Missionary, born at Bingen, Germany, 4 August, 1721; died at the College of Polstok, Polish Russia, 29 June, 1809.

Theologian and principal adversary of Luther. Detailed profile by J.P. Kirsch.

A Benedictine monastery in the town of that name, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Diocese of Trier.

Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, b. 18 March, 1545, in the Castle of Mespelbrunn, Spessart (Bavaria); d. 13 Sept., 1617, at Würzburg.

A titular see of Thessaly, Greece.

Painter, born at Zumaya, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in the latter part of the sixteenth century; died in Mexico about the middle of the seventeenth.

Historian of the Dominicans, born at Rouen, France, 22 September, 1644; died at Paris, 15 March, 1724.

Thirteenth-century Friar Minor and chronicler.

Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore, U.S.A. (1801-1851)

The longest of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible, and the last of the Sapiential writings in the Vulgate of the Old Testament.

Article explores the origin, history, and types.

All ecclesiastical architecture may be said to have been evolved from two distinct germ-cells, the oblong and the circular chamber.

The name given to the book of Holy Scripture which usually follows the Proverbs; the Hebrew Qoheleth probably has the same meaning.

The name of two German mystics.

Two varieties: the earlier group called Ebionites denied the divinity of Christ; the later Ebionites were a Gnostic sect who believed that matter was eternal and was God's body.

Theologian and controversialist, born 25 May, 1597, at Rendweisdorff, in Bavaria; died 8 April, 1675.

Bishop of Trier, b. 15 Nov., 1815, at Trier (Germany), d. there 30 May, 1876.

A German chronicler about the beginning of the fourteenth century.

German chronicler, professor, and statesman, b. 12 August, 1385, at Haselbach, in Upper Austria; d. at Vienna, 8 Jan., 1464.

Archbishop of Reims, b. towards the end of the eighth century; d. 20 March, 851.

Second bishop of Hexham, d. 686.

Cardinal, born at Easton in Norfolk; died at Rome, 15 September (according to others, 20 October), 1397.

Abbot of Wearmouth, nephew of St. Benedict Biscop; born 650, died 7 March, 686.