Roman law allowed clerics to dispose of their property by will or otherwise.

This article discusses will in its psychological aspect.

Situated on the right bank of the Danube, in the Diocese of Linz, Austria.

Duke of Bavaria. (1548-1626)

Painter, born at Herle in Dutch Limburg at an unknown date in the fourteenth century.

The legend makes her a Christian daughter of a pagan King of Portugal.

Biographical article on this abbot and bishop, who died in 709.

Scriptural commentator and preacher. (1495-1554)

Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney.

Second son of William Wilberforce, and a younger brother of Samuel Wilberforce.

Third son of William Wilberforce, and younger brother of Robert Wilberforce.

By profession he was an architect, but subsequently devoted himself to journalism in Paris.

Theological writer of the eighth century.

English-born companion of St. Boniface. Wigbert was abbot of Hersfeld and, for a time, of Ohrdruf. He died in about 746.

Three saints of this name are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

Member of the Order of Cistercians. (1748-1797)

Suppressed see in Lower Austria.

Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany.

Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility.

Canonical prescriptions concerning widows in the Old Testament refer mainly to the question of remarriage.

Swiss theologian. (1779-1844)

Belgian Augustinian. (1596-1661)

Erected in 1887, from the Diocese of Leavenworth.