The name given to all that region of South America which extends along the Atlantic coast from the Orinoco to the Amazon.

Scientist, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1763; d. in the same city, l5 December, 1817.

Born at Udligerschwyl, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 25 August, 1782; died at Lucerne, 28 February, 1827.

In religion, Mother Theodore. Born at Etables (Côte du Nord), Brittany, France, 2 October, 1798; died 14 May, 1856.

Eugénie de Guérin, a French writer; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 15 January, 1805; d. there 5 June, 1848. Georges-Maurice de Guérin, a French poet, brother of Eugénie; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 5 August, 1810; d. there, 19 July, 1839.

Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715.

Benedictine and polygraph; b. 4 April, 1805, at Sablé-sur-Sarthe; d. at Solesmes, 30 January, 1875.

Born in Brabant, one of a family of saints. She died in the early eighth century.

German convert to the Catholic faith from the Protestant ministry; b. 11 April, 1596, at Cassel; d. February, 1680.

Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy).

The capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas.

Archdiocese conterminous with the Republic of Guatemala, in Central America.

Luigia Torelli, Countess of Guastalla (b. about 1500; d. 29 Oct., 1559 or 1569), widowed for the second time when she was twenty-five, resolved to devote her life to the service of God.

Situated in the province of Reggio Emilia (Central Italy) on the left bank of the Po at its junction with the Crostolo.

A humanist, b. 1370, at Verona, Italy; d. 1460, at Ferrara.

An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612.

A person intrusted by law with the interests of another whose youth, inexperience, mental weakness or feebleness of will, disqualifies him from acting for himself in the ordinary affairs of life, and who is known as the ward.

This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar.

The lowest orders of angels are sent to men.

Venetian painter. (1712-1793)

Province of Beira, Portugal.

A law passed by the senate and chamber of the Italian parliament, 13 May, 1871, concerning the prerogatives of the Holy See, and the relations between State and Church in the Kingdom of Italy.

A tribal group of South America, having the former home territory chiefly between the Uruguay and lower Paraguay Rivers, in what is now Paraguay and the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios of Argentina.