Geologist and palaeontologist. (1841-1900)

Poet, born at Jersey, about 1100; died at Bayeux, 1174.

Painter, born at Stuttgart, (1762-1852)

Historian and theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1588-1657)

Mystical theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland. (1591-1644)

English friar and martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at St. Thomas Waterings in Camberwell, 8 July, 1539.

Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen.

A linguistic family inhabiting the western coast of British Columbia, and the west and northwest of Vancouver Island, as well as a small region around Cape Flattery, Washington.

German poet and theologian of the ninth century.

Patroness of Eichstadt, Oudenarde, Furnes, Antwerp, Gronigen, Weilburg, and Zutphen, and is invoked as special patroness against hydrophobia, and in storms, and also by sailors.

A former state of the German Empire.

An heretical sect which appeared in the second half of the twelfth century.

Cistercian monastery founded by Gerwich von Wolmundstein.

Learned humanist and celebrated cartographer. A canon of St-Dié in Lorraine. (1475-1522)

Auxiliary bishops of Cologne and celebrated controversial theologians, born at Rotterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Located in the western portion of Great Britain.

Cistercian abbey of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen. Founded in 1127 by Countess Adelheid of Klettenberg.

Martyr, born in Lancashire, 1620.

A Shahaptian tribe dwelling on the Walla-Walla River and the Columbia in Washington and Oregon, from Snake River to the Umatilla.

Born at Hermanic, Bohemia. (1583-1634)

Historian and statesman, born at Valenciennes. (1812-1904)

Bishop of Rama, Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, England. (1722-1797)

English Jesuit martyr, born at Docking, Norfolk. (1558-1595)

Irish poet, born at Derry in 1805; died at Cork, 6 August, 1850.

Irish-American journalist and senator. (1840-1900)

Irish Franciscan, born at Mooretown, County Kildare, about 1608; died in London, 15 March, 1688.

Publicist, diplomat, born at Baltimore, MD., 1785; died at Paris, 7 Feb., 1859.

Bishop of Cambysopolis, born in London in 1777.

Bishop of Meath, Ireland.

It stood a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk, England.

Benedictine historian, died about 1422.

Poet in the second half of the twelfth century, born at Lille; died of the plague in the beginning of the thirteenth century.

Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford.

A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelth century.

An English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, and theologian in the thirteenth century.

Jurist, born at Wetzlar. (1794-1879)

Formerly located near London.

Minnesinger and old poet, born about 1170; died in 1228.

English Biblical scholar. (1600-1661)

Benedictine monk and theological writer. (813-850)

German theologian, preacher, and author. (1595-1664)

In its juridical sense, a contention carried on by force of arms between sovereign states, or communities having in this regard the right of states.

Irish Hagiographer. (1590-1635)

The first Union naval officer to fall in the Civil War.

Martyr, born at Congleton, Cheshire; executed at Tyburn, London, 30 Aug., 1588.

Founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

English controversialist. (1652-1708)

English writer and convert. (1812-1882)

Irish-American nun. (1810-1884)

Archbishop of Canterbury. (1450-1532)

Located in Poland.

Bishop and cardinal. (1593-1661)

Owing to the general use of sandals in Eastern countries the washing of the feet was almost everywhere recognized from the earliest times as a duty of courtesy to be shown to guests.

The capital of the United States.

One of the Pacific coast states, popularly known as the "Evergreen State".

Vessels intended for the use of holy water.

Besides the holy water which is used in rites of blessing, and the water employed in the washing of feet and hands, and in the baptismal font, water has its recognized place in the ritual of every Mass.

Suffragan of Cashel.

English martyr. (d. 1594)

English naturalist and explorer. (1782-1865)

English priest. (1806-1876)

French painter. (1684-1721)

Founded by William Gifford, the first monastery of the Order of Citeaux in England.

Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa.

The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers.

English priest and martyr. (d. 1588)

The term "wealth" is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on economic subjects.

Benedictine monastery in Durham, England.

