Denominations

Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786.

Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist. (1810-1874)

Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

The Vicariate Apostolic of Temiskaming, suffragan of Ottawa, Canada.

All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.

King of the Ostrogoths.

Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou. (1528-1598)

Titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana.

Historian commonly known as Charles Dodd. Died 1743.

Includes the Department of Haute-Garonne.

Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370.

A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism.

The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas together with a doxology.

Includes the Catholic Church together with the many other religious communions which have either directly or indirectly, separated from it.

Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568.

Apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of an alphabet.

The thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an Indian tribe known as the Utes.

Biographical profile of the bishop of Pettau, an ecclesiastical writer, martyred in the Diocletian persecution.

Vitalis was a slave, converted to Christianity by his master Agricola. Both were martyred at Bologna about 304.

Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny. Died 1122.

At least parts of Scripture were translated into all four dialects of the Coptic language, though there is some debate about which of the Coptic versions is oldest.

Born at Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March, 1810; died at Vienna, 17 October, 1889.

Physicist. (1745-1827)

Emperor of the West. (321-375)

Diocese in north central Portugal.

The article deals not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to the direct intervention of a power superior to man.

The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870.

Painter and statesman. (1320-1414)

German preacher and religious writer, died 1504.

Spanish poet. (1845-1902)

Located in the District of Columbia, United States of America.

Comprises the Department of the Meuse.

The traditional name given to the insurrection which broke out at Palermo on Easter Tuesday, 31 March, 1282, against the domination of Charles of Anjou.

Biblical scholar, born at Biella, Milan; died at Rome, 19 January, 1869.

Founded in 1878 by the White Fathers of Cardinal Lavigerie.

One of the missionaries sent to China by Louis XIV in 1687.

A hall projecting in front of the façade of a church, found from the fifth century both in the East and the West.

Italian orator, patriot, philosopher. (1792-1861)

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.

Father of modern algebra.

Cardinal Gregory Conti, elected in opposition to Innocent II.

An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the Jansenists on 16 July, 1705.

Founder of the modern school of violinist.

Article on the Benedictine missionary and bishop, who died in 739.

Short biography of the missionary and bishop, d. 789.

English-born companion of St. Boniface. Wigbert was abbot of Hersfeld and, for a time, of Ohrdruf. He died in about 746.

Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1588. Also some information on his companions in martyrdom John Hewitt, Robert Sutton, and John Harrison.

English widower, became a priest. He was martyred at York in 1582.

Short article on the career of this English priest, martyred in 1588.

A Dorset layman, a joiner by trade. Converted to Catholicism. He was martyred in 1591.