Biographical article on this Benedictine, abbot of Fulda, Archbishop of Mainz, theologian, who died in 856.

Article covering a 1913 Catholic view of Rabbinism.

Bishop of Edessa. (d. 435)

Sixteenth-century French writer.

A book containing prayers and pious exercises to which the popes have attached indulgences.

Article describing the view of the human race from a 1911 Catholic perspective.

Article describing the view of the negro race from a 1911 Catholic perspective.

Mother of Joseph and Benjamin, and love of Jacob.

Brief biography of the seventeenth-century dramatist.

Philologist and historian. (1561-1634)

Co-founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. (d. 1400)

Writer and statesman. (1797-1853)

Historian and liturgist. (d. 1403)

Missionary and cartographer. (1633-1724)

Jesuit missionary. (1608-1680)

German theologian and writer. (1832-1907)

The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church.

Fifteenth-and-sixteenth century Italian engraver.

Chancellor of the German Empire. (d. 1167)

Prefecture apostolic covering several Indian states.

Missionary and martyr. (1654-1724)

English priest, martyred in 1588.

An English priest who was imprisoned and tortured. He died a martyr in 1581.

Belgian historian and rector of the Catholic University of Louvain. (1804-1865)

Titular see in Palestine, suppressed in 1884 by the Roman Curia.

Monthly English Catholic periodical published from 1848 to 1859.

Life, summaries of religious and secular works, and commentary on his advances in music theory and composition.

English abbey founded by a Saxon noble in 969.

Article by William Turner on this early humanist and logician.

French abbot and reformer. (1626-1700)

American journalist and poet. (1839-1908)

Feast on 24 September commemorating the foundation of the Mercedarians.

Italian painter. (1483-1520)

Archangel appearing in the Book of Tobias.

Diocese comprising the greater part of County Donegal in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh.

French Jesuit writer. (1621-1687)

A generic term for dissidents from the Established Church in Russia.

Bishop of Strasburg. (1794-1887)

Priest and controversialist. (1807-1842)

Writer and troubled leader of the Diocese of Verona.

The educational system of the Jesuits.

Collar ornamented in the front and back with appendages worn by the Bishops of Eichstätt, Paderborn, Toul, and Cracow.

Term used in an exact sense, to designate a particular moment in the development of Protestant thought in Germany, or in a broader, and more usual, sense to cover the view that the human reason, or understanding, is the sole source and final test of all truth.

German diocese embracing the greater portion of the administrative district of Oberpfalz, and portions of Upper and Lower Bavaria, and Upper Franconia.

Converted Jew who built two convents in Jerusalem. (1814-1884)

Preacher, writer, and director of the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers. (1802-1884)

Ninth-century Benedictine monk and author.

Ancient German diocese that was suffragan to Hamburg and embraced the Duchy of Lauenburg (Holstein) in the Prussian Province of Schleswig- Holstein, the Principality of Ratzeburg in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the western part of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, including Wismar but not Schwerin.

Political economist and social reformer. (1844-1899)

Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. (1797-1875)

Italian missionary. (1811-1884)

Archdiocese based in the capital of a province in Romagna, central Italy.

French theologian. (d. 1570)

French Jesuit, orator, and author. (1795-1858)

Oblate of St. Charles, hymn-writer and preacher. (1826-1885)

French missionary. (b. 1602)

Count of Toulouse and of Tripoli. (d. 1105)

Biobibliographical article on Ramon Lull, who is called "Doctor Illuminatus."

Dominican, theologian and Orientalist. (1220-1284)

Spanish Mercedarian. (1200-1240)

Born near Barcelona, Raymond was an able canon lawyer who joined the Dominicans. He died in 1275.

Teacher and writer. (d. 1432)

Count of Toulouse. (1156-1222)

Count of Toulouse and son of Raymond VI. (1197-1249)

Italian oratorian. (1595-1671)

French theologian and writer. (1583-1663)

French poet, dramatist, and philologist. (1761-1836)

Abbey founded by Henry I in 1121 and located in Surrey, England.

Article considers: the fact of the Real Presence; the several allied dogmas grouped about it; and the speculations of reason, so far as speculative investigation regarding the august mystery under its various aspects is permissible, and so far as it is desirable to illumine it by the light of philosophy.

