Alias John Jones. Welsh Franciscan priest, martyred at Tyburn in 1598.

Also called John Bretton. Short biography of the layman and martyr.

Or John Boast. Priest, martyred at Durham in 1594. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Short biography of the English layman and martyr, who died in 1583.

Biography of this Jesuit, always pious, who died in 1621 at the age of 22.

Benedictine abbot. When Beche refused to grant that the king had any authority to confiscate St. John's Abbey, Colchester, he was thrown in the Tower on charges of treason. Though weak, he gained the crown of martyrdom in 1539.

Priest, canon, preacher, d. 1764.

Essay on the founder of the Christian Brothers.

Roman martyrs, c. 362.

Cloth merchant, widower, priest, martyred 1589.

Biographical sketch of the martyr.

A convert to Catholicism, he was martyred at Tyburn in 1586.

Bishop of Trent, d. 1860.

Dutch painter, b. at Calcker, or Calcar, about 1460; d. at Haarlem in 1519.

Profile of the Old Testament prophet and analysis of the book bearing his name.

Bishop of Bath and Wells, d. 19 Nov., 1242.

An English chronicler, of the late twelfth century.

Cistercian monk and Bishop of Glasgow; d. at Melrose Abbey in 1199.

One of the books of the Old Testament, and the chief personage in it.

John Holywood, a monk of English origin, lived in the first half of the thirteenth century as professor of astronomy at Paris; died in that city, 1256.

Princess, Dominican, d. 1490.

The fable about a female pope, who afterwards bore the name of Johanna (Joan), is first noticed in the middle of the thirteenth century.

Her brief life, her trial and death, swift rehabilitation, and her beatification in 1909.