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A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris.

Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583.

Known also as Albertus Bohemus.

Bishop of Osnabrück.

French theologian. (1715-1790)

Archbishop of Bordeaux. (1375-1457)

Capital of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Article provides religious and historic information.

French Bishop. (1762-1806)

A French cardinal and statesman, b. 1715 at Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche; d. at Rome, 1794.

Article covers a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist, b. 1280 at Annonay in Vivarais, and a French cardinal, nephew of the foregoing, whose name he adopted, b. in 1279, at Colombier in Vivarais.

A Franciscan missionary, b. at Betanzos in Galicia; d. at Chomez, Nicaragua, 1570.

A collegiate church at Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire, served by a chapter of secular canons until the Reformation.

Friar Minor and theologian. (1686-1768)

French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist, and a Benedictine abbot. (1535-1581)

Canonist, historian, and theologian. (1697-1766)

Carthusian monk, b. in 1403; d. 19 February, 1473.

A titular see of Osrhaene.

Carthusian, b. at Leyden, in Holland in 1466; d. 30 September, 1536.

Bishop of Liège, born at Leyden, in Holland on 5 April, 1790; died 7 April 1852.

French bishop, b. at Avignon, 26 December 1747; d. at Troyes, 13 March, 1825.

Benedictine of the Congregation of St.-Maur. (1685-1754)

Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, b., probably, towards 1323; d. 5 July, 1484.

Formerly an electoral principality, and a diocese in the heart of the present Kingdom of Prussia.

Companions in life and in martyrdom. Beheaded in the Diocletian persecution.

An account is given of Christianity as a religion, describing its origin, its relation to other religions, its essential nature and chief characteristics, but not dealing with its doctrines in detail nor its history as a visible organization.

Lengthy article on Clement I, also called Clemens Romanus, the fourth pope and the first of the Apostolic Fathers.

Christians of Antioch martyred at Nicomedia, 26 September, 304. Already in the same century, quite a colorful legend arose about them.

Bishop, theologian, renowned as a popular preacher, wrote two monastic rules, died 543.

Widow, penitent, Poor Clare, superior of the convent at Rimini, contemplative, d. 1346.

Italian Franciscan, trusted by Brother Leo, on good terms with the Spiritual Franciscans, founded the Celestines but returned to the main branch of the Franciscans when a later pope suppressed the Celestines. Bl. Conrad died 12 December, 1306.

A nun beheaded by the Muslims in 853.

Philologist, b. at LePuy, France, 1821; d. at Oka near Montreal, 1898.

French theologian and priest. (1604-1685)

Cush, like the other names of the ethnological table of Genesis, x, is the name of a race, but it has generally been understood to designate also an individual, the progenitor of the nations and tribes known in the ancient world as Cushites.

Writer. (1740-1830)

A name used for (1) the descendants of Cain, (2) a sect of Gnostics and Antinomians.

Suffragan of Lima, Peru.

Technically, the exercise of a clerical office involving the instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and the sanctification, through the sacraments, of the faithful in a determined district, by a person legitimately a ppointed for the purpose.

A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.

The Archdiocese of Colombo, situated on the western seaboard of the Island of Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz. the Western and the Northwestern.

Situated in the Italian province of Macerata in the Apennines, about 40 miles from Ancona.

Italian anatomist and physiologist. (1725-1813)

Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1475; d. 1536.

Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694.

Historian and litterateur; born at Florence, Italy, 13 September, 1792; died 3 February, 1876.

A city in the province of Catania, Sicily, built on two eminences about 2000 feet above sea-level, connected by a bridge.

Superior of the Sulpicians in Canada, b. at Bourges, France, in 1835; d. at Montreal, 27 November, 1902.

French missionary among the Indians of Canada, born at Carentoir, France, November 1633; died at Quebec, 27 July, 1726.