Article discussing various definitions of the term.

The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible.

Diocese based around the province of Ancona in Central Italy.

Rechab was the father of Jonadab who in IV Kings, x, 15-28, appears as a fervent supporter of Jehu's attack on the House of Achab. The Rechabites were his descendants.

Recollection, as understood in respect to the spiritual life, means attention to the presence of God in the soul.

Priests who preside over missions or quasi-parishes.

The daily hymn for Sext in the Roman Breviary.

People who refrained from attending Church of England services.

The north-west arm of the Indian Ocean, some 1400 miles long and lying between Arabia on the east and Africa on the west.

Feast that is found only in the special calendar of some dioceses and religious orders, and is celebrated with proper Mass and Office either on the third Sunday of July or on 23 October.

A secular community founded in 1608 by the Duke of Mentone, Vincent Gonzaga, on the occasion of the marriage of his eldest son Francis II Gonzaga with Marguerite of Savoy.

The restoration of man from the bondage of sin to the liberty of the children of God through the satisfactions and merits of Christ.

Strictly deliverance by payment of a price or ransom, or simply deliverance by power, as from oppression, violence, or captivity.

The substitution of exercises either easier or extending over a shorter period, for works of penance imposed according to the penitential canons.

Community of nuns formed in Scala, Italy, by Father Thomas Falcoia.

Society of missionary priests founded by St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori in 1732 at Scala, Italy.

Jesuit chaplain and writer. (1701-1763)

Italian poet. (1626-1698)

Prince-Abbot of Einsiedeln and theological writer. (1625-1692)

Jesuit campaign to convert the natives of Paraguay.

Officials in the Byzantine Court who reported to the emperor on the memorials of petitioners, and conveyed to the judges the orders of the emperor in connexion with such memorials.

Return or bringing back of an order from a mitigated or relaxed observance to the rigour of its primitive rule.

Sixteenth century religious movement led by Martin Luther.

Protestant bodies which adopted the tenets of Zwingli and, later, the doctrinal principles of Calvin.

Towns which according to the Jewish law enjoyed the right of asylum and to which anyone who had unintentionally slain another might flee and be protected from the "avenger of blood".

Religious order founded in 1641 that works towards reforming women living a life of sin.

Document denoting those rights that belonged exclusively to the king.

The insignia of royalty or "crown jewels".

Biblico-dogmatic term closely connected with the ideas of justification, Divine sonship, and the deification of the soul through grace.

Copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives.

Italian diocese and suffragan of Modena.

Archdiocese in Calabria, southern Italy.

Ecclesiastical division comprising the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

The opening words of the Eastertide anthem of the Blessed Virgin.

Companion of St. Thomas Aquinas. (1230-1290)

German abbot. (d. 915)

The name given in later antiquity and the early Middle Ages to those clerics and officials of the Church of Rome who were attached neither to the papal palace or the titular churches of Rome, but to one of the city regions, or wards, which was assigned as their official district.

French missionary. (d. 1738)

French philosopher and writer. (1632-1707)

Five distinct parish registers that a pastor must have: one each of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths; and a fifth containing a census or general account of the state of souls in the parish.

French chemist and physicist. (1810-1878)

Certain fundamental laws in the form of axioms found in the "Corpus Juris".

Monks in observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.

Island upon the Gnadensee of the Lake of Constance, about one mile in breadth and about three and three-quarter miles long.

Prussian politician and author. (1808-1895)

German jurist and parliamentarian. (1810-1892)

Former Cistercian abbey in Eichsfeld, founded on 1 August, 1162 by Count Ernst of Tonna.

Theologian and canonist. (1641-1703)

Archdiocese of Reims comprising the district of Reims in the Department of Marne and the whole Department of Ardennes.

History of a series of synods held at the French city.

German minnesinger of the twelfth century.

Theologian and statesman. (1800-1869)

Intellectual and writer. (d. 1525)

A certain connection of persons established either by nature or by civil or canon law.

Discusses a variety of duties that relatives should apply to one another.

A doctrine which denies, universally or in regard to some restricted sphere of being, the existence of absolute values.

An object, notably part of the body or clothes, remaining as a memorial of a departed saint.

