Founded in 1889 by Katharine Drexel.

Details of four people with this name.

A learned monk and writer of the Green Church, b. about 1198, at Constantinople; d. 1272.

Irish monk, martyred at Iona in about 835. In Latinized form, he is sometimes called Florentius. His life was written in Latin hexameter by Strabo.

A monk of the Order of St. Basil, living in the fourteenth century, who applied himself to the study of theology and canon law.

Signifies etymologically gross irreverence towards any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem.

Nephew of St. Cathan. Blane studied in Ireland under SS. Comgall and Kenneth, became a monk, went to Scotland, became a bishop of the Picts, died 590.

Virgin and martyr, d. at Lyons in 177.

Missionary and first Archbishop of Oregon City, U.S.A. (1795-1883)

Brother of François Norbert Blanchet, first Bishop of Walla Walla-Nesqually, State of Washington, U.S.A. (1797-1887)

French Jesuit and educator. (1731-1797)

Fifth Bishop, and first Archbishop, of New Orleans, La., U.S.A. (1792-1860)

Bishop of Sebaste, martyr, d. about 316.

Author, b. at Dunfermline, Scotland, 1539; d. 1613.

An important tribe of the Northern Plains, constituting the westernmost extension of the great Algonquian stock.

An English Catholic who suffered imprisonment in the closing years of the seventeenth, and during the earlier half of the eighteenth, centuries; died in 1748.

This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.

A tomb large enough to contain two bodies.

In North Dakota, this diocese was erected on 31 December, 1909, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota.

The first superior in England in episcopal orders since the old hierarchy died out in the reign of Elizabeth, born c. 1553 at Brailes in Warwickshire, where his family continued to reside until recent times; d. 16 April, 1624.

The title of an ecclesiastical dignitary who possesses the fullness of the priesthood to rule a diocese as its chief pastor, in due submission to the primacy of the pope.

Situated in Sardinia, in the province of Sassari, district of Nuoro, and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Sassari.

A titular see of Osrhaene.