Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Yucatán.

American poet and educator. (1845-1909)

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

Vessel holding the Blessed Sacrament.

Old Testament precursor to the Temple.

In the Old Testament God commanded that a lamp filled with the purest oil of olives should always burn in the Tabernacle of the Testimony without the veil.

The Association of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and of work for poor churches was founded at Brussels in 1848 by Anne de Meeûs.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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

Distinguished among the mountains of Palestine for its picturesque site, its graceful outline, the remarkable vegetation which covers its sides of calcareous rock, and the splendour of the view from its summit.

Titular see in Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.

The collective designation for a group of tribes constituting the Tacanan linguistic stock in different dialects, occupying the upper valleys of the Beni and Madre de Dios Rivers, on the eastern slope of the Andes, Department of Beni, north-western Bolivia.

Titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa.

First Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, missionary, prelate, statesman, and writer of Western Canada. (1823-1894)

Statesman, b. at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Geneviève Michon; d. 30 July, 1865.

A titular see in Mauretania Cæsariensis.

A titular see in Greece, suffragan of Corinth.

A Muskhogean tribe living when first known on the west bank of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Tensas parish, Louisiana.

Located in the Society Islands, has an area of 600 square miles.

Born at Siena, Italy, 29 May, 1769; died at Rome, 9 June, 1837.

A collective term for those members of the Cowichan tribe, occupying the Lower Fraser River, Yale District, British Columbia (Canada), between Nicomen and Yale.

The hybrid name by which the Carrier Indians of the northern interior of British Columbia were originally made known by the fur traders.

Fourth son of George Talbot and brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Chiefly known for having been the last priest to be indicted in the public courts for saying Mass. (1726-1790)

English Catholic layman.

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

Brother of the fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, and of Bishop James Talbot.

Situated in the barony of Uppercross.

Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, French minister and ambassador. (1754-1838)

English composer. (1514-1585)

A post-Biblical substantive formation of Pi'el ("to teach"), and originally signified "doctrine" or "study".

First intendant in exercise of New France.

French Jesuit, historian, and ascetical writer. (1605-1691)

A French-Canadian explorer, born at Quebec, 1676.

A tribe of Cariban linguistic stock occupying the territory about the Cuchivero River, a tributary of the lower Orinoco, Venezuela.

A titular see in Cyprus, suffragan of Salamis.

Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Linares.

Fourteenth General of the Society of Jesus. (1648-1730)

Moral theologian. (1591-1675)

The first word of Chapter 1, Session 24, of the Council of Trent.

Initiator of international Eucharistic congresses, born at Tours, 1 Nov., 1834; died there 20 June, 1910.

A titular see in Hellas, suffragan of Corinth.

Prince of Antioch, born about 1072; died at Antioch, 12 Dec., 1112.

Fifth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Genealogist, born at Quebec, 1819; died 1902.

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

Controversialist, born at Innsbruck in 1571; died at Unken, 25 May, 1632.

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

Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, 1574-1579; born about 1526; died 1579.

Taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and Scripture, was made rector of the imperial university, and guided for six years the Bohemian province of his order.

The opening words of the penultimate stanza of the Vesper hymn of Corpus Christi.

Marchese, Italian statesman, born at Stia in Tuscany, of poor family, in 1698 died at Naples, 29 April, 1793.

Religion derived from the philosophical doctrines of Lao-tze.

Town of the Pueblo group, inhabited by Indians speaking the Tigua language of Shoshonean linguistic stock.

Philosopher and writer on sociological subjects. (1793-1862)

A fabric in which the two processes of weaving and embroidering are combined.

Entered the Franciscan Order at Gerona, 27 Jan., 1778, and joined the missionary College of San Fernando, Mexico, in 1786.

Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652.

Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution. (c. 304)

Diocese in southern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Taranto.

Situated in Chile, bounded on the north by the canon of the Camarones and on the south by the Loa River.

Patriarch of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; died 25 February, 806.

The Diocese of Tarazona comprises the Spanish provinces of Saragossa, Soria, Navarre, and Logroño.

