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Westphalian known as an historian and an ardent reformer of monastic life in his native land. (1358-1421)

Regarded in traditional lore as the greatest Irish architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban; b. at Turvey, near Malahide, Co. Dublin, about 560.

Moral theologian; born at Charmoilles, in the Diocese of Basil, now in the Department of the Doubs, France, 1 July, 1600; died 23 March, 1679.

Priest, hermit, d. 649.

Dominican and hellenist. (1601-1653)

The most northern portion of South America is a peninsula running into the Caribbean Sea.

Archdiocese in India.

History of Gnosticism from its pre-Christian roots through its developed doctrines concerning cosmogony, the Sophia-myth, soteriology, and eschatology. Includes information on rites, schools, and literature.

Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia.

The excessive indulgence in food and drink.

Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals.

The word gloss designates not only marginal notes, but also words or remarks inserted for various reasons in the very text of the Scriptures.

To gloss is to interpret or explain a text by taking up its words one after another. A glossary is therefore a collection of words about which observations and notes have been gathered, and a glossarist is one who thus explains or illustrates given texts.

In the English version of the Bible the word Glory, one of the commonest in the Scripture, is used to translate several Hebrew terms in the Old Testament, and the Greek doxa in the New Testament. Sometimes the Catholic versions employ brightness, where others use glory.

A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810.

The great doxology (hymnus angelicus) in the Mass is a version of a very old Greek form". It begins with the words sung by the angels at Christ's birth (Luke, ii, 14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology.

Founded by St. Kevin.

Originally signified, in common law, any farm, estate, or parcel of land, and the word is so used in the Theodosian Code. But in ecclesiastical law it has become the technical term for land permanently assigned for the maintenance of the incumbent of a parish, and is the oldest form of parochial endowment.

Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England.

Archdiocese in the south-west of Scotland.

Swiss humanist, poet, philosopher, geographer, mathematician, and musician, born at Mollis, near Glarus, Switzerland, in June, 1488, and died at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 27 March, 1563.

Chief Justiciar of England; b. at Stratford, Suffolk, England, date unknown; d. before Acre, Palestine, 1190.