A spherical ceiling, or a bowl-shaped vault, rising like an inverted cup over a circular, square, or multangular building or any part of it.

Philologist, b. at LePuy, France, 1821; d. at Oka near Montreal, 1898.

Suffragan to Turin.

A niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Cunegundes married Boleslaus, Duke of Cracow, later King of Poland. Once widowed, she became a Poor Clare. She died in 1292.

On Monday, 25 July, 1583 (N.S.), the village of Cuncolim in the district of Salcete, territory of Goa, India, was the scene of the martyrdom of five religious of the Society of Jesus: Fathers Rudolph Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, and Anthony Francis, also Francis Aranha, lay brother.

Publicist, b. in Washington, U.S.A., April, 1814; d. at New York, 4 January, 1866.

A bishopric in the north-eastern part of Prussia, founded in 1234, suffragan to Gnessen.

Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, born at Prospect, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 29 April, 1803; died at Dublin, 24 October, 1878.

In the Irish language the word was written Ceile-De, meaning companion, or even spouse, of God, with the Latin equivalent in the plural, Colidei, anglicized into Culdees; in Scotland it was often written Kelidei.

Spanish poet and dramatist. (1550-1607)

Erected 23 June, 1891, comprises all the State of Morelos in the Republic of Mexico, and is bounded on the north and the west by the Archdiocese of Mexico, on the east by the Archdiocese of Puebla, and on the south by the Bishopric of Chilapa.

Diocese in Ecuador.

Diocese in Spain.

The largest and westernmost island of the West Indies.

The Diocese includes the counties of Temes, Torontál, Krassó-Szörény, Arad, Csanád, and a part of Csongrád and Békés, Hungary.

The word originally meant a hidden place, natural or artificial, suitable for the concealment of persons or things.

Poet, b. at Madrid, Spain, 28 March, 1731; d. in the same city, 4 November, 1795.

An order of mendicant friars who went to England in the thirteenth century from Italy.

Expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny. The origin of the word may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who took part in these enterprises.

A Bull granting indulgences to those who took part in the wars against the infidels.

A small vessel used for containing the wine and water required for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Includes sections on pagan, Old and New Testament, scholastic, and Catholic perspectives.

A monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire.