French historian and statesman. (1797-1865)

Defined as the backing of an affirmation or forecast by offering to forfeit, in case of an adverse issue, a sum of money or article of value to one who, by accepting, maintains the opposite and backs his opinion by a corresponding stipulation.

Prefecture Apostolic in northern India.

In the Catholic Church, a deliberate and free, mutual, true promise, externally expressed, of future marriage between determinate and fit persons.

The city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of the Book of Judith.

A city within Issachar, but assigned to Manasses, later Scythopolis, now the village Beisan.

Details the city, pool, and titular see of this name.

Military and hospitaller orders.

Titular see of Palestine.

Birthplace of Jesus.

An architectural term used in the Ethiopic Church for the oven or bakehouse for baking the Korban or Eucharistic bread.

An ancient Cansanitish town.

Name of two cities in Palestine.

A city of the Amorrhites in the valley-plain east of the Jordan.

In the text of St. John's Gospel, i, 28, the author locates the event of Our Lord's baptism by St. John the Baptist at Bethany across the Jordan and there is herein a celebrated variant.

A village of Palestine.

Composed the first catechism known in the Quichua language.

A Franciscan missionary, b. at Betanzos in Galicia; d. at Chomez, Nicaragua, 1570.

A Dominican missionary, d. at Valladolid, Sept., 1549.

Medieval books on animals, in which the real or fabulous characteristics of actually existent or imaginary animals (such as the griffin, dragon, siren, unicorn, etc.) were figuratively treated as religious symbols of Christ, the devil, the virtues and vices.

Miscellaneous author. (1768-1836)

Benedictine, abbot, and historian. (1672-1749)

Article on this 15th-century Byzantine scholar, by U. Benigni.