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	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02581b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02581b.htm The title of an ecclesiastical dignitary who possesses the fullness of the priesthood to rule a diocese as its chief pastor, in due submission to the primacy of the pope.
	Benedict XIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02431a.htm Reigned 1724-1730.
	Benedict II, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427d.htm A Roman, he was pope for a little less than eleven months, and died in 685. Account of his pontificate.
	Benedict VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428c.htm Benedict, Cardinal-Deacon of St. Theodore, a Roman and the son of Hildebrand, was elected as the successor of John XIII.
	Benedict V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428b.htm Date of birth unknown; died 4 July, 965.

	Benedict IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428a.htm A Roman and the son of Mammalus, became pope in the first half of 900.
	Boniface I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02658a.htm Consecrated the same day as the antipope Eulalius. Both were ordered to leave Rome. Eulalius took over St. John Lateran on Holy Saturday, after which the emperor refused to consider his claim. Boniface died in 422.
	Benedict III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427e.htm Date of birth unknown; d. 17 April, 858.
	Bede, The Venerable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02384a.htm Benedictine monk, priest, historian, Doctor of the Church, d. 735.
	Benedict XIV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02432a.htm Reigned 1740-58.

	Beguines & Beghards - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389c.htm As early as the commencement of the twelfth century there were women in the Netherlands who lived alone, and without taking vows devoted themselves to prayer and good works.
	Benedict VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428e.htm The first of the Tusculan popes. Date of birth unknown; d. 9 April, 1024.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02408b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02408b.htm That state of the mind by which it assents to propositions, not by reason of their intrinsic evidence, but because of authority.
	Beatification and Canonization - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm According to some writers the origin in the Catholic Church is to be traced back to the ancient pagan apotheosis.
	Bolzano, Bernhard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02643c.htm Austrian mathematician and philosopher, b. at Prague, 5 October, 1781; d. 18 December, 1848.

	Benedict VII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02428d.htm Date of birth unknown; d. c. October, 983.
	Briefs and Bulls - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03052b.htm A bulla was originally a circular plate or boss of metal, so called from its resemblance in form to a bubble floating upon water.
	Boniface II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02660a.htm Elected 17 September, 530; died October, 532.
	Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02498d.htm Article on the life and works of this twelfth-century Cistercian and Doctor of the Church.
	Benedictine Order - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02443a.htm Comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as "black monks".

	Benedict, Rule of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02436a.htm Lengthy article on the text of the Rule and its composition, some analysis, and practical application.
	Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02691a.htm Detailed article by Adolf Muller on the Jesuit mathematician and philosopher.
	Boniface VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02662a.htm Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303.
	Benefice - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02473c.htm Popularly the term is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls.
	Boniface VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02661b.htm A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus.

	Boniface VII, Antipope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02661c.htm Roman and son of Ferrucius; was intruded into the Chair of St. Peter in 974; reinstalled 984; died July, 985.
	Brendan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02758c.htm Article on St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, also known as Brendan the Voyager. Monastic founder, d. 577. About half of the article is devoted to St. Brendan's famous voyage.
	Boniface IV, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02660c.htm Transformed the Pantheon into a Christian church, died in 615.
	Benedict I, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427c.htm A Roman and the son of Boniface, and was called Bonosus by the Greeks.
	Behaim, Martin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02391b.htm A German cartographer and navigator. (1459-1507)

	Basle, Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02334b.htm Convoked by Pope Martin V in 1431, closed at Lausanne in 1449.
	Bulla Aurea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03048a.htm A fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire; probably the best known of all the many ordinances of the imperial diet.
	Blasphemy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02595a.htm Signifies etymologically gross irreverence towards any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02612b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02612b.htm Crown province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which until 1526 was an independent kingdom.
	Benedict IX, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02429a.htm The nephew of his two immediate predecessors.

	Barton, Elizabeth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02319b.htm Born probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; called the "Nun of Kent".
	Buildings, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03041a.htm This term comprehends all constructions erected for the celebration of liturgical acts, whatever be the name given to them, church, chapel, oratory, and basilica.
	Bohemian Brethren - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02616a.htm "Bohemian Brethren" and "Moravian Brethren" are the current popular designation of the Unitas Fratrum founded in Bohemia in 1457, renewed by Count Zinzendorf in 1722.
	Boniface V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02661a.htm A Neapolitan who succeeded Deusdedit after a vacancy of more than a year; consecrated 23 December, 619.
	Breviary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02768b.htm Evolution of the book, or set of books, containing the texts and rubrics of the canonical hours.

	Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02698b.htm French bishop and orator. (1627-1704)
	Burial, Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03071a.htm The interment of a deceased person with ecclesiastical rites in consecrated ground.
	Byzantine Empire, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03096a.htm Term employed to designate the Eastern survival of the ancient Roman Empire.
	Benedictus, The (Canticle of Zachary) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02473a.htm One of the three great canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel, the other two being the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02703a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02703a.htm Archdiocese; comprises Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties in the State of Massachusetts, U.S.A.

	Bavaria, The Kingdom of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02353c.htm Named after the German tribe called Boiarii.
	Bruno, Giordano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03016a.htm Italian philosopher. (1548-1600)
	Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02610b.htm Article with a focus on Boethius as a theologian.
	Book of Martyrs, Foxe's - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02681a.htm Protestant martyrology, from Wyclif to Cranmer, illustrated with woodcuts. The author was a controversialist sympathetic to John Knox.
	Bologna, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02641b.htm A tradition of the thirteenth century attributed the foundation of this university to Theodosius II (433); but this legend is now generally rejected.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02395a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02395a.htm Information on the history, education, and cemeteries of the country.
	Benedict X - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02429b.htm The bearer of this name was an antipope in the days of Nicholas II, 1056-61.
	Boniface IX, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02670a.htm Elected at Rome, 2 November, 1389, as successor of the Roman Pope, Urban VI; d. there, 1 October, 1404.
	Baconian System of Philosophy, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02192a.htm Essay takes a look at this system and its relation to theology and the beliefs of the Catholic church.
	Baptists - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02278a.htm A Protestant denomination which exists chiefly in English speaking countries and owes its name to its characteristic doctrine and practice regarding baptism.

	Bible, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02543a.htm A collection of writings recognized as inspired.
	Babylonia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02179b.htm Includes geography, history, and biblical references.
	Byzantine Architecture - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03094a.htm A mixed style, i.e. a style composed of Graeco-Roman and Oriental elements which, in earlier centuries, cannot be clearly separated.
	Byzantine Art - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03095a.htm The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital Byzantium, or Constantinople.
	Basil the Great, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330b.htm Biographical article on the Bishop of Caesarea, who is one of the Cappadocian Fathers, Doctor of the Church, and brother of St. Gregory of Nyssa.

	Benedict XI, Pope Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02429c.htm Elected unanimously, author of Scriptural commentaries, d. 1304.
	Barlaam and Josaphat - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02297a.htm Main characters of a seventh-century Christian legend. Barlaam, a hermit, converted the prince Josaphat to Christianity, despite the efforts of Josaphat's father Abenner to prevent such a thing. Although Barlaam and Josaphat are included in the Roman Martyrology and in the Greek calendar, the story is actually a Christianized version of a legend about Buddha.
	Boniface III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02660b.htm Roman elected to succeed Sabinian after an interregnum of nearly a year; he was consecrated 19 February, 607; d. 12 November of the same year.
	Burgundy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03068a.htm In medieval times respectively a kingdom and a duchy, later a province of France.
	Benedict XII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02430a.htm Third of the Avignon popes. (1334-1342)

	Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02216c.htm Explorer, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of Central America. (1475-1517)
	Basilica - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02325a.htm The term can indicate either the architectural style of a church, or its canonical status.
	Baptistery - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02276b.htm The separate building in which the Sacrament of Baptism was once solemnly administered, or that portion of the church-edifice later set apart for the same purpose.
	Blessing - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02599b.htm Aspects discussed are, I. Antiquity; II. Minister; III. Objects; IV. Efficacy; and V. Rite employed in administering.
	Bobbio, Abbey and Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02605b.htm Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa.

	Bernard, Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02497a.htm French physiologist. (1813-1878)
	Boccaccio, Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm Biography and overview of the author's major works.
	Bonaventure, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02648c.htm Biobibliographical essay on the Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church, d. 1274.
	Betrothal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02537c.htm In the Catholic Church, a deliberate and free, mutual, true promise, externally expressed, of future marriage between determinate and fit persons.
	Black Fast, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590c.htm This form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.

	Blackfoot Indians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590d.htm An important tribe of the Northern Plains, constituting the westernmost extension of the great Algonquian stock.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02514a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02514a.htm The name of a native historian of Babylonia and a priest of the great god Bel (Bel-Marduk).
	Bethlehem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02533a.htm Birthplace of Jesus.
	Bridget of Sweden, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02782a.htm Biography of the mother of 8, widow, visionary, founder of the Brigittines.
	Brunellesco, Filippo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03008c.htm An architect and sculptor, born at Florence, 1377; died there 16 April, 1446.

	Bruni, Leonardo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03011b.htm Article by Edmund Burke, summarizing the humanist's life and career.
	Brigittines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02785a.htm Founded in 1346 by St. Brigit, or Bridget, of Sweden at Vadstena in the Diocese of Linköping.
	Boniface, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02656a.htm Born Winfrid, a native of England, Benedictine monk, the Apostle of Germany, martyred in 755.
	Bahama Islands, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02204a.htm The most northerly group of the West Indies.
	Buridan, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03078a.htm French scholastic philosopher of the fourteenth century, b. at Béthune, in the district of Atois towards the end of the thirteenth century; date of death unknown.

	Baltimore, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02228a.htm History includes colonial and American periods.
	Baptismal Vows - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02275a.htm The name popularly given to the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just before the sacrament is conferred.
	Blood Indians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02603a.htm A group of North American aborigines forming part of the Blackfeet Tribe, which, with the Apapahoes and Cheyennes, constitute the Western division of the Algonquin family.
	Bernard of Cluny - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02501a.htm A Benedictine monk of the first half of the twelfth century, poet, satirist, and hymn-writer, author of "On the Contempt of the World".
	Benedict Joseph Labre, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02442a.htm Frenchman, longed to be a monk but spent the last thirteen years of his life as a pilgrim. He died in 1783.

	Benedict of Nursia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467b.htm Long article on the founder of Western monasticism, and on his Rule.
	Blessed, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02597b.htm Beatification is a permission for public worship restricted to certain places and to certain acts.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02383b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02383b.htm The old English word bede (Anglo-Saxon bed) means a prayer, though the derivative form, gebed, was more common in this sense in Anglo-Saxon literature.
	Brownson, Orestes Augustus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03001a.htm Philosopher, essayist, reviewer, b. at Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S.A., 16 September, 1803; d. at Detroit, Michigan, 17 April, 1876.
	Beatific Vision - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven.

	Brethren of the Lord, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02767a.htm A group of persons closely connected with the Saviour appears repeatedly in the New Testament under the designation "his brethren" or "the brethren of the Lord".
	Book of Common Prayer - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02678c.htm Includes history and contents.
	Bull-Fight, The Spanish - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03051a.htm Includes details of three kinds of bull-fights: (1) caballerescas, (2) populares, and (3) gladiatorias.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02745c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02745c.htm Information includes history, religion, climate, education, and economy.
	Benziger, Joseph Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02484b.htm Founder of the Catholic publishing house that bears his name. (1762-1841)

	Beads, Use of, at Prayers - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02361c.htm Essay on chaplets, rosaries, prayer ropes, prayer cords. Brief treatment of the use of beads in prayer by non-Christians.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02416b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02416b.htm Giacomo (Jacopo) Bellini, father of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. Teacher of his sons who were the chief founders of the Venetian school of painting.
	Benthamism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02482b.htm Article on Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and reformer. Features biographical information and a short bibliography.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02539a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02539a.htm Defined as the backing of an affirmation or forecast by offering to forfeit, in case of an adverse issue, a sum of money or article of value to one who, by accepting, maintains the opposite and backs his opinion by a corresponding stipulation.
	Barcelona - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288e.htm One of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Tarragona.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02418b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02418b.htm Article covers origin, benediction, uses, archaeology and inscriptions, and points of law.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03087b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03087b.htm Ceremonial stockings of silk, sometimes interwoven with gold threads, and even heavily embroidered, worn by the celebrant of a pontifical Mass.
	Bardesanes and Bardesanites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02293a.htm Syrian Gnostic or, more correctly, a Syrian poet, astrologist, and philosopher, d. 222, at Edessa.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02387b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02387b.htm A London hospital originally intended for the poor suffering from any ailment and for such as might have no other lodging, hence its name, Bethlehem, in Hebrew, the "house of bread."
	Bollandists, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02630a.htm An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum.

