This order was established in the Kingdom of Aragon to take the place of the Order of the Temple, of which it was in a certain sense the continuation.

Charitable institutions of credit that lend money at low rates of interest, or without interest at all, upon the security of objects left in pawn, with a view to protecting persons in want from usurers.

Comprises that part of the State of California which lies south of 37 deg. 5 min. N. lat. and covers an area of 80,000 square miles.

Diocese in the province of Siena, in Tuscany.

A kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea; the territory was in ancient times a portion of the Roman province of Dalmatia.

A writer, born at Montemôr, province of Coimbra, Portugal, about 1520; died at Turin, 26 February, 1561.

Located in the province of Rome.

Located in the province of Urbino, in the Marches, Central Italy.

History of the abbey near Mercogliano, Italy, established by William of Vercelli.

An abbey nullius situated about eighty miles south of Rome, the cradle of the Benedictine Order.

A French general, born 28 Feb., 1712, at Candiac; died at Quebec 14 Sept., 1759.

Wrote numerous articles for other reviews as well as several separate works on iconography, ecclesiastical furniture, liturgy, and canon law. (1830-1901)

A suffragan of Toulouse, comprises the entire department of Tarn and Garonne.

Schismatics of the second century, first known as Phrygians, or "those among the Phrygians" (oi kata Phrygas), then as Montanists, Pepuzians, and (in the West) Cataphrygians.

A noted Spanish sculptor of the seventeenth century, died 1649, sometimes called "the Sevillian Phidias."

Includes geography, history, statistics, education, and religious information.

Located in Ascoli Piceno.

Born in London, 15 April, 1810; died in Paris 13 March, 1870.

Montalcino is a small town about twenty miles from Siena, some 1900 feet above sea-level and overlooking the valley of the Ombrone.

A concise study of the thinker, by Georges Bertrin.

The collective designation of a number of bands speaking dialects of a common language of Algonquian stock, and ranging over the sores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf, from about the St. Maurice River to Cape Whittle, and inland to about the main divide at the heads of the rivers.

A name given in error to the Chippewayans, owing to a fancied resemblance to the Montagnais Indians of Quebec.

Italian painter, chief representative of the Vicenza School, b. at Orzinuovi about 1450; d. at Vicenza, 11 October, 1523.