An overview of Freemasonry and description of its condemnation by the Catholic Church.

Franciscan writer; b. in Wiltshire, 1599; d. at Douai, 30 Dec, 1678.

Son of Cristoforo Fini; b. in the subrub of Panicale di Valdese, near Florence, 1383; d, c. 1440.

A Wisconsin tribe of Algonquian stock of considerable missionary importance in the seventeenth century, but long since entirely extinct.

Italian painter, born about 1402, at San Giovanni di Valdarno, a stronghold situated between Arezzo and Florence; died, probably at Rome, in 1429.

One of the thirteen English colonies which after the Revolution of 1776 became the original States of the American Union.

Founded in 1817 by Very Reverend William Joseph Chaminade at Bordeaux, France.

A religious order of priests, so called on account of the special devotion they profess toward the Blessed Virgin.

In Scripture and in Catholic use.

The Company of Mary was founded by Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in 1713.

Generally known as Marist School Brothers. This religious teaching institute is modern in its origin, having been founded in 1817, in France, by Benedict Marcellin Champagnat.

Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; born 18 February, 1516; died 17 November, 1558. Mary was the daughter and only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.

Mary Stuart, born at Linlithgow, 8 December, 1542; died at Fotheringay, 8 February, 1587. She was the only legitimate child of James V of Scotland.

She had "laboured much among" the Roman Church, hence St. Paul's salutation to her.

Biographical article on the penitent and hermit, who died around 421.

This title occurs only in John, xix, 25. A comparison of the lists of those who stood at the foot of the cross would seem to identify her with Mary, the mother of James the Less and Joseph ( Mark, xv, 40; cf. Matt., xxvii, 56).

Article on the Apostle to the Apostles.

Biography of the 17th-century Carmelite mystic.

Third Order Franciscan, d. 1791.

Belonging to the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, born at Soyhières, a village of the Bernese Jura (then French territory), 16 June, 1793; died at Troyes, 6 October, 1875.

Popularly called Maria de Socos. First superior of a Third Order branch of the Mercedarians, for women. She died in 1290.

Of Quito, Ecuador, lived as a solitary in her own home and had many extraordinary spiritual gifts. She died in 1645.

Writer, greatly devoted to the martyrs, Mesopotamian bishop, d. before 420.