A medieval ecclesiastical author, born in the fourteenth century in Bohemia; died at Prague, 30 Nov., 1394.

Theologian, born at Hirschau, in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria), 4 Feb., 1836; died 1 November, 1895.

Biography of the widowed baroness, mother, founder of the Congregation of the Visitation, who died in 1641.

General of the Dominican order, born at Gerbevilliers (Lorraine), 18 July, 1810; died at Rome, 11 December, 1872.

Cistercian, born at Brünn, Moravia, 13 October, 1827; died 23 July, 1898, at Baden, near Vienna.

The author is commonly identified with the Lord's brother, the Bishop of Jerusalem; the view that the Lord's brother must be identified with James, the son of Alpheus, is by far the most probable.

Also called James Hudson. Priest who was imprisoned and then martyred at York in 1582.

Identifies James the Less with James the Apostle, son of Alpheus, and with James the brother of the Lord.

What can be known of St. James, son of Zebedee and brother of John, from Scripture. Also discusses the tradition that St. James preached in Spain and that his body was translated to Compostela.

Born at Bologna; died in the same city in 1460.

Surnamed Gangala, civil lawyer, Franciscan priest, d. 1476.

A writer of the Syrian Church.

A celebrated Syrian writer, b. most likely in A.D. 633; d. 5 June, 708.

Theologian of the fifteenth century.

Convert to Catholicism, publisher and bookseller, martyred in 1601.

Ordained priest in Mary's reign, served the Established Church under Queen Elizabeth, but returned to the Catholic Church and became a missionary. He was martyred along with a layman, John Finch, in 1584.

Franciscan, missionary, date and place of birth unknown; died in France, 1625; an important figure in the early history of the Church in Canada.

The largest of the British West Indian islands, situated in the Caribbean Sea.

A form of religion intermediate between Brahminism and Buddhism, originated in India in pre-Christian times.

Situated in the northern portion of Ceylon, Jaffna comprises the northern and north-central provinces of the island.

A titular see in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Thirteenth Archbishop of Canterbury; died at Canterbury 11 or 12 August, 791.

Diocese in Southern Spain.