In almost every country and every order of the clergy, the clothing has its own distinctive features.

Theologian, born at Mechlin, 16 June, 1532 (1531); died at Brussels, 16 December, 1619.

Frequently known as Dom Anselmo, his name in religion, an Italian Camaldolese monk, historian, and theologian, b. 6 October, 1714, at Venice; d.23 January, 1785, in the same city.

Ferrarese painter, b. at Ferrara in 1460; d. at Mantua in 1535.

A narrow isthmus between Panama in the east and the Republic of Nicaragua in the north, the Caribbean Sea on the north-east and the Pacific Ocean on the south-west.

Italian painter of the school of Ferrara, b. about 1430; d. probably at Ferrara, 1485.

In our day cosmology is a branch of philosophical study, and therefore excludes from its investigation whatever forms the object of the natural sciences.

By this term is understood an account of how the universe (cosmos) came into being (gonia - gegona = I have become). It differs from cosmology, or the science of the universe, in this: that the latter aims at understanding the actual composition and governing laws of the universe as it now exists; while the former answers the question as to how it first came to be.

A peculiar style of inlaid ornamental mosaic introduced into the decorative art of Europe during the twelfth century.

Bohemian historian, b. about 1045, at Prague, Bohemia; d. there, 21 October, 1125.

A Greek traveller and geographer of the first half of the sixth century.

Short hagiography of these twins, physicians, and martyrs. They died on 27 September, probably in the year 287.

Eighth century Byzantine hymn writer.

Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, England.

Second Bishop of Davenport, Iowa. (1834-1906)

An archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See. A city in the province of Calabria, Southern Italy, at the confluence of the Crati and the Busento.

Navigator and cartographer, according to tradition b. in 1460 at Sta. Maria del Puerto (Santona), on the Bay of Biscay, Spain, d. on the coast of the Gulf of Uraba, 28 February, 1510.

A titular see of Asia Minor.

A titular see of Cilicia Trachæa in Asia Minor.

Benedictine monastery in the Diocese of Paderborn, in Westphalia, founded c. 820.

Immediately subject to the Holy See.

Cardinal and monastic reformer, b. 1483 at Modena; d. 21 Sept., 1548.

Conqueror of Mexico, born at Medellin in Spain c. 1485; died at Castilleja de la Cuesta near Seville, 2 December, 1547.