hio; the _Catholic Herald_, published weekly in Philadelphia;
the _Catholic Advocate_, published weekly in Bardstown, Ky.; _Der
Wahrheit's Freund_, (German paper,) published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio;
the _New York Catholic Register_, published weekly in the city of New
York; _Ordo divini Officii recitandi_, _Missaeque celebrandae, juxta
Rubricas Breviarii ac Missalis Romani_, published annually in Baltimore;
the _Young Catholic's Magazine_, enlarged series, published on the first
of each month, in New York.

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At the time of the reformation, 1517, papal power, or the power of the
pope of Rome, had acquired so great a spiritual dominion over the minds
and consciences of men, that all Europe submitted to it with implicit
obedience. At the present day, the Roman Catholic religion prevails, more
or less, in every country in Christendom. Its population is stated to
exceed eighty millions. It is the established religion of Austria, France,
Portugal, and Spain, and of thirteen other states in Europe.

Popes of Rome.(16) A. D.

33. St. Peter, martyred.
66. St. Linus, martyred.
67. St. Clement, abdicated.
77. St. Cletus, martyred.
83. St. Anaclitus.
96. St. Evaristus, coadjutor to the former, martyred.
108. St. Alexander I., martyred.
117. St. Sixtus I., martyred.
127. Telesphorus, martyred.
138. Hygenus, martyred. The first called _pope_.
142. Pius I., martyred.
150. Anicetus, martyred.
162. Soter.
171. Eleutherius, martyred.
185. Victor I., martyred.
197. Zephyrinus, martyred.
217. Calixtus I., martyred.
222. Urban I., martyred.
230. Pontianus, martyred.
235. Anterus, martyred.
236. Fabian, martyred.
236. Novatianus, antipope.
250. Cornelius, beheaded.
252. Lucius I., martyred.
254. Stephen I., martyred.
257. Sixtus II., coadjutor to the former, martyred.
259. Dionysius.
269. Felix I.
274. Eutychianus.
283. Caius.
295. Marcellinus, martyred.
304. Marcellus I., martyred.
310. Eusebius, martyred.
310. Melchiades, coadjutor to the former.
314. Sylvester.
336. Marcus.
337. Julius I.
352. Liberius, banished.
356. Felix II., antipope.
358. Liberius, again, abdicated.
358. Felix became legal pope but was killed b