The opening words of two companion hymns, one of which (Stabat Mater Dolorosa) is in liturgical use, while the other (Stabat Mater Speciosa) is not.

Suffragan diocese of Reggio, in Calabria, Southern Italy.

Army officer and diplomatist; b. at Madoc, Canada, 20 April, 1859; d. at London, 19 Oct., 1911.

A considerable tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, speaking a distinct language, holding the territory about Squamish River and Howe Sound, above Fraser River in South-western British Columbia.

Diocese of Springfield (Campifontis) in Massachusetts, erected in June, 1870.

Lawyer and priest, born at Nola in Bari, Italy, 29 March, 1702; died at Pagani, 19 April, 1750.

Moral theologian, born at Passau, Bavaria; died there, 29 May, 1683.

Composer, born at Magolati, near Jesi, Ancona, 14 Nov., 1774; died there, 14 Jan., 1851.

A convert from Calvinism, Bishop of Pamiers, and one of the continuators of Baronius, born at Mauléon, 6 January, 1568; died at Toulouse, 18 May, 1643.

An important tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely cognate with the Colville, Coeur d'Aléne, Kalispel, and Flathead, and formerly holding the country upon Spokane River in Eastern Washington and the adjacent portion of Idaho.

A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, who, in opposition to the main body of the order, pretended to observe the Rule of St. Francis in its primitive severity.

The term has been frequently used to denote the belief in the possibility of communication with disembodied spirits, and the various devices employed to realize this belief in practice.

A short work composed by St. Ignatius of Loyola and written originally in Spanish.

Suffragan of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, established in 1896.

History and methods of Spiritism (here distinguished from Spiritualism) and the dangers inherent in its practice and beliefs.

Used in several different but allied senses: (1) as signifying a living, intelligent, incorporeal being, such as the soul; (2) as the fiery essence or breath (the Stoic pneuma) which was supposed to be the universal vital force; (3) as signifying some refined form of bodily substance, a fluid believed to act as a medium between mind and the grosser matter of the body.

A tapering construction in plan conical, pyramidal, octagonal, or hexagonal crowning a steeple or tower.

Belonged to a family of Jewish merchants of moderate means, and was originally called Baruch. Born at Amsterdam, 24 Nov., 1632; died at The Hague, 21 Feb., 1677.

Bishop of Wiener-Neustadt, born of a noble Spanish family, near Roermond in Gelderland in 1626; died at Wiener-Neustadt, 12 March, 1695.

Scholastic theologian, born at Pisa about 1475; died at Rome, 1546.

Spanish Franciscan, date of birth unknown; died about 1491.

Author, b. at Zug, Switzerland, 22 April, 1842; d. at Luxembourg, 20 February, 1905.

German printers in Venice from 1468 to 1477.