Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in 1517.

Philosopher; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of Genoa; d. 12 September, 1895, at Genoa.

Italian painter; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he carried out in Parma, Bologna, and Genoa, and for the designs executed for Clement XI for certain mosaics in St. Peter's.

Wife and mother, Benedictine oblate, mystic, d. 1440.

Biographical article on the Duchess of Brittany. While married, she was a great friend of the Poor Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites. After she was widowed, she became a Carmelite herself, and died in 1485.

Geography, statistics, and history.

The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla.

Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9.

The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland.

The Four Crowned Martyrs are actually two groups, with a total of nine or ten martyrs. The first five were masons or sculptors in Pannonia, martyred in 305. The second was a group of four martyrs, names unknown. They have been venerated since the fourth century and share a feast day on 8 November.

French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480.

A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, established by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York.

Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them.

An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of temporal goods to an ecclesiastical corporation or individual, either by gift during life or by will after death, on the condition of some spiritual work being done either in perpetuity or for a long time.

A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202.

A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868.

An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837.

St. Fothad Na Canoine ("of the Canon"), late eighth-century monk in County Donegal, bard.

Soldier, convert. (1823-1874)

Grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three or four centuries of the Christian Era.

Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a suffragan of Urbino.

Diocese located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, Northern Italy, a suffragan of Turin.

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is distinguished into that of the internal and external forum.