Denominations

Elected towards the end of a wave of persecution. Dionysius opposed the errors of the Sabellians and Marcionites, and died in 268.

The earliest document giving an account of liturgical services in the Diocese of Durham is the so-called "Rituale ecclesiæ Dunelmensis".

Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet who flourished about 820.

A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722.

Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.

Painter and illuminator. (1450-1523)

Daughter of Herod Agrippa I.

Theologian of the modern Catholic German school and author of the "Enchiridion" universally used, b. 10 Oct., 1819, at Liege; d. 19 June, 1883.

The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine.

Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, 1690; d. at Mechlin, 15 February, 1775.

Situated in the north of Egypt and comprises four of the six provinces forming Lower Egypt, namely: Gharbieh, Charkieb, Menufieh, and Kalyiubieh.

A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676.

The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons. With the article (ho) it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, "the Devil and his angels".

Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy; the ancient Tegianum and seat of the Tegyani, a tribe of Lucania.

Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., 1810; died 29 Sept., 1883, at Mechlin.

Making known the crime of another to one who is his superior.

Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 Nov., 1670; d. 5 May, 1752.

Publisher, born at Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March, 1811; died at Boston, U.S.A., 18 March, 1901.

These words form the introductory prayer to every Hour of the Roman, monastic, and Ambrosian Breviaries, except during the last three days of Holy Week, and in the Office of the Dead.

The territory or churches subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop.

Antoine, chancellor of France and Cardinal, b. at Issoire in Auvergne, 17 January, 1463; d. 1535. Guillaume, son of the foregoing, b. at Issoire, 1507; d. at Beauregard, 1560. Appointed Bishop of Clermont in 1529.

Date of birth unknown; died 14 Jan., 1811. He was a native of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, where he entered the Franciscan Order.

Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at Paris, 5 February, 1751.

Brief details of dioceses that were too new to have articles about them in 1914.

Founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

Canonically termed disturbtiones quotidianae, are certain portions of the revenue of a church, distributed to the canons present at Divine service.

Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death unknown.

Benedictine monastery in Switzerland.

Premonstratensian, b. at Senftenberg, Bohemia, 26 March, 1698; d. at Prenditz, Moravia, 21 December, 1765.

Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896.

A Greek silver coin.

Missionary in Pacific Northwest. (1809-1871)

Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576.

Diocese erected 8 May, 1881, in the four southern tiers of counties in Iowa.

A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century.

In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898.

Poet, b. at Hamburg, Germany, 12 September, 1816; d. at Feldkirch, 19 Dec., 1870.

French jurist, b. at Paris in 1500; d. there 27 December, 1566.

French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer, b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089.

Ancient Catholic Diocese of Durham. Owing to its geographical position on the Scottish border, the successive bishops were led to assume constitutional and political functions in addition to their spiritual office.

Detailed biographical article on the King of England.

First woman; wife of Adam.

This Archbishop of Canterbury died in 1240, and was canonized within six years. Biography.

Bishop of Vercelli, exiled for defending St. Athanasius, anti-Arian, martyr, d. 371.

First Bishop of Tournai, early sixth century.

According to the Vitae Patrum, passed as a man and lived in a men's monastery for 38 years. She died in about 470.

Sometimes called Aristus. Martyr, died about 107.

Bishop of Winchester, called "father of monks," d. 984.

Queen of Northumbria, twice married for reasons of state, d. 679. Biography.

Abbot and Bishop of Ros-mic-Truin, d. first half of the sixth century. Some believe that Eimhin is the author of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick.