Catholicism

Date of birth unknown; d. 13 July, 939. A Roman and priest of St. Sixtus, and probably a Benedictine monk, he was elected pope 3 January, 936.

A miscellaneous collection of ecclesiastical formularies used in the papal chancery until the eleventh century.

Diocese in Canada, established 21 February, 1855; see transferred to Sandwich, 2 February, 1859, transferred back to London, 3 October, 1869.

Croatian historian, b. early in the seventeenth century, at Trojir, or Tragurion, in Dalmatia; d. at Rome, 11 January, 1679.

The traditional title of the most ancient section of the catacomb of St. Callistus.

Born at Bologna, unknown date, died at Rome, 15 February, 1145.

A burgomaster of Vienna, Austrian political leader and municipal reformer, born at Vienna, 24 October, 1844; died there, 10 March, 1910.

Diocese in Galicia, Spain, a suffragan of Santiago, said to have been founded (by Agapitus) in Apostolic times.

Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, one of the most eminent theologians of modern times, b. at Madrid, November, 1583, though he used to call himself "Hispalensis", because his family seat was at Seville; d. at Rome, 20 August, 1660.

Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Fogaras and Alba Julia of the Uniat-Romanian Rite, was erected in November, 1853.

The small remnant of the old duchy of this name and since 11 May, 1867, an independent neutral grand duchy, comprising 998 sq. miles of territory, lying principally between 49° 27' and 50° 12' N. lat., and 5° 45' and 6° 32' E. long.

Bishop of St. David's, b. about 1375; d. in 1446.

Hebrew liberator, leader, lawgiver, prophet, and historian, lived in the thirteenth and early part of the twelfth century, B. C.

Italian philosopher and scholar (1463-1494).

After a vacancy in office following the death of Pope St. Marcellinus, was elected to the papacy in 308. Fairly lengthy biographical article.

Bishop of Jerusalem, d. 334. He was an opponent of Arianism.

Third-century bishop of Limoges.

Deacon, disciple of St. Benedict. Portrayed by St. Gregory the Great as a model of monastic obedience. Died 584.

Bishop of Trier, d. 349 or 352.

Fairly lengthy biographical article on this bishop, who died in around 397.

Irishman, appointed Abbot of Fahan by St. Columba. Patron saint of the O'Neills. Died in about 645.

Or Aventicensis, so called because he was bishop of Avenches. Goldsmith, chronicler, d. 594.

Also known in the Christian East as St. Marina. Virgin and martyr from Pisidian Antioch.

Third Order Franciscan, d. 1791.

Mysticism as direct union of the human soul with the Divinity primarily from a Catholic perspective, but does mention other mystical traditions.

Well-known Irish poet of the nineteenth century, born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, 26 May, 1817; died at Blackrock, Dublin, 7 April, 1882.

A titular see of the Byzantine Empire.

Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. (1632-1707)

Charitable institutions of credit that lend money at low rates of interest, or without interest at all, upon the security of objects left in pawn, with a view to protecting persons in want from usurers.

A short, richly ornamented staff.

Moralities are a development or an offshoot of the Miracle Plays and together with these form the greater part of Medieval drama. They were popular in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and existed side by side with the Miracle Plays of that date.

Italian painter. (d. 1660)

Founded at Mechlin in 1839 by Canon J. B. Cornelius Scheppers for the instruction and care of prisoners and of the sick.

A Christian apologist of the end of the fourth century.

A name common in the Semitic languages and of special interest as being that borne by the Jewish servant whose ear was struck off by St. Peter.

Chief steward of the household of the pope.

King of Israel.

Theologian; born 1490; died 1547; he occupied the first rank among the theologians of the sixteenth century.

Born at Niort, 28 November 1635; died at Saint-Cyr, 15 April 1719. She was the granddaughter of the celebrated Protestant writer, Agrippa d'Aubigné.

Born at Montblanch, Catalonia, Spain, 29 or 30 January, 1761; died at Santa Clara, California, 22 Nov., 1830. He received the habit of St. Francis at Barcelona on 4 April, 1777, and was ordained priest probably in 1785.

Friar minor, historian, and Bishop of Oporto in Portugal, b. at Lisbon (date of birth uncertain); d. in 1591.

Those between Catholics and non-Catholics, when the latter have been baptized in some Christian sect. The term is also used to designate unions between Catholics and infidels.

On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

The Greek word martus signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation. The term martyr came to be exclusively applied to those who had died for the faith.

Diocese in Central Italy (Lunigiana and Garfagnana).

A Cardinal, born 9 June, 1809, at Piova in Piedmont, Italy; died at Cremona, 6 August, 1889.

Information on the laws.

Theologian, born at Toulouse, 28 Oct., 1632; died at Rome, 23 Jan., 1706.

Bishop of Rennes, ecclesiastical writer and hymnologist, b. about 1035 at Angers, France, d. there 11 September, 1123.

Physicist, born at Forli, in the Romagna, 21 June, 1811; died at Ardenza, near Leghorn, 25 July, 1868.