	Bohemians of the United States - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02620a.htm Religious dissensions at the beginning of the seventeenth century induced many to leave their native country and cross the ocean.
	Boy-Bishop - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02725a.htm The custom of electing a boy-bishop on the feast of St. Nicholas dates from very early times, and was in vogue in most Catholic countries, but chiefly in England.
	Bibles, Picture - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02546a.htm In the Middle Ages the Church made use of pictures as a means of instruction, to supplement the knowledge acquired by reading or oral teaching.
	Bramante, Donato - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02736a.htm Italian architect and painter, b. about 1444 at Monte Asdrualdo; d. in Rome, 11 March, 1514.
	Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02377b.htm Soldier, b. near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., 28 May, 1818; d. there 20 February, 1893.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02577a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02577a.htm A square cap with three ridges or peaks on its upper surface, worn by clerics of all grades from cardinals downwards.
	Blaise, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02592a.htm Bishop of Sebaste, martyr, d. about 316.
	Braille, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02735a.htm French educator and inventorof the system of writing in raised or relief points for the blind. (1809-1852)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02694a.htm Together, form the north-western corner of the Balkan Peninsula.
	Basutoland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02346a.htm A mountainous district of South Africa, bounded on the north and west by the Orange River Colony, on the easy by Natal, and on the south by Cape Colony.

	Birth, The Defect of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02579b.htm Illegitimacy, a canonical impediment to ordination.
	Bengy, Anatole de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02479a.htm A martyr of the French Commune. (1824-1871)
	Baltimore, Plenary Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02235a.htm Provides details of three councils held in 1852, 1866, and 1884.
	Barnabas, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02300a.htm Originally Joseph, styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them.
	Bination - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02568b.htm The offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant.

	Bankruptcy, Moral Aspect of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02254a.htm Bankruptcy must be considered not only from the legal but also from the moral point of view; for sound morality prescribes that debts must be paid.
	Byrd, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092f.htm Article examining life, sacred and secular music, and related composers.
	Bernard, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02496a.htm Soldier, monk, abbot, Archbishop of Vienne, d. 842.
	Botticelli, Sandro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02708b.htm Florentine painter. (1447-1510)
	Battle Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02350c.htm Founded by William the Conqueror on the site of the Battle of Senlae or Hastings (1066).

	Banns of Marriage - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02255a.htm In general the ecclesiastical announcement of the names of persons contemplating marriage.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02319c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02319c.htm The disciple of Jeremiah, and the traditional author of the deuto-canonical book, which bears his name.
	Bruno, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03014b.htm Biographical article on the founder of the Carthusians.
	Buonarroti, Michelangelo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03059b.htm Italian sculptor, painter, and architect. (1475-1564)
	Baptismal Font - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02274a.htm A basin or vase, serving as a receptacle for baptismal water in which the candidate for baptism is immersed, or over which he is washed, in the ceremony of Christian initiation.

	Basilides - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02326a.htm The earliest of the Alexandrian Gnostics, a native of Alexandria and flourished under the Emperors Adrian and Antoninus Pius, about 120-140.
	Basil, Rule of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02322a.htm St. Basil drew up his Rule for the members of the monastery he founded about 356 on the banks of the Iris in Cappadocia.
	Basil, Liturgy of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02321a.htm Several Oriental liturgies, or at least several anaphoras, have been attributed to the great St. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia from 370 to 379.
	Breast, Striking of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02751a.htm A liturgical act prescribed in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
	Bas-relief - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02341a.htm A sculpture executed upon and attached to a flat surface.

	Barocco Style - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02303b.htm A debased application to architecture of Renaissance features.
	Biogenesis and Abiogenesis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02571a.htm According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02493b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02493b.htm Capital of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia.
	Bibiana, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02542b.htm Female Roman martyr, d. 483 at the latest. Also called Vibiana.
	Brahminism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02730a.htm Religion and social system which grew out of the polytheistic nature-worship of the ancient Aryan conquerors of northern India.

	Boycotting - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16012a.htm Practice named after Captain Boycott, against whom this form of ostracism had great effect.
	Buddhism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03028b.htm The religious, monastic system, founded c. 500 B.C. on the basis of pantheistic Brahminism.
	Breviary, Reform of the Roman - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16013a.htm Article on the 1911-1913 revamping of the breviary so as to allow recitation of all of the Psalter each week. Feasts were also ranked according to liturgical importance, and some offices were no longer obligatory or were even suppressed.
	Baius, Michel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02209c.htm Theologian and author of a system known as Baianism. (1513-1589)
	Butler, Alban - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03090a.htm Seventeenth-century English Catholic.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02778c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02778c.htm The payment or the promise of money or other lucrative consideration to induce another, while under the obligation of acting without any view to private emolument, to act as the briber shall prescribe.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02644a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02644a.htm The Archdiocese of Bombay comprises the Island of Bombay with several outlying churches in the neighbouring Island of Salsette.
	Bigamy (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02561a.htm Canonically viewed, bigamy denotes (a) the condition of a man married to two real or interpretative wives in succession, and as a consequence (b) his unfitness to receive, or exercise after reception, tonsure, minor and sacred orders.
	Baal, Baalim - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02175a.htm A word which belongs to the oldest stock of the Semite vocabulary and primarily means "lord", "owner".
	Bulgaria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03046a.htm A European kingdom in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula.

	Biblical Commission, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02557a.htm A committee of cardinals at Rome who, with the assistance of consultors, have to secure the observance of the prescriptions contained in the Encyclical "Providentissimus Deus" for the proper interpretation and defence of Sacred Scripture.
	Bethsaida - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02536a.htm Details the city, pool, and titular see of this name.
	Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02510b.htm Italian architect and sculptor. (1598-1680)
	Blessing, Apostolic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02602a.htm The popes very often delegated to others the power to give this blessing in answer to petitions from princes, at the close of missions, and on such occasions.
	Biblical Antiquities - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02548a.htm Details domestic, political, and sacred antiquities.

	Bilocation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02568a.htm Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.
	Binet, Jacques-Philippe-Marie - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02570a.htm French mathematician and astronomer. (1786-1856)
	Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02465b.htm Description of the basics of this popular devotion. Benediction is unusual in that it is a devotional practice partly governed by liturgical law.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02572a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02572a.htm The science on life and living organisms.
	Biot, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02576a.htm Physicist and mathematician. (1774-1862)

	Berengarius of Tours - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02487a.htm Born at Tours about 999; died on the island of St. Cosme, near that city, in 1088.
	Birds (in Symbolism) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02576b.htm The dove, eagle, pelican, phoenix, and peacock are included.
	Benjamin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02480b.htm The youngest son of Jacob born of Rachel.
	Brussels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03021a.htm Capital of the Kingdom of Belgium.
	Brehon Laws, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02753a.htm Term for Irish native law, as administered in Ireland down to almost the middle of the seventeenth century.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02214b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02214b.htm The derivation of the name is uncertain. Dr. Neubauer would connect it with the god Ammo or Ammi, as though Balaam belonged to a people whose god or lord was Ammo or Ammi.
	Bread, Liturgical Use of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02749a.htm In the Christian liturgy bread is used principally as one of the elements of the Eucharistic sacrifice.
	Barnabas, The Epistle of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02299a.htm Contains no clue to its author nor to those for whom it was intended.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02226a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02226a.htm Balsam is an oily, resinous, and odorous substance, which flows spontaneously or by incision from certain plants, and which the Church mixes with olive oil for use as chrism.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03084b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03084b.htm A receptacle in which, for reasons of convenience xnd reverence, the folded corporal is carried to and from the altar.

	Baltasar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02226c.htm The Greek and Latin name for Belshazzar, which is the Hebrew equivalent for Bel­sarra­usur, i.e., "May Bel protect the king".
	Boyce, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02725b.htm Novelist, lecturer, and priest, well known under the assumed name of "Paul Peppergrass". (1810-1864)
	Barjesus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02296a.htm False prophet mentioned in the New Testament.
	Buttress - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092a.htm A pilaster, pier, or body of masonry projecting beyond the main face of the wall and intended to strengthen the wall at particular points.
	Bernard of Menthon, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02503b.htm Archdeacon of Aosta, preacher, founder of two hospices for travelers in dangerous Alpine passes (now named the Great St. Bernard and Little St. Bernard, after him), d. 1008.

	Bernardine of Siena, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02505b.htm Biography of the Franciscan missionary, reformer, popular preacher, peacemaker, called "the Apostle of Italy," who died in 1380.
	Borromini, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02688d.htm Architect and sculptor; born 25 September, 1599, at Bissone; died by his own hand 1 August, 1667, at Rome.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03005a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03005a.htm The chief town of the Province of West Flanders in the Kingdom of Belgium.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02362a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02362a.htm Among the Jews, as among most Oriental peoples, the beard was especially cherished as a symbol of virility; to cut off another man's beard was an outrage.
	Bartholomew, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02313c.htm Mentioned in the lists of apostles in the Synoptic Gospels and in Acts, thought to be identical with Nathaniel (mentioned only in the Gospel of John).

	Brigid of Ireland, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02784b.htm Biography. Monastic founder, abbess of a double monastery, friend of St. Patrick. St. Brigid died in 525.
	Beatitudes, The Eight - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02371a.htm The solemn blessings which mark the opening of the Sermon on the Mount.
	Barbara, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284d.htm Legendary virgin and martyr, first mentioned in the early seventh century. Alleged to have died in the third or fourth century, but date is uncertain and place of martyrdom varies.
	Beelzebub - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02388c.htm Provides an Old and a New Testament definition.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394d.htm The upper part of the tower or steeple of a church, for the reception of the bells; or a detached tower containing bells, as the campanile of the Italians.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02408a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02408a.htm Found frequently as a personal name in the Vulgate and various English translations of the Bible, is commonly used as a synonym of Satan, or the personification of evil.
	Beatitudes, Mount of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02369a.htm Name given to the place where the "Sermon on the Mount", was delivered.
	Brooklyn - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02798d.htm Comprises the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, or all of Long Island, in the State of New York, U.S.A.
	Benevento, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02477b.htm The principal city of the province of the same name in Campania.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02242c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02242c.htm Includes history and statistics for the Archdiocese of Bamberg, in the kingdom of Bavaria.

	Barnabites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02302a.htm The popular name of a religious order which is canonically known by the title, given to it by Pope Paul III in 1535, of Regular Clerics of St. Paul.
	Bigamy (in Civil Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02564a.htm In civil jurisprudence, and especially in criminal law, is a "formal entering into of a marriage while a former one remains un-dissolved".
	Basilians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02324a.htm Priests of the Community of St. Basil.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02531a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02531a.htm A village of Palestine.
	Boileau-Despréaux, Nicholas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02623a.htm French poet. (1636-1711)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02756a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02756a.htm Formerly the seat of an archdiocese situated in the north-western part of the present German Empire.
	Bonaparte, Charles-Lucien-Jules-Laurent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02648b.htm Prince of Canino and Musignano, and ornithologist. (1803-1857)
	Bessarion, Johannes - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02527b.htm Article on this 15th-century Byzantine scholar, by U. Benigni.
	Bordeaux - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02682a.htm Archdiocese; comprises the entire department of the Gironde and was established conformably to the Concordat of 1802.
	Bentivoglio, Family of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02483a.htm Originally from the castle of that name in the neighbourhood of Bologna, Italy. They claimed descent from Enzio (c. 1224-72), King of Sardinia, a natural son of Frederick II.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02760a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02760a.htm The Diocese takes its name from the principal city in the province of the same name in Lombardy, between the Mella and the Naviglio.
	Besançon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02525b.htm Archdiocese coextensive with the departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, and the district of Belfort.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02793d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02793d.htm Includes history and statistics.
	Baronius, Venerable Cesare - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02304b.htm Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian. (1538-1607)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02507b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02507b.htm Article provides religious and historic information.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02194a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02194a.htm The Grand Duchy of Baden is situated in the southwestern part of the German Empire.
	Braga, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02728a.htm Situated between the rivers Este and Cavado, in the province of Minho, in the Kingdom of Portugal.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02202c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02202c.htm Founded on the Tigris by the second Abbaside Caliph Abou Giafar al Mansur (762 or 764) and named by him Medinet es-Selam, or City of Salvation.
	Brandenburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02738c.htm Formerly an electoral principality, and a diocese in the heart of the present Kingdom of Prussia.
	Bridge-Building Brotherhood, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02781a.htm During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, various religious associations were founded for the purpose of building bridges.

	Benefit of Clergy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02476a.htm The exemption from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, which in England, in the Middle Ages, was accorded to clergymen.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02602b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02602b.htm Coextensive with the civil department of Loir-et-Cher and a suffragan of Paris.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519a.htm Brief biographies of five holy women of this name: two saints; two beatae; and one Bertha who is commonly called a saint but there is no evidence of a cultus surrounding her.
	Borromeo, Federico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02688b.htm Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, cousin and successor of St. Charles Borromeo. (1564-1631)
	Beauvais - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02377c.htm A suffragan diocese of the archiepiscopal See of Reims.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02295a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02295a.htm An archdiocese situated in the province of the same name, in Apulia, Southern Italy.
	Balmes, Jaime Luciano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02224b.htm Philosopher and publicist, b. at Vich, Spain, 28 August, 1810; d. there, 9 July, 1848.
	Basle-Lugano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02338a.htm Composed of the two Dioceses of Basle and Lugano which are united only by having a bishop in common.
	Brant, Sebastian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02741a.htm Short biography of the German humanist and poet.
	Berulle, Pierre de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02524b.htm Cardinal, and founder of the French congregation of the Oratory. (1575-1629)

	Benedict Biscop, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02441b.htm Anglo-Saxon, monastic founder, d. 690.
	Beaufort, Lady Margaret - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02376a.htm Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 1441; d. 1509, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, first Duke of Somerset.
	Belgrade and Smederevo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02407a.htm Titular (united) sees of Servia.
	Bembo, Pietro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02425e.htm Italian scholar and Cardinal, b. of a noble family at Venice, 20 May, 1470; d. at Rome, 18 January, 1547.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02360b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02360b.htm Diocese comprising the Department of Basses-Pyrenees.

