An important tribe or confederacy of Muskogean stock formerly holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi, with adjoining portions of Louisiana.

Considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious.

Suffragan of Siena.

The popular name is a corruption of Ojibwa, a name of uncertain etymology, but generally supposed to refer to the "puckered up" appearance of the seam along the front of the tribal moccasin.

One of the Sporades in the Ægean Sea.

A sea-coast city in the province of Venice. In antiquity it was known as Fossa Clodia; in the Middle Ages as Clugia.

An Aboriginal tribe of the extreme northwest of the United States.

The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew.

Discusses the origin of the Chinese.

Includes history, government, education, and religion.

A Mexican Indian of the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, who received a liberal education in the colleges for Indians of Mexico City under the direction of the clergy.

A comparatively narrow strip of coast-land in South America between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Andes Mountains on the east, including the watershed.

A Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, founded by Mother Barat of the Society of the Sacred Heart, in the Parish school about 1818, almost simultaneously with the convent itself.

The Sodality of Children of Mary Immaculate owes its origin to the manifestation of the Virgin Immaculate of the Miraculous Medal, on which the Church has placed a seal, by appointing the twenty-seventh of November as its feast.

Diocese suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico, comprises the state of Guerrero, in the south of Mexico.

Diocese in the north of Mexico, comprises the state of Chihuahua.

Archdiocese with the perpetual administration of Vasto.

Papal nuncio, b. at Vicenza, 1479; d. at Bologna, 6 December, 1539.

Diocese created, 28 May, 1878, a part of the civil and ecclesiastical Province of Quebec.

Ancient Catholic Diocese. This see took its rise in consequence of the decree passed at the Council of London in 1075, requiring all bishoprics to be removed from villages to towns.

Archbishop of Canterbury, b. at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England, 1362; d. at Oxford, 12 April, 1441.

Diocese created 28 November, 1842; raised to the rank of an archdiocese, 10 September, 1880.

In the beginning of the sixteenth century they occupied what is now the departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca with, possible, a few outlying settlements.