French painter, b. at Lyons 21 February,1815; d. at Paris, 31 January, 1891.

A former see of north-east Germany.

Also called Meginwerk. The energetic tenth bishop of Paderborn, d. 1036.

French Canadian physician and educator, b. at St. Laurent, P.Q., 9 May, 1796; d. 7 Dec., 1878.

Cardinal Archbishop of Tours, French apologist and Scriptural exegete, b. at Chauvigné, France, 12 April, 1817; d. at Tours, 20 January 1896.

Formerly a Benedictine, now a Cistercian Abbey, is situated on Lake Constance, west of Bregenz, in the district of Vorarlberg, Austria.

A Maurist Benedictine. Writer and translator. He died in 1691.

Short article on the history and teachings of this school of philosophy by William Turner.

A titular see, suffragan to Corinth, in Achaia.

Irish historical writer and translator, b. in Dublin, 12 July, 1812; d. there 14 March 1890.

A Croatian painter and engraver, called by Italian authors Medola, Medula, Schiavone, Schiaon, etc., b. at Sibenik, Dalmatia, 1522; d. at Venice 1582.

A Spanish lyric poet, b. in Seville, not to be confounded with Sebastian Francisco de Medrano who was also a poet and lived at about the same time.

Theologian, born at Belalcazar, Spain, 1489; died at Toledo, May, 1578.

Theologian; born 1490; died 1547; he occupied the first rank among the theologians of the sixteenth century.

Dominican theologian, b. at Medina, 1527; d. at Salamanca, 1581.

Presents the history of modern medical science from its Greek foundation.

In the early centuries the practice of medicine by clerics, whether secular or regular, was not treated with disapproval by the Church, nor was it at all uncommon for them to devote a considerable part of their time to the medical avocation. Abuses, however, arose, and in the twelfth century ecclesiastical canons were framed which became more and more adverse to clerics practising the art of medicine.

Queen of France; b. at Florence, 26 April, 1573; d. at Cologne, 3 July, 1642.

A Florentine family, the members of which, having acquired great wealth as bankers, rose in a few generations to be first the unofficial rulers of the republic of Florence and afterwards the recognized sovereigns of Tuscany.

Illustrious as a scholastic of acumen and penetration, b. at Camerino in Umbria, 1569, whence the surname de Medicis a Camerino.

A mediator is one who brings estranged parties to an amicable agreement. In New Testament theology the term invariably implies that the estranged beings are God and man, and it is appropriated to Christ, the One Mediator.

An ancient country of Asia and the inhabitants thereof.

Archdiocese in the Republic of Colombia, Metropolitan of Antioquia and Manizales, in the Departments of Medellín, Antioquia, and Manizales.