Companion of St. Columbanus and second abbot of Luxeuil, d. 625.

His own father had him arrested for secretly taking Holy Orders, and Maurice's brother accused him of treason. Martyred at Dublin in 1581.

Antiquary, b. in Ireland, c. 1762; d. at Naples, Italy, 1 Aug., 1815.

English convert to Catholicism, priest, missionary to his native land, martyred in 1591. Short biography.

Anti-Arian bishop of Samosata, martyr, d. 379 or 380.

A Roman presbyter, confessor, d. possibly in 357.

Bishop of Vercelli, exiled for defending St. Athanasius, anti-Arian, martyr, d. 371.

Reigned for only four months, in 309 or 310, was deported, died in exile, is counted as a martyr.

Consists of two parts: the first was probably called by Eusebius the "Chronograph" or "Chronographies"; the second he terms the "Canon", or "Canons", and also the "Chronological Canons".

Bishop, place and date of birth unknown; d. 341. He was a pupil at Antioch of Lucian the Martyr, in whose famous school he learned his Arian doctrines.

An Alexandrian deacon who had some fame as a confessor and became bishop of Laodicea in Syria, date of birth uncertain: d. about 268.

Bishop of Dorylæum in Asia Minor, was the prime mover on behalf of Catholic orthodoxy against the heresies of Nestorius and Eutyches.

Biographical article on the "Father of Church History."

Ecclesiastical writer and author of a number of homilies well known in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Bishop of Angers, b. in the early part of the eleventh century; d. at Angers, 29 August, 1081.

A titular see in Provincis Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis.

The conception of Europe as a distinct division of the earth, separate from Asia and Africa, had its origin in ancient times.

A titular see of Epirus Vetus in Greece, suffragan of Nicopolis.

According to the Vitae Patrum, passed as a man and lived in a men's monastery for 38 years. She died in about 470.

A desert mother, died after 410.

Succeeded as patriarch Flavitas (or Fravitas, 489-490), who succeeded Acacius (471-489).

A phase of extreme Arianism prevalent amongst a section of Eastern churchmen from about 350 until 381; as a sect it is not heard of after the middle of the fifth century.

A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana in Asia Minor, and suffragan to Hierapolis.