ARETINUS, Leonardus, III. 916.

ARGEBADUS, Archbishop of Narbonne, III. 49.

ARICHES, Duke of Beneventum, IV. 478.
ARIOSTO'S sepulchre, I. 837.

ARISTARCHUS on the few divine men, III. 672.
ARISTOTLE on the young, I. 117; on irony, 140; a re-
mark of De Haller on, 236; men who make revolu-
tions, 286; Natural History, 572; style of the first
prose writers of Greece, 586; on sickness, 764, two-
fold character of his writings, II. 65; on excess and
deficiency, 275; on sensual pleasures, 581; on slaves,
III. 96; on signs indicating the merciful, 273; philos-
ophy of, 486; influence discarded, 549; on traditions,
735; on contemplative life, IV. 45, 49; pays a high
price for a few books, 174; first translation of his
morals, 191.

ARLES, council of, II. 496; subterranean church of, IV.

161.

ARMANGOL, blessed Peter, IV. 627.

ARMANUR, abbot, to Louis VII, IV. 836.

ARMED persons not allowed to enter church, II. 114.
ARMS, profession of, III. 403; custom of wearing, 978.
ARMUNDAREZ, Don Lewis de, II. 452.
ARNALDUS, imprisonment of, III. 66.
ARNOLD of Brescia, III. 146.
ARNOLD, a Dominican, III. 1115.

ARNOLD, Archbishop of Treves. III. 1052, 1096.
ARNOLD of Villeneuve, III. 505.

ARNOLD refused to be abbot, III. 918.
ARNOLDUS, I. 99.

ARNOUX St., III. 1076.

ARNULF to St. Thomas, III. 877; IV. 763; 767.
ARNULPH of Flanders, I. 781

ARNULPH, Archbishop of Rheims, IV. 447.
ARNULPH, abbot of Villa Moutiers, II. 268.

ARNULPH, abbot of Villiers, IV. 209.

ARNULPH of Lotharingia, I. 133.

ARROWS, use of forbidden by a council, III. 1003.
ARTAXERXES exempted priests from taxes, II. 438.
ARTESIAN wells, origin of, IV. 106.
ART, historic and decorative in churches, I. 450; has

felt the loss of the religious sentiment, 475; of de
sign in the middle ages, 475; dignified by the
Church, 477; indebted to Christian festivals, II.
184; in the ages of faith, 669; in monasteries, IV
119. 120, 121.

ARTHUR, Prince, popular admiration of, I. 301.
ARTISTS, Catholic and non-Catholic, I. 172; theological
lore of, II. 258.

ASCELIN, prior of Ouches, IV. 429.

ASCELIN, Seigneur of Marly-la-Ville, IV. 500.
ASCENSION, festival of, II. 160, 190, 191.
ASCETIC writers, 1 619.

ASCETICS, why so called, IV. 31.

ASELLA, description of by St. Jerome, I. 704.
ASHES a symbol of penitence, I. 792.
ASSAROTTI, Octavius, III. 328.
ASSEMBLIES, Plato on, I. 273; Government by, 273.
ASSENT of the good to evil things deplorable, II. 301.
ASSOCIATION, Christian origin of, I. 331.
ASSUMPTION of the B. V. M., festival of, II. 160.
ASTORG, a monk, III. 381.

ASTERUS St., sermons of, I. 200.

ASTI, city of, II. 273.

ASTRIA, romance of, I. 515.

ASTROLOGERS condemned by Pope Innocent, I. III.
685, predictions of, 710.

ASTROLOGY forbidden, III. 683; 719. Picus on, 718.
ASTRONOMY, Plato on the study of, I. 584.
ASYLUM, privileges of, II. 440.

ASYLUMS for the poor unknown to the ancients, III.
306, 307.

ATHANASIUS St.,on fasting, I. 705; on the ecclesiastical

day, II. 44; humility of, 479; excused Origen, III.

