In Austria, embraces the northern part of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Next to Heidelberg, the oldest university in the German Empire.

Chief town in the Kingdom of Saxony, situated at the junction of the Pleisse, Parthe, and Weisse Elster.

A thorough overview of the life and views of Leibniz.

Founded in 1180 by Otto II, Margrave of Brandenburg, for Cistercian monks.

French theologian and noted doctor of the Sorbonne, b. in Burgundy at Lusigny-sur-Ouche, 12 June, 1711, d. at Issy (Paris), 21 July, 1780.

The canonical term for the act by which the irregularity contracted by being born out of lawful wedlock is removed.

Teachers of civil or Roman law, who, besides expounding sources, explaining terms, elucidating texts, summarizing the contents of chapters, etc., illustrated by cases, real or imaginary, the numerous questions and distinctions arising out of the "Corpus Juris" enactments of the ancient Roman code.

Benedictine bibliographer. (1698-1758)

Titular see of Palestina Secunda.

City in Italy. Suffragan of Pisa.

In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes more or less legendary.

The legenda are stories about the saints, and often include a mix of historical fact and unhistorical embellishments.

In its broad signification, means that person who is sent by another for some representative office. In the ecclesiastical sense it means one whom the pope sends to sovereigns or governments or only to the members of the episcopate and faithful of a country, as his representative, to treat of church matters or even on a mission of honour.

In its most restricted sense, by a pious legacy or bequest (legatum pium) is understood, the assigning, by a last will, of a particular thing forming part of an estate, to a church or an ecclesiastical institution.

A family engaged in tapestry weaving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

French Orientalist and poet; b. near Falaise in Normandy, 9 August, 1541; d. in 1598 in the house in which he was born.

A French philosopher, biblical and patristic scholar; b. at Etaples in Picardy, about 1455; d. at Nérac, 1536.

Apostle of the Acadians, b. at St. Philippe, P. Q., 1831; d. at St. Joseph, N. B., 1895.

Diocese embracing the West Riding of Yorkshire, and that part of the city of York to the south of the River Ouse.

Polish cardinal. (1822-1902)

A lector (reader) in the West is a clerk having the second of the four minor orders. In all Eastern Churches also, readers are ordained to a minor order preparatory to the diaconate.

A term of somewhat vague significance, used with a good deal of latitude by liturgical writers.