The Diocese of Tarbes comprises the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees (ancient territory of Bigorre).

Comprises the arrondissement of Moutiers in the Department of Savoie; it is also sometimes called the Diocese of Moutiers en Tarentaise, and is suffragan of Chambéry.

The distinctive designation of the Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament.

Master-mason to the king, b. about 1442; d. in August, 1510.

Eighth-century Scottish bishop.

Diocese in western Galicia, Austria.

Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist. (1810-1874)

Its suffragans are Barcelona, Lérida, Gerona, Urgel, Vich, Tortosa, and Solsona.

Roman martyr.

A metropolitan see of Cilicia Prima.

Italian mathematician. (1500-1557)

Violinist, composer, and theorist. (1692-1770)

Archbishop of Quebec and first Canadian cardinal. (1820-1898)

Irish saint, born in the first decade of the fifth century; died about 497.

Writer and journalist. (1848-1895)

French historian, belonging to the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Maur. (1697-1777)

Italian poet. (1544-1595)

Italian poet. (1565-1635)

A second-century apologist about whose antecedents and early history nothing can be affirmed with certainty except that he was born in Assyria and that he was trained in Greek philosophy.

Archbishop of Canterbury; died 30 July, 734.

Diocese in Brazil, South America, established on 29 April, 1908, as a suffragan of Sãn Paulo.

German Dominican, mystic and preacher. (1300-1361)

Writer, born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, 17 Oct., 1857; died in London, 9 May, 1907.

English composer. (1475-1535)

Located on the Tavy River in Devonshire, England, founded for Benedictine monks in 961.

A titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan of Ancyra.

A Decree issued by Innocent XI, 1 Oct., 1678, regulating the fees that may be demanded or accepted by episcopal chancery offices for various acts, instruments, or writings.

Sometimes erroneously called Taxter or Taxston. A thirteenth-century chronicler, of whose life nothing is known except that he was professed as a Benedictine at Bury St. Edmund's 20 Nov., 1244.

Superior General, and foundress of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. (1832-1900)

English martyr. (d. 1585)

An abbreviated title commonly given a hymn in rhythmical prose, of which the opening words, Te Deum Laudamus, formed its earliest known title.

The hymn at Compline in the Roman Breviary.

Italian poet, born at Ferrara, in 1463; died. in 1537.

Benedictine abbey of Bavaria.

Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Oaxaca.

Archbishop of Llandaff, born at Eccluis Gunniau, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire; died at Llandilo Vawr, Carmarthenshire, probably in or before 560.

An Indian virgin of the Mohawk tribe, known as the "Lily of the Mohawks", and the "Genevieve of New France".

From Greek telos, end, and logos, science.

A term introduced by F.W.H. Myers in 1882 to denote "the ability of one mind to impress or to be impressed by another mind otherwise than through the recognized channels of sense".

A small town in the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy.

Italian humanist and philosopher born of a noble family at Cosenza, near Naples, 1508; died there, 1588.

A name assumed by one of the pseudo-prophets during the time of the Great Schism.

Reigned about 125-136.

A collection of some 350 clay tablets found in 1887 amid the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton.

Spanish priest and poet, better known by his pseudonym of Tirso de Molina. (1571-1648)

Commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin to organize the royal army.

Titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

The Vicariate Apostolic of Temiskaming, suffragan of Ottawa, Canada.

A titular see in Asia, a suffragan of Ephesus.

German astronomer. (1821-1889)

One of the four cardinal virtues.

Covers the history in Europe, the United States, and Canada.

The earliest founders of the military orders.

The Latin form, templum, from which the English temple is derived, originally signified an uncovered area marked off by boundaries; especially the place marked off by the augurs to be excepted from all profane uses.

In the Bible the sanctuary of Jerusalem bears the Hebrew name of Bet Yehovah (house of Jehovah).

Established in London for educational purposes at the time of the Crusades.

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

Christ endured temptation only from without, inasmuch as His human nature was free from all concupiscence.

