Bishop of that see, born of noble parents in Hesse, Germany, after the middle of the tenth century; died 20 August, 1025.

Belonged to the family of the counts of Neuenburg, or Neuchatel, was born towards the middle of the eleventh century, and died 12 April, 1107.

Italian sculptor, painter, and architect. (1475-1564)

Flemish theologian and controversialist. (1482-1557)

A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711.

Born in Paris, at commencement of the seventeenth century. An unknown benefactress of several charities.

A term commonly applied to a collection of bulls and other analogous papal documents.

A fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire; probably the best known of all the many ordinances of the imperial diet.

Includes details of three kinds of bull-fights: (1) caballerescas, (2) populares, and (3) gladiatorias.

A European kingdom in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula.

This term comprehends all constructions erected for the celebration of liturgical acts, whatever be the name given to them, church, chapel, oratory, and basilica.

Spanish Franciscan.

Jesuit missionary to China. (1606-1682)

Philosopher and author. (1661-1737)

Diocese established 23 April, 1847 in the state of New York.

The federal capital of the Argentine Republic.

A diocese situated in Southern Bohemia, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Prague.

Article by M. de Moreira, reviewing the key points of this thinker's career.

The religious, monastic system, founded c. 500 B.C. on the basis of pantheistic Brahminism.

Irish soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge. (1841-1896)

Foundation date unknown, but long before the Norman Conquest.

Bollandist. (1817-1876)

Comprises the Kingdom of Rumania.