The name adopted by Varius Avitus Bassianus, Roman emperor (218-222), born of a Syrian family and a grandnephew of Julia Domna, the consort of Emperor Septimus Severus.

Medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer.

The oldest complete work of German literature.

A Carmelite, opponent of the Reformation in Denmark, born at Warberg (in the Laen of Halland), about 1480; died after 1534.

Discusses the Old Testament priest, and the New Testament father of Joseph.

A titular see of Bithynia Prima, suffragan of Prusa.

The mother of Constantine the Great, she died about 330.

Erected from the Vicariate of Montana, 7 March, 1884.

Biography of the twelfth-century Swedish widow and martyr, killed in perhaps the year 1160.

A former Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

German astronomer, b. at Cologne, 18 February, 1806; d. at Münster, Westphalia, 30 June, 1877.

Swiss painter. (1564-1609)

A medieval German poet of knightly rank; b. near Maastricht in the Netherlands about the middle of the twelfth century.

German satirist of the twelfth century; of knightly birth and probably a lay brother in the convent of Melk, in Styria.

Usually called "Frauenlob" (Woman's praise), a Middle High German lyric poet; b. at Meissen about 1250; d. at Mainz, 1318.

A German poet of the fifteenth century, d. at Strasburg in 1460; he was a priest in Freiburg (Breisgau), and later dean of the cathedral.

Founder of the Brethren of the Common Life in Germany. (1371-1439)

A Middle High German poet, author of a narrative poem "Reinhart Fuchs".

French historical painter, b. near Belfort, 1787, d. in Paris, 1865.

This name indicates the unknown author of some small mystical treatises, written about the beginning of the fourteenth century at the Cistercian Abbey of Heilsbronn.

Formerly a Cistercian monastery in the Diocese of Eichstatt in Middle Franconia.

An existing Cistercian monastery in the Wienerwald, eight miles north-west of Baden in Lower Austria.

The fame of Heidelberg is due to its university, which was founded in 1386 by the warlike Rupert I of Wittelsbach when he was over seventy years of age, on the model of the University of Paris.