Diocese in Lerida, Spain, suffragan of Tarragona.

Eighteen apocryphal psalms, extant in Greek, probably translated from a Hebrew, or an Aramaic original, commonly assigned to the first century B.C.

The Spanish navigator Alvaro Mendana de Neyra discovered the Islands of Ysabel, Guadalcanar, and San Christoval in 1567.

Established on 23 May, 1898, by separation from the Vicariate Apostolic of New Pomerania.

The second son of David by his wife Bathsheba, and the acknowledged favourite of his father.

A prefecture Apostolic in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, erected by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Consistory, 23 May, 1910.

Technically in canon law the crime of making use of the Sacrament of Penance, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of drawing others into sins of lust.

A titular see in Cyprus, suffragan of Salamis.

A Benedictine monastery in Department of Sarthe, near Sablé, France.

The word solemnity is here used to denote the amount of intrinsic or extrinsic pomp with which a feast is celebrated.

A family of Milanese artists, closely connected with the cathedral and with the Certosa near Pavia.

Includes, with the exception of two hamlets, the entire Department of Aisne.

Ancient diocese.

They were situated in "the country about the Jordan" (Gen., xiii, 10); their exact location is unknown.

It would not be possible to give a definition making a clear distinction between the sodalities and other confraternities; consequently the development and history of the sodalities are the same as those of the religious confraternities.

Greek philosopher. (469-399 B.C.)

Fourth-century Church historian.

Diocese in Colombia.

The claims of sociology to a place in the hierarchy of sciences are subjected to varied controversy. It has been held that there is no distinct problem for a science of sociology, no feature of human society not already provided for in the accepted social sciences.

The body of doctrine held by one of the numerous Antitrinitarian sects to which the Reformation gave birth.

The first active agitation for a church extension or home mission society for the Catholic Church in North America was begun in 1904 by an article of the present writer, published in the "American Ecclesiastical Review" (Philadelphia).

Comprehensive information about the past of the Jesuit order.

Established in 1658-63, its chief founders being Mgr Pallu, Bishop of Heliopolis, Vicar Apostolic of Tongking, and Mgr Lambert de la Motte, Bishop of Bertyus, Vicar Apostolic of Conchin-China.