The fundamental obligations of religion and morality and embodying the revealed expression of the Creator's will in relation to man's whole duty to God and to his fellow-creatures.

On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

French statesman and cardinal. (1680-1758)

The triangular candlestick used in the Tenebrae service.

The name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week.

A titular see, suffragan of Rhodes in the Cyclades.

Suffragan of Seville, formerly called Nivariensis from Nivaria, the ancient name of the island.

The name of two eminent Flemish landscape painters; the elder, born at Antwerp in 1582; died there in 1649; the younger; born at Antwerp in 1610; died at Brussels in 1694.

Includes geography, history, and demographics.

An author, editor, born at Newport, Rhode Island, 1814; died at Newark, New Jersey, 20 Sept., 1883.

Seat of a titular suffragan see of Ptolemais in Thebaid Secunda.

System of feudal tenure was not always restricted to lands, as church revenues and tithes were often farmed out to secular persons as a species of ecclesiastical fief.

Titular see; suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor.

A diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Guadalajara.

A Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia.

Diocese in southern Italy.

The origin of Terce, like that of Sext and None, to which it bears a close relationship, dates back to Apostolic times.

Titular see, suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima.

Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, born at Avila, Old Castile. (1515-1582)

Carmelite of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus. (1873-1897)

Guillotined at the Place du Trône Renversé (now called Place de la Nation), Paris, 17 July, 1794.

English theologian. (1623-1676)

A titular see, suffragan of Perge in Pamphylia Secunda.

Located on the Italian coast of the Adriatic, having a small harbour near the mouth of the Petraglione.

Bishop of the Picts, flourished in the sixth century.

Located in the Province of Rome.

A French preacher, born at Lyons in 1669; died at Paris, 25 April, 1723.

The name popularly given in Christian tradition to the scriptural Garden of Eden.

Dogmatic theologian. (1832-1903)

Known as "Third Orders", those persons who live according to the Third Rule of religious orders, either outside of a monastery in the world, or in a religious community.

Ecclesiastical writer in the second and third centuries.

A suffragan of Saragossa.

The terms of the oath required the affiant to deny, not only that he had ever been in armed hostility to the United States, or to the lawful authorities thereof, but that he had ever "by act or word", manifested his adherence to the cause of the enemies of the United States.

Jesus Christ uses the words "new testament" as meaning the alliance established by Himself between God and the world, and this is called "new" as opposed to that of which Moses was the mediator.

The Apostle St. Paul declares himself (II Cor., iii, 6) a minister "of the new testament", and calls (iii, 14) the covenant entered into on Mount Sinai "the old testament".

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

First public antagonist of Luther. (1465-1519)

A titular see in Libyan Pentapolis.

A medieval military order modeled on the Hospitallers of St. John.

A Welsh saint, son of King Ceithfalt of Morganwg or Southern Wales, flourished probably in the sixth century.

Includes geography, history, demographic, and government information.

The object of textual criticism is to restore as nearly as possible the original text of a work the autograph of which has been lost.

A titular see of Numidia near the sea, between the Armua and the Tusca.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

A titular see in Numidia.

Titular see in Numidia, mentioned by the "Rabula Peutingeriana", which calls it Thacora.

A penitent in Egypt in the fourth century.

Musical composer and pianist. (1812-1871)

German theologian. (1825-1891)

Historian. (d. 1022)

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

The custom originated in 1621, when Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony appointed a day for public praise and prayer after the first harvest.

Titular see in Macedonia.

A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica.

Titular see in Thessaly.

New England convert and priest. (1755-1815)

A religious order of men, founded by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa, afterwards Pope Paul IV.

All forms of the drama were banned by the Fathers of both East and West indiscriminately and in terms of the severest reprobation.

The valley of the Nile, under Roman domination, was divided into four provinces: Lower and Upper Egypt, Lower and Upper Thebaid.

Jesuit educator and publicist. (1807-1885)

Titular see of Thebais Secunda, suffragan of Ptolemais, and the seat of a Coptic Catholic diocese.

