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Boccaccino Boccaccio Boccaccino An eminent Italian painter, b. at Cremona, 1460, and d. probably in 1525 rather than in 1518, the date usually given. He studied, it is thought, with followers of Mantegna, at Ferrara, and was a pupil or fellow-student of Domenico Panetti. At Cremona he painted in Sant’ Agostino a series of frescoes. … Continue reading “Boccaccino”

Bocanegra, Don Pedro Atanasio a Spanish painter, was born at Granada in 1638, and studied under Alonso Cano and Pedro de Moya and Vandyck. There is a picture by him of the Conception, in the cloister of Nuestra Senora de Gracia, at Granada, considered very fine, and one of his best works in the Jesuit … Continue reading “Bocanegra, Don Pedro Atanasio”

Bobuns in Hindu mythology, are the separate regions of the universe, of which there are fifteen seven under and seven above the surface of the earth the earth being the fifteenth region. In the former the fallen spirits are punished; in the latter, those above the surface of the earth, they are purified and made … Continue reading “Bobuns”

Bobola, Saint Andrew Martyr, born of an old and illustrious Polish family, in the Palatinate of Sandomir, 1590; died at Janów, 16 May, 1657. Having entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Wilno (1611), he was ordained in 1622, and appointed preacher in the Church of St. Casimir, Wilno. After making his solemn … Continue reading “Bobola, Saint Andrew”

Bobolenus was a German monk, who wrote the Life of St. German, the abbot of Grandval, diocese of Basle, who suffered martyrdom at the hands of duke Boniface, in A.D. 666 (given by Bollandus, Feb. 21, 3, 263, and by Mabillon, Acta Bened. i, 511). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bobola, Andrew, Blessed Jesuit martyr , born Sandomir, Poland , 1590; died Janow, 1657. He was superior at Bobruisk, where he distinguished himself during the plague. His success in converting schismatics, in the Lithuanian mission, led to his torture and martyrdom by the Cossacks. Feast , Russia, Galicia, and Posnania, 16 May ; in Poland … Continue reading “Bobola, Andrew, Blessed”

Bobo, Saint SEE BOVUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bobbio Missal A manuscript of the 7th century found by Mabillon, at Bobbio , North Italy , now in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris (Lat. 13,246). While the manuscript is also called Gallican and attributed to the Province of Besanon, it is now recognized to be Irish in a much Romanized form. The Missal contains … Continue reading “Bobbio Missal”

Bobbett, William Hiliard a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Halifax County, N.C., March 11, 1826. Joining the North Carolina Conference in 1846, he served as pastor or presiding elder nearly all his life. He also served one year as agent of the American Bible Society. He died November 22, 1890. … Continue reading “Bobbett, William Hiliard”

Bobbio, Abbey and Diocese of The diocese (Ebovium, or Bobium; Dioecesis Eboviensis, or Bobiensis), which is suffragan to the Archiepiscopal See of Genoa, is coterminous with the civil district of Bobbio. This district is situated in the Province of Pavia and contains, besides Bobbio, its chief town, only two small villages and eighteen communes. The … Continue reading “Bobbio, Abbey and Diocese of”