Catholic Encyclopedia on Vocations
André Garin
An Oblate missionary and parish priest, born 7 May, 1822, at Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France ; died at Lowell, Massachusetts, 16 ...
Ottobeuren
(OTTOBURA, MONASTERIUM OTTOBURANUM)
Formerly a Benedictine abbey, now a priory, near Memmingen in the Bavarian AllgŠu. It was founded in 764 by Blessed Toto, and dedicated to St. Alexander, the martyr. Of its early history little is known beyond the fact ...
Marienberg
A Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of St. Joseph near Mals, Tyrol (in Vintschau). The history of the founding goes back to Charlemagne, who established ...
St. Virgilius
(VIRGILE).
Archbishop of Arles, died c. 610. According to a life written in the eighth century he was born in a village of Aquitaine, became a monk,
Philippine-Rose Duchesne
Founder in America of the first houses of the society of the Sacred Heart, born at Grenoble, France, 29 August, 1769; died at St. Charles, Missouri, ...
San Martino al Cimino
A prelature nullius in the territory of the Diocese of Viterbo, Province of Rome. The district is about 1840 feet above sea-level, on the western slope of Monte Fogliano in the Cimini mountains, amidst an extensive ...
Sherborne Abbey
Located in Dorsetshire, England ; founded in 998. Sherborne ( scir-burne , clear brook) was originally the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Western Wessex, having been established as such by
St. Wigbert
Companion of St. Boniface, born in England about 675; died at Hersfeld about 746. Positive biographical accounts of him are scanty; he had several contemporaries of the same name, and it is difficult to decide in all ...
Fintan Mundwiler
Abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Meinrad, Indiana, born at Dietikon in Switzerland, 12 July, 1835; died at St. Meinrad's Abbey, 14 February, 1898. He studied at the monastic school of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, where he took the Benedictine
Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu Sept-Fons
Located in the Diocese of Moulins in France, it was founded (1132) by Guichard and Guillaume de Bourbon, of the
St. Agnes of Bohemia
(Also called Agnes of Prague). Born at Prague in the year 1200; died probably in 1281. She was the daughter of Ottocar, King of Bohemia and
Abbey of Waldsassen
("Settlement in the woods").
Located on the River Wondreb, Upper Palatinate, near the border of Bohemia, in the Diocese of Ratisbon. This celebrated Cistercian monastery was founded by Gerwich von ...
Stanbrook Abbey
An abbey of Benedictine nuns, midway between Malvern and Worcester, England. The
St. Erconwald
Bishop of London, died about 690. He belonged to the princely family of the East Anglian Offa, and devoted a considerable portion of his patrimony to founding two monasteries, one for monks at Chertsey, and the other ...
Dominic of Prussia
A Carthusian monk and ascetical writer, born in Poland, 1382; died at the monastery of St. Alban near Trier, 1461. According to the account he ...
Heinrich Brewer
A German historian, born at Puffendorf in Germany, 6 September, 1640; died at the same place about 1713. He was educated at the Gymnasium Tricoronatum in Cologne and was ordained
Blessed Seraphina Sforza
Born at Urbino about 1434; died at Pesaro, 8 September, 1478. Her parents were Guido Antonio of Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, and Cattarina Colonna. ...
St. Aldhelm
Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and ecclesiastical writer (c. 639-709). Aldhelm, also written Ealdhelm, Ældhelm, ...
Henry Abbot
Layman, martyred at York, 4 July, 1597, pronounced Venerable in 1886. His acts are thus related by Challoner:
A certain Protestant minister, for some misdemeanour put into York Castle, to reinstate himself in the favour of ...
Juliana Morell
Dominican nun, b. at Barcelona, Spain, 16 February, 1594; d. at the convent of the Dominican nuns at Avignon, France, 26 June, 1653. The accounts of ...
St. Winnoc
Abbot or Prior or Wormhoult, died 716 or 717. Three lives of this saint are extant: the best of these, the first life, was written by a
Blessed Richard Whiting
Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr, parentage and date of birth unknown, executed 15 Nov., 1539; was probably educated in the claustral school at Glastonbury, whence he proceeded to Cambridge, graduating as M.A. ...
St. Vitalis of Savigny
Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny (1112), b. at Tierceville near Bayeaux about 1060-5; d. at Savigny, 16 Sept., 1122. His parents were named Rainfred and Rohais. We know nothing of his early ...
