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Da Ponte, Lorenzo - Poet, b. at Cenada, Italy, 1749; d. in New York, 17 Aug., 1838.

Dablon, Claude - Jesuit missionary, born at Dieppe, France, in February, 1618; died at Quebec, 3 May, 1697.

Dabrowski, Joseph - Founder of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit. (d. 1903)

Dacca - Diocese in Bengal, India.

Dacier, André - A French philologist, born at Castres, 6 April, 1651; died 18 September, 1722.

Dacier, Anne - The wife of André Dacier, born at Saumur in 1651; died 17 April 1720.

Dagon - A Philistine deity.

Daguesseau, Henri-François - Chancellor of France, born at Limoges, 27 November, 1668; died at Paris, 5 February, 1751.

Dahomey - The Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, in West Africa, is territorially identical with the French colony of the same name.

Dalberg, Adolphus von - Prince-Abbot of Fulda and founder of the university in the same city, born 29 May, 1678; died 3 November, 1737.

Dalgairns, John Dobree - Born in the island of Guernsey, 21 Oct., 1818; d. 6 April, 1876, at St. George's Retreat, Burgess Hill, near Brighton, England.

Dallas - Diocese created in 1890, comprising 108 counties in the northern and north-western portion of the State of Texas, U.S.A.

Dalley, William Bede - Lawyer and statesman, born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1831; died there 28 October, 1888.

Dalmatia - A part of the Kingdom of Croatia according to a convention entered into between Croatia and Hungary.

Dalmatic - The outer liturgical vestment of the deacon.

Dalton, John - Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874.

Damão - Suffragan to Goa, and situated in Portuguese India and the British Government of Bombay.

Damaraland - The middle part of the German colony, German Southwest Africa.

Damascus - It is mentioned in the Bible at the time of Abraham (Gen., xiv, 15; xv, 2); also on the pylons of Karnak, among the Syrian cities captured by the Pharaoh Touthmes III.

Damasus I, Pope Saint - Damasus, who had to contend with an antipope, condemned Apollinarianism, and persuaded St. Jerome to undertake the revision of the Latin Bible, died in 384.

Damasus II, Pope - A native of Bavaria and the third German to be elevated to the See of Peter.

Damberger, Joseph Ferdinand - Church historian, born 1 March, 1795, at Passau, Bavaria; died 1 April, 1859, at Schäftlarn.

Damien, Father (Joseph de Veuster) - Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai.

Damietta - An Egyptian titular see for the Latins and the Catholic Melchite Greeks, in Augustamnica Prima.

Dan - The fifth son of Jacob, being the elder of the two sons born to him by Bala, the handmaid of Rachel, and the eponymous ancestor of the tribe bearing the same name.

Danaba - A titular see of Phænicia Secunda.

Dance of Death - Originally a species of spectacular play akin to the English moralities. It has been traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century.

Dancing - The origin of dancing is from the natural tendency to employ gesture either to supplement or to replace speech.

Dandolo, Enrico - Doge of Venice from 1192 to 1205; died, aged about a hundred years, in 1205.

Daniel - The hero and traditional author of the book which bears his name.

Daniel, Book of - In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its deutero-canonical parts, both of which have an equal right to be considered as inspired, and to be included in a treatment of the Book of Daniel.

Daniel, Charles - Founded the "Etudes de théologie et d' histoire", a magazine with monthly publication. (1818-1893)

Daniel Comboni, Saint - Short biographical profile of this nineteenth-century Italian missionary to Africa.

Daniel, Gabriel - Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, 1728.

Daniel, John - Priest and professor, Born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October, 1823.

Daniel of Winchester - Bishop of the West Saxons, and ruler of the See of Winchester from 705 to 744; died in 745.

Daniel, Saint, and Companions - Franciscan missionaries and martyrs, d. 10 October, 1227.

Dansara - A titular see in Osrhoene.

Dante Alighieri - An annotated (in linked hypertext) biography of the poet.

Danti, Ignazio - Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at Alatri, 19 Oct., 1586.

