The thirty-ninth state, admitted to the Union on 2 November, 1889.

One of the thirteen original colonies of the United States.

The question of the reality of the soul and its distinction from the body is among the most important problems of philosophy, for with it is bound up the doctrine of a future life.

Dominican, renowned theologian, b. at Segovia, 1494; d. at Salamanca, 15 Nov., 1560.

The object of these feats is the spiritual martyrdom of the Mother of God and her compassion with the sufferings of her Divine Son.

Archdiocese in the Province of Naples, with one suffragan, Castellamare.

The founder of Notre Dame, Indiana; b. 6 Feb., 1814, at Ahuillé, near Laval, France; d. 31 Oct., 1893, at Notre Dame, U.S.A.

This name is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of Paris.

Physician, b. in Hainault, 1624; d. at Vienna, 19 April, 1691.

A titular see in Paphlagonia, suffragan of Gangra.

Bishop of Constantina or Tella in Osrhoene, was a relative of Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, and apparently of the same theological tendency, i. e. strongly anti-Monophysite and liable to be suspected of Nestorianism.

The ninth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Canon of the Old Testament; preached and wrote in the second half of the seventh century B.C.

A group of Greek teachers who flourished at the end of the fifth century B.C.

A titular see, suffragan of Melitene in Armenia Secunda.

Republic of Mexico; suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durango.

Theologian, b. at Zon in Brabant, 12 August, 1506; d. at Antwerp, 30 June, 1576.

A tribe of some importance formerly holding the south coast of Vancouver Island, B.C.

The general designation given to the numerous poetical and musical creations which have come into existence in the course of time and are used in connection with public Divine worship, but which are not included in the official liturgy on account of their more free and subjective character.

Several instances of its use are detailed.

Includes uses from the Old and New Testaments.

Confessor, born about 1530; died in the Tower of London, 27 May, 1587; second son of Henry, second Earl of Worcester.

Name of a charitable religious congregation of regular clerics, founded in the sixteenth century by St. Jerome Emiliani with the mother-house at Somasca (Venice), whence the name.

A triangular-shaped territory in the north-eastern extremity of Africa, projecting into the ocean towards the island of Socotra; its apex is at Cape Guarafui.