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• Luçon: Diocese of Luçon (Lucionensis). Embraces the ...
• Lublin: DIOCESE OF LUBLIN (LUBLINENSIS). The city of Lublin is in ...
• Luca, Giovanni Battista de: A Cardinal and Italian canonist of the seventeenth century, ...
• Lucas, Frederick: A member of Parliament and journalist, b. in Westminster, 30 ...
• Lucca: ARCHDIOCESE OF LUCCA (LUCENSIS). Lucca, the capital of the ...
• Lucera: DIOCESE OF LUCERA (LUCERINENSIS). Lucera is a very ancient ...
• Lucerne: Chief town of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The ...
• Lucian of Antioch: A priest of the Church of Antioch who suffered martyrdom ...
• Lucic, John: (Or LUCIUS) Croatian historian, b. early in the seventeenth ...
• Lucifer: ( Hebrew helel ; Septuagint heosphoros , Vulgate lucifer ...
• Lucifer of Cagliari: (LUCIFER CALARITANUS) A bishop, who must have been born in ...
• Lucina, Crypt of: The traditional title of the most ancient section of the ...
• Lucius I, Pope Saint: Reigned 253-254; died at Rome, 5 March, 254. After the death ...
• Lucius II, Pope: (Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso) Born at Bologna, unknown ...
• Lucius III, Pope: (Ubaldo Allucingoli) Born at Lucca, unknown date ; died at ...
• Lucy, Saint: A virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast ...
• Ludger, Saint: (Lüdiger or Liudger) Missionary among the Frisians and ...
• Ludmilla, Saint: Wife of Boriwoi, the first Christian Duke of Bohemia, b. at ...
• Ludolph of Saxony: (Ludolph the Carthusian ). An ecclesiastical writer of ...
• Ludovicus a S. Carolo: (LUDOVICUS JACOB) Carmelite writer, b. at ...
• Lueger, Karl: A burgomaster of Vienna, Austrian political leader and ...
• Lugo: DIOCESE OF LUGO (LUCENSIS) Diocese in Galicia, Spain, a ...
• Lugo, Francisco de: Jesuit theologian, b. at Madrid, 1580; d. at Valladolid, 17 ...
• Lugo, John de: Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, one of the most eminent ...
• Lugos: Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Fogaras and Alba Julia of ...
• Luini, Bernardino: Milanese painter, b. between 1470 and 1480; d. after 1530. The ...
• Luke, Gospel of Saint: The subject will be treated under the following heads: I. ...
• Lulé Indians: A name which has given rise to considerable confusion and ...
• Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Composer, b. near Florence in 1633; d. at Paris, 22 March, ...
• Lully, Raymond: (RAMON LULL) "Doctor Illuminatus", philosopher, poet, and ...
• Lumen Christi: The versicle chanted by the deacon on Holy Saturday as he ...
• Luminare: (A word which gives in the plural luminaria and has hence ...
• Lummi Indians: (Abbreviated from Nuglummi , about equivalent to "people", ...
• Lumper, Gottfried: Benedictine patristic writer, born 6 Feb., 1747, at ...
• Luna, Pedro de: Antipope under the name of Benedict XIII, b. at Illueca, ...
• Lund: [LUNDA; LONDUNUM (LONDINUM) GOTHORUM (SCANORUM, SCANDINORUM, or ...
• Lunette: The lunette, known in Germany as the lunula and also as the ...
• Luni-Sarzana-Brugnato: Diocese in the province of Genoa. Luni (originally Luna) was ...
• Lupus: (SERVATUS LUPUS, LOUP) Abbot of Ferrières, French ...
• Lupus, Christian: (WOLF) Historian, b. at Ypres (Flanders), 23 July, 1612; d. ...
• Luscinius, Ottmar: (NACHTGALL) An Alsatian Humanist, b. at Strasburg, 1487; ...
• Lusignan, Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse: French-Canadian writer, b. at St-Denis on the Richelieu, P.Q., ...
• Lussy, Melchior: Statesman, b. at Stans, Canton of Unterwalden, Switzerland, ...
• Lust: The inordinate craving for, or indulgence of, the carnal ...
• Luther, Martin: Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century ...
• Lutheranism: The religious belief held by the oldest and in Europe the ...
• Lutzk, Zhitomir, and Kamenetz, Diocese of: (LUCEORIENSIS, ZYTOMIRIENSIS, ET CAMENECENSIS). Diocese ...
• Luxemburg: The small remnant of the old duchy of this name and since 11 ...
• Luxeuil Abbey: Situated in the Department of Haute-Saône in ...

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