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Barstucke (Or Berstucke) in Lithuanian mythology, was the name of certain middle beings between the subdeities and men goblins, or gnomes. The head among them was Puschkeit, governing the earth and plants. These goblins made their abode principally under elder-bushes, which were therefore sacred to them. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Barstow, Zedekiah Smith, D.D. a Congregational minister, was born in Canterbury, Conn., Oct. 4, 1790. He was admitted to college in 1811; after graduation he pursued his theological studies under the direction of president Dwight, and was licensed in New Haven, Conn., in 1814. For two years he was tutor and college chaplain in Hamilton … Continue reading “Barstow, Zedekiah Smith, D.D.”

Barstow, George a Congregational minister, was born in Duxbury, Mass., in 1770. He graduated at Brown University in 1801; was ordained pastor of the Church in Hanson, Mass., Jan. 26, 1803; and died Feb. 11, 1821. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 646. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Barsotti, Nicola an Italian ascetic writer, was a Capuchin at Lucca near the middle of the 17th century. He wrote, Spirituale Humane semper Peregrince Mortalis Vitce Renigium, habens Portum suum Immortalem Etesrnam Vitam (first printed in Italian, then in an abridged form in Latin, Vienna, 1647): Sermones Evangelici pro Quadragesima et Adventu (ibid. 1667): Sermones … Continue reading “Barsotti, Nicola”

Barsotti, Giovanni Carlo an Italian theologian who lived at Florence near the middle of the 18th century, wrote Vita del Servo di Dio Gaetano Pratesi Marescalco Fiorentino (Florence, 1756). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Barsony (De Lovas Bereny), George a Hungarian theologian, was born at Peterfalva near the commencement of the 17th century. He embraced the ecclesiastical profession, preached several years in Szerdahely, became canon at Gran in 1653, and was made bishop of Grosswardein in 1663. He distinguished himself by his zeal against Protestantism. He died Jan. 18, … Continue reading “Barsony (De Lovas Bereny), George”

Barsom in Persian cultus, is a bundle of consecrated twigs which the priest holds in his left hand while reading the Zendavesta. They are held together by a sacred band of palm-leaves, which is called Evanguin. The tree from which the branches are taken is not mentioned; the number is decided according to the number … Continue reading “Barsom”

Barsanuphius a solitary of Palestine, an Egyptian’by birth, in the reign of Justinian, about 540. According to the story related by Evagrius (Hist. Eccl. 4:33), he shut himself up in his cell in a monastery at Gaza, where he remained for more than fifty years, seeing and seen by no human being, and eating no … Continue reading “Barsanuphius”

Barsanuphians (Or Barsanuphites) were an obscure subdivision of the Monophysites, taking their name from Barsanuphius, an Egyptian pretender to the episcopal rank. They separated from the Jacobites in the reign of the emperor Zeno, at the latter part of the 5th century, and were reunited to them in the time of the patriarch Mark, about … Continue reading “Barsanuphians (Or Barsanuphites)”

Barsanians were one of the minor Egyptian sects of the Monophysites during the latter part of the 5th century. Joannes Damascenus identifies them with the Semidalitae (q.v.), and states that they had no valid consecration of the eucharist, but, having mixed a few crumbs of sacramental bread consecrated by Dioscorus, the Eutychian patriarch of Alexandria, … Continue reading “Barsanians”