The principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Byzantine Church.

From the earliest days the Church has employed utensils and vessels of metal in its liturgical ceremonies. This practice increased during the Middle Ages.

An Irish hagiologist, born in the Diocese of Meath, and studied in the Irish College, Paris, proceeding to the degree of S.T.D.

Painter, born at Messina, about 1430; died 1497.

Located in Sicily.

The Greek form Messias is a transliteration of the Hebrew, Messiah, "the anointed". The word appears only twice of the promised prince (Daniel 9:26; Psalm 2:2); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Saviour, it was natural to employ this synonym for the royal title, denoting at the same time the King's royal dignity and His relation to God.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

An heretical sect which originated in Mesopotamia about 360 and survived in the East until the ninth century.

One of the greatest figures in Armenian history, he was born about 361 at Hassik in the Province of Taron; died at Valarsabad, 441.

Created by Gregory XVI on 17 Dec., 1832. Mgr. Trioche, Archbishop of Babylon or Bagdad, became its first titular; he resided habitually in Bagdad.

A King of Moab in the ninth century B. C., whose history is given in IV Kings, iii.

Article by C.A. Dubray reviewing the intellectual career of this learned Minim friar.

A Belgian prelate and statesman, born at Brussels, 1820; died at Rome, 1874.

The fourth king of the nineteenth Egyptian dynasty and the supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus, was the thirteenth son of Rameses II whom he succeeded in or about 1234 B.C., being then long past middle age.

Bishop of Lausanne and cardinal, born at Carouge, Switzerland, 22 September, 1824; died in Rome, 23 February, 1892.

By merit (meritum) in general is understood that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward from him in whose service the work is done.

Diocese in Venezuela.

English Catholic controversialist, b. in 1648, was a son of the rector of Landulph, Cornwall.

Originally a pious association of ladies formed in 1626 for the care of the sick in the hospital of St. Charles at Nancy, but constituted a religious community in 1652 after being generously endowed by the father of Emmanuel Chauvenel, a young advocate who had given his life in the service of the sick.

A congregation of women founded in Dublin, Ireland, in 1827, by Catherine Elizabeth McAuley, born 29 September, 1787, at Stormanstown House, County Dublin.

Mercy as it is here contemplated is said to be a virtue influencing one's will to have compassion for, and, if possible, to alleviate another's misfortune.

Founded at Mechlin in 1839 by Canon J. B. Cornelius Scheppers for the instruction and care of prisoners and of the sick.

Italian philologist and physician (1530-1606).