English bishop. (1814-1895)

Kentucky editor and historian. (1814-1897)

English composer. (1742-1816)

Benedictine professor, author, statesman. (1798-1859)

Physician, poet, statesman. (1813-1894)

German Church historian. (1834-1898)

Composer. (1786-1826)

English priest. (1788-1859)

The week was regarded as a sacred institution among the Jews owing to the law of the Sabbath rest and its association with the first chapter of Genesis.

Prominent English convert. (1824-1911)

Suppressed Benedictine abbey.

Bishop in Lorraine. (1796-1869)

Polemical writer. (1691-1755)

Historian. (1820-1899)

Suppressed Premonstratensian house in Würtemberg.

Littérateur, exegete, and Orientalist. (1709-1783)

English martyr. (d. 1605)

Name of a prominent English Catholic family.

New Zealand colonist. (1823-1891)

Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa.

Located in New Zealand.

It is difficult to realize the importance which a country like Palestine attaches to any source of fresh water.

English martyr. (1536-1591)

German merchant prince. (1488-1561)

The term Welsh Church covers "the British Church during the Roman period", "the British Church during the period of Saxon Conquest", and "the Church of Wales".

The British church was driven into Wales in the fifth century

Exegete, born at Ratzenried in Würtemberg. (1825-1885)

Duke, martyr, and patron of Bohemia, born probably 903; died at Alt-Bunzlau, 28 September, 935.

Abbot of Tholey.

Jesuit missionary and author. (1805-1888)

Eleventh-century German ecclesiastico-political writer.

Benedictine, patroness of Chester, Abbess of Weedon, Trentham, Hanbury, Minster in Sheppy, and Ely, born in Staffordshire early in the seventh century.(d. 700)

Suppressed Benedictine monastery.

Prussian convert, poet, and pulpit orator. (1768-1823)

A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Gröningen in 1420; died there on 4 Oct., 1489.

Vicar-General and Administrator of the Diocese of Constance. (1774-1860)

Suppressed Benedictine abbey in Bavaria.

Used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.

The state bounded by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and on Kentucky.

English organist. (1524-1583)

Located in Sweden.

This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs in all points from the Eastern Schism.

This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the precincts of the Royal Palace of Westminster.

A national expression of religious faith given by Roman Catholics to England.

Comprises the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, and London north of the Thames.

The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English chronicle, the "Flores Historiarum".

Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone.

Province of Prussia.

Cistercian abbey in Austria.

Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel. (1801-1853)

English martyr. (1536-1600)

Located in West Virginia.

American military engineer and soldier. (1818-1863)

English martyr. (1614-1646)

English martyr. (1618-1679)

Formerly called Streoneshalh. A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded about 657, as a double monastery, by Oswy, King of Northumberland.

A conference at the monastery of St. Hilda at Whitby or Streanoeshalch. King Oswy with Bishops Colman and Chad represented the Celtic tradition; Alchfrid, son of Oswy, and Bishops Wilfrid and Agilbert that of Rome.

Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria.

Missionary. (1579-1656)

American editor and historian. (1807-1878)

Grandfather of Stephen Mallory White, born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died December, 1863.

English composer. (1530-1574)

English martyr. (1560-1591) Article includes information on Saint Polydore Plasden, Venerable John Mason, and Blessed Brian Lacey.

English martyr. (1537-1584)

Irish antiquarian and polyhistor. (1574-1646)

American statesman. (1853-1901)

Several of White's opinions were censured by the Inquisition.

Founded in Scotland in the twelfth century.

Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr.

Australian nun. (1819-1892)

English Jesuit. (1817-1895)

Irish nun. (1831-1911)

Medieval Belgian Abbot. (1098-1158)

A confederacy of Caddoan stock, formerly dwelling between the Arkansas River, Kansas, and the Brazos River, Texas.

Erected in 1887, from the Diocese of Leavenworth.

Belgian Augustinian. (1596-1661)

Swiss theologian. (1779-1844)

Canonical prescriptions concerning widows in the Old Testament refer mainly to the question of remarriage.

Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility.

Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany.

Suppressed see in Lower Austria.

Member of the Order of Cistercians. (1748-1797)

Three saints of this name are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

Companion of St. Boniface, born in England about 675; died at Hersfeld about 746.

