Originally founded by St. Louis Grignon de Montfort in 1705, but it did not spread much till it was amalgamated with one founded in 1835 by Monsignor Deshayes. Vicar-General of Rennes.

One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible.

A learned Maronite, famous for his share in the publication of the Parisian polyglot of the Bible; b. 1577, at Edden on the Lebanon; d. 1648.

Passionist student, d. 1862.

Short biography of this Jesuit missionary.

Formerly called the Vicariate Apostolic of the Two Guineas.

The Aramaic appellation of a place in Jerusalem, designated also under the Greek name of Lithostrotos.

A titular see of Syria Prima.

Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.