Geologist, b. at St. Thomas, West Indies, 26 February, 1814; d. in Paris 10 October, 1876.

Canon regular, Abbot of St-Victor, Paris, and Bishop of Avranches, b. about 1100; d. 1172.

In 1108 William of Champeaux retired to a small hermitage dedicated to St. Victor, the martyr soldier. He was followed by many disciples and induced again to take up his lectures. Hence the origin of the Royal Abbey and School of St. Victor.

Second Bishop of Quebec, b. at Grenoble, France, 14 Nov. 1653; d. at Quebec, Canada, 26 Dec., 1727; son of Jean de La Croix de Chevrières, and Marie de Sayne.

Founded at Paris by M. Olier (1642) for the purpose of providing directors for the seminaries established by him.

Born 16 January, 1675; died in Paris, 2 March, 1755.

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was born in Paris, 17 Oct., 1760; died there, 19 May, 1825. He belonged to the family of the author of the "Memoirs".

Prefecture apostolic comprising the only French possession in North America, a group of islands.

Located in Rouen, France, this abbey was a Benedictine monastery of great antiquity dating back to the early Merovingian period.

Oratorian; b. 1815; d. at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 24 May, 1875; son of Henry St. John, descended from the Barons St. John of Bletsoe.

Diocese of Mauramanensis. Includes the arrondissement of Saint Jean-de-Maurienne in the Department of Haute Savoie.

Diocese comprising the Department of Cantal, and is suffragan of the Archbishopric of Bourges.

Diocese comprising the Department of the Vosges.

Situated in a small town to which it has given its name, about four miles north of Paris.

Diocese erected in 1850 as suffragan of Bordeaux, includes the Island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean about 350 miles cast of Madagascar.

Born in Quebec, Canada, February, 1667; killed, 1707. Entering the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères of Quebec, he was ordained in 1690 and after serving for a time at Minas, Nova Scotia (then Acadia), was assigned to the western mission.

The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only twenty-six parishes, subject previously to the Abbey of Saint-Claude, and some parishes detached from the Dioceses of Besançon and Lyons.

Diocese; comprises the Department of the Côtes du Nord. Re-established by the Concordat of 1802 as suffragan of Tours, later, in 1850, suffragan of Rennes.

International association of Catholic laymen engaging in personal service of the poor.

University in Manila, founded in 1619 by the Dominican Miguel de Benavides, Archbishop of Manila.

Diocese comprising the Islands of São Thomé and Principe, in the Gulf of Guinea.

Diocese. Suffragan to the primatial See of Goa in the East Indies.

Diocese; suffragan of Caracas, erected by Pius VI on 19 Dec., 1791, comprises the former state of Bermúdez, districts of Nueva Esparta and Guayana, and territories of Amazonas, Caura, Colón, Orinoco, and Yuruary, in the south and east of Venezuela.