Also known as St. Lüdiger, or Liudger. Biography of this missionary, the first bishop of Munster, who died in 809.

Virgin and martyr, d. 303 in the Diocletian persecution.

Embraces the Department of La Vendée.

Died 1185. Innocent II created him Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede on 23 February, 1141, and afterwards sent him as legate to France.

Born at Bologna, unknown date, died at Rome, 15 February, 1145.

Biographical article on this pope, exiled for a time, who reigned less than one year, and died in 254.

The traditional title of the most ancient section of the catacomb of St. Callistus.

A bishop, who must have been born in the early years of the fourth century; died in 371.

The name Lucifer originally denotes the planet Venus, emphasizing its brilliance.

Croatian historian, b. early in the seventeenth century, at Trojir, or Tragurion, in Dalmatia; d. at Rome, 11 January, 1679.

Biographical article on the presbyter famed for his sanctity and scholarship, who died a martyr in 312.

Chief town of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

An ancient city in the province of Foggia in Apulia, Southern Italy.

The capital of the like named province in Tuscany, Central Italy

A member of Parliament and journalist, b. in Westminster, 30 March, 1812, d. at Staines, Middlesex, 22 Oct., 1855.

A Cardinal and Italian canonist of the seventeenth century, b. at Venusia, Southern Italy, in 1614; d. at Rome, on 5 February, 1683.

The city of Lublin is in Russian Poland, capital of the Government of Lublin, lies on the Bistrzyca, a tributary of the Vistula, and in 1897 had a population of 50,152, of whom 30,914 were Catholics.

The outgrowth of St. Ignatius College, founded by the Jesuits in 1869 for the higher education of the Catholic youth of Chicago, and empowered by the Legislature of Illinois (30 June, 1870) to confer the usual degrees in the various faculties of a university.

Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, was (in 1912) the only Catholic university in what is popularly designated "The Old South".

The first Sunday after Easter.

The name given to one of the three parties or doctrinal tendencies that prevail in the Established Church of England and its daughter Churches, the correlatives being High Church and Broad Church.

The third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (1 Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, defined: a divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for his own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God.

In order to restore the splendour of Louvain, capital of his Duchy of Brabant, John IV of the House of Burgundy petitioned the papal authority for the establishment of an educational institution called at the time studium generale. The Bull of Martin V, dated 9 December, 1425, was the result.