably at Bologna, about 1275; d. there, about 1327.
  
• - This prefecture in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, comprises the valley of the Moesa which starts at the pass of San Bernardino and flows into the Ticino, and also the valley of Calanca, through which the Calasanca flows.
  
• - Soldier, jurist; born at Laprairie, Canada, 21 March, 1838; died in New York, 21 April, 1906.
  
• - A titular see of Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.
  
• - An American statesman; born in the Island of Trinidad, W. I., 1813; died at Pensacola, Florida, United States, 9 Nov., 1873.
  
• - Physicist and author, b. at Guéméné (Morbihan), 15 April, 1804; d. at Saint-Denis (Seine), 14 July, 1884.
  
• - French church historian, b. at Nancy, 10 January, 1610; d. at Paris, 13 August, 1686.
  
• - Roman Emperor, born in 539; died in November, 602.
  
• - Flemish painter, b. about 1430-35; d. at Bruges 11 August, 1494.
  
• - Spanish composer (1512-1553).
  
• - English priest and martyr (1590-1616).
  
• - This office (which has always been entrusted to a Friar Preacher) may briefly be described as being that of the pope's theologian. St. Dominic, appointed in 1218, was the first Master of the Sacred Palace (Magister Sacri Palatii).
  
• - The name used to designate an immense uneven plateau, part of the Chinese Empire, extending, roughly speaking, from the Tarbagatal to the great K'ingan chains.
  
• - A tribe of Algonquian stock, occupying territory upon the lower St. John River, St. Croix River, and Passamaquody Bay, in western New Brunswick and northeastern Maine, and closely connected linguistically and historically with the Abnaki (Penobscot, etc.)
  
• - Fifth Earl of Nithsdale (Lord Nithsdale signed as Nithsdaill) and fourteenth Lord Maxwell, b. in 1676; d. at Rome, 2 March, 1744.
  
• - After a vacancy in office following the death of Pope St. Marcellinus, was elected to the papacy in 308.
  
• - A Spanish lyric poet, b. in Seville, not to be confounded with Sebastian Francisco de Medrano who was also a poet and lived at about the same time.
  
• - Poet, from Bourne in Lincolnshire, England.
  
• - Born in 1728; died 6 October, 1802; a priest of the Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri, at Rome, whom Pius VI created titular Bishop of Cyrene and provost of the Congregation for the correction of the liturgical books of Oriental Rites.
  
• - Author; born at LibertyTown, Frederick County, Maryland, 29 July, 1819; died at Frederick City, Maryland, 13 July, 1869, was the son of James McSherry and Anne Ridgely Sappington, and the grandson of Patrick McSherry, who came from Ireland in 1745 to Lanc
  
• - Historian of Spain and of the discoveries of her representatives, b. at Arona, near Anghiera, on Lake Maggiore in Italy, 2 February, 1457; d. at Granada in October, 1526.
  
• - Divided into Lower or Old California and Upper California.
  
• - It is perhaps the Migdal-El mentioned in the Old Testament (Jos., xix, 38) belonging to the tribe of Nephtali.
  
• - A knight, confessor of the Faith, died in York Castle, 1573.
  
• - Irish Franciscan martyr; b. after 1639; d. at Ruthin, Denbighshire, 12 August, 1679.
  
• - The second French Governor of Canada, born in France towards the end of the sixteenth century, of Charles Huault and Antoinette du Drac; died in the Antilles after 1651.
  
• - Duke of Bavaria (1573-1651).
  
• - An heretical sect which originated in Mesopotamia about 360 and survived in the East until the ninth century.
  
• - Also called St. Martin Bracara or Martin of Dumio, monk, missionary, monastic founder, archbishop, ecclesiatical writer, d. 580.
  
• - A theologian, b. at Couvin, a village in the principality of Liege, in 1585; d. at Ghent, 11 Nov., 1661.
  
• - Jurist, son of the author James McSherry; born at Frederick, Maryland, 30 December, 1842; died there 23 October, 1907.
  
• - Diocese; Martinique is one of the French Lesser Antilles, 380 sq. miles in area; It was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and colonized by the French about 1625; it was in the hands of the English from 1762-1783, and was again occupied by them i
  
• - Italian painter; born according to some authorities, at Vicenza, according to others at Padua, in 1431, died at Mantua, 13 September, 1506.
  
• - A large number of manuscripts covered with painted ornaments.
  
• - A congregation of secular priests with religious vows founded by St. Vincent de Paul.
  
• - A Spanish missionary, date of birth unknown; died in the West Indies, 1545.
  
• - A town and bishopric in Lorraine.
  
• - Physician and theologian, b. at Padua about 1270; d. about 1342.
  
