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• - Bishop of Cambrai-Arras. (620-700)
  
• - Born at Rome 2 Dec., 1563; died there 9 Feb., 1645.
  
• - French-Canadian statesman and writer. (1774-1861)
  
• - The texts (e.g. antiphons, psalms, hymn) sung in Vespers vary according to the feast or the season of the church year.
  
• - Diocese; suffragan of Burgos, in Spain.
  
• - Reigned 537-55.
  
• - Archdiocese; includes that part of the mainland of the Province of British Columbia south of 54 ° N. lat. and west of the Straits of Georgia, together with the Queen Charlotte Islands.
  
• - A republic formed out of the provinces which, under Spanish rule, constituted the captaincy general of the same name.
  
• - In Sweden, comprised the County of Kronoberg and the hundreds of Ostra, Westra, Östbo, and Westbo in the County of Jönköping.
  
• - Holds flowers for the decoration of the altar.
  
• - A titular see of Numidia, frequently mentioned by historians and ancient geographers.
  
• - At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February.
  
• - Vicomte de, b. at Saint-Auban, Var, 8 Aug., 1784; d. at Paris, 8 June, 1850.
  
• - In the spring of 1907 the public press announced that Pius X had determined to begin preparations for a critical revision of the Latin Bible.
  
• - Wilful, proceeding from the will.
  
• - Jesuit missionary. (1646-1718)
  
• - The capital of Lithuania, situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja.
  
• - Founded by St. John Gualbert, son of the noble Florentine Gualbert Visdomini.
  
• - Third Bishop of Savannah, first of St. Augustine. (1804-1876)
  
• - Italian political economist. (1753-1820)
  
• - The obligation incumbent on certain members of the hierarchy of visiting, the "thresholds of the Apostles", Sts. Peter and Paul, and of presenting themselves before the pope to give an account of the state of their dioceses.
  
• - Assistant at the Indian mission of Santa Clara.
  
• - First stanza of the Easter sequence.
  
• - One of the New England states.
  
• - Written by Venantius Fortunatus.
  
• - Comprises the Department of Drome.
  
• - Emperor of the West. (371-392)
  
• - Sixth Bishop of Richmond, Virginia. (1844-1911)
  
• - Regarded as a habit inclining one to sin.
  
• - Diocese in southwestern British Columbia.
  
• - Reigned 425-55, son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius, succeeded Emperor Honorius.(419-455)
  
• - Located in Spain; comprises the civil Provinces of Valencia, Alicante, and Castellón.
  
• - Florentine historian, b. about 1276; d. of the plague in 1348.
  
• - Physicist. (1745-1827)
  
• - Entered the monastery of St. Maria delle Grazie, and became a canoness regular, taking the name of Battistina. (1497-1587)
  
• - The oldest university of the former Holy Roman Empire, next to the University of Prague.
  
• - Founded in Sweden by St. Bridget in 1346.
  
• - Founded in 1878 by the White Fathers of Cardinal Lavigerie.
  
• - In Austria, suffragan of Görz-Gradisca.
  
• - Humanist educator. (1397-1446)
  
• - The administrator of a vacant diocese, elected by a cathedral chapter.
  
• - Bishop and writer. (d. 303)
  
• - Suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory is now included in the Dioceses of Avignon.
  
• - German preacher and religious writer, died 1504.
  
• - Roman emperor. (253-60)
  
• - A sixteenth-century bishop.
  
• - Italian traveller in the Orient. (1586-1652)
  
• - Composer. (1770-1827)
  
• - Reigned 1086-1087.
  
• - One of the thirteen original states.
  
• - Gregory XIII ordered a tower to be erected in a convenient part of the Vatican buildings, and to be fitted out with the greatest and best instruments of the time.
  
• - Erected 26 July, 1452, by letters patent from the Dauphin Louis, afterwards Louis XI.
  
• - Emperor of the East. (328-378)
  
• - The highest official of a diocese after the ordinary.
  
• - In the modern metaphysical sense is a theory which explains the universe as emanating ultimately from some form of will.
  
