A theologian and exegete, b. in 1533 at Casas de Reina, in the district of Llerena, 66 leagues from Madrid; d. at Rome, 5 Jan., 1583.

A name common in the Semitic languages and of special interest as being that borne by the Jewish servant whose ear was struck off by St. Peter.

The name of an Italian family prominent in the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, famous alike in the poetry of Dante and in the annals of the early Renaissance.

A Jesuit missionary to Brazil, b. 18 September or 6 December, 1689, at Menaggio, in Italy; d. 21 September, 1761, at Lisbon.

Diocese in Spain, by the Concordat of 1851 made a suffragan of Granada, having previously been dependent on Seville.

Abbot of Bangor, later Archbishop of Armagh, d. 1148. Article includes testimony from St. Bernard of Clairvaux on St. Malachy's character.

Examination of the Old Testament prophet and book.

The Diocese of Malacca comprises the southern portions of the Malay Peninsula, otherwise known as the Straits Settlements.

Certain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their neophytes to retain after conversion, but which were afterwards prohibited by the Holy See.

The name of a district of India stretching about 145 miles along the west coast, south of Mangalore, in the general region of present-day Kerala.

Catholic journalist, born at Gross-Schmograu in Silesia, 14 July, 1842; died at Hochkirch near Glogau, 21 May, 1899.

The state of a person or thing greater, or superior, in relation to another person or thing.

Chief steward of the household of the pope.

A suffragan of Valencia, with the episcopal residence at Palma on the Island of Majorca.

A well-known Florentine sculptor and architect of the Renaissance, b. at Majano, Tuscany. 1442; d. at Florence, 24 May, 1498.

Located in New South Wales. Maitland, the principal settlement on Hunter River, was chosen as the title for a bishop in 1848.

French romance writer, younger brother of Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre, b. at Chambery, Savoy, in 1763; d. at St. Petershurg, 12 June, 1852.

Biographical article, summarizing his chief arguments for authority and against Gallicanism.

Founder of Montreal (d. 1676).

A former important group of tribes on the Upper Orinoco River, from above the Meta to the entrance of the Cassiquiare, in Venezuela and Columbia, speaking dialects of the Arawakan stock.

German town and bishopric in Hesse; formerly the seat of an archbishop and elector.

Born at Niort, 28 November 1635; died at Saint-Cyr, 15 April 1719. She was the granddaughter of the celebrated Protestant writer, Agrippa d'Aubigné.

A philosopher; born at Grateloup near Bergerac, Dordogne, France, 29 November, 1766; died at Paris, 16 July, 1824.