Danti, Vincenzo - Sculptor, brother of Ignazio, b. at Perugia, 1530; d. 24 May, 1576.

Dantine, Maurus - Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.

Darboy, Georges - Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Fayl-Billot, near Langres, 1813; killed by Communists at Paris, 24 May, 1871.

Dardanus - A titular see in the province of Hellespont, suffragan of Cyzicus.

Dardel, Jean - Friar Minor of the French province of the order, chronicler of Armenia in the fourteenth century, adviser and confessor to King Leo V (or VI) of Armenia.

Darerca, Saint - Sister of St. Patrick and the mother of many saints.

Dareste de la Chavanne, Antoine-Elisabeth - Historian and professor, b. in Paris, 25 October, 1820; d. at Lucenay-lès-Aix, 6 August, 1882.

Darnis - Titular see of Libya.

Darras, Joseph-Epiphane - Church historian, b. at Troyes, France, 1825; d. at Paris, Nov. 8, 1878.

Darrell, William - Theologian, b. 1651, in Buckinghamshire, England; d. 28 Feb., 1721, at St. Omer's, France.

Dates and Dating - In classical Latin even before the time of Christ it was usual for correspondents to indicate when and where their letters were written.

Daubrée, Gabriel-Auguste - French geologist, b. at Metz, 25 June, 1814; d. at Paris, 29 May, 1896.

Daulia - A titular see of Greece.

Daumer, Georg Friedrich - German poet and philosopher, b. at Nuremberg, 5 March, 1800; d. at Wurzburg, 14 December, 1875.

D'Avenant, Sir William - Poet and dramatist, b. Feb., 1605-6, at Oxford, England; d. in London, 7 April, 1668.

Davenport - Diocese erected 8 May, 1881, in the four southern tiers of counties in Iowa.

Davenport, Christopher - Theologian, b. 1598, at Coventry, England, d. 31 May, 1680.

David, Armand - Missionary priest and zoologist, b. 1826; d. 1900.

David, Gheeraert - Painter and illuminator. (1450-1523)

David, King - In the Bible the name David is borne only by the second king of Israel, the great-grandson of Boaz and Ruth.

David of Augsburg - Medieval German mystic, b. probably at Augsburg, Bavaria, early in the thirteenth century; d. at Augsburg, 19 November, 1272.

David of Dinant - A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century.

David, Saint - Also known as Dewi or Degui. Biography of this bishop and confessor, the patron saint of Wales.

David Scotus - A medieval Irish chronicler, date of birth unknown; d. 1139.

Davila Padilla - Writer, Bishop of Santo Domingo. A native of the City of Mexico, b. 1562; d. 1604.

Dawson, Aeneas McDonnell - Author, b. in Scotland, 30 July, 1810; d. in Ottawa, Canada, 29 Dec., 1894.

Dax, Diocese of - Suppressed French diocese.

Day, George - Bishop of Chichester; b. in Shropshire, England, c. 1501; d. 2 August, 1556.

Day, John Charles, Sir - Jurist, b. near Bath, England, 1826; d. 13 June, 1908, at Newbury.

De La Croix, Charles - Missionary, b. at Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Belgium, 28 Oct., 1792; d. at Ghent, 20 Aug., 1869.

De Lisle, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps - Born 17 March, 1809; died 5 March, 1878.

De L'Orme, Philibert - Celebrated architect of the French Renaissance, born at Lyons, c. 1515 or a little later; died at Paris, 8 January, 1570.

De Paul University - In Chicago, the outgrowth of St. Vincent's College, which opened in Sept., 1898.

De Profundis - "Out of the depths". First words of Psalm 129.

De Rossi, Giovanni Battista - Christian archaeologist, best known for his work in connection with the Roman catacombs. (1822-1894)

De Smet, Pierre-Jean - Missionary among the North American Indians, b. at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 30 Jan., 1801; d. at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., 23 May, 1873.

