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As early as the fourteenth century it was the custom to address persons high in rank or power with the title Monseigneur or Monsignore.

Physicist and author, b. at Guéméné (Morbihan), 15 April, 1804; d. at Saint-Denis (Seine), 14 July, 1884.

Italian physician and investigator in medicine; b. 25 February, 1682; d. Bologna, 6 December, 1771.

Founded by Father Frederic Faura, S.J., in 1865; constituted officially The Philippine Weather Bureau by decree of the American governor, May, 1901.

A Catalan poet, b. perhaps in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, at Valencia; d. there in 1458.

An archæologist, born at Tolmezzo near Udine, 22 Feb., 1795; died at Rome, 10 Feb., 1860.

Reigned 882-884.

A Franciscan who probably came from the county of Somerset, but the date of his birth is unknown; died at the end of 1257 or the beginning of 1258.

Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.

Before the Reformation dispositions of property, whether real or personal, for the purposes of Masses, were valid, unless where, in the case of real property, they might happen to conflict with the Mortmain laws by being made to religious congregations.

A tribe of Panoan linguistic stock, ranging the forests between the Ucayali, the Yavari and the Marañon (Amazon) rivers in north-east Peru and the adjacent portions of Brazil.

Italian painter, b. in Ferrara in 1480, d., according to one account, in 1528, and to another, in 1530; place of death unknown.

Dominican theologian, b. at Medina, 1527; d. at Salamanca, 1581.

A Croatian painter and engraver, called by Italian authors Medola, Medula, Schiavone, Schiaon, etc., b. at Sibenik, Dalmatia, 1522; d. at Venice 1582.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

Formerly a Benedictine, now a Cistercian Abbey, is situated on Lake Constance, west of Bregenz, in the district of Vorarlberg, Austria.

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.

Memory is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity.

A Spanish navigator and explorer, born in Saragossa, 1541; died in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 18 October, 1596.

English Catholic controversialist, b. in 1648, was a son of the rector of Landulph, Cornwall.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

Located in Sicily.

A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor.

A cardinal, the greatest of polyglots, born 19 September, 1774; died 15 March, 1849.

A Catholic theologian, born 1549; died at Mainz, 11 Sept., 1615.

A titular see of Numidia.

Located in Ascoli Piceno.

A Spanish missionary, date of birth unknown; died in the West Indies, 1545.

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.

A diplomat and historian, born at Paris, 31 July, 1772; died at Paris, 12 Nov., 1849.

Count, b. at Liverpool, 1849; d. at Mooresfort, Tipperary, Ireland, 1904.

Missionary, b. about 1597 at Ecija in Andalusia, Spain; d. Fu-ning, China, 17 Sept., 1664.

Third Archbishop of Sydney, b. at Leighlinbridge, Ireland, 16 Sept., 1830; d, at Manly, Sydney, 16 Aug., 1911.

Dominican nun, b. at Barcelona, Spain, 16 February, 1594; d. at the convent of the Dominican nuns at Avignon, France, 26 June, 1653.

A French priest of the Oratory, b. at Blois, in 1591, d. at Paris, 28 Feb., 1659.

Lawyer and jurist, b. 3 December, 1834, at Washington, D.C.; d. 12 September, 1909, at Washington, D. C.

Exegete and Orientalist, b. at Koesfeld, Westphalia, 17 July, 1806; d. at Breslau, 28 Sept., 1856.

Librarian in Modena, one of the greatest scholars of his time, b. 21 Oct., 1672; d. 23 Jan., 1750.

A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Aphrodisias, or Stauropolis, in Caria.

Essay on the Old Testament prophet and the book which bears his name.

Roman martyr venerated since at least the fifth century.

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