Also called Jacob van Amsterdam or van Oostzann, and at times confounded with a Walter van Assen, a Dutch painter of the first third of the sixteenth century.

French painter, etcher and engraver, b. in Paris in 1642; d. at the Gobelins manufactory at Paris, 16 August, 1708.

French painter, etcher, and engraver, b. in Orléans about 1601; d. at Paris, 1664.

French artist. (1646-1695)

A learned Italian woman of noble descent, born at Venice, 5 June, 1646; died at Padua, 26 July, 1684.

Irish bishop and King of Cashel. (836-908)

An English Benedictine, born in 1636 in Yorkshire; died 22 December, 1715, at Paddington near London.

The founder of the School and Diocese of Cork was Barra or Bairre (Barry), more commonly called Finbarr the Fair-haired.

In Ireland, suffragan of Cashel.

French mathematician. (1792-1843)

The historical and internal evidence that they were written by St. Paul is overwhelmingly strong.

A titular archiepiscopal see of Greece.

Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Toledo; it includes nearly the entire province of Céceres, with the exception of a few parishes that belong to the Diocese of Salamanca.

One of the Ionian Islands, at the entrance of the Adriatic, opposite the Albanian coast, from which it is separated by a narrow channel.

Vicariate apostolic, coextensive with the Empire of Corea; it was created a distinct vicariate Apostolic, 9 September, 1831.

Leaders of a revolt against Moses and Aaron (Num., xvi).

Dominican sent to Oaxaca in 1548 to minister to the Indians.

Diocese in Spain, formerly suffragan of Toledo, since 1851 of Seville.

Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires.

Exegete and editor of patristic works, b. at Antwerp, 7 June, 1592; d. at Rome, 24 June, 1650.

English missionary priest, b. 5 October, 1720; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 January, 1791.

Italian Jesuit historian. (1704-1785)

Pious associations of the faithful, the members of which wear a cord or cincture in honour of a saint, to keep in mind some special grace or favour which they hope to obtain through his intercession.