Jesuit missionary to China. (1655-1709)

Spanish poet, b. in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), 1491; d. in Vienna, 12 June, 1556.

The united kingdom which came into existence by the marriage (1469) of Isabella, heiress of Castile, with Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon.

Painter and etcher, b. at Genoa, Italy, 1616; d. at Mantua, 1670.

Philologist and numismatist, b. of an ancient family at Milan, Italy, 1784; d. at Genoa, 10 April, 1849.

Italian prose-writer, b. at Casatico, near Mantua, 6 December, 1478; died at Toledo, Spain, 7 February, 1529.

Italian painter, sculptor, and architect; b. at Gandino, in the Valle Seriana, in the territory of Bergamo, in 1509 (some writers state 1500 or 1506); d. at Madrid in 1579.

Italian physician and botanist, b. at Rome in 1574; d. at Messina in 1662.

Mathematician and physicist; b. at Perugia, Italy, 1577; d. at Rome, 1644.

Soldier, priest, and epic poet, born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown.

Suffragan of Taranto.

The seat of the diocese is an industrial city, situated on the Bay of Naples, on a slope of Monte Gauro, and famous for its health-giving mineral springs.

Florentine painter, b. near Florence, 1390; d. at Florence, 9 August, 1457.

A titular see of Asia Minor, Latin title suppressed, 1894.

Diocese in Hungary, founded in 1804 by the division of the Diocese of Agria, in the archdiocese of the same name, and the Dioceses of Cassovia and Szatmar.

Fourth superior of Saint-Sulpice, Montreal, Canada, b. near Nantes, France, 1636; d. in 1701.

Roman writer, statesman, and monk, b. about 490; d. about 583.

Italian astronomer. (1625-1712)

Journalist, essayist, critic, b. at Albany, New York, U.S.A., 12 Aug., 1815; d. there 23 Jan., 1873.

Article on the monk and ascetic writer, who attempted to convey the teaching and way of life of the desert fathers and mothers to the fledgling monastic movement in Gaul.

Educator, b. in Ireland; d. in New York, where for many years he conducted a classical school.

Suffragan of Reggio.

Spanish Jesuit. (1673-1686)