Europe

• Belgium
  • Antwerp (alias)
  • Bocholt (alias)
  • Eupen (alias)
  • Ghent (alias)
  • Hainaut (alias)
  • Louvain (alias)
  • Mechlin (alias)
  • Mons (alias)
• England
  • Canterbury — City in Kent, England; seat of the archbishopric; St. Edmund was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1247
  • England — Kingdom of England; home of Bl. Thomas More and Bl. John Fisher
  • Rochester — English diocese; seat of Bl. John Fisher, martyred bishop
  • York — City in northern England; Alcuin publicly taught sacred Letters there; St. Ludger came from Frisia to hear him
• France
  • Amiens — City in northern France; diocese of Augustin Crampon, annotator of Lapide's commentaries
  • Anchin — Benedictine abbey near Douai in northern France; place of exile and death of St. Odo of Cambrai
  • Cambrai (alias)
  • France — Kingdom of France; St. Vincent Ferrer traveled through France converting many
  • Gaul — Ancient region covering modern France; nobles came from Gaul to visit Titus Livius in Rome
  • Lyon — City in southeastern France; home of Eucherius of Lyon, who composed a book On Spiritual Forms
  • Mont-Dieu — Carthusian monastery in the Ardennes, northern France; St. Bernard addressed a letter to the brothers there
  • Paris — Capital of France; location of publisher Ludwig Vives and Cramoisy press
  • Reims — City in northern France; seat of Archbishop Hincmar
  • Valenciennes (alias)
• Germany
  • Aachen — Imperial city of the Franks; Charlemagne crowned his son Louis there, gave himself to sacred Letters, and corrected the Gospels near death
  • Cologne — City on the Rhine in Germany; described as the daughter academy of Paris
  • Germany — German lands; St. Vincent Ferrer traveled through Germany converting many
  • Regensburg — City in Bavaria, Germany; site of a disputation where Saxon Lutherans argued for proscribing traditions
• Greece
  • 📁 Athens
  • Athens — Ancient Greek city where Sts. Basil and Gregory Nazianzen studied eloquence and philosophy
  • Corinth — Major Greek city on the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese to the mainland; received Paul's preaching
  • Delphi — Sacred city in central Greece; site of the oracle of Apollo; the tomb of Dionysius (Liber) is said to be at Delphi near the golden Apollo
  • Marathon — Plain in Attica; site of the famous battle (490 BC) where the Athenians defeated the Persians
  • Nicopolis — City in western Greece (Epirus); a sixth anonymous translation of Scripture was found in jars there under Emperor Alexander
  • Patmos — Aegean island where St. John was exiled and received the visions of the Apocalypse
  • Rhodes — Greek island in the Aegean Sea; Aeschines lived in exile at Rhodes, where he heard Demosthenes' famous oration read aloud
  • Salamis — Island near Athens; site of the naval battle (480 BC) where the Greeks defeated the Persians
  • Thebes — Ancient Greek city in Boeotia; Cadmus reigned there in the 160th year after Moses; Linus of Thebes and Amphion flourished as musicians
  • Thessaly — Region in central Greece; in the chronology of Moses, the flood of Deucalion occurred there in the 67th year of Moses
• Hungary
  • Tinnin — Historical diocese in Hungary (modern Croatia); seat of Bishop Andreas Dudecius, who appeared as legate at the Council of Trent but later apostatized
• Italy
  • 📁 Rome
  • Alba Longa — Ancient Latin city near Rome; the Curiatii of Alba fought the Horatii in single combat
  • Brescia — City in northern Italy; home of Ascanius Martinengus, who wrote two enormous volumes on Genesis chapter 1
  • Capua — City in Campania, Italy; seat of Bishop Germanus, whose soul St. Benedict saw being carried to heaven
  • Italy — The Italian peninsula; St. Vincent Ferrer traveled through Italy converting many
  • Magna Graecia — Coastal region of southern Italy colonized by Greek settlers, known for its philosophers and schools
  • Nola — City in Campania, southern Italy; St. Paulinus built a church there with inscribed verses on the shrines for the Eucharist and Sacred Scripture
  • Padua — City in the Veneto, northeastern Italy; associated with St. Anthony of Padua, who taught sacred Letters
  • Rome — Seat of the papacy and the Catholic Church; where Lapide was summoned to teach and where he died in 1637
  • Sicily — Island south of Italy; Robert, King of Sicily, told Petrarch he would more calmly part with the crown than with letters
  • St. Peter's Basilica — Papal basilica in Vatican City, Rome; where Clement VIII issued his bull on the Vulgate
  • Tarentum — Greek colony in southern Italy; home of the philosopher Archytas, whom Plato visited
  • Trent — City in northern Italy; location of the ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563)
• Low Countries
  • Antwerp — Major commercial city in the Spanish Netherlands; location of the Nutius/Moretus printing press
  • Bocholt — Small town in the region of Eupen (Limburg, Spanish Netherlands); birthplace of Cornelius a Lapide
  • Cambrai — City in the southern Low Countries; seat of an ancient archbishopric and duchy
  • Eupen — Region in the eastern Low Countries containing Bocholt, birthplace of Cornelius a Lapide
  • Flanders — Historical county in the Low Countries; Van der Burch's grandfather was President of its governing council
  • Frisia — Historical region in the northern Low Countries; homeland of St. Ludger, apostle of the Frisians; St. Boniface was martyred there in 755
  • Ghent — Major city in Flanders; seat of a bishopric; birthplace of Emperor Charles V
  • Hainaut — Historical county in the Low Countries; under Van der Burch's spiritual care
  • Louvain — University city in the Duchy of Brabant (Spanish Netherlands) where Cornelius a Lapide taught Sacred Scripture for over twenty years
  • Low Countries — Historical region encompassing modern Belgium and the Netherlands; the southern Catholic provinces under Spanish Habsburg rule
  • Mechlin — City in the Duchy of Brabant; seat of the metropolitan archbishopric and the great Parliament
  • Mons — City in the County of Hainaut; suffered a severe plague stayed by the relics of St. Macarius
  • Valenciennes — City in the County of Hainaut within the archdiocese of Cambrai
• Spain
  • Aragon — Medieval kingdom in the Iberian peninsula; Alfonso, King of Aragon, boasted of having read through the entire Bible with glosses fourteen times
  • Avila — City in Castile, Spain; seat of Bishop Alfonso Tostado, who composed extensive commentaries on the Old Testament
• Turkey
  • Caesarea in Cappadocia (alias)
  • Constantinople — Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire; site of the celebrated Studios monastery where St. Plato and Theodore the Studite presided
  • Neocaesarea (alias)
  • Pontus (alias)
• Cyprus — Island in the eastern Mediterranean; location of copper furnaces where pyraustae (fireflies) are born
• Greece — Ancient civilization; Lacordaire describes Greece as a spiritual homeland that never dies
• Sirmium — Ancient Roman city in Pannonia (modern Serbia); site of a council whose decrees Lapide discusses
• Spain — Westernmost region of Europe; nobles came from the farthest borders of Spain to visit Titus Livius