The voluntary subjection of oneself to God.

Article discussing the moral value of religion.

Numbers of followers of various religions across the world in 1913.

Overview and evangelical ideas on what makes up religious life.

Article discussing the meanings and origin of religion as a profession.

Any box, casket, or shrine destined for the reception of relics.

A titular see in Bulgaria, suffragan of Sardica.

Benedictine monk, teacher and theologian. (d. 908)

Apostle of the Franks, Archbishop of Reims, d. 553.

Monastery and nunnery of the Rule of St. Benedict, founded by Sts. Romaricus and Amatus in 620 above the town of Vosges, France.

Writer and witness to a revelation. (1696-1730)

Abbey located in Reims, France that acquired the relics of St. Remy in 553.

Period of revival of classic, especially of Greek, learning and the recovery of ancient art in the departments of sculpture, painting, and architecture.

Apologetical writer and Orientalist. (1648-1720)

Doctor who engaged in relief work for the poor. (1586-1653)

Italian painter. (1575-1642)

French diocese including the Department of Ille et Vilaine.

Jesuit who devoted himself to the service of the needy and suffering. (1611-1649)

A canonical term signifying the resignation of an ecclesiastical office or benefice.

The history of all ordinations which were considered null for any other reason than defect of the prescribed form or intention and which were repeated.

Theological concept of God demanding satisfaction for the injuries which man had done Him.

Fourteenth-and-fifteenth century cardinal-priest of the title of SS.

Sometimes called less properly sepulchre or tomb, more frequently repository.

The outcome of a person's meritorious activity.

Masses that are offered for the dead.

The hymn for Matins of Wednesday in the Divine Office.

Brief article on a hymn for None, one of the "little hours." Mid-afternoon.

The opening words and the title of the Encyclical issued by Leo XIII, 15 May, 1891, on the "Condition of Labour".

Responses of the pope or a Sacred Congregation, in writing, to queries or petitions of individuals.

The restriction in certain cases by a superior of the jurisdiction ordinarily exercised by an inferior.

A term used for sins whose absolution is not within the power of every confessor.

A remaining or abiding where one's duties lie or where one's occupation is properly carried on.

Italian astronomer. (1824-1889)

A series of verses and responses, usually taken from Holy Scripture and varying according to the feast or season.

An act of commutative justice by which exact reparation as far as possible is made for an injury that has been done to another.

Resurrection is the rising again from the dead, the resumption of life.

The rising again from the dead, the resumption of life.

German painter. (1816-1859)

Congregation founded in 1678 with large schools in various places in England, France, and Belgium.

A series of days passed in solitude and consecrated to practices of asceticism, in particular to prayer and penance.

Archbishop of Paris. (1614-1679)

Proper name meaning both a patriach and a tribe of Israel.

German humanist. (1455-1522)

Statesman and historian. (1808-1887)

Belgian archeologist and historian. (1831-1903)

Name of the two smallest states of the German Confederation.

The communication of some truth by God to a rational creature through means which are beyond the ordinary course of nature.

The name given to the last book in the Bible, also called the Book of Apocalypse.

Article discussing the judging of private revelations.

The act of recalling or annulling.

The history of the Revolution resolves itself into a catalogue of various ill-judged measures which alienated the support of the Established Church, the Tory party, and the nation as a whole.

The starting point of the French Revolution was the convocation of the States General by Louis XVI.

The hymn at Lauds in the Common of Martyrs in the Roman Breviary.

The Roman Breviary hymn for Matins of Sundays and weekdays during the Paschal Time.

Educator and Mexican War chaplain. (1807-1847)

Writer, priest and lecturer. (1544-1594)

Prefecture Apostolic in Switzerland.

A titular see in Syria Secunda, suffragan of Apamea.

Bavarian composer and organist. (1839-1901)

A titular see in Osrhoene, suffragan of Edessa.

A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.

A titular see of Crete, suffragan of Gortyna.

A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus, suffragan of Neocaesarea.

Italian missionary to China. (1593-1638)

American state and one of the thirteen original colonies.

A titular metropolitan of the Cyclades.

French missionary. (1591-1660)

British possession in South Africa (present-day Zimbabwe).

