Known as the First and Second Books of Kings in the Authorized Version, in the Hebrew editions and the Protestant versions these are known as 1st and 2nd Samuel, with the Third and Fourth Books of Kings being styled First and Second Books of Kings.

Offers a table with the kings from the Bible.

The name of two abbots who ruled Glastonbury in the seventh and eighth centuries respectively.

In this expression the innermost teaching of the Old Testament is summed up, but it should be noted that the word kingdom means ruling as well; thus it signifies not so much the actual kingdom as the sway of the king.

The portion of South Africa which at the present day forms the Vicariate of Kimberley in Orange became in the division of the Vicariate of Good Hope part of the Eastern District, and later on part of the Vicariate of Natal.

Vicariate apostolic; suffragan of Adelaide, erected by Leo XIII, 5 May, 1887.

Located in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of the same name, where a church was said to have been founded early in the eighth century by St. Winning.

Archbishop of Canterbury. (d. 1279)

Diocese in Ireland, includes almost all Cavan and about half of Leitrim.

A suffragan diocese of Cashel.

Diocese, one of the five suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical Province of Tuam.

Missionary, bishop of Würzburg, martyred with his companions Colman and Totnan in about 689.

Situated in Magh Liffe, or the Plain of the Liffey, came to be known as Cill-Dara, or the Church of the Oak, from the stately oak-tree so much loved by St. Brigid, who under its branches laid the foundations of what in process of time became a monastic city.

One of the four suffragans of Dublin, Ireland.

Of the many Irish saints of this name, the most famous is St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise. SS. Kieran of Seir-Kieran and Kieran of Disert-Kieran are fairly well-known. There is also a St. Kieran, patron of Clonsost, and a St. Kieran, son of Colga.

Diocese in the southern part of Russian Poland.

Patriot, novelist, and poet, b. at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1828; d. at Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 22 Aug., 1882.

Apparently corrupted from a longer term signifying "roamers", a tribe of Algonquian stock, closely related dialectically to the Sauk and Foxes, and living when first known in south central Wisconsin.

Separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1879, and organized into an independent Vicariate Apostolic.

Father Matteo Ricci of the Society of Jesus was the first missionary who entered the province of Kiang-si at the end of the sixteenth century.

The mission of Eastern Kiang-si was separated from the mission of Northern Kiang-si in 1885.

The Vicariate comprises the two provinces of Kiang-su and Ngan-hwei.

Armenian Uniat diocese created in 1850.