Catholicism

A titular metropolitan of Palaestina Secunda. It is the ancient Bethsan so often mentioned in the Bible, as proved by texts in the writings of Josephus.

Diocese in Styria, Austria, suffragan of Salzburg. The See of Seckau was founded by Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg, with the permission of Honorius III, 22 June, 1218.

The name of a Protestant sect founded by the nobleman Caspar von Schwenckfeld (b. at Ossig in Silesia in 1489 or 1490; d. at Ulm 10 December, 1561).

The name given to seats on the south side of the sanctuary, used by the officiating clergy during the liturgy.

An obscure Puritan sect which arose in England in the middles of the seventeenth century. They represented an Antinomian tendency among some of the Independents, and professed to be seeking for the true Church, Scripture, Ministry, and Sacraments.

A term used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life".

Located in the Province of Rome. The city, situated on a hill in the Monti Lepini overlooks the valley of the river Sacco.

Canonist and archaeologist, b. at Naples, 10 August, 1728; d. there, November, 1772.

The right of a private person to employ force against any one who unjustly attacks his life or person, his property or good name.

Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus.

Archdiocese in Spain.

All writers on the spiritual life uniformly recommend, nay, command under penalty of total failure, the practice of silence.

A titular See in Armenia Secunda, suffragan of Melitene.

Cardinal and scholar, born at Guardavalle near Stilo in Calabria, 1514; died at Rome, 6 October, 1585.

Italian preacher and writer. (d. 1348)

Per Tillemont, one of the most illustrious martyrs France has given to the Church.

Slomšek, Anton Martin, Bishop of Lavant, in Maribor, Styria, Austria, noted Slovenian educator, born 1800; died 24 Sept., 1862.

A consecrated place of refuge.

A distinguished eighteenth-century scientist, b. at Scadiano in Modena, Italy, 10 January, 1729; d. at Pavia, 12 February, 1799.

Unanimously elected in St. Mary Major's and consecrated on 26 March (or 3 April), 752; d. 26 April, 757.

Sculptor of the transition period at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. Born at Monte San Sovino, Arezzo, 1460; died 1529.

German diocese immediately dependent on the Papal See.

Missionary - Born at Barcelona, Spain, 3 March, 1760; died at Mission San Buenaventura on 24 Aug., 1823

Cardinal, Duke of York, known by the Jacobites as "Henry IX, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland"; born at Rome, 11 March, 1725; died at Frascati, 13 July, 1807.

Cardinal and Prince-Archbishop of Prague, b. at Vienna, 6 April, 1809; d. there, 27 March, 1885.

In the year 180 six Christians were condemned to death by the sword, in the town of Scillium, by Vigellius Saturninus, Proconsul of Africa.

Discussion of the science by this name.

Archdiocese in Tuscany (Central Italy).

The earliest notices of an advanced school (of grammar and medicine) at Siena go back to 1241.

Comprises twenty-four counties in north-western Iowa.

Theologian and missionary, b. at Grojec, 1536; d. at Cracow, 27 Sept., 1612.

The University of St. Mark's at Lima enjoys the reputation of being the oldest in America; it has the distinction of having first begun its course by royal decree.

A term used with reference to business transactions to signify the investing of money at a risk of loss on the chance of unusual gain.

Author, b. at Zug, Switzerland, 22 April, 1842; d. at Luxembourg, 20 February, 1905.

Moral theologian, born at Passau, Bavaria; died there, 29 May, 1683.

Known as the first Englishman in India. Born about 1549 at Bulstan, Wiltshire; died in 1619 at Goa, India.

Son of Franz Seraph Streber, b. at Munich, 27 Sept., 1839; d. at Tölz, 9 Aug., 1896.

A genus supremum, cannot strictly be defined by an analysis into genus and specific difference; yet a survey of the universe at large will enable us to form without difficulty an accurate idea of substance.

A titular see in Thebian Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais. Syene (Egyptian, Souanou, Coptic, Souan) was originally the marketplace of the island of Elephantine (in Egyptian, Abou).

Pope (999-1003).

Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-Ch'wan.

Known also by the Latin name of Somonides, b. at Lemberg, 1558; d. 1629.

Martyrs whose feast is observed in the Latin Church on 10 November.

Brief biography of this sixth-century bishop of the Picts.

Martyr, died c. 136.

He and his wife both entered monastic life. He signed the decrees of Nicaea II.

Spanish Augustinian, d. 1555. Educator, diligent in almsgiving, Archbishop of Valencia.

Archbishop of Narbonne, died 893.

A diocese in Ohio, U.S.A., formed out of the Diocese of Cleveland and erected into a separate jurisdiction, 15 April, 1910.

Vessel holding the Blessed Sacrament.