ATHEISM refuted by St. Anselm, III. 534.
ATHENIAN students, IV. 334.
ATHENIANS, restlessness ascribed to, III. 796.
ATONEMENT of Jesus Christ, II. 697.
ATTICUS, character of, II. 576.
ATTICUS, Bishop of Constantinople, I. 66.
ATT LA and St. Loup, I. 428.
ATTO, Bishop of Troyes, III. 255.
ATTOLE of Rheims, III. 315.
AUBISSEL, Robert de, III. 22.
AUBRUSSEL, Robert de, l' IV. 92.
AUDIN on the popes bull against Luther, IV. 761; on the
reformers, 820.
AUGUSTINE St., of Canterbury, miracles of, III. 662.
AUGUSTIN St., force of example, I. 18; on poverty, 41;

recommends stated offerings to the clergy, 61; wil-
lingness to learn, 75; reflections attributed to, 133;
"What is it to be happy," 145; effects of conver-
sion, 145; gives the title "holy" to a Donatist, 171; on
faith and will, 188; the Church, 197; the See of
Rome, 201: praying for kings, 225; happy princes,
247; the chief good of man, 279; the meek and the
proud, 347; on evil, 349; house in which he was
baptized, 374; relics of, 462; nature and the wants of
the soul, 496; fiction, 513; appropriation of pagan
learning by Christians, 540; used the writings of a
Donatist, 542; study of languages, 542; diffusion of
the latin language, 543; warning to studious youth,
579; the latin language, 590; reason for studying in
Rome, 632; Christian order, 650; death of Dido, 662;
mourning, 671; gift of science, 677; the bonds of this
life, 687; temptation of the young, 690; penance, 701;
last judgment, 707; names of Cain and Abel, 713;
on death, 755; contrast between Adam and Job,
762; the spirits of the dead appearing to the living,
769; on burial, 808; vision of the dead, 809; prayer
for the dead, 817; his mother's death, 817; thirst of
the soul, II. 20; temporal things cannot satisfy the
soul,22; man's chief good, 28; ceremonies,37; argu-
ment against the pelagians, 39; prayer, 68; music,
102; attitude in prayer, 111; the dust of the dead,
161; refutes the Manicheans, 162; the Blessed
Virgin Mary, 199; pretended love of justice,297; un-
worthy Christians, 299; remark of, 314; justice, 322;
Christ and Peter, 428; letter to Felicia, 457; the
priest's house, 465; made no will, 465; whom he
would not ordain, 467; simplicity of his life, 478; fine
raiment, 478; Catholic preachers, 528; satirical quo-
tation from,537; reputation in preaching,544; Roman
morals, 573; the flesh and the spirit, 579; remission
of sins, 583; appeal to a sinner, 605; our Lord's
mercy, 607; Christian charity and ancient heroism,
623; justice, 660; the will, 681; evil choice, 688; fear
of eternal punishment, 687, merits of the just,
689; charity, III. 10, 12, 20; the Meanicheans, 17; in-
scription over his table, 32; faith and charity, 34;
suspicion, 38; judging charitably, 43; mercy and jus-
tice, 51; clemency, 57; punishment for crime, 58;
slavery, 99; heretical opposition, 132; on meaning
of divine scriptures, 151; on charity of the Church,
153; intercedes for the donatists, 156; remonstrates
with St. Jerome, 157, 158; duty of Catholic princes,
188; patience, 208; alms, 250; hospitals, 307; original
rectitude, 375; love of God, 399; sin, 430; ignorance,
431; Seneca. 434; seeking truth, 437; prevailing
customs, 439; certainty of knowledge, 443; those
who exercise not their own will, 449; ploscphy,512;.
and Faustus, 528; Michelet on, 533; heretics, 534;
avoiding certain discussions, 540; Natural philoso-
phy, 547; knowledge of things. 550; individual ren-
son, 552; authority of the Church, 556; the disci-
ples of Socrates, 561; faith and reason, 564; the soul,
567; the will of God, 571; modesty, 580; vir-

