Born at Lagny, a village near Mortagne in the Perche, France, 1622, died at Boucherville, 1717.

Native of Milan who went to Mexico in 1736 by permission of the Spanish government and remained there eight years, familiarizing himself with the Nahuatl or Mexican language.

Or Botolph. Founder and abbot of Icanhoe, d. about 680.

Florentine painter. (1447-1510)

A titular see situated in Phoenicia.

Titular see of Syria.

Archdiocese; comprises Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties in the State of Massachusetts, U.S.A.

French bishop and orator. (1627-1704)

French theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne, born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626.

Third English Cardinal, date of birth uncertain, d. at Rome, about 1181.

First Bishop of Merseburg, in the present Prussian Province of Saxony, and Apostle of the Wends, d. November, 970.

Together, form the north-western corner of the Balkan Peninsula.

Known as "The Columbus of the Catacombs", b. in the island of Malta about the year 1576; d. 1629.

Detailed article by Adolf Muller on the Jesuit mathematician and philosopher.

Bollandist, born at Brussels, 19 October, 1686; died 14 November, 1736.

In the province of Cagliari.

Missionary, mathematician, and astronomer. (1583-1632)

Architect and sculptor; born 25 September, 1599, at Bissone; died by his own hand 1 August, 1667, at Rome.

A German Catholic association for the encouragement and diffusion of edifying, instructive, and entertaining literature.

Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, cousin and successor of St. Charles Borromeo. (1564-1631)

An Italian missionary, born on the first half of the seventeenth century, at or near Milan; died in 1683.

Spanish painter, born at Cocentaina, 1530; died at Gandia, 1610.

Includes history of Dutch and British rule.