A survey of the role of church history, the history of the Catholic Church and historiography of church history.

Professor of moral theology and catechetics at the University of Freiburg in the Breisgau.

A celebrated Benedictine monastery in Würtemberg, Diocese of Spires.

Titular see of Tunis.

Several mentions of a saint or saints named Hippolytus occur in the Roman Martyrology. Some must be identified with Hippolytus of Rome, but at least one (a "Greek martyr") cannot possibly be the same person as the Roman presbyter.

Presbyter, antipope, martyr, died about 236.

Titular see of Numidia.

Titular see of Northern Africa.

Canadian physician and surgeon, b. at Hinchinbrook near Huntingdon, Quebec, June 29, 1829; d. at Montreal, 19 February, 1907.

The conglomeration of religious beliefs and practices existing in India that have grown out of ancient Brahminism.

A German missionary in China, born at Reiningen, near Mülhausen, in Alsace, 21 Sept., 1668; died 24 Aug., 1744.

Archbishop of Reims.

A bishop of Laon, died 879.

An Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain, 385.

A titular see in the province of Osrhoene, suffragan of Edessa.

Article about the spiritual writings of this Augustinian mystic, d. 1396.

Short essay on the Jewish rabbi and philosopher.

Died 22 November, 840.

An exempt see, comprising the Prussian province of Hanover east of the Weser, besides the Duchy of Brunswick.

Seer and prophet, Sibyl of the Rhine, d. 1179. Never formally canonized, but she is listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours, and celebrated medieval poet; b. about 1056, at the Castle of Lavardin near Montoir on the Loire; d. 8 December, 1133 or 1134.

Biographical article on the influential abbess, who died in 680.

Biographical article on this bishop, a staunch opponent of Arianism, who died in 368. Includes bibliography.