French bishop and scholar, b. at Gan in Béarn, 24 Jan., 1594, of a family distinguished in the magistracy; d. at Paris, 29 June, 1662.

Bishop of Rennes, ecclesiastical writer and hymnologist, b. about 1035 at Angers, France, d. there 11 September, 1123.

An Italian painter, b. at Camerino, in the March of Ancona, 13 May, 1625, d. in Rome, 15 December, 1713.

An Armenian Catholic Diocese.

A learned Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation, b. 14 October, 1683, at Sezanne, in the Department of Marne; d. 2 April, 1762, at Paris.

The Syriac word mafriano signifies one who fructifies, a consecrator. It is used to designate the prelate who holds the second rank after the patriarch among the Jacobite Syrians.

Archdeacon of Oxford, b. at, or in the vicinity of, Hereford, c. 1140, d. between 1208 and 1210.

Italian poet and novelist, b. at Milan, 7 March, 1785; d. 22 May, 1873.

Scholar and printer (1450-1515).

The name given to the towel used by the priest when engaged liturgically.

A large number of manuscripts covered with painted ornaments.

Manuscripts are written, as opposed to printed, copies of the original text or of a version either of the whole Bible or of a part thereof.

Every book written by hand on flexible material and intended to be placed in a library is called a manuscript.

First teacher of Greek in Italy, born at Constantinople about the middle of the fourteenth century; died at Constance, German, and was buried there, 15 April, 1415.

The English designation commonly applied to the "Manava Dharma-sastra", a metrical Sanskrit compendium of ancient sacred laws and customs held in the highest reverence by the orthodox adherents of Brahminism.

Diocese of Mantua (Mantuana), in Lombardy.

An outer vestment reaching to the knees, open in front, with slits instead of sleeves on the sides.

Biography of the Italian painter.

Italian prelate and scholar born at Lucca, of a patrician family, 16 February, 1692; died archbishop of that city, 27 September, 1769.

French architect, grand-nephew of François, was originally Jules Hardouin, but took the name of Mansard; was born in Paris, 1646; died at Marly 1708.

French architect, born in Paris, probably of Italian stock, in 1598; died there, 1666.

Poet, from Bourne in Lincolnshire, England.

Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (1808-1892).