A DOMINICAN friar from his fifteenth year, Michael Ghislieri, as a simple religious, as inquisitor, as bishop, and as cardinal, was famous

MONICA, the mother of St. Augustine, was born in 332. A, a girlhood of singular innocence and piety, she was given in

POPE ALEXANDER I. His pontificate is variously dated by critics, e.g. 106-115 (Duchesne) or 109-116 (Lightfoot). In Christian antiquity he was credited