tue,585; interpretation of the ten lepers,595; correct
use of words, 596; not satisfied with his own words,
607; heresy, 611; God's foreknowledge, 611; muta-
bility and unity, 612; teaching of the holy Fathers,
615; the unconverted, 633; the presence of God, 635;
the beauties of nature, 633, love of God, 637; eter-
nal felicity, 638; Natural and spiritual knowledge,
641; testimony regarding miracles, 661, 664, 668;
faith, 670; the works of God, 671; evil spirits, 708;
Plato, 738; the Scriptures, 746, 750; the Eucharist,
767; humility, 770; seeing God, 776; Cain, 791; peace,
811, 830, 873, 947; war for conquest, 821; tolera-
tion, 858; fall of our first parents, 864; justice and
peace, 874; opinions which should not be held, 914;
on the Roman Pontiffs, 946; influence of christian-
ity, 973; war, 992; contrast between those who love
God, and those who love the world, IV. 218; love of
the world, 235; leisure and necessity, 361; eremitical
life, 520; the Eight Beatitudes, 544; iniquity, 547;
the force of charity, 570; tribulation, 573; meri-
torious suffering, 583; beauty and fortitude, 584;
prosperity of the evil and suffering of the good,
606; the misery of the human race, 607; profligate
men, 640; necessity, 641; martyrdom, 659; troubles
within the Church, 662; division among christians,
663; why the evil perverts the good, 665; scandals,
667; insults to christians, 683; lukewarm christians,
684; evil suspicions, 689; rejecting Christ, 691; warn-
ing the worldly, 692; christian truth, 798; how to
treat heretics, 800; sensualism, 801; heresy, 804;
carnal hostility to spiritual men, 829; on unjust
men, 862; on enemies of the Church, 863; the future
world, 864; affection, 869; charity, 876; what is
Christ's,884; beauty of truth,887; wisdom not denied
to nature, 889; on variety, 891, 896; ungrateful men,
898; zeal of converts, 902.

AUGUSTINIANS, I. 553.

AUGUSTUS, Ceasar, his abstinence, I. 702.
AUMONT, John, his treatise on prayer, I. 58.
AURORA of Guido, II. 152.

AURRE, John, IV. 705.

AUSTERITIES, corporal, I. 699.

AUTHORITY respected by the ancients, I. 221; St. Paul
on, 225; rejection of, II. 674; renounced, III. 560; to
be mildly exercised, IV. 756.

AUTHORS of the middle ages, II. 643.

AUTHOR'S, the, thoughts on the completion of his work,
IV. 867; his apology, 873.

AUVERNE, Martial de, epitaph of, II. 343.
AVARICE, St. Bernard on, II. 561.

AVELLIN, St. Andrew, I. 598, IV. 676.

AVERROES, III. 486.

AVENTINE St., his protection of animals, IV. 531.
AVICENNA, III. 456.

AVILA, Father de, advice to an official, I. 231; public and
private duty, 310; or thanks to God in adversity,
675.
AVITUS St., poet and prelate, I. 527, 588, II. 195, 240, 522,
543, 664, 694; advises against taking from heretics
their places of worship, III. 156; protects Jews, 183;
judicial combats,719; the evils of this world, 791; op-
poses judgment by single combat, 911; the priest's
country, 985; IV. 178; and king Gundobadus, 556.
AYLWIN, count, at the abbey of Ramsey, II. 261.
AYSTULPHUS' gift to a monastery, IV. 479.
AZZO IV., II. 555.

AZZO V., II. 555.

AZZO, Marquis of Este, III. 1063.

BAADER'S reflections, I. 491; description of man since
the fall, II. 28.

BABOLEIN St., I. 491.
BABYLON, III. 561.

BACON, Lord, on young men, I. 121; on subservient
philosophers, 239; on reasons of state, 250; on
nature without religion, 497; on perversion of
learning, 565; on doubt, 577; fit piaces for learning,

613; effect of affirmations, III. 147; influence of on
philosophy, III. 545; reason in relation to religion,
565; physics, 642.

