German poet of the twelfth century, of whom practically nothing personal is known but his name and the fact that he was a cleric.

A titular see in Crete, suffragan of Gortyna, was probably a colony of Tarrha.

There is very little evidence that any strictly liturgical use was made of lamps in the early centuries of Christianity. The fact that many of the services took place at night, and that after the lapse of a generation or two the meetings of the Christians for purposes of worship were held, at Rome and elsewhere, in the subterranean chambers of the Catacombs, make it clear that lamps must have been used to provide the necessary means of illumination.

Confessor of Emperor Ferdinand II, b. 29 December, 1570, at Dochamps, Luxembourg; d. at Vienna, 22 February, 1648.

Astronomer and physicist, b. 13 Dec., 1805, at Braemar in Scotland, near Balmoral Castle; d.. 6 Aug., 1879, at Bogenhausen near Munich, Bavaria.

Illustrious in the history of the old magistracy, originally from Nivernais.

French priest, brother of Félicité Robert de Lamennais, b. at St-Malo in 1780; d. at Ploërmel, Brittany, in 1860.

Born at Saint-Malo, 29 June, 1782; died at Paris, 27 February, 1854.

Diocese situated in the district of Vizeu, province of Beira, Portugal.

Cardinal, b. at Sestri Levante, near Genoa, 6 March, 1776, d. at Rome, 12 May, 1854.

French philologist. (1520-1572)

Belgian Jesuit and composer. (1796-1855)

Seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries.

Bishop of Maestricht, martyred between 698 and 701 for defending the sanctity of marriage. Also called St. Landebertus.

Priest and journalist. (1835-1910)

Benedictine chronicler and abbot, b. about 1060; d. 22 June, 1125, at St-Bertin, France.

A medieval historian; b. in Franconia or Thuringia, c. 1024; d. after 1077.

Priest and reformer, lived at Liège, Belgium, about the middle of the twelfth century.

Historian and librarian, b. at Hamburg, 13 April 1628; d. at Vienna, 4 April, 1680.

A lamb which the Israelites were commanded to eat with peculiar rites as a part of the Passover celebration.

One of the few Christian symbols dating from the first century is that of the Good Shepherd carrying on His shoulders a lamb or a sheep, with two other sheep at his side.

Poet, b. at Macon Saône-et-Loire, France, 21 Oct., 1790; d. at Paris, l March, 1869.

Distinguished botanist, zoologist, and natural philosopher, b. at Bazentin in Picardy (department of Somme), France, 1 August, 1744; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1829.