Biblical criticism in its fullest comprehension is the examination of the literary origins and historical values of the books composing the Bible, with the state in which these exist at the present day.

African matron, martyred in Numidia in 304.

Capuchin lay brother, d. 1750.

Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution, d. 285 or 286.

A Græco-Slavonic Rite diocese in Croatia.

Nullifies marriage according to ecclesiastical law, and arises from adultery and homicide separately or together.

The crib or manger in which the Infant Saviour was laid after his birth is properly that place in the stable or khan where food for domestic animals is put, formed probably of the same material out of which the grotto itself is hewn.

French agriculturist, b. at Caen, France, 1731; d. at Sarcelles, near Paris, 1813.

Journalist and historian; b. at Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendee, France, 23 Sept., 1803; d. at Vincennes near Paris, 1 Jan., 1875.

First Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. (1799-1857)

Controversialist, b. 1577 of Yorkshire stock in London; d. about 1623.

Doctor of Theology and English Benedictine monk, b. at Thorpe-Salvin, Yorkshire, about 1605; d. at East Grinstead, Sussex, 10 August, 1674.

A Latin canonist of uncertain date and place, flourished probably in the latter half of the seventh century, though it may have been at the end of the sixth or even in the eighth century.

Italian historian of literature, chronicler, and poet, b. in Macerata, 9 Oct., 1663; d. 8 March 1728.

The name of several leaders of the Roman aristocracy in the tenth century, during their opposition to the imperial government of the time.

A companion of St. Paul during his second Roman captivity, appears but once in the New Testament, when he is mentioned as having left the Apostle to go into Galatia.

Jesuit missionary in Canada and vicar Apostolic for the Montagnais Indians; b. at Arras, France, 16 March, 1638; d. at Quebec in 1702.

Suffragan of Milan.

The custom of burning the bodies of the dead.

Suffragan to Milan.

Swiss Catholic priest. (1816-1889)

An institution located at Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., and conducted by the Jesuit Fathers.

An important confederacy of Indian tribes and tribal remnants, chiefly of Muskogian stock, formerly holding the greater portion of Central and Southern Georgia and Alabama.