BACON, Roger, I. 583; III. 487, 498, 546, 650.
BADAM, Didacus, tomb of, IV. 164.
BADORIAN family at Venice, III. 279, 678.
BAIER, Ulrich, death of. I. 787.
BAIGNART Gilles, III. 72.
BALALUD and Duke Robert, III, 72.
BALANCE of power, II. 324.
BALARAN Seigneur de, III. 67.
BALBULUS, Notker, III. 843.
BALDERIC St., IV. 64.

BALDWIN, Count of Flanders, protects the poor, I. 304;
II. 245; 262.

BALDWIN, Archbishop of Treves, III. 1047.
BALLIN John, IV. 162.
BALZAC, Charles de, bishop of Noyon, I. 629.
BAMBERG, protected by a silk thread, III. 951.
BANDARED, Bishop of Soissons, IV. 782.
BANGOR despoiled by the Danes, IV. 109.
BANQUETS forbidden to the clergy, II. 484.
BAPTISM, exorcism used in, II. 39.
BAPTIST of Faensa, IV. 298.
BAPTIST, John of Florence, III. 123.
BAPTIST, the Mantuan, III. 726; IV. 47.
BAPTISTRY at Florence, I. 448.
BARBADORUS, Donatus, III. 955.
BARBAROSSA spares the Cathedral of Milan, I. 483; and
Rhainaldo Azzo, III. 554.
BARBARUS Hermolaus, II. 461.
BARBETUS St., IV. 656.
BARCELONA, IV. 44.

BARNABY of Terne, established the first mount of
Piety, IV. 459.

BARON, a Celtic or Greek word, I. 297.
BARON, Vincent, III. 91..

BARONIAL halls, simple hospitality of, II. 31.
BARRIENTOS, Lopez de, III.338.

BARTH, Herman, master of the Teutonic order, III. 253.
BARTHA, mother of St. Eberhard, II. 128.
BARTHOLOMEW, the Dominican artist, I. 475.
BARTHOLOMEW de Martyribus, III. 53.
BARTHOLOMEW St., massacre of, III. 186; IV. 807.
BASSENHIEM, Henry Walpot von, III. 343.
BASIL St., poverty of, I. 52, on rudeness, 169; on evil,
348; student life of, 378; Hexameron of, 492; Homer
and the Pythagoreans, 540; on death, 756; to a
mourning father, 806; on Lent, II. 157; simplicity
of his life, 479; his faith, III. 556; denounces for-
tune tellers, 679; on dying bequests, III. 302; on
reading the scriptures, 746; directed that monas-
teries be near cities, IV. 57; on solitude, 59.
BASILICA, of St. Vitale, I. 447; of Santa Croce, at Flor-
ence, 448; of St. Paul, 472; why so called, 482; its
significance, II. 603.

BASLE St., and the hunted beast, I. 493.
BASSIO Matthiew de, III. 52, and the usurer, 244, 297;
IV. 462.

BASTON, poet of Edward 1st, I. 522.
BATHILDA St., II. 393, 400.
BATHILDE, wife of Clovis, II. III. 102.
BATTLE of Brenneville, III. 127.
BAUDRIBOSC, release of, III. 74.
BAVON St., III. 106.

BAYARD, (Bayart) friendship inspired by, I. 642; illness
of, 764; on kingdoms without justice, II. 322 ; and
his host, 346; character of, 353; his generosity, III.

128.

BAYLON, St. Paschal, IV. 838.
BAZADOIS, seige of, I. 383.
BEADS, derivation of the name, II. 112.
BEAN, the forbidden food to the Pythagoreans, I. 678.
BEARN, Gaston de, III. 154.
BEATITUDES in practice, II. 333; philosophy of. III.
516.

