Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, adviser and confessor to King Leo V (or VI) of Armenia.

A titular see in the province of Hellespont, suffragan of Cyzicus.

Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Fayl-Billot, near Langres, 1813; killed by Communists at Paris, 24 May, 1871.

Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.

Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576.

Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at Alatri, 19 Oct., 1586.

An annotated (in linked hypertext) biography of the poet.

A titular see in Osrhoene.

Franciscan missionaries and martyrs, d. 10 October, 1227.

Priest and professor, Born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October, 1823.

Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, 1728.

Founded the "Etudes de théologie et d' histoire", a magazine with monthly publication. (1818-1893)

In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its deutero-canonical parts, both of which have an equal right to be considered as inspired, and to be included in a treatment of the Book of Daniel.

Bishop of the West Saxons, and ruler of the See of Winchester from 705 to 744; died in 745.

Short biographical profile of this nineteenth-century Italian missionary to Africa.

The hero and traditional author of the book which bears his name.

Doge of Venice from 1192 to 1205; died, aged about a hundred years, in 1205.

The origin of dancing is from the natural tendency to employ gesture either to supplement or to replace speech.

Originally a species of spectacular play akin to the English moralities. It has been traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century.

A titular see of Phænicia Secunda.

The fifth son of Jacob, being the elder of the two sons born to him by Bala, the handmaid of Rachel, and the eponymous ancestor of the tribe bearing the same name.

An Egyptian titular see for the Latins and the Catholic Melchite Greeks, in Augustamnica Prima.

Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai.