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Bramston, James an English clergyman and author, who died in 1744, was vicar of Starting in Sussex, and wrote some pieces, principally satirical. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bramhall, John archbishop of Armagh, was born at Pontefract, in Yorkshire, in 1593, and studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he passed A.B. 1612, and A.M. 161f. In the same year he was presented to a living in York. In 1623 he held two disputations with a Romish priest and a Jesuit at Northallerton, … Continue reading “Bramhall, John (2)”

Bramford, William an English Wesleyan minister, was born of religious parents at Scotton, Lincolnshire. He joined the Church when seventeen; was received into the ministry in 1838; for nineteen years laboriously discharged its duties; and died April 22, 1857, in the forty-fourth year of his age. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1857. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Bramford, William”

Brame, Thomas a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, October 1, 1796. He was converted in 1817, and in 1820 was admitted into the North Carolina Conference. He died at his residence in Granville County, N.C., January 13, 1848. Mr. Bramne’s talents as a preacher were more solid … Continue reading “Brame, Thomas”

Brame, John Todd, Sr a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in August 1792. He professed conversion in his fourteenth year, and in his twenty-third year entered the Virginia Conference, wherein he served until his death, September 29, 1819. Mr. Brame possessed an amiable and cheerful disposition, agreeable manners, good natural talents, … Continue reading “Brame, John Todd, Sr”

Brame, John Todd, Jr son of the above, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Newbern, N.C., June 1, 1820. He grew up under the sole care of his devout, widowed mother; was weak in frame, but possessed of uncommon mental strength. He matriculated as freshman in Randolph Macon College in … Continue reading “Brame, John Todd, Jr”

Bramble See Thistle Thorns Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible Bramble is, in Isa 34:13, the rendering of the Heb. , cho’ach, a thorn in general (rendered elsewhere “thistle” or “thorn”), as in Luk 6:44, it stands for the Greek , in the similar sense of any prickly shrub; but in Jdg 9:14-15, it represents the … Continue reading “Bramble”

Bramble bush * For BRAMBLE BUSH see BUSH Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Brambilla, Giovanni Battista a reputable Piedmontese painter, flourished in Turin about 1770, and studied under Cav. Carlo Delfino. Some of his works are in the churches at Turin; the best of them is in San Dalmazio, representing the martyrdom of that saint. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, … Continue reading “Brambilla, Giovanni Battista”

Bramantino, Bartolomeo a Milanese painter, whose real name was Suardi, was a pupil of Bramante. He painted for the churches and public edifices of Milan. There are also some fine pictures by him in the Church of San Francesco. One of his best pictures, was the Dead Christ between the Marys, painted for the Church … Continue reading “Bramantino, Bartolomeo”