Theological writer of the eighth century.

By profession he was an architect, but subsequently devoted himself to journalism in Paris.

Third son of William Wilberforce, and younger brother of Robert Wilberforce.

Second son of William Wilberforce, and a younger brother of Samuel Wilberforce.

Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney.

English martyr. (1558-1588)

Scriptural commentator and preacher. (1495-1554)

Bishop of York, son of a Northumbrian thegn, born in 634; died at Oundle in Northamptonshire, 709.

The legend makes her a Christian daughter of a pagan King of Portugal.

Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century.

Duke of Bavaria. (1548-1626)

Situated on the right bank of the Danube, in the Diocese of Linz, Austria.

This article discusses will in its psychological aspect.

Roman law allowed clerics to dispose of their property by will or otherwise.

The question of free will, moral liberty, or the liberum arbitrium of the Schoolmen, ranks amongst the three or four most important philosophical problems of all time.

Composer. (1480-1562)

Bishop at Bremen. (745-789)

Philologist. (1840-1898)

Abbot of Saint-Bénigne on Dijon. (962-1031)

English martyr. (1548-1584)

Carthusian monk and martyr. (d. 1535)

English martyr. (d. 1582)

English priest. (1558-1583)

Sixteenth-century English priest.

Bishop of Paris, medieval philosopher and theologian. (d. 1249)

Thirteenth-century theologian.

Scholastic, philosopher and theologian. (1070-1121)

Scholastic philosopher and theologian. (b. 1100)

Fourteenth-century French poet.

Also called William of Paris or William of the Paraclete. Twelfth-century canon.

Second Count of Toulouse. (755-812)

Benedictine historian. (d. 1090)

Also known as St. William the Great. Hermit, d. 1157.

Benedictine monk at Malmesbury Abbey.

Scholar, Orientalist, philosopher. (1215-1286)

Medieval chronicler. (d. 1300)

English historian. (1136-1198)

Born 1132; died 22 March, 1144.

Biographical article on the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher.

Abbot of Eskill in Denmark.

English martyr. (d. 1201)

Norman historian, born of a noted family, at Préaux near Pont Audemer, Normandy, about 1020.

A monk of Crowland Abbey.

A twelfth-century French architect, supposed to have been born at Sens.

An English religious writer of the Anglo-Norman period, born at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, in the latter half of the twelfth century.

Thirteenth-century theologian and controversialist. (d. 1273)

Theologian and mystic. (1085-1148)

Bishop of Norwich. (1095-1174)

Archbishop of Tyre and historian. (1130-1190)

Founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine. (1085-1142)

William de Warre, Guard, Guaro, Varro or Varron.

English bishop and chancellor. (d. 1486)

Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. (1324-1404)

Thirteenth-century French writer and preacher.

French poet of the thirteenth century.

King of England and Duke of Normandy.

Medieval abbot. (d. 1089)

English martyr. (1560-1641)

For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Marmoutiers. (d. 1124)

Abbot of Hirschau. (d. 1091)

Twelfth-century Archbishop of York.

Bishop of St-Brieuc. (1180-1234)

Name of two minor religious orders.

Members of the Order of St. Benedict.

Bishop of Utrecht, Apostle of the Frisians, and son of St. Hilgis, born in Northumbria. (658-739)

Archbishop of Mainz. (d. 1011)

Scripture scholar. (d. 1085)

Professor of philosophy and theology. (1817-1899)

Located in Delaware, U.S.A.

Benedictine convent near Salisbury, England.

English Trinitarian scholar. (d. 1239)

Monastery in Dorsetshire, England.

Bavarian archabbot. (1809-1887)

Humanist and theologian. (1450-1528)

Theologian. (1465-1531)

This diocese came into existence in 635 when the great missionary Diocese of Dorchester, founded by St. Birinus in 634 for the Kingdom of Wessex, was subdivided into the Sees of Sherborne and Winchester.

Archaeologist and historian of ancient art. (1717-1768)

Augustinian monastery in Holland.

In 1206 one of the (supposed) Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to Besançon by Otto de La Roche, and the feast of its arrival (Susceptio) was ordered to be kept on 11 July.