• - Biographical article on the penitent and hermit, who died around 421.
  
• - By the Monogram of Christ is ordinarily understood the abbreviation of Christ's name formed by combining the first two letters of the Greek form; this monogram was also known as the Chrismon.
  
• - Countess of Nithsdale, d. at Rome, May, 1749.
  
• - Under his uncle Augustus Galerius, the Caesar of Syria and Egypt, from the year 305; in 307 following the example of Constantine, he assumed the title of Augustus.
  
• - Cardinal, Bishop of Modena, b. at Milan 25 Jan., 1509; d. at Rome, 1 Dec., 1580.
  
• - An encyclopaedist, b. at Bargemont in the Diocese of Frejus, France, 25 March, 1643, d. at Paris, 10 July, 1680.
  
• - Friar minor, historian, and Bishop of Oporto in Portugal, b. at Lisbon (date of birth uncertain); d. in 1591.
  
• - A titular see in Mauretania Sitifiensis.
  
• - French poet, b. at Caen, Normandy, in 1555; d. at Paris, 16 October, 1628.
  
• - A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.
  
• - A Spanish navigator and explorer, born in Saragossa, 1541; died in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 18 October, 1596.
  
• - The name of seven persons of the Bible, a tribe of Israel, and one of the apocryphal writings.
  
• - Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180, born at Rome, 26 April, 121; died 17 March, 180.
  
• - Pioneer missionary of the Flathead tribe and philologist of their language, b. in Rome, 21 July, 1811; d. at Santa Clara, California, 23 September, 1886.
  
• - A celebrated early Jesuit missionary in New York State, b. at Bourges, France, 19 November, 1635 (al. 1631); d. at Quebec, 31 December, 1708.
  
• - Spanish painter; b. at Seville, 31 December, 1617; d. there 5 April, 1682.
  
• - An Archbishop of Dublin, b. 1768, at Sheepwalk, near Arklow, Ireland; d. at Dublin.
  
• - A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ephesus.
  
• - Austrian Jesuit missionary to the Chinese, in the seventeenth century.
  
• - The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the "breaking of bread" (fractio panis) or
  
• - French Biblical scholar. (1840 - 1890)
  
• - Granddaughter of St. Melania the Elder, and a friend of St. Jerome.
  
• - The ancient capital of Russia and the chief city of the government (province) of Moscow, situated in almost the centre of European Russia.
  
• - The group of Maltese islands, including Malta, Gozo, Comine and a few inconsiderable islets, lies 58 miles south of Sicily and about 180 miles S.E. by E. of Cape Bon in Tunisia.
  
• - The mountain that the architect Dinocrates offered to turn into a statue of Alexander the Great with a city in one hand and in the other a perennially flowing spring.
  
• - A particular service-book of the Greek Church. From its derivation the term Menologium means "month-set", in other words, a book arranged according to the months.
  
• - An Italian painter of the Umbrian School, b. at Forlí, 1438; d. there 1494.
  
• - Bishop of Cork, born at Cork, 1739; died in 1815.
  
• - Etymologically, modernism means an exaggerated love of what is modern, an infatuation for modern ideas.
  
• - French architect, born in Paris, probably of Italian stock, in 1598; died there, 1666.
  
• - A name given in error to the Chippewayans, owing to a fancied resemblance to the Montagnais Indians of Quebec.
  
• - Explores the question where Mary died and was buried, either Jerusalem or Ephesus.
  
• - A French chronicler, born about 1390 or 1395; died in July, 1453.
  
• - A dramatist and man of letters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 31 July, 1824; died near Emmitsburg, 23 July, 1871.
  
• - The author of "Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica", b. at Rome, 17 October, 1802; d. there, 3 November, 1883.
  
• - A learned Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation, b. 14 October, 1683, at Sezanne, in the Department of Marne; d. 2 April, 1762, at Paris.
  
• - Diocese in Central Italy (Lunigiana and Garfagnana).
  
• - Queen of France; b. at Florence, 26 April, 1573; d. at Cologne, 3 July, 1642.
  
• - Second principal in order of succession of the Sulpician College of Montreal and missionary of the Detroit Hurons at Sandwich, Ont.; b. at Verchères, Que., 25 Feb. 1760, son of Louis Marchand and Marguerite de Niverville; d. at Sandwich, 14 Apr., 1825.
  
• - An ancient country of Asia and the inhabitants thereof.
  
• - Chief steward of the household of the pope.
  
• - Mexican patriot, b. at Valladolid (now called Morelia in his honour), Mexico, on 30 September, 1765; shot at San Cristóbal Ecatepec on 22 December, 1815.
  
• - A titular see of Numidia.
  
• - A French dramatic poet of the fifteenth century.
  
