Vicariate Apostolic of Bagamoyo
Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball
Provincial Councils of Baltimore
Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral
Antoine-Lefebvre, Sieur de la Barre
Francesco della Rossa Bartholi
Prefecture Apostolic of Basutoland
Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia
Beatification and Canonization
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais
Georg Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff
Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso
Ven. Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine
Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron
Prefecture Apostolic of Benadir
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
St. Benedict of San Philadelphio
Benedictus (Canticle of Zachary)
Archdiocese of Benevento (Beneventana)
Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel
José Mariano Beristain y Martin de Souza
François-Joachim-Pierre de Bernis
Archdiocese of Besançon (Vesontio)
Bethlehem (as used in architecture)
Prefecture Apostolic of Bettiah
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
Bigamy (in Civil Jurisprudence)
Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Archdiocese of Santa Fé de Bogotá
Bohemians of the United States
Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin
Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel
Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald
Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald
Charles-Lucien-Jules-Laurent Bonaparte
Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose
Institute of Bon Secours (de Paris)
Archdiocese of Bordeaux (Burdigala)
Pierre-Rose-Ursule-Dumoulin Borie
Prefectures Apostolic of Borneo
Society of St. Charles Borromeo
Emmanuel Théodore de la Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon
Henri, Count of Boulainvilliers
Archdiocese of Bourges (Bituricæ)
Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria
Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme
Charles Etienne, Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
The Bridge-Building Brotherhood
Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie
Jacques-Victor-Albert, Duc de Broglie
Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville
St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne
Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur
Diocese situated in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. The city is believed by some to be the ancient Biturgia mentioned by Ptolemy, and is so designated in the usage of the Roman Curia. The foundation of the present city is attributed to two pilgrims of the tenth century, who halted in this neighbourhood on their return from Palestine, and built an oratory in which they placed the relics they had brought from the holy places. This oratory attracted many pilgrimages; gradually there grew up about it a settlement of considerable size known as Borgo San-Sepolcro. Later on, Camaldoli monks erected a monastery there, the abbot of which had temporal jurisdiction over the town. Guido Petramala, Bishop of Arezzo, fortified Borgo San-Sepolcro, and made it a Ghibelline strong-hold. At first subject to the Diocese of Castello, it was made an episcopal see by Leo X in 1515, the first bishop being Giovanni Ev. Galeotto Graziani. Among the bishops worthy of record are Nicolo Tornabuon (1560), a learned theologian, author of a treatise on the controversies between Catholics and Calvinists; Dionisio Bussotti (1638), likewise a skilled theologian; Gian Lorenzo Tilli (1704), founder of the seminary. The cathedral is a splendid three-nave Romanesque edifice, showing, however, a marked tendency towards the Gothic. A famous image of the Holy Face (Volto Santo) is venerated in the cathedral. It is a wooden crucifix of heroic size; the sacred Body is covered with a long tunic, and a crown rests on the head. It resembles the Volto Santo of Lucca, and has been in this cathedral since the tenth century; previously it was kept in the neighbouring castle of Bibbiona. Nothing certain is known as to its origen. However, the crucified Christ dressed in a long garment (colobium) indicates a great antiquity, perhaps the eighth or ninth century. Other beautiful churches are those of San Agostino and Santa Maria; the latter has a beautiful baptistery, brought thither from the ancient church of San Agostino. Noteworthy also is the church of San Nicola, built in 1258 by Franciscan, Fra Tommaso da Spello, and restored in the eighteenth century. This diocese has a population of 60,500 Catholics, with 135 parishes, 250 churches and chapels, 190 secular priests, 26 regulars, and 60 seminarists. There are 3 academies, one for girls, and 2 for boys. The male religious orders represented are: Minors Conventual, Servites, Capuchins; the female congregations are: Franciscans, Capuchins, Benedictines, Sisters of St. Anne, Sisters of Charity, Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Salesian Sisters, about 70 in all.
CAPPELETTI, Le chiese d'ltalia (Venice, 1844), XVII; Annuario Eccl. (Rome, 1907), 331-334.
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