Religion and Spirituality

Italian Franciscan priest and missionary, d. 1322.

Long essay on the dramatic life of the Duke of Gandia turned Jesuit.

Biographical article on one of the first Jesuits, and missionary to Asia, who died in 1552.

Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi, the name given to a classic collection of popular legends about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and his early companions as they appeared to the Italian people at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Italian mathematician and priest. (1825-1888)

German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in 1502 at Ulm, Germany.

Jesuit missionary and cartographer. (1673-1743)

French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.

A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party.

German Augustinian. (1724-1788)

Diocese; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A.

Situated in the Diocese of Orléans, department of Loiret, and arrondissement of Montargis.

Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane. (1593-1665)

A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about 1466.

One of the oldest and most celebrated Benedictine abbeys of Western Europe. Its modern name is Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, applicable both to the monastery and the township with which the abbey has always been associated.

Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons. (1759-1843)

The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.

The supposed author of an anonymous historical compilation (Chronicon Fredegarii) of the seventh century, in which is related the history of the Franks from the earliest times until 658.

Artist. (1800-1876)

This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ancient Benedictine abbey of Fulda.

Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531.

Lexicographer and philologist. (1682-1769)

A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts.

Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence.

Christian author of the fourth century.

Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Romanian Rite.

Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium, is celebrated chiefly for his conferences at Notre-Dame de Paris. (1765-1841)

A titular see of Palaestina Prima, in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

A proper name which designates in the Bible, (I), a patriarch; (II), a tribe of Israel; (III), a prophet; (IV), a pagan deity.

Also known as Aegidius. Hermit and then abbot in late seventh-century Gaul.

Also known as Gregory Thaumaturgus, converted to Christianity by Origen, became a bishop, d. between 270 and 275.

Biographical entry for St. Gildas the Wise, also called "Badonicus," born to a British family in Scotland, educated in Wales, monk, priest, died in 570.

Regarded in traditional lore as the greatest Irish architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban; b. at Turvey, near Malahide, Co. Dublin, about 560.

A Syrian, was elected the successor of Pope St. Gregory II by acclamation, d. 741.

Born in about 640, superior of a convent at Noyon.

A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, 5 October.

Short description and history, with links to more information.

Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography.

Physically and psychologically abused by her husband Bertolf and mother-in-law, until finally she was murdered at Bertolf's orders in 1070.

Biography of the Franciscan martyr born in Vasai.

Vicariate erected 12 September, 1905, and formed from the prefecture Apostolic of the same name organized 29 May, 1882.

Reigned 1370-1378.

Theologian and thirteenth general of the Society of Jesus, b. at Arganda, Spain, 18 January, 1624; died at Rome, 27 October, 1705.

Priest and poet; born at Zamora, Spain, 14 December, 1777; died at Madrid, 9 January, 1853.

Reigned 1406-1415.

Situated in the province of Reggio Emilia (Central Italy) on the left bank of the Po at its junction with the Crostolo.

Spanish poet. (1503-1536)

A theologian, b. at Bergamo, Italy, 3 March, 1722; d. at Vicenza, 11 Dec., 1799.

German novelist of the seventeenth century.

The aim of this institute is to provide a shelter for girls and women of dissolute habits, who wish to do penance for their iniquities and to lead a truly christian life.