- Calix by Joan Ellis
Calix is a masculine given nameShort form of CallistusLatin: ChaliceGreek: Very Handsome
- Callista by Joan Ellis
Callista is either masculine or feminine given nameEnglish: Feminine form of Callistus or a form of KallistoLatin: Fair, LovelyGreek: Most beautiful. Calista was a Mythological Arcadian who transformed into a she-bear, then into the Great Bear constellation
- Callisto by Joan Ellis
Callisto is either masculine or feminine given nameItalian: Italian form of CallistusRoman...
- Calixtus I, Saint by Nicolas Chapman
Callistus I, Saint, c.160–c.222, pope (217–222), a Roman; successor of St. Zephyrinus. As archdeacon to Zephyrinus he established the famous Calixtus Cemetery, where all the popes of the 3d cent. Except Calixtus himself are ...
- Calixtus III by Caleb Malone
Callixtus III. Or Callistus III. 1378–1458, pope (1455–58), a Spaniard (b. Játiva) named Alonso de Borja or, in Italian, Alfonso Borgia; successor of Nicholas V. He acted as arbitrator between his friend Alfonso V of Aragón and the papacy ...