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• Piacenza: DIOCESE OF PIACENZA (PLACENTINENSIS) Piacenza is a diocese in ...
• Pianô Carpine, Giovanni da: Born at Pian di Carpine (now called della Magione), near ...
• Pianciani, Giambattista: Scientist, b. at Spoleto, 27 Oct., 1784; d. at Rome, 23 ...
• Piatto Cardinalizio: An allowance granted by the pope to cardinals residing in ...
• Piatus of Mons: (Secular name, JEAN-JOSEPH LOISEAUX), b. 5 Aug., 1815; d. in the ...
• Piauhy: (DE PIAUHY, PIAHUNENSIS) Suffragan of the Archdiocese of ...
• Piazza Armerina: (PLATIENSIS) Located in the province of Caltanissetta, ...
• Piazzi, Giuseppe: Astronomer, b. at Ponte in Valtellina, 16 July, 1746; d. at ...
• Pibush, John: English martyr, born at Thirsk, Yorkshire; died at St Thomas's ...
• Picard, Jean: Astronomer, b. at La Flêche, 21 July, 1620; d. at Paris, ...
• Piccolomini, Alessandro: Littérateur, philosopher, astronomer, b. 13 June, 1508; ...
• Piccolomini-Ammannati, Jacopo: A cardinal, born in the Villa Basilica near Lucca, 1422; died ...
• Pichler: A renowned Austrian family of gem-cutters who lived and died ...
• Pichler, Vitus: Distinguished canonist and controversial writer, b. at ...
• Pickering, Ven. Thomas: Lay brother and martyr, a member of an old Westmoreland ...
• Piconio, Bernadine a: (HENRI BERNARDINE DE PICQUIGNY) Born at Picquigny, Picardy, ...
• Picquet, François: A celebrated Sulpician missionary in Canada, b. at Bourg, ...
• Picture Bibles: In the Middle Ages the Church made use of pictures as a ...
• Pie Pelicane, Jesu, Domine: The sixth quatrain of Adoro Te Devote , sometimes used as a ...
• Pie, Louis-Edouard-Désiré: Cardinal, born at Pontgouin, Diocese of Chartres, 1815; died at ...
• Pieck, Saint Nicholas: (Also spelled PICK). Friar Minor and martyr, b. at Gorkum, ...
• Piedmont: ( Italian Piemonte ). A part compartimento of northern ...
• Piel, Peter: A pioneer in the movement for reform of church music, b. at ...
• Pierius: A priest and probably head master of the catechetical school ...
• Pierre de Castelnau, Blessed: Born in the Diocese of Montpellier , Languedoc, now Department ...
• Pierre de Maricourt: Surnamed PETER THE PILGRIM ( Petrus Peregrinus ) A ...
• Pierron, Jean: A missionary, born at Dun-sur-Meuse, France, 28 Sept., 1631; ...
• Pierson, Philippe: Born at Ath, Hainaut (Belgium), 4 January, 1642; died at ...
• Pietism: Pietism is a movement within the ranks of Protestantism, ...
• Pighius, Albert: A theologian, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Kampen, ...
• Pignatelli, Venerable Giuseppe Maria: Born 27 December, 1737, in Saragossa, Spain ; died 11 ...
• Pike, William: Martyr, born in Dorsetshire; died at Dorchester, dec., 1591. He ...
• Pilar, Nuestra Señora del: "Our Lady of the Pillar", a celebrated church and shrine, at ...
• Pilate, Pontius: After the deposition of the eldest son of Herod, Archelaus ...
• Pilchard, Venerable Thomas: ( Or PILCHER). Martyr, born at Battle, Sussex, 1557; died ...
• Pileolus: ( zucca , head). The small, round skullcap of the ...
• Pilgrimage of Grace: The name given to the religious rising in the north of England, ...
• Pilgrimages: (Middle English, pilgrime, Old French, pelegrin, derived ...
• Piligrim: Bishop of Passau, date of birth unknown; died 20 May, 991. ...
• Pillar of Cloud/Fire: (P ILLAR OF F IRE ). A cloud which accompanied the ...
• Pima Indians: An important tribe of Southern Arizona, centering along the ...
• Pinar del Rio: (Pinetensis ad Flumen) Located in Cuba, erected by the Brief ...
• Pinara: A titular see in Lycia, suffragan of Myra. Pinara was one ...
• Pindemonte, Ippolito: An Italian poet of noble birth, born at Verona, 13 Nov., ...
