Tribunals for the trial of children charged with crimes or offences.

Fourth-century Christian Latin poet.

The first bishop of Rochester, and later the fourth archbishop of Canterbury, died possibly in 627.

A titular see of Armenia Prima, suffragan of Sebaste.

Theological and Biblical writer. (1550-1622)

Roman Emperor (527-65).

Lengthy article on the life and teachings of the apologist.

Italian, a Lazarist priest, titular bishop of Nilopolis, d. 1860.

A biblio-ecclesiastical term; which denotes the transforming of the sinner from the state of unrighteousness to the state of holiness and sonship of God.

In its ordinary and proper sense, signifiies the most important of the cardinal virtues.

The name conventionally applied to a family of Italian sculptors, whose real name was Betti, originally from San Martino a Mensola, near Florence.

Name of five French botanists.

A claim, exercised in the Middle Ages, of succession to the property of deceased clerics, at least such as they had derived from their ecclesiastical benefices.

The right to guide and rule the Church of God.

Biography of the famed Franciscan priest, missionary to Mexico and California, who died in 1784.

In 1850 he entered the German College at Rome, and was ordained priest in 1855. He afterwards joined the Society of Jesus.

A dogmatic theologian and ecclesiastical historian, born at Münster in Westphalia, 1 March, 1833; died at Louvain, 12 Jan., 1895.

Founded in 634 by St. Philibert, who had been the companion of Sts. Ouen and Wandrille at the Merovingian court.

Born at Rome, 10 September, 1487; died there, 23 March, 1555.

Born on 5 December, 1443, at Albissola near Savona; crowned on 28 November, 1503; died at Rome, in the night of 20-21 February, 1513.

A Roman, anti-Arian, supporter of St. Athanasius. Julius died in 352.

The father of Christian chronography.

Titular see in the province of Bithynia Secunda, suffragan of Nicaea.