Diocese; suffragan of Valladolid in Spain.

Developed from the already existing schools of the city, was formally constituted in 1303, by a Bull of Boniface VIII.

Details of several councils held here.

Written in the form of Avennio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, takes its name from the House, or Clan, Avennius.

Arabian physician and philosopher, born at Kharmaithen, in the province of Bokhara, 980; died at Hamadan, in Northern Persia, 1037.

Jewish religious poet, moralist, and philosopher. He was born at Malaga in 1020 or 1021, and died at Saragossa in 1070.

Explores the subjects of God, dualism, angelology, and man.

The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning the religious and spiritual life the ancient Persians.

Comprising twenty-one towns in the Province of Caserta and twelve in the Province of Naples, it is under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See.

Arabian philosopher, astronomer, and writer on jurisprudence; born at Cordova, 1126; died at Morocco, 1198.

A Premonstratensian abbey belonging to the circary of Brabant and situated near Diest in the Archdiocese of Malines.

Priest, native of Lima, spoke Quichua. Died 1665, shortly after being named bishop of Santiago de Chile.

Arabian philosopher, physician, astronomer, mathematician, and poet, b. at Saragossa towards the end of the eleventh century; d. at Fez, 1138.

An Italian diocese in the Province of Naples, suffragan to Benevento.

An antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven).

The first verse of an unrhymed, accentual hymn, of seven stropes of four lines each, assigned in Roman Breviary to Vespers in the Common office, the Office of Saturdays, and the Little Office (as well as for Feasts) of the Blessed Virgin.

Sixth Governor General of Canada.

The word is used, in a technical sense, in the Hindu religion to denote the descent upon earth of a portion of the essence of a god, which then assumes some coarser material form, be it animal, monster, or man.

The inordinate love for riches.

Chiefly known as an ascetical writer, born in the Tyrol, 1612; died 6 December, 1686.

A German poetess, the first woman known to have written in German and probably identical with a recluse of that name who died in Austria in the vicinity of Melk, A.D. 1127.

The name (probably fictitious, according to Hefele) of an ecclesiastic to whom we owe a series of remarkable writings (P. L., CXXIX, 1054 sqq.) that deal with the controversies concerning the succession and fate of Pope Formosus (891-896), and especially the validity of the orders conferred by him.

A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions; or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one; or whose episcopal see has attached to it a royal or imperial office requiring protracted presence at court.