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  • EABA(1), EABAE, z daughter of Eanfrith, brother of Eanhere, under-kings or ealdormen of the Hwiccii, and wife of Ethelwalch,
  • EABBA(Kemble, C. D. 37 ; Thorn, in Twysd. col. 1770; Elmham, pp. 233, 234, ed. Hardwick), abbess. [EORMENBURH.] {C. H.]
  • EADApresbyter, a valued friend of Alcuin, who thanks him for presents, and praises his munificence towards him. Alcuin says
  • EADBALD(1) (AupuvaLp, Bed. H. Z. ii. 8 3 AUDUBALD, 7. ii, 10, 11; AxopBALD, ib. ii. 6, tit. 7, 9; AEDBOLD, Flor. Wig. Chron. an
  • EADBALT(Gaimar, Zstoria v. 1273, I. H. B. 780), king of Kent. [EapBaLp (1).] {C. H.]
  • EADBERCT[EApserut, EADBERT.]
  • EADBERHAT(2) (Kemble, @. D. 106, a.p. 761; 107, A.p. 761; 110, A.p. 762, all doubtful), king of Kent. [EApBerRT (3).] [C. H.]
  • EADBERHT(8) (Sim. Dun. G 2. A, in M. H. B. 670a; Flor. Wig. ad Chron. App. in M. H. B, 635), king of Kent. [EADBERT PRAEN. ] (C.
  • EADBERT(1) (Alcuin, Carm. 280, Opp. ii. 240, ed. Froben.), bishop of Lindisfarne. [EapBeRuT (5).] (C. H.]
  • EADBIRHTa bishop whose name is attached to a charter of Nunna king of the South Saxons, granting him lands, A.D. 725 (Kemble, C.
  • EADBIRTH(Nenn. Hist. in Mon. Hist. Brit. 75 b), HADBRIAT (Flor. Wig. Chron. ann,
  • EADBRICT PREN(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. iv. M. H. B. 732 c), EADBRICH PREN (Chron. Mailr. an. 794), king of Kent. [EApBERT (4) PRAEN.] {
  • EADBRIGHTa bishop, see unnamed, who attests a charter of Osmund king of Sussex, A.D. 770 (Kemble, C. D. 1009). His date suggests
  • EADBRIHAT(2) (Flor. Wig. Nom. Epise. Jund. M. H. B. 617), bishop of London, preceding Eadgar. [EapBERuT (7). | [C. H.]
  • EADBRITH(Wend. /. 7. ann. 675, ed. Coxe), bishop of London, succeeding Wiger, ic. Wiged. He is the Aidberht, ninth bishop, of St
  • EADBURCH(Gaimar, storie, v. 2066; I. H. B. 789), queen of Wessex, daughter of Offa king of Mercia. [EApBURGA (1).] [C. H.]
  • EADBURGA(1), daughter of Offa, and queen
  • EADBURGH(Asser, de Gest. Alf. M. H. B. 471d, e), EADBURH (Ethelwerd, Chron. iii. 20 in M. H. B.509; Flor. Wig. Chron. in M. H. B
  • EADBYRHT(1) (MSS. in Hardy, Deseor. Cat. i. 365), bishop of Lindisfarne. [EADBERHT (5).J [C. H.]
  • EADDAbishop, see unnamed, who attests a harter of Ethelward subregulus of the Hwiccii, .D. 706. (Kemble, C. D. 56.) [HEppa; I
  • EADFERED FLESAURS(Nenn. Hist. in UW. H. B, 76 A), king of Northumbria. [ETHEL- 'RID (1).] [J2Re]
  • EADFIRD(Hist. Nennii in M. H. B. 75b), on of Edwin king of Northumbria. [EADFRID
  • EADFRID(1) (Eaprriru), a son of Edwin 'ing of Northumbria and his first wife Coenurga, daughter of Cearl king of Mercia. He vas
  • EADFRITH(Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 664 in M. H. B. 532d; id. Geneal. Rey. Northum. ib. 632; id. ad Chron. App. ib. 639c), son of Ed
  • EADGAR(1), the third bishop of the Lindisfari, or people of Lindsey (JZ. H. B. 624; Bed. H. E.iv.12). His name is attached to
  • EADGUIN(Nennius, in MZ. H. B. 74 c,76 b), king of Northumbria. [EpDWLn.] (C. H.1
  • EADGYDa nun of Barking, mentioned by Bede. (H. EH. iv. 8.) She died of the plague of 664, after being thrice called by the boy
  • EADHAETH(Bed. H. EZ. vy. 24, Recapit. Chron. ann. 678 in MU. H. B. 2884), bishop of Lindsey. [EADHED.] [C. H.]