	Bruno, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03014a.htm Bishop of Segni, reformer, Benedictine abbot, author of commentaries on Scripture, d. 1123.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02761a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02761a.htm Prince-Bishopric seated at Breslau, on the River Oder in the Prussian Province of Silesia.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02489c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02489c.htm The city, called by the ancients Bergonum, is capital of the province of that name in Lombardy.
	Babinet, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02178b.htm French physicist. (1794-1872)
	Brunetière, Ferdinand - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03010a.htm French critic and professor, born at Toulon, 19 July, 1849; died at Paris, 9 December, 1906.

	Browne, Charles Farrar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02804b.htm Humorist, b. at Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, U.S.A., 26 April, 1834; d. in Southampton, England, 6 March, 1867.
	Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02802b.htm The founder of this religious institution, was born 8 March, 1495, at Montemor Novo, in Portugal.
	Bullarium - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03048c.htm A term commonly applied to a collection of bulls and other analogous papal documents.
	British Columbia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02791b.htm The westernmost province of the Dominion of Canada.
	Benedict of Aniane, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467a.htm St. Benedict was a Goth, served in the Frankish court, then became a Benedictine monk. His monastery of Aniane was the model for monastic reform in France and the Empire. He died in 821.

	Bona Mors Confraternity, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02648a.htm Founded 1648, in the Church of the Gesu, by Father Vincent Carrafa, seventh General of the Society of Jesus, and approved by the Sovereign Pontiffs Innocent X and Alexander VII.
	Brentano, Klemens Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02759a.htm German poet. (1778-1842)
	Bandello, Matteo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02246c.htm Writer, born at Castelnuovo di Scrivia in Piedmont, Italy, in 1480; died Bishop of Agen, France, in 1565.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03037a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03037a.htm Diocese established 23 April, 1847 in the state of New York.
	Bouquillon, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02715b.htm Belgian theologian and professor of moral theology in the Catholic University of America. (1840-1902)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02358b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02358b.htm Coextensive with the Department of Calvados, is suffragan to the Archbishopric of Rouen.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02392a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02392a.htm In Phoenicia, a titular Latin see, and the residential see of several prelates of Oriental rites.
	Belloy, Jean-Baptiste de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02418a.htm Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris. (1709-1808)
	Braulio, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02744c.htm Bishop of Saragossa, hagiographer, friend of St. Isidore of Seville. St. Braulio died in about 651.
	Bañez, Domingo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02247a.htm Detailed article on the Spanish Dominican theologian.

	Bourdaloue, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02717a.htm French Jesuit preacher. (1632-1704)
	Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Third Marquess of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03089b.htm Born at Mountstuart, Bute, 12 September, 1847; d. at Dumfries House, Ayrshire, 9 October, 1900.
	Bury St. Edmund's, The Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03085a.htm The first religious foundation there was established by Sigebert, King of the East Angles, who resigned his crown to found a monastery about 537.
	Bankruptcy, Civil Aspect of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02252b.htm Earlier English terms, bankruptship, bankrupture.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03065c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03065c.htm Since the tenth century an episcopal see of Spain, to which in the eleventh century the ancient Sees of Oca and Valpuesta were transferred.

	Brindisi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02787e.htm Called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium, by the Greeks Brentesion, a city of in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, on a rocky peninsula which extends into the Adriatic.
	Barros, João de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02309a.htm Historian, b. in Portugal, 1496; d. 20 October, 1570.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02627a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02627a.htm Includes history, geography, education, church, and government information.
	Braunschweig - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03019a.htm A duchy situated in the mountainous central part of Northern Germany, comprising the region of the Harz mountains.
	Bridgett, Thomas Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02782b.htm Priest and author. (1829-1899)

	Borgognone, Ambrogio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02685b.htm Italian painter and architect, b. Milan, c. 1455, d. at Milan, 1523.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02415a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02415a.htm Coextensive with the civil department of Ain and a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Besançon.
	Baluze, Etienne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02242a.htm French scholar and historian. (1630-1718)
	Bordeaux, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02684a.htm Founded during the English domination, under King Henry VI, in 1441.
	Bigne, Marguerin de la - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02566a.htm French theologian and patrologist, b. about 1546 at Bernières-le-Patry, Normandy; d. about 1595.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03034b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03034b.htm A diocese situated in Southern Bohemia, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Prague.
	Birmingham - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02578c.htm One of the thirteen dioceses erected by the Apostolic Letter of Pius IX, 27 September, 1850, which restored a hierarchy to the Catholic church in England.
	Baunard, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02352a.htm Educator, b. at Bellgarde (Loiret), France, in 1828.
	Bois-le-Duc - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02625b.htm Diocese lies within the Dutch province of Brabant, and is suffragan to Utrecht.
	Buenos Aires - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03035a.htm The federal capital of the Argentine Republic.

	Beaune, Renaud de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02376c.htm A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris.
	Bonner, Edmund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02675a.htm Bishop of London, b. about 1500; d. 1569.
	Benignus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02479b.htm Known as "Patrick's psalm-singer," Irish missionary, musician, bishop, legislator, d. 467.
	Bartolommeo, Fra - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02318a.htm Italian Dominican painter (1475-1517)
	Berno (Abbot of Reichenau) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02512a.htm Famous as orator, poet, philosopher, and musician, born (date unknown) at Prum near Trier; d. 7 June, 1048.

	Baroccio, Federigo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02303a.htm Italian painter and engraver. (1528-1612)
	Bianchini, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02541a.htm A student of the natural sciences, and historian. (1662-1729)
	Bathilde, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02348b.htm A runaway slave who became the wife of King Clovis II. Upon widowhood, she founded monasteries and proved herself a capable regent. She died in 680.
	Blessed Sacrament, Sisters of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02599a.htm Founded in 1889 by Katharine Drexel.
	Burchard of Worms - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03064a.htm Bishop of that see, born of noble parents in Hesse, Germany, after the middle of the tenth century; died 20 August, 1025.

	Bestiaries - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02529b.htm Medieval books on animals, in which the real or fabulous characteristics of actually existent or imaginary animals (such as the griffin, dragon, siren, unicorn, etc.) were figuratively treated as religious symbols of Christ, the devil, the virtues and vices.
	Badin, Stephen Theodore - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02200b.htm Pioneer missionary priest of Kentucky. (1768-1853)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02513b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02513b.htm A titular see of Macedonia, at the foot of Mount Bermios.
	Bona, Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02645b.htm Cardinal and author. (1609-1674)
	Bernward, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02513a.htm Bishop of Hildesheim, d. 1022.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02752a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02752a.htm Diocese situated in the Dutch province of Brabant and suffragan of Utrecht.
	Beaton, David - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02372a.htm Cardinal, Archbishop of St. Andrews, b. 1494; d. 29 May, 1546.
	Bielski, Marcin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02560a.htm Polish chronicler. (1495-1575)
	Barcos, Martin de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02292b.htm French theologian of the Jansenist School. (1600-1678)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03082a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03082a.htm Before its annexation by the British, Burma consisted of the kingdoms of Ava and Pegu.

	Blandina, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02594a.htm Virgin and martyr, d. at Lyons in 177.
	Borgia, Stefano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02685a.htm Italian cardinal, theologian, antiquarian, and historian. (1731-1804)
	Brieuc, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02784a.htm Celtic monk and priest, companion of St. Iltud. Brieuc died in about 502.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02707a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02707a.htm Titular see of Syria.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03011c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03011c.htm Suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Olmutz, embracing the south-western part of Moravia.

	Boiardo, Matteo Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02622b.htm An Italian poet, b. about 1434, at, or near, Scandiano (Reggio-Emilia); d. at Reggio, 20 December, 1494.
	Boece, Hector - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02609c.htm Chronicler and one of the founders of the University of Aberdeen, b. at Dundee c. 1465; d. 1536.
	Blosius, François-Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02604a.htm A Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer, born at Donstienne, near Liège, Flanders, 1506; died at Liessies, 1566.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02375a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02375a.htm Brief biographies of seven saints or beatae named Beatrix or Beatrice. One of them, Beatrix da Silva, has since been canonized.
	Blanchet, Franç Norbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02593a.htm Missionary and first Archbishop of Oregon City, U.S.A. (1795-1883)

	Bismarck, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16010b.htm In North Dakota, this diocese was erected on 31 December, 1909, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota.
	Burlington - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03081b.htm Diocese established 14 July, 1853; comprises the whole State of Vermont, U.S.A.
	Balsamon, Theodore - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02226b.htm A canonist of the Greek Church, born in the second half of the twelfth century at Constantinople; died there, after 1195.
	Bibbiena - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02542a.htm Bernardo Dovizi, an Italian Cardinal and comedy-writer, known best by the name of the town Bibbiena, where he was born 4 Aug., 1470; d. at Rome, 9 Nov., 1520.
	Bougaud, Louis-Victor-Emile - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02710c.htm Bishop of Laval in France. (1823-1888)

	Baini, Abbate Giuseppe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02209a.htm Composer, born in Rome, 21 October, 1775; died there 21 May, 1844.
	Barbosa, Agostino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02287b.htm A noted canonist, b. at Guimaraens, Portugal, in 1589; consecrated in Rome, 22 March, 1649, Bishop of Ugento in Otranto, Italy, died seven months later.
	Berrettini, Pietro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02516a.htm Italian painter, architect, and writer, b. at Cortona, in Tuscany, 1 November, 1596; d. at Rome, 16 May, 1669.
	Bartolocci, Giulio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02317c.htm A Cistercian monk and learned Hebrew scholar, b. at Celleno in the old kingdom of Naples, 1 April, 1613; d. at Rome, 19 October, 1687.
	Breviary, Aberdeen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02777a.htm Described as the Sarum Office in a Scottish form.

	Bayley, James Roosevelt - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02359a.htm First Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.; eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland. (1814-1877)
	Bubastis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03025b.htm A titular see of Lower Egypt.
	Borgo San-Sepolcro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02686b.htm Diocese situated in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02687a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02687a.htm Includes history of Dutch and British rule.
	Benedict of Peterborough - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02472a.htm Abbot and writer, place and date of birth unknown; d. 1193.

	Baegert, John Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02201b.htm Missionary and ethnographer. (1717-1777)
	Bernold of Constance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02512c.htm Historian and theologian, b. in Swabia about 1054; d. at Schaffhausen, 16 September, 1100.
	Bonvicino, Alessandro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02678b.htm Italian painter of the sixteenth century, born at Brescia about 1498; died at the same place, 1555.
	Brogan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02795a.htm Article discusses several saints of this name.
	Bertin, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02522b.htm Monk living under the Rule of St. Columban, missionary to the Morini, monastic founder, abbot of St. Omer, d. about 709.

	Bonnechose, Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02674b.htm Cardinal and senator, b. at Paris, 1800; d. 1883.
	Bougeant, Guillaume-Hyacinthe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02711a.htm French Jesuit. (1690-1743)
	Baldovinetti, Alesso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02219c.htm A notable Florentine painter, b. in Florence, 14 October, 1427; d. there, 29 August, 1499.
	Bologna, Giovanni da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02641a.htm Flemish Renaissance sculptor, b. at Douai, in Flanders, about 1524; d. at Florence in 1608.
	Behaim, Albert von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02391a.htm Known also as Albertus Bohemus.

	Bridgewater Treatises - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02783b.htm These publications derive their origin and their title from the Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last Earl of Bridgewater.
	Bernard of Besse - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02498a.htm Friar Minor and chronicler, a native of Aquitaine, date of birth uncertain.
	Bianchini, Giuseppe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02541b.htm Italian Oratorian, Biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. (1704-1764)
	Bernardines, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02507a.htm Title of certain sisters of the order of Cîteaux who at the end of the sixteenth and in the seventeenth century, made energetic efforts to restore the primitive observance of their rule.
	Bethulia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02537b.htm The city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of the Book of Judith.

	Bath and Wells - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02347b.htm Ancient diocese coextensive with the county of Somerset, England.
	Belleville - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02414c.htm Diocese comprising part of southern Illinois.
	Bristol, Ancient Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02790b.htm This English diocese, which takes its very origin from measures directed against the Church, has a very brief Catholic history, for it only had one bishop acknowledged by the Holy See.
	Busembaum, Hermann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03086c.htm Jesuit moral theologian. (1600-1668)
	Beverley Minster - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02540b.htm A collegiate church at Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire, served by a chapter of secular canons until the Reformation.

