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Battersby, Charles a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Manchester, England, in 1836. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in his ninth year; received from his exemplar an early, careful mental and moral traininug; experienced conversion in his nineteenth year, while teaching near Saugerties. N. Y.; and at once began laboring from … Continue reading “Battersby, Charles”

BATTERING-RAMS Eze 4:2; Eze 21:22; Eze 26:9 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

BATTERING-RAM A military engine for battering walls. A long and solid beam, armed at one end with a metallic ram’s-head, was suspended by the middle, and swung violently and repeatedly against the walls of a city or castle, till a breach was made. It was sometimes in the lower part of a wooden tower built … Continue reading “Battering-ram”

Batter Is a term applied to walls built out of the upright, or gently sloping inwards: for example, the tower of Oxford Castle, and of St. Peter’s Church (Oxford), of Isham Church (Northamptonshire), and some others, batter that is, they are smaller at the top than at the bottom, the walls all inclining inwards. Wharf … Continue reading “Batter”

Batten, William a minister in connection with the British Wesleyan Conference, was one of the firstfruits of Methodism in North Wales, and there entered the labors of the itinerancy in 1804, retiring in 1843. Batten possessed shrewdness and sagacity, was of a cheerful disposition, and knew the reality of an experimental religion. He was chairman … Continue reading “Batten, William”

Batten, Thomas a Welsh Wesleyan minister, son of Rev. William Batten, was born at Beaumaris in 1820. He was educated at Kingswood school, and converted at the age of fifteen. He commenced his ministry in 1845, and died April 10, 1857. His sermons had point and power. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1857. Fuente: … Continue reading “Batten, Thomas”

Battely, John, D.D. an English clergyman and antiquary, was born at St. Edmund’s Bury, Suffolk, in 1647. He was some time fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and chaplain to archbishop Sancroft, by whose favor he became rector of Adisham, Kent, prebendary of Canterbury, and archdeacon of that diocese. He died Oct. 10, 1708. In 1711 … Continue reading “Battely, John, D.D.”

Battelle, Gordon D.D., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Newport, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1814. He entered Marietta College in 1833, and graduated at Alleghany College in 1840. In 1842 he was licensed to preach; and from 1843 to 1851 he was head of an academy at Clarksburg, Va. Meanwhile he had been ordained deacon … Continue reading “Battelle, Gordon”

Battandier, Albert (1850 -1921 ) Scholar, born Saint Flicien, Ardche, France ; died there. Educated at the Jesuit college of Mongre, near Lyons, and at the seminary of Viviers, he was ordained, 1875 , and won his degree in theology and canon law at the French seminary in Rome, 1879 . Appointed consultor of the … Continue reading “Battandier, Albert”

Battaglini, Marco A historian of the councils, b. at Rimini, Italy, 25 March, 1645; d. at Cesena, 19 September, 1717. He studied law at Cesena, both civil and ecclesiastical, and at the age of sixteen he obtained the degree of doctor in both branches. After some years of service in the civil administration of the … Continue reading “Battaglini, Marco”