Historian and litterateur; born at Florence, Italy, 13 September, 1792; died 3 February, 1876.

Italian composer. (1811-1898)

Agreements, by which those taking part in the election of a bishop or pope imposed special conditions upon the candidate to be fulfilled by him after his election.

A titular see of Palestine, suffragan to Scythopolis in Palestina Secunda.

A titular see of Palestine.

Augustinian friar, historian, and theologian, b. at Lynn in Norfolk, 21 April, 1393.

Friar Minor, date of birth unknown; d. at Velletri in 1480.

Historian, b. at Marseilles, 1802; d. at Paris, 22 December, 1872.

Archbishop of Capua. (1824-1912)

Suffragan diocese of Salerno.

Erected by Pius IX, 3 October, 1861, in the ecclesiastical Province of Port au Prince.

King of Denmark, martyr, d. 1086.

King of the English, Danes, and Norwegians, b. about 994; d. at Shaftesbury, 12 November 1035.

Italian historian and poet, b. at Brivio, 8 December, 1807; d. at Milan, 11 March, 1895.

The chief singer (and sometimes instructor) of the ecclesiastical choir, called also precentor.

One of three books of Solomon, contained in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Christian Canon of the Scriptures.

Used in the English Catholic translation of the Bible as the equivalent of the Vulgate canticum in most, but not all, of the uses of that word; for where canticum is used for a sacred song.

The Ancient Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558.

A name given to the fourth Sunday after Easter.

Italian sculptor. (1757-1822)

A former castle of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the foothills of the Apennines.

An ornamental covering of cloth, stone, wood, or metal, used to crown an altar, throne, pulpit, or statue.

A titular see of Egypt.