On two days is a group of ten thousand martyrs mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

The most famous of the Japanese martyrs are the twenty-six who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597, but thousands of other Japanese died for the faith between 1560 and 1860.

Records of the trials of early Christian martyrs made by the notaries of the court.

With the revival of the missions in China with Matteo Ricci, who died at Peking in 1610, the blood of martyrs was soon shed to fertilize the evangelical field; the change of the Ming dynasty to the Manchu dynasty, giving occasion for new prosecution.

A titular see, suffragan of Amida in the Province of Mesopotamia or Armenia Quarta.

By martyrology is understood a catalogue of martyrs and saints arranged according to the order of their feasts, i. e., according to the calendar.

Historian of Spain and of the discoveries of her representatives, b. at Arona, near Anghiera, on Lake Maggiore in Italy, 2 February, 1457; d. at Granada in October, 1526.

The Greek word martus signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation. The term martyr came to be exclusively applied to those who had died for the faith.

Monk, bishop, cardinal, b. at Kamicac, Dalmatia, 1482; d. 16 December, 1551. His real name was George Utjesenovic.

A Benedictine abbey in Hungary about fourteen English miles south of Raab, and sixty west of Buda-Pesth.

Jesuit and writer. Born 7 October, 1821; died 26 April, 1894.

Diocese; Martinique is one of the French Lesser Antilles, 380 sq. miles in area; It was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and colonized by the French about 1625; it was in the hands of the English from 1762-1783, and was again occupied by them in 1792, 1802, 1809, 1815 and again became French territory in 1818.

Sienese painter, born in Siena, 1283; died either in the same place or at Avignon in 1344 or 1349.

Austrian Jesuit missionary to the Chinese, in the seventeenth century.

Archbishop of Florence, Biblical scholar; b. at Prato in Tuscany, 20 April, 1720; d. at Florence, 31 December 1809.

Roman virgin and martyr, d. 226 or (more likely) 228.

French Biblical scholar. (1840 - 1890)

Bishop of Paderborn; b. 18 May, 1812, at Geismar, Province of Saxony; d. 16 July, 1879, at Mont St Guibert, near Brussels, Belgium.

Translator of the Douai Version of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate; b. in Maxfield, parish of Guestling, near Winchelsea, in Sussex; d. at Reims, 28 October, 1582.

Antiquary, historiographer, architect, educationist, b. 4 October, 1804, at Auray, seat of the famous shrine of St. Ann in Brittany, France; d. at Vaugirard, Paris, 25 November, 1886.

Date and place of birth unknown; d. in Mexico in 1632. According to some he was of Spanish descent; Humboldt says that he was either a German or Dutchman, and according to others a Mexican educated in Spain, but in all probability he was a Frenchman.

Jesuit General (1846-1906).

Born at Genazzano in the Campagna di Roma, 1368; died at Rome, 20 Feb., 1431.