An Alsatian Humanist, b. at Strasburg, 1487; d. at Freiburg, 1537.

Historian, b. at Ypres (Flanders), 23 July, 1612; d. at Louvain, 10 July, 1681.

Abbot of Ferrieres, French Benedictine writer, b. in the Diocese of Sens, about 805; d. about 862.

Diocese in the province of Genoa.

Known in Germany as the lunula and also as the melchisedech, is a crescent-shaped clip made of gold or of silver-gilt which is used for holding the Host in an upright position when exposed in the monstrance.

Ancient Catholic diocese in the Län of Malmöhus.

Antipope under the name of Benedict XIII, b. at Illueca, Aragon, 1328; d. at the Peñiscola, near Valencia, Spain, either 29 Nov., 1422, or 23 May, 1423.

Benedictine patristic writer, born 6 Feb., 1747, at Füssen in Bavaria; died 8 March, 1800 (Hefele says 1801), at the Abbey of St. George at Billingen in the Black Forest.

The principal one of more than twenty small Salishan tribes originally holding the lower shores, islands, and eastern hinterland of Puget Sound, Washington; by the Treaty of Point Elliott (1855), gathered upon five reservations within the same territory under the jurisdiction of Tulalip Agency.

The name applied to the shafts in the roof of the passages and chambers of the Catacombs occasionally pierced for the admission of light and air.

The versicle chanted by the deacon on Holy Saturday as he lights the triple candle.

Article profiles the composer's secular and religious contributions.

A name which has given rise to considerable confusion and dispute in Argentine ethnology, owing to the fact, now established, that it was applied at different times to two very different peoples, neither of which now exists under that name, while the vocabulary which could settle the affinity of the earlier tribe is now lost.

An introduction to the book.

Milanese painter, b. between 1470 and 1480; d. after 1530.

Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Fogaras and Alba Julia of the Uniat-Romanian Rite, was erected in November, 1853.

Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, one of the most eminent theologians of modern times, b. at Madrid, November, 1583, though he used to call himself "Hispalensis", because his family seat was at Seville; d. at Rome, 20 August, 1660.

Jesuit theologian, b. at Madrid, 1580; d, at Valladolid, 17 September, 1652.

Diocese in Galicia, Spain, a suffragan of Santiago, said to have been founded (by Agapitus) in Apostolic times.

A burgomaster of Vienna, Austrian political leader and municipal reformer, born at Vienna, 24 October, 1844; died there, 10 March, 1910.

Carmelite writer, b. at Châlons-sur-Marne (according to some at Chalon-sur-Saône), 20 Aug., 1608; d. at Paris 10 March, 1670.

An ecclesiastical writer of the fourteenth century, date of birth unknown; d. 13 April, 1378.

Bohemian duchess, grandmother of St. Wenceslaus. Strangled to death by assassins hired by her pagan daughter-in-law in 921.