### Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
Celebrated, since the reform of Pius X, on the Sunday that falls between 2 and 5 January, and, when this is lacking, on 2 January, with a double rite of the second class.
A liturgical feast in honor of the Holy Name of Jesus existed in various places even before 1530, though without permission from the Holy See, and sometimes under the title: *Trionfo del S. n. N. di G.* by Bernardino de’ Bustis (v.), who had composed and published, with the approval of Sixtus IV, an *Officium et Missa gloriosi Nominis Jesu* (Milan 1492), but could not obtain liturgical use of his composition. Finally, in 1530, Clement VII approved the said Office with the Mass, fixing the liturgical celebration on 14 January. Franciscans, Augustinians, Mercedarians, Trinitarians, Carmelites, and later the Society of Jesus, to name only a few Orders, as well as the dioceses of Siena (1582), Florence (1643), and many others, adopted the feast. At Antwerp, in the church of the convent of St Michael, the feast was observed, through the piety of a layman, one Hippolytus, from as early as 1458, and in a festive liturgical form from 1492, but on 15 January; this date was then followed by many other dioceses and by the Dominicans, who remained faithful to it until 1923. Finally, in 1721 (29 November–20 December), Innocent XIII, at the request of Emperor Charles VI, extended the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus to the entire Church as a double of the second class, assigning it to the second Sunday of January. The reform of Pius X came at last with the *motu proprio* *Abhinc duos annos* of 23 October 1913, which instead assigned it to the Sunday between 2 and 5 January (AAS, I 1913, pp. 458–560).
### Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
Liturgical invocations of the Holy Name of Jesus are already known from the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, various books of piety contained different litanies in honor of Jesus, the Saviour, the Holy Name of Jesus, composed by unknown authors, though sometimes spuriously attributed to St Bernard, St Bernardino of Siena, Bernardino de’ Bustis, and others. The severe prohibition of Clement VIII (1601) against publishing any litanies other than those of the saints and the *Lauretane* did not cause the private litanies of the Holy Name of Jesus to disappear. On the contrary, the Sacred Congregation of Rites was repeatedly urged to approve them, as, for example, in 1631 by the Augustinians of Montescalgrosso, in 1640 by the Priests of the Paris Mission, and shortly afterward by the archdiocese of Paris itself (1642), but always in vain. Finally, in 1862, on the occasion of the solemn canonization of the Japanese martyrs, many bishops gathered in Rome; they presented to Pius IX a petition asking that a single, solidly composed litany in honor of the Holy Name of Jesus be compiled from the various current forms and granted universal use. This was in fact published in 1876 (23 March: *Acta Sanctae Sedis*, 9 [1876], pp. 366–68), with an indulgence of 300 days, but only for those Orders that had made a request. Only in 1886 (16 January) did Leo XIII approve the said litany for the whole Church and for public liturgical use (ibid., 18 [1886], p. 509), with the same indulgence, which Pius XI raised in 1933 (2 January) to seven years (*Enchiridion Indulgentiarum*, 1950, no. 114).
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NOME DI GESÙ (CEBU), ARCIDIOCESI of
In the Philippine islands, an archdiocese covering an area of 4,329 km² with 1,122,132 inhabitants, of whom 1,112,264 are Catholic. It has 64 parishes served by 74 diocesan priests and 60 regulars, one seminary, 5 male and 10 female religious communities (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 291).
It was founded on 14 August 1595 by Clement VIII, with the erection of the ecclesiastical province of Manila. From it were later detached the diocese of Jaro (1865), the apostolic prefecture of the Mariana Islands (1902), and the dioceses of Zamboanga and Calbayog (1910). In 1934 C. was elevated to a metropolitan see; the archiepiscopal residence is in C. The territory was discovered in 1521 by Magellan. Seven Augustinians, led by Andrés de Urdaneta, began the missionary work in 1565; the Jesuits joined them in 1595. The conversion of the Philippines originated in C. Even today fortified churches recall the times of incursions by Mohammedan Moros. From 1814 to 1819 the secular clergy of the diocese of C. administered the missions of the Mariana Islands.
The Verbites direct the University of St Charles, recognized by the government since 1948, with 3,978 students in the faculties of law, commerce, civil engineering, toll-road engineering, liberal arts, chemistry, pharmacy, and domestic science.