A Dominican, born about 1580; died at Venice in April, 1660.

A Benedictine abbey on the southwest bank of Lake Laach, near Andernach in Rhineland, Germany.

Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Roman-German Empress, born 1717; died 1780.

A Catholic publicist, born 11 May, 1823; died 6 May, 1887. He was a native of San Remo, where his father was president of the Chamber of Commerce, and there he studied the classics and philosophy, after which he entered the seminary of Ventimiglia; in 1845, he obtained the doctorate at the University of Genoa and was received into the Royal Academy of Superga, where he remained until 1849.

Born at Valencia, Spain, 18 August, 1657; died at Mexico, 6 Aug., 1726. He entered the Franciscan Order in his native city on 22 April, 1673. After his ordination to the priesthood he volunteered for the Indian missions in America, and arrived at Vera Cruz on 6 June, 1683.

The canonists of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries who taught canon law by commenting on the Decretum of Gratian and on the various collections of the Decretals, gave the most varied forms and diverse names to their treatises. The "Margaritae" are collections specially intended to help the memory.

Also known in the Christian East as St. Marina. Virgin and martyr from Pisidian Antioch.

English martyr, died at Tyburn in 1588.

Biography of the Countess of Salisbury, martyred in 1541.

French Carmelite nun (1590-1660).

Biographical entry on the eleventh-century queen.

Widow, Third Order Dominican, d. 1464.

Duchess d'Alencon, widow, became a Poor Clare, d. 1521.

Princess who became a Dominican at the age of 4. She died in 1270 or 1271, and was canonized in 1943.

Third Order Franciscan, d. 1297.

Biographical article on the apostle of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

A Roman orphan, hermit, founder of a community of Poor Clares, d. 1284.

Article on this martyr, d. 1586, who is called the "Pearl of York." St. Margaret was crushed to death for the crime of harboring priests.

Composer (1550-1599).

(1), Carlo, Italian dramatist, born at Cassolo (or Cassolnuovo) in Piedmont in 1800; died at Savona in 1846. (2), Leopoldo, Italian dramatic poet, born at Ceva in 1831; died 1899, son of Carlo Marenco.

The third Archbishop of Baltimore; born at Ingres near Orléans, France, 28 August, 1764; died at Baltimore, 29 January, 1828.

A residential Armenian archbishopric, a Chaldean bishopric, and a residential Syrian bishopric; moreover it is the headquarters of the Capuchin mission of Mardin and Amida.

A theologian and ascetic writer of some importance in the fifth century.