De Soto, Hernando - Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, 1496 or 1500; died on the banks of the Mississippi the latter part of June, 1542.

De Vere, Aubrey Thomas Hunt - Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland, 10 January, 1814; died there, 21 January, 1902.

Deaconesses - Offers history and functions.

Deacons - The name means only minister or servant, and is employed in this sense both in the Septuagint (though only in the book of Esther, and in the New Testament.

Dead, Prayers for the - Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle's Creed.

Dead Sea - The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border of Palestine.

Dean - One of the principal administrative officials of a diocese.

Dease, Thomas - Bishop of Meath, born in Ireland, 1568; died at Galway, 1651.

Death, Preparation for - Includes the steps taken, such as calling a priest, winding up earthly affairs, and confession.

Debbora - Prophetess and judge, wife of Lapidoth and endowed by God with prophetic gifts which secured for her the veneration of the divided Israelitic tribes and gave her great authority over them.

Debt - That which is owed or due to another; in general, anything which one person is under an obligation to pay or render to another.

Decalogue - The term employed to designate the collection of precepts written on two tables of stone and given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Decapolis - Name given in the Bible and by ancient writers to a region in Palestine lying to the east and south of the Sea of Galilee.

Dechamps, Adolphe - Belgian statesman and publicist, brother of Cardinal Dechamps, born at Melle near Ghent, 17 June, 1807, died at Manage, 19 July, 1875.

Dechamps, Victor Augustin Isidore - Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium; born at Melle near Ghent 6 Dec., 1810; died 29 Sept., 1883, at Mechlin.

Decius - Roman Emperor 249-251.

Decker, Hans - A German sculptor of the middle of the fifteenth century.

Decorations, Pontifical - The titles of nobility, orders of Christian knighthood and other marks of honour and distinction which the papal court confers upon men of unblemished character who have in any way promoted the interests of society, the Church, and the Holy See.

Decree - In a general sense, an order or law made by a superior authority for the direction of others. In ecclesiastical use it has various meanings. Any papal Bull, Brief, or Motu Proprio is a decree inasmuch as these documents are legislative acts of the Holy Father.

Decretals, Papal - In the wide sense the term decretalis signifies a pontifical letter containing a decretum, or pontifical decision. In a narrower sense it denotes a decision on a matter of discipline. In the strictest sense of the word, it means a rescript, an answer of the pope when he has been appealed to or his advice has been sought on a matter of discipline.

Dedication - A term which, though sometimes used of persons who are consecrated to God's service, is more properly applied to the "setting aside" of places for a special and sacred purpose.

Dedication, Feast of the - Also called the Feast of the Machabees and Feast of Lights.

Deduction - An argument or reasoning process, that kind of mediate inference by which from truths already known we advance to a knowledge of other truths necessarily implied in the former; the mental product or result of that process. Also a method, the deductive method, by which we increase our knowledge through a series of such inferences.

Deer, Abbey of - A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple Drostan, and others, went from Hy (Iona) into Buchan and established an important missionary centre at Deer on the banks of the Ugie on lands given him by the mormaer or chief of the district whose son he had by his prayers freed of a dangerous illness.

Defender of the Matrimonial Tie - An official whose duty is to defend the marriage-bond in the procedure prescribed for the hearing of matrimonial causes which involve the validity or nullity of a marriage already contracted.

Definitions, Theological - An irrevocable decision, by which the supreme teaching authority in the Church decides a question appertaining to faith or morals, and which binds the whole Church.

Definitor (in Canon Law) - An official in secular deaneries and in certain religious orders.

Definitors (in Religious Orders) - Generally speaking, the governing council of an order.

Deger, Ernst - Historical painter, born in Bockenem, Hanover, 15 April, 1809; died in Düsseldorf, 27 Jan., 1885.

Degradation - A canonical penalty by which an ecclesiastic is entirely and perpetually deprived of all office, benefice, dignity, and power conferred on him by ordination; and by a special ceremony is reduced to the state of a layman, losing the privileges of the clerical state and being given over to the secular arm.

