Co-foundress, with Bishop Neale of Baltimore, of the Visitation Order in the United States, b. in Ireland; d. 9 Sept., 1846.

French Jesuit, b. at Châlons-sur-Marne, 1588; d. at Bourges, 5 April, 1635.

French Jesuit, b. at St-Valéry-sur-Somme about 1660; d. at Paris 1748.

Jesuit missionary, b. at Paris, 27 April, 1593, d. at Quebec, 16 November, 1665.

Born at Paris, 17 November, 1587; died there, 18 November, 1674. He was the first superior of the Jesuit missions in Canada, and his letter to his brother dated 1 August, 1626, inaugurated the series of "Relations" about the missionary work in that country.

A small tribe of Salishan stock, originally ranging along Columbia River in northeast Washington from about Kettle Falls to the British line.

The body of the faithful, outside of the ranks of the clergy.

Second general of the Society of Jesus, theologian, b. in 1512, at Almazan, Castille, in 1512; d. at Rome, 19 January, 1565.

The term laity signifies the aggregation of those Christians who do not form part of the clergy. Consequently the word lay does not strictly connote any idea of hostility towards the clergy or the Church much less towards religion. Laicization, therefore, considered etymologically, simply means the reducing of persons or things having an ecclesiastical character to a lay condition.

Austrian bishopric and suffragan of Görz, embraces the territory of the Austrian crown-land of Carniola (Krain).

Diocese in northern India, part of the ecclesiastical Province of Agra.

A missionary in New France, b. at Paris, 12 Nov. (al. 28 Oct.), 1659; d. at Quebec in 1736.

A titular see in Galatia Prima.

Spanish critic and historian, d. 1866.

Belgian philosopher and theologian, born at Graide, 23 January, 1823; died at Louvain, 26 January, 1872.

French-Canadian bishop, b. 4 Sept., 1818, at Ste-Anne de la Perade, Province of Quebec; d. 14 July, 1898.

Jesuit missionary and writer, born at Bordeaux, France, 1 January, 1681; died there, 1746.

Painter, decorator, and writer. (1835-1910)

Humanist, b. in Calabria in 1425; d. at Rome in 1497.

The fourth, or middle, Sunday of Lent, so called from the first words of the Introit at Mass.

Born at Quimper, in Brittany, France, 17 February, 1781; died at Kerlouanec, 13 August, 1826, a French physician, discoverer of auscultation, and father of modern knowledge of pulmonary diseases.

King of Hungary, d. 1095.

An Italian Oratorian and ecclesiastical historian, born about 1678, at Faenza near Ravenna; died 25 April, 1738, at Rome.