A metropolitan titular see of Achaia Secunda.

Benedictine Abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt; date of birth unknown; d. at Kitzingen about 790 or later.

The reputed pupil of the Apostle Paul, who is the heroine of the apocryphal "Acta Pauli et Theclae".

The secret taking of another's property against the reasonable will of that other.

Chronicler, died about 850. Assistant Bishop of Trier and friend of Walafrid Strabo.

Theologian and historian. (1804-1874)

A titular see in Byzacene.

A titular see, suffragan of Amasea in the Hellespont.

A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.

Chemist. (1777-1857)

A titular suffragan see of Pelusium in Augustamnica Prima.

Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 1161)

French priest. (1017-1066)

A form of civil government in which God Himself is recognized as the head.

Archbishop of Narbonne, born at Montauban about 840; died at the same place 1 May, 893.

Term was introduced into philosophy by Leibniz.

Reigned from 642 to 649.

Son of Photius.

Martyrdom seems to have taken place 17 Feb., 306, under the Emperors Galerius Maximian and Maximin, for on this day the Menologies give his feast.

A fifteenth-century Greek Humanist and translator of Aristotle.

A zealous champion of the veneration of images and the last geat representative of the unity and independence of the Church in the East.

Seventh Archbishop of Canterbury. (602-690)

Bishop in Cilicia and ecclesiastical writer.

Bishop of Cyrus and theologian, born at Antioch in Syria about 393; died about 457.

A Platonist philosopher of the twelfth century.

King of the Ostrogoths.

Brothers, natives of Jerusalem. Championed the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy in the East.

A lector attached to the Church of St. Sophia of Constantinople in the early part of the sixth century.

A titular metropolitan see of Thracia Prima.

Born at Münster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May, 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 Feb., 1865.

Roman Emperor (also known as Flavius Theodosius), born in Spain, about 346; died at Milan, 17 January, 395.

Patron of innkeepers.

Bishop of Orléans, a writer skilled in poetic forms and a learned theologian, born in Spain about 760; died at Angers, France, 18 December, 821.

Christology is that part of theology which deals with Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Briefly defined as the scientific exposition of Christian asceticism.

That part of theology which treats of the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and His works.

Detailed article broken into time periods.

Limited to those doctrines which discuss the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end, and propose the means instituted by God for the attainment of that end.

Addresses acts and experiences or states of the soul which cannot be produced by human effort or industry even with the ordinary aid of divine grace.

The science of the care of souls.

Bishop of Alexandria from about 283 to 301.

French missionary, born at St-Loup, Diocese of Poitiers; martyred in Tonkin, 2 February, 1861. (1829-1861)

Twelfth-century archbishop and writer.

Chronicler. (758-817)

A deistic sect formed in France during the latter part of the French Revolution.

Patriarch of Alexandria. (385-412)

Second-century Bishop of Antioch.

A term used in general to designate the knowledge of God supposed to be obtained by the direct intuition of the Divine essence.

Spanish artist. Born in Crete, between 1545 and 1550; died at Toledo, 7 April, 1614.

Diocese in the Cyclades.

A titular see in Cappadocia Prima, suffragan of Caesarea.

A titular see and suffragan of Athens in Achaia Prima.

Two of the canonical Epistles of St. Paul.

Titular metropolis in Macedonia.

Titular see of Numidia.

Titular see in Byzacena.

Thibaut IV, count of Champagne and King of Navarre, and French poet. (1201-1253)

A philosopher and physician of the Middle Ages, and a member of the Order of Saint Dominic.

French statesman and historian, first president of the Third French Republic. (1797-1877)

A titular see in Numidia.

Dutch poet of the nineteenth century.

President of the Association Tijd en Vlijt and of Constantius Buter, also a member of the Flemish Academy, and for a time, its president.

Missionary priest. (1614-1672)

Lay members of religious orders, i.e. men and women who do not necessarily live in community and yet can claim to wear the habit and participate in the good works of some great order.

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Though pre-eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe.

A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.

