Italian architect and painter, b. about 1444 at Monte Asdrualdo; d. in Rome, 11 March, 1514.

French Oratorian and ecclesiastical writer, born at Chars-en-Vexin, France, c. 1600; died at Paris, 11 May 1672.

French educator and inventorof the system of writing in raised or relief points for the blind. (1809-1852)

Religion and social system which grew out of the polytheistic nature-worship of the ancient Aryan conquerors of northern India.

Situated in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Portugal, in the civil province of Tras-os-Montes.

Offers details of several councils held here.

Situated between the rivers Este and Cavado, in the province of Minho, in the Kingdom of Portugal.

Ecclesiastical writer, b. in Dublin, 8 January, 1825; d. in Rome, 19 March, 1894.

English Benedictine and poet, b. in the City of Chester, England, date unknown; d. 1513.

An English Carmelite friar known in religion as Elias à Jesu; b. in Lancashire, England, early in the seventeenth century; d. at Benfold, 25 September, 1652.

First Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (1846-1903)

English juridical writer, born probably in King John's reign and died about four years before the close of that of Henry III.

Poet, journalist, politician. (1843-1898)

Irish Cistercian house.

Practice named after Captain Boycott, against whom this form of ostracism had great effect.

Novelist, lecturer, and priest, well known under the assumed name of "Paul Peppergrass". (1810-1864)

The custom of electing a boy-bishop on the feast of St. Nicholas dates from very early times, and was in vogue in most Catholic countries, but chiefly in England.

Baronet, English writer on jurisprudence, as well as a prominent defender of the Holy See and of Catholic interests in general. (1811-1883)

Diocese in the province of Foggia, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Benevento.

Situated in the civil province of Reggio,in Calabria, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Reggio.

Bishop of Le Mans, theologian. (1783-1854)

Jesuit missionary. (d. 1732)

French pulpit orator, b. at Bourg in 1750; d. in 1830.