BEATON, cardinal, death of, IV. 807.
BEATRIX of Milan, tomb of, III. 1074.
BEATRIX of Nazareth, III. 773.
BEATRIX, duchess of Tuscany, II. 400.
BEAUFORT Ferrand, lady of, II. 392.
BEAULIEU, Geoffry de, III. 54, 419.
BEAUMANOIR, Philip de, III. 944.

BEAUTY, Greek expression of, I. 173; the splendor
of truth, II. 80; material opposed to spiritual, 550;
external, III. 378; Plato on, 634.

BEQUESTS to communities or associated bodies forbid-
den by Roman pagan law, IV. 468.

BERENGER tolerated, III. 153; character of, 747, 761;
and St. Hugo of Lincoln, 762.
BERGAMO in A. D. 707, III. 924.
BERGOMAO, Justinian, II. 695.
BERNAGE abolished, IV. 242.

BERNARD, Bishop of Paderborn, III. 1099.
BERNARD, Brother, III. 33.
BERNARD of Cluni, I. 517.

192.

BEAUMONT, Roger de, IV. 295.
BECCHI, William, I. 584.

BEDE, ven. the church and the world, I. 225; the Irish
schools, 603; St. Hilda's death, 795; on adopting
pagan customs, II 42; the clergy in England, 437;
his prodigious learning, III. 473; the moon's
influence on the tides, 650; knowledge of scriptures,
750; his youthful studies, IV. 202; never left his
abbey, 427; on persecution, 862.

BEERE, Richard, abbot of Glastonbury, IV. 368.
BEES, afford a model of civil government, I. 242.
BEGGAR a, teaches a great theologian, I. 58.

BEGGARS, circle of, III. 248.

BELGIANS, Savedra on, I. 265.

BELIAL, meaning of the name, III. 893.

BELL of the Florentines, III. 126.
BELL-RINGER of Notre Dame, I. 481.
BELLARMINE, what he desired his soul to possess, I.168;
on the people, 270; controversial works of,
555 mourning of Christians, 838; on our fear of
the opinion of others, II. 249; property of the
clergy, 468 generous to the poor, III. 268.
BELLINI, gentil, III. 423.
BELLS, of Paris, I. 371; their use and significance,

442; removed by heretics from churches, 443;
tolled for the dying and the dead, 807; of St.
Stephen, II. 118; of the abbey of St. Bartholomew,
119; inscriptions on, 119; varied sounds of, 119; of
Strasbourg, 120.

BENASCO, Gandulphus de, II. 528.
BENEDICT XI., III. 1086, 1089.

BENEDICT XIII., III. 70, 89, 281, 331, 349, 721.
BENEDICT XIV., on daily celebration of Mass, II.
56; censures the use of profane music, 101.
BENEDICT, a monk of Cluny, IV. 392.
BENEDICT St., on school discipline, I. 617; a painting

of, 693; night vigils of, II. 49 on vespers, 58;
prescribes hospitality, 483; gives the last vessel of
oil to the poor, III. 270; and Totila, 1102; birth
of, IV. 213; rule of, 214; and the youth, 342; fore-
sees evil times, 393; and Totila,452; slandered, 676.
BENEDICT St., of Aniana, II. 62; enfranchised many
serfs, 108.

BENEDICTINE monastery, IV. 52.
BENEDICTINE monk, form of subscribing his engage

ment, IV. 214; labors in the 7th century, 362; in
the forests of Germany, 367.
BENEDICTINE monks resist a reform, IV. 673.
BENEDICTINE order, IV. 193.
BENEDICTINE rule, mild and beneficent, I. 189;
schools, 602; schools in Germany, 634.
BENEDICTINES, founders of cities, I. 352; in the 11th
century, 545; historical works of, 550 zeal in behalf
of slaves, III. 105; promote agriculture, 649.
BENEDICTION cited by Mabillon, II. 244.
BENEDICTIONAL, a, of the 10th century, I. 475.
BENEFACTORS of churches to be remembered in
divine service, I. 456.

