Italian preacher and writer. (d. 1348)

According to the testimony of St. Justin, Simon came from Gitta in the country of the Samaritans.

Archdiocese in India, a new creation of Pius X by a Decree dated 13 September, 1910.

The "just and devout" man of Jerusalem who according to the narrative of St. Luke, greeted the infant Saviour on the occasion of His presentation in the Temple.

From Antioch. 521-597, lived on a pillar for 68 years. Also a brief mention of St. Simeon Stylites III.

First and most famous of the hermits whose asceticism involved living atop a pillar. Died in 459.

Chronicler, d. 14 Oct., between 1130 and 1138.

The second son of Jacob by Lia and patronymic ancestor of the Jewish tribe bearing that name.

The mother of St. Gregory the Great. She died in about 592.

Theologian, b. at Ferrara about 1474; d. at Rennes, 19 Sept., 1526.

Son of Pope St. Hormisdas. Named pope while yet a subdeacon, to thwart the Monophysites. Exiled through a forgery of his political and religious enemies, died of starvation in prison, probably in 537.

Pioneer missionary of South Africa, b. 23 Feb, 1526, at Almeirim, about forty miles from Lisbon; martyred 6 March, 1561.

A pool in the Tyropoean Valley, just outside the south wall of Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ gave sight to a man born blind.

The collective designation for the rapidly dwindling remnant of some thirty small tribes, representing five linguistic stocks - Salishan, Yakonan, Kusan, Takelman, and Athapascan.

The largest province of Prussia.

All writers on the spiritual life uniformly recommend, nay, command under penalty of total failure, the practice of silence.

A titular see in Lydia, suffragan of Sardis. It is not mentioned by any ancient geographer or historian.

The religion of a warlike sect of India, having its origin in the Punjab and its centre in the holy City of Amritsar, where their sacred books are preserved and worshipped.

Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Toledo.

Italian painter, b. at Cortona about 1441; d. there in 1523.

A term applied to various manual acts, liturgical or devotional in character, which have this at least in common: that by the gesture of tracing two lines intersecting at right angles they indicate symbolically the figure of Christ's cross.

King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, b. 15 February, 1361, at Nuremberg; d. at Znaim, Bohemia, 9 December, 1437.

Indisputably the leader of Latin Averroism during the sixth and seventh decades of the thirteenth century.