The most important of the cultured native peoples of North America, both in the degree of their civilization and in population and resources, formerly occupying a territory of about 60,000 square miles, including the whole of the peninsula of Yucatan, Southern Mexico, together with the adjacent portion of Northern Guatemala.

Countess of Nithsdale, d. at Rome, May, 1749.

Fifth Earl of Nithsdale (Lord Nithsdale signed as Nithsdaill) and fourteenth Lord Maxwell, b. in 1676; d. at Rome, 2 March, 1744.

Bishop and theological writer (380-465).

Also known as Maximus the Theologian or Maximus Confessor. Monk, abbot, wrote on ascetic mysticism, and on the Incarnation against the Monothelites. Died in exile, 662.

Titular see of Arabia.

Bishop of Trier, d. 349 or 352.

Under his uncle Augustus Galerius, the Caesar of Syria and Egypt, from the year 305; in 307 following the example of Constantine, he assumed the title of Augustus.

Roman emperor 235-238.

Duke of Bavaria (1573-1651).

Brief profiles of three saints of this name.

Roman emperor (d. 310).

A titular see of Palestina Secunda, suffragan of Scythopolis.

Roman Emperor 306-12, son of the Emperor Maximianus Herculius and son-in-law of the chief Emperor Galerius.

Leader of the so-called Scythian monks, appears in history at Constantinople in 519 and 520.

Cardinal and statesman, born at Valréas, near Avignon, 26 June, 1746; died at Rome on 10 May, 1817.

Writer on philosophy and theology, b. at Spoleto, 31 Dec., 1619; d. in Rome, 13 Jan., 1687.

Deacon, disciple of St. Benedict. Portrayed by St. Gregory the Great as a model of monastic obedience. Died 584.

A congregation of Benedictine monks in France, whose history extends from 1618 to 1818.

Leader of the Theban Legion, killed around 287.

Roman Emperor, born in 539; died in November, 602.

Hellenist and exegete (1811-1898).

The feast of Maundy (or Holy) Thursday solemnly commemorates the institution of the Eucharist and is the oldest of the observances peculiar to Holy Week.