Eleventh-century priest and biographer.

Benedictine abbot and controversial writer. (1518-1592)

Abbot, contemporary of St. Patrick. There are fifty-some forms of his name, including Bennoc and Winwalloc.

Physician and anatomist. (1669-1760)

Established in 1889, suffragan of St. Paul, in southern Minnesota.

Early eighth-century Benedictine prior.

A Siouan tribe closely related in speech to the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto, and more remotely to the Dakota and Ponca.

Pianist, organist, composer and teacher. (1846-1893)

Seventh-century Welsh niece of St. Beuno. According to legend, she was decapitated by a frustrated suitor and restored to life by her uncle.

German statesman. (1812-1891)

A town on the Thames, in Berkshire, England; rendered Ventus Morbidus in some medieval documents, the name being really from the Saxon Windels-or, "winding shore".

A history of the use and form of windows in Christian houses of worship.

A circular window, with mullions and traceries generally radiating from the centre, and filled with stained glasses.

Concise article on this philosopher's life and works, by Friedrich Lauchert.

Orientalist and exegete. (1811-1861)

In 1206 one of the (supposed) Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to Besançon by Otto de La Roche, and the feast of its arrival (Susceptio) was ordered to be kept on 11 July.

Augustinian monastery in Holland.

Archaeologist and historian of ancient art. (1717-1768)

This diocese came into existence in 635 when the great missionary Diocese of Dorchester, founded by St. Birinus in 634 for the Kingdom of Wessex, was subdivided into the Sees of Sherborne and Winchester.

Theologian. (1465-1531)

Humanist and theologian. (1450-1528)

Bavarian archabbot. (1809-1887)

Monastery in Dorsetshire, England.