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Author of the "Imitation of Christ", born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

Professor of law at the University of Louvain, minister in the Belgian Government. (1817-1891)

Founded in 1404, when the lectures at Piacenza and Pavia were interrupted by the wars of Lombardy.

Franciscan poet and writer. (1200-1255)

Born at Hartley, Hampshire, 1567; martyred at Tyburn, London, 20 April, 1602.

In a broad sense, the name given to the system which follows the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophical and theological questions.

A temporary suspension of hostilities, as distinct from the Peace of God which is perpetual.

Two of the canonical Epistles of St. Paul.

Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa.

A tribal group formerly ranging about the middle Trinity and Colorado Rivers, in Eastern Texas.

Baron de L'Aulne, French minister. (1727-1781)

The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving.

Located in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Dominican biographer and historian. (1686-1775)

Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo.

Titular see, suffragan of Caesarea in Palaestina Prima.

Diocese; suffragan of Cologne.

Titular see, suffragan of Salamis in Cyprus.

Theologian of the Capuchin Order, b. at Troyes; d. in 1681.

Spanish poet and folklorist. (1821-1889)

Diocese in southern Italy.

A celebrated preacher, b. at Vienna, 7 or 12 April, 1729; d. there, 20 July, 1784.

A vestment shaped like a sack, which has in the closed upper part only a slit for putting the garment over the head, and, on the sides, either sleeves or slits through which the arms can be passed.

The Archdiocese of Tuam, the metropolitan see of Connacht, extends, roughly speaking, from the Shannon westwards to the sea, and comprises half of County Galway, and nearly half of Mayo, with a small portion of south Roscommon.

Archbishop of Dublin, 1669-1680; b. at Malahide, Dublin, in 1620.

A titular see, suffragan of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima, capital of the fourteenth district of Lower Egypt.

Abbot of Einsiedeln, born at Arth in the Canton of Schwyz, 28 Dec., 1752; died 7 April, 1825.

Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786.

Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist. (1810-1874)

Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

The Vicariate Apostolic of Temiskaming, suffragan of Ottawa, Canada.

All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.

King of the Ostrogoths.

Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou. (1528-1598)

Titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana.

Historian commonly known as Charles Dodd. Died 1743.

Includes the Department of Haute-Garonne.

Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370.

A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism.

The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas together with a doxology.

Includes the Catholic Church together with the many other religious communions which have either directly or indirectly, separated from it.

Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568.

Apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of an alphabet.

The thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an Indian tribe known as the Utes.

Biographical profile of the bishop of Pettau, an ecclesiastical writer, martyred in the Diocletian persecution.

Vitalis was a slave, converted to Christianity by his master Agricola. Both were martyred at Bologna about 304.

Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny. Died 1122.

At least parts of Scripture were translated into all four dialects of the Coptic language, though there is some debate about which of the Coptic versions is oldest.

Born at Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March, 1810; died at Vienna, 17 October, 1889.