Deharbe, Joseph - Theologian, catechist, b. at Straburg, Alsace, 11 April, 1800; d. at Maria-Laach, 8 November, 1871.

Dei gratia; Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia - A formulæ added to the titles of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

Deicolus, Saint - Or Dichuil. Elder brother of St. Gall and missionary companion of St. Columbanus. Deicolus died in 625.

Deism - Historical survey and critique.

Deity - This article is confined to the non-Christian notion of the Deity.

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène - Artist's biography with bibliography.

Delaroche, Hippolyte - Painter, born at Paris, 17 July, 1797; died 4 November, 1856.

Delatores - A term used by the Synod of Elvira (c. 306) to stigmatize those Christians who appeared as accusers of their brethren.

Delaware - One of the original thirteen of the United States of America.

Delaware Indians - An important tribal confederacy of Algonquian stock originally holding the basin of the Delaware River, in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Delcus - A titular see of Thrace, suffragan of Philippopolis.

Delegation - A delegation is the commission to another of jurisdiction, which is to be exercised in the name of the person delegating. Jurisdiction is defined as the power of anyone who has public authority and pre-eminence over others for their rule and government.

Delfau, François - Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France; died 13 Oct., 1676.

Delfino, Pietro - A theologian, born at Venice in 1444; died 16 Jan., 1525.

Delilah - The woman who deceived and betrayed Samson.

Delille, Jacques - French abbé and litterateur, born at Aigueperse, 22 June, 1738; died at Paris, 1 May, 1813.

Delisle, Guillaume - Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris; died there 25 January, 1726.

Delphine, Blessed - Third Order Franciscan, the wife of St. Elzéar. She died in 1358.

Delrio, Martin Anton - Scholar, statesman, Jesuit theologian, born at Antwerp, 17 May, 1551; died at Louvain, 19 October, 1608.

Delta of the Nile, Prefecture Apostolic of the - Situated in the north of Egypt and comprises four of the six provinces forming Lower Egypt, namely: Gharbieh, Charkieb, Menufieh, and Kalyiubieh.

Deluge - A catastrophe fully described in Gen., vi, 1-ix, 19.

Demers, Modeste - Missionary in Pacific Northwest. (1809-1871)

Demetrius - The name of two Syrian kings mentioned in the Old Testament and two other persons in the New Testament.

Demetrius, Saint - The first bishop of Alexandria of whom anything is known. Appointed Origen as head of the Catechetical School and later condemned him for being ordained to the presbyterate without authorization. Demetrius died in 231.

Demiurge - The word means literally a public worker, demioergós, demiourgós, and was originally used to designate any craftsman plying his craft or trade for the use of the public. Soon, however, technítes and other words began to be used to designate the common artisan while demiurge was set aside for the Great Artificer or Fabricator, the Architect of the universe.

Democracy, Christian - Article representing Christian democracy as the ensemble of Catholic doctrine, organization, and action in the field of popular social questions.

Demon - In Scripture and in Catholic theology this word has come to mean much the same as devil and denotes one of the evil spirits or fallen angels.

Demoniacs - Article concerned with the demonic possession in the New Testament.

Demonology - The science or doctrine concerning demons.

Dempster, Thomas - Savant, professor, and author. (1579-1625)

Denaut, Pierre - Tenth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Montreal, 20 July, 1743; d. at Longueuil in 1806.

Denes - An aboriginal race of North America, also called Athapaskans and known earlier among earlier ethnologists as Tinne or Tinneh.

Denifle, Heinrich Seuse - Paleographer and historian. (1844-1905)

Denis, Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael - Bibliographer and poet, b. at Schärding, Bavaria, 27 September, 1729; d. at Vienna, 29 Sept., 1800.

Denis, Joseph - The first Canadian to join the Recollects of the Friars Minor. (1657-1736)

Denis, Saint - Bishop of Paris, martyred along with his deacons Rusticus and Eleutherius in about 275.

Denman, William - Publisher, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 March, 1784; d. in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 12 September, 1870.

