Original name, Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac.

Abbé and writer on philosophy and aesthetics, b. near Vouziers, France, 6 May, 1713; d. at Paris, 14 July, 1780.

A historian of the councils, b. at Rimini, Italy, 25 March, 1645; d. at Cesena, 19 September, 1717.

Diocese situated in New South Wales, Australia, in the ecclesiastical Province of Sydney.

A runaway slave who became the wife of King Clovis II. Upon widowhood, she founded monasteries and proved herself a capable regent. She died in 680.

Irishman, Jesuit, wrote educational books on music and language. He died in 1614.

Ancient diocese coextensive with the county of Somerset, England.

The first religious house in Bath was a monastery of nuns founded by King Osric, A.D. 676.

Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia.

A mountainous district of South Africa, bounded on the north and west by the Orange River Colony, on the easy by Natal, and on the south by Cape Colony.

A French theologian, b. at Rouen, 29 November, 1741; d. at Saint-Laurent, 26 September, 1825.

A French economist, b. at Mugron, a small city in the Department of Landes, 29 June, 1801; d. at Rome, 24 December, 1850.

Bishop of Ephesus (444-448).

Founder of the Capuchins. (1495-1552)

Convert and controversialist, Master of Sidney Sussex College, born about 1641, at Lynn Regis, where his father was a merchant; died in London, in 1720.

The birthplace of St. Gonsalo Garcia, the only Indian saint, who was a companion of St. Philip de las Casas, the first native of America to be canonized.

Composed of the two Dioceses of Basle and Lugano which are united only by having a bishop in common.

Convoked by Pope Martin V in 1431, closed at Lausanne in 1449.

Extensively used in the Jewish Ritual and were in early use in Christian churches for ablutions and to receive lamp-drippings.

Several saints of this name appear in martyrologies. Next to nothing is known about any of them except place of martyrdom, and sometimes the names of their spouses or companions in martyrdom.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

The earliest of the Alexandrian Gnostics, a native of Alexandria and flourished under the Emperors Adrian and Antoninus Pius, about 120-140.

Martyrs bearing this name are mentioned in the old martyrologies on three different days, namely, on 10, 12, and 28 June.