Remiremont
Vosges, France, monastery and nunnery of the Rule of St. Benedict, founded by Sts. Romaricus and Amatus in 620, on hills above the site where the town now stands, whence the name Romarici Mons , Remiremont. The monastery became a
St. Adelaide
Abbess, born in the tenth century; died at Cologne, 5 February, 1015. She was daughter of Megingoz, Count of Guelders, and when still very young entered the convent of St. Ursula in Cologne, where the Rule of
Grey Nuns of the Cross
A community founded in 1745 at Monteal by Madame d'Youville, known as the Grey Sisters, or Grey Nuns, from the colour of the costume. Just one century later, February, 1845, at the request of Bishop Phelan, ...
Malvern
Located in Worcestershire, England, a district covered by a lofty range between the Severn and Wye, known as the Malvern Hills. On its eastern side were formerly two houses of Benedictine monks, the priories of Great ...
St. Ado of Vienne
Born about 800, in the diocese of Sens ; d. 16 December, 875. He was brought up at the Benedictine
Bachiarius
An early fifth-century writer, known only through two treatises which warrant the conjecture that he was a monk, possibly an abbot, and a Spaniard.
The first of these writings, entitled by Gennadius "Liber de Fide" is an apologetical letter to the pope in which ...
Saint-Claude
(S ANCTI C LAUDII ).
The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only twenty-six parishes, subject ...
Blessed Peter Igneus
(Peter Aldobrandini.)
An Italian monk of the Benedictine congregation of the Vallombrosians, and Cardinal-Bishop of Albano ; d. ...
Irish Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Founded by Frances Mary Teresa Ball , under the direction and episcopal jurisdiction of the Most Rev. D. Murray, Archbishop of Dublin. By the archbishop's ...
Abbacy Nullius of Wettingen-Mehrerau
A Cistercian abbey near Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. The Cistercian monastery of Wettingen was founded by Henry of Rapperswyl in the present Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, in 1227. It was first recruited with ...
Walkenried
Formerly one of the most celebrated Cistercian abbeys of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen. Founded in 1127 by Countess Adelheid of Klettenberg, it was confirmed in 1137 by ...
Bertha
Of the various holy women bearing the name of Bertha, five are more particularly worthy of notice.
I. BERTHA, QUEEN OF KENT
Died c. 612. She was a Frankish princess, daughter of Charibert and the pious Ingoberga. In marrying the
St. Sexburga
Died about 699. Her sisters, Sts. Ethelburga and Saethrid, were both Abbesses of Faremontier in Brie, St. Withburga was a nun at Ely, and St. Etheldreda became
Aldersbach
A former Cistercian Abbey in the valley of the Vils in Lower Bavaria. It was founded in 1127 by St. Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, and the first community ...
Langheim
A celebrated Cistercian abbey situated in Upper Franconia (Bavaria), not far from Mein, in the Diocese of Bamberg. Three brothers of the city of
George Ashby
Monk of the Cistercian Monastery of Jervaulx in Yorkshire, executed after the Pilgrimage of Grace, in the year 1537. His name is found in several English martyrologies, but there is the utmost uncertainty as to the
Commendatory Abbot
An ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey in commendam, that is, who draws its revenues and, if an ecclesiastic, may also have some jurisdiction, but does not exercise any authority over its inner ...
Helena Tarabotti
Nun and authoress, b. at Venice, 1605; d. there 1652. Obliged by her father, who was descended from a family of Bergamo, to enter the Convent of Sta.
Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg
Abbess of the Premonstratensian convent of Aldenberg, near Wetzlar, in the Diocese of
Francis Wichmans
In religion AUGUSTINE, born at Antwerp, 1596; died 1661. Having finished his classical studies, he received the white habit in the Norbertine
Abbey of St. Emmeram
A Benedictine monastery at Ratisbon (Regensburg), named after its traditional founder, the patron saint of the city. The exact date of foundation is ...
William, Abbot of Marmoutiers
Born in Brittany, died at Marmoutiers, 23 May, 1124. For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a
Diocese of Manchester
(MANCHESTERIENSIS)
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Boston, U.S.A. The city of Manchester is situated on the Merrimac River, in the ...
Jerome Gratian
Spiritual director of St. Teresa and first Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites ; born at Valladolid, 6 June, 1545; died at Brussels, 21 ...
Abbey of Arbroath
This monastery was founded on the east coast of Scotland (1178) by William the Lion, for Benedictines, and was colonized by monks from Kelso. The
St. Bertin
Abbot of St. Omer, b. near Constance about 615; d. about 709. At an early age he entered the monastery of Luxeuil in France where, under the ...
Abbey of Deer
A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple Drostan, and others, went from Hy (Iona) into Buchan and established an important missionary centre at Deer on the banks of ...
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