A titular see of Syria Secunda, suffragan of Apamea.

Located in Norway.

French mathematician; born at Sedan, 31 December, 1755; died at Paris, 4 June, 1828.

Belgian geologist, b. at Liège, Belgium, 16 February, 1783; d. at Brussels, 15 January, 1875.

A professor of constitutional law, b. 1 August, 1768, at Berne, d. 21 May, 1854, at Solothurn, Switzerland.

Foundress of the Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (third order); b. in London, 23 January, 1803; d. 10 May, 1868.

This see takes its name from the city of Halifax which has been the seat of government in Nova Scotia since its foundation by Lord Cornwallis in 1749.

A titular see of Caria, suffragan of Stauropolis.

King of Norway, 935 (936) to 960 (961), youngest child of King Harold Fair Hair and Thora Mosterstang.

Comprises the six northern provinces of the island of Nippon, the island of Yezo, and the Kurile Islands, as well as the administration of the southern part of the island of Saghalin, which still belongs to the Diocese of Mohilev.

Bishop of Basle; b. in 763, of a noble family of Swabia; d. 17 March, 836, in the Abbey of Reichenau, on an island in the Lake of Constance.

An island of the Greater Antilles.

A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance.

The paintings in the catacombs permit the belief that the early Christians simply followed the fashion of their time. The short hair of the men and the waved tresses of the women were, towards the end of the second century, curled, frizzed with irons, and arranged in tiers, while for women the hair twined about the head forming a high diadem over the brow.

German missionary; b. at Munich, of a noble Bavarian family, 28 May, 1692; d. in Chile, 7 April, 1767.

Analysis of the prayer Ave Maria: origins and development.

Catechist, born in the Diocese of Ratisbon, 16 February, 1784; died 7 January, 1873.

Countess, convert and authoress, born 22 June, 1805; died 12 January, 1880.

Capital and seat of Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as of the (civil) Province of South Holland.

The name given to that branch of learning which has the saints and their worship for its object.

One of David's wives (II Kings, iii,4).

Town clerk of Cologne, and author of the Cologne "Reimchronik" (rhymed chronicle); died 1299.

Benedictine writer, provost of the Monastery of Afflighem, Belgium; born at Utrecht, 1588; died 31 July, 1648.