Support for a book, reading-desk, or bookstand, a solid and permanent structure upon which the Sacred Books, which were generally large and heavy, were placed when used by the ministers of the altar in liturgical functions.

French historian; b. at Nemours, 1839; d. at Paris, 1897.

A Franciscan Récollet and one of the most zealous missionaries to the Micmac of Canada, also a distinguished historiographer of Nouvelle France.

A Capuchin, better known as Pere Joseph, b. in Paris, 4 Nov., 1577; d. at Rueil, 18 Dec., 1638.

Diocese; suffragan of Otranto.

Also called Lebuinus or Liafwin. English-born missionary to the Frisians, died at Deventer around 770. Biography.

French historical painter, born in Paris, 1619; died at the Gobelin tapestry works, 1690.

Titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ephesus.

So called from the snow which covers the highest peaks during almost the entire year, or from the limestone which glistens white in the distance.

Suffragan to St. Louis, established, 22 May, 1877.

Bishop, d. 601.

From a religious point of view it aimed at supporting Catholicism in France politically at restoring the "ancient franchises and liberties" against the royal power.

Early in 1608 Duke Maximilian started negotiations with the spiritual electors and some of the Catholic states of the empire, with a view to the formation of a union of the Catholic states.

A Catholic total abstinence confraternity founded in London in 1873 by Cardinal Manning to unite Catholics, both clergy and laity, in the warfare against intemperance, and thus improve religious, social, and domestic conditions, especially among the working classes.

Established on 6 August, 1902.

An astronomer and director of the observatory at Paris, born at Saint Lô, the ancient Briodurum later called Saint-Laudifanum, in north-western France, 11 May, 1811; died at Paris, 25 September, 1877.

Born 16 October, 1643, of a peasant family, not at Vire as has so often been said, but at Vast near Cherbourg; died at La Flèche, 2 September, 1719.

Archbishop of Reims, b. at Turin, 1642; d. at Reims, 1710.

Writer, b. at Sarzeau (Morbihan), 1668; d. at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1747.

French historian and theologian, b. at Boulogne-sur-Mer, department of Pas-de-Calais, 8 Oct., 1661; d. at Paris, 12 March, 1733.

Diocese in France.

Ecclesiastical writer, b. at Dieppe in Normandy, 18 Feb., 1647; d. at the Abbey of St-Germain in Paris, 24 March, 1724.

A Jesuit missionary, b. at Beauvais, 1604; d. in 1665 at Cap de la Madeleine, near Three Rivers.