Discalced Carmelite, writer on mystical theology. (1564-1627)

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

Biography of the priest and martyr, chaplain to Catherine of Aragon.

Priest, born at Gloucestershire; martyred at Tyburn, 6 July, 1585.

Philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church (Angelicus Doctor), patron of Catholic universities, colleges, and schools.

Martyred at York, 11 March, l6l6.

Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury.

A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII.

An ancient body of Christians on the east and west coasts of India, claiming spiritual descent from the Apostle St. Thomas.

Martyr, born 1549, in Lancashire; executed at Tyburn, 30 May, 1582.

Born in Devonshire; died at Tyburn, 28 May, 1582.

Protomartyr of St. Omer and therefore of Stonyhurst College. (1575-1608)

Carthusian martyr, died in Newgate gaol, London, 20 September, 1537.

Saint, knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, born in London, 7 February, 1477-78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535.

Bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Beckington, Somerset, about 1390; died at Wells, 14 January, 1465.

Theologian known as the Doctor Profundus.

Medieval writer, preacher, and theologian. (1201-1272)

Franciscan poet and writer. (1200-1255)

Martyr. (d. 1295)

Bishop of Hereford. (1218-1282)

Reformer and preacher. (1529-1582)

English theologian and cardinal. (d. 1310)

A fourteenth-century scholastic of the Augustinian Order.

Educator, philanthropist, born at Fuentellana, Spain, 1488; died at Valencia, 8 September, 1555.

Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572.

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Martyr, born in London, 1551; died at Tyburn, London, 7 February, 1578.

The principal document concerning him is the "Acta Thomae", variations both in Greek and in Syriac, and bearing signs of its Gnostic origin.

Martyr. Born at Heworth Hall, near York, in 1635; suffered at York, 23 Oct., 1680.

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Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573.

French composer. (1811-1896)

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

Also known as Knife Indians.

English converts.

Poet. (1859-1907)

Jurist and first Catholic Premier of Canada. (1844-1894)

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

Icelandic bishop. (1237-1297)

For some three centuries the seat of Saxon hermits, or of anchorites living in community, before it was refounded in 972 for Benedictine monks by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, with the aid of King Edgar.

Mentioned by three Evangelists and is often alluded to by the early Christian Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others, but there are comparatively few writers of the first six centuries who speak of it as a relic known to be still in existence.

First instituted at Paris in 1239.

Priest and martyr, born in Yorkshire; suffered at York, 15 May, 1591.

French historian. (1553-1617)

Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou. (1528-1598)

(1) the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia; (2) certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrus; (3) the letter of Ibas to Maris.

Formed from the Archdiocese of Quebec, to which it is suffragan.

The seat the bishop uses when not engaged at the altar.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

Titular see of Numidia.

Austrian statesman, born at Linz, 31 March, 1736; died at Vienna, 28 May, 1818.

English martyr, born at Up Holland, Lancashire, probably about 1568; suffered at Lancaster, 18 March, 1615 or 1616.

Austrian statesman. (1811-1888)

The story of an expedition against the Quadi led by Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

A titular suffragan see of Sardes in Lydia.

A titular see, suffragan of Nicomedia, in Bithynia Prima.

German Jesuit. (1532-1591)

A titular see in Africa Byzacena.

The papal crown, ornamented with precious stones and pearls, which is shaped like a bee-hive, has a small cross at its highest point.

Known also as Pellegrino da Bologna and as Pellegrino Pellegrini, decorator, mural painter, and architect. 1527-1592)

Titular see, suffragan of Scythopolis, in Palaestina Secunda.

So called in John 21:1 (cf. 6:1), otherwise known as "the sea of Galilee".

Titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana.

The second Roman emperor.

Includes information on geography, history, and missions.

Roman martyrs, feast 11 August.

Titular see, suffragan of Cyrene, in the Libya Pentapolis.

Martyr, born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire; suffered at Tyburn, London, 24 Aug., 1601.

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

An African Donatist writer of the fourth century who appears to have had some influence on St. Augustine.

