Either extra-judicial or judicial: the former might be likened to a coroner's inquest in civil law; while the latter is similar to an investigation by the grand jury.

By this term is usually meant a special ecclesiastical institutional for combating or suppressing heresy.

Opened at Innsbruck in 1562 by Blessed Peter Canisius, at the request and on the foundation of the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

Reigned 1721-24.

Reigned 1691-1700.

Lengthy biography of this pope known for his piety and unselfish devotion to duty.

Reigned 1644-1655.

Reigned 1484-1492.

Reigned 1406.

Reigned 1352-1362.

French Dominican, known as "most famous doctor," d. 1276.

Reigned 1591.

Reigned 1243-1254.

Reigned 1198-1216.

Reigned 1130-1143.

Unanimously chosen to succeed Anastasius. Essay on his writings and some of the more notable events of his pontificate. Innocent died in 417.

The violation of another's strict right against his reasonable will, and the value of the word right is determined to be the moral power of having or doing or exacting something in support or furtherance of one's own advantage.

A Franciscan preacher who flourished about 1225.

Abbot of Croyland, Lincolnshire; d. there 17 December 1109.

A French painter, b. at Montauban, 29 August, 1780; d. at Paris, 14 January, 1867.

Founded by Louis the Rich, Duke of Bavaria.

Italian astronomer, b. at Volterra, Tuscany, 16 April, 1779; d. at Florence, 15 August, 1851.

Investigator of the physiology of plants, physicist, and physician. (1730-1799)