	Barbour, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288b.htm Scottish ecclesiastic and author of "The Bruce", a historical poem in the early Scottish or Northern English dialect, b. about 1320; d. 1395.
	Bouix, Marie Dominique - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02711e.htm French canonists. (1808-1870)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02281a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02281a.htm The deliverer of the Israelites from the power of the Chanaanites under the judgeship of Debbora.
	Brunforte, Ugolino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03011a.htm Friar Minor and chronicler, born c. 1262; died c. 1348.
	Barclay, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02291c.htm Scottish jurist, b. 1546; d. at Angers, France, 3 July, 1608.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092c.htm Titular see of Phoenicia.
	Benoît, Michel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02482a.htm Born at Autun (or Dijon), France, 8 October, 1715; died at Peking, 23 October, 1774, a Jesuit scientist, for thirty years in the service of Kien Lung, Emperor of China.
	Bocking, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02608b.htm English Benedictine, b. of East Anglian parentage, end of fifteenth century; d. 20 April, 1534.
	Belgrado, Giacopo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02407b.htm Italian Jesuit and natural philosopher. (1704-1789)
	Bathurst - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02349a.htm Diocese situated in New South Wales, Australia, in the ecclesiastical Province of Sydney.

	Brancati di Lauria, Francesco Lorenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02738a.htm Cardinal, Minor conventual, and theologian. (1612-1693)
	Baker City, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02213b.htm Comprises Wasco, Klamath, Lake, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Morrow, Grant, Union, Crook, Umatilla, Wallowa, Baker, Harney, and Malheur counties in the State of Oregon, U.S.A.
	Baldachium of the Altar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02217c.htm A dome-like canopy in wood, stone, or metal, erected over the high altar of larger churches, generally supported on four columns, though sometimes suspended by chains from the roof.
	Bar Hebræus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02294a.htm A Jacobite Syrian bishop, philosopher, poet, grammarian, physician, Biblical commentator, historian, and theologian. (1226-1286)
	Bouvet, Joachim - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02723b.htm Jesuit missionary. (d. 1732)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02346b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02346b.htm Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia.
	Bastiat, Claude-Frédéric - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02345b.htm A French economist, b. at Mugron, a small city in the Department of Landes, 29 June, 1801; d. at Rome, 24 December, 1850.
	Bonnetty, Augustin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02677a.htm French writer, b. at Entrevaux 9 May, 1798, d. at Paris, 26 March, 1879.
	Birinus (Berin), Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02578a.htm Confessor, first Bishop of Dorchester, Apostle of Wessex, d. 650.
	Baker, Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02212a.htm Real name David Henry Lewis. Biography of the convert to Catholicism, who was martyred in 1679.

	Boniface of Savoy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02672a.htm Forty-sixth Archbishop of Canterbury and son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, date of birth uncertain; d. in Savoy, 14 July, 1270.
	Beseleel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02526d.htm Describes two people known by this name.
	Basil of Seleucia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330a.htm Bishop and ecclesiastical writer, date of birth uncertain; d., probably, between 458 and 460.
	Balue, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02241b.htm A French cardinal, b. probably c. 1421, in Poitou; d. 5 October, 1491, at Ripatransone.
	Bartholomaeus Anglicus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02313b.htm Thirteenth-century Franciscan encyclopedist.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02537a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02537a.htm A city within Issachar, but assigned to Manasses, later Scythopolis, now the village Beisan.
	Buckfast Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03027a.htm Foundation date unknown, but long before the Norman Conquest.
	Bucharest - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03045a.htm Comprises the Kingdom of Rumania.
	Bautain, Louis-Eugène-Marie - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02353a.htm Philosopher and theologian. (1796-1867)
	Baader, Franz Xaver von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02173a.htm German philosopher, born at Munich, 1765; died 23 May, 1841.

	Buffier, Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03040a.htm Philosopher and author. (1661-1737)
	Bolsec, Jérôme-Hermès - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02643a.htm A theologian and physician, b. probably at Paris, date unknown; d. at Lyons c. 1584.
	Bapst, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258a.htm Jesuit missionary and educator. (1815-1887)
	Byzantine Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03113a.htm The four cultural elements included are the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental.
	Beccus, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02380b.htm Patriarch of Constantinople in the second half of the thirteenth century, one of the few Greek ecclesiastics who were sincerely in favour of reunion with the Church of Rome.

	Bodin, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02609a.htm Article by Georges Goyau. Notes the philosopher's relation to the political and religious order of his time.
	Bergen, Ancient See of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16009b.htm The diocese included the Provinces of Nordre and Sondre Bergenhus, and the district of Sondmor in the Province of Romsdal.
	Bartholomew of Lucca - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02316a.htm Historian, b. about 1227 at Lucca; d. about 1327.
	Bernard of Pavia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02504a.htm Canonist and bishop. (d. 1213)
	Balbina, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02216a.htm There are at least two saints of this name venerated at Rome.

	Beckx, Pierre-Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02382b.htm Twenty-second General of the Society of Jesus, born at Sichem, Belgium, 8 February, 1795; died at Rome, 4 March, 1887.
	Burke, Thomas Nicholas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03080a.htm Dominican orator. (1830-1882)
	Benettis, Jeremiah - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02477a.htm Friar Minor Capuchin and historical writer, d. in 1774.
	Bouvier, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02723c.htm Bishop of Le Mans, theologian. (1783-1854)
	Bartholomew of Pisa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02316b.htm Friar Minor and chronicler.

	Beelphegor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02388b.htm The Moabite divinity who ruled over Phogor.
	Baker, David Augustine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02212b.htm Benedictine mystic and ascetic writer. (1575-1641)
	Baker, Francis Asbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02213a.htm American priest and convert. (1820-1865)
	Bullion, Angélique - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03052a.htm Born in Paris, at commencement of the seventeenth century. An unknown benefactress of several charities.
	Benedict Levita - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02466a.htm Benedict Levita (of Mainz), or Benedict the Deacon, is the name given to himself by the author of a forged collection of capitularies which appeared in the ninth century.

	Bonizo of Sutri - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02673a.htm Bishop of Sutri in Central Italy, in the eleventh century.
	Barry, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02310b.htm U.S. Navy Captain. (1745-1803)
	Ballerini, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16006b.htm Jesuit theologian. (1805-1881)
	Baltimore, Provincial Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02239a.htm These councils have a unique importance for the Church in the United States, inasmuch as the earlier ones legislated for practically the whole territory of the Republic, and furnished moreover a norm for all the later provincial councils of the country.
	Bethany Beyond the Jordan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532a.htm In the text of St. John's Gospel, i, 28, the author locates the event of Our Lord's baptism by St. John the Baptist at Bethany across the Jordan and there is herein a celebrated variant.

	Braga, Councils of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02729a.htm Offers details of several councils held here.
	Bath Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02347a.htm The first religious house in Bath was a monastery of nuns founded by King Osric, A.D. 676.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02343a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02343a.htm The birthplace of St. Gonsalo Garcia, the only Indian saint, who was a companion of St. Philip de las Casas, the first native of America to be canonized.
	Becan, Martin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02380a.htm Controversialist, born at Hilvarenbeck, Brabant, Holland, 6 January, 1563; died at Vienna, 24 January, 1624.
	Bourchier, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02716b.htm Cardinal, born 1406; died 1486.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02177b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02177b.htm The word is derived from the Babylonian bab-ilu, meaning "gate of God".
	Bishop, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02589a.htm The first superior in England in episcopal orders since the old hierarchy died out in the reign of Elizabeth, born c. 1553 at Brailes in Warwickshire, where his family continued to reside until recent times; d. 16 April, 1624.
	Biard, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02541d.htm Jesuit missionary, born at Grenoble, France, 1576; died at Avignon, 17 November, 1622.
	Bruno of Querfurt, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03018a.htm Courtier, monk, missionary archbishop, hagiographer, martyr. Called the Second Apostle of the Prussians.
	Beaton, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02374a.htm Scottish Archbishop. (1473-1539)

	Bommel, Cornelius Richard Anton van - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02645a.htm Bishop of Liège, born at Leyden, in Holland on 5 April, 1790; died 7 April 1852.
	Barruel, Augustin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02310a.htm Controversialist and publicist, born at Villeneuve de Berg (Ardeche); 2 October, 1741; died at Paris, 5 October, 1820.
	Baillet, Adrien - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02206c.htm French author. (1649-1706)
	Bressani, Francesco Giuseppe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02766a.htm Italian missionary to the Indians. (1612-1672)
	Butler, Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03090b.htm English lawyer. (1750-1832)

	Baraga, Frederic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02282b.htm First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, U.S.A. (1797-1868)
	Bartholi, Francesco della Rossa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02313a.htm Friar Minor and chronicler, died c. 1372.
	Bacon, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02191b.htm An English Carmelite and theologian, born towards the end of the thirteenth century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02612a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02612a.htm Capital of the republic of Colombia.
	Biel, Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02559a.htm Lengthy article on the last of the Scholastics. Biel, the first professor of theology at Tübingen, was a nominalist. He died in 1495.

	Bromyard, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02797b.htm Theologian, d. about 1390.
	Bartholomites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02317a.htm The name given to Armenian monks who sought refuge in Italy after the invasion of their country by the Sultan of Egypt in 1296.
	Balearic Isles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02221c.htm A group in the western part of the Mediterranean belonging to Spain and consisting of four larger islands, Majorca, Minorca, Iviza, and Formentera, and eleven smaller islands of rocky formation.
	Bec, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02379b.htm The Benedictine Abbey of Bec, or Le Bec, in Normandy, was founded in the earlier part of the eleventh century by Herluin, a Norman knight who about 1031 left the court of Count Gilbert of Brionne to devote himself to a life of religion.
	Biblia Pauperum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02547a.htm A collection of pictures representing scenes from Jesus' life with the corresponding prophetic types.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02697a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02697a.htm First Bishop of Merseburg, in the present Prussian Province of Saxony, and Apostle of the Wends, d. November, 970.
	Baptistines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02277a.htm I. Hermits of St. John the Baptist. II. Missionaries of St. John the Baptist. III. Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist.
	Brumidi, Constantino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03008a.htm An Italian-American historical painter, celebrated for his fresco work in the Capitol at Washington. (1805-1880)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02639b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02639b.htm The principal city in the province of the same name, Italy.
	Blastares, Matthew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02596a.htm A monk of the Order of St. Basil, living in the fourteenth century, who applied himself to the study of theology and canon law.

	Bursfeld, The Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03084c.htm One of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries in Germany in the Middle Ages. Founded in 1093 by Duke Henry of Nordheim and his wife Gertrude.
	Ballarat - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02223a.htm One of the three suffragan dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Melbourne, Australia.
	Berthold of Ratisbon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02521a.htm Franciscan of the monastery of that city and the most powerful preacher of repentance in the thirteenth century, b. about 1210; d. at Ratisbon, 14 December, 1272.
	Benignus of Dijon, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02479c.htm Third-century martyr.
	Baradæus, Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02282a.htm A Syrian Monophysite bishop, born in Tella, towards the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century, died in 578.

	Boyle Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02726a.htm Irish Cistercian house.
	Bacon, David William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02191a.htm First Bishop of Portland, Maine. (1813-1874)
	Becker, Thomas Andrew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02382a.htm Sixth Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A.
	Barry, Paul de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02312b.htm A member of the Society of Jesus, born at Leucate in 1587; died at Avignon, 28 July, 1661.
	Baldwin of Canterbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02221b.htm Thirty-ninth Archbishop, a native of Exeter, date of birth unknown; d. 19 Nov., 1190.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02177a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02177a.htm Town in Syria; also called Heliopolis.
	Berruguete, Alonso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02516b.htm For his mastery of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, sometimes called the Spanish Michelangelo, b. at Paredes de Nava, in Castile, about 1480; d. at Toledo, 1561.
	Buil, Bernardo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03040c.htm Spanish Franciscan.
	Bruté de Rémur, Simon William Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03024a.htm First Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, (now Indianapolis). (1779-1839)
	Betanzos, Fray Domingo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02530a.htm A Dominican missionary, d. at Valladolid, Sept., 1549.

	Betanzos, Fray Pedro de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02530b.htm A Franciscan missionary, b. at Betanzos in Galicia; d. at Chomez, Nicaragua, 1570.
	Baptista Varani, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16006c.htm Poor Clare and ascetical writer. She died in 1527.
	Bangor Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02250a.htm The name of two famous monastic establishments in Ireland and England.
	Banim, John and Michael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02251a.htm Brothers and writers from Kilkenny, Ireland.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02677b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02677b.htm Bishop of Sardica, a heretic in the latter part of the fourth century.

	Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02560b.htm French Governor of Louisiana and founder of New Orleans. (1680-1767)
	Bartolozzi, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02319a.htm An engraver, etcher, and painter, b. at Florence, 1727; d. at Lisbon, 1815.
	Biondo, Flavio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02575a.htm Italian archæologist and historian. (1388-1463)
	Borgess, Caspar Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02684c.htm Third Bishop of Detroit, Michigan. (1824-1890)
	Bonet, Juan Pablo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02655a.htm Spanish priest and one of the first to give attention to the education of the deaf and dumb, b. towards the end of the sixteenth century.

