English poet and dramatist (1596-1666)

Vicariate apostolic in Nyassaland Protectorate, Africa.

Military officer, b. in Dungannon County Tyrone, Ireland, 12 Dec., 1810; d. at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1 June, 1879.

One of the four great islands of Japan, has all area of 7009 square miles, not counting the smaller islands which depend upon it.

Bishop of Meath, d. at Dublin, 3 Dec. 1482. He was an English ecclesiastic who obtained the see by papal provision in April, 1460.

English priest and confessor. One of the Dilati, b. 1563; d. 1588.

General, U.S. Army. Born at Albany, N.Y., U.S.A., 6 March, 1831; died at Nonquitt, Mass, 5 August, 1888.

Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Montreal, erected by Pius IX, 28 Aug., 1874.

Located in Dorsetshire, England; founded in 998. Sherborne (scir-burne, clear brook) was originally the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Western Wessex, having been established as such by St. Aldhelm (705).

English musical composer (1512-1563)

The southern part of Shen-si was entrusted in 1885 to the Seminary of Sts. Peter and Paul, established at Rome by Pius IX, 1874.

In 1640 the Christian religion was preached for the first time in the Province of Shen-si. It was, by turns, looked upon with favor and disfavor by the emperors of China.

English confessor; d. in Marshalsea prison, London, probably in February or March, 1585-6.

Translator (1599-1687).

Dramatist, prose writer, and politician, b. at Drumdowny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, 17 August, 1791; d. at, Florence, Italy, 25 May, 1851.

Born in Newfoundland, 17 Sept., 1815; d. in London, 30 July, 1905.

American historian (1824-1892).

English priest (1577-1630).

On 2 Jan., 1882, the then vicar Apostolic of Shan-tung, Rt. Rev. Mgr. D. Cosi, elected as pro-vicar Apostolic for the southern part of his vicariate Father John Baptist Anzer, a member of the Steyl Seminary.

Erected by Gregory XVI in 1839.

This mission was separated in 1894 from Northern Shan-Tung and erected into a vicariate Apostolic.

Erected in 1890; the mission is entrusted to the Franciscan Fathers.

Highlights of the history of Catholicism in this Chinese province.