Cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist, and poet, born at Viterbo, Italy; died at Rome, 1532.

Better known in English as Brother Giles. One of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi, he died in 1262.

Sixth-century King of Leinster, Ireland.

Bishop and patron of Ferns, Ireland. (550-632)

A secret chamber or place of retirement in the ancient temples, and esteemed the most sacred spot; the innermost sanctuary or shrine.

In English law the right of patronage of a church or ecclesiastical benefice, a right exercised by nomination of a clergyman to such church or other benefice.

A name applied, in the Middle Ages, to certain lay persons, generally of noble birth, whose duty it was, under given conditions, to represent a particular church or monastery, and to defend its rights against force.

A title given to an officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, established in 1587, by Sixtus V, to deal juridically with processes of beatification and canonization.

A body of jurists constituting a society whose statutes were confirmed by a brief of Leo XIII, 5 July, 1878.

Persons, ecclesiastical or lay, versed in canon and civil law, who plead causes before the ecclesiastical tribunals in Rome.

A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75).

A group of six American Protestant sects which hold in common a belief in the near return of Christ in person.

According to 1907 usage, a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle and embracing four Sundays.

The article considers adultery with reference only to morality.

This act is defined as the addition of any non-condimental substance to a food.

Details on two places with this name.

Missionary and historian. (1566-1635)

Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Moutier-en-Der, d. 992, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Catholic priest and theological writer. (1533-1585)

According to legend, Orestes, son of Agamemnon, built this city at the confluence of the Tonsus (Toundja) and the Ardiscus (Arda) with the Hebrus (Maritza).

Reigned 1522-1523.

A Genoese, and nephew of Innocent IV. He was elected at Viterbo 12 July 1276, but died 18 August.

Italian prelate distinguished as a statesman and reviver of learning; born about 1460, died about 1521.