BENEFICES, plurality of, II. 464.

BENEZET St., III. 333.

BENIGN, a Scottish priest, I. 107.

BENINCASA, Ursula, III. 400.

BENTIVOGLIO John, III. 969.

BEOWOLF, his celebrated poem, I. 528.

:

BERNARD, Peter, rebukes Henry II., IV. 792.
BERNARD St., on riches, I. 41; on fervor, 101; youth of,
128; on the proud, 146; submission to God's will,
152; on A bailard, 164; sweet gracious look of, 172 ;
on self-will, 186; the human will, 187; free will,
188; the Pope's jurisdiction, 202, wrote to Conrad,
211; denounces the circulation of dangerous works,
289; church edifices, 481; holy places, 505; his ser-
mons,544; Plato and Abailard, 591; letter to Guido
de Castella, 648; new novices, 664; sorrow end
consolation, 688; resurrection from sin, 689; converts
the Duke of Guienne, 728, love of country, 731 ;
worldly attractions, II. 24; and Heloisa, 34; prayer
at night, 48; a procession, 88; church music,
97; lenten fast, 158; sermon on the Nativity, 192;
on salvation through Mary, 200; on love of God,
277; in Milan, 437; condemned secular vanities in
those who held benefices, 481; his preaching, 513; on
avarice, 561; the conversion of Arnulphus, 591 ;the
order of charity, III. 15: on mercy, 19; our
Lord's compassion, 22; detraction, 29 ;his wish, 35;
rash judgments. 37; his work De consideratione,
54; to Pope Eugene, 59,156; to Pope Innocent, 59,121;
to the Genoese, 70; to Thibaud, 121 ; sin, 134; Gerard
of Augoulemee, 147; letter to Alard, 152; defends and
protects Jews, 182; justifies war against the Mahome-
tans, 190; letter to his nephew Robert, 214; to the
countess of Blois, 218; virtue in a noble person,229;
on want of affection,250; letter to the people of Tou-
louse, 291; to the abbess of Taverney, 310; purity of
heart, 370, 376; the carnal and spiritual, 373; Christ
in our souls, 386;contemplation,395; love of God,400;
on neglecting to learn or to know, 431; to Bishop
Gillbert, 442;pretenders to truth, 443; and Abailard,
479, 481, 619; papal infallibility, 591; and St.
Thomas, 620; man's dignity, 628; miracles of, 662;
the Real Presence, 761; on visions, 772; de-
nounces warfare, 827; peace, 873; against conten-
tion, 912, 913; vast influence of, 1103; IV. 20, 31;
monastic life, 36, 37; admonition to monks, 45;
establishes a monastery, 96; cell of, 111; grotesque
art, 122; writes an apology, 147; forbearance of,
218; on silence, 224; observance of the rule, 227;
monastic abuses, 233; monastic exemptions, 235;
monastic cookery, 237; worldly abbots, 241;
monks, 249; advice to Hugo, 268; pleasures of
the world, 285; virtues in noblemen, 296; con
verts young visitors to Clairvaux, 300; the at-
tractions of his monastery, 409; grief on the death of
his brother Gerard, 419; desires to remain in his
monastery, 428; letter of, 431; the monks of
Cluny, 432; defender of an abbot, 445; on Theo-
bald, 665.

BERNARDINE St., of Monte Feltro, II. 516, 525, 527,
535, 538; III. 1113.
BERNARDINE St., of Sienna, preaching of, II. 514, 532,
535, 543; on compassion, 605; on the Eight
Beatitudes, 681; on mercy, III. 95, 151; human
errors, 430; the teaching of our Lord, 515; cleanness
of heart, 630; love of God, 637 on visions, 674;
visions of God, 777; peace, 815; as peacemaker, 1111;
and St. Vincent Ferrer, IV. 434; the Eight Beati-
tudes, 595; at school, 643; use of an offering, 652;
persecuted, 685, 689; voluntary poverty, 829; heaven,
863.