• Pineda, John de: Born in Seville, 1558; died there, 27 Jan., 1637. He entered ...
• Pinerolo: (PINEROLIENSIS) Located in the province of Turin, in ...
• Pingré, Alexandre Guy: Born in Paris 11 September, 1711; died 1 May, 1796. He was ...
• Pinna da Encarnaçao, Mattheus: A writer and theologian, born at Rio de Janeiro, 23 Aug., ...
• Pinto, Fernão Mendes: A Portuguese traveller, born at Montemor-o-Velho near ...
• Pinturicchio: (BERNARDINO DI BETTO, surnamed PINTURICCHIO) Born at ...
• Pinzón, Martín Alonso: Spanish navigator and companion of Columbus on his first ...
• Piombo, Sebastiano del: More correctly known as S EBASTIANO L UCIANI . Venetian ...
• Pionius, Saint: Martyred at Smyrna, 12 March, 250. Pionius, with Sabina and ...
• Pious Fund of the Californias, The: (Fondo Piadoso de las Californias) The Pious Fund of the ...
• Pious Society of Missions, The: Founded by Ven. Vincent Mary Pallotti in 1835. The members of ...
• Piranesi, Giambattista: An Italian etcher and engraver, b. at Venice, 1720; d. in ...
• Pirhing, Ernricus: Born at Sigarthin, near Passau, 1606; died between 1678 and ...
• Pirkheimer: Charitas Pirkheimer Abbess of the Convent of St. Clara, of ...
• Piro Indians: A tribe of considerable importance, ranging by water for a ...
• Pisa: ARCHDIOCESE OF PISA (PISÆ) Archdiocese in Tuscany, ...
• Pisa, Council of: Preliminaries. The great Schism of the West had lasted ...

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• Pisa, University of: In the eleventh century there were many jurisconsults at Pisa ...
• Pisano, Andrea: Or ANDREA DA PISA (the name by which Andrea da Pontadera is ...
• Pisano, Niccola: Architect and sculptor, b. at Pisa about 1205-07; d. there, ...
• Piscataway Indians: A tribe of Algonquian linguistic stock formerly occupying the ...
• Piscina: (Latin from piscis, a fish, fish-pond, pool or basin, called ...
• Pise, Charles Constantine: Priest, poet, and prose writer, b. at Annapolis, Maryland, 22 ...
• Pisidia: A country in the southwestern part of Asia Minor, between the ...
• Pistoia and Prato: (PISTORIENSIS ET PRATENSIS) Located in the Province of ...
• Pistoia, Synod of: Held 18 to 28 September, 1786, by Scipio de’ Ricci, Bishop ...
• Pistorius, Johann: A controversialist and historian, born at Nidda in Hesse, 14 ...
• Pithou, Pierre: A writer, born at Troyes, 1 Nov. 1539; died at ...
• Pitoni, Joseph: A musician, born at Rieti, Perugia, Italy, 18 March, 1657; ...
• Pitra, Jean-Baptiste-François: Cardinal, famous archeologist and theologian, b. 1 August, ...
• Pitts, John: Born at Alton, Hampshire, 1560; died at Liverdun, Lorraine, ...
• Pittsburgh: DIOCESE OF PITTSBURG/PITTSBURGH (PITTSBURGENSIS). Suffragan ...
• Pityus: A titular see in Pontus Polemoniacus, suffragan of ...
• Pius I, Pope Saint: Date of birth unknown; pope from about 140 to about 154. ...
• Pius II, Pope: (Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini). Born at Corsignano, near ...
• Pius III, Pope: (Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini). B. at Siena, 29 May, ...
• Pius IV, Pope: (Giovanni Angelo Medici). B. 31 March, 1499, at Milan ; ...
• Pius IX, Pope: (G IOVANNI M ARIA M ASTAI -F ERRETTI ). Pope from ...
• Pius V, Pope Saint: (MICHELE GHISLERI). Born at Bosco, near Alexandria, ...
• Pius VI, Pope: (G IOVANNI A NGELICO B RASCHI ). Born at Cesena, 27 ...
• Pius VII, Pope: (B ARNABA C HIARAMONTI ). Born at Cesena in the ...
• Pius VIII, Pope: (Francesco Xaverio Castiglione). B. at Cingoli, 20 Nov., ...
• Pius X, Pope Saint: (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto). Born 2 June, 1835, at Riese, ...
• Piusverein: The name given to Catholic associations in various countries ...
• Pizarro, Francisco: Born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain, probably in 1471; died at ...

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