The sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the Divine will.

Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona.

Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568.

The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas together with a doxology.

Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy.

Signifies that a papal document is addressed not only to the City of Rome but to the entire Catholic world.

Maffeo Barberini. (1568-1644)

Giambattista Castagna, born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1521; elected pope, 15 September, 1590; died at Rome, 27 September, 1590.

Bartolomeo Prignano, the first Roman pope during the Western Schism.

Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370.

Reigned 1216-64.

Reigned 1185-87, born at Milan; died at Ferrara, 19 October, 1187.

Long article on the canon and later Cluniac prior, assistant to Pope Gregory VII. Urban was elected unanimously to the papacy in 1088, but was forced to spend years wandering southern Italy. He died in 1099.

Died 230. Very little is known about his life, and even his burial place was in doubt for some time.

A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ancyra in Galatia Prima.

The oldest university of Sweden.

History of an episcopal see established at Old Upsala, the center of idolatrous worship not only for Sweden but for all Scandinavia.

Ecclesiastical province; includes the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of Fulda, Mainz, Limburg, and Rottenburg.

Vicariate apostolic; separated from the mission of Nyanza, 6 July, 1894, comprises the eastern portion of Uganda.

Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa.

A constitutional college of the National University of Ireland.

The principal Catholic foundations have been treated in special articles; here the general aspects of the subject are presented.

Presents a history of astronomy.