A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII, date of birth uncertain; d. 3 August 1537.

Born about 1614; died 1689, a loyal Catholic English nobleman, second son of Thomas first Lord Fauconberg. His mother was Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry Cholmondeley of Roxby, Yorkshire.

Diocese in Portugal, suffragan of Evora.

In Phoenicia, a titular Latin see, and the residential see of several prelates of Oriental rites.

A German cartographer and navigator. (1459-1507)

Known also as Albertus Bohemus.

As early as the commencement of the twelfth century there were women in the Netherlands who lived alone, and without taking vows devoted themselves to prayer and good works.

A canonist who lived at the end of the seventeenth century.

Provides an Old and a New Testament definition.

The Moabite divinity who ruled over Phogor.

Exegete and Orientalist. (1807-1884)

A London hospital originally intended for the poor suffering from any ailment and for such as might have no other lodging, hence its name, Bethlehem, in Hebrew, the "house of bread."

Italian Cardinal and diplomat. (1806-1864)

Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583.

Superioress of the English Institute of Mary. (1616-1704)

Writer and educator. (1816-1903)

Medical writer and teacher. (1806-1870)

Benedictine monk, priest, historian, Doctor of the Church, d. 735.

The old English word bede (Anglo-Saxon bed) means a prayer, though the derivative form, gebed, was more common in this sense in Anglo-Saxon literature.

French-Canadian lawyer and member of the Assembly of Lower Canada, b. at Charlesbourg near Quebec, 13 November, 1762; d. at Three Rivers, 26 April 1829.

French physicist, b. at Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret), 7 March, 1788; d. at Paris, 18 January, 1878.

Twenty-second General of the Society of Jesus, born at Sichem, Belgium, 8 February, 1795; died at Rome, 4 March, 1887.

Sixth Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A.