• - Mysticism as direct union of the human soul with the Divinity primarily from a Catholic perspective, but does mention other mystical traditions.
  
• - A theologian, grammarian born in King's County, Ireland, at the beginning of the seventeenth century; died at St. Isidore's, Rome, about 1684.
  
• - One of the most learned and renown theologians of the Society of Jesus, b. of noble parentage at Cuenca, New Castle, Spain, in 1535; d. at Madrid, 12 October, 1600.
  
• - A member of a community of men, leading a more or less contemplative life apart from the world, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to a rule characteristic of the particular order to which he belongs.
  
• - Hebrew liberator, leader, lawgiver, prophet, and historian, lived in the thirteenth and early part of the twelfth century, B. C.
  
• - Armenian Benedictines, founded by Mechitar in 1712.
  
• - Franciscan writer; b. in Wiltshire, 1599; d. at Douai, 30 Dec, 1678.
  
• - A Syriac bishop and writer, b. at Balad about 813; d. 12 Feb., 903.
  
• - French Carmelite nun (1590-1660).
  
• - A Croatian painter and engraver, called by Italian authors Medola, Medula, Schiavone, Schiaon, etc., b. at Sibenik, Dalmatia, 1522; d. at Venice 1582.
  
• - Baronet of Sefton, and third Viscount Molyneux of Maryborough in Ireland, born 1624; died 1699.
  
• - Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (1808-1892).
  
• - Two groups are detailed.
  
• - A titular see in the province of Rhodopis, suffragan of Trajanopolis.
  
• - Vessels intended for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
  
• - Short biography of the bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
  
• - A Wisconsin tribe of Algonquian stock of considerable missionary importance in the seventeenth century, but long since entirely extinct.
  
• - Priest of the Diocese of Metz, founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence (q. v.), missionary in China, b. at Cutting, Lorraine, 27 January, 1730; d. at Trier, 4 May, 1793.
  
• - French savant and historian; b. 11 June, 1845; d. at Paris, 2 November, 1902.
  
• - Situated at the extreme point of the North American continent, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, British Honduras, and Guatemala, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean.
  
• - Those between Catholics and non-Catholics, when the latter have been baptized in some Christian sect. The term is also used to designate unions between Catholics and infidels.
  
• - Son of Cristoforo Fini; b. in the subrub of Panicale di Valdese, near Florence, 1383; d, c. 1440.
  
• - A group of some half dozen tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock upon the headwaters of the Beni river, Department of Beni, in northwestern Bolivia.
  
• - Born either at Rome or at Piscina in the Abruzzi, of a very old Sicilian family, 14 July, 1602; died at Vincennes, 9 March, 1661.
  
• - Franciscan, philosopher, and theologian, born near Forli, at Meldola, ltaly, in 1602; died 3 January, 1673.
  
• - An Arabian tribe introduced into history in the texts of Gen., xxv, 1-4 and I Chron., i, 32.
  
• - Located in the state of Victoria, Southeastern Australia.
  
• - Eminent naturalist and scientist in South America, b. at Cadiz, Spain, 6 April, 1732; d. at Bogotá, Colombia, 2 Sept., 1808.
  
• - One of the thirteen original United States of America. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts covers part of the territory originally granted to the Plymouth Company of England.
  
• - Island situated to the south-east of Africa.
  
• - One of the thirteen English colonies which after the Revolution of 1776 became the original States of the American Union.
  
• - Second-century Bishop of Sardis.
  
• - Theologian, born at Toulouse, 28 Oct., 1632; died at Rome, 23 Jan., 1706.
  
• - At the end of time Christ will return in all His splendour to gather together the just, to annihilate hostile powers, and to found a glorious kingdom on earth for the enjoyment of the highest spiritual and material blessings; He Himself will reign as its
  
• - Diocese in Venezuela.
  
• - A tribe formerly ranging on both sides of the Paraguay River, on the north and northwestern Paraguay frontier, and in the adjacent portion of the province of Matto Grosso, Brazil.
  
• - A philosopher and theologian, priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri; b. at Paris, 6 Aug., 1638; d. 13 Oct 1715.
  
• - Irishman, appointed Abbot of Fahan by St. Columba. Patron saint of the O'Neills. Died in about 645.
  
• - Vicariate Apostolic, established by Leo XIII on 3 February, 1893, in the southern part of the province of Oriente, Ecuador.
  
• - Born at the castle of Montpensier in the old French province of Touraine at an unknown date; d. at Perugia 28 March, 1285. As priest he held a benefice at Rouen for a short time, whereupon he became canon and treasurer at the church of St. Martin in Tours
  
• - Martyred Roman soldier (d. 287).
  
• - History of the Canadian province.
  
