Five distinct parish registers that a pastor must have: one each of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths; and a fifth containing a census or general account of the state of souls in the parish.

French philosopher and writer. (1632-1707)

French missionary. (d. 1738)

The name given in later antiquity and the early Middle Ages to those clerics and officials of the Church of Rome who were attached neither to the papal palace or the titular churches of Rome, but to one of the city regions, or wards, which was assigned as their official district.

German abbot. (d. 915)

Companion of St. Thomas Aquinas. (1230-1290)

The opening words of the Eastertide anthem of the Blessed Virgin.

Ecclesiastical division comprising the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Archdiocese in Calabria, southern Italy.

Italian diocese and suffragan of Modena.

Copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives.

Biblico-dogmatic term closely connected with the ideas of justification, Divine sonship, and the deification of the soul through grace.

The insignia of royalty or "crown jewels".

Document denoting those rights that belonged exclusively to the king.

Religious order founded in 1641 that works towards reforming women living a life of sin.

Towns which according to the Jewish law enjoyed the right of asylum and to which anyone who had unintentionally slain another might flee and be protected from the "avenger of blood".

Protestant bodies which adopted the tenets of Zwingli and, later, the doctrinal principles of Calvin.

Sixteenth century religious movement led by Martin Luther.

Return or bringing back of an order from a mitigated or relaxed observance to the rigour of its primitive rule.

Officials in the Byzantine Court who reported to the emperor on the memorials of petitioners, and conveyed to the judges the orders of the emperor in connexion with such memorials.

Jesuit campaign to convert the natives of Paraguay.

Prince-Abbot of Einsiedeln and theological writer. (1625-1692)

Italian poet. (1626-1698)