English priest, date of birth unknown, executed at Winchester, 29 Nov., 1603.

Widow, penitent, Poor Clare, superior of the convent at Rimini, contemplative, d. 1346.

Abbess, claimed by both the Franciscans and the Augustinians, d. 1308.

Cofounded the "Poor Clares" with St. Francis. She died in 1253.

Strictly speaking, clandestinity signifies a matrimonial impediment introduced by the Council of Trent to invalidate marriages contracted at variance with the exigencies of the decree "Tametsi", commonly so called because the first word of the Latin text is tametsi.

The third daughter of Cîteaux and mother in the fourth line of numerous and celebrated monasteries, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, in a deep valley upon the bank of the Aube, and known as the Vallée d'Absinthe.

An important and fortified Mediterranean seaport, in the province of Rome.

A town in the Province of Rome, on the Treia.

The duty of loyalty and obedience which a person owes to the State of which he is a citizen.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

Suffragan of the Diocese of Santiago; comprises the greater part of the province of Salamanca, and a portion of the province of Cáceres.

Bishopric-Priorate of the Military Orders of Spain, directly subject to the Holy See.

A town in the province of Perugia, in Umbria, Central Italy.

A city of obscure origin in the province of Perugia in Umbria, Central Italy.

A titular see of Armenia.

Founded in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme, in a deserted and uninhabited part of the Diocese of Châlons-sur Saône.

A legal act through which a person, by mandate of the judge, is called before the tribunal for trial.

St. Stephen Harding, third Abbot of Cîteaux (1109-33), was an Englishman and his influence in the early organization of the Cistercian Order had been very great. It was natural therefore that, when, after the coming of St. Bernard and his companions in 1113, foundations began to multiply, the project of sending a colony of monks to England should find favourable consideration.

Religious of the Order of Cîteaux, a Benedictine reform, established at Cîteaux in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme in the Diocese of Langres, for the purpose of restoring as far as possible the literal observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.

The first Cistercian monastery for women was established at Tart in the Diocese of Langres (now Dijon), in the year 1125, by sisters from the Benedictine monastery of Juilly, and with the co-operation of St. Stephen Harding, Abbot of Cîteaux.

Titular see of Crete.

An association of Catholic laymen formed in England to perpetuate the movement which had found expression in the "Declaration and Protestation" signed by the Catholic body in 1789.

As Christ wished to fulfil the law and to show His descent according to the flesh from Abraham. He, though not bound by the law, was circumcised on the eighth day (Luke, ii, 21), and received the sublime name expressive of His office, Jesus, i.e. Saviour.