• - What can be pieced together of St. Mark's life from Scripture. Also reports on tradition surrounding the saint.
  
• - The Diocese of Montpellier (Montis Pessulani) comprises the department of Hérault, and is a suffragan of Avignon.
  
• - Born in Venice in 1696; died at Brescia in July, 1739.
  
• - Roman Emperor at Constantinople, b. in Thrace about 390; d. January, 457.
  
• - A soldier, convert, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, U.S.A., 10 Sept., 1799; died at Orange, New Jersey, 7 Sept., 1870.
  
• - A theologian, born at Cremona, Italy, date unknown; died at Bologna, 1240.
  
• - Canon, afterwards Jesuit, F.S.A., b. in India, 4 July, 1826; d. at Wimbledon, 22 Oct., 1893.
  
• - The lower degrees of the hierarchy are designated by the name of minor orders, in opposition to the "major" or "sacred" orders.
  
• - Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 624. Abbot sent to Canterbury by St. Gregory the Great, and the recipient of a letter from Gregory regarding pagan temples, idols, and festivals.
  
• - Bishop of Jerusalem, d. 334. He was an opponent of Arianism.
  
• - An historian, born at Gresten, Austria, 4 Oct., 1843; died at Vienna, 17 July, 1903.
  
• - A philologist, humanist, and editor of ancient writings, born 1424; died between 1482 and 1502.
  
• - Diocese in the province of Siena, in Tuscany.
  
• - Micheas (Hebr. Mikhah; Jeremiah 26:18: Mikhayah keth.), the author of the book which holds the sixth place in the collection of the Twelve Minor Prophets, was born at Moresheth (Micheas 1:1; Jeremiah 26:18), a locality not far from the town of Geth (Miche
  
• - The parish is established to provide the parishioners with the helps of religion, especially with Mass. The parochial Mass is celebrated for their welfare on all Sundays and holidays of obligation, even when suppressed.
  
• - A titular episcopal see and suffragan of Ephesus.
  
• - Located in Burgundy. The city of Mâcon, formerly the capital of the Mâconnais, now of the Department of Saône-et-Loire, became a civitas in the fifth century, when it was separated from the Æduan territory.
  
• - Born 6 May, 1501, at Montepulciano in Tuscany; died 6 May, 1555, at Rome. His father, Ricardo Cervini, was Apostolic treasurer in the March of Ancona.
  
• - Mercy as it is here contemplated is said to be a virtue influencing one's will to have compassion for, and, if possible, to alleviate another's misfortune.
  
• - Englishman, Protestant minister, converted to Catholicism, died a martyr in 1577.
  
• - In the New Testament she is mentioned among the women who accompanied Christ and ministered to Him (Luke 8:2-3), where it is also said that seven devils had been cast out of her (Mark 16:9).
  
• - One of the six companions associated with Dr. Allen in the foundation of the English College at Douai in 1568.
  
• - German astronomer, b. 6 June, 1436; d. in Rome, 6 July, 1476.
  
• - Blood brothers martyred at Rome in the Diocletian persecution, probably in 286.
  
• - Spanish poet and historian (1856-1912).
  
• - A titular metropolitan see of Cappadocia.
  
• - The first Bishop of Rochester, U. S. A.; born in New York City, 15 December, 1823; died at Rochester, 18 January, 1909.
  
• - Four principal words are rendered maledictio in the Vulgate, "curse" in Douay Version.
  
• - It comprises the civil Provinces of Lugo and Corunna, and is bounded on the north by the Bay of Biscay, on the east by the Austurias, on the south by the Diocese of Lugo, and on the west by the Archdiocese of Compostela (or Santiago de Galicia), of which
  
• - The archconfraternity owes its origin to Mgr. Albertini, then priest at San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, where since 1708 devotions in honour of the Precious Blood had been held.
  
• - Elected to the papacy in 296. He died in 304, probably of natural causes, since no early source calls him a martyr.
  
• - Located in Sicily.
  
• - Spanish painter, b. at Seville, 1630; d. probably in the same place, 1705.
  
• - The second oldest among the Catholic collegiate institutions in the United States, is located near Emmitsburg, Maryland, within the limits of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
  
• - A Protestant denomination of Europe and America which arose in Switzerland in the sixteenth century and derived its name from Menno Simons, its leader in Holland.
  
• - Ecclesiastical writer, born probably in Northern Africa about 390; died shortly after 451.
  
• - Located in the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, southern Italy.
  
• - The terms of the oath required the affiant to deny, not only that he had ever been in armed hostility to the United States, or to the lawful authorities thereof, but that he had ever "by act or word", manifested his adherence to the cause of the
  
• - Spanish historian, b. at Cordova, 1513; d. in 1591.
  