Orientalist and exegete. (1811-1861)

Philosopher. (1775-1839)

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

Christian houses of worship required the admission of much light by large openings in the walls, that is, by windows.

A town on the Thames, in Berkshire, England; rendered Ventus Morbidus in some medieval documents, the name being really from the Saxon Windels-or, "winding shore".

German statesman. (1812-1891)

Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid and licit consecration vinum de vite, i.e. the pure juice of the grape naturally and properly fermented, is to be used.

Pianist, organist, composer and teacher. (1846-1893)

A Siouan tribe closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more remotely to the Dakota and Ponca.

Abbot of Wormhoult. (d. 716)

Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, in southern Minnesota.

Physician and anatomist. (1669-1760)

Fifth-century Abbot of Landevennec.

Benedictine abbot and controversial writer. (1518-1592)

Eleventh-century priest and biographer.

Twelfth-century satirist.

Theologian, born at Frankfort about 1460; died at Steyer, 30 June, 1519.

Known as the "Badger State", admitted to the Union on 29 May, 1848, the seventeenth state admitted, after the original thirteen.

One of the deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament, placed in the Vulgate between the Canticle of Canticles and Ecclesiasticus.

Founded at Poitiers by Blessed Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in 1703.

The "wise men from the East" who came to adore Jesus in Bethlehem (Matthew 2).

Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. (1802-1865)

As commonly understood, involves the idea of a diabolical pact or at least an appeal to the intervention of the spirits of evil.

One who is present, bears testimony, furnishes evidence or proof.

Composer and reformer of church music. (1834-1888)

City and University.

Bishop-elect of Ratisbon. (1760-1833)

Catholic journalist. (1818-1883)

Hessian theologian. (1501-1573)

The historical origin of this diocese is not known precisely.

Philip, Edmund, and August.

American editor. (1822-1894)

Bishop of Ratisbon. (934-994)

Middle-High-German epic poet. (d. 1216)

Painter and engraver. (1434-1519)

Polish economist. (1810-1876)

Cardinal Archbishop of York. (1471-1530)

Benedictine, and Bishop of Worcester. (1008-1095)

The position of woman in society has given rise to a discussion which, is known under the name of the "woman question".

Priest and confessor. (1499-1588)

Discusses the branch of wood-carving dealing with artistic objects, belonging either to plastic (as statues, crucifixes, and similar carvings), or to industrial art (as arabesques and rosettes), and which serve mainly for the ornamentation of cabinet work.

English Franciscan martyr. (1603-1646)

English writer. (1609-1678)

Martyr who suffered at Tyburn 19 June, 1573.

Priest and scientist. (1832-1889)

Located in England, created in 680 when, at the Synod of Hatfield under St. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, the great Mercian diocese was divided into five sees.

Canonists give many rules for the exact acceptation of words, in order that decrees may be correctly understood and the extent of their obligation determined.

Various attempts have been made to establish the age of the world.

Absinthe, known for its repulsive bitterness.

In its most general sense, homage paid to a person or a thing.

English Jesuit. (1605-1676)

Third President of Douai College. (1549-1627)

The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of St. Bernard and St. Francis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, together with the enthusiasm of the Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, increased devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ and particularly to practices in honour of the Wounds in His Sacred Hands, Feet, and Side.

Historian. (1802-1872)

English martyr. (1603-1651)

A professor of philosophy at Gratz and Vienna and chaplain to the Gages at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. (1562-1639)

Botanist. (1728-1805)

Bishop of Sens. (d. 704)

Situated between Bavaria and Baden.

Abbey of the Holy Redeemer, St. Andrew's Abbey, St. Stephen's Abbey, and St. James's Abbey.

Located in Bavaria; suffragan of Bamberg.

John I of Egloffstein (1400-1411), Bishop of Wurzburg, obtained from Pope Boniface IX a charter, dated 10 December, 1492, for the university.

French Cistercian. (1839-1904)

Writer and "reformer". (1324-1384)

Scottish chronicler.

Forty-fourth state, derives its name from the Delaware Indian word "Maughwauwama", signifying mountains with large plains between.