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Comprises all that portion of the State of Texas between the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers, except the land south of the Arroyo de los Hermanos, on the Rio Grande, and the Counties of Live Oak, Bee, Goliad, and Refugio.

The name given by Columbus to his first discovery in the New World. It is one of the Bahama group of islands.

Italian Humanist b. in Tuscany, 1331; d. 4 May, 1406.

Titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades. The island, called in Turkish Soussan-Adassi, is 181 sq. miles in area and numbers 55,000 inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Greek schismatics.

Canonist, born at Orléans, 1128; died at Tournai, September, 1203.

The Sanctus is the last part of the Preface in the Mass, sung in practically every rite by the people (or choir). One of the elements of the liturgy of which exists the earliest evidence.

Historian, b. at Antwerp, 1586; d. at Afflighem, Belgium, 10 Jan., 1664.

Diocese in the Province of Catanzaro in Calabria, Southern Italy. Situated on a rocky precipice on the site of the ancient Siberena, it became an important fortress of the Byzantines in their struggles with the Saracens.

Consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition the staircase leading once to the prætorium of Pilate at Jerusalem, hence sanctified by the footsteps of Our Lord during his Passion.

One of the series of councils called to adjust the doctrinal and other difficulties caused by the Arian heresy, held most probably in 343.

Diocese; S. Angelo in Vado is a city in the Marches, on the site of the ancient "Tifernum Metaurense", a town of the Umbrian Senones, near the River Metaurus, believed to have been destroyed by the Goths.

A Saxon-Thuringian duchy. The duchy came into existence in 1681, as the result of the various succession agreements among the seven sons of Duke Ernest the Pious of Saxe-Gotha.

German physiologist and founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms; b. at Neuss, 7 December, 1810; d. Cologne, 11 January, 1882.

In the language of theology and canon law, the rupture of ecclesiastical union and unity.

The northern portion of the Island of Great Britain.

The Horace of Poland, b. near Plonsk, in the Duchy of Masovia, 24 February, 1595; d. 2 April, 1649. He entered the novitiate of the Jesuits at Vilna on 25 July, 1612.

A titular metropolitan of Palaestina Secunda. It is the ancient Bethsan so often mentioned in the Bible, as proved by texts in the writings of Josephus.

Diocese in Styria, Austria, suffragan of Salzburg. The See of Seckau was founded by Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg, with the permission of Honorius III, 22 June, 1218.

The name of a Protestant sect founded by the nobleman Caspar von Schwenckfeld (b. at Ossig in Silesia in 1489 or 1490; d. at Ulm 10 December, 1561).

The name given to seats on the south side of the sanctuary, used by the officiating clergy during the liturgy.

An obscure Puritan sect which arose in England in the middles of the seventeenth century. They represented an Antinomian tendency among some of the Independents, and professed to be seeking for the true Church, Scripture, Ministry, and Sacraments.

A term used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life".

Located in the Province of Rome. The city, situated on a hill in the Monti Lepini overlooks the valley of the river Sacco.

Canonist and archaeologist, b. at Naples, 10 August, 1728; d. there, November, 1772.

The right of a private person to employ force against any one who unjustly attacks his life or person, his property or good name.

Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus.

Archdiocese in Spain.

All writers on the spiritual life uniformly recommend, nay, command under penalty of total failure, the practice of silence.

A titular See in Armenia Secunda, suffragan of Melitene.

Cardinal and scholar, born at Guardavalle near Stilo in Calabria, 1514; died at Rome, 6 October, 1585.

Italian preacher and writer. (d. 1348)

Per Tillemont, one of the most illustrious martyrs France has given to the Church.

Slomšek, Anton Martin, Bishop of Lavant, in Maribor, Styria, Austria, noted Slovenian educator, born 1800; died 24 Sept., 1862.

A consecrated place of refuge.

A distinguished eighteenth-century scientist, b. at Scadiano in Modena, Italy, 10 January, 1729; d. at Pavia, 12 February, 1799.

Unanimously elected in St. Mary Major's and consecrated on 26 March (or 3 April), 752; d. 26 April, 757.

Sculptor of the transition period at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. Born at Monte San Sovino, Arezzo, 1460; died 1529.

German diocese immediately dependent on the Papal See.

Missionary - Born at Barcelona, Spain, 3 March, 1760; died at Mission San Buenaventura on 24 Aug., 1823

Cardinal, Duke of York, known by the Jacobites as "Henry IX, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland"; born at Rome, 11 March, 1725; died at Frascati, 13 July, 1807.

Cardinal and Prince-Archbishop of Prague, b. at Vienna, 6 April, 1809; d. there, 27 March, 1885.

In the year 180 six Christians were condemned to death by the sword, in the town of Scillium, by Vigellius Saturninus, Proconsul of Africa.

Discussion of the science by this name.

Archdiocese in Tuscany (Central Italy).

The earliest notices of an advanced school (of grammar and medicine) at Siena go back to 1241.

Comprises twenty-four counties in north-western Iowa.

Theologian and missionary, b. at Grojec, 1536; d. at Cracow, 27 Sept., 1612.

The University of St. Mark's at Lima enjoys the reputation of being the oldest in America; it has the distinction of having first begun its course by royal decree.

A term used with reference to business transactions to signify the investing of money at a risk of loss on the chance of unusual gain.

Author, b. at Zug, Switzerland, 22 April, 1842; d. at Luxembourg, 20 February, 1905.