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"Dante " (Catholic Truth Society) ; editor of : " Minia-
ture Lives of the Saints"; "Miniature Life of Mary";
"The Daily Prayer Book"; Hettinger, "Dante's
Divina Commedia"; Hettinger, "Natural ReUgion";
Hettinger, " Revealed Religion '.
ARTICLES: Dalqaihns, John Dobkee; Fabeh, Frederick William; Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, The.
Bowden, Reverend John, s.m., m.a., rector of the church of St. John the Evangehst, Leeston, New Zealand.
ARTICLE: Wellington, Archdiocese of.
Boylan, Reverend Patrick, m.a. Education: Holy Cross College, Clonhffe; Maynooth; Royal University of Ireland; Universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Strassburg. Professor of Sacred Scripture and philosophy. Holy Cross College, Clonhffe, 1903-1905; professor of Sacred Scripture and Oriental languages, Maynooth College, 1905- ; lecturer in Eastern languages. University College, Dublin, 1909- ; member of the Board of Studies, National University of Ireland. Won studentship in mental science (1900) and Junior Fellowship (1902), Royal Univer- sity of Ireland. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Collaborator in the Egyptian Lexicon (now being prepared in Berhn) ; contributor of articles on Oriental study and philology to the "Irish Theological Quar- terly", "Irish Ecclesiastical Record".
ARTICLES: Harlez de Deulin, Charles-Joseph de; Le
Fi:VRE DE LA BODERIE, GuT.
Boyle, Reverend Patrick, cm., b. at Ter- moneeny, Co. Derry, Ireland, 4 January, 1849. Education: Seminary, Cambrai, France; St. Vincent's College, Castleknock, Ireland. Entered the Congre- gation of the Mission 1871; ordained 1873; professor of Classics at St. Patrick's College, Armagh (1874- 1875), and at St. Viucent's College, Castleknock (1875-1876); rector, St. Patrick's College, Armagh, 1877-1886; spiritual father, Maynooth, 1886-1889; rector, Irish College, Paris, 1889- . Author of: "The Irish College in Paris from 1578 to 1901" (1901); "St. Vincent de Paul and the Vincentians in Ireland, Scotland, and England from 1628 to 1909" (1909); translated: "Instructions on Preaching" (1902); "St. John Chrysostom on the Priesthood" (1903-1910); St. Gregory the Great, "A Homily on the Pastoral Office" (1907-1908); contributor to: "Irish Ecclesiastical Record"; "Le Correspondant"; "Cathohc University Bulletin", Washington, D. C.
ARTICLES: Irish Colleges, on the Continent; Schools, Apostolic.
Brabant, Vert Reverend AuGtrsTtrs Joseph, b. at Courtrai, Belgium, 1845, d. at Victoria, British Columbia, 4 July, 1912. Education: American Col- lege, Louvain, Belgium. Ordained 1868; assistant, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1869-1873; missionary among the Nootkan Indians, Hesquiat, Vancouver, 1874^1908; administrator of the diocese of Vancouver 1908-1909; chaplain to St. Joseph's Hospital and St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, British Columbia, 1909- 1911. Notwithstanding many discomforts and numer- ous attempts on his life, remained at Hesquiat for thirty-four years and succeeded in converting to Catholicity the whole tribe of Indians among whom he labored.
ARTICLE: Victoria.
