Christianity

Known also by the Latin name of Somonides, b. at Lemberg, 1558; d. 1629.

Martyrs whose feast is observed in the Latin Church on 10 November.

Brief biography of this sixth-century bishop of the Picts.

Martyr, died c. 136.

He and his wife both entered monastic life. He signed the decrees of Nicaea II.

Spanish Augustinian, d. 1555. Educator, diligent in almsgiving, Archbishop of Valencia.

Archbishop of Narbonne, died 893.

A diocese in Ohio, U.S.A., formed out of the Diocese of Cleveland and erected into a separate jurisdiction, 15 April, 1910.

Vessel holding the Blessed Sacrament.

Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Santiago.

One of the three great feasts of the Hebrew liturgical calendar.

An incitement to sin whether by persuasion or by the offer of some good or pleasure.

Located in the Province of Rome.

Term was introduced into philosophy by Leibniz.

An Apostolic Letter of Leo XIII addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, 22 January, 1899.

Author of the "Imitation of Christ", born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

Professor of law at the University of Louvain, minister in the Belgian Government. (1817-1891)

Founded in 1404, when the lectures at Piacenza and Pavia were interrupted by the wars of Lombardy.

Franciscan poet and writer. (1200-1255)

Born at Hartley, Hampshire, 1567; martyred at Tyburn, London, 20 April, 1602.

In a broad sense, the name given to the system which follows the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophical and theological questions.

A temporary suspension of hostilities, as distinct from the Peace of God which is perpetual.

Two of the canonical Epistles of St. Paul.

Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa.

A tribal group formerly ranging about the middle Trinity and Colorado Rivers, in Eastern Texas.

Baron de L'Aulne, French minister. (1727-1781)

The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving.

Located in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Dominican biographer and historian. (1686-1775)

Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo.

Titular see, suffragan of Caesarea in Palaestina Prima.

Diocese; suffragan of Cologne.

Titular see, suffragan of Salamis in Cyprus.

Theologian of the Capuchin Order, b. at Troyes; d. in 1681.

Spanish poet and folklorist. (1821-1889)

Diocese in southern Italy.

A celebrated preacher, b. at Vienna, 7 or 12 April, 1729; d. there, 20 July, 1784.

A vestment shaped like a sack, which has in the closed upper part only a slit for putting the garment over the head, and, on the sides, either sleeves or slits through which the arms can be passed.

The Archdiocese of Tuam, the metropolitan see of Connacht, extends, roughly speaking, from the Shannon westwards to the sea, and comprises half of County Galway, and nearly half of Mayo, with a small portion of south Roscommon.

Archbishop of Dublin, 1669-1680; b. at Malahide, Dublin, in 1620.

A titular see, suffragan of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima, capital of the fourteenth district of Lower Egypt.

Abbot of Einsiedeln, born at Arth in the Canton of Schwyz, 28 Dec., 1752; died 7 April, 1825.

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)