	Barber Family, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02286b.htm Daniel Barber, soldier of the Revolution, Episcopalian minister and convert. (1756-1834) Virgil Horace Barber, son of Daniel. (1782-1847)
	Berthold of Chiemsee - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02520a.htm German bishop and theological writer. (1465-1543)
	Bracton, Henry de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02726c.htm English juridical writer, born probably in King John's reign and died about four years before the close of that of Henry III.
	Baldung, Hans - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02220b.htm Known as Grien or Grun, from his fondness for brilliant green, both in his own costume and in his pictures, a vigorous and distinguished painter, engraver, and draughtsman on wood, b. at Gmund, Swabia, about 1476; d. at Strasburg, 1545.
	Boisil, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02625a.htm Abbot of Melrose, renowned for prophetic gifts, taught St. Cuthbert. St. Boisil died in 664.

	Buckley, Sir Patrick Alphonsus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03028a.htm Irish soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge. (1841-1896)
	Bersabee - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02518a.htm A town on the southern extremity of Palestine.
	Bangor, Antiphonary of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02249a.htm The codex, found by Muratori in the Ambrosian Library at Milan.
	Baldi, Bernardino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02219a.htm An Italian poet and savant, b. at Urbino, 5 June, 1553; d. at the same place, 10 October, 1617.
	Babylas, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02178c.htm Bishop of Antioch, martyr in the Decian persecution, died in prison.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02249b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02249b.htm Diocese; anciently known as Bangor Vawr, situated in Carnarvonshire on the Menai Straits.
	Bouillon, Cardinal de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02711d.htm French prelate and diplomat. (1643-1715)
	Balde, Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02218a.htm A German poet. (1604-1668)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02724b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02724b.htm Diocese in the province of Foggia, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Benevento.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02512b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02512b.htm Apostle of the Obotrites, in the latter half of the twelfth century.

	Brinkley, Stephen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02788a.htm Confessor of the Faith, imprisoned and tortured as manager of a secret press for the publication of devotional and controversial works in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
	Bartholomew of San Concordio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02316c.htm Canonist, and man of letters, b. at San Concordia, near Pisa about 1260; d. at Pisa, 11 June, 1347.
	Brisbane - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02789b.htm Provides history and religious statistics.
	Bathe, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02348a.htm Irishman, Jesuit, wrote educational books on music and language. He died in 1614.
	Baumgartner, Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16008b.htm Swiss poet and writer. (1841-1910)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02246a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02246a.htm The name of several men mentioned in the Bible.
	Bordone, Cavaliere Paris - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02684b.htm Painter of the Venetian school. (1500-1570)
	Brownson, Sarah - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03003a.htm Writer, daughter of Orestes A. Brownson, b. at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 7 June, 1839; married William J. Tenney, 26 November, 1873; died at Elizabeth, 30 October, 1876.
	Beuno, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02540a.htm Welsh, said to have been educated at Bangor and, after ordination, to have become a missionary. Abbot of Clynnog, and uncle of St. Winifred. Died perhaps in 660.
	Breton, Raymond - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02768a.htm French missionary among the Caribbean Indians. (1609-1679)

	Benedictional - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02465a.htm A book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in the Church.
	Bible Societies - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02544a.htm Established for the purpose of publishing and propagating the Bible in all parts of the world.
	Bell, Arthur, Venerable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02410b.htm Friar Minor and English martyr. (1590-1643)
	Bolgeni, Giovanni Vincenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02626b.htm Theologian and controversialist. (1733-1811)
	Bergier, Nicolas-Sylvestre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02490a.htm French theologian. (1715-1790)

	Benedict of San Philadelphio, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02472b.htm Also known as Benedict the Moor. Born in Italy to Christian slaves from Ethiopia, St. Benedict joined an association of hermits, and when that was dissolved, became a Franciscan Recollect.
	Briand, Joseph Olivier - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02778b.htm Seventh Bishop of Quebec, b. in 1715 at Plérin, Brittany; d. 25 June, 1794.
	Betanzos, Juan de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02530c.htm Composed the first catechism known in the Quichua language.
	Bernardine of Feltre, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02504c.htm Italian Franciscan missionary, died 1494. Of little note as an author. Best remembered for his monti di pietà, a type of charitable lender similar to pawnbrokers.
	Ball, Mother Frances Mary Teresa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02222b.htm Born in Dublin 9 January, 1794; died 19 May, 1861; foundress of the Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

	Berard of Carbio, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02485b.htm Franciscan martyr, d. 1220.
	Brantôme, Seigneur de Bourdeille, Pierre de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02742a.htm French writer of memoirs, b. in 1539, or a little later; d. 15 July, 1614.
	Berington, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02491a.htm Catholic writer. (1743-1827)
	Bonal, Raymond - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02646c.htm French theologian and founder of the Congregation of the Priests of St. Mary.
	Bosio, Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02693a.htm Known as "The Columbus of the Catacombs", b. in the island of Malta about the year 1576; d. 1629.

	Bedard, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02383a.htm French-Canadian lawyer and member of the Assembly of Lower Canada, b. at Charlesbourg near Quebec, 13 November, 1762; d. at Three Rivers, 26 April 1829.
	Burleigh, Walter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03081a.htm Friar Minor and medieval philosopher, b. in 1275 and d. in 1337.
	Bedford, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02386b.htm Writer and educator. (1816-1903)
	Branly, Edouard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02740a.htm Nineteenth century French physicist.
	Buteux, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03089c.htm French Jesuit missionary in Canada. (1600-1652)

	Bonagratia of Bergamo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02646a.htm Friar Minor, theologian, and canonist, date of birth unknown; d. at Munich, 1343.
	Baines, Peter Augustine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02207d.htm Titular Bishop of Siga. (1787-1843)
	Burke, Edmund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079c.htm First Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia. (1753-1820)
	Brueys, David-Augustin de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03004c.htm French theologian and dramatic author, born at Aix in 1640; died 25 November, 1723, at Montpellier.
	Baldred, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02220a.htm Two saints of this name have the same feast day. One was a Celt; the other, and Englishman.

	Briçonnet - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02779a.htm Includes three people with this name.
	Botulph, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02709a.htm Or Botolph. Founder and abbot of Icanhoe, d. about 680.
	Beristain y Martin de Souza, José Mariano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02492a.htm Mexican bibliographer, b. in Puebla, Mexico, 22 May, 1756; d. at Mexico, 23 March, 1817.
	Budé, Guillaume - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03034a.htm Article by M. de Moreira, reviewing the key points of this thinker's career.
	Boso (Breakspear) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02697b.htm Third English Cardinal, date of birth uncertain, d. at Rome, about 1181.

	Basilissa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02329c.htm Several saints of this name appear in martyrologies. Next to nothing is known about any of them except place of martyrdom, and sometimes the names of their spouses or companions in martyrdom.
	Basilides - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02329a.htm Martyrs bearing this name are mentioned in the old martyrologies on three different days, namely, on 10, 12, and 28 June.
	Baithen of Iona, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02209b.htm Irish monk, immediate successor of St. Columba as abbot of Iona. Baithen died sometime between 598 and 600.
	Blathmac, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02596b.htm Irish monk, martyred at Iona in about 835. In Latinized form, he is sometimes called Florentius. His life was written in Latin hexameter by Strabo.
	Barclay, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02291b.htm Author of the political novel "Argenis" and other Latin works in prose and verse. (1582-1621)

	Boisgelin, Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02624a.htm French prelate and cardinal. (1732-1804)
	Badia, Tommaso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02200a.htm Cardinal, author, papal legate, born at Modena, 1483; died at Rome, 6 September, 1547.
	Brogny, Jean-Allarmet de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02797a.htm French Cardinal. (1342-1426)
	Bakócz, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02214a.htm Cardinal and statesman, b. about 1442, in the village of Erdoed, county Szatmar, Northeastern Hungary; d. 15 June, 1521.
	Becquerel, Antoine-César - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02382c.htm French physicist, b. at Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret), 7 March, 1788; d. at Paris, 18 January, 1878.

	Burnett, Peter Hardeman - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03083a.htm First American Governor of California. (1807-1895)
	Bernis, François-Joachim-Pierre de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02511b.htm A French cardinal and statesman, b. 1715 at Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche; d. at Rome, 1794.
	Baptista Mantuanus, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02276a.htm Carmelite, Renaissance poet, d. 1516.
	Butler, Mary Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03091a.htm Irish Abbess. (1641-1723)
	Beaulieu Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02376b.htm A Cistercian house in Hampshire, one of the three monasteries founded by King John (c. 1204) and peopled by thirty monks from Cîteaux.

	Balbus, Hieronymus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02217b.htm Humanist, poet, diplomatist, and Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, b. about 1450 at Venice; d. there, probably 1535.
	Bernard Tolomeo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02504b.htm Italian hermit, monastic founder, d. 1348.
	Burchard of Würzurg, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03064b.htm First bishop of Würzburg, d. about 754.
	Blane, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02594b.htm Nephew of St. Cathan. Blane studied in Ireland under SS. Comgall and Kenneth, became a monk, went to Scotland, became a bishop of the Picts, died 590.
	Berach, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02485a.htm A disciple of St. Kevin. Abbot of Cluain Coirpthe, now called Kilbarry or Termonbarry in the saint's honor. St. Berach died in 595.

	Berenger, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02489a.htm A French writer who flourished about the middle of the twelfth century.
	Besange, Jerome Lamy, O.S.B - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02526a.htm Born at Linz, 1726; died 1781.
	Bertonio, Ludovico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02523a.htm Italian missionary. (1552-1625)
	Beccaria, Giovanni Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16009a.htm Physicist. (1716-1781)
	Belzoni, Giambattista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02425d.htm An Egyptian explorer, b. at Padua, Italy, in 1778. d. Gato, Africa, 3 Dec., 1823.

	Badius, Raphael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02201a.htm A Florentine Dominican of the seventeenth century.
	Barletta, Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02297b.htm Sometimes called Barlete, De Barolo, or Barolus.
	Barre, Antoine-Lefebvre, Sieur de la - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02308b.htm Tenth French Governor-General of Canada, b. at Paris in 1622; d. in 1690.
	Beschi, Costanzo Giuseppe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02526c.htm Though primarily a missionary, better know as one of the classical writers of Tamil literature. (1680-1746)
	Boni Homines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02672b.htm This name was popularly given to at least three religious orders in the Church.

	Bonne-Espérance, The Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02674c.htm Situated near Binche, province of Hainault, Diocese of Tournai, Belgium.
	Bayma, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02360a.htm Jesuit mathematician and scientist. (1816-1892)
	Boulainvilliers, Henri, Count of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02713a.htm One of the first French historians to write the history of the institutions or fundamental laws of the nation. (1658-1722)
	Bachiarius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02190a.htm An early fifth-century writer, known only through two treatises which warrant the conjecture that he was a monk, possibly an abbot, and a Spaniard.
	Bourget, Ignace - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02721a.htm First Bishop of Montreal and titular Archbishop of Martianopolis. (1799-1885)

	Binet, Etienne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02569b.htm Jesuit author, born at Dijon, France, 1569; died at Paris, 1639.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02724a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02724a.htm Situated in the civil province of Reggio,in Calabria, Italy, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Reggio.
	Brady, William Maziere - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02727d.htm Ecclesiastical writer, b. in Dublin, 8 January, 1825; d. in Rome, 19 March, 1894.
	Bentley, John Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02483b.htm English architect. (1839-1902)
	Benno II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02481c.htm Bishop of Osnabrück.

	Beste, Henry Digby - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02529a.htm Miscellaneous author. (1768-1836)
	Bebian, Roch-Amboise-Auguste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02379a.htm Sent to France, committed to the care of his godfather, the Abbé Sicard, the well-known educator of the deaf and dumb.
	Bachelot, Alexis John Augustine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16006a.htm Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. (1796-1837)
	Bedingfeld, Henry, Sir - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02386d.htm Knight; b. 1509; d. 1583.
	Beyerlinck, Lawrence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02540c.htm Belgian theologian and ecclesiastical writer. (1578-1627)

	Burke, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079d.htm Bishop of Ossory, b. at Dublin, Ireland, about 1709; d. at Kilkenny, 25 September, 1776.
	Benedicti, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02441c.htm A Franciscan theologian of the sixteenth century belonging to the Observantine Province of Tours and Poitiers.
	Bayeu y Subias, Francisco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02358a.htm Born at Saragossa, 9 March, 1734; died Madrid, 4 August, 1795, a distinguished religious and historical painter.
	Benedictus Polonus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02473b.htm A medieval Friar Minor missionary and traveller. (c. 1245)
	Benzoni, Girolamo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02484c.htm Writer, born at Milan about 1519.

