Illegitimacy, a canonical impediment to ordination.

Carthusian monk, b. in 1403; d. 19 February, 1473.

One of the thirteen dioceses erected by the Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, 27 September, 1850, which restored a hierarchy to the Catholic church in England.

Polish preacher, b. at Lemberg, 1566; d. at Cracow, 1636.

Confessor, first Bishop of Dorchester, Apostle of Wessex, d. 650.

A square cap with three ridges or peaks on its upper surface, worn by clerics of all grades from cardinals downwards.

The dove, eagle, pelican, phoenix, and peacock are included.

Physicist and mathematician. (1774-1862)

Italian archæologist and historian. (1388-1463)

The science on life and living organisms.

According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life.

A theologian of repute and for fifty years parish priest of Bilk. (1779-1855)

Historian and critic. (1573-1641)

French mathematician and astronomer. (1786-1856)

Jesuit author, born at Dijon, France, 1569; died at Paris, 1639.

Canonist, historian, and theologian. (1697-1766)

The offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant.

Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.

French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist, and a Benedictine abbot. (1535-1581)

German theologian, opponent of the Reformation, born 1499 or 1500 at Cologne; died there 12 January, 1557.

French theologian and patrologist, b. about 1546 at Bernières-le-Patry, Normandy; d. about 1595.

In civil jurisprudence, and especially in criminal law, is a "formal entering into of a marriage while a former one remains un-dissolved".

Canonically viewed, bigamy denotes (a) the condition of a man married to two real or interpretative wives in succession, and as a consequence (b) his unfitness to receive, or exercise after reception, tonsure, minor and sacred orders.