French statesman and historian. (1821-1901)

Abbé, professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique at Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects. (1834-1895)

Article discusses several saints of this name.

Includes history and statistics.

Born near Chester, England, 1744; died at Hartpury Court, 1827.

An orientalist, and a monk of Rennes in Brittany; date of birth and death unknown.

The westernmost province of the Dominion of Canada.

Born at Worcester, 1538, died at Harrow-on the-Hill, 1581.

This English diocese, which takes its very origin from measures directed against the Church, has a very brief Catholic history, for it only had one bishop acknowledged by the Holy See.

Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897.

Provides history and religious statistics.

Controversialist, b. at Blois, France, 9 June, 1592; entered the Society of Jesus in 1619, d. at Blois, 10 September, 1668.

Orator and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Bourges in 1641, d. at Paris, 23 March, 1736.

Confessor of the Faith, imprisoned and tortured as manager of a secret press for the publication of devotional and controversial works in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium, by the Greeks Brentesion, a city of in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, on a rocky peninsula which extends into the Adriatic.

Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French.

Born at Cologne in 1542, died at Mainz, 25 August, 1595.

Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626.

Member of the Society of Jesus. Born at St. Malo in 1629; died at Paris, 12 June, 1712.

Founded in 1346 by St. Brigit, or Bridget, of Sweden at Vadstena in the Diocese of Linköping.

Established by Most Rev. Dr. Delaney, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, at Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland, in 1807.

Biography. Monastic founder, abbess of a double monastery, friend of St. Patrick. St. Brigid died in 525.

Celtic monk and priest, companion of St. Iltud. Brieuc died in about 502.