Or Aventicensis, so called because he was bishop of Avenches. Goldsmith, chronicler, d. 594.

A Franciscan who probably came from the county of Somerset, but the date of his birth is unknown; died at the end of 1257 or the beginning of 1258.

Family martyred at Rome in 270. SS. Maris and Martha were husband and wife.

French physicist, b. at Dijon, France, about 1620; d. at Paris, 12 May, 1684.

Reigned 942-946; died in April or May, 946.

Reigned 882-884.

A natural philosopher, jurist, historian, archeologist, born at Sant' Orcangelo (pagus Acerbotanus), 18 Dec., 1742; died at Paris, 7 May, 1815.

The name of an ancient and noble family of the Republic of Genoa, distinguished alike in the Island of Chios, one of its dependencies, where it possessed many beautiful and valuable estates.

Franciscan missionary to Asia (b. 1290).

A Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of St. Joseph near Mals, Tyrol (in Vintschau).

Biography of the founder of the Gray Nuns, or Sisters of Charity. She died in 1771.

Baptismal name Marie Guyard. First superior of the Ursulines of Quebec. Biography.

A.k.a. Madame Acarie. Founded the French Carmel, d. 1618.

Twelfth-century French poetess.

The daughter of Victor Emanuel I, married King Ferdinand II of Sicily, d. 1836 at the age of 23.

Biography of the Queen of France.

Two Irish scholars of this name attained distinction in the eleventh century. Both spent the greater part of their lives in Germany.

A Friar Minor and historian, born at Florence about the middle of the fifteenth century, exact date of birth uncertain; died there, 20 July, 1523.

Located in Natal, near Pinetown, 15 miles from Durban, and 56 from Pietermaritzburg.

Author and Jesuit, b. at Talavern, Toledo, Spain, probably in April, 1536; d. at Toledo, 16 February, 1624.

The Marianas Archipelago (also called the Ladrone Islands) is a chain of fifteen islands in the Northern Pacific, first discovered in 1521 by Magellan.

Situated in the centre of Minas Geraes, the great mining state of Brazil, is bounded on the north, south and west respectively by its suffragan sees, Diamantina, Pouso Alegre, Goyaz, and Uberaba.

This term is applied to those English priests who being ordained in or before the reign of Queen Mary (1553-1558), survived into the reign of Elizabeth.