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  • Zanzibar: At a very remote unknown period the eastern coast of
  • Zapoteca Indians: A powerful and numerous Mexican tribe located chiefly in
  • Zara: (JADERA). Located in Dalmatia.
  • Zarai: Titular see of Numidia in Africa, mentioned by the "Itinerarium Antonini", 35, and ...
  • Zarlino, Gioseffe: Italian musical theorist, born at Chioggia in 1517; died at Venice, 4 ...
  • Zasius, Ulric: A famous jurist, born at
  • Zeal: (From delos , a derivative of deo "to boil", to "throb with heat"), is "a ...
  • Zegers, Nicholas Tacitus: Famous exegete, born either at Diest or
  • Zela: Titular see of
  • Zell, Karl: Statesman, philologist, and defender of the rights of the Church, b. at ...
  • Zell, Ulrich: Publisher, the first printer of Cologne, born at Hanau-on-the-Main, date ...
  • Zengg-Modrus: (SEGNIENSIS ET MOD-RUSIENSIS SEU CORBAVIENSIS). Located in
  • Zeno of Elea: Greek philosopher, born at Elea, about 490 B.C. At his birthplace Xenophanes and ...
  • Zeno, Saint: Entered in the Roman
  • Zenobius, Saint: Bishop of
  • Zenonopolis: Titular see of
  • Zephaniah: The ninth of the twelve
  • Zephyrinus, Pope Saint: (Reigned 198-217). Date of birth unknown; died 20 Dec., 217. ...
  • Zephyrium: A titular see in Cilicia Prima, of Tarsus. Nothing is known of the history of ...
  • Zeugma: A titular see of Syria, suffragan of Hierapolis, in the Province of the ...
  • Zeuss, Johann Kaspar: Born at Vogtendorf, in Upper Franconia, 22 July, 1806; d. there, 10 Nov., 1856. He ...
  • Ziegelbauer, Magnoald: Historian, born at Ellwangen, Swabia, 1689; died at Olmütz, 14 January, 1750. ...
  • Ziegler, Gregorius Thomas: Bishop of Linz, born at Kirchheim near Augsburg, 7 March, 1770; died at Linz, 15 ...
  • Zierikzee, Cornelius van: Born at Zierikzee (whence he takes his surname), a town in the Province of ...
  • Zigliara, Tommaso Maria: ( Baptismal name, FRANCESCO). Cardinal, theologian, and ...
  • Zimmer, Patrick Benedict: Philosopher and theologian, b. at Abtsgmund, Wurtenberg, 22 Feb., 1752; d. at ...
  • Zingarelli, Niccolò Antonio: Composer, born at Naples, 4 April, 1752; died at Torre del Greco, 5 May, 1837. ...
  • Zingerle, Pius: Celebrated Orientalist, born at Meran, in the Tyrol, 17 March, 1801; died at the ...
  • Zionists: Zionists are ...
  • Zionites: A sect of visionary fanatics which flourished in the eighteenth century at ...
  • Zips: (SZEPES; SCEPUSIENSIS). A
  • Zircz: ZIRCENSIS or BOCCON. Cistercian abbey, situated in the
  • Zita's Home for Friendless Women, Saint: Founded at 158 East 24th Street, New York, by Ellen O'Keefe (Mother Zita) in 1890. ...
  • Zita, Saint: Model and heavenly patroness of domestic servants, born early in the thirteenth ...
  • Zoara: A titular see of Palestina Tertia. It is the ancient Bala or Segor, one of the ...
  • Zoega, Jörgen: (GEORGE). Archaeologist and numismatist, born at Daler near ...
  • Zolkiewski, Stanislaus: Chancellor of Poland, born in Tuyrnka (Red
  • Zonaras, John: Byzantine chronicler and canonist, lived from the latter part of the eleventh to ...
  • Zoque Indians: A Mexican tribe dwelling in the western part of Chipas, north of the Sierra Madre, ...
  • Zosimus: Byzantine historian of the fifth and sixth century; dates of birth and death ...
  • Zosimus, Pope Saint: (Reigned 417-18). Year of birth unknown; died 27 December, ...
  • Zuñi Indians: A Pueblo tribe residing at Zuñi on the bank of the Rio Zuñi near the ...
  • Zucchetto: ( zucca , head). The small, round skullcap of the ...
  • Zulia, Diocese of: (Zuliensis.) Comprises the State of Zulia in the Republic of Venezuela. The
  • Zululand: A territory in South
  • Zumárraga, Juan de: Born at
  • Zurbaran, Francisco: Born in the suburb of Fuente de Cantos in Estramadure, on the boundaries of ...
  • Zurich: The capital of the Swiss canton of the same name which is the second largest and ...
  • Zurla, Giacinto Placido: Cardinal Vicar ...
  • Zwettl: (CLARAVALLIS AUSTRIAE). A filiation of Heiligenkreuz, of the ...
  • Zwingli, Ulrich: (Also, Huldreich ) Founder of the Reformation in ...
  • Zwirner, Ernst Friedrich: Architect, born at Jakobswalde in
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