  • EADHAMAIRIrish saint. [EDHAMATR. ]
  • EADHEDa priest of Oswy king of Northumbria, sent by him with Ceadda into Kent to seek episcopal ordination for the latter at t
  • EADHEREa priest of the diocese of Lichfield, who attended the council at Clovesho in 883. (Kemble, C.D. 1024; Haddan and Stubbs
  • EADHOLAC(Chron. Marbr. ann. 731), bishop of East Anglia, [Hearnonac.] [C. H.]
  • EADLBALT(Hist. Nennii, M. H. B. 75a), king of Mercia, son of Alguing. [ETHutBALD (1).] {C. H.]
  • EADLERID(Hist. Nennii, M. H. B. 76), king of Northumbria. [ErHELrrip.] ([C. H.]
  • EADLIT(Hist. Nennii, M. H. B. 75a), king of Mercia, son of Penda. [ETHELRED.] {C. H.] EADRED (1) (Angi. Sac. i. 404), bishop o
  • EADRED(2) (Heaprep, HEARDRED), was consecrated bishop of Hexham on Oct. 29, a.p. 797, at a place called Wuduforda. The consecr
  • EADRIC(1), king of Kent, son of Egbert. On the death of his father, which took place in July, 673, Eadric was probably under a
  • EADULF(1) (Stubbs, Regist. Sacr. pp. 5,
  • EADUUINE(Ethelwerd, Chron. iii. 2 in M. H. B. 510d), king of Northumbria. [EpWIN. | (C. H.]
  • EADUULF(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 170, 171, 175, 183, 185, 190, 191, 197, 237), bishop of Lindsey. [EapuLr II.] [C. H.]
  • EADWALD(1) (Wend. Flor. Hist. ann. 655, 680), king of East Anglia, [ELcwoLp.] [C. H.] EADWALD (2), Wilfiid's adopted son. [Eopw
  • EADWARAa British saint, sister of St. Iuthwara, mentioned by Cressy (Ch. Hist. Brit. xxiii. 9) from Capgrave's Vita S. Iuthwara
  • EADWINE@. ann. 601, Eng. transl. in M. H. B. 305; Flor. Wig. ad Chron. App. in M. H. B. 635', 636 a, 637d; Malm. G. &
  • EADWLF(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 1023, of Kenulf, king of Mercia, A.p. 801), EADWULF, EADULFUS (ib. 1023, of Kenulf, a.p. 801; 1024, o
  • EADWOLF(Wend. F ZH. ann. 655, 680, ed. Coxe), king of East Anglia. Camas ay ye
  • EAFAson of Eoppa and father of Ealhmund, king of Kent, the father of Egbert of Wessex. (Chr. S. M. H. B. 348.) [S.]
  • EAHFRIDan Anglo-Saxon scholar who studied in Ireland, and to whom on his return Aldheim wrote a curious letter, in which he tri
  • EALCHEARDUSbishep, see unnamed, who attests a charter of Offa king of Mercia, believed spurious or doubtful by Kemble, A.D. 793. (K
  • EALDBALD(Nenn. Hist. Brit. cap. 66, in M. H. B. 74¢), king of Kent. [EapBALp (1).] (C. U.]
  • EALDBEORCTHone who at the con-
  • EALDBERHT(1) (Nenn. Hist. Brit. M. H. B. 74c), king of Kent. [EruenpertrI.] ([C. H.]
  • EALDFERTH(Ethelwerd, Chron. ii. 11, in M. H. B. 507 a), king of Northumbria, ob. A.D. 705. [ALDFRITH.] [C. H.]