• - At the request of Jaime I the Conqueror, Innocent IV in 1246, authorized by a Bull the establishment of estudios generales in Valencia.
  
• - The dogma which teaches that the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ was a virgin before, during, and after the conception and birth of her Divine Son.
  
• - Fourth-century martyrs.
  
• - Roman Emperor.
  
• - Jesuit missionary and astronomer. (1623-1688)
  
• - Martyr and Bishop of Trent. (353-405)
  
• - Critic, novelist, and historian. (1848-1910)
  
• - Titular see, suffragan of Dyrrachium, in Epirus Nova.
  
• - Motherhouse at Mt. St. Vincent-on Hudson, New York; not to be confused with the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul founded earlier.
  
• - Flemish painter. (1646-1716)
  
• - Founder of the modern school of violinist.
  
• - Abbot of Bellozane, died 1547.
  
• - Devotion to Our Blessed Lady in its ultimate analysis must be regarded as a practical application of the doctrine of the Communion of Saints.
  
• - The stimulus or moving cause must come from without; no one can do violence to himself.
  
• - Convened 1311-1312.
  
• - Painter. (1793-1877)
  
• - Painter. (1399-1464)
  
• - Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil. Governor of Canada, died 1725.
  
• - French-Canadian antiquarian and archaeologist. (1787-1858)
  
• - Humanist and philosopher. (1405-1457)
  
• - Recenty erected vicariates Apostolic as of 1913.
  
• - Martyr in prison. (1519-1585)
  
• - Italian priest. (1702-1771)
  
• - Diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Mexico.
  
• - Bishop of Junca, in the African Province of Byzacena, in the middle of the sixth century.
  
• - A hall projecting in front of the façade of a church, found from the fifth century both in the East and the West.
  
• - Archbishop of Arles, died c. 610.
  
• - Diocese in Southern Italy.
  
• - Bishop of Tunnunum in Northern Africa. (d. 569)
  
• - Fourteenth-century historian.
  
• - Italian orator, patriot, philosopher. (1792-1861)
  
• - Sung at Mass from Whitsunday until the following Saturday inclusively, and comprises ten stanzas.
  
• - The capital of Austria-Hungary, the residence of the emperor, and the seat of a Latin archbishopric.
  
• - French historian. (1655-1735)
  
• - French-Canadian priest, educator, and historian. (1828-1901)
  
• - Lord Grenville presented a petition for the Catholics in the Lords, and, in moving for a committee, proposed an effective veto for the king on the appointment of bishops.
  
• - Inventor of the instrument which bears his name. (1580-1637)
  
• - A Cistercian monastery and church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. It is situated five miles north-west of Borja, Saragossa, Spain.
  
• - Pseudonym, Ludwig Clarus.
  
• - In the early ages of the Church, the popes committed to some residentiary bishops the duty of watching over ecclesiastical matters in a certain region.
  
• - Founder and abbot of the monasteries of Hautmont and Soignies. (d. 677)
  
• - The Scandinavians who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, first ravaged the coasts of Western Europe and its islands and then turned from raiding into settlers.
  
• - Situated at the outlet of Lake St. Francis, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
  
• - English physician. (1536-1585)
  
• - The city of Viterbo in the Province of Rome stands at the foot of Monte Cimino, in Central Italy.
  
• - Italian Humanist.
  
• - The notion of heroicity is derived from hero, originally a warrior, a demigod; hence it connotes a degree of bravery, fame, and distinction.
  
• - Eighth-century Irish missionary.
  
• - Bishop of Cracow, chronicler. (1160-1223)
  
• - One of the missionaries sent to China by Louis XIV in 1687.
  
• - The first line of two hymns celebrating respectively the Nativity of Christ and the Institution of the Holy Eucharist.
  
• - A promise made to God.
  
• - Preacher and polemical writer. (1547-1622)
  
• - Vicariate apostolic erected from the mission of Nyanza.
  
• - Journalist and writer. (1813-1883)
  
• - (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• - One of the two principal branches of the Goths.
  
