Diocese; suffragan of Belém de Pará, comprises the State of Maranhão in Northern Brazil.

Diocese in Brazil, suffragan of Cuyabá.

Diocese; suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil, South America, created on 7 June, l908.

Dominican missionary in India and Africa, b. at Evora, Portugal; d. at Goa in 1622.

Erected on 8 August, 1511, by Julius II who by the Bull "Pontifex Romanus" on that date established also the Sees of Concepción de la Vega and of San Juan of Porto Rico.

Astronomer, b. at Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. at Padua, 26 June, 1877.

Founded in 1501 by Diego de Muros (Bishop of the Canaries), and Lope Gómez Marzo, who on 17 July, 1501, executed a public document establishing a school and academy for the study of the humanities.

Diocese in the Argentine Republic, erected 25 March, 1907, suffragan of Buenos Aires.

Prelature nullius created in 1903, in the ecclesiastical Province of Belem do Pará.

Diocese in Spain which takes its name not from St. Andrew as some believe, but from St. Hemeterius (Santemter, Santenter, Santander), one of the patrons of the city and ancient abbey.

Diocese in the Province of Catanzaro in Calabria, Southern Italy. Situated on a rocky precipice on the site of the ancient Siberena, it became an important fortress of the Byzantines in their struggles with the Saracens.

Diocese in Colombia, erected in 1535, its first bishop being Alfonso do Tobes.

An abbey nullius in Brazil.

A Brazilian see, suffragan of Porto Alegre.

Prelature nullius within the territory of the Archdiocese of Messina, Sicily.

Archdiocese in New Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1850 and created an archbishopric in 1875.

Diocese in the Argentine Republic, suffragan of Buenos Aires.

Diocese in Bolivia, erected on 6 July, 1605, as suffragan of Lima, but since 2 July, 1609, it has been dependent on La Plata (Charcas).

Diocese; suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (São Pedro do Rio Grande), in Brazil, South America, created in 1906.

Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, the "Holy House" of Loreto has been numbered among the most famous shrines of Italy.

In the Province of Benevento, Southern Italy; the city, situated on a hill at the base of Monte Taburno, includes an ancient castle.

Diocese; S. Angelo in Vado is a city in the Marches, on the site of the ancient "Tifernum Metaurense", a town of the Umbrian Senones, near the River Metaurus, believed to have been destroyed by the Goths.

Diocese in the Province of Avellino, Southern Italy. The city was established by the Lombards at an unknown period.