  • EALDFRID(1), king, who witnesses a charter of Ealwulf of Sussex, cir. a.p. 791, signing last and after Offa king of Mercia. (Kem
  • EALDFRIH(Bed. v. 18, Saxon version, Smith's Beda, p. 635, 18), son of Oswy. [ALDFRITH. } [C. H.]
  • EALDULEF(2) (Kemble, C. D. 203, charter of Kenulf), EALDULPH (Flor. Wig. Nom. Praesul. Lindisf. in M. H. B, 625), bishop vu! Lin
  • EALDULF(8), South Saxon (EApDuLF (6).]
  • EALDWINE(Sim. Dun. G. R. A. VW. in H. B. 657d), bishop of the Mercians. [ALDWIN (2).], [C. H.]
  • EALDWLEF(1) (Flor. Wig. Nom. Praesul. Lindisf. in M. H. B. 625 a), bishop of Lindsey. (EADULF I. bishop of Lindsey.] (C. H.)
  • EALDWULE(2) (Kemble, C. D. 1015, a.p. 791 in 1016, cir. A.D. 791), king of Sussex. (C. H.]
  • EALDWULF(8), bishop of Rochester. [ALDULF (2).]
  • EALFRID(Gaimar, Zstorie, vy. 1568 in M. H. B. 783), king of Northumbria, died at Drifelde. [ALDFRITH.] (C. H.]
  • EALGHEARD, EALHEARDbishop, see unnamed, who attests charters of Offa king of Mercia, A.D. 789, 790. (Kemble, C. D. 157, 159.) [ALHEARD. ] {
  • EALHEARDa deacon whose attestation is appended to a spurious charter of Kenulf of Mercia in 799. (Kemble, C. D. 177.) [S.]
  • EALHFLAEDE(Bed. H. £. iii. 21, Sax. transl. in Smith's Beda, p. 550, 42), daughter of Oswy, wife of Peada of Mercia. [ALCHFLEDA.]
  • EALHFRIH(Bed. H. £. iii. 14, 21, Sax, transl. in Smith's Beda, pp. 539. 19, 551-6), son of Oswy. [ALCHFRITH. ] (C. H.J
  • EALHMUND(1), king of Kent, son of Eafa, and father of Egbert afterwards king of Wessex. His reign in Kent is fixed by the Anglo-
  • EALHUNa priest of Canterbury, who attested a charter of archbishop Wulfred, dated 811. (Kemble, C. D. 195.) [S.]
  • EALHWINE(Lapp. Hist. Eng. i. 181), EALWINE. [Atcuiy.]
  • EALRED(Wend. F. ZH. ann. 773, ed. Coxe), king of Northumbria. [ALcHReD.] (C. H.]
  • EAMBERCTHarchbishop of York. [Ec-BERT. |
  • EANBALD(EnpAxp), the pupil and the successor of Albert in the see of York. It is
  • EANBALDII(Exparp, HeEAaNnBALp, EANTBALD), archbishop of York, following Eanbald I, Our information of him, which extends only thr
  • EANBERCHTdenounced with Hunraed and two others by Boniface archbishop of Mainz, in his Life of Willibald, as false brethren, who
  • EANBERHT(1), one of five presbyters in Thuringia, whom Lullus archbishop of Mainz directs to arrange in their localities for pub
  • EANBERHTTA(Cod. Dip. 100; Birch,
  • EANBERT(Eappert; EANBERHT; OsBERT), bishop of Hexham, between Heardred and Tidferth. Richard of Hexham states that he was ordai
  • EANBRYTH(Sim. Dun. G@. 2. A. ann. 800 in M. H. B. 671), bishop of Hexham. [EANBERT.] [C. H.]
  • EANBURGAan abbess mentioned in a questionable charter of Offa, belonging to Worcester, and dated 781. In this the king con- firm
  • EANFERTHbishop of Elmham. [EANFRITH (3). ]
  • EANFLED(1), a name inscribed onthe fourth tablet of the taller pyramid in the cemetery at Glastonbury, which William of Malmesb
  • EANFRID(1) (ANFRID, EANFRITH), a son of Ethelfrid king of Northumbria, and himself king of Bernicia on the death of Edwin in a.
