Humanist; b. probably in 1433, at Heeck (Westphalia); d. 7 December, 1498.

Fourth-century translator of Josephus.

Second-century writer, opposed Marcionism and Gnosticism.

Article by William Turner, evaluating this school of thought.

Bishop of Rottenburg, b. at Unterkochen, Würtemberg, 15 March, 1890; d. at Rottenburg, 5 June, 1893.

A village in the diocese of Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Holland, in which the dispersed religious of the confiscated Norbertine Abbey of Berne created a new abbey and college.

Catholic statesman and writer on art, b. 26 Aug., 1832, at Surenburg near Riesenbeck, Westphalia; d. 23 March, 1903, at Berlin.

Merchant and philanthropist; b. in King's County, Ireland, 1754; d. at Brooklyn, U.S.A., 3 May, 1848.

Duchess of Silesia, aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Hedwig married Henry I, and was the mother of seven. Upon her husband's death, she entered a Cistercian monastery. Died 1243.

The name given to the group of ethical systems that hold, with various modifications, that feelings of pleasure or happiness are the highest and final aim of conduct; that, consequently those actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constituted right, and, conversely, what increases pain is wrong.

Missionary, author, founder of the Paulists; b. in New York, 18 December, 1819; d. there, 22 Dec., 1888.

An ancient royal city of Chanaan, famous in biblical history, especially at the time of the patriarchs and under David.

Vicariate Apostolic of New Hebrides; in Oceania.

The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of Christ and His Divine mediatorial office.

Hebrew was the language spoken by the ancient Israelites, and in which were composed nearly all of the books of the Old Testament.

As compared with the Latin Vulgate, the Hebrew Bible includes the entire Old Testament with the exception of the seven deuterocanonical books, Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, I and II Machabees, and the deuterocanonical portions of Esther (x, 4 to end) and Daniel (iii, 24-90; xiii; xiv).

In the Holy Bible the term heaven denotes, in the first place, the blue firmament, or the region of the clouds that pass along the sky. Gen., i, 20, speaks of the birds "under the firmament of heaven". In other passages it denotes the region of the stars that shine in the sky. Furthermore heaven is spoken of as the dwelling of God; for, although God is omnipresent, He manifests Himself in a special manner in the light and grandeur of the firmament.

Description of this devotion, along with its history.

Details on several congregations under this name.

Description, spiritual significance, and historical background of devotion to the Sacred Heart.

The triangular candlestick used in the Tenebrae service.

An American portrait and historical painter, b. at Boston, 15 July, 1808; d. at Chicago, 14 June 1894.

Controversialist, orator, and writer, b. 28 October, 1617, at Oudenarde in the Netherlands; entered the Society of Jesus, 24 Sept., 1634; d. 25 October, 1690, at Antwerp.