Denmark - History includes politics, religion, literary, and art.

Denonville, Seigneur and Marquis de - Governor of New France, born in 1638 at Denonville in the department of Eure-et-Loir, France; died 1710.

Dens, Peter - Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, 1690; d. at Mechlin, 15 February, 1775.

Denunciation - Making known the crime of another to one who is his superior.

Denver - A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fé, erected in 1887.

Denys the Carthusian, Blessed - Sometimes called the last of the Schoolmen, devoted to prayer, avid reader whose favorite author was Pseudo-Dionysius. Author of commentaries, sermons, and theological and philosophical treatises. He died in 1471.

Denza, Francesco - Italian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Naples, 7 June, 1834; d. at Rome, 14 December, 1894.

Denzinger, Heinrich Joseph Dominicus - Theologian of the modern Catholic German school and author of the "Enchiridion" universally used, b. 10 Oct., 1819, at Liege; d. 19 June, 1883.

Deo Gratias - An old liturgical formula of the Latin Church to give thanks to God for graces received.

Deposition - An ecclesiastical vindictive penalty by which a cleric is forever deprived of his office or benefice and of the right of exercising the functions of his orders.

Deprés, Josquin - Article about his life and work, especially the religious dynamic in his compositions.

Derbe - A titular see of Lycaonia, Asia Minor.

Dereser, Anton - Discalced Carmelite, born at Fahr in Franconia, 3 February, 1757; died at Breslau, 15 or 16 June, 1807.

Derogation - The partial revocation of a law, as opposed to abrogation or the total abolition of a law.

Derry - Includes nearly all the County Derry, part of Donegal, and a large portion of Tyrone, Ireland; it is a suffragan of Armagh.

Derry, School of - This was the first foundation of St. Columba, the great Apostle of Scotland, and one of the three patron saints of Ireland.

Desains, Paul-Quentin - Physicist, b. at St-Quentin, France, 12 July, 1817; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1885.

Desault, Pierre-Joseph - Surgeon and anatomist, b. at Magny-Vernois a small town of Franche-Comté, France, in 1744; d. 1 June, 1795.

Descartes, René - Philosopher and scientist, born at La Haye France, 31 March, 1596; died at Stockholm, Sweden, 11 February 1650.

Deschamps, Eustache - Also called Morel, on account of his dark complexion; b. at Vertus in Champagne between 1338 and 1340; d. about 1410.

Deschamps, Nicolas - Polemical writer, born at Villefranche (Rhône), France, 1797; died at Aix-en-Provence, 1872.

Desclée, Henri and Jules - Nineteenth-century Belgian monks.

Desecration - The loss of that peculiar quality of sacredness, which inheres in places and things in virtue of the constitutive blessing of the Church.

Desert - The word wilderness, which is more frequently used than desert of the region of the Exodus, more nearly approaches the meaning of the Hebrew.

Desertion - Brief explanation of the different situations to which this concept applies in canon law.

Deshon, George - Paulist priest, died in 1903.

Desiderius of Cahors, Saint - Bishop of Cahors, promoted monasticism, d. 655.

Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean - A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died there, 1676.

Despair - The voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one's soul and of having the means required for that end.

Despretz, César-Mansuète - Chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May, 1863.

Desservants - The name of a class of French parish priests.

Desurmont, Achille - Ascetical writer, b. at Tourcoing, France, 23 Dec., 1828; d. 23 July, 1898.

Determinism - A name employed by writers, especially since J. Stuart Mill, to denote the philosophical theory which holds, in opposition to the doctrine of free will, that all man's volitions are invariably determined by pre-existing circumstances.

Detraction - The unjust damaging of another's good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer.

Detré, William - French missionary. (b. 1668)

Detroit - Diocese established 8 March, 1838. Suffragan of Cincinnati.

Deus in Adjutorium Meum Intende - These words form the introductory prayer to every Hour of the Roman, monastic, and Ambrosian Breviaries, except during the last three days of Holy Week, and in the Office of the Dead.

