A Prefecture Apostolic in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta, India, established in 1889.

The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians.

Spanish canonist and moral theologian. (1491-1586)

The rite of sprinkling the congregation with holy water before the principal Mass on Sunday.

A titular see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor.

Demon mentioned in the Book of Tobias.

English insurgent. (d. 1537)

More properly Ezion-geber, a city of Idumea, situated on the northern extremity of the Ælanitic Gulf, now called the Gulf of Akabah.

The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea.

Article intended to give a rapid survey of the geography, ethnography, political and religious history of Asia, and especially of the rise, progress, and actual condition of Asiatic Christianity and Catholicism.

Martyr, third son of Richard Ashton of Croston, in Lancashire. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, 23 June, 1592.

An early Jesuit missionary in Maryland; born in Ireland, 1742; died in Maryland, 1814, or 1815.

A number of passages in the Old Testament connect ashes with mourning.

Suffered at Tyburn, 29 March, 1544.

Martyred English monk. (d. 1537)

The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, which is the first day of the Lenten fast.

Enclosure, garden; the Garden of the Gods.

Details four uses of this name.

The daughter of Putiphare (Poti-phera), priest of On.

The property by which a being exists of and from itself.

Diocese comprising sixteen towns in the Province of Ascoli-Piceno, two in that of Aquila, and two in that of Teramo, Italy.

An Italian diocese, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Beneventum.

German historian. (1801-1882)