French Orientalist and numismatist, b. at Rollot, near Montdidier, in Picardy, 1646, d. at Paris, 1715.

Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887.

A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, 5 October.

Vicariate Apostolic embracing the territory of the Galla or Oromo tribes in Abyssinia.

Late sixth- to early seventh-century Irish hermit.

In Switzerland, Canton St. Gall, 30 miles southeast of Constance; for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe; founded about 613, and named after Gallus, an Irishman, the disciple and companion of St. Columbanus in his exile from Luxeuil.

Princess, religious of the Sacred Heart; born at St. Petersburg, 22 February, 1797; died in Louisiana, 8 December, 1843.

Although in the popular mind Galileo is remembered chiefly as an astronomer, it was not in this character that he made really substantial contributions to human knowledge, but rather in the field of mechanics, and especially of dynamics, which science may be said to owe its existence to him.

An eminent Florentine architect; born 1691; died 1737.

The native land of Jesus Christ, where He began His ministry and performed many of His works, and whence He drew His Apostles.

Dominican, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist, and writer on aeronautics; b. 1699.

Galerius, a native of Illyria, was made Caesar 1 March, 293, by Diocletian, whose daughter Valeria he married and who in turn adopted her husband.

Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, Orientalist; b. at Galatia (now Cajazzo) in Apulia; d. at Rome, soon after 1539.

Background on Galatia, purpose and date, a summary of its contents, its importance and a discussion of some difficulties.

The sixteenth and twenty-third bishops of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) were both named Gal, and both are saints. The first St. Gal was bishop from 527 to 551, and the second, from 640-650.

French engraver and painter; b. at Paris, 7 Jan., 1834; d. there, 27 Jan., 1887.

A priest and author; born 5 June, 1732, in the parish of St. Nicholas, Dublin; died there, 6 December, 1804.

Ascetic writer and spiritual director; born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July, 1607.

Of the Russian family which traces its origin to the ancient rulers of Starodub; born at Moscow, 1 August, 1814; died at Paris, 19 July, 1882.

Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).

Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.

A titular see of Palaestina Prima; there were two sees of this name, one in Palaestina Prima, the other in Palaestina Secunda.

A proper name which designates in the Bible, (I), a patriarch; (II), a tribe of Israel; (III), a prophet; (IV), a pagan deity.