	Bercheure, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486c.htm French Benedictine. (1290-1362)
	Bar-Kepha, Moses - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02296b.htm Jacobite bishop and writer. (813-903)
	Bellarini, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02411c.htm Barnabite theologian, b. at Castelnuovo, Italy, in 1552; d. at Milan, 27 August, 1630.
	Berlanga, Fray Tomás de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02493a.htm Bishop of Panama, b. at Berlanga in Spain, date uncertain; d. there 8 August, 1551.
	Billy, Jacques de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02567b.htm French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist, and a Benedictine abbot. (1535-1581)

	Beckedorff, George Philipp Ludolf von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02381b.htm Studied theology at Jena, then medicine at Göttingen, obtained the degree of doctor in 1799.
	Bellings, Sir Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02416a.htm Irish historian, b. near Dublin early in the seventeenth century; d. in 1677.
	Bokenham, Osbern - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02625c.htm English Augustinian friar and poet, b. 1393, d. probably in 1447.
	Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02312d.htm French numismatologist and writer, b. at Cassis (Provence), 1716; d. in Paris, 1795.
	Belluno-Feltre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02424a.htm Anciently called Bellunum, the metropolis of the province of that name in Venetia, Italy, is situated on a hill between the torrent of Ardo and the River Piave.

	Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, Vicompte de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02647a.htm French statesman, writer, and philosopher. (1754-1840)
	Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02516c.htm Entered the Society of Jesus in 1697. Wrote "A History of the People of God," published in three parts.
	Brigidines, Institute of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16014a.htm Established by Most Rev. Dr. Delaney, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, at Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland, in 1807.
	Bourdon, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02719b.htm First engineer-in-chief and land-surveyor in the colony of New France, and the first attorney-general of the Conseil Superieur. (1612-1668)
	Byrne, Andrew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03093a.htm Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas. (1802-1862)

	Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne, Abbé - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02743a.htm Born at Bourbourg, France, 1814; died at Nice in January, 1874.
	Bourke, Ulick Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16011c.htm Irish scholar and writer. (1829-1887)
	Byrne, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03093c.htm Missionary and educator. (1780-1833)
	Brisacier, Jacques-Charles de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02788b.htm Orator and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Bourges in 1641, d. at Paris, 23 March, 1736.
	Butler, Sir William Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16015a.htm Irish general and writer. (1838-1910)

	Brown, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02804a.htm A naval officer of the Republic of Argentina. (1777-1857)
	Bulstrode, Sir Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03058a.htm A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711.
	Bowyer, Sir George - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02724c.htm Baronet, English writer on jurisprudence, as well as a prominent defender of the Holy See and of Catholic interests in general. (1811-1883)
	Borgo San-Donnino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02686a.htm Diocese in the province of Parma, Italy.
	Boucher, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02710b.htm Born at Lagny, a village near Mortagne in the Perche, France, 1622, died at Boucherville, 1717.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02609b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02609b.htm A titular see of Albania.
	Balderic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02218c.htm Bishop of Dol, in France, chronicler, b. about 1050; d. 7 January, 1130.
	Bellasius, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02413a.htm Serjeant-at-Law, b. 14 October, 1800; d. 24 January, 1873.
	Barbieri, Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02287a.htm A famous painter of religious subjects. (1591-1666)
	Bethlehemites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02534b.htm Military and hospitaller orders.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm One of the Seven Sacraments of the Christian Church; frequently called the "first sacrament", the "door of the sacraments", and the "door of the Church".
	Bucer, Martin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03025d.htm One of the leaders in the South German Reformation movement. (1491-1551)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02720b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02720b.htm Coextensive with the departments of Cher and Indre.
	Barlings, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02298a.htm Founded in 1154 in honour of Our Lady by Ralph de Haye who had given some lands to the Abbot of Newhouse.
	Bucelin, Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03025c.htm Benedictine historical writer. (1599-1681)

	Brillmacher, Peter Michael - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02787c.htm Born at Cologne in 1542, died at Mainz, 25 August, 1595.
	Bianconi, Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02541c.htm Merchant and philanthropist. (1785-1875)
	Bicknor, Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02558b.htm Archbishop of Dublin, date of birth unknown; d. 1349.
	Barcena, Alonzo de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02291a.htm A Jesuit, native of Bacza in Andalusia, Spain. (1528-1598)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02559b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02559b.htm The city of Biella, the see of the diocese of that name, is an important industrial centre (anciently called Bugelia) of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Novara.

	Barbarigo, Giovanni Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02285a.htm Italian Cardinal, nephew of Blessed Gregorio Barbarigo (1625-97), born in 1658 at Venice; died in 1730.
	Barlow, William Rudesind - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02298c.htm Third son of Sir Alexander Barlow of Barlow Hall, date of birth uncertain; d. at Douai, 19 Sept., 1656.
	Bianchi, Giovanni Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02540d.htm Friar Minor and theologian. (1686-1768)
	Buck, Victor De - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03026a.htm Bollandist. (1817-1876)
	Blemmida, Nicephorus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02596c.htm A learned monk and writer of the Green Church, b. about 1198, at Constantinople; d. 1272.

	Brunner, Sebastian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03013a.htm A versatile and voluminous writer. (1814-1893)
	Bruno the Saxon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03018b.htm German chronicler of the eleventh century and author of the "Historia de Bello Saxonico".
	Blanc, Anthony - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02592b.htm Fifth Bishop, and first Archbishop, of New Orleans, La., U.S.A. (1792-1860)
	Blackwood, Adam - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02591a.htm Author, b. at Dunfermline, Scotland, 1539; d. 1613.
	Berchtold, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486d.htm Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland, died 1197.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02580a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02580a.htm A titular see of Osrhaene.
	Barron, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16007a.htm Irish missionary. (1801-1854)
	Birnbaum, Heinrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02579a.htm Carthusian monk, b. in 1403; d. 19 February, 1473.
	Baltus, Jean François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02241a.htm Theologian, born at Metz, 8 June, 1667; died at Reims, 9 March, 1743.
	Birkowski, Fabian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02578b.htm Polish preacher, b. at Lemberg, 1566; d. at Cracow, 1636.

	Binterim, Anton Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02570c.htm A theologian of repute and for fifty years parish priest of Bilk. (1779-1855)
	Binius, Severin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02570b.htm Historian and critic. (1573-1641)
	Biner, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02569a.htm Canonist, historian, and theologian. (1697-1766)
	Banjaluka - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02252a.htm The Diocese of Banjaluka in Western Bosnia.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03020b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03020b.htm A titular see of Bithynia in Asia Minor.

	Bruyas, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03024b.htm French missionary to the Iroquois. (1635-1712)
	Bryant, John Delavau - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03025a.htm Physician, poet, author, and editor. (1811-1877)
	Berthold - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519c.htm Bishop, Apostle of the Livonians, killed 24 July, 1198, in a crusade against the pagan Livonians who threatened destruction to all Christians that lived in their territory.
	Bertulf, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02524a.htm Converted to Christianity from paganism, entered the monastery of Luxeuil under the Rule of St. Columban, became abbot of Bobbio, was staunchly anti-Arian, d. 639 or 640.
	Buglio, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03040b.htm Jesuit missionary to China. (1606-1682)

	Berryer, Pierre-Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02517a.htm French advocate, orator, and statesman. (1790-1868)
	Brewer, Heinrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02778a.htm German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place about 1713.
	Brenan, Michael John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02758b.htm Irish Church historian. (1780-1847)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02515a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02515a.htm A city in Chanaan, one of the confederation of cities under the headship of Gabaon.
	Bartholomew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02314a.htm Also called Bartholomaeus Parvus (the Little), born at Bologna, year not known; died 15 August, 1333.

	Bartoli, Daniello - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02317b.htm Historian and littérateur, born at Ferrara, 12 February, 1608; died in Rome, 12 January, 1685.
	Barzynski, Vincent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16007b.htm Polish-American priest (1838-1899)
	Barrow, William, Venerable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02309c.htm An English Jesuit martyr, born in Lancashire, in 1609, died 30 June, 1679.
	Bréhal, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02752b.htm French Dominican theologian of the convent of Evreux; died c. 1479.
	Bravo, Francisco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02745b.htm As far as known, author of the first book on medicine printed in America.

	Bernini, Giuseppe Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02511a.htm A Capuchin missionary and Orientalist, b. near Carignan in Piedmont; d. in Hindustan in 1753.
	Bernier, Etienne-Alexandre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02509b.htm French Bishop. (1762-1806)
	Berni, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02509a.htm An Italian comic poet, b. at Lamporecchio (Florence) 1497 or 1498; d. at Florence, 26 May, 1535.
	Basins, Ecclesiastical Use of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02334a.htm Extensively used in the Jewish Ritual and were in early use in Christian churches for ablutions and to receive lamp-drippings.
	Bernard of Compostella - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02502a.htm A canonist of the early thirteenth century.

	Bernard of Botone - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02498c.htm Generally called Parmensis from his birthplace, Parma in Italy, a noted canonist of the thirteenth century.
	Bril, Paulus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02787b.htm Flemish painter and engraver, born at Antwerp, 1556; died in Rome, 7 October, 1626.
	Beugnot, Auguste-Arthur, Count - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02539b.htm French historian and statesman. (1797-1865)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02538a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02538a.htm Prefecture Apostolic in northern India.
	Bernardine of Fossa, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02505a.htm Italian Franciscan, missionary, historian, biographer, d. 1503.

	Brignon, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02787a.htm Member of the Society of Jesus. Born at St. Malo in 1629; died at Paris, 12 June, 1712.
	Bridgewater, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02783a.htm Known also as Aquapontanus, historian of the Catholic confessors under Queen Elizabeth, born in Yorkshire about 1532; died probably at Trier, about 1596.
	Bessel, Johann Franz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02528a.htm Benedictine, abbot, and historian. (1672-1749)
	Barral, Louis-Mathias, Count de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02307c.htm Archbishop of Tours, France, born 26 April, 1746, at Grenoble; died 7 June, 1816, at Paris.
	Besoldus, Christopher - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02527a.htm A German jurist and publicist. (1577-1638)

	Besoigne, Jérôme - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02526e.htm A Jansenist writer, b. at Paris, 1686; d. 1763.
	Barrande, Joachim - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02307d.htm French palæontologist. (1799-1883)
	Bervanger, Martin de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02525a.htm A French priest, founder of charitable institutions. (1795-1865)
	Barrasa, Jacinto - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02308a.htm Born at Lima, Peru, early in the seventeenth century; died there, 22 Nov., 1704.
	Bertrand, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02523b.htm Article covers a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist, b. 1280 at Annonay in Vivarais, and a French cardinal, nephew of the foregoing, whose name he adopted, b. in 1279, at Colombier in Vivarais.

	Bertinoro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02522c.htm Anciently called Forum Truentinorum, and, at the time of the Gothic war, Petra Honorii, whence the present name, is a small city in Romagna, province of Forli, Italy.
	Berthold of Reichenau - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02521b.htm Benedictine monk and chronicler of the Abbey of Reichenau on the Lake of Constance; d. probably in 1088.
	Barreira, Balthasar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02308c.htm A Portuguese Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon, 1531; died 1612.
	Berthold of Henneberg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02520b.htm Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. 1441; d. 21 December, 1504.
	Bridaine, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02780a.htm Preacher, b. at Chusclan, France, 21 March, 1701; d. at Roquemaure, 22 December, 1767.

	Bouvens, Charles de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02723a.htm French pulpit orator, b. at Bourg in 1750; d. in 1830.
	Bourne, Gilbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02722b.htm Last Catholic Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, son of Philip Bourne of Worcestershire, date of birth unknown; d. 10 Sept., 1569.
	Bourgoing, François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02722a.htm Third Superior general of the Congregation of the Oratory in France and one of the en early companions of Cardinal de BÈrulle, the founder of the French Oratorians. (1585-1662)
	Broglie, Jacques-Victor-Albert, Duc de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02796a.htm French statesman and historian. (1821-1901)
	Bourgade, François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02720a.htm French missionary and philosopher. (1806-1866)

	Bourdeilles, Hélie de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02719a.htm Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal, b., probably, towards 1323; d. 5 July, 1484.
	Broglie, Auguste-Théodore-Paul de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02795b.htm Abbé, professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique at Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects. (1834-1895)
	Bourassé, Jean-Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02716a.htm Archæologist and historian. (1813-1872)
	Bachmann, Paul - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02190b.htm Catholic theological controversialist, born at Chemnitz, Saxony, about 1466.
	Bouquet, Martin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02715a.htm Benedictine of the Congregation of St.-Maur. (1685-1754)

	Boulogne, Etienne-Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02714b.htm French bishop, b. at Avignon, 26 December 1747; d. at Troyes, 13 March, 1825.
	Boulay, César-Egasse du - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02714a.htm French historian, b. in the beginning of the seventeenth century at Saint-Ellier; d. 16 October, 1678.
	Boulanger, André de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02713b.htm French monk and preacher, b. at Paris in 1578; d. 27 September, 1657.
	Brownsville - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03003b.htm Vicariate Apostolic, erected 1874.
	Backer, Augustin de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02190c.htm Bibliographer, born at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 July, 1809; died at Liège, 1 December, 1873.

