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Aubusson, Pierre d’ Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, born 1423; died 1503. He made his first campaigns against the Turks, and fought next under the French Dauphin in a war against the Swiss (1444). It was on his return from this last expedition that he obtained from Charles VII permission … Continue reading “Aubusson, Pierre d’”

Auburn Theological Seminary SEE SEMINARIES, THEOLOGICAL. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Auburn Declaration a popular designation of the “Esscinding Act,” passed in that city (N.Y.) against the churches in the western part of the state as non-Presbyterian, for failing to come up to the higher Calvinistic theology assumed in the document. It has been practically a dead-letter. For its text, see Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, 2:777. … Continue reading “Auburn Declaration”

Aubry, Jean Baptist a French Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Vannes, was born at Deyvillier, near pinmal, in 1836, and became prior of the house of Commercy. He died about 1809. His works are, Questions Philosophiques sur la Religion Nature: L’istoire des Auteurs Sacires et Ecclesiastiques:-and Questions Metaphysiques sur l’Existence et la Nature de … Continue reading “Aubry, Jean Baptist”

Aubriot, Jean a French prelate, belonged to the family of the provost of Paris, Hugh Aubriot, and was raised to the bishopric of Chalon-sur-Saone at the commencement of the year 1336. He gained great favor with the duke Eudes of Burgundy, who. greatly approved the counsel of this prelate. Eudes, who died in 1349, had … Continue reading “Aubriot, Jean”

Aubrey Thomas Hunt De Vere Poet, born County Limerick, Ireland , 1814 ; died there, 1902 . A personal disciple of Wordsworth, he wrote poems based on the legends of Greece and Ireland . He was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin . Later he visited Cambridge , Oxford, and Rome, and came under the influence … Continue reading “Aubrey Thomas Hunt De Vere”

Aubrey, Thomas a Welsh Wesleyan minister, was born at Cefn-coed-y-emernear Merthyr- Tydvil, May 13, 1808. He was received into the ministry in 1826; soon took a prominent place among the most popular preachers of his native land; was appointed chairman of the North Wales District in 1854; continued in that capacity for eleven years; devised … Continue reading “Aubrey, Thomas”

Aubin, St., Bishop Of Angers was born at Vannes, Brittany, in 469. He retired to the Monastery of Cincillac, since called Tintillant, of which he afterwards became abbot, and held that office for twenty-five years. In 529 the people of Angers almost forcibly compelled him to become their bishop, in which capacity he attended several … Continue reading “Aubin, St., Bishop Of Angers”

Aubin, N. a French writer and Protestant minister, was born at Loudun near the middle of the 17th century. He took refuge in Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; :and published a translation of the Life f Michael Ruyter, by Brandt, in 1698: Dictionnaire de Marine (Amsterd. 1702) :- Histoire des Diables … Continue reading “Aubin, N.”

Aubin, Gabriel Jacques a Parisian historical painter and engraver, brother of Augustin, was born in 1724. He engraved some plates from his own designs, the principal of which are, Six Statues of the Christian Virtues: View of the Louvre Exhibition of. Paintings in 1753, Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature