Near the end of the fourteenth century Urban VI, at the instance of the Town Council, issued (21 May, 1388) the Bull of foundation.

German city and archbishopric.

Bishop of Mainz; born at Strasburg, 22 June, 1760; died at Mainz, 15 Dec., 1818.

Friar Minor and English martyr: date of birth uncertain; died in London, 1645.

Bishop of Kilroot and a contemporary of St. Ailbe.

Nephew of St. Columba. This St. Colman was the first abbot of Muckamore. He died at Lynally (Lann Elo) in 611.

Monk of Iona, bishop of Lindisfarne, later founded the Abbey and Diocese of Mayo, d. 676.

Irishman martyred while on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, near Vienna in 1012.

First bishop and patron saint of Dromore. Born in Dalaradia c. 450, date of death uncertain.

Abbot, d. about 595. This St. Colman was a contemporary of St. Aidan, and is sometimes confused with a later saint of the same name, Colman of Kilmacduagh.

Hermit, monastic founder, bishop of Kilmacduagh, d. 632.

Founder and patron saint of the Diocese of Cloyne, poet, d. 601.

An adjective applied to those churches and institutions whose members form a college.

This term designates The Twelve Apostles as the body of men commissioned by Christ to spread the kingdom of God over the whole world and to give it the stability of a well-ordered society.

Founded in the interest of higher education by Francis I.

A collection of persons united together for a common object so as to form one body.

The word college, from the Latin collegium, originally signified a community, a corporation, an organized society, a body of colleagues, or a society of persons engaged in some common pursuit.

The term is sometimes employed as a substitute for socialism.

Article discussing the development which took the form of a contribution in money, corresponding particularly to what is conveyed by the French word quête.

The book which contains the Collects.

The name now used only for short prayers before the Epistle in the Mass, which occur again at Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, and Vespers.

Diocese in Italy.

Sixteenth-century Spanish missionary.