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Batchelder, William born at Boston, March 25, 1768, was a Baptist minister of considerable note. His parents dying when he was but 13, he began a roving life, in the course of which he had many remarkable adventures; among others was the being elected captain, or master of a ship which had lost its officers, … Continue reading “Batchelder, William”

Batchelder, John a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, called a pioneer missionary of Iowa, died at Burlington, Iowa, March 25, 1867, aged sixty-six years. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. July, 1867, p. 335. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Batchelder, George W a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Philadelphia, June 15, 1836. He was educated at the Pennington Seminary, N. J., and afterward was engaged as classical teacher at Caseville, Pa., and New Egypt, N. J. In 1857 he entered the itinerant ministry, and was appointed to Princeton, N. J. Here his preaching … Continue reading “Batchelder, George W”

Batchelder, Calvin R a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Vermont, was rector of the Church in Highgate, Vt., from 1845 until 1860, when he became rector of Zion Church, Manchester, Vt., of which he remained pastor until about 1866. In 1877 he officiated at Bellows Falls, Vt., and in the following year became rector of Christ … Continue reading “Batchelder, Calvin R”

Batavia (Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia) When the Portuguese took possession of the island of Java, of which Batavia is the capital, they brought the Christian religion with them; but the Dutch, having conquered Java in 1596, set about the destruction of Catholicism. Nevertheless, the memory has been preserved of a Friar Minor who was expelled … Continue reading “Batavia”

Batava-Gourou the god of heaven and of justice among the Battas of Sumatra. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

BATANISTS Or ASSASSINS; a famous heretical sect of murderers among the Mahometans, who settled in Persia about 1090. Their head and chief seems to have been Hassan Sabah, who made fanatical slaves of his subjects. Their religion was a compound of that of the Magi, the Jews, the Christians, and the Mahometans. They believed the … Continue reading “BATANISTS”

Batanaea SEE BASHAN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Batanaea bat-a-nea: The name used in Greek times for BASHAN (which see), Josephus, Life, II; Ant, XV, x, 1; XVII, ii, 1, toparchy of Butanea. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Batalerius, Jacobus a Dutch Remonstrant divine and theologian, was born Dec. 27, 1593, and died July 31, 1672. He wrote, Examen Accuratum Disputationis Primce Voetice (anon. s. a.): Confutatio Infulsi’et Maledici Libri quem adversus Remonstrantes Edidit Voetius Titulo Thersitis Heautontimorumeni: Dissertadio de Conversione Israelitarum a Divo Paulo cap. xi ad Romanos Prcedicta (Hague, 1669, 18mo): … Continue reading “Batalerius, Jacobus”

Batala a name signifying God the Creator, is applied to the Supreme Being by the pagan inhabitants of the Philippine islands. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature