Denominations

Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races; the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity and others.

An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a common language with dialectic variants, and together constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

An Averroistic philosopher, theologian, and political writer of the fourteenth century.

A Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. probably in 1458.

Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire.

A claim, exercised in the Middle Ages, of succession to the property of deceased clerics, at least such as they had derived from their ecclesiastical benefices.

Founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834, for the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls.

Lived about 1176. Author of a treatise written against the doctrine of Abelard.

A congregation devoted to the Christian education of youth, founded in the Diocese of Ghent (Belgium) by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817.

The third Sunday after Easter.

Reigned 872-82.

Reigned 898-900.

Born at Rome, 10 September, 1487; died there, 23 March, 1555.

Belgian statesman and historian, b. at Saint-Michel-lez-Bruges, 17 August, 1817; d. there, 3 April, 1891.

Flemish painter, native of the Duchy of Cleves; b. between 1499 and 1510; d. at Naples, 1546.

"Knowledge of Jesus Christ," as used in this article, does not mean a summary of what we know about Jesus Christ, but a survey of the intellectual endowment of Christ.

Dogmatic theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, born at Bruneck in northern Tyrol, 12 July, 1796; died at Bozen, 30 March, 1863.

Born at Helmond, Diocese of Bois-1e-Duc, Holland, 24 August, 1821; died 30 June, 1884.

Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a diocese on 1 September, 1886.

A term derived from the discussion as to the real meaning of Phil. 2:6.

Diocese, one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province of Tuam.

By Decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 8 March, 1912, Pius X divided into two parts the territory of the Diocese of Omaha, erecting the western part into a new and distinct diocese with its see at Kearney.

Polish author, b. at Vilna, 6 November, 1825, of Jewish parents; d. at Cracow, 26 November, 1906.

A religious order famous in the history of Bohemia, and accustomed from the beginning to the use of arms, a custom which was confirmed in 1292 by an ambassador of Pope Nicholas IV.

Put to death for the Faith at York, on 29 November, 1596; with him also suffered Venerables George Errington of Herst, William Gibson of Ripon, and William Abbot of Howden, in Yorkshire.

Born at Sandomir?, 1633; died at Krakow, 1699. He received his education at the Jesuit College, Sandomir, served in the army, and then spent the rest of his life on his estate.

Diocese in Bohemia.

Historian, b. on 9 October, 1822, at Leer (East Friesland); d. at Vienna, 9 August 1903.

Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster, in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, 1877.

Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850.

A suffragan diocese of Cashel.

An important Plains tribe, constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

The legenda are stories about the saints, and often include a mix of historical fact and unhistorical embellishments.

Bishop of Fréjus, d. 488. On good terms with Honoratus, who founded the famous monastery of Lérins, and with John Cassian and Pope St. Leo I.

Reigned about A.D. 64 or 67 to 76 or 79.

Biographical article on the presbyter famed for his sanctity and scholarship, who died a martyr in 312.

Successor of St. Augustine of Canterbury as archbishop of that see, and died in 619.

Spanish Dominican novicemaster and preacher, d. 1581.

Confessor, abbot, and the first Irish-born bishop of Dublin, d. 1180.

A pietist sect of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries founded by Jean de Labadie, who was born at Bourg, near Bordeaux, 13 February, 1610, and died at Altonia, 13 February, 1674.

French-Canadian bishop, b. 4 Sept., 1818, at Ste-Anne de la Perade, Province of Quebec; d. 14 July, 1898.

Dominican missionary, born at Paris, 1664; died there, 1738.

Jesuit educationist and social work, b. at Paris, 21 November, 1835; d. there, 30 August, 1909.

French archæologist, b. in Paris, 1 June, 1802; d. at Athens, 24 November, 1859.

Born 10 Dec., 1631, at Brescia in Italy; died in the same place, 22 Feb., 1687. Mathematician and naturalist, he was also the scientific founder of aeronautics.

Separated from the Vicariate Apostolic of Siam by a decree of 4 May, 1899.

A titular see of Isauria, afterwards of Lycaonia.

Mathematician and astronomer. (1749-1827)

Suffragan of Quito, Ecuador, includes the greater part of the Provinces of Loja and El Oro.

The island of Lindisfarne lies some two miles off the Northumberland coast, nine and one-half miles southeast of the border-town of Berwick.