A titular see of Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

Second-century Christian writer.

A titular see in Cilicia Secunda, suffragan to Anazarba.

Versions of the Bible consisting almost entirely of collections of the psalms.

A liturgical horary prayer, the canonical hours of the priest, or an office of the Breviary, in which not only the hymns are regulated by a certain rhythm, but where, with the exception of the psalms and lessons, practically all the other parts show metre, rhythm, or rhyme.

Writer and member of the Society of Jesus. (1526-1611)

Missionary and historian. (1576-1655)

Diocese that once consisted of the modern Danish Provinces of Ribe, Vejle, and Ringkjöbing, and of part of North Schleswig.

A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil.

Spanish artist. (1588-1656)

Pioneer of scientific judicial procedure in the twelfth century.

Italian theologian, writer and preacher. (1585-1639)

General of the Society of Jesus. (1703-1775)

Founder of the Catholic missions of China. (1552-1610)

Italian astronomer. (1598-1671)

Biographical article on the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (better known as the Irish Christian Brothers).

A Friar minor and preacher, appearing in history between 1428 and 1431, whose origin and nationality are unknown.

English bishop and bibliophile. (1286-1345)

Archbishop of Paris. (1819-1908)

The devoted companion of St. Edmund Rich, was bishop of Chichester. Richard died in 1253, and was canonized less than 10 years later.

Priest and martyr, died at Smithfield, 1540.

King who embarked on the Crusades. (1157-1199)

Chronicler and monk at Westminster Abbey.

Thirteenth century writer and lecturer.

Thirteenth-century writer and Franciscan.

Scottish theologian. (d. 1173)

English martyr. (d. 1583)

Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr. (d. 1539)

Theologian and publicist. (1711-1794)

Last martyr under Queen Elizabeth. (d. 1603)

Cardinal and French statesman. (1585-1642)

Suffragan of Baltimore consisting of parts of the states of Virginia and West Virginia.

Italian professor, scholar and writer. (d. 1320)

Frankish sculptor. (1460-1531)

Italian revolutionary and notary of the Camera Capitolina. (d. 1354)

Diocese in Central Italy, immediately subject to the Holy See.

English monastery founded in 1131.

German historian and writer. (1807-1856)

English martyr. (1570-1600)

English priest. (1800-1886)

Substantive designating the object of justice.

The alleged competence of the more important Catholic countries, Austria, France, and Spain, to indicate to their respective cardinal protector, or cardinal procurator, those members of the Sacred College who were personæ minus gratæ, so that, if there was a possibility of one of these becoming pope, the authorized cardinal might, before the decisive ballot, give his veto, in the name of his government, against such election.

Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.

Monk and archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg. (d. 888)

Diocese, suffragan of Ravenna.

Opened early in July, 359, with over four hundred bishops.

Canadian diocese, suffragan of Quebec.

Ring worn by the popes, with a representation of St. Peter in a boat on it.

Article discussing religious uses and values concerning the wearing of rings.

Papal nuncio to Ireland during the uprising of 1645-49. (1592-1653)

Prefecture Apostolic in Brazil.

French writer on art. (1797-1874)

City forming the base for the diocese of Bolivarensis, suffragan of Quito, Ecuador.

Spanish poet. (1583-1659)

Spanish theologian. (1594-1648)

Diocese in Ascoli Piceno, Central Italy.

English politician, Governor-General and Viceroy of India. (1827-1909)

Warden of the Observant friary at Canterbury who was condemned to death by Henry VIII. (1489-1534)

Thirteenth-century English chronicler.

Priest and writer that fell victim to the plague. (1550-1585)

Augustinian nun. (1386-1456)

The ceremonies, prayers, and functions of any religious body.

Article discussing various rites used within the United States.

Conception of the nature and scope of Christianity, widely held in modern Protestantism, especially in Germany.

German historian and writer. (1787-1857)

One of the official books of the Roman Rite. It contains all the services performed by a priest that are not in the Missal and Breviary and has also, for convenience, some that are in those books.

The advanced section of the High Church party in the Anglican Establishment, which since about 1860 has adhered to and developed further the principles of the earlier Tractarian Movement.