• - American surgeon. (1819-1883)
  
• - Austrian pedagogue. (1758-1827)
  
• - Wrote works on philosophy and theology, including a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist Lawrence in defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits. (1578-1656)
  
• - One not entered in the general calendar, but adopted with a view to satisfying a special devotion.
  
• - Reigned 657-72.
  
• - Bishop of Tapsus, in the African Province of Byzacena.
  
• - Painter and statesman. (1320-1414)
  
• - Reigned 189-198.
  
• - The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870.
  
• - Priest and encyclopedist. (1190-1264)
  
• - Theorist, composer, organist. (1749-1814)
  
• - An isolated mountain hallowed by association with St. Francis of Assisi, situated in the centre of the Tuscan Appenines.
  
• - Philologist. (1603-1676)
  
• - Flemish painter. (1520-1570)
  
• - A quarto volume written in uncial letters of the fourth century.
  
• - Diocese in Tuscany.
  
• - Situated on the confines of Villers and Tilly, Duchy of Brabant, present Diocese of Namur (Belgium), and first monastery of the order in this territory.
  
• - Located in the east of India, suffragan to Madras.
  
• - Proclaimed Roman Emperor by the soldiers at Cologne during the civil war of A.D. 69; d. at Rome, 21 Dec., 69.
  
• - Missionary, diplomat, orator. (1608-1697)
  
• - First Russian ruler to embrace Christianity. (956-1015)
  
• - Netherland poet and convert. (1587-1679)
  
• - Spanish theologian. (d. 1560)
  
• - May be effected by a simple renewal of consent when its nullity arises only from a defective consent in one or both parties.
  
• - Preacher. (1787-1876)
  
• - Humanist, statesman, and canonist. (b. 1370)
  
• - The act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view of maintaining faith and discipline, and of correcting abuses by the application of proper remedies.
  
• - Comprises the Department of Morbihan, and was re-established by the Concordat of 1802.
  
• - Humanist and controversialist. (1605-1681)
  
• - Physician and alchemist. (1235-1312)
  
• - Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scholar. (1452-1519)
  
• - Sacred books of ancient India.
  
• - French missionary, born at St-Loup, Diocese of Poitiers; martyred in Tonkin, 2 February, 1861. (1829-1861)
  
• - Diocese; includes the Department of Ardèche, France.
  
• - French writer. (1853-1910)
  
• - Martyred by order of a judge named Paulinus for having encouraged St. Ursicinus, who was wavering at the prospect of death, and for having given burial to his remains.
  
• - Seventeenth-century convert from Anglicanism.
  
• - Sculptor and metal founder. (1460-1529)
  
• - A Flemish theologian and controversialist. (1482-1557)
  
• - The most famous of hymns, assigned in the Roman Breviary to Vespers (I and II) and Terce of Pentecost and throughout the octave.
  
• - Diocese in north central Portugal.
  
• - Located on the Malabar Coast, India, having the Diocese of Quilon as suffragan.
  
• - Theologian. (1549-1604)
  
• - The capital of a province in Northern Italy, is formed of a group of 117 small islands joined together by 378 bridges mostly built of stone.
  
• - An African bishop of the Province of Byzacena.
  
• - Located in the District of Columbia, United States of America.
  
• - Portuguese dramatist. (1470-1536)
  
• - Emperor of the West. (321-375)
  
• - Spanish diplomat and ecclesiastical writer, died 1566.
  
• - Among the ancient Greeks the custom prevailed of giving a supper to those setting out on a journey.
  
• - Details about vespers starting from the sixth century.
  
• - A congregation of secular priests with religious vows founded by St. Vincent de Paul.
  
• - Died 1625, the first victim of apostolic zeal on the shores of the St. Lawrence.
  
• - Details on Greek, Hebrew, English, and others.
  
• - A wise woman.
  
• - Flemish painter. (1520-1556)
  
• - Spanish painter. (1503-1580)
  
• - Founded towards the end of the twelfth century by Viard, a lay brother of the Carthusian priory of Loubigny, in the Diocese of Langres.
  
• - The chalice is the cup in which the wine and water of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is contained.
  