A tribe along the north bank of the upper Amazon.

Jesuit missionary and noted geographer in Hindustan. 1710-1785)

Article on Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

Wrote "The History and Antiquities of the Castle of Arundel" (London, 1834) and several controversial pamphlets. Also acted as editor of the "Dublin Review", succeeding Quin, the first editor.

Sister of St. Patrick.

French historian and priest. (1637-1698)

Born at Brabant in 1559; died at Ingolstadt in April, 1632.

A titular see in Pisidia, suffragan of Antioch.

Article explores two questions, What are the notes, or elements, contained in the subjective representation of time? and To what external reality does this representation correspond?

Martyrs whose feast is observed on 22 August.

Disciples of St. Paul.

A principal group or confederacy of ancient Florida.

Novelist. (1833-1907)

A titular see of Mauretania Tingitana (the official list of the Roman Curia places it in Mauretania Caesarea).

Located in Dalmatia; suffragan to Kalocsa-Bacs.

A Latin diocese of the Cyclades.

In Monmouthshire, England, founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare for Cistercian monks.

Italian painter, b. at Venice, 1518; d. there 1594.

A titular see of Numidia.

Italian scholar. (1731-1794)

Diocese in Southern Russia suffragan of Mohilev.

An Italian painter of the Ferrarese school. (1481-1559)

French draughtsman and painter. (1836-1902)

The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, alotted to the clergy for their support or devoted to religious or charitable uses.

Ecclesiastical tithes, which in the course of time became alienated from the Church to lay proprietors.

Venetian painter, died at Venice, 27 Aug., 1577.

Titular see, suffragan of Seleucia Trachaea in Isauria.

In pagan times titulus signified an inscription on stone, and later the stone which marked the confines of property.

Roman Emperor 79-81.

Born about 362-371.

Titular see, suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honorias.

Diocese in the Province of Rome.

A former diocese of the colony of New Spain.

A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

Priest and physicist. (1719-1797)

Tribe of the great Chaco wilderness of South America.

Name of various persons and a book in the Bible.

Writer and statesman. (1805-1859)

Diocese in Central Italy; immediately dependent on the Holy See.

Archdiocese comprising 21 provinces or 15 departments.

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

Primatial see of Spain, whose archbishop, raised almost always to the dignity of cardinal, occupies the first place in the ranks of the higher Spanish clergy.

Philosopher, theologian, and exegete, son of an actuary. (1532-1596)

Located in the Marches, Central Italy.

Explores the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration.

The magnanimous indulgence one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a "false faith".

Jesuit theologian and cardinal. (1653-1726)

A memorial for the dead at the place of burial, customary, especially for distinguished persons.

Explores the question where Mary died and was buried, either Jerusalem or Ephesus.

A tomb, or monument, over a grave, oblong in form, which is covered with a slab or table, having the appearance of an altar.

A titular metropolitan see in the Province of Scythia, on the Black Sea.

Founded in 1128 near Antwerp, Belgium.

Italian philosopher. (1820-1865)

A supernatural gift of the class gratiae gratis datae, designed to aid in the outer development of the primitive Church.

A small tribe living, when first known to the French, in small villages on the lower Yazoo River, Mississippi.

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

A sacred rite instituted by the Church by which a baptized and confirmed Christian is received into the clerical order.

Historian commonly known as Charles Dodd. Died 1743.

Signifies first "direction, instruction", as, for instance, the instruction of parents, or of the wise.

Veronese painter and engraver.

Archbishop of Lima. (1538-1606)

Italian Jesuit, preacher and writer. (1693-1752)

A titular see in Macedonia, suffragan of Thessalonica.

Located in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Grand Inquisitor of Spain. (1420-1498)

Spanish poet and dramatist, born at Torres, near Badajoz, towards the end of the fifteenth century.

Hellenist and polemicist. (1509-1584)

Italian mathematician and physicist, born at Faenza, 15 October, 1608; died at Florence, 25 October, 1647.

