Denominations

He took the habit of St. Benedict in the Abbey of St. Faro at Meaux, and made his religious profession on 21 Nov., 1703.

The military order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital founded in the twelfth century by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom.

A name used to designate a layman on whom a king or someone in authority bestowed an abbey as a reward for services rendered.

The name of two persons in the N.T.; a character in one of Christ's parables, and the brother of Martha and Mary of Bethania.

Diocese; suffragan of Otranto.

Established on 6 August, 1902.

A family engaged in tapestry weaving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Born at an uncertain date on the Island of Chios, then under Genoese domination; died in Chios or in Italy, 1842.

Antipope under the name of Benedict XIII, b. at Illueca, Aragon, 1328; d. at the Peñiscola, near Valencia, Spain, either 29 Nov., 1422, or 23 May, 1423.

Three canonical collections of quite different value from a legal standpoint are known by this title.

In its most restricted sense, by a pious legacy or bequest (legatum pium) is understood, the assigning, by a last will, of a particular thing forming part of an estate, to a church or an ecclesiastical institution.

A titular see of Macedonia.

Founded in 1852 by the Seminary of Quebec; the royal charter granted to it by Queen Victoria was signed at Westminster, 8 December, 1852.

A titular see of Thrace, not mentioned by any ancient historian or geographer.

Defined to be "the rules which determine the conduct of the general body of civilized states in their dealings with each other" (American and English Encycl. of Law).

Archbishop of Reims, b. at Turin, 1642; d. at Reims, 1710.

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.