Members of those religious orders which, originally, by vow of poverty renounced all proprietorship not only individually but also (and in this differing from the monks) in common, relying for support on their own work and on the charity of the faithful. Hence the name of begging friars.

Nineteenth-century Peruvian-born soldier and diplomat.

Vicariate Apostolic in Ecuador.

Better known as Amadeus of Portugal, b. 1420, d. at Milan, 1482, began his religious life in the Hieronnymite monastery of Notre-Dame de Guadalupe (Spain), where he spent about ten years.

Gregor Johann Mendel (the first name was taken on entrance to his order), b. 22 July, 1822, at Heinzendorf near Odrau, in Austrian Silesia; d. 6 January 1884, at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, Brunn.

This diocese includes the department of Lozère, in France. Suffragan of Bourges under the old régime, it was re-established by the Concordat of 1801 as a suffragan of Lyons and united with the department of Ardèche.

A Spanish navigator and explorer, born in Saragossa, 1541; died in Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 18 October, 1596.

Chinese philosopher (b. 371 B.C.).

Martyred under Diocletian, c. 295. Most likely Menas of Mareotis, Menas of Cotyaes, and Menas of Constantinople, surnamed Kallikelados, are all the same person honored in different places.

Missionary, b. at Paris, 1604, d. about 10 August, 1661, in what is now Wisconsin.

French Maurist Benedictine teacher and writer, died 1644.

Writer, b. at Tarrascon, 12 Sept., 1706; d. in Paris, 1 Oct., 1767.

The name of the twelve books, one for every month, that contain the offices for immovable feasts in the Byzantine rite.

Spanish poet, born 1411 at Cordova; died 1456 at Torrelaguna.

Name assumed by a heretical sect which in 1410-11 was cited before the Inquisition at Brussels.

Ancient capital of Egypt; diocese of the province of Arcadia or Heptanomos, suffragan of Oxyrynchus.

Memory is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity.

Flemish painter, d. 1494. Artist's biography with bibliography.

Born 1645 at Bapaume, Department of Pas-de-Calais, France, he was a member of the Franciscan province of St. Antony.

Principal chief of the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia at the time of the establishment of the French colony under de Monts and Poutrincourt in 1605, and noted in mission annals of the first Christian in the tribe.

Born at Milan, about 1490; died 1568. He was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci, and Vasari tells that he was a Milanese nobleman, and that he possessed the principal part of the anatomical drawings of Leonardo.

It opens with the year 735, ends abruptly in 1270, and is founded solely upon the Cottonian Manuscript, Faustina B. ix, in the British Museum, the only ancient copy preserved.

Located in Roxburghshire, founded in 1136 by King David I, was the earliest Cistercian monastery established in Scotland.