Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed.

A titular see of Asia Minor. Kaunos was said to have been founded by Kaunos, son of Miletos and Kyane, on the southern coast of Caria, opposite Rhodes, and was known as Rhodian Peraea, at the foot of Mount Tarbelos.

A French bishop and Jansenist, b. at Toulouse, 1610; d. at Pamiers, 1680.

Also known as Sault St. Louis. An Iroquois reservation, situated on the south bank of the St. Lawrence, about ten miles above Montreal.

French mathematician, b. at Paris, 21 August, 1789; d. at Sceaux, 23 May, 1857.

Suffragan of Zara.

French historian, b. at Paris, 28 December, 1659; d. there 12 October, 1737.

The ecclesiastical title of the Nestorian and Armenian patriarchs.

The project was launched at the Synod of Thurles in 1850.

A pontifical institution located in Washington, D.C. It comprises the Schools of the Sacred Sciences, Philosophy, Law, Letters, and Science, each of which includes several departments.

The corporate name of a society whose directors are chosen from among the bishops of the United States, the seminaries, the parishes and the missionary organizations of that country, its purpose being to engage priests and lay-men as missionaries to non-Catholics in the United States, to provide for their maintenance, to distribute Catholic literature, and in every way to assist the bishops in establishing and carrying on home missions in their various jurisdictions.

A fraternal life-insurance company chartered under the laws of the State of Kentucky, U.S.A. It was founded in Nashville, Tennessee by James J. McLoughlin, D.N. Burke, John Broderick, and John MeDonald.

The name given to the Epistle of St. James, to that of St. Jude, to two Epistles of St. Peter and the first three of St. John, because, unlike the Epistles of St. Paul, they were addressed not to any particular person or church, but to the faithful generally after the manner of an Encyclical letter.

A social organization described by its constitution as a club which "shall consist of Catholic gentlemen who are governed by a spirit of devotion to the Church and fidelity to the Holy Father".

A fraternal assessment life-insurance society organized in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 5 September, 1881.

The combination "the Catholic Church" (he katholike ekklesia) is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, written about the year 110.

Situated on Mount Sinai, in a gorge below the Jebel-Musa, the reputed Mountain of the Law.

Daughter of St. Bridget of Sweden. Widow, pilgrim, superior of the Brigittine motherhouse, d. 1381. Biographical article.

Third Order Dominican, hermit, reformer, mystic, d. 1380. Biographical article by Edmund G. Gardner.

Biography of the mystic and author, who died in 1510.

Short biography of this Poor Clare, mystic, and writer, who died in 1463.

Article on the virgin and martyr. In the Middle Ages, one of the most popular saints.

Biography of the cloistered Third Order Dominican nun, mystic, who died in 1590.