The pilgrimage of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux. The first apparition occurred 11 February, 1858.

A community devoted to the education of youth and the care of the sick and infirm. It was founded at Renaix, Flanders, in 1830, by Etienne Modeste Glorieux, a Belgian priest, and approved in 1892 by Leo XIII.

Comprises that part of Kentucky west of the Kentucky River and western borders of Carroll, Owen, Franklin, Woodford, Jessamine, Garrard, Rockcastle, Laurel, and Whitley Counties.

Includes history, religious information, and statistics.

Educator and organizer, b. at Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland, 14 Nov., 1813; d. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 Dec., 1886.

Founder of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, d. 1660.

Missionary to Brittany, d. 1716.

King of France, b. at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 16 September, 1638; d. at Versailles, 1 September, 1715; was the son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, and became king, upon the death of his father, 14 May 1643.

Bishop, d. 1297.

Spanish theologian, writer, and preacher. (1505-1588)

Friar Minor and founder of the Frati Bigi. (1814-1885)

Biographical article on St. Louis, King of France, d. 1270.

Spanish Dominican novicemaster and preacher, d. 1581.

Brief article on this 15th-century Cardinal Archbishop of Arles, who was a supporter of antipope Felix V.

The would-be Kuchin of some ethnologists, and the Tukudh of the Protestant missionaries; Richardson called them Quarrellers.

Italian portrait painter, d. 1556. Artist's biography with bibliography.

Biography of the Venetian composer noting his accomplishments as organist, teacher, and creator of operas and religious works.

A lottery is one of the aleatory contracts and is commonly defined as a distribution of prizes by lot or by chance.

Nephew of Abraham.

German petrologist and geologist, born at Kreuznach (Rhine Province), 5 January, 1841; died at Berlin, 24 February, 1893.

Spanish philosopher. (1681-1748)

A titular see of Caria, small fortified town and harbour on the coast of Caria.

One of the most renowned monasteries of the old Franco-German Empire, is situated about ten miles east of Worms in the Grand Duch of Hesse, Germany.