1Optical Character Recognition —software that is used to convert a scanned document into text.

2St. Philip Romolo Neri (Filippo Romolo Neri; 21 July 1515 – 25 May 1595) He was later known as the Apostle of Rome, an Italian priest who founded the Congregation of the Oratory. Butler’s Lives of the Saints, M. Walsh, ed. (HarperSanFrancisco: New York, 1991)

3St. Barbara, (Greek: Αγία Βαρβάρα), Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Nicomedia, present-day Turkey or in Heliopolis of Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome’s martyrology. Her name can be traced to the 7th century, and veneration of her was common, especially in the East, from the 9th century. Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from the General Roman Calendar in the 1969 revision, though not from the Catholic Church’s list of saints. (Source Wikipedia)

4Deo donum dedit— God gave the gift.

5Sacrum Romanum Imperium or Holy Roman Empire— which at the time of this printing in 1734 consited essentially of Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, parts of Belgium, and The Czech Republic (Bohemia).  Contrary to the “Roman” designation, not Italy nor France.  The “Holy Roman Empire would be dissolved in 1806.

6Interestingly, this quote is not found in the 1st Article of question 117 of Pars Secunda Secundæ of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa.

7Verbi gratia— for instance/example.  Literally, for the sake of words.

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