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• Nubia: Located in North-eastern Africa, extending from Sennar south to ...
• Nueva Cáceres: (NOVA CACERES) Diocese created in 1595 by Clement VIII ; ...
• Nueva Pamplona: (NEO-PAMPILONENSIS). Diocese in Colombia, South America, ...
• Nueva Segovia: (NOVAE SEGOBIAE) Diocese in the Philippines, so called from ...
• Nugent, Francis: Priest of the Franciscan Capuchin Order, founder of the Irish ...
• Nugent, James: Philanthropist, temperance advocate and social reformer b. 3 ...
• Numbers, Use of, in the Church: No attentive reader of the Old Testament can fail to notice ...
• Numismatics: (From the Greek nomisma , "legal currency") Numismatics is ...
• Nun of Kent: Born probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; ...
• Nunc Dimittis: (The Canticle of Simeon). Found in St. Luke's Gospel ...
• Nuncio: An ordinary and permanent representative of the pope, vested ...
• Nunez, Pedro: (Pedro Nonius). Mathematician and astronomer, b. at ...
• Nuns: I. ORIGIN AND HISTORY The institution of nuns and sisters, who ...
• Nuptial Mass: "Missa pro sponso et sponsa", the last among the votive Masses ...
• Nuremberg: (NÜRNBERG) The second largest city in Bavaria, ...
• Nusco: (N USCANA ) Diocese in the province of Avellino, Italy, ...
• Nussbaum, Johannn Nepomuk von: German surgeon, b. at Munich 2 Sept., 1829; d. there 31 Oct., ...
• Nutter, Robert, Ven.: English martyr ; b. at Burnley, Lancashire, c. 1550; executed ...
• Nuyens, Wilhelmus: Historian, b. 18 August, 1823, at Avenhorn in Holland ; d. 10 ...

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