Severus, his life of St. Martin, [119].

Sherman, Father Thomas E., on the Society of Jesus, [258]; on Loyola, [278].

Sick, ministered to by women, [350]. See [Charity.]

Silvianus, epigram of, on dying Rome, [76].

Simon de Montfort, [237].

Simeon Stylites, birth and early life of, [51]; austerities of, [52]; his fame, [52]; lives on a pillar, [53]; Tennyson on, [54]; death of, [56]; refuses to see his mother, [397]; method of, forsaken, [421].

Sin, monastic confessions of, [413]; consciousness of, preserved by monks, [414]; exaggerated views of, [415]; false methods to get rid of, [416]; monastic influence on doctrine of atonement for, [417].

Sisterhoods, see [Women.]

Sixtus IV. and V., Popes, on the stigmata, [221].

Social service, spirit of, [419], [423].