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• - Painter and engraver. (1434-1519)
  
• - Composer. (1480-1562)
  
• - Fifth-century Abbot of Landevennec.
  
• - Bishop in Lorraine. (1796-1869)
  
• - Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr.
  
• - Norman historian, born of a noted family, at Préaux near Pont Audemer, Normandy, about 1020.
  
• - Bishop of Meath, Ireland.
  
• - This article discusses will in its psychological aspect.
  
• - Bishop of Ratisbon. (934-994)
  
• - Benedictine historian, died about 1422.
  
• - The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English chronicle, the "Flores Historiarum".
  
• - Discusses the branch of wood-carving dealing with artistic objects, belonging either to plastic (as statues, crucifixes, and similar carvings), or to industrial art (as arabesques and rosettes), and which serve mainly for the ornamentation of cabinet work
  
• - A twelfth-century French architect, supposed to have been born at Sens.
  
• - Theologian and mystic. (1085-1148)
  
• - Patroness of Eichstadt, Oudenarde, Furnes, Antwerp, Gronigen, Weilburg, and Zutphen, and is invoked as special patroness against hydrophobia, and in storms, and also by sailors.
  
• - Australian nun. (1819-1892)
  
• - French poet of the thirteenth century.
  
• - Irish-American nun. (1810-1884)
  
• - Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria.
  
• - By profession he was an architect, but subsequently devoted himself to journalism in Paris.
  
• - One of the Pacific coast states, popularly known as the "Evergreen State".
  
• - Bishop of St-Brieuc. (1180-1234)
  
• - The legend makes her a Christian daughter of a pagan King of Portugal.
  
• - Also known as St. William the Great. Hermit, d. 1157.
  
• - In its juridical sense, a contention carried on by force of arms between sovereign states, or communities having in this regard the right of states.
  
• - Abbot of Hirschau. (d. 1091)
  
• - Auxiliary bishops of Cologne and celebrated controversial theologians, born at Rotterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
  
• - Various attempts have been made to establish the age of the world.
  
• - Monastery in Dorsetshire, England.
  
• - Physician, poet, statesman. (1813-1894)
  
• - Poet, born at Jersey, about 1100; died at Bayeux, 1174.
  
• - As commonly understood, involves the idea of a diabolical pact or at least an appeal to the intervention of the spirits of evil.
  
• - The historical origin of this diocese is not known precisely.
  
• - English martyr. (1558-1588)
  
• - Born 1132; died 22 March, 1144.
  
• - Suppressed see in Lower Austria.
  
• - Cistercian monastery founded by Gerwich von Wolmundstein.
  
• - A Shahaptian tribe dwelling on the Walla-Walla River and the Columbia in Washington and Oregon, from Snake River to the Umatilla.
  
• - German statesman. (1812-1891)
  
• - Duke, martyr, and patron of Bohemia, born probably 903; died at Alt-Bunzlau, 28 September, 935.
  
• - Bishop of Cambysopolis, born in London in 1777.
  
• - A linguistic family inhabiting the western coast of British Columbia, and the west and northwest of Vancouver Island, as well as a small region around Cape Flattery, Washington.
  
• - Also called William of Paris or William of the Paraclete. Twelfth-century canon.
  
• - English controversialist. (1652-1708)
  
• - Irish-American journalist and senator. (1840-1900)
  
• - English priest. (1806-1876)
  
• - Belgian Augustinian. (1596-1661)
  
• - German theologian, preacher, and author. (1595-1664)
  
• - The term "wealth" is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on economic subjects.
  
• - English Jesuit martyr, born at Docking, Norfolk. (1558-1595)
  
• - Humanist and theologian. (1450-1528)
  
• - Irish Franciscan, born at Mooretown, County Kildare, about 1608; died in London, 15 March, 1688.
  
• - Archbishop of Tyre and historian. (1130-1190)
  
• - One of the deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament, placed in the Vulgate between the Canticle of Canticles and Ecclesiasticus.
  
• - American editor and historian. (1807-1878)
  
• - English writer and convert. (1812-1882)
  
• - Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573.
  
• - English friar and martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at St. Thomas Waterings in Camberwell, 8 July, 1539.
  
• - Bavarian archabbot. (1809-1887)
  
• - Scripture scholar. (d. 1085)
  
• - The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers.
  
• - Members of the Order of St. Benedict.
  
• - Known as the "Badger State", admitted to the Union on 29 May, 1848, the seventeenth state admitted, after the original thirteen.
  
• - Used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.
  
• - English Jesuit. (1605-1676)
  
• - Philosopher. (1775-1839)
  
• - Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany.
  