BERNE, ancient law of, III. 892.

BERNWARD St., Bishop of Hildesheim, IV. 268.

BERRY, Duc de, character of, I. 174.

BERTA, wife of Adalbert, II. 399.

BERTHEVIN, Lady of, II. 393.

BERULLE, Cardinal de, assists in building his church

with his own hands, I. 417.

BERTA, Thomas de, III. 267.

BERTHALDUS of Ratisbon, II. 521.
BESTHIER on the wonderful, III. 660.

BERTILLA St., Scriptural lectures of, IV. 194.
BERTOLD, a Dominican, III. 420.

BERTRAND, St. Louis, III. 260.

BERTRAND, Bishop, III. 908.

BERTRAND, surnamed Cutsteel, III. 1010.

BESSARION, Cardinal, I. 612.

BETHLEMITE brethren, vow of, III. 343.

BIBLE, Alcuin's III. 751; Charles the Bald's, 751; fre-
quently presente as a valuable gift, 751; studied
by laymen, 731.

BIRNSTAN, Bishop of Winchester, I. 798.
BIREL John, IV. 653.

BIRTH, noble, respect for, I. 301.

BIRTHDAYS, I. 689.

BISHOP, a, works in disguise, as a laborer, II. 469.
BISHOPS, exempt from lay supervision, I. 65; superior
knowledge of, 232; took precedence of princes, II.
265; jurisdiction of, 431; coadjutors of, 432;
external marks of dignity, 432; of the middle ages,
412; of foreign birth, 443; obligations of, 449;
of Spain, 452; why dukedoms and baronies were
conferred on them, 458 evils incident to tem-
poral honors, 453; of Italy in the 10th century,
460; renounced property on their consecration, 465 ;
who practiced manual labor, 469; sat in ancient
parliaments, 470; ministers of kings, 471; chief
officers of state in Germany, 472; frugality of, 480;
hospitality of, 482-484; liberality of, III. 265–267;
Government Missions, 946; of foreign birth, 986;
and commoners, 1044; power bestowed on by the last
Roman emperors, 1045; who built castles remon-
strated with. 1050; of France A. D. 858, 1076; and
monks, IV. 444; benefactors of convents, 446; make
retreats in monasteries, 448; return to monaster-
ies, 449; usage at funerals, 449 resisted King
Sigismond, 773.

BIZZONIO, Marc. Antonio, III. 268.

BLACK PRINCE, generous response of, 1. 239.
BLAITHMAIC St., abbot, IV. 781.

BLANCHE, Queen II. 383, 392.

BLASILLO, death of, II. 390.

BLIERS' St., childhood, I. 108.

BLINDNESS, intellectual, chief sources of, III. 442.
BLOIS, Louis de, on humility, I. 74; christian writers, 95;
character of, 100; rules for the direction of studies,
103; sensible delights, 150; possessing God, 488;
use of the crucifix, 509; God's way of answering
prayer, 681; tribulation, 688; grief for sin, 691.
BLONDEL on the false decretals, I. 207.
BLOOD, priests must not be connected with judgments
of, IV. 755.

BLOODSHED, abhorred by the Church, III. 832.
BOABDIL'S last view of Granada, II. 139.

BOCCACIO'S Decameron, II. 306.

BODIN, John, III. 510.

BODIES of saints remarkably preserved.

BOEMOND, description of his person, I. 174; vow of,468;

IV. 261.

BOEMOND, Archbishop of Treves. III. 053.

BOETHIUS, III. 473; IV. 598.

BOLESLAS II., King of Poland, IV. 648.

BOLESLAS IV., King of Poland, I. 477.
BOLINGBROKE, on Plato, IV. 684.
BOLOGNA, I. 408; II. 316, 337.