Brann, Right Reverend Monsignor Henry Athanasius, a.m., ll.d., Litt.D., D.D., b. at Parks- town, Co. Meath, Ireland, 15 August, 1837. Educa- tion: St. Peter's Parochial School, Jersey City, New Jersey; St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Delaware; St. Francis Xavier's College, New York; St. Sulpice, Paris; American College, Rome. Emigrated with his family to the United States 1849; ordained in
Rome by Cardinal Patrizzi 1862; vice president and
professor of theology and philosophy, Seton Hall
College, South Orange, New Jersey (two years);
missionary in New Jersey; director and professor of
theology and philosophy. Seminary, Wheeling, West
Virginia (two years); pastor at Fort Washington,
New York, 1870-1889; at the same time diocesan
censor of books; rector of St. Agnes Church, New
York, 1890- . Has built a number of churches
and schools, e.g., St. John's Church, Kingsbridge, and
St. Ehzabeth's, Ft. Washington, New York City; re-
built St. Agnes Church, New York. Member of the
Union League Club, New York. Author of: "Curious
Questions"; "Truth and Error"; "The Age of Un-
reason"; "Life of Archbishop Hughes"; "History of
the American College, Rome"; "Waifs and Strays",
2 vols. ; (pamphlets) : "The Schism of the West " ; "The
Henry George Land Theories"; "The Popes, the
Champions of Popular Liberty"; "Martin Luther";
"The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human
Soul"; contributor to: "The Cathohc World"; "The
Catholic Quarterly Review"; "The Rosary"; "Do-
minicana"; "The Messenger"; "The North American
Review"; "Donahoe's Magazine".
ARTICLES: American College, The, in Rome; Grace, William Russel; McCloskey, William George; Pise, Charles Conbtantine.
Brants, Victor Leopold Jacques Louis, ll.d., Ph.D., Litt.D., b. at Antwerp, 23 November, 1856. Professor at Louvain University 1878- ; at present professor of political economy and statistics, and Belgian history. President of the School of Com- mercial, Consular and Colonial Sciences, Louvain; member of the Superior Council of Labor; permanent secretary of the Belgian Society of Social Economy; corresponding member of the Institut de France (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) ; member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Author of: "La morale du d6sinti5ressement rationnel" (Memoirs of the Literary Society of Louvain, 1877); "Sur I'histoire des classes rurales en Belgique jusqu'S, la fin du XVIII sifecle" (Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Vol. XXXII, 1881); "Au pays des Ruth^nes" (Memoirs of the Literary Society of Louvain, 1889); "Le travail du dimanche en Au- triche" (Belgian Labor Office, 1896); "Les grandes lignes de I'^conomie politique" (Louvain, 3rd ed. 1901; 5th ed., 2 vols., 1908, Spanish tr. by Hinojosa); "La petite Industrie contemporaine" (Paris, 3rd ed. 1912, Spanish tr. by Moreno); "La legislation du travail compar^e et Internationale" (Louvain, 1903); "Avant-projet de loi sur le contrat d'emploi" (Na- tional Commission of the Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905); "Le travail de nuit des enfants en Belgique" (Associa- tion for the Legal Protection of Labor, 1906); "La faculty de droit de I'Universitfi de Louvain k travers cinq siecles, 1426-1906" (Louvain and Paris, 1906); "La lutte contre I'usure dans les lois modernes" (Louvain and Paris, 1907); "Albert et Isabelle" (Louvain, 1910); various series of governmental reports on economic and sociological matters; col- laborator in "Biographie nationale", etc.; contributor to: "Annuaire de I'UniversitS de Louvain"; "Reforme sociale" (Paris); "Les ouvriers des deux mondes" (Paris); "Annuaire de la Soci6t^ de legislation com- pariSe" (Paris); "Bulletin de la Socidt^ de legislation compar^e" (Paris); "Revue catholique de Louvain"; "Mus^on" (Louvain); "Revue g^nerale" (Brussels); "Revue de I'instruction pubhque en Belgique" (Ghent); "Association catholique" (Paris); "Moni- teur beige"; "Bulletin du Comity des travaux historiques" (Paris); "Revue neo-scolastique" (Lou- vain); "Revue sociale catholique" (Louvain); "Revue pratique de droit industriel" ^Lifige); "Rivista inter- nazionale di scienze sociali" (Rome); "Bulletin de I'Union de I'Ecole commerciale de Louvain"; "An- nates Internationales d'histoire" (Paris and Macon);
