"Servant of the servants of God", a title given by the popes to themselves in documents of note.

The fifth mendicant order, the objects of which are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the propagation of devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows.

A European kingdom in the north-western part of the Balkan peninsula.

An order of nuns, founded by the Venerable Pierre-Julien Eymard.

Order founded on the feast of the Assumption, 1233 when the Blessed Virgin appeared to seven noble Florentines.

Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus.

Scientist known for work in astronomy and seismology, b. at S. Giovanni in Marignano, near Rimini, 31 Oct., 1823; d. at Fiesole, 22 Feb., 1885.

Born at Beauvais, 5 April, 1730; died at Rome, 24 September, 1814. He was a descendant of the counts of Namur.

Italian theologian and cardinal, b. at Troja (Apulia), 6 May, 1493; d. at Trent 17 March, 1563.

Reigned 1009-1012.

Reigned 904-911.

Reigned 844-847.

Reigned 687-701

Soldiers, martyred in the Diocletian persecution in about 303. Universally venerated in the East.

A titular see in Augusta Euphratensis, suffragan of Hierapolis.

Writer, born at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, in 1623; died in 1710.

Embracing Atacama and Coquimbo provinces (Chile), suffragan of Santiago, erected 1 July, 1840.

Bishop and theological author. Died 211.

Forced by her husband to enter the Poor Clares, d. 1478.

Late sixteenth-century Italian Capuchin. Had the gift of reading hearts.

A Hebrew masculine plural form, designates a special class of heavenly attendants of Yahweh's court.

The first translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, made into popular Greek before the Christian era.

The ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Lent known among the Greeks as "Sunday of the Prodigal".