Deusdedit, Cardinal - Joined the Benedictine Order and became a zealous promoter of ecclesiastical reforms in the latter half of the eleventh century.

Deusdedit, Pope Saint - Also known as Pope Adeodatus I, d. 618.

Deusdedit, Saint - First Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 664.

Deuteronomy - This term occurs in Deut., xvii, 18 and Jos., viii, 32, and is the title of one of the five books of the Pentateuch.

Deutinger, Martin - Philosopher and religious writer, b. in Langenpreising, Bavaria, 24 March, 1815; d. at Pfäfers, Switzerland, 9 Sept., 1864.

Devas, Charles Stanton - Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of Protestant parents, 26 August, 1848; d. 6 November, 1906.

Devereux, John C. - Irish immigrant to New York. (1774-1848)

Devereux, Nicholas - Born near Enniscorthy, Ireland, 7 June, 1791; died at Utica, New York, 29 Dec., 1855, was the youngest brother of John C. Devereux.

Devil - The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons. With the article (ho) it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, "the Devil and his angels".

Devil Worship - Fathers and theologians explain the matter as, the fallen angels besides tempting and assailing men in other ways have, by working on their fears or exciting their cupidity, brought them to give worship to themselves under the guise of idols.

Devolution - The right of an ecclesiastical superior to provide for a benefice, when the ordinary patron or collator has failed to do so, either through negligence or by the nomination of an improper candidate.

Devoti, Giovani - Canonist, born at Rome, 11 July, 1744; died there 18 Sept., 1820.

Deymann, Clementine - Priest and prison chaplain. Born at Klein-Stavern, Oldenburg, Germany, 24 June, 1844; died at Phoenix, Arizona.

Deza, Diego - Patron of Columbus. (1444-1523)

Dhuoda - Wife of Bernard, Duke of Septimania.

Diaconicum - In the Greek Church, the liturgical book specifying the functions of the deacon.

Diakovár - See of the Bishop of the united Dioceses of Bosnia or Diakovár and Syrmia.

Dialectic - Greek dialektike (techne or methodos), the dialectic art or method, from dialegomai I converse, discuss, dispute; as noun also dialectics; as adjective, dialectical.

Diamantina - Located in the north of the state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, South America; created under the Brazilian Empire, 10 Aug., 1853, and confirmed by the Holy See, 6 June, 1854.

Diana, Antonino - Moral theologian, born of a noble family at Palermo, Sicily, in 1586; died at Rome, 20 July, 1663.

Diano - Diocese and small city in the province of Salermo, Italy; the ancient Tegianum and seat of the Tegyani, a tribe of Lucania.

Diario Romano - A booklet published annually at Rome, with papal authorization, giving the routine of feasts and fasts to be observed in Rome and the ecclesiastical functions to be performed in the city.

Diarmaid, Saint - Brief biographies of two Irish saints of this name. The first mentioned was Archbishop of Armagh, and died in 851 or 852. The second, St. Diarmaid the Just, was a monastic founder and distinguished writer of the mid-sixth century.

Dias, Bartolomeu - A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth century, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope; died at sea, 29 May, 1500.

Diaspora - The name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through which the Jews were dispersed, and secondarily to the Jews living in those countries.

Díaz de Solís, Juan - Spanish navigator and explorer, b. about 1470.

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal - Spanish historian, one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, b. at Medina del Campo, Spain, c. 1498; d. after 1568.

Díaz, Pedro - Missionary, b. at Lupedo, Diocese of Toledo, Spain, in 1546; d. in Mexico, 12 Jan., 1618.

Dibon - A Latin titular see. The site is mentioned in Scripture, and is near Damascus.

Dicastillo, Juan de - Jesuit theologian. (1584-1653)

Dicconson, Edward - Titular Bishop of Malla, or Mallus, Vicar Apostolic of the English Northern District; b. 30 Nov., 1670; d. 5 May, 1752.

