Soldier, b. at Carrowkeel, County Sligo, Ireland, 21 September, 1827; d. at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, U.S.A., 22 December, 1863.

Theologian, editor, and Orientalist, b. at Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., 30 March, 1820; d. at Philadelphia, 16 July, 1889.

Bishop of Freising, in Bavaria, born about 680 at Chatres near Melun, France; died 8 September, 730.

A Benedictine abbey in Picardy, in the Diocese of Amiens, dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul.

English Jesuit. (1604-1649)

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Jesuit missionary and army chaplain. (1706-1765)

A titular see of Upper Egypt.

Details of the Morgan and the British Museum's collections.

Poet, dramatist and novelist, b. at Paris, 26 January, 1842; d. 23 May, 1908.

Latinized form of Niclas Kopernik, the name of the founder of the heliocentric planetary theory; born at Torun (Thorn), 19 February, 1473, died at Frauenburg, 24 May, 1543.

Founded by a Bull which Sixtus IV issued 19 June, 1475, at the request of King Christian I.

A vestment which may most conveniently be described as a long liturgical mantle, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp.

A village on the shore of Lake Titicaca, province of Omasuyos, in northern Bolivia.

Described as a spiritual and self-denying priest, an eminent scholar and theologian. (1767-1850)

The Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown comprises North Queensland, Australia, from 16°30' south latitude to Cape York, and from the Pacific Coast to the boundary of Northern Territory.

Archdiocese with the perpetual administration of Campagna (Campaniensis).

Second Bishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A., b. at Moneymore, County Derry, Ireland, in 1745; d. at Philadelphia, 22 April, 1842.

The technical name given in the Church of England to what corresponds in some respects to a provincial synod, though in other respects it differs widely from it.

Refers to a moral change, a turning or returning to God and to the true religion.

Lay brothers in a religious order. The term was originally applied to those who, in adult life, voluntarily renounced the world and entered a religious order to do penance and to lead a life of greater perfection.

Suffragan to Bari. Conversano, situated in the province of Bari, in Apulia (Southern Italy), is the ancient Cupersanum, a city of the Peucetians.

One of the three separate bodies, forming with the Friars Minor and the Capuchins what is commonly called the First Order of St. Francis.