  • EANFRIGIDUSAlcuin's agent on the continent. Alcuin in 790 writes from England to his disciple Josephus abroad begging him to send f
  • EANFRITH(1) (Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 593, 634; M. H. B. 526b, 528 e; id. Geneal. Reg. North. M. H. B. 632), king of Bernicia. [Ea
  • EANGHEARDa priest of Canterbury, who subscribes a charter of archbishop Wulfred, dated April 21, 811. (Kemble, C. D. 195.)
  • EANGISTa disciple of Alcuin, who is said to have been cured of his toothache by a touch of his master's comb. (Vit. Alchuini Au
  • EANGITHAan English abbess, mother of Heaburga otherwise called Bugga. [Bua@a (2).] A letter is extant addressed by her to St. Bo
  • EANGYTH(Monum. Mogunt. ed. Jaffé, p. 66), abbess. [EANGITHA.] [C. H.J
  • EANHEREbrother of Eanfrith, king or ~ viceroy of the Hwiccii. [EANFRITH (2).] [S.]
  • EANMUND(1) (Kemble, C. D. 114, between
  • EANRED(1), presbyter of the diocese of Leicester, who attested the acts of the council of Clovesho, Oct. 12, 803. (Kemble, @.
  • EANSWITHA(EanswipA), a daughter of Eadbald king of Kent, who lived a virgin and was buried at Folkestone. (Flor. Wig, in UM. H. B
  • EANTBALDThis name with the title of praesul occurs in a poem of Alcuin addressed to pope Leo HI. Eantbald is sending presents to
  • EANULF(1), a Mercian noble, son of Osmod and kinsman of Ethelbald king of Mercia (716- 757). He founded the monastery of Bredo
  • EANWALDa priest of Worcester, who attests a charter of bishop Deneberht in or about 802. (Kemble, C. D. 181.) [S.J
  • EANWLIFan abbat of a monastery, unnamed, who addresses Lullus archbishop of Mainz, May 24, 773, expressing gratitude for a lett
  • EAPPAone of the priests of Wilfrid, who materially assisted him in A.D. 678 in the conversion of Sussex, baptizing many of th
  • EARCOMBERTking of Kent, son of Eadbald and Emma, succeeded his father Eadbald in
  • EARCONGOTAthe daughter of Earcombert, king of Kent, by his wife Sexburga. She is described by Bede (H. £Z. iii. 8) as a virgin of
  • EARCONUALD(Bed. H. Z. iv. 6; Ui. B. 217 d), bishop of London. [ERKENWALD. ] ({C. H.] EARDRED, the third bishop of Dunwich after th
  • EAST SAXONSThe kingdom of the East Saxons was conterminous with the old diocese of London. That diocese embraced the counties of Es
  • EASTERWINE(Eosrerwini), coadjutor abbat of Wearmouth, was the nephew of Benedict Biscop, founder and first abbat of that jmonaster
  • EATA(1), the first bishop of Hexham and the fifth of Lindisfarne. He was one of the twelve Northumbrian boys whom St. Aidan,
  • EATBERT(Bed. H. EZ. Chronol. in M. H. B. 288 c), king of Northumbria. [EADBERT (4).]
  • EATHED(Flor. Wig. Nom. Praesul. Lindisf. in WU. H. B. 624d, e; Id. Chron. ann. 677, 681), bishop of Lindsey. [EADHED.] [C. H.]
  • EATTA(Wend. F. H. ann. 678, 686, ed. Coxe), bishop of Hexham. [Hara (1).] [C. H.]
  • EBAGNIUSa magistrianus, or official of the magister officioram in the imperial court (Ducange, s. v.). He was sent with a letter
  • EBALTERIUS, EBALTIUS, EBARCIS[EBarcivs. |
  • EBARCIUS(1) Sixteenth bishop of Nevers, following St. Itherius, and succeeded by Opportunus. He flourished about A.D. 696, accor
  • EBASIUSbishop of Vicus Aterii, a town i the province of Byzacia in Africa. He subscribe: the synodal epistle of Stephanus the p
  • EBASTIUS[Esarcivs.]
