Denominations

A name common in the Semitic languages and of special interest as being that borne by the Jewish servant whose ear was struck off by St. Peter.

Chief steward of the household of the pope.

King of Israel.

Theologian; born 1490; died 1547; he occupied the first rank among the theologians of the sixteenth century.

Born at Niort, 28 November 1635; died at Saint-Cyr, 15 April 1719. She was the granddaughter of the celebrated Protestant writer, Agrippa d'Aubigné.

Born at Montblanch, Catalonia, Spain, 29 or 30 January, 1761; died at Santa Clara, California, 22 Nov., 1830. He received the habit of St. Francis at Barcelona on 4 April, 1777, and was ordained priest probably in 1785.

Friar minor, historian, and Bishop of Oporto in Portugal, b. at Lisbon (date of birth uncertain); d. in 1591.

Those between Catholics and non-Catholics, when the latter have been baptized in some Christian sect. The term is also used to designate unions between Catholics and infidels.

On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

The Greek word martus signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation. The term martyr came to be exclusively applied to those who had died for the faith.

Diocese in Central Italy (Lunigiana and Garfagnana).

A Cardinal, born 9 June, 1809, at Piova in Piedmont, Italy; died at Cremona, 6 August, 1889.

Information on the laws.

Theologian, born at Toulouse, 28 Oct., 1632; died at Rome, 23 Jan., 1706.

Bishop of Rennes, ecclesiastical writer and hymnologist, b. about 1035 at Angers, France, d. there 11 September, 1123.

Physicist, born at Forli, in the Romagna, 21 June, 1811; died at Ardenza, near Leghorn, 25 July, 1868.

Four principal words are rendered maledictio in the Vulgate, "curse" in Douay Version.

A titular see in Mauretania Sitifiensis.

Fifth Earl of Nithsdale (Lord Nithsdale signed as Nithsdaill) and fourteenth Lord Maxwell, b. in 1676; d. at Rome, 2 March, 1744.

An educator of the clergy, born at Bleymard, in the Diocese of Mende, France, 9 June, 1837; died 21 December, 1902.

The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals.

A French dramatic poet of the fifteenth century.

Archdiocese in the Republic of Colombia, Metropolitan of Antioquia and Manizales, in the Departments of Medellín, Antioquia, and Manizales.

As early as the fourteenth century it was the custom to address persons high in rank or power with the title Monseigneur or Monsignore.

Physicist and author, b. at Guéméné (Morbihan), 15 April, 1804; d. at Saint-Denis (Seine), 14 July, 1884.

Italian physician and investigator in medicine; b. 25 February, 1682; d. Bologna, 6 December, 1771.

Founded by Father Frederic Faura, S.J., in 1865; constituted officially The Philippine Weather Bureau by decree of the American governor, May, 1901.

A Catalan poet, b. perhaps in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, at Valencia; d. there in 1458.

An archæologist, born at Tolmezzo near Udine, 22 Feb., 1795; died at Rome, 10 Feb., 1860.

Reigned 882-884.

A Franciscan who probably came from the county of Somerset, but the date of his birth is unknown; died at the end of 1257 or the beginning of 1258.

Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.

Before the Reformation dispositions of property, whether real or personal, for the purposes of Masses, were valid, unless where, in the case of real property, they might happen to conflict with the Mortmain laws by being made to religious congregations.

A tribe of Panoan linguistic stock, ranging the forests between the Ucayali, the Yavari and the Marañon (Amazon) rivers in north-east Peru and the adjacent portions of Brazil.

Italian painter, b. in Ferrara in 1480, d., according to one account, in 1528, and to another, in 1530; place of death unknown.

Dominican theologian, b. at Medina, 1527; d. at Salamanca, 1581.

A Croatian painter and engraver, called by Italian authors Medola, Medula, Schiavone, Schiaon, etc., b. at Sibenik, Dalmatia, 1522; d. at Venice 1582.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

Formerly a Benedictine, now a Cistercian Abbey, is situated on Lake Constance, west of Bregenz, in the district of Vorarlberg, Austria.

Principal chief of the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia at the time of the establishment of the French colony under de Monts and Poutrincourt in 1605, and noted in mission annals of the first Christian in the tribe.

Memory is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity.

A Spanish navigator and explorer, born in Saragossa, 1541; died in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 18 October, 1596.

English Catholic controversialist, b. in 1648, was a son of the rector of Landulph, Cornwall.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

Located in Sicily.

A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor.

A cardinal, the greatest of polyglots, born 19 September, 1774; died 15 March, 1849.

A Catholic theologian, born 1549; died at Mainz, 11 Sept., 1615.

A titular see of Numidia.

Located in Ascoli Piceno.