Reigned from 1159-81.

Reigned 1061-1073.

Article on this pope, who died in 115 or 116. According to a tradition dating to the fifth century, Alexander was martyred, but it is possible that he has been confused with another St. Alexander who was indeed a martyr.

English Jesuit priest and martyr. He was scarcely over 25 when martyred in 1581.

Profiles of six bishops of this name in the early Church.

Seven men with this name are described.

Diocese in European Turkey, since 1886 suffragan of Scutari.

Italian architect, b. 1500; d. 1572.

Diocese in Piedmont, Italy, a suffragen of Vercelli.

Diocese made up of 42 communes in the province of Cagliari, Archbishopric of Oristano, Italy.

Armenian Rite Archdiocese in Syria.

Chinese missionary and scholar, born at Brescia, in Italy, in 1582; died at Fou-Tcheou, China, in August, 1644.

First Archbishop of San Francisco. (1814-1888)

Historian, born at Vera Cruz, in Mexico, or New Spain, 12 November, 1729; died at Bologna, 16 August, 1788.

A Jesuit historiographer. (1592-1652)

A French polemical writer of the early years of the nineteenth century, b. in Paris, date unknown; d. 1812.

Italian naturalist. (1522-1607)

Bishop of Le Mans, d. 856.

Abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne, poet, d. about 709.

A Northumbrian king, son of King Oswin; d. 14 December, 705.

A former Cistercian Abbey in the valley of the Vils in Lower Bavaria.

Daughter of SS. Walbert and Bertilia. Flemish nun, founder of monastery at Maubeuge, d. about 684.

Lengthy article on the educator, scholar, theologian, liturgist, who died in 804.