Benedictine historian, b. near Gembloux which is now in the Province of Namur, Belgium, about 1035; d. at the same place, 5 November, 1112.

Comprises the English colony of that name and the surrounding territory from French Guinea on the north and east to Liberia on the south.

Missionary bishop, b. in Catalonia, date of birth unknown; d. after 1799, place and exact date equally uncertain.

The earliest notices of an advanced school (of grammar and medicine) at Siena go back to 1241.

Archdiocese in Tuscany (Central Italy).

A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra; mentioned by Ptolemy.

Christian author and Bishop of Clermont, b. at Lyons, 5 November, about 430; d. at Clermont, about August, 480.

Titular metropolis of Pamphylia Prima.

City in Syria. Mentioned in the Bible. Is home to both a Melkite Rite and a Maronite diocese.

The largest island in the Mediterranean.

An Israelite city in the tribe of Ephraim, the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

Bishop of Cremona (Italy) in the twelfth century, a member of one of the principal families of that city, d. 1215.

The name given to certain collections of supposed prophecies, emanating from the sibyls or divinely inspired seeresses, which were widely circulated in antiquity.

Born at Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux (Drome, France), 4 August, 1792; died in Paris, 3 January, 1857.

A Russian possession in Asia forming the northern third of that continent.

Sculptor, b. at Dulmen, 7 June, 1850; d. in New York, 10 July, 1907.

Siam, "the land of the White Elephant" or the country of the Muang Thai (the Free).

A tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, the most important of that group in British Columbia, formerly holding a large territory on middle and upper Thompson River, including Shuswap, Adams, and Quesnel Lakes.

Some history behind Carnival.

A relic now preserved at Turin, for which the claim is made that it is the actual "clean linen cloth" in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus Christ.

Location and origins of shrines.

One of the thirteen English dioceses created by Apostolic Letter of Pius IX on 27 Sept., 1850. It then comprised the English counties of Shropshire and Cheshire, and the Welsh counties of Carnarvon, Flint, Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Anglesey.