• - Suffragan of Tarragona.
  
• - A title of the pope implying his supreme and universal primacy, both of honour and of jurisdiction, over the Church of Christ.
  
• - Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen.
  
• - Father of modern algebra.
  
• - A theoretical and practical architect of the Transition Period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles. (1507-1573)
  
• - Dominican missionary. (1350-1419)
  
• - The general name given to those things vowed or dedicated to God, or a saint, and in consequence looked upon as set apart by this act of consecration.
  
• - Officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates.
  
• - Born at Pouy, Gascony, France.
  
• - The best known and most influential of the Gnostic heretics, born on the coast of Egypt.
  
• - Located in the Province of Rome.
  
• - A congregation of women with simple vows, founded in 1633 and devoted to corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
  
• - Reigned 1055-57.
  
• - His fame rests mainly on a "Commentary on Ezechiel".
  
• - Commissioned by Henry VII to write the history of England.
  
• - Painter, architect, and writer. (1511-1574)
  
• - The article deals not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to the direct intervention of a power superior to man.
  
• - This is the name given to a cloth of rectangular shape about 8 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. wide.
  
• - Seville painter. (1502-1568)
  
• - French bishop and controversialist. (1515-1575)
  
• - Alfonso XI was the patron of Valladolid.
  
• - Located in Italy, Valva, a medieval castle belonging to the Bishop of Sulmona, Baron of Valva, is situated near the ancient Corfinium, chief town of the Peligni, a Samnite tribe.
  
• - Reigned briefly in A.D. 827.
  
• - Lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, in the fourth century.
  
• - Spanish poet. (1845-1902)
  
• - Archdiocese in the Province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy.
  
• - A Germanic people belonging to the family of East Germans.
  
• - Humanist, poet, and educator. (1406-1458)
  
• - Spanish humanist and philosopher. (1492-1540)
  
• - Priest and missionary. (1783-1851)
  
• - Apostle of Holstein. (1086-1154)
  
• - In canon law, the representative of a person clothed with ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  
• - Artist. (1435-1488)
  
• - Astronomer. (1805-1848)
  
• - Biblical scholar, born at Biella, Milan; died at Rome, 19 January, 1869.
  
• - Detailed history and information.
  
• - Spanish painter. (1599-1660)
  
• - An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the Jansenists on 16 July, 1705.
  
• - Latinist. (1810-1892)
  
• - Novelist. (1828-1905)
  
• - Professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic University of Louvain. (1827-1903)
  
• - The city is the capital of a province in Venetia (Northern Italy).
  
• - The special gift of those who, in the Church of God, follow with a pure intention the ecclesiastical profession of the evangelical counsels.
  
• - The reorganizer of the study of anatomy.
  
• - First Bishop of Cuzco. (d. 1541)
  
• - French oratorian, first studied medicine, and was later ordained priest. (1814-1876)
  
• - A term applied to an office or position devoid of an incumbent, as a vacant benefice, bishopric, or parish.
  
• - Italian controversialist. (d. 1543)
  
• - Italian painter. (1509-1566)
  
• - Dominican theologian and ascetical writer. (1595-1665)
  
• - Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Catholic University at Louvain. (1809-1831)
  
• - Second Archbishop of Sydney. (1834-1883)
  
• - According to the rules of the Church or from ecclesiastical usage, are to be worn by the clergy in performing the ceremonies of the services of the Church.
  
• - "The holy man of Lille", organizer of numerous Catholic activities. (1829-1905)
  
• - In several regions of Christendom there is honored under this name a pious matron of Jerusalem who, during the Passion of Christ, as one of the holy women who accompanied Him to Calvary.
  
• - Suffragan diocese of Salerno.
  
• - Ascetical writer. (1458-1527)
  
• - Spanish Humanist and chancellor of Emperor Charles V. (1500-1532)
  
• - Third Bishop of Marquette, U.S.A. (1844-1899)
  
• - Writer. (1648-1726)
  
• - Florentine humanist and librarian. (1421-1498)
  
• - The Hebrew form of her name is miryam.
  
