The ruins of this monastery are situated on the right bank of the River Suir, about three miles south-west of the cathedral town of Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

By Communion is meant the actual reception of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

The possession of the seamless garment of Christ, for which the soldiers cast lots at the Crucifixion, is claimed by the cathedral of Trier and by the parish church of Argenteuil.

A children's association for the benefit of foreign missions.

Founded in England in 1840 by Mrs. Cornelia Connelly, née Peacock, a native of Philadelphia, U.S.A., who had become a convert to the Catholic Faith in 1835.

The Emperor Francis I of Austria, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and the Tsar Alexander I of Russia, signed a treaty on 26 September, 1815, by which they united in a "Holy Alliance."

An association for giving special honour to the mental sufferings of Christ during His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemani.

German novelist, poet, and dramatist; b. at Breslau, 24 January, 1798; d. in that city, 12 February, 1880.

German philologist, b. at Hamburg, 1596; d. at Rome, 2 February, 1661.

As suggested by its Greek origin (holos "whole", and kaustos "burnt") the word designates an offering entirely consumed by fire, in use among the Jews and some pagan nations of antiquity. [Definition from 1910.]

Catholic educator and priest; born at Windsor, Vermont, in 1799; died at Lorette, near Quebec, Canada, in 1852.

Statistics and other information about Dutch immigrants.

Holiness or sanctity is the outcome of sanctification, that Divine act by which God freely justifies us, and by which He has claimed us for His own; by our resulting sanctity, in act as well as in habit, we claim Him as our Beginning and as the End towards which we daily unflinchingly tend.

An English priest; born 1596; died March, 1662.

A German painter; b. at Augsburg about 1460; d. at Isenheim, Alsace, in 1524.

A titular Bishop of Sardica, famous for his many supposedly miraculous cures. (1794-1849)

A suppressed nunnery, situated on the Odilienberg, the most famous of the Vosges mountains in Alsace.

A Benedictine historian; born at Spörl near Belgrade, 25 June, 1718; died at the monastery of Rheinau, near Schaffhausen in Switzerland, 18 December, 1795.

Better known, on account of his long sojourn in France, as Abbé Hogan. (1829-1901)

A patriot and soldier, born at St. Leonhard in Passeyrthale, Tyrol, 22 Nov., 1767; executed at Mantua, 20 Feb., 1810.

Archdiocese comprises Tasmania, Bruni Island, and the Cape Barren, Flinders, King, and other islands in Bass Straits.

Botanist and schoolmaster. (1773-1844)

A theologian and liturgical writer, born about 1525, at Cologne; died there in 1584.