Bishop of Worcester, b. about 1235; d. 26 Jan., 1301.

Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734

One of the Greater Judges of Israel. He belonged to the tribe of Manasses, and to the family of Abiezer.

A rugged promontory in the province of Andalusia, Spain, about 6 miles in circumference. Its almost perpendicular walls rise to a height of 1396 feet.

Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736.

Cardinal, and Bishop of Verona, the natural son of Francesco Giberti, a Genoese naval captain, b. at Palermo in 1495; d. at Verona, 30 Dec., 1543.

Brother of Father John Gibbons, born at Winchester, 1550 or 1549; died at Douai, 23 June, 1632.

Jesuit theologian and controversialist; b. 1544, at or near Wells, Somersetshire; died 16 Aug. or 3 Dec., 1589.

Missionary, b. at Montreal, Canada, 1737; d. at New Madrid, about 1804.

A Maronite residential see.

Italian historian, born 7 May, 1676, at Ischitella in the province of Capinata, Naples; died at Turin, 27 March, 1748.

The principal ceremonial rite of an Indian religion which originated about 1887 with Wovoka, alias jack Wilson, an Indian of the Piute tribe in Nevada.

Hermit in Belgium, confessor, died c. 680.

Florentine painter; b. 1449; d. 11 Jan., 1494.

Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455.

Names adopted by the two factions that kept Italy divided and devastated by civil war during the greater part of the later Middle Ages.

Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium.

Prefecture Apostolic in the French Sahara, separated in 1901 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Sahara and the Soudan.

German historian; b. at Calw, Würtemberg, 5 March, 1803; d. at Karlsbad, 6 July, 1861.

Seat of two Catholic residential sees, one Chaldean, the other Syrian.

An abbey of the Order of Reformed Cistercians, commonly called Trappists, established in 1848 in Nelson Co., Kentucky, in the Diocese of Louisville, being the first abbey on American soil.

The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews.

A medieval collection of anecdotes, to which moral reflections are attached.