A titular metropolitan of Palaestina Secunda. It is the ancient Bethsan so often mentioned in the Bible, as proved by texts in the writings of Josephus.

The Archdiocese of Scutari comprises 29 parishes.

In the widest sense of the term, sculpture is the art of representing in bodily form men, animals, and other objects in stone, bronze, ivory, clay and similar materials.

Definitions for the term as variously employed in canon law.

An unfounded apprehension and consequently unwarranted fear that something is a sin which, as a matter of fact, is not.

Sacred Scripture is one of the several names denoting the inspired writings which make up the Old and New Testament.

A large room set apart in a monastery for the use of the scribes or copyists of the community.

In the New-Testament period the scribes were the professional interpreters of the Law in the Jewish synagogues.

Diocese in Pennsylvania

Clement VIII gave Scotland its college at Rome. The Bull of foundation, dated 5 December, 1600, conferred on the college all the privileges already enjoyed by the Greek, German, and English colleges.

A convenient term under which to include the monastic institutions which were founded during the sixth century in the country now known as Scotland, though that name was not used in its present sense until four hundred years later.

The religious organization which has for three centuries and a half claimed the adherence of the majority of the inhabitants of Scotland, may be said to date from August 1560.

The northern portion of the Island of Great Britain.

Article on the school of philosophy inspired by John Duns Scotus, and its proponents in the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Archdiocese, ancient residence of the early Servian rulers is the modern Uscub.

In the year 180 six Christians were condemned to death by the sword, in the town of Scillium, by Vigellius Saturninus, Proconsul of Africa.

A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. Perhaps the name should be written Scilium: the real name was possibly Scilli, or better, Scili.

Dicsusses the relationship between the two subjects.

History of this Catholic publishing house at Paderborn.

The name of a German noble family, many members of which were prelates of the Church.

Publisher and printer, b. at Gernsheim on the Rine about 1425; d. at Mainz in 1503.

Theologian, b. at Ratisbon, 7 May, 1827; d. at Interlaken, 9 September, 1880.

A German wood engraver, pupil of Durer, b. at Nuremberg in 1490; d. there in 1540. Best known as an engraver, but also an artist of repute.