Abbot of the School of Clonmacnoise in Ireland, who flourished during the latter half of the eighth century.

Preacher and controversialist, born 1574, at Château-du-Loir, province of Maine, France; died Paris, 21 April, 1623.

Catholic divine, chiefly known for his attempt to introduce into England the "Institute of Secular Priests Living in Community", founded in Bavaria by Bartholomaus Holzhauser.

A quarto volume written in uncial letters of the fourth century.

A Greek manuscript of the Old and New Testaments, of the greatest antiquity and value; found on Mount Sinai, in St. Catherine's Monastery, by Constantine Tischendorf.

The last in the group of the four great uncial manuscripts of the Greek Bible, received its name from the treatises of St. Ephraem the Syrian (translated into Greek) which were written over the original text.

Greek, New Testament manuscript.

Manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible, kept at Florence in the Bibliotheca Laurentiana.

Greek manuscript of the Old and New Testaments, so named because it was brought to Europe from Alexandria and had been the property of the patriarch of that see.

The name given to a manuscript in leaf form, distinguishing it from a roll.

A titular see of Armenia.

Humanist and Catholic controversialist, b. 1479; d. 11 Jan., 1552, in Breslau.

Author of religious, pedagogical, and sociological works. (1823-1872)

Preacher and philanthropist. (1726-1783)

Erected and constituted a suffragan of the Diocese of Goa, of which it had previously formed a part, by the Bull "Pro excellenti praeeminentia" of Paul IV, 4 February, 1558.

German theologian, preacher and ascetic writer, born at Cochem, a small town on the Moselle, in 1630; died in the convent at Waghäusel, 10 September, 1712.

The city from which this diocese takes its name is the capital of the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

A Capuchin friar, so called from his birthplace, Coccaglio in Lombardy, date of birth unknown; d. 1793.

Spanish Jesuit missionary. (1582-1657)

The term is now generally reserved to the practice of educating the sexes together; but even in this sense it has a variety of meanings.

The bishops who assist the presiding bishop in the act of consecrating a new bishop.

Irish Franciscan and annalist, b. about 1300; d., probably, in 1349.

The earliest reform, which became practically a distinct order, within the Benedictine family.