• - American editor. (1822-1894)
  
• - Priest and scientist. (1832-1889)
  
• - The British church was driven into Wales in the fifth century
  
• - English martyr. (1614-1646)
  
• - Second Count of Toulouse. (755-812)
  
• - Founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  
• - French painter. (1684-1721)
  
• - Bishop at Bremen. (745-789)
  
• - Composer and reformer of church music. (1834-1888)
  
• - Located in West Virginia.
  
• - German Church historian. (1834-1898)
  
• - Archbishop of Mainz. (d. 1011)
  
• - Bishop of Utrecht, Apostle of the Frisians, and son of St. Hilgis, born in Northumbria. (658-739)
  
• - Historian and statesman, born at Valenciennes. (1812-1904)
  
• - Absinthe, known for its repulsive bitterness.
  
• - Theologian. (1465-1531)
  
• - It stood a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk, England.
  
• - Bishop of Paris, medieval philosopher and theologian. (d. 1249)
  
• - Abbot of Tholey.
  
• - Abbot of Eskill in Denmark.
  
• - Province of Prussia.
  
• - Scholastic philosopher and theologian. (b. 1100)
  
• - Swiss theologian. (1779-1844)
  
• - Medieval abbot. (d. 1089)
  
• - Name of a prominent English Catholic family.
  
• - Physician and anatomist. (1669-1760)
  
• - Benedictine convent near Salisbury, England.
  
• - Philologist. (1840-1898)
  
• - Member of the Order of Cistercians. (1748-1797)
  
• - English priest. (1788-1859)
  
• - Suppressed Benedictine abbey in Bavaria.
  
• - Irish Hagiographer. (1590-1635)
  
• - English Trinitarian scholar. (d. 1239)
  
• - Erected in 1887, from the Diocese of Leavenworth.
  
• - Eleventh-century German ecclesiastico-political writer.
  
• - A monk of Crowland Abbey.
  
• - Philip, Edmund, and August.
  
• - Orientalist and exegete. (1811-1861)
  
• - King of England and Duke of Normandy.
  
• - Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. (1802-1865)
  
• - This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs in all points from the Eastern Schism.
  
• - Carthusian monk and martyr. (d. 1535)
  
• - Duke of Bavaria. (1548-1626)
  
• - Located in Bavaria; suffragan of Bamberg.
  
• - American military engineer and soldier. (1818-1863)
  
• - Founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine. (1085-1142)
  
• - Benedictine abbot and controversial writer. (1518-1592)
  
• - English martyr. (1560-1591) Article includes information on Saint Polydore Plasden, Venerable John Mason, and Blessed Brian Lacey.
  
• - Jesuit missionary and author. (1805-1888)
  
• - Poet in the second half of the twelfth century, born at Lille; died of the plague in the beginning of the thirteenth century.
  
• - Canonists give many rules for the exact acceptation of words, in order that decrees may be correctly understood and the extent of their obligation determined.
  
• - This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the precincts of the Royal Palace of Westminster.
  
• - Second son of William Wilberforce, and a younger brother of Samuel Wilberforce.
  
• - For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Marmoutiers. (d. 1124)
  
• - Thirteenth-century theologian and controversialist. (d. 1273)
  
• - Suffragan of Cashel.
  
• - Abbot of Wormhoult. (d. 716)
  
• - Benedictine, patroness of Chester, Abbess of Weedon, Trentham, Hanbury, Minster in Sheppy, and Ely, born in Staffordshire early in the seventh century.(d. 700)
  
• - The position of woman in society has given rise to a discussion which, is known under the name of the "woman question".
  
• - An English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, and theologian in the thirteenth century.
  
• - English historian. (1136-1198)
  
• - Suppressed Benedictine abbey.
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1594)
  
• - Twelfth-century satirist.
  
• - Mystical theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1591-1644)
  
• - A town on the Thames, in Berkshire, England; rendered Ventus Morbidus in some medieval documents, the name being really from the Saxon Windels-or, "winding shore".
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1605)
  
• - Thirteenth-century theologian.
  
• - A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the centre, and filled with stained glasses.
  
• - Cistercian abbey in Austria.
  
• - A Siouan tribe closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more remotely to the Dakota and Ponca.
  
• - Historian. (1802-1872)
  
• - Comprises the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, and London north of the Thames.
  
• - One who is present, bears testimony, furnishes evidence or proof.
  
• - Located in England, created in 680 when, at the Synod of Hatfield under St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, the great Mercian diocese was divided into five sees.
  
• - In 1206 one of the (supposed) Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to Besançon by Otto de La Roche, and the feast of its arrival (Susceptio) was ordered to be kept on 11 July.
  
• - Located in Poland.
  
• - This diocese came into existence in 635 when the great missionary Diocese of Dorchester, founded by St. Birinus in 634 for the Kingdom of Wessex, was subdivided into the Sees of Sherborne and Winchester.
  