• - Christian marriage (i.e. marriage between baptized persons) is really a sacrament of the New Law in the strict sense of the word is for all Catholics an indubitable truth.
  
• - French painter; b. at Gruchy, near Cherbourg, 4 October, 1814; d. at Barbizon, 20 January, 1875.
  
• - Gregor Johann Mendel (the first name was taken on entrance to his order), b. 22 July, 1822, at Heinzendorf near Odrau, in Austrian Silesia; d. 6 January 1884, at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, Brunn.
  
• - Spanish dramatist; b. at Madrid, 9 April, 1618, d. at Toledo, 28 Octoher, 1669.
  
• - Inventor; b. at Vidalon-lez-Annonay, 26 August, 1740; d. at Balaruc-les-Bains, France, 26 June, 1810.
  
• - The form for the celebration of the Sacrament of Matrimony is detailed.
  
• - Antiquary, historiographer, architect, educationist, b. 4 October, 1804, at Auray, seat of the famous shrine of St. Ann in Brittany, France; d. at Vaugirard, Paris, 25 November, 1886.
  
• - Born at Brentford, Middlesex, 4 September, 1812; died at Hammersmith, London, 9 April, 1880; he studied at Baliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1834 (B.A. honours) and 1837 (M. A.), He was at once elected Petrean Fellow of Exeter College, and lectured on
  
• - Translator of the Douai Version of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate; b. in Maxfield, parish of Guestling, near Winchelsea, in Sussex; d. at Reims, 28 October, 1582.
  
• - An architect and sculptor, born at Florence circa 1391; died 1472.
  
• - A titular see of the Byzantine Empire.
  
• - Two points are discussed in the article: first, the literary activity of the Monophysites both in Greek and Syriac; secondly, the question whether they can be exculpated from material heresy in their Christology.
  
• - Whatever may be the etymological meaning of the word Monomotapa, the origin of which is much disputed, it is certain, at any rate, that the Portuguese of the sixteenth century employed it to denote the paramount chief of the Makaranga, a powerf ul South A
  
• - The rectangular ornamented piece of material attached to the two front edges of the cope near the breast to prevent the vestment from slipping from the shoulders.
  
• - A titular see of Cilicia Prima, suffragan of Tarsus.
  
• - A religious movement which was originated in 1739 by John Wesley in the Anglican Church, and subsequently gave rise to numerous separate denominations.
  
• - The seat of a Chaldean archdiocese, a Syrian diocese, and an Apostolic Mission.
  
• - A north-eastern division of the Chinese Empire and the cradle of the present [1910] imperial dynasty.
  
• - The author of a book of travels much read in the Middle Ages, died probably in 1372.
  
• - Montalcino is a small town about twenty miles from Siena, some 1900 feet above sea-level and overlooking the valley of the Ombrone.
  
• - A Greek philosopher, of the Eleatic School, b. at Samos about 470 B C.
  
• - Located in New South Wales. Maitland, the principal settlement on Hunter River, was chosen as the title for a bishop in 1848.
  
• - An archæologist, born at Tolmezzo near Udine, 22 Feb., 1795; died at Rome, 10 Feb., 1860.
  
• - Writer of the "Morte Arthure", the earliest production of English prose.
  
• - Latin chronicler of the sixth century.
  
• - A titular see of Palestina Secunda, suffragan of Scythopolis.
  
• - Article covers exclusively the texts of the Mass (and not, therefore, the Asperges, Vidi aquam, Litanies, Prophecies, etc., which in the Roman Missal are found more or less closely associated with the Mass in certain seasons of the Church Year), which rec
  
• - By merit (meritum) in general is understood that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward from him in whose service the work is done.
  
• - A German Protestant sect which derives its name from "Michel", the popular designation of its founder Johann Michael Hahn.
  
• - The book which contains the prayers said by the priest at the altar as well as all that is officially read or sung in connection with the offering of the holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year.
  
• - Or Manaen. Mentioned in Scripture, and traditionally believed to have been one of the first Christians in Antioch.
  
• - The complex of prayers and ceremonies that make up the service of the Eucharist in the Latin rites.
  
• - Lengthy article on the career of the gentle bishop who longed for unity in the Church.
  
• - Jesuit biblical scholar, b. at Padua, 1575; d. in Rome, 4 Feb., 1655.
  
• - Created by Gregory XVI on 17 Dec., 1832. Mgr. Trioche, Archbishop of Babylon or Bagdad, became its first titular; he resided habitually in Bagdad.
  
• - Jesuit General (1846-1906).
  
• - The name of ten persons of the Bible, variant in both Hebrew and Greek of Old Testament and in Greek of New Testament; uniform in Vulgate.
  