English priest and writer. (1838-1899)

Filipino hero, physician, poet, novelist, and sculptor. (1861-1896)

Martyrs on the Island of Corcyra in the second century.

Nephew, pupil and assistant to painter Luca. (1431-1528)

Italian sculptor. (1400-1481)

Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal. (1542-1621)

English priest and martyr. (d. 1581)

Itinerant preacher and founder of Fontevrault. (b. 1047)

English Cardinal. (d. 1218)

Antipope under the name of Clement VII. (1342-1394)

Eleventh-century Archbishop of Canterbury.

Thirteenth century French architect.

English philosopher and theologian. (d. 1167)

Founder of the Abbey of Citeaux and the monastery at Molesme. (d. 1111)

English abbot. (d. 1159)

Twelfth-century Cardinal, English philosopher and theologian.

Founder of the Abbey of Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne. (1000-1067)

First Prior of Downside Abbey and martyr. (d. 1610)

Historian and professor. (1800-1877)

English martyr. (d. 1598)

Jurist and educator. (1834-1911)

Spanish theologian. (1624-1699)

Communal chief town of the canton of Gramat, district of Gourdon, Department of Lot, in the Diocese of Cahors and the ancient province of Quercy.

Founder of the Angelica Library at Rome. (1545-1620)

Miracle-working saint. (1295-1327)

French marshal. (1725-1807)

The oldest and smallest of all the suffragan sees of Canterbury, was founded by St. Augustine, Apostle of England, who in 604 consecrated St. Justus as its first bishop.

English priest and martyr. (d. 1537)

Located in New York.

An over-tunic usually made of fine white linen (cambric; fine cotton material is also allowed), and reaching to the knees.

French archæologist. (1789-1854)

English antiquarian and ecclesiologist. (1799-1871)

Created 23 September, 1908, in the north-western part of the State of Illinois.

A discussion of this whimsical style, its origins and uses.

The Diocese of Rodez was united to the Diocese of Cahors by the Concordat of 1802, and again became an episcopal see by the Concordat of 1817 and Bull of 1822.

Brazilian scientist and explorer. (1756-1815)

Spanish writer and teacher. (1526-1616)

Missionary and author. (1558-1633)

Member of the Society of Jesus, porter and influential citizen. (1532-1617)

English Benedictine martyr. (1583-1641)

Diocese in Holland; suffragan of Utrecht.

Days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest.

Philosopher, born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, about 1214; died at Oxford, perhaps 11 June, 1294.

English priest and martyr. (1568-1610)

Chronicler and king's clerk in the time of Henry II.

Benedictine monk and chronicler. (d. 1236)

Bishop of Worcester. (d. 1179)

German-speaking Jesuit preacher. (1811-1872)

Family of French architects and archaeologists of the nineteenth century.

French ecclesiastical historian. (1789-1856)

Spanish dramatic poet. (1607-1680)

Director of the Society of Antiquaries. (1786-1842)

Located in S. E. Limburg, Netherlands.

Catholic educationist and writer. (1821-1896)

English solitary and writer. (d. 1349)

French writer and professor. (1661-1741)

A collection of historical materials of which the general scope is indicated by its official title, "The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages".

Surgeon and writer of several works on emigration. (1800-1858)

The subject is covered under the headings: I. Position; II. History; III. Inscriptions; IV. Paintings; V. Sarcophagi; VI. Small Objects Found in the Catacombs; and VII. Catacombs outside Rome.

This catechism differs from other summaries of Christian doctrine for the instruction of the people in two points: it is primarily intended for priests having care of souls (ad parochos), and it enjoys an authority equalled by no other catechism.

A qualification of the name Catholic commonly used in English-speaking countries by those unwilling to recognize the claim of being the One True Church.

Sections on England and Ireland.

This article treats briefly of the individual catacomb cemeteries in the vicinity of Rome.

This article treats of the various colleges in Rome which have been founded under ecclesiastical auspices and are under ecclesiastical direction, with the exception of those that are treated separately under their respective titles throughout the Catholic Encyclopedia.

The most important of certain departments organized by the Holy See at various times to assist it in the transaction of those affairs which canonical discipline and the individual interests of the faithful bring to Rome.

Strictly speaking, the ensemble of departments or ministries which assist the sovereign pontiff in the government of the Universal Church.

