Parliamentary orator, jurisconsult, Catholic controversialist, and Spanish litterateur. (1815-1872)

A titular metropolitan see of Syria, in the valley of the Orontes, whose episcopal list dates from the first century.

A tribe of North American Indians belonging linguistically to the Athapascan stock whose original habitat is believed to have been Northwestern Canada.

An Italian diocese, suffragan of Turin.

Born at Granada in Spain, probably 1514; died 1594.

Dominican missionary. (1510-1591)

A city of Belgium, in the archdiocese of Mechlin.

Received Holy Orders, and in 1819 became choirmaster at the cathedral, succeeding his father as organist, in 1832.

A supposed Latin Christian poet of the third century.

A Reformed Minorite. (1834-1884)

A Doctor of Medicine, founder of the Barnabites, d. 1539.

Spanish priest and missionary, founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (better known as the Claretians), d. 1870.

Archbishop of Florence, Dominican reformer, moral theologian, d. 1459.

Roman Emperor. (138-161)

Polish Jesuit and missionary. (1807-1852)

Cardinal, writer on education. (1540-1603)

Patrologist, b. at Nimeguen, in Holland, early in the sixteenth century; d. same place, in 1588.

Cardinal, learned canonist, ecclesiastical historian, and Orientalist. (1698-1767)

Cardinal. (1730-1811)

Cardinal; Secretary of State to Pius IX. (1806-1876)

A convert to the Catholic faith. (1633-1714)

French theologian. (1678-1743)

Vicariate Apostolic in Chile, dependent on the Sacred Congregation of Ecclesiastical Affairs.