Includes the State of Utah, and slightly more than half of the State of Nevada.

Always used for the seasoning of food and for the preservation of things from corruption, had from very early days a sacred and religious character.

Daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias at whose request John the Baptist was beheaded.

Jesuit Biblical scholar, born at Toledo, 8 Sept., 1515; died at Naples, 13 Feb., 1585.

A Chaldean see, included in the ancient Archdiocese of Adhorbigan, or Adherbaidjan.

Authors of the courses of scholastic philosophy and theology, and moral theology.

The principal of a small group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock (the Salivan), centring in the eighteenth century, about and below the junction of the Meta and Orinoco, in Venezuela.

The diocese was originally founded by Birinus, who in 634 established his see at Dorchester in Oxfordshire, whence he evangelized the Kingdom of Wessex. From this sprang the later Dioceses of Winchester, Sherborne, Ramsbury, and Salisbury.

Chronicler, b. at Parma, 9 Oct., 1221; d. probably at Montefalcone about 1288.

The Diocese of Salford comprises the Hundreds of Salford and Blackburn, in Lancashire, England, and was erected 29 Sept., 1850.

Founded by Saint John Bosco, takes its distinctive name from its patron, Saint Francis de Sales.

Diocese in Campania, Southern Italy. The city is situated on the gulf of the same name, backed by a high rock crowned with an ancient castle.

An abbey situated near the Castle of Heiligenberg, about ten miles from Constance, Baden (Germany).

Saliensis. Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland.

Born in La Rioja, in the village of La Bastida on the banks of the Ebro, 1512; died in Madrid, 4 December, 1594. Devoted to the conversion of natives of the new world.

Bishop of Saint-Flour; b. at Carpentras, 22 Oct., 1759; d. at Saint-Flour, 11 June, 1829.

A titular see in Cyprus. Salamis was a maritime town on the eastern coast of Cyprus, situated at the end of a fertile plain between two mountains, near the River Pediaeus.

Spanish university. Had its beginning in the Cathedral School under the direction, from the twelfth century, of a magister scholarum (chancellor).

Article on the Spanish diocese.

Journalist, b. in London, 24 Nov., 1828; d. at Brighton, 8 Dec., 1895, having been received into the Church before death.

Located near Rome.

In Paris, founded by King Clovis who established there a college of clerics, later called canons regular.

Chemist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 11 March, 1818; d. at Boulogne, 1 July, 1881.