	Bruel, Joachim - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03004b.htm A theologian and historian, born early in the seventeenth century at Vorst, a village of the province of Brabant, Belgium, died 29 June, 1653.
	Boerglum, Ancient See of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16011b.htm In Denmark, included the ancient districts of Vendsyssel and Thy.
	Bacon, Nathaniel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02191c.htm Better know under the assumed name of Southwell, a Jesuit priest and bibliographer, b. in the county of Norfolk, England, in 1598; d. at Rome, 2 Dec., 1676.
	Brugère, Louis-Frédéric - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03004d.htm Professor of apologetics and church history, born at Orléans. (1823-1888)
	Bonn, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02673b.htm An academy founded at Bonn in 1777 by Max Friedrich, Prince-Archbishop of Cologne.

	Brookby, Anthony - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02798b.htm Friar Minor and English martyr, died 19 July 1537.
	Broughton, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02803a.htm Catholic priest and antiquary, claiming descent from the Broughtons of Lancashire.
	Barry, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02311a.htm Second Bishop of Savannah. (1799-1859)
	Backx, Peter Hubert Evermode - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02190d.htm Ordained priest 17 March, 1832, considered the second founder of the Norbertine Abbey of Tongerloo.
	Brookes, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02798c.htm Last Catholic Bishop of Gloucester, England. (1512-1560)

	Brondel, John Baptist - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02798a.htm First Bishop of Helena, Montana, U.S.A. (1842-1903)
	Brosse, Jean-Baptiste de la - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02802a.htm A Jesuit missionary, born 1724 at Magnac, Angoumois, France; died 1782.
	Brassicanus, Johann Ludwig - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02744b.htm Younger brother of Johann Alexander, went to Vienna with his brother in 1524 and likewise won distinction both as a philologist and jurist.
	Babenstuber, Ludwig - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02178a.htm German philosopher and theologian; vice-chancellor of the University of Salzburg; born 1660 at Teining in Bavaria; died 5 April, 1726, at the Benedictine monastery of Ettal.
	Babylon (Title) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02179a.htm The curial title of a Latin archbishopric, also of a Chaldean patriarchate, and of a Syrian archbishopric.

	Brancaccio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02737a.htm An ancient and illustrious Neapolitan family, from which the "Brancas" of France were descended.
	Baccanceld - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02189a.htm This meeting was rather a witenagemot, or Parliament, than an ecclesiastical synod, presided over by Wihtred, King of Kent.
	Broglie, Maurice-Jean de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02796b.htm Born in Paris, 5 September, 1766; d. there, 20 June, 1821.
	Bradshaw, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02727c.htm English Benedictine and poet, b. in the City of Chester, England, date unknown; d. 1513.
	Bradshaigh, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02727b.htm An English Carmelite friar known in religion as Elias à Jesu; b. in Lancashire, England, early in the seventeenth century; d. at Benfold, 25 September, 1652.

	Bradley, Denis Mary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02727a.htm First Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (1846-1903)
	Brouwer, Christoph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02803b.htm Historian. (1559-1617)
	Bracken, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02726b.htm Poet, journalist, politician. (1843-1898)
	Brus, Anton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03020a.htm Archbishop of Prague. (1518-1580)
	Bacchylus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02189b.htm Bishop of Corinth.

	Bailey, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02206a.htm Controversialist, died c. 1657.
	Baillargeon, Charles François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02206b.htm A French-Canadian bishop. (1798-1870)
	Bailloquet, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02207a.htm French missionary to Canadian Indians. (1612-1692)
	Baily, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02207b.htm A Catholic clergyman, b. in Yorkshire, England; d. at Douai, France, 7 October, 1591.
	Bainbridge, Christopher - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02207c.htm Archbishop of York, and Cardinal. (1464-1514)

	Bolanden, Conrad von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02626a.htm A German novelist, son of a rich merchant, b. 9 August, 1828, at Niedergeilbach, a village of the Palatinate.
	Brisacier, Jean de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02789a.htm Controversialist, b. at Blois, France, 9 June, 1592; entered the Society of Jesus in 1619, d. at Blois, 10 September, 1668.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02623b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02623b.htm Diocese created by Leo XIII, 25 August, 1893.
	Baines, Ralph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02208a.htm Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, England, b. at Knowsthorp, Yorks, date of birth uncertain; d. 18 November, 1559.
	Balbinus, Boleslaus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02216b.htm A Jesuit historian of Bohemia. (1621-1688)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02622a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02622a.htm Diocese in the province of Benevento, Italy, suffragan to the Archbishopric of Benevento.
	Brunner, Francis de Sales - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03012a.htm Founder of the Swiss-American congregation of the Benedictines. (1795-1859)
	Boeri, Petrus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02610a.htm A french benedictine canonist and bishop, b. during the first quarter of the fourteenth century at Laredorte.
	Boecken, Placidus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02608a.htm A German Benedictine, canonist, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salzburg. (1690-1752)
	Boccaccino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02606a.htm Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1460, and d. probably in 1525 rather than in 1518, the date usually given.

	Blyth, Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02604c.htm English Carmelite, reviser of the Douay Bible, born c. 1705; d. in London, 11 December 1772.
	Blomevenna, Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02602c.htm Carthusian, b. at Leyden, in Holland in 1466; d. 30 September, 1536.
	Balbuena, Bernardo de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02217a.htm A Spanish poet, born in Val de Peñas, 1568; died in Porto Rico, 1627.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02220c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02220c.htm Archbishop of Trier and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, born 1285; died 1354.
	Blenkinsop - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02597a.htm Details of four people with this name.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02193a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02193a.htm The Latin name Pax, or Civitas Pacensis, was given to this district because it was thought to be the Pax Julia or Pax Augusta of the Romans.
	Brittain, Thomas Lewis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02793b.htm Born near Chester, England, 1744; died at Hartpury Court, 1827.
	Brugière, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03007a.htm A French priest, Jansenist, and juror. (1730-1803)
	Boniface Association - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02671a.htm The object of the association is to maintain what the Catholic church possesses in those regions where Catholics are few in number, to found and support missions and schools, and to erect churches, parish-houses, and schools for Catholics in the Protestant parts of Germany.
	Brugman, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03007b.htm A renowned Franciscan preacher of the fifteenth century.

	Baert, François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02201c.htm Bollandist, born at Ypres, 25 August, 1651; died at Antwerp, 27 October, 1719.
	Bagamoyo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02202b.htm Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated by a pontifical Decree of 11 May, 1906, from the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Zanzibar.
	Basilinopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02329b.htm A titular see of Asia Minor.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203a.htm A titular see of Lydia in Asia Minor.
	Baglioni, Giovanni, Cavaliere - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203b.htm Known as the "Deaf Man of the Barozzo", a painter of distinction, b. in Rome, 1571; d. there 1644.

	Bonet, Nicholas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02655b.htm Friar Minor, theologian, and missionary, date of birth uncertain; d. 1360.
	Britius, Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02793a.htm An orientalist, and a monk of Rennes in Brittany; date of birth and death unknown.
	Bonald, Louis-Jacques-Maurice de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02647b.htm Cardinal, b. at Millau, in Rouergue, 30 October, 1787, d. at Lyons, 25 Feb., 1870.
	Brumoy, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03008b.htm French Jesuit humanist. (1704-1742)
	Bristow, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02791a.htm Born at Worcester, 1538, died at Harrow-on the-Hill, 1581.

	Bonal, François de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02646b.htm Bishop of Clermont, b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen; d. at Munich, 1800.
	Brischar, Johann Nepomucene - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02790a.htm Church historian, born at Horb in Würtemberg in 1819, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, was appointed parish priest of Buhl near Rottenburg in 1853, where he died in 1897.
	Bagnorea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203c.htm A diocese situated in the district of Viterbo, Italy, and immediately subject to the Holy See.
	Bagot, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203d.htm Theologian, born at Rennes, in France, 9 July, 1591, died at Paris, 23 August, 1664.
	Bagshaw, Christopher - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02203e.htm Convert, priest, prisoner for the Faith, and a prominent figure in the controversies between Catholic priests and the reign of Elizabeth.

	Bolton, Edmund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02643b.htm Historian, antiquary, and poet, born c. 1575; died c. 1633.
	Bartholomew of Brescia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02315b.htm Italian canonist, b. probably in the second half of the twelfth century at Brescia; d. 1258.
	Bartholomew of Braganca - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02315a.htm Born about 1200; died 1 July, 1271.
	Bartholomew of Braga, Venerable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02314b.htm Born at Verdela, near Lisbon, May, 1514; died at Viana, 16 July, 1590.
	Bercharius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486b.htm Abbot of Hautvillers, founder, stabbed to death by one of his monks in 696.

	Barthel, Johann Caspar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02312c.htm A German canonist. (1697-1771)
	Barry, Patrick - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02312a.htm Horticulturist. (1816-1890)
	Barnabas of Terni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02301a.htm Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 or 1477.
	Barradas, Sebastião - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02307b.htm A Portuguese exegete and preacher, born at Lisbon in 1543; died at Coimbra in 1615.
	Barrow, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02309b.htm Priest, descended from a family of stanch Catholic yeomen. (1735-1811)

	Barrientos, Lopez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02308d.htm Spanish Dominican bishop, patriot, and diplomat. (1382-1469)
	Bonfrère, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02655c.htm Biblical scholar, born at Dinant, Belgium, 12 April, 1573; died at Tournai, 9 May, 1642.
	Barquisimeto - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02307a.htm Diocese in Venezuela, South America.
	Baron, Vincent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02304a.htm Dominican theologian and preacher. (1604-1674)
	Baron, Bonaventura - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02303c.htm Irish Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and writer of Latin prose and verse. (1610-1696)

	Brenach, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02758a.htm Fifth-century Irish missionary to Wales and a contemporary of St. Patrick.
	Boncompagni, Balthasar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02654a.htm Italian mathematician. (1821-1894)
	Burns, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03084a.htm Publisher and author. (1808-1871)
	Berthier, Guillaume-François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519b.htm A Jesuit professor and writer, born at Issoudun, 1704; died at Bourges, 1782.
	Bard, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02292c.htm An English soldier and diplomat, b. 1604; d. 1660.

	Bosa, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689b.htm In the province of Cagliari.
	Berardi, Carbo Sebastiano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02485c.htm Canonist. (1719-1768)
	Baston, Guillaume-André-Réné - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02345c.htm A French theologian, b. at Rouen, 29 November, 1741; d. at Saint-Laurent, 26 September, 1825.
	Berault-Bercastel, Antoine Henri de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486a.htm A writer of church history, b. 22 November, 1720, at Briey, Lorraine; d. about 1794 at Noyon, France.
	Bassianus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02345a.htm Bishop of Ephesus (444-448).

	Bassett, Joshua - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02344a.htm Convert and controversialist, Master of Sidney Sussex College, born about 1641, at Lynn Regis, where his father was a merchant; died in London, in 1720.
	Borrus, Christopher - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689a.htm Missionary, mathematician, and astronomer. (1583-1632)
	Belchiam, Venerable Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394b.htm A Franciscan martyr in the reign of Henry VIII, date of birth uncertain; d. 3 August 1537.
	Berlioz, Hector - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02495a.htm French composer. (1803-1869)
	Basil of Amasea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02329d.htm Bishop and Martyr.

	Borromeo, Society of Saint Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02688c.htm A German Catholic association for the encouragement and diffusion of edifying, instructive, and entertaining literature.
	Borromeo, Andrea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02688a.htm An Italian missionary, born on the first half of the seventeenth century, at or near Milan; died in 1683.
	Bernal, Agostino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02495b.htm Spanish theologian. (1587-1642)
	Bernard Guidonis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02497b.htm Bishop and Inquisitor. (1261-1331)
	Borras, Francisco Nicolás - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02687c.htm Spanish painter, born at Cocentaina, 1530; died at Gandia, 1610.

	Bernard of Bologna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02498b.htm Friar Minor Capuchin and Scotist theologian, born at Bologna, 17 December, 1701; died 19 February, 1768.
	Bernard of Luxemburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02503a.htm Dominican theologian, controversialist, and Inquisitor. (d. 1535)
	Bon Secours, Institutes of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02678a.htm Congregations of nursing sisters whose object is to take care of both rich and poor patients in their own homes.
	Bernini, Domenico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02510a.htm Son of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini.
	Bartholomew of Edessa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02315c.htm Syrian apologist and polemical writer.

	Blyssen, Heinrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02604b.htm Principal work, "De uno geminoque sacrae eucharistiae synaxeos salubriter percipiendae ritu ac usu" was published (Ingolstadt, 1585) when he was provincial of Austria.
	Blanchet, Augustin Magloire - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02593b.htm Brother of François Norbert Blanchet, first Bishop of Walla Walla-Nesqually, State of Washington, U.S.A. (1797-1887)
	Blanchard, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02592c.htm French Jesuit and educator. (1731-1797)
	Blackburne, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590b.htm An English Catholic who suffered imprisonment in the closing years of the seventeenth, and during the earlier half of the eighteenth, centuries; died in 1748.
	Banduri, Anselmo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02246d.htm Archaeologist and numismatologist. (1671-1743)

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532d.htm An ancient Cansanitish town.
	Bancel, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02246b.htm Born at Valence, 1628; died at Avignon, 1685.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590a.htm A tomb large enough to contain two bodies.
	Bethlehem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532e.htm Titular see of Palestine.
	Bethlehem - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02534a.htm An architectural term used in the Ethiopic Church for the oven or bakehouse for baking the Korban or Eucharistic bread.

