Italian philosopher and scholar (1463-1494).

Italian philosopher, nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, b. about 1469; d. 1533.

Ecclesiastical historian, born at Brussels, 30 Nov., 1573; died at Antwerp, 19 October, 1640.

The gift of miracles is one of those mentioned by St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians (xii, 9, 10), among the extraordinary graces of the Holy Ghost.

These two names are used to designate the religious drama which developed among Christian nations at the end of the Middle Ages.

In general, a wonderful thing, the word being so used in classical Latin; in a specific sense, the Latin Vulgate designates by miracula wonders of a peculiar kind, expressed more clearly in the Greek text by the terms terata, dynameis, semeia, i.e., wonders performed by supernatural power as signs of some special mission or gift and explicitly ascribed to God.

The title of a medieval Latin description of the city of Rome, dating from about 1150.

Christian apologist, flourished between 160 and 300; the exact date is not known.

History of the coins.

A suffragan of Mohileff, in Western Russia.

Suffragan of Valencia, comprises the Island of Minorca, the second in size of the Balearic Islands, which are possessions of Spain.

The lower degrees of the hierarchy are designated by the name of minor orders, in opposition to the "major" or "sacred" orders.

That which is less, or inferior in comparison with another, the term being employed as well of things as of persons.

Artist. (1431-1484)

One of the North Central States of the American Union, lies about midway between the eastern and western shores of the continent, and about midway between the gulf of Mexico and Hudson's Bay.

Inventor of illuminating gas. (1748-1824)

Even before the Reformation the word minister was occasionally used in English to describe those of the clergy actually taking part in a function, or the celebrant as distinguished from the assistants, but it was not then used sine addito to designate an ecclesiastic. This employment of the term dates from Calvin.

Members of the religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula.

A philosopher and writer, born at Gyswyl, Unterwalden, Switzerland, 20 Sept., 1838; died at Brooklyn, Ohio, U. S. A., 17 June, 1910.

Minden on the Weser is first heard of in 798, and in 803 in the Treaty of Salz, made with the Saxons, it is spoken of as a see.

Explores the term in relation to consciousness, matter, and mechanism.

Established as a diocese, 28 Nov., 1843.

Papal chamberlain and nuncio. (1480-1529)