• - Illustrious as a scholastic of acumen and penetration, b. at Camerino in Umbria, 1569, whence the surname de Medicis a Camerino.
  
• - The maestro di camera is the real chief chamberlain. His authority extends over all matters concerning the daily personal service of His Holiness.
  
• - Situated on an isolated rock commanding the Danube, Melk has been a noted place since the days of the Romans.
  
• - Cardinal and statesman, born at Valréas, near Avignon, 26 June, 1746; died at Rome on 10 May, 1817.
  
• - The city is situated in the province of Trepani, Sicily, on the Mediterranean, at the mouth of the Mazzara River.
  
• - Prince-Archbishop of Vienna, born at Brünn, in Moravia, in 1777; died at Vienna in 1853.
  
• - Renowned scholar and preacher of the fourteenth century, b. at Cracow about 1335, d. at Pisa, 5 March, 1410.
  
• - A natural philosopher, jurist, historian, archeologist, born at Sant' Orcangelo (pagus Acerbotanus), 18 Dec., 1742; died at Paris, 7 May, 1815.
  
• - A name of no real ethnic significance, but used as a convenient popular and official term to designate the modern descendants of those tribes of California, of various stocks and languages, evangelized by the Franciscans in the latter part of the eighteen
  
• - Principal chief of the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia at the time of the establishment of the French colony under de Monts and Poutrincourt in 1605, and noted in mission annals of the first Christian in the tribe.
  
• - Archdeacon of Oxford, b. at, or in the vicinity of, Hereford, c. 1140, d. between 1208 and 1210.
  
• - Bishop of Trier (d. 352).
  
• - Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical Province of Montreal. Suffragans: the Dioceses of Saint-Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, Valleyfield, and Joliette.
  
• - By this term is meant the music which, by order or with the approbation of ecclesiastical authority, is employed in connexion with Divine service to promote the glorification of God and the edification of the faithful.
  
• - A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Edessa.
  
• - The only sister of St. Ambrose of Milan, b. about 330-5; d. about 398.
  
• - Diocese of Mantua (Mantuana), in Lombardy.
  
• - Memory is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity.
  
• - Author and Jesuit, b. at Talavern, Toledo, Spain, probably in April, 1536; d. at Toledo, 16 February, 1624.
  
• - Said to be derived from Menapia, the name of an ancient Roman settlement supposed to have existed in Pembrokeshire, or Hen Meneu (vetus rubus) where St. David was born.
  
• - Religious of the Visitation Order. Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, born at Lhautecour, France, 22 July, 1647; died at Paray-le-Monial, 17 October, 1690.
  
• - A theologian and exegete, b. in 1533 at Casas de Reina, in the district of Llerena, 66 leagues from Madrid; d. at Rome, 5 Jan., 1583.
  
• - Franciscan bishop. (1511-1574)
  
• - The term commonly designates ancient rabbinical commentaries on the Hebrew Scriptures.
  
• - Tribe occupying jointly with the Hidatsa (Minitari or Grosventre) and Arikara (Ree) the Fort Berthold reservation, on both sides of the Missouri, near its conjunction with the Knife River, North Dakota.
  
• - Name assumed by a heretical sect which in 1410-11 was cited before the Inquisition at Brussels.
  
• - This diocese includes the department of Lozère, in France. Suffragan of Bourges under the old régime, it was re-established by the Concordat of 1801 as a suffragan of Lyons and united with the department of Ardèche.
  
• - A group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock, the Mainan, ranging along the north bank of the Marañón.
  
• - Certain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their neophytes to retain after conversion, but which were afterwards prohibited by the Holy See.
  
• - Bishop of Paderborn; b. 18 May, 1812, at Geismar, Province of Saxony; d. 16 July, 1879, at Mont St Guibert, near Brussels, Belgium.
  
• - Born in 1569; died 14 September, 1625. He belonged to the old English family of Mayhew or Mayow of Winton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
  
• - A prophet of the Kingdom of Samaria, contemporary with Elias and Eliseus.
  
• - A titular see in Lydia, suffragan of Ephesus.
  
• - A pre-Hussite reform preacher and religious enthusiast, born at Kremsier in Moravia, died 29 June, 1374, at Avignon.
  
• - King of Israel.
  
• - Third son of the priest Mathathias who with his family was the centre and soul of the patriotic and religious revolt of the Jews against the King of Syria (I Mach., ii, 4).
  
• - The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals.
  
• - This archdiocese comprises the city of Manila, the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Cavite, Mindoro, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Rizal, Tarlac, and Zambales; and the Districts of Infanta and Marinduque in the Province of Tayabas.
  
• - Count of Osona, Spanish historian, son of the Governor of Sardinia and Catalonia, born at Valencia, 29 December, 1586; died near Goch, Germany, 1635.
  
