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Italian theologian, b. 28 May, 1696, at Sarravezza, Tuscany; d. 26 March, 1766, at Pisa.
Titular see of Palestine.
Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622.
Poet and theologian. (1578-1639)
Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.
This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.
A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the Apapahoes and Cheyennes, constitute the Western division of the Algonquin family.
A Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer, born at Donstienne, near Liège, Flanders, 1506; died at Liessies, 1566.
Principal work, "De uno geminoque sacrae eucharistiae synaxeos salubriter percipiendae ritu ac usu" was published (Ingolstadt, 1585) when he was provincial of Austria.
Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa.
Bishop of London, b. about 1500; d. 1569.
First Bishop of Merseburg, in the present Prussian Province of Saxony, and Apostle of the Wends, d. November, 970.
French bishop and orator. (1627-1704)
A titular see situated in Phoenicia.
French Jesuit. (1690-1743)
One of the medieval English names for Palm Sunday.
French writer of memoirs, b. in 1539, or a little later; d. 15 July, 1614.
In the Christian liturgy bread is used principally as one of the elements of the Eucharistic sacrifice.
Diocese situated in the Dutch province of Brabant and suffragan of Utrecht.
German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place about 1713.
Known also as Aquapontanus, historian of the Catholic confessors under Queen Elizabeth, born in Yorkshire about 1532; died probably at Trier, about 1596.
These publications derive their origin and their title from the Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last Earl of Bridgewater.
Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626.
Called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium, by the Greeks Brentesion, a city of in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, on a rocky peninsula which extends into the Adriatic.
Historian, b. in Portugal, 1496; d. 20 October, 1570.
Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897.
French statesman and historian. (1821-1901)
A Jesuit missionary, born 1724 at Magnac, Angoumois, France; died 1782.
A versatile and voluminous writer. (1814-1893)
A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711.
A European kingdom in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula.
Dominican historian and theologian. (1673-1747)
A receptacle in which, for reasons of convenience xnd reverence, the folded corporal is carried to and from the altar.
One of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries in Germany in the Middle Ages. Founded in 1093 by Duke Henry of Nordheim and his wife Gertrude.
Irish Abbess. (1641-1723)
Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 or 1477.
Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French.
Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Olmutz, embracing the south-western part of Moravia.
A notable Florentine painter, b. in Florence, 14 October, 1427; d. there, 29 August, 1499.
A group in the western part of the Mediterranean belonging to Spain and consisting of four larger islands, Majorca, Minorca, Iviza, and Formentera, and eleven smaller islands of rocky formation.
A noted canonist, b. at Guimaraens, Portugal, in 1589; consecrated in Rome, 22 March, 1649, Bishop of Ugento in Otranto, Italy, died seven months later.
Scottish ecclesiastic and author of "The Bruce", a historical poem in the early Scottish or Northern English dialect, b. about 1320; d. 1395.
An outgrowth of the ecclesiastical schools founded in the eleventh century.
Canonist, and man of letters, b. at San Concordia, near Pisa about 1260; d. at Pisa, 11 June, 1347.
The name given to Armenian monks who sought refuge in Italy after the invasion of their country by the Sultan of Egypt in 1296.
Priests of the Community of St. Basil.
Bishop and ecclesiastical writer, date of birth uncertain; d., probably, between 458 and 460.
Regular Canon and economist, b. at Amboise, France, 25 April, 1730; d. in 1792.
Franciscan, who taught theology and metaphysics at the convent of St. Francis of Mexico.
A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris.