The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption.

Also known as Mochuda. Irish monk, priest, hermit, founder. He composed a monastic rule in Irish verse. Died in 637.

Founded by Phoenician colonists, and long the great opponent of Rome in the duel for supremacy, was destroyed by a Roman army, 146 B.C. A little more than a century later (44 B.C.), a new city composed of Roman colonists was founded on the site.

The city of the same name, residence of the archbishop, is situated on an island to the north of Tierra Bomba, Colombia.

Suffragan of Granada in Spain since the concordat of 1851, previously of Toledo.

First American bishop. (1735-1815)

Brother of Archbishop Carroll, b. at upper Marlboro, Maryland, U. S. A., 1733; d. at Washington, 1829.

American statesman. (1737-1832)

Born in the chateau de la Plesse in Avrille, Angers, France, 1 September, 1662; d. at Paris, 11 June 1717.

Moral theologian, thirteenth superior of the seminary and Society of Saint-Sulpice. (1795-1864)

A titular see of Mesopotamia.

In 1847 Carrera was, by a kind of election, made President of Guatemala, and seven years later he became dictator, that is, president for life with the right to designate his successor.

Spanish painter, b. at Avilés in Asturia, 1614; d. at Madrid, 1685.

Missionary among the Chontal Indians.

Archbishop of Toledo; b. at Miranda de Arga, Spain, 1503; d. at Rome, 2 May, 1576.

Italian painter, engraver, and etcher, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1557; d. at Parma, 22 March, 1602.

Situated in the province of Modena, Central Italy.

A titular see of Cyprus. Carpasia, Karpasia, also Karpasion is said to have been founded by King Pygmalion near Cape Sarpedon.

Venetian painter whose real name was Scarpazza, b. at Venice about 1455; d. in the same city between 1523 and 1526.

French Canadian statesman and magistrate. (1800-1876)

Franciscan friar and author, b. at Athlone, Ireland, in 1605; d. at Dublin, 1666.

A group of about 500 small coral islands, east of the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean.

A work in four books (120 or 121 chapters), purporting to be the composition of Charlemagne, and written about 790-92.