Spanish priest and historian of the sixteenth century.

Poet and novelist; born at Ronda (Malaga), Spain, 1544; died at Madrid, 1634.

French theologian, born in 1511 at Châlons-sur-Marne; died 5 Oct., 1571, at Paris.

Belgian canonist, born at Louvain, 9 July, 1646; died at Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2 Oct., 1728.

A Spanish explorer, whose fame rests upon a notable expedition which he conducted into New Mexico and Arizona in 1582-3.

Captain in the French marine, b. 1565, at Allouville, near Yvetot (Seine-Inferieure); d. at St. Christopher in Dec., 1636.

A littoral race occupying the entire Arctic coast and outlying islands of America from below Cook Inlet in Alaska to the mouth of the St. Lawrence.

Archbishop of Lund, Skåne, Sweden; b. about 1100; d. at Clairvaux, 6 (7?) Sept., 1181.

Eighth Bishop of Quebec, Canada; born Quebec, 24 April, 1710; died 7 June, 1788.

Or Ezra. Article on the man and the books which bear his name.

A building in Spain situated on the south-eastern slope of the Sierra Guadarrama about twenty-seven miles north-west of Madrid. Its proper title is El Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial , Escorial being the name of a small town in the vicinity.

Mystic and foundress of a modified branch of the Brigittine Order b. at Valladolid, Spain, 8 Feb., 1554; d. there 9 June, 1633.

Preacher and writer, born at Valladolid in 1589; died there, 4 July, 1669.

A survey of the subject in various pre-Christian religions and cultures, an examination of the development of eschatology in the Old Testament, brief overview of Christian teaching.

A famous mystical theologian, b. in Oisterwijk near Hertogenbosch (Boisle-Duc), Holland, in 1507; d. 19 July, 1578.

The eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca, the twin-brother of Jacob.

The kings of Armenia established their summer residence here. Later Garin fell into the power of the Byzantines, who named it Theodosiopolis (415), under which title it is still a Latin titular see.

A titular see in Asia Minor. According to legend the city was founded by colonists from Crete.

One of the architects of the Strasburg cathedral, date of birth unknown; d. at Strasburg, 17 January, 1318.

Last Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, b. 3 Jan., 1719, at Mainz; d. 25 July, 1802, at Aschaffenburg.

Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg, b. at Lohr on the Main, 16 September, 1730; d. at Würzburg, 16 February, 1795.

Cardinal, b. at Rome, 13 Feb., 1739; d. at Paris, 20 March, 1811.

Reduplicatively regarded, is in one way or another the product of ignorance. But besides the lack of information which it implies, it adds the positive element of a mental judgment, by which something false is held to be true, or something true avouched to be false.