Chaplain to Cortés. Born 1510. Wrote a severely flawed history of the Spanish conquest of the New World, though he himself had never been there.

Bishop of St. Asaph, the last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England; b. between 1501 and 1515; d. in Rome, 3 April, 1585.

Brief biography of the Italian dramatist.

A precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year, and occasionally confer upon illustrious churches and sanctuaries as a token of special reverence and devotion, upon Catholic kings or queens, princes or princesses, renowned generals or other distinguished personages, upon governments or cities conspicuous for their Catholic spirit and loyalty to the Holy See, as a mark of esteem and paternal affection.

An object of worship among the Hebrews, mention of which occurs principally in Ex., xxxii, where the story of the molten calf of Aaron is narrated, and in III Kings, xii (cf. II Par., xi), in connection with the policy of Jeroboam after the schism of the ten tribes.

Names, respectively, of a king and of his supposed kingdom, mentioned several times in chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezechiel, and once in the Apocalypse (20:7).

Priest and writer. Born at Cologne, or according to some, at Broich, 6 December, 1648; died 11 August, 1719.

Oratorian; b. 1605; d. at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681.

Second superior-general of the Society of the Sacred Heart, daughter of Joseph Goetz of Strasburg and Marie Anne Wagner; b. 7 March, 1817; d. 4 January, 1874.

The name of two Abbots of Croyland.

German writer of the twelfth century.

A scholastic philosopher and theologian; born near Liège within the first half of the thirteenth century.

Duke of Lower Lorraine and first King of Jerusalem, son of Eustache II, Count of Boulogne, and of Ida, daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine; b. probably at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1060; d. at Jerusalem, 18 July, 1100.

Anglican Bishop of Gloucester. (1582-3-1656)

Bishop of Chartres, France; b. at Talcy, near Blois, 1647; d. at Chartres, 1709.

Physically and psychologically abused by her husband Bertolf and mother-in-law, until finally she was murdered at Bertolf's orders in 1070.

Born in about 640, superior of a convent at Noyon.

Bishop, poet and exegete; b. at Dreux in the diocese of Chartres, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April, 1672.

True name Tylden. Born at Addington, Kent, 1624; died in London, 1 Dec., 1688.

Benedictine abbot, bishop of Hildesheim, d. 1038.

Sections include essential dependence of the universe on God, divine immanence and transcendence, and possibility of the supernatural.

Covered as natural reason and faith.

The arguments for God's existence are variously classified and entitled by different writers, but all agree in recognizing the distinction between a priori, or deductive, and a posteriori, or inductive reasoning in this connection.