• - A Mass offered for a votum, a special intention.
  
• - French chemist. (1763-1829)
  
• - Preacher. (1304-1346)
  
• - An international association of Catholic laymen engaging systematically in personal service of the poor.
  
• - According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage.
  
• - Maréchal de Champagne, warrior, and first historian in the French language.
  
• - Italian composer. (1813-1901)
  
• - Diocese includes the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France.
  
• - The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.
  
• - Navigator, died 1527.
  
• - Defined literally the word vivisection signifies the dissection of living creatures.
  
• - Comprises the Department of the Meuse.
  
• - A family of Italian painters. Alvise, Antonio, and Bartolommeo (Bartolommeo da Murano).
  
• - Cardinal Gregory Conti, elected in opposition to Innocent II.
  
• - French economist. (1782-1863)
  
• - Fifth-century ecclesiastical writer.
  
• - Cardinal, and third Archbishop of Westminster. (1832-1903)
  
• - Situated at Arras, the ancient capital of Artois, Department of Pas-de-Calais, France; founded in 667.
  
• - French controversialist, born at Paris about 1575; died at Charenton, 1625.
  
• - Located in Denmark.
  
• - According to the legend, martyrs under Diocletian; feast, 15 June.
  
• - Publisher and antiquarian, born at London, about 1548.
  
• - A Goanese priest, Apostle of Ceylon. (1651-1711)
  
• - The Coptic language is now recognized in four principal dialects, Bohairic (formerly Memphitic), Fayumic, Sahidic (formerly Theban), and Akhmimic.
  
• - The traditional name given to the insurrection which broke out at Palermo on Easter Tuesday, 31 March, 1282, against the domination of Charles of Anjou.
  
• - Diocese in Lombardy, Province of Pavia.
  
• - Born at Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March, 1810; died at Vienna, 17 October, 1889.
  
• - A series of pictures or tableaux representing certain scenes in the Passion of Christ, each corresponding to a particular incident, or the special form of devotion connected with such representations.
  
• - Siennese painter. (1565-1609)
  
• - Artist. (1412-1480)
  
• - Member of the Theatine Congregation and biographical writer. (1708-1783)
  
• - Italian diocese.
  
• - The bride of Christ, as the vestal virgins had done, adopted the veil, which thus symbolized not so much the purity as the inviolable fidelity to Christ which was to be reverenced in her.
  
• - Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Gran, one of the sees founded about 1009 by King St. Stephen, or perhaps by Queen Gisela, his wife.
  
• - Economist.(1728-1797)
  
• - Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy).
  
• - The event is related in Luke 1:39-57.
  
• - Founder of the Congregation of Savigny. (1060-1122)
  
• - The conception is that in the tabernacle Jesus Christ, as it were, holds His court, and is prepared to grant audience to all who draw near to Him.
  
• - Italian navigator. (1451-1512)
  
• - The nuns of the Visitation of Mary, called also Filles de Sainte-Marie, Visitandines, and Salesian Sisters, were founded in 1610.
  
• - Jurist, died 1388.
  
• - Archbishop of Freiburg in Baden. (1773-1868)
  
• - Publicist. (1829-1904)
  
• - Canonized by Gregory XVI in 1839.
  
• - Morally, virginity signifies the reverence for bodily integrity which is suggested by a virtuous motive.
  
• - German canonist. (1833-1896)
  
• - A fourth-century grammarian, rhetorician, philosopher, and theologian.
  
• - Details of scientific activity in the Vatican.
  
• - Organization of German Catholics opposing heresies and revolutionary tendencies in the social world, and for the defence of Christian order in society.
  
• - A prose invocation of the Holy Ghost.
  
• - Cistercian abbey situated in the Diocese of Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, in what was called the "Isle-de-France".
  
• - Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end.
  
• - Curé of Ars, born at Dardilly, near Lyons, France, on 8 May, 1786; died at Ars, 4 August, 1859.
  
• - Bounded on the north by Palencia, east by Burgos and Segovia, south by Avila and Salamanca, and west by Zamora.