Spanish theologian. (1562-1632)

Linguist and pioneer of the original Jesuit mission in Paraguay. (1585-1652)

Spanish dramatic poet. (1580-1639)

Record of the ten saints named Rufus in the Roman Martyrology.

Record of the eleven saints named Rufinus in the Roman Martyrology.

Brief notices on four saints of this name.

A monastery of the Cistercian Order, situated on the left bank of the Rainworth Water, about two miles south of Ollerton in Nottinghamshire.

Physician and mathematician. (1765-1822)

Famous organ and piano-forte builders of Antwerp.

Middle High German epic poet of the thirteenth century.

Bishop of Breslau. (1402-1482)

German king. (1218-1291)

French chronicler. (d. 862)

Thirteenth-century Franciscan missionary and writer of travels.

Among the ancients, according to Columella, Vitruvius, and Pliny, the word rubrica, rubric, signified the red earth used by carpenters to mark on wood the line to follow in cutting it; according to Juvenal the same name was applied to the red titles under which the jurisconsults arranged the announcements of laws.

Flemish painter. (1577-1640)

Irish founder of the monastery of Lorrha, one of the "twelve apostles of Erin," d. 584.

Philosopher and French politician. (1763-1845)

The name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation of Catholicity which, in accordance with provisions of the "Bill of Rights" (1689) and of "the Act of Succession" (1700), every sovereign succeeding to the throne of Great Britain was required to make in the presence of the assembled Lords and Commons.

Sixteenth-century English priest and martyr.

Sculptor and architect. (1490-1530)

French poet. (1670-1741)

Scholar and missionary to the Choctaw Indians. (1813-1887)