HOLY BROTHERHOOD IN MEXICO. See MEXICO: A. D. 1535-1822. HOLY GHOST, The military Order of the. See FRANCE: A. D. 1578-1580. HOLY JUNTA, The. See SPAIN: A. D. 1518-1522. ----------HOLY LEAGUES: Start-------- HOLY LEAGUES: Pope Julius II. against Louis XII. of France. See ITALY: A. D. 1510-1513. Pope Clement VII. against Charles V. See ITALY: A. D. 1523-1527. German Catholic princes against the Protestant League of Smalcald. See GERMANY: A. D. 1533-1546. Spain, Venice and Pope Pius V. against the Turks. See TURKS: A. D. 1566-1571. Of the Catholic party in the Religious Wars of France. See FRANCE: A. D. 1576-1585, to 1593-1598. Pope Innocent XI., the Emperor, Venice, Poland and Russia against the Turks. See TURKS: A. D. 1684-1696. ----------HOLY LEAGUES: End-------- HOLY LION, Battle of the (1568). See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1568-1572. HOLY OFFICE, The. See INQUISITION: A. D. 1203-1525. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: Its origin. See ROMAN EMPIRE, THE HOLY: A. D. 963. Its extinction. See GERMANY: A. D. 1805-1806. HOLY ROOD OF SCOTLAND, The. "A certified fragment of the true cross preserved in a shrine of gold or silver gilt. It was brought over by St. Margaret, and left as a sacred legacy to her descendants and their kingdom. … The rood had been the sanctifying relic round which King David I. raised the house of canons regular of the Holy Rood, devoted to the rule of St. Augustin, at Edinburgh. The kings of Scotland afterwards found it so convenient to frequent this religious house that they built alongside of it a royal residence or palace, well known to the world as Holyrood House." _J. H. Burton, History of Scotland, chapter 20 (volume 2)._ The Holy Rood, or Black Rood as it was sometimes called, was carried away from Scotland, along with the "coronation stone," by Edward I. of England, afterwards got back by treaty, and then lost again at the battle of Neville's Cross, from which it went as a trophy to Durham Abbey. HOLY WAR, Mahometan. See DAR-UL-ISLAM. HOMAGE. See FEUDAL TENURES. HOME RULE MOVEMENT, The Irish. See IRELAND: A. D. 1873-1879, to 1893. HOMER AND THE HOMERIC POEMS.