A linguist, scientist, collector of fossils and of books, writer on historical, political, and religious subjects. Born towards the end of the seventeenth century at Granada, Spain; died in 1768.

Diocese in Piedmont, Italy.

Located in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona.

The city of Viterbo in the Province of Rome stands at the foot of Monte Cimino, in Central Italy.

Mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. (1397-1482)

Hebrew, addition, supplement.

Exegete, born at Madrigal, Castile, about 1400; died at Bonilla de la Sierra, near Avila, 3 Sept., 1455.

Benedictine historian. (1811-1897)

Constitutes the group of superstitions and customs of which the totem is the center.

One of the smaller cultured nations of ancient Mexico, occupying at the time of the Spanish conquest the coast province of Totonicapan.

Born at Stalbridge, Dorset; died about 1689.

Includes the Department of Haute-Garonne.

Diocese in Belgium.

French botanist. (1656-1708)

Theologian. (1658-1729)

Papal legate to India and China, cardinal, born of a noble Savoyard family at Turin, 21 December, 1668; died in confinement at Macao, 8 June, 1710.

Dominican biographer and historian. (1686-1775)

Archdiocese in France.

French Benedictine, and member of the Congregation of St-Maur. (1700-1754)

French Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1677-1718)

Information on the history, site, and construction of the tower.

Viceroy of New France, born in France, 1603, of noble parents; died there in 1670.

The word tradition refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission.

A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude.

In general the doctrine that, in the process of generation, the human spiritual soul is transmitted to the offspring by the parents.

Emperor of Rome (A.D. 98-117), b. at Italica Spain, 18 September, 53; d. 7 August, 117.

Titular metropolitan see of Rhodope.

A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.

A titular see, suffragan of Ephesus in Asia Minor.

Diocese in Italy.

The terms transcendent and transcendental have antithetical reference to experience or the empirical order.

A rectangular space inserted between the apse and nave in the early Christian basilica.

Culminating point of Christ's public life, as His Baptism is its starting point, and His Ascension its end.

Observed on August 6 to commemorate the manifestation of the Divine glory recorded by St. Matthew (Chapter 17).

Vicariate apostolic. Portion of south Africa.

Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa Bács.

Diocese in Sicily, suffragan of Palermo.

A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan to Laodicea.

The Cistercians who follow the reform inaugurated by the Abbot de Rancé (b. 1626; d. 1700) in the Abbey of La Trappe, and often now applied to the entire Order of Reformed Cistercians.

Aunts of St. Gregory the Great, virgins in the sixth century.

A common misrepresentation concerning the Elizabethan persecution of English and Irish Catholics from 1570 onwards is the statement that the victims devoted to imprisonment, torture, and death suffered not for their religious belief but for treason against the queen and her government.

An Armenian Catholic diocese.

A former abbey of Cistercian nuns, situated north of Breslau in Silesia.

Abbess of the Convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion.

Confessor, born in Cornwall, 1548; died at Lisbon, 25 Sept., 1608.

Titular see, suffragan of Salamis in Cyprus.

Diocese; suffragan of Salzburg.

Main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants.

Diocese created 15 July, 1881, suffragan of New York.

Knight Bachelor (in or before 1524), Grand Prior of England in the Order of Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy).

The earlier Hebrew term rendered in English versions by the word "tribe" is shebet, while the term matteh, prevails in the post-exilic writings.

Located in the Province of Potenza in the Basilicata (Southern Italy), near the River Perrola.

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

Titular see, suffragan of Larissa in Thessaly.

Located in India, suffragan of Bombay.

Vicariate Apostolic in India, one of the three vicariates of the Syro-Malabar Rite.

Titular see, suffragan of Caesarea in Palaestina Prima.

Three days. Frequently chosen for prayer or for other devout practices.

Diocese; suffragan of Cologne.

Astronomer. (1745-1817)

Suffragan diocese of Görz-Gradiska.

Located in Ceylon, suffragan of Colombo.

Located in the Province of Salerno.

Towards the end of the twelfth century the order had 250 houses throughout Christendom, where its benevolent work was manifested by the return of liberated captives.

