Denominations

Located in the Republic of Chile, suffragan to Santiago de Chile.

A peculiar style of inlaid ornamental mosaic introduced into the decorative art of Europe during the twelfth century.

A narrow isthmus between Panama in the east and the Republic of Nicaragua in the north, the Caribbean Sea on the north-east and the Pacific Ocean on the south-west.

A special competitive examination prescribed in canon law for all aspirants to certain ecclesiastical offices to which is attached the cure of souls.

Includes information on the history and types of congresses held.

An important and fortified Mediterranean seaport, in the province of Rome.

The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".

The meaning of the term in Roman law, and consequently in early ecclesiastical records and writings, was much the same; a concubine was a quasi-wife, recognized by law if there was no legal wife.

Bishop; born in Swabia at an unknown date; killed at Utrecht, 14 April, 1099.

Reigned 686-687.

The cleric or minister who carries the processional cross, that is, a crucifix provided with a long staff or handle.

Contumacy, or contempt of court, is an obstinate disobedience of the lawful orders of a court.

The Diocese comprises the entire department of La Manche and is a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Rouen.

The Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown comprises North Queensland, Australia, from 16°30' south latitude to Cape York, and from the Pacific Coast to the boundary of Northern Territory.

Theologian, writer, and preacher, b. in Portugal, about 1548; d. about 1620.

Italian painter of the school of Ferrara, b. about 1430; d. probably at Ferrara, 1485.

Italian painter. Little is known of his life, and his b. and d. are usually reckoned by his earliest and latest signed pictures, 1468-93.

Born in Toledo, Spain, 25 July, 1512; died in Madrid, 27 Sept., 1577.

Generally, an unreasonable desire for what we do not possess.

Archbishop of Canterbury, born in the parish of St. Martin's, Exeter, England, c. 1342; died at Maidstone, 31 July, 1396.

A titular see of Albania.

In general, a form of belief.

In legal language the term constitutiones denotes only church ordinances, civil ordinances being termed leges, laws.

The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person.

A congregation founded in the department of Isère, at Saint-Antoine, France, by the Abbé Dom Adrien Gréa.

Located in the Republic of Venezuela, a metropolitan see with the Barquisimeto, Calabozo, Guayana, Merida, and Zulia as suffragans.

The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Author and publisher, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 28 January, 1760; d. in Philadelphia, U.S.A., 15 September, 1839.

French Canadian statesman, son of Jacques Cartier and Marguerite Paradis, b. at St. Antoine, on the Richelieu, 16 Sept., 1814; d. in London 20 May, 1873.

Cardinal, b. 1455, at Plasencia in Estremadura, Spain; d. at Rome 16 Dec., 1523.

Poet, dramatist, and diplomatist, b. at West Harting, England, 1625; d. 1711.

French historian, b. at Paris, 28 December, 1659; d. there 12 October, 1737.

French archaeologist, b. at Paris, in 1692; d. in 1765.

Founded in Belgium, the rule and constitutions were approved and confirmed by Pope Leo XIII, 4 July, 1899.

A community founded at Newark, in 1859, by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, who for twelve years previously had been a member of the Sisters of Charity, of St. Vincent de Paul in New York.

Papal nuncio, b. at Vicenza, 1479; d. at Bologna, 6 December, 1539.

A Mexican Indian of the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, who received a liberal education in the colleges for Indians of Mexico City under the direction of the clergy.

First Bishop of Prussia, d. 1245.

A society within the Church of England.

The Diocese, a suffragan see of the metropolitan province of Tuam, was founded in 557 by St. Brendan the Navigator.

The family name of several generations of painters.

Italian miniaturist, called by Vasari "the unique" and "little Michelangelo", b. at Grizani, on the coast of Croatia, in 1498; d. at Rome, 1578.

Humanist and Catholic controversialist, b. 1479; d. 11 Jan., 1552, in Breslau.

An island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the Gulf of Alexandretta.

A titular see of Northern Africa.

Melchite patriarch of that see in the seventh century, and one of the authors of Monothelism; d. about 641.

Scottish abbot and later hermit, fl. about 600. Also known as St. Drustan, Dustan, or Throstan.

Also called Dionysius the Great. Bishop, d. 264 or 265.

First Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 664.

Founder and first abbot of Bangor on the Dee, fl. 500-542.