Religion and Spirituality

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.

Moral theologian, born at Passau, Bavaria; died there, 29 May, 1683.

Known as the first Englishman in India. Born about 1549 at Bulstan, Wiltshire; died in 1619 at Goa, India.

Son of Franz Seraph Streber, b. at Munich, 27 Sept., 1839; d. at Tölz, 9 Aug., 1896.

A genus supremum, cannot strictly be defined by an analysis into genus and specific difference; yet a survey of the universe at large will enable us to form without difficulty an accurate idea of substance.

A titular see in Thebian Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais. Syene (Egyptian, Souanou, Coptic, Souan) was originally the marketplace of the island of Elephantine (in Egyptian, Abou).

Pope (999-1003).

Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-Ch'wan.

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)