Famous Pharisee and Rabbi.

The discover of the sea route to East Indies; born at Sines, Province of Alemtejo, Portugal, about 1469; died at Cochin, India, 24 December, 1524.

Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees.

The Diocese of Galveston was established in 1847 and comprises that part of the State of Texas, U.S.A., between the Sabine River on the east, the Colorado River on the west, the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and the northern line of the counties of Lampasas, Coryell, McLennan, Limestone, Freestone, Anderson, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, and Shelby on the north.

Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798.

Prince-Bishop of Brixen; b. 21 August, 1764, at Herbolzheim, Bresigau; d. 17 May, 1856.

Diocese in the province of Sassari (Sardinia), suffragan of Caglari.

Famous London priest. (1820-1906)

Philosopher, b. at Tropea, in Calabria, 2 April, 1770; d. at Naples, 13 Dec., 1846, where from 1831 he was a professor in the university.

Situated in the southwest of Scotland.

Prince, priest, and missionary. (1770-1840)

Princess; b. at Berlin, 28 Aug., 1748; d. at Angelmodde, near Münster, Westphalia, 17 April, 1806.

Diocese in the province of Lecce (Southern Italy).

French Jesuit. (1663-1749)

Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268.

Three saints by this name commemorated on 25 June.

This term is used to designate a certain group of religious opinions for some time peculiar to the Church of France, or Gallican Church, and the theological schools of that country.

The rite which prevailed in Gaul until about the middle or end of the eighth century.

A documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants.

Benedictine, historian and archaeologist; b. at Rome in 1724; d. there, 13 December, 1790.

Priest and poet; born at Zamora, Spain, 14 December, 1777; died at Madrid, 9 January, 1853.

Diocese in Ceylon, created by Leo XIII 25 Aug., 1893.

Oratorian and patristic scholar, born at Venice, 7 December, 1709; died there 12 January, 1779, or 1780.