Controversialist, died c. 1657.

The most northerly group of the West Indies.

Convert, priest, prisoner for the Faith, and a prominent figure in the controversies between Catholic priests and the reign of Elizabeth.

Theologian, born at Rennes, in France, 9 July, 1591, died at Paris, 23 August, 1664.

A diocese situated in the district of Viterbo, Italy, and immediately subject to the Holy See.

Known as the "Deaf Man of the Barozzo", a painter of distinction, b. in Rome, 1571; d. there 1644.

A titular see of Lydia in Asia Minor.

Founded on the Tigris by the second Abbaside Caliph Abou Giafar al Mansur (762 or 764) and named by him Medinet es-Selam, or City of Salvation.

Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated by a pontifical Decree of 11 May, 1906, from the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Zanzibar.

Historian of the Breviary and one of the most scholarly patrologists of the nineteenth century.

Bollandist, born at Ypres, 25 August, 1651; died at Antwerp, 27 October, 1719.

Missionary and ethnographer. (1717-1777)

A Florentine Dominican of the seventeenth century.

Pioneer missionary priest of Kentucky. (1768-1853)

Cardinal, author, papal legate, born at Modena, 1483; died at Rome, 6 September, 1547.

The Grand Duchy of Baden is situated in the southwestern part of the German Empire.

The Latin name Pax, or Civitas Pacensis, was given to this district because it was thought to be the Pax Julia or Pax Augusta of the Romans.

Essay takes a look at this system and its relation to theology and the beliefs of the Catholic church.

Better know under the assumed name of Southwell, a Jesuit priest and bibliographer, b. in the county of Norfolk, England, in 1598; d. at Rome, 2 Dec., 1676.

An English Carmelite and theologian, born towards the end of the thirteenth century.

First Bishop of Portland, Maine. (1813-1874)

Ordained priest 17 March, 1832, considered the second founder of the Norbertine Abbey of Tongerloo.

Bibliographer, born at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 July, 1809; died at Liège, 1 December, 1873.