Poor Clare and ascetical writer. She died in 1527.

Carmelite, Renaissance poet, d. 1516.

The name popularly given to the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just before the sacrament is conferred.

A basin or vase, serving as a receptacle for baptismal water in which the candidate for baptism is immersed, or over which he is washed, in the ceremony of Christian initiation.

One of the Seven Sacraments of the Christian Church; frequently called the "first sacrament", the "door of the sacraments", and the "door of the Church".

Jesuit missionary and educator. (1815-1887)

In general the ecclesiastical announcement of the names of persons contemplating marriage.

Bankruptcy must be considered not only from the legal but also from the moral point of view; for sound morality prescribes that debts must be paid.

Earlier English terms, bankruptship, bankrupture.

The Diocese of Banjaluka in Western Bosnia.

Brothers and writers from Kilkenny, Ireland.

The codex, found by Muratori in the Ambrosian Library at Milan.

The name of two famous monastic establishments in Ireland and England.

Diocese; anciently known as Bangor Vawr, situated in Carnarvonshire on the Menai Straits.

Detailed article on the Spanish Dominican theologian.

Archaeologist and numismatologist. (1671-1743)

Writer, born at Castelnuovo di Scrivia in Piedmont, Italy, in 1480; died Bishop of Agen, France, in 1565.

Born at Valence, 1628; died at Avignon, 1685.

The name of several men mentioned in the Bible.

Includes history and statistics for the Archdiocese of Bamberg, in the kingdom of Bavaria.

French scholar and historian. (1630-1718)

A French cardinal, b. probably c. 1421, in Poitou; d. 5 October, 1491, at Ripatransone.

Theologian, born at Metz, 8 June, 1667; died at Reims, 9 March, 1743.