• - Prominent English convert. (1824-1911)
  
• - American statesman. (1853-1901)
  
• - Located in Delaware, U.S.A.
  
• - An English religious writer of the Anglo-Norman period, born at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, in the latter half of the twelfth century.
  
• - Cistercian abbey of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen. Founded in 1127 by Countess Adelheid of Klettenberg.
  
• - Three saints of this name are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.
  
• - Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. (1324-1404)
  
• - Painter, born at Stuttgart, (1762-1852)
  
• - Exegete, born at Ratzenried in Würtemberg. (1825-1885)
  
• - Augustinian monastery in Holland.
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1201)
  
• - Bishop of Sens. (d. 704)
  
• - Grandfather of Stephen Mallory White, born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died December, 1863.
  
• - English composer. (1530-1574)
  
• - German merchant prince. (1488-1561)
  
• - Martyr, born at Congleton, Cheshire; executed at Tyburn, London, 30 Aug., 1588.
  
• - English writer. (1609-1678)
  
• - Abbot of Saint-Bénigne on Dijon. (962-1031)
  
• - Bishop-elect of Ratisbon. (1760-1833)
  
• - Pianist, organist, composer and teacher. (1846-1893)
  
• - Name of two minor religious orders.
  
• - Prussian convert, poet, and pulpit orator. (1768-1823)
  
• - German poet and theologian of the ninth century.
  
• - English martyr. (d. 1582)
  
• - Medieval chronicler. (d. 1300)
  
• - The "wise men from the East" who came to adore Jesus in Bethlehem (Matthew 2).
  
• - The first Union naval officer to fall in the Civil War.
  
• - Polemical writer. (1691-1755)
  
• - French Cistercian. (1839-1904)
  
• - The week was regarded as a sacred institution among the Jews owing to the law of the Sabbath rest and its association with the first chapter of Genesis.
  
• - Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century.
  
• - An heretical sect which appeared in the second half of the twelfth century.
  
• - Middle-High-German epic poet. (d. 1216)
  
• - Several of White's opinions were censured by the Inquisition.
  
• - Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa.
  
• - Martyr, born in Lancashire, 1620.
  
• - Benedictine professor, author, statesman. (1798-1859)
  
• - Eleventh-century priest and biographer.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Kentucky editor and historian. (1814-1897)
  
• - English priest. (1558-1583)
  
• - Bishop and cardinal. (1593-1661)
  
• - English martyr. (1618-1679)
  
• - Suppressed Benedictine monastery.
  
• - Bishop of Norwich. (1095-1174)
  
• - Located in the western portion of Great Britain.
  
• - Alternate name for Pentecost.
  
• - Founded at Poitiers by Blessed Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in 1703.
  
• - English organist. (1524-1583)
  
• - Fourteenth-century French poet.
  
• - Scottish chronicler.
  
• - Scholar, Orientalist, philosopher. (1215-1286)
  
• - Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney.
  
• - Bishop of Rama, Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, England. (1722-1797)
  
• - Medieval Belgian Abbot. (1098-1158)
  
• - Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid and licit consecration vinum de vite, i.e. the pure juice of the grape naturally and properly fermented, is to be used.
  
• - Formerly called Streoneshalh. A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded about 657, as a double monastery, by Oswy, King of Northumberland.
  
• - Situated on the right bank of the Danube, in the Diocese of Linz, Austria.
  
• - Located in Sweden.
  
• - Owing to the general use of sandals in Eastern countries the washing of the feet was almost everywhere recognized from the earliest times as a duty of courtesy to be shown to guests.
  
• - Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, in southern Minnesota.
  
• - Jurist, born at Wetzlar. (1794-1879)
  
• - English martyr. (1536-1600)
  
• - Abbey of the Holy Redeemer, St. Andrew's Abbey, St. Stephen's Abbey, and St. James's Abbey.
  
• - Composer. (1786-1826)
  
• - English naturalist and explorer. (1782-1865)
  
• - Minnesinger and old poet, born about 1170; died in 1228.
  
• - Historian and theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1588-1657)
  
• - The capital of the United States.
  
• - Founded in Scotland in the twelfth century.
  
• - Third son of William Wilberforce, and younger brother of Robert Wilberforce.
  
• - Located in New Zealand.
  
• - Companion of St. Boniface, born in England about 675; died at Hersfeld about 746.
  
• - A conference at the monastery of St. Hilda at Whitby or Streanoeshalch. King Oswy with Bishops Colman and Chad represented the Celtic tradition; Alchfrid, son of Oswy, and Bishops Wilfrid and Agilbert that of Rome.
  
• - English martyr. (1560-1641)
  
• - Irish poet, born at Derry in 1805; died at Cork, 6 August, 1850.
  
• - In its most general sense, homage paid to a person or a thing.
  
