The existing marriage tie which constitutes in canon law a public impediment to the contracting of a second marriage.

The enigma of life is still one of the two or three most difficult problems that face both scientist and philosopher.

A Benedictine monastery near Avesnes, in the Diocese of Cambrai, France (Nord), founded about the middle of eighth century and dedicated to St. Lambert.

A Westphalian painter, who in 1465 executed an altar-piece of note in the Benedictine monastery of Liesborn, founded by Charlemagne.

A former noted Benedictine Abbey in Westphalia, Germany, founded in 815; suppressed in 1803.

The first capital of this diocese was Tongres, northeast of Liège; its territory originally belonged to the Diocese of Trier, then to Cologne; but after the first half of the fourth century Tongres received autonomous organization.

Catholic theologian, b., at Molsheim in Alsace 12 Oct., 1759; 4. at Strasburg, 11 Nov., 1844.

Politician and publicist, b. at the castle of Blankenheim in the Eifel, 1 Oct., 1790, d. at Kamberg, in Hesse-Nassau, 29 Dec., 1860.

Born at Camberg in the Duchy of Nassau, 16 Nov., 1838; died 31 March, 1902.

Biography of this Dutch woman who died in 1433.

This diocese took its rise in the conversion of Mercia by St. Cedd and his three companions in 652 and subsequent years.

Collections of books accumulated and made accessible for public or private use.

Founder of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was afterwards merged in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost.

Reigned 352-366.

A republic on the west coast of Africa.

Archdeacon author of an important history of the Nestorian and Monophysite troubles.

A philosopher, theologian, and writer, born at Salerno, Italy, 14 August, 1810; died at Rome, 18 October, 1892.

A free way of thinking and acting in private and public life.

The first words of the Embolism of the Lord's Prayer in the Roman Rite.

The responsory sung at funerals.

Three canonical collections of quite different value from a legal standpoint are known by this title.

A history of the popes beginning with St. Peter and continued down to the fifteenth century, in the form of biographies.

A miscellaneous collection of ecclesiastical formularies used in the papal chancery until the eleventh century.