Spanish preacher and satirist, b. at Villavidantes (Kingdom of Leon), 24 March, 1703; d. at Bologna, 2 November, 1782.

A titular see in the province of Pamphylia Secunda; it was a suffragan of Perge.

Spanish day laborer, married to St. María de la Cabeza. He died in 1130.

Cardinal and sometime Metropolitan of Kiev or Moscow, b. at Thessalonica (Saloniki) towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. at Rome, 27 April, 1463.

Biographical entry for this bishop, who died in 636.

Born at Alexandria, became a monk, opposed Nestorianism and Eutychianism, d. no later than 449-450.

Diocese in the province of Campobasso in Molise (Southern Italy).

Diocese, suffragan to Naples.

Titular see in the Province of Lycaonia, suffragan of Iconium.

Essay on the Biblical prophet and the book which bears his name.

Queen of Castile. (1451-1504)

Daughter of Blanche of Castille and sister of St. Louis IX. Founded a convent of Poor Clares. Died 1270.

Patriarch of the Persian Church, d. 410.

A Nestorian bishop of that city in the latter half of the seventh century, being consecrated by the Nestorian Patriarch George (660-80).

Catholicos or Patriarch of Armenia (338-439).

French Jesuit missionary to Canada, martyred in 1646.

The son of Abraham and Sara.

A religious sect called after Edward Irving (1792-1834), a deposed Presbyterian minister.

A quality of certain ecclesiastical offices and dignities. It implies that the incumbent's appointment is, under certain conditions, a perpetual one, or for the term of his natural life.

A canonical impediment directly impeding the reception of tonsure and Holy orders or preventing the exercise of orders already received.

A noted confederacy of five, and afterwards six, cognate tribes of Iroquoian stock, and closely cognate languages, formerly occupying central New York, and claiming right of conquest over nearly all the tribes from Hudson Bay to Tennessee River, and westward to Lake Michigan and Illinois River.

An Italian jurist and founder of the School of Glossators, b. at Bologna about 1050; d. there about 1130.

Includes the United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and South America.