A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569.

Theologian. (d. 1682)

An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order.

An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near Novara. Italy, c. 1470: d. at Milan, 31 January, 1546.

Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See.

Diocese in the province of Leinster (Ireland), suffragan of Dublin.

A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan.

A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642.

A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century.

In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy).

A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, 1865.

A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions.

There are at least ten Irish saints named Fergus. This article gives details on three of them: St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict, bishop, d. about 730; St. Fergus, Bishop of Duleek, d. 778; and St. Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, d. 583.

In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See.

Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity. When a military mission of his brother failed, Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage, and died in captivity in 1443.

King of León and Castile, Third Order Franciscan, d. 1252.

Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, 1637.

A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 April, 1534.

Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. James Fenn, the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor.

French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in Périgord (Dordogne), 6 August, 1651; d. at Cambrai, 7 January, 1715.

Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and in the Jesuit gymnasium at Augsburg, and in 1770 entered the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, Bavaria.

An author and apologist, b at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802.

French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891.