Italian physician and mathematician. (1501-1576)

Diocese comprising the entire department of Aude, and suffragan to Toulouse.

Professor of mathematics and science. (1829-1889)

The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Third Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario. (1823-1887)

French author and bibliographer. (1813-1874)

Spanish ecclesiastic and writer. (1606-1682)

A Jewish sect professing to follow the text of the Bible (Miqra) to the exclusion of Rabbinical traditions, and hence opposed to the Talmud.

Seventh General of the Society of Jesus. (1585-1649)

Located in the Republic of Venezuela, a metropolitan see with the Barquisimeto, Calabozo, Guayana, Merida, and Zulia as suffragans.

Roman Emperor, son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, b. 188; d. 217.

Friar Minor Capuchin and theologian, born in Aragon, in 1628; died in 1694.

Apostolic prefecture situated in South America on the southern border of the Republic of Colombia.

From caputium, hood - So named from the headgear which was one of their distinctive marks.

A branch of the Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance, instituted at Naples, in 1538, by the Venerable Maria Longo.

An autonomous branch of the first Franciscan Order.

Situated in the province of Caserta, Southern Italy.

Includes the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman captivities.

In the Douay version captain represents several different Hebrew and Latin words, and designates both civil and military officers.

Titular see of North Africa.

A theologian, born towards the end of the fourteenth century, (about 1380), in the diocese of Rodez, France; died in that city 6 April, 1444.

Statesman and cardinal, born at Bologna, 29 May, 1733; died at Paris, 27 July, 1810.

Cardinal, theologian, canonist, and statesman, b. at Capranica near Palestrina, Italy, in 1400; d. at Rome, 14 July, 1458.