  • EBBA(1) (AEBBA, AEBBE, EBBE, Malmesb Gest. Pontif. 231, ed. Hamilton), abbess of Col dingham, a daughter of Ethelfrid king o
  • EBBIan abbat, probably in Northumbria, of whom we know nothing more save that he died in A.D. 775. (Symeon, Chron. ed. Surte
  • EBBO(1), ST., the 29th oecupant of the see of Sens, succeeding his uncle Gericus, was born towards the close of the 7th cent
  • EBEDJESUS(1) (ABdinoois), the name of a bishop, three presbyters, a deacon, and a monk, in the Persian martyrdoms under Sapor, ab
  • EBEREGISILUS(Greg. Tur. de Glor. Mart. cap. 62. Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxi. col. 761), bishop of Cologne. [Esrucesttus.] [C. H.]
  • EBERGISUS[Esreeisvs.]
  • EBERHARD(1), a wealthy and powerful count in Alsace, the son of duke Adalbert. He granted land for a monastery to St. Pirminius,
  • EBERULFUSchamberlain and alleged murderer of Chilperic I. The crime was committed in A.D. 584, and the same year Gun- tram, Chilp
  • EBIONISM and EBIONITESThe name Ebionite first occurs in Irenaeus (circa A.D. 180- 190; Adv. Haer. i. c. 22; [a]. c. 265] pp. 212-13, ed. Harve
  • EBORASa Persian presbyter, martyred with Miles a bishop, and Seboa a deacon, during the _ reign of Sapor II. (A.D. 346). He wa
  • EBORICHking of the Suevi in Spain. 1D } g P BURIC.
  • EBORINUS(Esrornus), sixteenth bishop of Toul, succeeding Theodefridus and followed by St. Leudinus. He is one of the bishops add
  • EBORIUSThe name of "Eborius episcopus de civitate Eboracensi provincia Britannia" is attached, with those of Restitutus an
  • EBRAISILUS(Boll. Acta SS. Aug. vi. 694), bishop of Meaux. [EBRIGISILUS.] [C. H.]
  • EBREGESILUS(Esrecisinus, EsrrnGISILUS), ninth bishop of Cologne, succeeding Charentinus, and followed by Remedius, or, according to
  • EBREGISILUS(Boll. Acta SS. Aug. vi
  • EBREGISUS(Esereisus, Evereisus), ST . twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth bishop of Tongres (afterwards Liége), succeeding St. Perpetuu
  • EBRELINDUSbishop of Laon. [ELINANDUS. ]
  • EBREMUNDUS(Evremonp), saint and abbat. Migne and the Bollandists agree in the account of his life, but place it at quite different
  • EBRETINGUSbishop of Laon.
  • EBRIGISILUS, ST(Esrecisi.us, EBRAISILUS), twenty-third bishop of Meaux, the suc- cessor of St. Patusius. He is said to have been a monk
  • EBRINUS(Bed. iv. 1), mayor. [EBROINUS.]
  • EBROINUS(1) was set up by the Frankish chiefs as mayor of the palace in Neustria and Burgundy about the year 658 (Gesta Reg. Fr.
  • EBRUINUS(Fredegar. Chron. Contin. ce. 92, 96, 97, 98, in Patr. Lat. lxxi.), mayor. [EBRoInus (1).] {C. H.]
  • EBRULFUS(1), ST. (Evrout, Evroutr), founder of the monastery of St. Evroul d'Ouche, at Uticus (Ouche) in the diocese of Lisieux
  • EBULUS(1) (Evorits, Emrtius), third bishop | fate that he had previously forced upon Eburic,
  • EBURor, according to another reading, Ywor, a bishop who is said in the Annales Cambriae to have died A.D. 501, "anno cccl.
  • EBURIC(Eporicu, Exorius, and in Gregory of Tours Euricus), king of the Suevi in Spain. He succeeded his father Miro a.p. 583,
  • EBURIUS(second council of Arles, Isidor, Mere. Collect. Decretal. in Patr. Lat. cxxx. col. 379, reads and punctuates thus: .. .
