Würzburg Abbeys
Abbey of the Holy Redeemer, St. Andrew's Abbey, St. Stephen's Abbey, and St. James's Abbey.
Würzburg, University of
John I of Egloffstein (1400-1411), Bishop of Wurzburg, obtained from Pope Boniface IX a charter, dated 10 December, 1492, for the university.
Waire, Venerable
English friar and martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at St. Thomas Waterings in Camberwell, 8 July, 1539.
Waitzen, Diocese of
Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen.
Wakash Indians
A linguistic family inhabiting the western coast of British Columbia, and the west and northwest of Vancouver Island, as well as a small region around Cape Flattery, Washington.
Walburga, Saint
Fairly lengthy biographical article on this abbess of a double monastery, and author, who died in 777.
Waldseemüller, Martin
Learned humanist and celebrated cartographer. A canon of St-Dié in Lorraine. (1475-1522)
Walenburch, Adrian and Peter von
Auxiliary bishops of Cologne and celebrated controversial theologians, born at Rotterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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