martyrs, Tharsacus, Probus, and Andronicus, which Rosweyde regarded—wrongly—as the authentic official report from the pen of a clerk of the court of the Roman tribunal. According to this programme the collection was to comprise sixteen volumes, besides two volumes of explanations and tables. The first volume was to present documents concerning the life of Jesus Christ and the feasts established in honour of the special events of His life; the second volume would be devoted to the life and the feasts of the Blessed Virgin, and the third to the feasts of the Saints honoured with a more special cult. The twelve succeeding volumes were to give the lives of the saints whose feasts are celebrated respectively in the twelve months of the year, one volume for each month. This calendar arrangement had been prescribed by his superiors, in preference to the chronological order Rosweyde himself favoured. But this presented, especially at that time, formidable difficulties. Lastly, the sixteenth volume was to set forth the succession of martyrologies which had been in use at different periods and in the various Churches of Christendom. The first of the two supplementary volumes was to contain notes and commentaries bearing on the lives divided into eight books treating among other subjects: the authors of the lives, the sufferings of the martyrs, and the images of the saints. The other supplement was to present a series of copious tables giving: the names of the saints whose lives had been published in the preceding volumes; the same names followed by notes indicating the place of the saint's birth, his station in life, his title to sanctity, the time and place in which he had lived, and the author of his life; the state of life of the various saints (religious, priest, virgin, widow, etc.); their position in the Church (apostle, bishop, abbot, etc.); the nomenclature of the saints according to the countries made illustrious by their birth, apostolate, sojourn, burial; nomenclature of the places in which they are honoured with a special cult; enumeration of the maladies for the cure of which they are especially invoked; the professions placed under their patronage; the proper names of persons and places encountered in the published lives; the passages of Holy Scripture there explained; points which may be of use in religious controversies; those applicable in the teaching of Christian doctrine; a general table of words and things