A port and fortress in Isauria, founded by the Phoenicians or, according to legend, by Sandacos, son of Astynoös and grandson of Phaethon.

A letter which a bishop gives to a priest, that he may obtain permission in another diocese to say Mass, and for this purpose bears testimony that he is free from canonical censures.

Patrologist, b. at Bar-le-Duc, 14 May, 1688; d. at Flavigny, 26 May, 1763.

The city of the same name in the province of Palermo, in Sicily (Italy), is situated nearly in the centre of the northern coast of the island.

The name designates in Holy Writ the ravine on the east of Jerusalem, between the Holy City and the Mount of Olives.

A Levitical city and place of refuge in Nephtali and a Levitical city of Issachar assigned to the family of Gersom.

Brother of St. Chad (Ceadda) and bishop of the East Saxons, d. 664.

A coniferous tree frequently mentioned in the Bible.

The name of the second son of Ismael (Gen., xxv, 13; I Par., i, 29); also of an Arabian tribe descended from him, and of the territory occupied by it.

Virgin and martyr; patroness of church music.

Located in the Philippine Islands. Cebú, the diocesan city, spelled also Sebú and Zebú, in the province of the same name.

Commonly known as St. Chad. Seventh-century bishop of Lichfield.

French-Canadian priest. (1807-1881)

French archaeologist, b. at Paris, in 1692; d. in 1765.

Diocese in the republic of Haiti, suffragan to Port-au-Prince.

Born in the Weald of Kent, c. 1422; died at Westminster, 1491; the first English printer and the introducer of the art of printing into England.

A writer frequently quoted on Spanish-Mexican history; b. at Guadalajara in Mexico, 21 January, 1729, he entered the Society of Jesus, 14 January, 1758, and went to Italy with the other members of the order after their expulsion from Mexico in 1767.

Italian ecclesiastic, archæologist, and numismatist; b. 18 May, 1795, at Levizzano-Rangone, near Modena; d. 26 November, 1865, at Modena.

Of Montecucolo, a Capuchin friar of the province of Bologna, date of birth uncertain; died at Genoa, 1692.

Soldier, b. in County Tipperary, Ireland, 1831; d. in New York, 7 January, 1901.

Italian mathematician, b. at Milan in 1598; d. at Bologna, 3 December, 1647.

Canonist, b. in Bordogna, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy, 13 January, 1841; d. at Rome, 29 December, 1906.

French Jesuit preacher and moralist. (1583-1651)