A titular see of Palestina Prima.

Son of a Roman called Mauricius; he was consecrated Bishop of Rome 2 Nov., 676, to succeed Adeodatus II, after an interval of four months and seventeen days; d. 11 April, 678.

Primarily biographical article by Condé B. Pallen on the Spanish thinker.

A French cardinal, b. at Bourg-Argental (Loire), 1795; d. at Bordeaux, 1882.

Austrian sculptor, b. at Essling, Austria, 25 May, 1692; d. at Vienna, 15 February, 1741.

Three or possibly four Irish saints of this name lived in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Educator, b. in 1694, probably in Sligo, Ireland; date and place of death uncertain.

Second Earl of Limerick, b. 1634, at Castletown Kildrought, now Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland; d. at London, 1715.

Missionary among the lepers, b. at Tilburg in Holland, 27 Oct., 1807; d. 14 Jan., 1887.

Irish teacher and poet, Bishop of Fiesole, about 829-876.

The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the conference at Carthage in 411, after which its importance waned.

By this name is understood, since the end of the Middle Ages, a forged document of Emperor Constantine the Great, by which large privileges and rich possessions were conferred on the pope and the Roman Church.

The gratuitous transfer, or gift, of ownership of property.

The gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing.

One of the great Tuscan sculptors of the Renaissance, born at Florence, c. 1386; died there, 13 Dec., 1466.

Publisher, born at Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March, 1811; died at Boston, U.S.A., 18 March, 1901.

A title applied to the pope, which was in most frequent use between the sixth and the eleventh centuries.

A titular see of Isauria in Asia Minor.

Roman emperor and persecutor of the Church, son of Vespasian and younger brother and successor of the Emperor Titus; b. 24 Oct., A.D. 51, and reigned from 81 to 96.

An ancient form of devout salutation, incorporated in the liturgy of the Church, where it is employed as a prelude to certain formal prayers.

Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science, b. on the island of Arbe, off the coast of Dalmatia, in 1566; d. in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, Rome, September, 1624.

The eastern, and much larger political division of the island now comprehensively known as Haiti, which is the second in size of the Greater Antilles.

A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the "Proprium de Tempore" to the "Proprium Sanctorum" when constructing the ecclesiastical calendar for any year.