Lengthy biographical article on the explorer.

Formerly known as Portland University, located on the east bank of the Willamette River in northern Portland, and is conducted by the Congregation of Holy Cross, whose mother-house is at Notre Dame, Indiana.

Irish-born abbot of Luxeuil and Bobbio, author of a monastic rule and of a penitential, d. 615. Biography.

Also known as Columcille. Long article on the Irish-born monk, founder and abbot of Iona. He died in 597.

A disciple of St. Finnian of Clonard, and himself taught St. Fintan. This St. Columba founded the monastery of Tirdaglas, and died of the plague in 552.

Woman martyred towards the end of the third century.

A nun beheaded by the Muslims in 853.

The Church directs that the vestments worn by ministers, and the drapery used in the decoration of the altar should correspond in colour to that which is prescribed for the Office of the day.

A titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor, suppressed in 1894.

One of the four Captivity Epistles written by St. Paul during his first imprisonment in Rome.

The thirty-fifth, in point of admission, of the United States of America.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

A number of columns symmetrically arranged in one or more rows.

Italian poet, born at Marino, 1490; died at Rome, February 25, 1547.

Noted church composer of the seventeenth century.

A Scholastic philosopher and theologian, b. about the middle of the thirteenth century, probably 1247, in Rome.

A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.

A titular see of Armenia.

A titular see in Armenia Prima.

Italian anatomist and discoverer of the pulmonary circulation, b. at Cremona in 1516; d. at Rome, 1559.

The Archdiocese of Colombo, situated on the western seaboard of the Island of Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz. the Western and the Northwestern.

Forms the north-west corner of the South American Continent.

Third Order Dominican, intensely devoted to the Eucharist, d. 1501.