First Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, England, subsequently Bishop of Segni, Italy, b. in 1652; d. 16 Nov., 1726.

From an association established by Dorothea Klara Wolff, in connection with the sisters, Mathilde and Maria Merkert, and Franziska Werner, 1842, in Nelsse (Prussia), to tend in their own homes, without compensation, helpless sick persons who could not or would not be received into the hospitals.

The wife of Zachary, mother of St. John the Baptist, and relative of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Some believe that it was Elizabeth who proclaimed the Magnificat.

Benedictine visionary, friend of Hildegarde of Bingen. Elizabeth died in 1165.

Even in her childhood was called "the good Betha." Third Order Franciscan, d. 1420.

Queen, also known as St. Isabel, d. 1336.

Also called St. Elizabeth of Thuringia. Biographical article on the princess, widow, Third Order Franciscan, who died in 1231.

Charitable associations of women in Germany which aim for the love of Christ to minister to the bodily and spiritual sufferings of the sick poor and of neglected children.

Biography of the founder of the Sisters of Charity in the United States.

Armenian historian of the fifth century, place and date of birth unknown, d. 480.

A Prophet of Israel.

British princess, virgin, and martyr, fl. c. 490. Venerated especially in Wales.

Or Eloi. Bishop of Noyon-Tournai, founded several monasteries, d. 660.

Geologist, b. at Canon (Dép. Calvados), near Caen, France, 25 Sept., 1798; d. at Canon, 21 Sept., 1874.

Died 518; one of the two Catholic bishops (with Flavian of Antioch) who resisted the attempt of the Emperor Anastasius I (491-518) to abolish the Council of Chalcedon (451).

Minister General of the Friars Minor, b., it is said, at Bevilia near Assisi, c. 1180; d. at Cortona, 22 April, 1253.

Old Testament prophet.

Mineralogist and chemist. (1755-1833)

The Elevation of the Mass is a rite of comparatively recent introduction.

A titular see in Palaestina Prima.

First Bishop of Tournai, early sixth century.

Native of Nicopolis, served as deacon in the Roman Church, d. about 189.

In its broadest sense election means a choice among many persons, things, or sides to be taken. In the stricter juridical sense it means the choice of one person among many for a definite charge or function.