BONA, Cardinal, influence of church ritual, I. 146; reason
why people prayed in the church with their face

towards the east, 437; office for the dead, 818; the
vesper hour, II. 57; ecclesiastibal song, 1;0; exter-
nal reverence in church, 111; the sacerdotal office,
463; the Mass, 696; dreamy, III. 725.
BONALD, on reasoning and sentiment, I. 29; religion,
195, 223; religion and government, 244; civil and re-
ligious laws, 245; the philosophy of a people, 247;
paternal and fraternal principles in society, 267 ; on
slavery to public opinion, 277; men of the middle
ages, 418; christian laws, II. 172; Rationalists, 276;
truth and reason, III. 564; modern philosophy, 588;
divine law, 589; the Church, 616; military service,
994; instruction for youth, IV. 201.
BONATUS, Guido, IV. 307.
BONAVENTURA St., on the poverty of Jesus Christ, I.
50; how he received his Cardinal's hat, 53; love of
poverty, 60; the life of Jesus, 109; cheerfulness of,
138; advises to avoid contradiction, 144; blessings
of the humble, 147; dryness and fervor, 149; offered
the Archbishoprick of York, 555; duty of school-
masters, 617; mourning, 696 ; the passion of Christ,
696; change of place, 713; instructions to pilgrims,
732; sensible pleasures in church, II. 129; motives
for repairing to church, 131; proper mode of life,
150; the ascension, 190; Ave Maria, 201;human pas-
sions, 273; those who misrepresent virtues, 276; false
prudence, 277; zeal, 279; the death of St. John the
Baptist, 290; the priest's functions, 462; preaching
of, 514; self-love, 565; adherence to truth, (30; love
of your neighbor, 663; teaching of the Apostles,
679; Grace through Christ, 635; charity, III. 11;
judging our neighbor, 37, 41; assisting the sick, 353;
conversion and penitence, 387; love of God. 399,
427; piety, 451; knowledge, 453; sketch of, 490; pro-
fundity of, 535; humility of, 580; the intellect, 585:
divine things, 587 his varied powers, 619; Provi-
dence, 658; wrote two copies of the Scriptures, 751;
love of God,777; war, 797; peace, 855, 871; temporal
things, IV. 33; where he wrote, 80; inscription on
his tomb, 162; life of Christ, 202; desire to console,
338; philosophy, 382; Murillo's picture of, 396; honor
paid to the rich, 467; patience, 569, 753; Christ's pas-
sion, 572.

BONIFACE St., describes the early life of St. Livinus, I.

107; instruction in politeness, 165; obedience, 187;
declares the authority of the Roman Church, 202;
letter to Pope Stephen, I. 202; place where he was
martyred, 429; letter to Baldhard, 646; troubles of
his mission, 692; relates a terrible vision, 768;
among the Saxons, II. 494; flogged by his mother,
III. 276; statutes of, 685; Fulda, IV. 64; martyrdom
of, 621.

BONIFACE St., chaplain of the Emperor Otho, IV.
624.

BONIFACE St., Counts of, II. 548.
BONIFACE, Sybilla, III. 213.
BONIFACE, Duke of Tuscany, IV. 140.
BONIFACE VIII. Pope, struck by a Colonna, I. 217; stor-
ies of his death, III. 494; condemned the Fratracelli,
700 jubilee granted by, 885; nrges King Edward to
peace, 1091; Bull of, IV. 693; to Philip le Bel, 760.
BONITUS St., III. 105.
BONNET, Dom, IV. 365.
BONONIUS, IV. 501.
BONVISIA, John, II. 551.

BOOKS, value of, I. 18; of the middle ages, 29; of piety,
called joyous books, 138; best for a prince, 249;
of hours, contain lessons in agriculture, 494; gen-
erally bound by monks in the middle ages, 550;
ordered to be cast in the sca, 555; old and modern
compared, 562; eulogy on, IV. 173; pleasure in pur-
chasing, 175; care of, 183; a preservative for, 184;
writing of at St. Gall, 187; skillful transcribers of,
187.
BOOKSELLERS and printers deemed honorable, I. 339;
at the time of the Reformation, III. 449.