Mathematician. (1648-1737)

Titular see of Asia Minor.

Polish Dominican, d. about 1242.

The ancient Cæsena is a city of Emilia, in the province of Forli (Italy), in the former States of the Church.

Born at Rome, 1398; died at Varna, in Bulgaria 10 November, 1444.

Priest, founder of two religious congregations dedicated to teaching Christian doctrine, died 1607.

Article by Joseph Rompel dwells upon Cesalpino's botanical accomplishments as well as his philosophical positions.

Suffragan of Ravenna.

One of the first professors of the University of Mexico, born at Toledo, Spain, probably in 1513 or 1514; went to Mexico in 1550; died there in 1575.

Spanish author. (1547-1616)

The word indicates both a state of mind and a quality of a proposition, according as we say, "I am certain", or, "It is certain".

A Gnostic-Ebionite heretic, contemporary with St. John; against whose errors on the divinity of Christ the Apostle is said to have written the Fourth Gospel.

In liturgy, an external action, gesture, or movement which accompanies the prayers and public exercise of divine worship.

The book which contains in detail the order of religious ceremony and solemn worship prescribed to be observed in ecclesiastical functions.

A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus in Asia Minor.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

A very active missionary among the Indians, born in the province of La Mancha, 1532; died at Guatemala, 1602.

King of Northumbria and monk of Lindisfarne, date and place of birth not known; died at Lindisfarne, 764.

Anglo-Saxon Benedictine, abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, d. 716.

A Roman officer commanding a century or company, the strength of which varied from fifty to one hundred men.

A group of Lutheran scholars who had gathered at Magdeburg, and who are now known to history as the "Centuriators of Magdeburg" because of the way in which they divided their work (century by century) and the place in which the first five volumes were written.

This name is given to a political party in the German Reichstag and to a number of parties in the diets of the various states of the German Empire.

The origin dates back to 1854, in which year the presidents of three German Catholic benevolent societies of Buffalo, new York, issued a call to various German Catholic societies for the purpose for forming a central body.