A Benedictine Abbey, in the Diocese of Avranches, Normandy, France.

A French chronicler, born about 1390 or 1395; died in July, 1453.

As early as the fourteenth century it was the custom to address persons high in rank or power with the title Monseigneur or Monsignore.

Politician, born 21 Sept., 1812; died at Tervoe, Co. Limerick, Ireland, 20 April, 1894.

A French honorific appellation, etymologically corresponding to the English "my lord," and the Italian monsignore.

A celebrated pulpit orator, born at Blois, France, 10 Dec., 1827; died at Havre, 21 Feb., 1907.

A soldier, convert, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, U.S.A., 10 Sept., 1799; died at Orange, New Jersey, 7 Sept., 1870.

In the province of Palermo, Sicily, on the skirts of Mount Caputo.

A modification of Monophysitism proposing that Christ had no human free will. Rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople (680).

A word coined in comparatively modern times to designate belief in the one supreme God, the Creator and Lord of the world, the eternal Spirit, All-powerful, All-wise, and All-good, the Rewarder of good and the Punisher of evil, the Source of our happiness and perfection.

According to its etymology, monopoly (monopolia) signifies exclusive sale, or exclusive privilege of selling. Present usage, however, extends the term to any degree of unified control over a commodity sufficient to enable the person or corporation in control to limit supply and fix price.

A diocese in the Province of Bari, in Apulia, southern Italy.

Rejected the dual nature of Christ. Rejected by the Council of Chalcedon (451).

Whatever may be the etymological meaning of the word Monomotapa, the origin of which is much disputed, it is certain, at any rate, that the Portuguese of the sixteenth century employed it to denote the paramount chief of the Makaranga, a powerf ul South African tribe dwelling between the Zambesi and Limpopo rivers and extending westward from the Indian Ocean probably as far as the twenty-fifth parallel of east longitude.

By the Monogram of Christ is ordinarily understood the abbreviation of Christ's name formed by combining the first two letters of the Greek form; this monogram was also known as the Chrismon.

A member of a community of men, leading a more or less contemplative life apart from the world, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to a rule characteristic of the particular order to which he belongs.

A code of instructions alleged to be addressed by Acquaviva, the fifth general of the Society, to its various superiors, and laying down the methods to be adopted for the increase of its power and influence.

A philosophical term which, in its various meanings, is opposed to Dualism or Pluralism.

Widow, d. 387. The mother of St. Augustine of Hippo.

The name used to designate an immense uneven plateau, part of the Chinese Empire, extending, roughly speaking, from the Tarbagatal to the great K'ingan chains.

A theologian, born at Cremona, Italy, date unknown; died at Bologna, 1240.

A historian and archeologist, born at Mingolsheim near Bruchsal, Baden, 12 May, 1796; died at Karlsruhe, 12 March, 1871.

Located in Piedmont, province of Cuneo, northern Italy.