Consists of a single section of the Roman Ritual (titulus ix) with sundry supplementary materials taken from the Missal and the Pontifical.

The manner of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, administering Sacraments, reciting the Divine Office, and performing other ecclesiastical functions as used in the city and Diocese of Rome.

The constitution makes clear the following: though regulars according to canon law are subject immediately to the Holy See, bishops are given jurisdiction over small communities.

Sixth-century poet.

The subject is treated under the following heads: I. The Roman Church and St. Paul; II. Character, Contents, and Arrangement of the Epistle; III. Authenticity; IV. Integrity; V. Date and Circumstances of Composition; VI. Historical Importance; VII, Theological Contents: Faith and Works (Paul and James).

Ninth-century Pope who reigned for four months in 897.

Mentions and gives brief profiles of several saints of this name.

The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope.

The university is now under the control of the Italian Government and is called the Royal University.

Missionary and Indian linguist. (1559-1630)

Italian-born founder of the Camaldolese, d. 1027.

Deposed in the year 476, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Article describing the most celebrated of the twelve Irish saints known as Ronan.

French poet. (1524-1585)

A term, often used to signify the True Cross itself, which, with the prefix Holy, occurs as the dedication of some churches.

Twenty-first General of the Society of Jesus. (1785-1853)

English politician and biographer of St. Thomas More. (1496-1578)

Vulgate, text, the opening words of Isaiah 45:8.

Neapolitan artist. (1615-1673)

Hermitess, greatly venerated at Palermo and in the whole of Sicily of which she is patroness.

Their author was a pious client of Mary, Eustace Sirena.

The Perpetual Rosary is an organization for securing the continuous recitation of the Rosary by day and night among a number of associates who perform their allotted share at stated times.

At the request of the Dominican Order Gregory XIII in 1573 allowed this feast to be kept in all churches which possessed an altar dedicated to the Holy Rosary.

Seraphic Crown, also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.

History of this devotion. Also considers the Orthodox and Eastern-Rite Catholic practice.

Italian jurist. (d. 1354)

A monk of Compiègne, was teaching as early as 1087.

Capital of County Roscommon, Ireland; owes origin and name to a monastery founded by St. Coman in the first half of the eighth century on a "ros" or wooded point amidst marshes.

Virgin and patroness of America. (1586-1617)

Virgin. (1235-1252)

A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the center, and filled with stained glasses.

The official catalogue of the Roman Curia mentioned formerly a titular see of Rosea in Syria.

Diocese; suffragan of Port of Spain, Trinidad, B.W.I.

American soldier and politician.

Prioress of Celle-Robaud in the Diocese of Fréjus. (1263-1329)

Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Eger, established by Maria Theresa, in 1775-76.

The original appelation of the alleged members of the occult-cabalistic-theosophic "Rosicrucian Brotherhood", described in the pamphlet "Fama Fraternitatis R.C."

Suffragan to Hamburg, about 991-1104, to Lund, 1104-1536.

Bishop of Neutra in Hungary, doctor of philosophy and theology. (1807-1892)

Antonio Rosmini Serbati, philosopher, and founder of the Institute of Charity, born 24 March, 1797, at Rovereto, Austrian Tyrol; died 1 July, 1855, at Stresa, Italy.

The Institute of Charity, or, officially, Societas a charitate nuncupata, is a religious congregation founded by Antonio Rosmini, first organized in 1828.

Diocese in Ireland.

Ross-Carbery, formerly Ross-Ailithir.

Archdiocese in Calabria, province of Cosenza, Southern Italy.

Italian sculptor. (1427-1478)

Italian sculptor. (1409-1464)

Italian fresco painter. (1439-1507)

Italian theologian and historian. (1687-1775)

Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs. (1822-1894)

Diplomat, economist and statesman. (1787-1848)

French composer. (1792-1868)

Bishop of Breslau. (1607-1671)

Located in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, founded in the year 1419.

One of three tribunals instituted by the "Sapienti Consilio" constitution of 1908.

Missionary in India and Sanskrit scholar. (1620-1668)

Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. (1573-1650)

Diocese; suffragan of the ecclesiastical Province of the Upper Rhine.

