Antiquary and scientist, b. 1752; d. 21 March, 1822.

First Bishop of Charleston, S.C. (1786-1842)

This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the largest and most populous, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Article on the relation of the post-Reformation Catholic church to the English state.

Dutch painter, b. at Leyden, 1468; d. there 1533; is believed to have been identical with a certain Cornelis de Hollandere who was a member of the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1492.

Went from excommunicated worldly soldier to martyred archbishop. He was killed by his cousin in 1225.

Abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Styria, b. of noble parents at Volkersdorf in Styria, c. 1250; d. 12 May, 1331.

A Benedictine monastery in Switzerland, formerly in the Diocese of Constance.

Canonist, b. at Castle Wagrein, Austria; d. at Grillenberg, 22 April 1694.

The name of a warm spring near the center of the west shore of the Dead Sea, and also of a town situated in the same place.

Includes the history and philosophy.

A property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital.

Austrian botanist, linguist, and historian, b. at Pressburg, Hungary, 24 June, 1804; d. at Vienna, 28 March, 1849.

Article by C.A. Dubray siscusses the group of philosophers who contributed to the Encyclopédie.

An abridgment of human knowledge in general or a considerable department thereof, treated from a uniform point of view or in a systematized summary.

According to its etymology, an encyclical is nothing more than a circular letter. In modern times, usage has confined the term almost exclusively to certain papal documents which differ in their technical form from the ordinary style of either Bulls or Briefs, and which in their superscription are explicitly addressed to the patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and bishops of the Universal Church in communion with the Apostolic See.

Literally, "abstainers" or "persons who practised continency", because they refrained from the use of wine, animal food, and marriage.

The name given in early Christian times to a species of reliquary worn round the neck, in which were enclosed relics.

Navigator and geographer, b. at Seville, Spain, c. 1470; d. probably about 1528 at Seville.

Dramatic poet, b. in Andalusia, Spain, c. 1585; date of death unknown.

Biographical article commenting on his musical and writing abilities and his priestly positions.

The most ardent literary opponent of Luther, born of a prominent family at Ulm, 20 March, 1477; died 8 Nov., 1527 at Dresden.

A meeting of the representatives of the German Archbishops Friedrich Karl von Erthal of Mainz, Maximilian Franz of Cologne, Clemens Wenceslaus of Trier, and Hieronymus von Colloredo of Salzburg, at the little town of Bad-Ems, near Coblenz, in August, 1786, for the purpose of protesting against papal interference in the exercise of episcopal powers and fixing the future relations between these archbishops and the Roman pontiff.