	Bidermann, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02558c.htm Poet and theologian. (1578-1639)
	Billick, Eberhard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02566b.htm German theologian, opponent of the Reformation, born 1499 or 1500 at Cologne; died there 12 January, 1557.
	Balme, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02224a.htm A Franciscan theologian, born at Genera, date uncertain; d. 23 February, 1439.
	Ballerini, Girolamo and Pietro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02223b.htm Celebrated theologians and canonists, the sons of a distinguished surgeon of Verona.
	Balanaea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02215a.htm A titular see of Syria.

	Balderic (Baudry) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02218b.htm A monk of Liège, a writer and teacher of the twelfth century, b. date unknown, at Florennes in Belgium; d. about 1157.
	Bisarchio, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02581a.htm Situated in Sardinia, in the province of Sassari, district of Nuoro, and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Sassari.
	Baldwin, Francis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02221a.htm Jurist. (1520-1573)
	Baeumer, Suitbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02202a.htm Historian of the Breviary and one of the most scholarly patrologists of the nineteenth century.
	Bickell, Gustav - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16010a.htm Orientalist. (1838-1906)

	Barco Centenera, Martin del - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02292a.htm A secular priest, in 1572 accompanied as chaplain, the expedition of Juan Ortiz de Zárate to the Rio de La Plata.
	Berti, Giovanni Lorenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02522a.htm Italian theologian, b. 28 May, 1696, at Sarravezza, Tuscany; d. 26 March, 1766, at Pisa.
	Bollig, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02639a.htm Orientalist, born near Düren in Rhenish Prusia 23 August, 1821; died at Rome in 1895.
	Barcelona, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02290a.htm An outgrowth of the ecclesiastical schools founded in the eleventh century.
	Brück, Heinrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03004a.htm Ecclesiastical historian and bishop, born at Bingen, 25 October, 1831; died 4 November, 1903.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288d.htm A titular see of Cyrenaica in Northern Africa.
	Barbus, Paulus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288c.htm Italian philosopher and theologian, died at Cremona, 4 August, 1494.
	Brindholm, Ven. Edmund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02787d.htm Martyr and parish priest of Our Lady's Church at Calais, accused of being concerned in a plot to betray Calais to the French.
	Barbosa-Machado, Ignacio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288a.htm A Portuguese historian, born at Lisbon in 1686; died in 1734.
	Beschefer, Theodore - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02526b.htm Jesuit missionary in Canada. (1630-1711)

	Barbelin, Felix-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02286a.htm Styled the "apostle of Philadelphia", b. at Luneville, Province of Alsace, France, 30 May, 1808; d. in Philadelphia, 8 June, 1869.
	Barbastro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02285b.htm Suffragan diocese of the Spanish province of Huesca.
	Barbalissos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284c.htm A titular see of Mesopotamia.
	Barba, Alvaro Alonzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284b.htm A secular priest and writer.
	Barat, Nicolas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284a.htm A French Orientalist, born at Bourges during the first quarter of the seventeenth century; died in 1706 at Paris.

	Boré, Eugène - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16011a.htm French Orientalist. (1809-1878)
	Bobadilla, Nicolaus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02605a.htm The last survivor of the seven first companions of Ignatius of Loyola. (1511-1590)
	Betharan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532b.htm A city of the Amorrhites in the valley-plain east of the Jordan.
	Bethdagon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02532c.htm Name of two cities in Palestine.
	Bawden, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02357a.htm An English Jesuit, born at Cornwall, 1563; died at St.-Omer, 28 September, 1632.

	Burkard, Franz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079b.htm The name of two celebrated German jurists.
	Benedictbeurn, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02441a.htm Tradition, as well as manuscripts dating as far back as the tenth century, ascribe its foundation in the year 740, to three brothers of noble birth, named Lanfrid, Wulfram, and Eliland, acting under the influence of St. Boniface, who was then preaching the Faith in Bavaria.
	Beardsley, Aubrey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02363a.htm Biography of the daring English illustrator.
	Branch Sunday - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02738b.htm One of the medieval English names for Palm Sunday.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427b.htm A titular see of Albania.

	Benard, Laurent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02426b.htm Chief founder of the Maurist Congregation of the Benedictine Order, b. at Nevers, 1573; d. at Paris, 1620.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02426a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02426a.htm Prefecture Apostolic in Africa.
	Beauregard, Jean-Nicolas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02377a.htm French pulpit orator. (1733-1794)
	Brancati, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02737b.htm Jesuit missionary to China. (1607-1671)
	Belsunce de Castelmoron, Henri François Xavier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02425c.htm Bishop of Marseilles. (1671-1755)

	Bralion, Nicolas de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02735b.htm French Oratorian and ecclesiastical writer, born at Chars-en-Vexin, France, c. 1600; died at Paris, 11 May 1672.
	Bragança-Miranda, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02729b.htm Situated in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Portugal, in the civil province of Tras-os-Montes.
	Beauvais, Gilles-François-de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02378a.htm Jesuit writer and preacher, born at Mans, France, 7 July, 1693; died probably at Paris about 1773.
	Busée, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03086b.htm Jesuit theologian. (1540-1587)
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03087a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03087a.htm A titular see taking its title from one of the many Egyptian cities of the same name.

	Bellenden, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02414b.htm A Scotch poet, b. at Haddington or Berwick in the latter part of the fifteenth century; d. at Rome, c. 1587.
	Bellamy, Jerome - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02411b.htm A sympathizer with Mary Queen of Scots.
	Buss, Franz Joseph, Ritter von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03088a.htm Jurist, b. 23 March, 1803 at Zell in Baden; d. 31 January, 1878, at Freiburg im Breisgau.
	Braun, Placidus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02745a.htm Bavarian historian. (1756-1829)
	Bernard, Claude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02496c.htm French ecclesiastic. (1588-1641)

	Bernard, Alexis-Xyste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02496b.htm Bishop of St. Hyacinth.
	Bassi, Matthew of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02344b.htm Founder of the Capuchins. (1495-1552)
	Bunderius, Joannes - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03059a.htm Flemish theologian and controversialist. (1482-1557)
	Berland, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02492c.htm Archbishop of Bordeaux. (1375-1457)
	Berlage, Anton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02492b.htm Dogmatic theologian. (1805-1881)

	Brassicanus, Johann Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02744a.htm German humanist, born probably at Cannstatt, 1500; died at Vienna, 25 November, 1539.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02491c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02491c.htm A titular see of Pontus Polemoniacus, in Asia Minor.
	Berisford, Humphrey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02491b.htm Confessor c. 1588.
	Burchard of Basle - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03063a.htm Belonged to the family of the counts of Neuenburg, or Neuchatel, was born towards the middle of the eleventh century, and died 12 April, 1107.
	Berington, Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02490b.htm Titular Bishop of Hiero-Caesarea, b. at Stock, Essex, England, 1748; d. 8 June, 1798.

	Burckmair, Hans - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03064c.htm Painter of the Swabian school. (1473-1531)
	Berenice - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02489b.htm A titular see of Egypt which was situated at the end of Major Syrtis where Bengazi stands today.
	Burgis, Edward Ambrose - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03065a.htm Dominican historian and theologian. (1673-1747)
	Burgoa, Francisco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03065b.htm Historical and geographical writer. Born at Oaxaca about 1600; d. at Teopozotlan in 1681.
	Baudouin, Michel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02351b.htm Italian missionary born 1692. Entered the Society of Jesus in France at the age of twenty-one, arrived in Louisiana in 1728.

	Brasses, Memorial - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02742b.htm Earliest existing dated examples are of the thirteenth century.
	Benkert, Franz Georg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02481a.htm German theologian and historical writer. (1790-1859)
	Burigny, Jean Lévesque de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079a.htm Historian, b. at Reims, 1692; d. at Paris, 1785.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092e.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092e.htm Titular see of Albania.
	Bazin, John Stephen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02361b.htm Third Bishop of Vincennes (now the Diocese of Indianapolis). (1796-1848)

	Baysio, Guido de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02361a.htm An Italian canonist, b. about the middle of the thirteenth century of a noble Ghibelline family; d. at Avignon, 10 August, 1313.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02708a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02708a.htm A titular see situated in Phoenicia.
	Byrne, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03093b.htm U.S. Civil War hero. (1832-1864)
	Bayer, Adèle - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02357b.htm Eldest daughter of Andrew Parmentier, b. in Belgium, 4 July, 1814, and d. in Brooklyn, New York, 22 January, 1892.
	Bossu, Jacques le - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02698a.htm French theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne, born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626.

	Bautista, Fray Juan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02353b.htm Franciscan, who taught theology and metaphysics at the convent of St. Francis of Mexico.
	Bosch, Peter van der - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689c.htm Bollandist, born at Brussels, 19 October, 1686; died 14 November, 1736.
	Bausset, Louis-François de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02352c.htm A French cardinal, writers, and statesman. (1748-1824)
	Bauny, Etienne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02352b.htm Theologian, b. in 1564 at Mouzon, Ardennes, France; d. 3 December, 1649, at Saint Pol de Léon.
	Bengtsson, Jöns Oxenstjerna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02478a.htm Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, b. 1417; d. in 1467.

	Baumgartner, Gallus Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02351c.htm A Swiss statesman, b. 18 October, 1797, at Altstätten, Switzerland; d. 12 July, 1869, at St. Gallen.
	Baudeau, Nicolas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02351a.htm Regular Canon and economist, b. at Amboise, France, 25 April, 1730; d. in 1792.
	Bauberger, Wilhelm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02350d.htm German physician, novelist, and poet, b. at Thannhausen in Swabian Bavaria, 3 March, 1809; d. at the same place, 8 February, 1883.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02480a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02480a.htm Vicariate Apostolic on the coast of Benin.
	Battista, Giovanni Giuda Giona - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02350b.htm Original name, Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac.

	Batteux, Charles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02350a.htm Abbé and writer on philosophy and aesthetics, b. near Vouziers, France, 6 May, 1713; d. at Paris, 14 July, 1780.
	Battaglini, Marco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02349b.htm A historian of the councils, b. at Rimini, Italy, 25 March, 1645; d. at Cesena, 19 September, 1717.
	Bentney, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02484a.htm An English Jesuit priest born in Cheshire, 1609; died 30 October, 1692.
	Bustamante, Carlos María - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03088b.htm Mexican statesman and historian. (1774-1848)
	Bedini, Cajetan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02387a.htm Italian Cardinal and diplomat. (1806-1864)

	Belasyse, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394a.htm Born about 1614; died 1689, a loyal Catholic English nobleman, second son of Thomas first Lord Fauconberg. His mother was Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry Cholmondeley of Roxby, Yorkshire.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02393a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02393a.htm Diocese in Portugal, suffragan of Evora.
	Beelen, Ian Theodor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02388a.htm Exegete and Orientalist. (1807-1884)
	Buston, Thomas Stephen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03089a.htm Jesuit missionary and author. (1549-1619)
	Begnudelli-Basso, Francesco Antonio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389b.htm A canonist who lived at the end of the seventeenth century.

	Bedingfeld, Frances - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02386c.htm Superioress of the English Institute of Mary. (1616-1704)
	Bouillart, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02711c.htm Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur. (1669-1726)
	Bedford, Gunning S. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02386a.htm Medical writer and teacher. (1806-1870)
	Belem do Pará, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02394c.htm In South America, formerly (after 4 March, 1719) a suffragan diocese of Bahia (San Salvador), but raised to metropolitan rank 3 May, 1906.
	Bouhours, Dominique - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02711b.htm French Jesuit author. (1632-1702)

	Beauvais, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02378b.htm A French bishop, b. at Cherbourg, 17 October, 1731; d. at Paris, 4 April, 1790.
	Belin, Albert (Jean) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02410a.htm French prelate and writer, b. in Besançon early in the seventeenth century; d. 29 April, 1677.
	Bellecius, Aloysius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02414a.htm Jesuit ascetic author, born at Freiburg im Breisgau, 15 February, 1704; died at Augsburg, 27 April, 1757.
	Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02710a.htm Native of Milan who went to Mexico in 1736 by permission of the Spanish government and remained there eight years, familiarizing himself with the Nahuatl or Mexican language.
	Belmont, François Vachon de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02425a.htm Fifth superior of the Sulpicians at Montreal, b. at Grenoble, France, 1645; d. 1732.

	Benavides, Fray Alonzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02427a.htm Archbishop of Goa in the Portuguese Indies.
	Beaton, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02374b.htm Archbishop of Glasgow. (1517-1603)
	Bye-Altar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092d.htm An altar that is subordinate to the central or high altar.

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