Rolls in which a long narrow strip of papyrus or parchment, written on one side, was wound like a blind about its staff.

Revived by the Concordat of 1802 with the Sees of Bayeux, Evreux, and Séez as suffragans: it also includes the Department of the Seine Inferieure.

The first synod is generally believed to have been held by Archbishop Saint-Ouen about 650.

Scholar and missionary to the Choctaw Indians. (1813-1887)

French poet. (1670-1741)

Sculptor and architect. (1490-1530)

Sixteenth-century English priest and martyr.

The name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation of Catholicity which, in accordance with provisions of the "Bill of Rights" (1689) and of "the Act of Succession" (1700), every sovereign succeeding to the throne of Great Britain was required to make in the presence of the assembled Lords and Commons.

Philosopher and French politician. (1763-1845)

Sixth-century Irish saint.

Flemish painter. (1577-1640)

Among the ancients, according to Columella, Vitruvius, and Pliny, the word rubrica, rubric, signified the red earth used by carpenters to mark on wood the line to follow in cutting it; according to Juvenal the same name was applied to the red titles under which the jurisconsults arranged the announcements of laws.

Thirteenth-century Franciscan missionary and writer of travels.

French chronicler. (d. 862)

German king. (1218-1291)

Bishop of Breslau. (1402-1482)

Middle High German epic poet of the thirteenth century.

Famous organ and piano-forte builders of Antwerp.

Physician and mathematician. (1765-1822)

A monastery of the Cistercian Order, situated on the left bank of the Rainworth Water, about two miles south of Ollerton in Nottinghamshire.

Group of ten martyrs listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Record of the eleven saints named Rufinus in the Roman Martyrology.

Record of the ten saints named Rufus in the Roman Martyrology.

Spanish dramatic poet. (1580-1639)

Linguist and pioneer of the original Jesuit mission in Paraguay. (1585-1652)

Spanish theologian. (1562-1632)

The word rule (Lat. regula, Gr. kanon) means a standard by which something can be tested, and the rule of faith means something extrinsic to our faith, and serving as its norm or measure.

Details of several writings that have been given this title.

This work holds the first place among monastic legislative codes, and was the most important factor in the organization and spread of monasticism in the West.

A kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, situated between the Black Sea, the Danube, the Carpathian Mountains, and the Pruth.

German art historian. (1785-1843)

Dominican promoter of the Rosary. (1428-1475)

First Bishop of Salzburg. (d. 718)

A titular see of Mauritania Tingitana.

A titular see of Numidia.

Titular see of Byzacena in Africa, mentioned only by Ptolemy (IV, 3) and the "Tabula" Peutinger.

English lawyer, journalist and politician. (1832-1900)

Irish professor and writer. (1812-1880)

Bishop of Vizéu in Portugal. (1630-1693)

Geography and history.

There are two theories in regard to the early Christianity of Russia; according to one of them, Russia was Catholic from the times when she embraced Christianity until the twelfth century; the other holds that Russia was always Orthodox.

Russian is a Slav language belonging to the Indo-European family.

Born either at Marseilles or at Narbonnaise, Gaul; died 26 Oct., 461. According to biographers, Rusticus is the one to whom St. Jerome (about 411) addressed a letter, commending him to imitate the virtues of St. Exuperius of Toulouse and to follow the advice of Procule, then Bishop of Marseilles.

One of the proto-canonical writings of the Old Testament.

There is no separate and distinct rite for the Ruthenians, but the name is often used for the modifications which the Ruthenians have introduced in the Byzantine or Greek Rite.

A Slavic people from Southern Russia, Galicia and Bukowina in Austria, and North-eastern Hungary.

English priest and writer. (1755-1838)

Diocese in the Province of Bari, Aquileia, Southern Italy. Ruvo, the ancient Rubi, situated on a calcareous hill, contains a fine Norman cathedral of the eleventh century.

German mystic and prior of Groenendael. (1293-1381)

Astronomer, cartographer, and painter. (d. 1533)

Poet, newspaper editor and Confederate chaplain. (1839-1886)

Sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of Philadelphia. (1831-1911)

English Oratorian priest and controversialist. (1837-1907)

Founder of the Xaverian Brothers. (1797-1871)