Patriarch of Constantinople (1043-58), author of the second and final schism of the Byzantine Church, date of birth unknown; d. 1058.

An important tribe of Algonquian stock formerly claiming prior dominion over the whole of what is now Indiana and western Ohio, including the territories drained by the Wabash, St. Joseph, Maumee, and Miami rivers.

A cardinal, the greatest of polyglots, born 19 September, 1774; died 15 March, 1849.

Three brothers, learned Benedictines of the monastery of St. Peter in Salsburg, and professors at the University of Salzburg.

Information about the boundaries and bishops.

Situated at the extreme point of the North American continent, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, British Honduras, and Guatemala, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean.

French poet, b. c. 1260 in the little city of Meung-sur-Loire; d. at Paris between 1305 and 1320.

A town and bishopric in Lorraine.

Statesman; born at Coblenz, 15 May, 1773; died at Vienna, 11 June, 1859.

In ecclesiastical language, refers to whatever relates to the metropolis, the principal city, or see, of an ecclesiastical province.

A titular episcopal see and suffragan of Ephesus.

A leader of the faithful Ignatian bishops at the time of the Photian schism (867). Baronius (Ann. Ecci., ad an. 843, I) says that his mother was the woman who was bribed to bring a false accusation of rape against the Patriarch Methodius I (842-846) during the Iconoclast troubles.

A titular see in the island of Lesbos.

One of the Hebrew patriarchs, mentioned in Genesis 5.

Bishop, ecclesiastical writer, martyr, died c. 311.

Patriarch of Constantinople (842-846), defender of images during the second Iconoclast persecution, b. at Syracuse, towards the end of the eighth century; d. at Constantinople, 14 June, 846.

A religious movement which was originated in 1739 by John Wesley in the Anglican Church, and subsequently gave rise to numerous separate denominations.

A knight, confessor of the Faith, died in York Castle, 1573.

The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals.

A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor.

Born in Yorkshire, 1792; died a martyr of charity at Leeds, 7 May, 1847.

Brief biography of the Italian librettist.

That portion of philosophy which treats of the most general and fundamental principles underlying all reality and all knowledge.