Diocese; suffragan of São Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.

Biography of this soldier, monk, bishop of Lindisfarne, hermit.

Englishman, Protestant minister, converted to Catholicism, died a martyr in 1577. Biographical article.

Abbot of Wearmouth; a pupil of the Venerable Bede (d. 735).

Archbishop of Canterbury.

1) An under-sacristan. (2) A superior or an official in the Franciscan order.

An unwritten law introduced by the continuous acts of the faithful with the consent of the legitimate legislator.

Distinguished humanist and statesman, born at Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia, in 1473; died at Vienna, 19 April, 1529.

Cush, like the other names of the ethnological table of Genesis, x, is the name of a race, but it has generally been understood to designate also an individual, the progenitor of the nations and tribes known in the ancient world as Cushites.

A titular see of Egypt.

A titular see of Africa Proconsularis.

The Latin title of the ecclesiastical heralds or pursuivants pertaining to the papal court.

A Middle-English poem of nearly 30,000 lines containing a sort of summary of universal history.

In its popular acceptation cursing is often confounded, especially in the phrase "cursing and swearing", with the use of profane and insulting language; in canon law it sometimes signifies the ban of excommunication pronounced by the Church.

Irish historian and physician. (d. 1780)

English priest. (d. 1847)

Irish-American astronomer. (1796-1889)

A titular see of Cyprus, suppressed in 1222 by the papal legate, Pelagius.

Diocese, suffragan of São Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.

A person legally appointed to administer the property of another, who is unable to undertake its management himself, owing to age or physical incompetence, bodily or mental.

Literally, one who has the cure (care) or charge of souls, in which sense it is yet used by the Church of England, "All Bishops and Curates".

Vicariate apostolic; includes the islands of the Dutch West Indies: Curaçao, Bonaire, and Aruba; Saba, St. Eustatius, and the Dutch part of St. Martin (Leeward Islands).

Technically, the exercise of a clerical office involving the instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and the sanctification, through the sacraments, of the faithful in a determined district, by a person legitimately a ppointed for the purpose.