• - Wrote numerous articles for other reviews as well as several separate works on iconography, ecclesiastical furniture, liturgy, and canon law. (1830-1901)
  
• - Article covering the nature and the history of the devotion.
  
• - The town of Münster in Westphalia obtained its university in 1771 through the initiative of the prince-bishop's vicar general, Freiherr von Fürstenberg.
  
• - The third Archbishop of Baltimore; born at Ingres near Orléans, France, 28 August, 1764; died at Baltimore, 29 January, 1828.
  
• - Missionary, b. at Paris, 1604, d. about 10 August, 1661, in what is now Wisconsin.
  
• - The state of a person or thing greater, or superior, in relation to another person or thing.
  
• - Italian painter, b. in Ferrara in 1480, d., according to one account, in 1528, and to another, in 1530; place of death unknown.
  
• - Italian painter, born about 1402, at San Giovanni di Valdarno, a stronghold situated between Arezzo and Florence; died, probably at Rome, in 1429.
  
• - Founded by John Baptist Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy (d. 1 June, 1905); approved in principle by Leo XIII in a Brief dated 25 November, 1887; constitution definitively approved by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, 3 October, 1908
  
• - History of the missions.
  
• - Foundress of the Montreal Hôtel-Dieu, and one of the first women settlers in Canada, b. at Nogent-le-Roi, Champagne, 1606; d. at Montreal, 19 June, 1673.
  
• - The English designation commonly applied to the "Manava Dharma-sastra", a metrical Sanskrit compendium of ancient sacred laws and customs held in the highest reverence by the orthodox adherents of Brahminism.
  
• - Commonly known as the Pine Tree State, but is sometimes called the Star in the East.
  
• - French monarch, born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741.
  
• - King of Salem (Gen. xiv, 18-20).
  
• - Jesuit missionary; b. 16 Dec., 1669, at Château Maillac on the Isère; d. 28 June, 1748, at Peking, China.
  
• - Collaborator and friend of Luther, born at Bretten (in Unterpfalz, now Baden), 16 February, 1497; died at Wittenberg, 19 April, 1560.
  
• - A painter, born at Louvain in 1466; died at Antwerp in 1530 (bet. 13 July and 16 September), and not in 1529, as his epitaph states (it dates from the seventeenth century).
  
• - Theologian and canonist (1494-1574).
  
• - Founded 16 January, 1848, for the purpose of procuring spiritual and corporal assistance for poor mothers and unfortunate girls.
  
• - Benedictine Abbot of the Schottenkloster of Vienna, b. about 1400; d. 28 July, 1464 (29 July 1470).
  
• - Controversial writer, b. 1818; d. at Surbiton, Surrey, 14 Dec., 1877.
  
• - The general term applied in South America to designate the mixed European-Indian race, and more specifically applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the organized bands of Portuguese slave-hunters who desolated the vast interior of South Am
  
• - Also called Constantine and Methodius. Biography of these ninth-century brothers, Apostles of the Slavs.
  
• - Italian painter. (d. 1660)
  
• - A theologian and scientist, born at Mount Tallant House, near Dublin, 10 Sept., 1834; died at Aberdeen, 1 Oct., 1906.
  
• - Italian Jesuit and epigraphist (1737-1822).
  
• - The word monad is used by the neo-Platonists to signify the One; for instance, in the letters of the Christian Platonist Synesius, God is described as the Monad of Monads.
  
• - A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.
  
• - Sienese painter, born in Siena, 1283; died either in the same place or at Avignon in 1344 or 1349.
  
• - Bishop of Rennes, ecclesiastical writer and hymnologist, b. about 1035 at Angers, France, d. there 11 September, 1123.
  
• - Apostle of Temperance, born at Thomastown Castle, near Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland, 10 October, 1790; died at Queenstown, Cork, 8 December, 1856.
  
• - A titular see of Bithynia Secunda.
  
• - Michael de los Santos, Catalonian, member of the Discalced Trinitarians, d. 1625.
  
• - Reigned 942-946; died in April or May, 946.
  
• - Includes the history of the missions and a list of the missionary martyrs.
  
• - Bishop and pulpit orator, b. in Ardfert, Co. Kerry, in 1812; d. 1 October, 1877.
  
• - Three brothers, learned Benedictines of the monastery of St. Peter in Salsburg, and professors at the University of Salzburg.
  
• - The countries where Mohammedanism prevails are full of religious associations, more or less wrapped in secrecy, which are also political.
  
• - Benedictine abbey in England.
  
• - Mayotte is the farthest south and most important of the group of Comoro Islands: Mayotte (Maote), Anjuan (Inzuani), Mohilla (Moheli), and Great Comoro (Komoro, i.e. where there is fire, or Angazidya).
  