Diceto, Ralph de - Dean of St. Paul's, London, and chronicler.

Dichu, Saint - The son of an Ulster chieftain, was the first convert of St. Patrick in Ireland.

Dicuil - Irish monk and geographer, b. in the second half of the eighth century; date of death unknown.

Didache - A short treatise which was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture.

Didacus, Saint - Franciscan lay brother, d. 1463.

Didascalia Apostolorum - A treatise which pretends to have been written by the Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts, xv), but is really a composition of the third century.

Didon, Henri - Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isère), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse.

Didot - Preacher, writer, and educator, b. 17 March, 1840, at Touvet (Isère), France; d. 13 March, 1900, at Toulouse.

Didron, Adolphe-Napoleon - Also called Didron aîné; archaeologist; together with Viollet-le-Duc and Caumont, one of the principal revivers of Christian art in France; b. 13 March, 1806, d. 13 November, 1867.

Didymus the Blind - Layman, one of the principal opponents of Arianism. Born about 310-313; died about 395-398.

Diego y Moreno, Francisco Garcia - First bishop of California, b. 17 Sept., 1785, at Lagos in the state of Jalisco, Mexico; d. 30 April, 1846, at Santa Barbara.

Diekamp, Wilhelm - Historian, b. at Geldern, 13 May, 1854; d. at Rome, 25 Dec., 1885.

Diemoth - An old German word for the present "Demuth", the English "humility", was the name of a pious recluse at the monastery of Wessobrunn in Upper Bavaria, b. about 1060 of a noble Bavarian or Swabian family; d. 30 March, probably in 1130.

Diepenbeeck, Abraham van - An erudite and accomplished painter of the Flemish School, b. at Bois-le-Duc in the Netherlands, 1599; d. at Antwerp, 1675.

Diepenbrock, Melchior, Baron von - Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Breslau, b. 6 January, 1798, at Boeholt in Westphalia; d. at the castle of Johannisberg in Upper Silesia, 20 January, 1853.

Dieringer, Franz Xaver - Catholic theologian, b. 22 August, 1811, at Rangeningen (Hohenzollern-Hechingen); d. 8 September, 1876, at Veringendorf.

Dies Irae - Name by which the sequence in requiem Masses is commonly known.

Dietenberger, Johann - Theologian, b. about 1475 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, d. 4 Sept., 1537, at Mainz.

Diether of Isenburg - Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. about 1412; d. 7 May, 1482, at Aschaffenburg.

Dietrich von Nieheim - Born in the Diocese of Paderborn, between 1338 and 1340; d. at Maastricht, 22 March, 1418, a medieval German historian, best known for his contributions to the history of the Western Schism.

Digby, George - Second Earl of Bristol, b. at Madrid, Spam, where his father, the first earl, was ambassador, l612; d. at Chelsea, England, 1677.

Digby, Kenelm Henry - Writer, b. in Ireland, 1800; d. at Kensington, Middlesex, England, 22 March, 1880.

Digby, Sir Everard - Born 16 May, 1578, died 30 Jan., 1606. Succeeded in his fourteenth year to large properties in the Counties of Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland.

Digby, Sir Kenelm - Physicist, naval commander and diplomatist, b. at Gayhurst (Goathurst), Buckinghamshire, England, 11 July, 1603; d. in Covent Garden, Westminster, 11 June, 1665.

Digne - Diocese comprising the entire department of the Basses Alpes; suffragan of the Archbishopric of Aix.

Dignitary, Ecclesiastical - A member of a chapter, cathedral or collegiate, possessed not only of a foremost place, but also of a certain jurisdiction.

Dijon - Diocese comprising the entire department of Côte-d'Or and is a suffragan of Lyons.

Dillingen, University of - Located in Swabia, a district of Bavaria. Its founder was Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg (1543-1573).

Dillon, Arthur-Richard - A French prelate, b. at St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, 1721; d. in London, 1806.

Dimissorial Letters - Letters given by an ecclesiastical superior to his subjects to have effect in territory outside his jurisdiction.<