An institution for the higher education of Catholic women, located at Washington, D.C.

The first Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honour the Most Holy Trinity.

The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one from another.

A name given along with several others to a church ornament used only in the office of Holy Saturday.

A Maronite and Melchite diocese, in Syria.

Italian poet and scholar. (1478-1550)

Heretics who divide the Substance of the Blessed Trinity.

Scholar and Benedictine abbot. (1462-1516)

Diocese in southern Italy.

Author of a large number of theological and historical works and commentaries on the classics, more especially the works of Seneca.

A suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespont.

Titular see of Galatia Secunda, suffragan of Pessinus.

A Benedictine monk of St. Albans and monastic chronicler still living in 1330, but the dates of whose birth and death are unknown.

In 997 Olaf Trygvesson founded at the mouth of the River Nid the city of Nidaros, afterwards called Trondhjem.

A collective name which, since about the close of the Middle Ages or a little later, has been applied to texts of great variety (in both poetry and prose) written for the purpose of amplifying and embellishing an independently complete liturgical text.

The theory and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of Holy Writ.

Archbishop of Dublin. (1739-1823)

Diocese comprising the Department of Aube.

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

Cardinal-Bishop of Augsburg. (1514-1573)

Apostle of Hasbein in Brabant. (d. 698)

Seventh-century missionary in Germany.

Spanish poet and folklorist. (1821-1889)

Diocese comprising the Departments of Lambayeque, Libertad, Pinra, and the Province of Tumbes, in North-west Peru, formed by Gregory XIII.

Held in 692 under Justinian II.

The first day of Tishri (October), the seventh month of the Hebrew year.

Consecrated by St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a missionary bishop among the Picts, and was consequently regarded later as the first Bishop of Whithorn, in Galloway.

In the exercise of inherent rights of administering property, the Church often appoints deputies.

Defined as the right enforceable solely in equity to the beneficial enjoyment of property of which the legal title is in another.

Defines ontological, logical, and moral truth.

Covers their establishment in various countries.

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

Bishop of Trent. (1777-1860)

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

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.

Founded by St. Jarlath, it rivalled Clonmacnoise as a center of Celtic art in the eleventh century.

Located in Würtemberg; founded by Count Eberhard im Bart on 3 July, 1477.

A titular see in Mauretania Caesariensis.

Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

Suffragan to Buenos Aires, erected from the Diocese of Salta on 15 February, 1897.

Diocese in Spain.

Diocese in the Philippines.

Diocese in the Mexican Republic, suffragan of Mexico.

Botanist. (1815-1885)

Diocese comprising the Department of Corrèze.

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.

French protectorate on the northern coast of Africa.

Diocese established in 1880 as a suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of Colombia, South America.

A Protestant sect thus named from its distinctive baptismal rite.

Bishop of London, later of Durham. (1474-1559)

Martyred at Norwich, 13 July, 1616.

English Minorite. (d. 1369)

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

The chief town of a civil province in Piedmont and was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

This name given to a relic now preserved at Turin, for which the claim is made that it is the actual "clean linen cloth" in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus Christ.

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

Details of Chinese Turkestan and Russian Turkestan.

Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, from the caliphate of Baghdad and independent Turkish principalities.

Philologist. (1512-1565)

Archbishop of Reims.

A division of central Italy, includes the provinces of Arezzo, Florence, Grosseto, Livorno, Massa and Carrara, Pisa, and Siena.

Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Santiago.

English saint. (1319-1379)

English abbot. (d. 975)

Titular see of Cappadocia Prima.

Disciple and companion of St. Paul.

Located on the east coast of Northumberland, England, occupied the site of an earlier Saxon church built first in wood, then in stone, in the seventh century, and famous as the burial-place of St. Oswin, king and martyr.

Offers several definitions.

The killing of a tyrant, and usually is taken to mean the killing of a tyrant by a private person for the common good.

Melchite archdiocese and Maronite diocese.

Scottish theologian. (1543-1597)