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Sapienza, writer of the Vatican Library, and director of the Christian Museum of the Lateran and of the Egyptian Museum of the Vatican, Rome. Partici- pated in the Congress of OrientaMsts, Stockholm, 1889, the Congress of Christian ArchEeology, Spalato, 1894, and the Archseological Congress, Athens, 1905. Member of: the Roman Academy of Archaiology, the Germanic Institute of Archaeology, the Pontifical Commission of Archaeology, the Municipal Commis- sion of Archaeology, the Provincial Commission of Archaeology, and the Academy of St. Lulce. Author of numerous pubUcations on Egyptology, Roman Antiquities and Christian Archajology; editor (since 1895) of "Nuovo BuUetino di archeologia cristiana"- ABTICLE: Cross and Cbucifix (Part I. Archaeology).

Mary of Providence, Mother, Provincial Superior, Sisters of Charity of Providence, Holyoke,

Massachusetts. ARTICLE: Providence, Sisters of, op Charity.

Mathieu, Most Reverend Olivier Elz]6ar, Ph.D., S.T.D., C.M.G., Doctor of the Academy of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Regina, Canada, b. at Quebec, Canada, 24 December, 1853. Education: Seminary and Laval University, Quebec; further studies in Rome. Ordained 1878; for a number of years prefect of studies and director. Preparatory Seminary, Quebec; professor of philosophy (1879- 1911), former rector (nine years) and former member of the Board of Directors, Laval University, Quebec; prothonotary Apostolic 1902; Bishop (1911-1915); Archbishop (1915- ), of Regina, Canada. Che- valier of the Legion of Honor; Officer of Public Instruction (France).

ARTICLE: Laval University of Quebec.

Matre, Anthony, k.s.g., b. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 16 December, 1866. Education: St. Francis College, Cincinnati; CathoUc Normal School, St. Francis, Wisconsin. Former principal, St. Philomena's School, Cincinnati (18 years); national secretary, American Federation of Cathohc Societies, 1901- ; supreme secretary, Catholic Knights of America, 1904^1914; created Knight of St. Gregory, by Pope Pius X, 1913; president, Marquette National Fire Insurance Company, 1915; lecturer on CathoMc subjects, resident at Chicago, Illinois. One of the founders and participator in all National Conventions, Ameri- can Federation of Catholic Societies; founder and associate editor for twenty years of "Teacher and Organist", now "Catholic Educational Journal". Author of dramas; associate editor of "The Federa- tion Bulletin". ARTICLE: Catholic Knights of America.

Matthews, John Hobson, b. at Croydon, near London, 1858; d. at Ealing, 23 January, 1914. Education: Proprietary School, Blackheath, and The Leys, Cambridge, England. Became a Catholic 1877; solicitor 1889; married Alice Mary, daughter of John Gwyn-Hughes of Monmouth, 1892; archivist to Corporation of Cardiff, Wales, 1894-1903; archivist to the County and Borough Councils of Monmouth- shire, England; expert archivist, record searcher and genealogist; legal antiquary; journalist; confraier of the English Benedictine Order. Discovered the Grant of Cardiff lands to Sir WilUam Herbert (1550), long lost and almost illegible, 1895; discovered text of an unknown charter to Borough of Newport, England, 1906; gave expert evidence before Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1903, 1911; founder of St. Teilo's CathoUc Historical Society of South Wales, 1889; lectured on "Old Monmouth", Annual Meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1908; had mastered Irish, Welsh, and Maltese; authority on palaeography, heraldry, illumi- nation, ecclesiology, plainchant, folklore, Celtic

languages, and literature. Member of: the Cambrian Archaeological Association, the Council, Cathohc Record Society, and the Council and Executive Committee, CathoUc Federation of Westminster and Catholic Federation of England and Wales; Bard ("Mab Cerayw") of Royal and National Eisteddfod. Author of: "History of St. Ives, Cornwall"; "History of the Hundred of Wormelow ; "The Vaughans of Courtfield"; "The Old Faith and the New"; "Life and Memorials of St. Teilo"; (pamphlets for CathoUc Truth Society:) "The Mass and Its Folklore"; ' ' Continuity Reconsidered ' ' ; continuator (by appoint- ment) of Duncumb, "Herefordshire"; edited "Cardiff Records" (1898-1905); contributor to: "The Tablet"; "Athenaeum". ARTICLE: Wales.

Maxwell-Scott, Mari Monica (Hon. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott), writer, b. at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, 2 October, 1852, daughter to J. R. Hope-Scott, Q.C., and Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, and great-granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott. Married Hon. Joseph Constable-Maxwell, 3rd son of Baron Herries of Terregles, 1874; hon. treasurer of the CathoUc Sailors' Club of Genoa; vice-president, Scottish Catholic Needlework Guild; resident in London and at Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland. Author of : "Abbotsford and Its Treasures" (1893); "Tragedy of Fotheringay" (1895); "Making of Abbotsford and Incidents of Scottish History" (1897); "Henry Schomberg Kerr, Sailor and Jesuit" (1901); "Joan of Arc" (1905); "Garcia Moreno" (1908); "Madame Elizabeth de France" (1908); "The Marquise de la RochejaoqueUn" (1912).

ARTICLES: Maxwell, William; Maxwell, Winifred.

Mayence, Fernand, pU.d., Litt.D., b. at Jumet, Belgium, 10 August, 1879. Education: College, Charleroi, Belgium; further studies at Namur, Belgium, Paris, and BerUn and Halle a.S., Germany; Louvain University, Belgium. At present, professor of Classical archaeology and Roman institutions, Louvain University, and of the history of Greek and Roman art, Cours de I'Histoire de I'Art, Brussels, Belgium. Participated in the excavations at Delos; former member of the French School at Athens. Contributor to: " Le Mus6e Beige " ; "Revue d'histoire eccldsiastique " ; "Bulletin de Correspondance hel- l&ique"; "Vie dioc^saine".

ARTICLES: Lenormant. Charles; Lenormant, FRANgois.

Mayer, Very Reverend Canon Johann Georg, J.C.D., b. at Deuchelried, Wtirttemberg, Germany, 1 April, 1845. Education: Stella Matutina CoUege, Feldkirch, Austria; CoUege at Schwyz and Seminary at Chur, Switzerland. Pastor at Oberurnen, Canton Glarus, Switzerland, 1872-1889 ; canon of the cathedral of Chin: 1889; professor (1889- ) and director (1908- ), Seminary, Chur. Member of various historical associations. Author of: "Graf Scherer- Boccard" (1899); "Das Konzil von Trient und die Gegenreformation in der Schweiz", 2 vols. (1901, 1903); "Geschichte des Bistums Chur" (1908-1911); collaborator in: Herder's "Kirchenlexikon"; Herder's "Konversationslexikon"; contributor to various peri- odicals. ARTICLES: Lussy, Melchior; Saint Lucius, Monastery

Medin, Reverend Joseph, ph.D., b. 2 Nov., 1879. Education: Propaganda, Rome; University of Vienna, Austria. Former rector of the cathedral, Great FaUs, Montana; rector. Church of St. John the Baptist, Calumet, Michigan 1910-

ARTICLE: Great Falls, Diocese of.

Medlycott, Right Reverend Adolphtjs E., d.d., Ph.D., titular Bishop of Tricomia, b. at Chittagong, East Bengal, 15 June, 1838. Education: Propaganda,