• - A Lombard sculptor of the neoclassic school, born at Saltrio, near Milan, 7 August, 1790; died at Milan, 6 February. 1858.
  
• - A former convent of Cistercian nuns in the Diocese of Laon, now Soissons, France.
  
• - Addresses acts and experiences or states of the soul which cannot be produced by human effort or industry even with the ordinary aid of divine grace.
  
• - The introduction of monasticism into the West may be dated from about A.D. 340 when St. Athanasius visited Rome accompanied by the two Egyptian monks Ammon and Isidore, disciples of St. Anthony.
  
• - Martyred under Diocletian, c. 295. Most likely Menas of Mareotis, Menas of Cotyaes, and Menas of Constantinople, surnamed Kallikelados, are all the same person honored in different places.
  
• - Situated in Brittany, Diocese of Nantes, in the vicinity of Chateaubriand, was founded about the year 1134.
  
• - A suffragan of Toulouse, comprises the entire department of Tarn and Garonne.
  
• - A titular see of Proconsular Africa, suffragan of Carthage.
  
• - Information about this Hawaiian island and the leper colony there.
  
• - The name taken by Peter Manuk, founder of the religious order of Mechitarists, when he became a monk.
  
• - Italian philosopher and scholar (1463-1494).
  
• - Mexican tribe of Zapotecan linguistic stock, occupying the mountain region of north-east Oaxaca, chiefly in the districts of Cuicatlan and Teotitlan.
  
• - Celebrated preacher, b. at Juignac, (?), Brittany, about 1430; d. at Toulouse, 22 July, 1502.
  
• - Irish politician and writer (1830-1912).
  
• - The second Bishop of Marquette, U. S. A., born 16 October, 1818, in Hotovle, in the Diocese of Laibach (Carinthia), Austria; died at Marquette, 2 Jan., 1901.
  
• - Spanish poet, born 1411 at Cordova; died 1456 at Torrelaguna.
  
• - Name of two fourth-century Nitrian monks.
  
• - Catholic journalist, born at Gross-Schmograu in Silesia, 14 July, 1842; died at Hochkirch near Glogau, 21 May, 1899.
  
• - Theologian, b. at Mainz, 17 Feb., 1817; d. there, 27 Feb., 1890.
  
• - French writer and publicist, b. near Bordeaux, 18 January, 1689; d. at Paris, 10 February, 1755.
  
• - Theologian and cardinal, born at Vitulano, 10 Feb., 1833; d. at Rome, 26 March, 1900.
  
• - Vicariate Apostolic in Ecuador.
  
• - The Diocese of Malacca comprises the southern portions of the Malay Peninsula, otherwise known as the Straits Settlements.
  
• - A titular see of Lycia in Asia Minor.
  
• - The State of Missouri was carved out of the Louisiana Territory, and derives its name from the principal river flowing through its center.
  
• - The so-called "Mamertine Prison", beneath the church of S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami, via di Marforio, Rome, is generally accepted as being identical with "the prison ... in the middle of the city, overlooking the forum", mentioned by Liv
  
• - The Madura mission owes its origin to Robert de Nobili, who commenced at Madura, in 1606, that peculiar method of propagating the faith which has made his name famous.
  
• - The collective designation of a number of bands speaking dialects of a common language of Algonquian stock, and ranging over the sores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf, from about the St. Maurice River to Cape Whittle, and inland to about the main divid
  
• - A congregation of men founded in 1218 by St. Peter Nolasco, born 1189, at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, Department of Aude, France.
  
• - One of the most important civilized tribes of southern Mexico, occupying an extensive territory in western and northern Oaxaca and extending into Guerrero and Puebla.
  
• - English novelist and actress (1838-1899).
  
• - Priest, and publisher of theological works, born at Saint-Flour, 25 October, 1800; died at Paris, 24 October, 1875.
  
• - A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Aphrodisias, in Caria.
  
• - A titular see of Thracia Prima and suffragan of Heraclea.
  
• - French bishop and scholar, b. at Gan in Béarn, 24 Jan., 1594, of a family distinguished in the magistracy; d. at Paris, 29 June, 1662.
  
• - Historian, born at Albens, Savoy, 1767; died at Passy, 30 September, 1839.
  
• - Born 30 Dec., 1647, at Saint-Sever-Cap, Diocese of Aire; died 16 June, 1717, at Saint Germain-des-Prés, Paris. He entered the Benedictine Congregation of St. Maur at an early age, and devoted himself to Biblical studies.
  
• - Located in Uruguay.
  
• - This term signifies in general that which is unknowable, or valuable knowledge that is kept secret.