Christianity

Irish Abbess. (1641-1723)

Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 or 1477.

Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French.

Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Olmutz, embracing the south-western part of Moravia.

A notable Florentine painter, b. in Florence, 14 October, 1427; d. there, 29 August, 1499.

A group in the western part of the Mediterranean belonging to Spain and consisting of four larger islands, Majorca, Minorca, Iviza, and Formentera, and eleven smaller islands of rocky formation.

A noted canonist, b. at Guimaraens, Portugal, in 1589; consecrated in Rome, 22 March, 1649, Bishop of Ugento in Otranto, Italy, died seven months later.

Scottish ecclesiastic and author of "The Bruce", a historical poem in the early Scottish or Northern English dialect, b. about 1320; d. 1395.

An outgrowth of the ecclesiastical schools founded in the eleventh century.

Canonist, and man of letters, b. at San Concordia, near Pisa about 1260; d. at Pisa, 11 June, 1347.

The name given to Armenian monks who sought refuge in Italy after the invasion of their country by the Sultan of Egypt in 1296.

Priests of the Community of St. Basil.

Bishop and ecclesiastical writer, date of birth uncertain; d., probably, between 458 and 460.

Regular Canon and economist, b. at Amboise, France, 25 April, 1730; d. in 1792.

Franciscan, who taught theology and metaphysics at the convent of St. Francis of Mexico.

A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris.

Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583.

Known also as Albertus Bohemus.

Bishop of Osnabrück.

French theologian. (1715-1790)

Archbishop of Bordeaux. (1375-1457)

Capital of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Article provides religious and historic information.

French Bishop. (1762-1806)

A French cardinal and statesman, b. 1715 at Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche; d. at Rome, 1794.

Article covers a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist, b. 1280 at Annonay in Vivarais, and a French cardinal, nephew of the foregoing, whose name he adopted, b. in 1279, at Colombier in Vivarais.

A Franciscan missionary, b. at Betanzos in Galicia; d. at Chomez, Nicaragua, 1570.

A collegiate church at Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire, served by a chapter of secular canons until the Reformation.

Friar Minor and theologian. (1686-1768)

French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist, and a Benedictine abbot. (1535-1581)

Canonist, historian, and theologian. (1697-1766)

Carthusian monk, b. in 1403; d. 19 February, 1473.

A titular see of Osrhaene.

Carthusian, b. at Leyden, in Holland in 1466; d. 30 September, 1536.

Bishop of Liège, born at Leyden, in Holland on 5 April, 1790; died 7 April 1852.

French bishop, b. at Avignon, 26 December 1747; d. at Troyes, 13 March, 1825.

Benedictine of the Congregation of St.-Maur. (1685-1754)

Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, b., probably, towards 1323; d. 5 July, 1484.

Formerly an electoral principality, and a diocese in the heart of the present Kingdom of Prussia.

Companions in life and in martyrdom. Beheaded in the Diocletian persecution.

An account is given of Christianity as a religion, describing its origin, its relation to other religions, its essential nature and chief characteristics, but not dealing with its doctrines in detail nor its history as a visible organization.

Lengthy article on Clement I, also called Clemens Romanus, the fourth pope and the first of the Apostolic Fathers.

Christians of Antioch martyred at Nicomedia, 26 September, 304. Already in the same century, quite a colorful legend arose about them.

Bishop, theologian, renowned as a popular preacher, wrote two monastic rules, died 543.

Widow, penitent, Poor Clare, superior of the convent at Rimini, contemplative, d. 1346.

Italian Franciscan, trusted by Brother Leo, on good terms with the Spiritual Franciscans, founded the Celestines but returned to the main branch of the Franciscans when a later pope suppressed the Celestines. Bl. Conrad died 12 December, 1306.

A nun beheaded by the Muslims in 853.

Philologist, b. at LePuy, France, 1821; d. at Oka near Montreal, 1898.

French theologian and priest. (1604-1685)

Cush, like the other names of the ethnological table of Genesis, x, is the name of a race, but it has generally been understood to designate also an individual, the progenitor of the nations and tribes known in the ancient world as Cushites.