• - English martyr. (1548-1584)
  
• - Catholic journalist. (1818-1883)
  
• - Irish antiquarian and polyhistor. (1574-1646)
  
• - Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford.
  
• - English Jesuit. (1817-1895)
  
• - Besides the holy water which is used in rites of blessing, and the water employed in the washing of feet and hands, and in the baptismal font, water has its recognized place in the ritual of every Mass.
  
• - A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Gröningen in 1420; died there on 4 Oct., 1489.
  
• - A national expression of religious faith given by Roman Catholics to England.
  
• - English bishop and chancellor. (d. 1486)
  
• - Benedictine historian. (d. 1090)
  
• - Suppressed Premonstratensian house in Würtemberg.
  
• - Benedictine monk and theological writer. (813-850)
  
• - Situated between Bavaria and Baden.
  
• - Bishop of York, son of a Northumbrian thegn, born in 634; died at Oundle in Northamptonshire, 709.
  
• - Professor of philosophy and theology. (1817-1899)
  
• - Fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher.
  
• - English bishop. (1814-1895)
  
• - Cardinal Archbishop of York. (1471-1530)
  
• - Historian. (1820-1899)
  
• - Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen.
  
• - Writer and "reformer". (1324-1384)
  
• - Benedictine, and Bishop of Worcester. (1008-1095)
  
• - William de Warre, Guard, Guaro, Varro or Varron.
  
• - Archaeologist and historian of ancient art. (1717-1768)
  
• - John I of Egloffstein (1400-1411), Bishop of Wurzburg, obtained from Pope Boniface IX a charter, dated 10 December, 1492, for the university.
  
• - Canonical prescriptions concerning widows in the Old Testament refer mainly to the question of remarriage.
  
• - Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility.
  
• - Priest and confessor. (1499-1588)
  
• - A former state of the German Empire.
  
• - It is difficult to realize the importance which a country like Palestine attaches to any source of fresh water.
  
• - Christian houses of worship required the admission of much light by large openings in the walls, that is, by windows.
  
• - Scriptural commentator and preacher. (1495-1554)
  
• - City and University.
  
• - New Zealand colonist. (1823-1891)
  
• - Sixteenth-century English priest.
  
• - Hessian theologian. (1501-1573)
  
• - English martyr. (1536-1591)
  
• - English Franciscan martyr. (1603-1646)
  
• - A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
  
• - Benedictine monk at Malmesbury Abbey.
  
• - Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel. (1801-1853)
  
• - Thirteenth-century French writer and preacher.
  
• - Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa.
  
• - A confederacy of Caddoan stock, formerly dwelling between the Arkansas River, Kansas, and the Brazos River, Texas.
  
• - Vicar-General and Administrator of the Diocese of Constance. (1774-1860)
  
• - The state bounded by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and on Kentucky.
  
• - Missionary. (1579-1656)
  
• - English composer. (1742-1816)
  
• - The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of St. Bernard and St. Francis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, together with the enthusiasm of the Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, increased devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ an
  
• - A professor of philosophy at Gratz and Vienna and chaplain to the Gages at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. (1562-1639)
  
• - Archbishop of Canterbury. (1450-1532)
  
• - English martyr. (1603-1651)
  
• - English Biblical scholar. (1600-1661)
  
• - Benedictine monastery in Durham, England.
  
• - The term Welsh Church covers "the British Church during the Roman period", "the British Church during the period of Saxon Conquest", and "the Church of Wales".
  
• - Publicist, diplomat, born at Baltimore, MD., 1785; died at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859.
  
• - Theological writer of the eighth century.
  
• - English priest and martyr. (d. 1588)
  
• - Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelth century.
  
• - Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone.
  
• - Founded by William Gifford, the first monastery of the Order of Citeaux in England.
  
• - Roman law allowed clerics to dispose of their property by will or otherwise.
  
• - Forty-fourth state, derives its name from the Delaware Indian word "Maughwauwama", signifying mountains with large plains between.
  
• - Geologist and palaeontologist. (1841-1900)
  
• - Third President of Douai College. (1549-1627)
  
• - Learned humanist and celebrated cartographer. A canon of St-Dié in Lorraine. (1475-1522)
  
• - Botanist. (1728-1805)
  
• - Scholastic, philosopher and theologian. (1070-1121)
  
• - Vessels intended for the use of holy water.
  
• - English martyr. (1537-1584)
  
• - Irish nun. (1831-1911)
  
• - Polish economist. (1810-1876)
  
• - Littérateur, exegete, and Orientalist. (1709-1783)
  
• - Theologian, born at Frankfort about 1460; died at Steyer, 30 June, 1519.
  
• - Born at Hermanic, Bohemia. (1583-1634)
  
• - Formerly located near London.
  
  

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