Layman, the last martyr under Henry VIII. Executed at Tyburn on 7 March, 1544, for refusing to grant that the King was the head of the English and Irish Church.

Sickly, pious shepherdess, cruelly treated by her stepmother. St. Germaine died in 1601, at the age of 22.

A married lawyer, rather worldly, became Bishop of Auxerre, d. 448 or 450. Biography.

Monk, Bishop of Paris, d. 576.

Provost of that place and Austin canon, one of the most distinguished theologians of Germany in the twelfth century, b. at Polling, Bavaria, 1093; d. at Reichersberg, 27 June, 1169.

Born at Zütphen, 1367; died at Windesheim, 1398; a mystical writer and one of the first of the Brothers of the Common Life, founded by Gerhard Groote and Florentius Radewyn at Deventer, in the Netherlands.

Cardinal and theologian; b. at Samoëns in Savoy, 20 June, 1718; d. at Rome, 12 August 1802.

French missionary; born at Verdun, 4 June, 1654; died at Peking, China, 27 March, 1707.

A French bishop and writer; b. at Poligny (Jura), 1798; d. at Perpignan (Pyrénées Orientales), 1864.

A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1628-1711)

A titular see in the province of Arabia and the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Also Geraldus Othonis, or Ottonis, a medieval theologian and Minister General of the Franciscan Order; born probably at Châteauroux, in the present department of Indre, France, date unknown; died at Catania, Sicily, 1348.

Confessor; born about 1635; died 11 March, 1680.

Jesuit; born 4 October, 1564; died 27 July, 1637.

Biography of this tenth-century bishop.

Date of birth unknown; died at Southwell, 21 May, 1108.

Soldier turned monk, d. 959.

A twelfth-century student of Arabic science and translator from Arabic into Latin; born at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187.

Tailor, Redemptorist, called "Father of the Poor," d. 1755.

French statesman and writer, born at Lyons, 29 February, 1772; died at Paris, 10 November, 1842.

In religion, Brother Mary Joseph; Abbot and procurator-general of La Trappe, came of a noble and ancient family in Hungary; b. in Lyons, 14 Jan., 1772; d. at Rome, 15 March, 1848.

Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide.

English monk, Bishop of Mayo, d. 731. Brief biography.