  • EBWALT(Bonif. Mogunt. Zpp. ep. 29, ed. Migne, Patr. Lat. Ixxxix.), king of East Anglia. [ELFWALD. ] [C. H.]
  • ECBERCHTUS(Mon. Mogunt. ed. Jaffé, p. 249), ECBERTH (Monum. Mogunt. ed. Jaffé, p. 178), ECBRUTH (Gaimar, Lstorie, v. 1741, WZ. H.
  • ECBERCTUS(Bed. de Sex Aetat. in M. H. B. 100 d), ECBERT (Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1659, in M. H. B. 784), ECBRIHT (Gaimar, storie, v.
  • ECBERITH EATINC(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1755, in U. H. B. 785), ECBRITH EATINCO (Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1751, in M. H. B. 785), king of Northu
  • ECBERT(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 2215, in WM. H, B. 791), ECBRITH (Gaimar, Lstorie, vv. 2235, 2249, 2256, 2257, 2268, 2278, 2295, 23
  • ECBRICTH(Gaimar, Estorie, v. 1389, iv M. H. B. 781), ECBRITH (Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1407, in M. H. B. 781), king of Kent. [EaBrerr
  • ECBRITH(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 2181, in M. H. B.790), king of Kent. [EADBERT PRAEN.}
  • ECCA(1), Mac h-Uea, of Lethcain, is in the Mart. Tallaght at Jan. 20, and attempts have been made to represent him as the sa
  • ECCLESIAone of the eight primary aeons in the system of VALENTINUS (Iren. I. i. p. 7, v. p.17; Hippol. Ref. vi. 30, p. 187; Epip
  • ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIANS[HisTORIANS, ECCLESIASTICAL].
  • ECCLESIASTICIIt would seem from Irenaeus, iii. 15, that this title was first used by Valentinians as a nickname for the members of th
  • ECCLESIASTICUSone of the aeons in the system of VALENTINUS (Iren. I. i. p. 7; Hippol. Ref, vi. 30, p. 187; Epiph. Haer. 31, pp. 165, 1
  • ECCLESIUS(1), bishop of Ravenna, from ec. 522 to 532, between Aurelianus and Ursicinus. July 27, according to tradition, was the
  • ECDICIUS(1) or ECDITIUS, martyr, Mar, 10. [SEBASTE, FORTY MARTYRS OF. ]
  • ECEBOLIUSan assessor of the governor of Cappadocia, to whom Gregory Nazianzen appealed in behalf of his widowed sister Gorgonia a
  • ECFERD(1) (Gaimar, Estorie, vv. 1393, 1479, 1485, 1495, 1499, 1622, in I. H. B. 781, 782, 784), ECFERTH (A. 8S. C. ann. 670, i
  • ECGBALD(1), abbat. [E@patp.]
  • ECGBERCT(1) (Bed. iv. 1, 5, 26; v. 24, Recapit. Chron. ann. 673), ECGBERHT (Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 667, M. H. B.533.a; Sim. Dun.
  • ECGBERHT(1) (A. 8. C. ann. 803, in &, H, B. 341), ECGBERT (Flor. Wig. Nom. Epise. Lindisfarn. in M. H. B. 626 c), bishop of
  • ECGBIRUT(Kemble, C. D. 162, a.p. 793) king, [Eanerr (2).] [C. HJ
  • ECGFERTH(1) (A. 8. C. ann. 678, 684, 685, 697, in M. H. B.321, 322, 325, Ethelwerd, Chron. ii. 7, in UM. H. B. 506 b), ECGFIRD (
  • ECGFRITHking of Mercia. [ECGFERTH.]
  • ECGLAF(Eetar), the sixth bishop of Dunwich. (JZ. H. B. 618.) He must have flourished during the latter half of the 8th century
  • ECGRIC(1) (Flor. Wig. Gen. Reg. Or. Angl. in M. H. B. 628; id, Ad Chron. App. in M. H. B. 636 b, 637 d), ECGRICE (Bed. H, ZB.
  • ECGULF(Kemble, C. D. 129 a, d, spurious or doubtful charter of Offa king of Mercia, A.D. 765-775), ECGUULF (Kemble, C. D. 112,
  • ECGWALDabbat of Tisbury, in Wiltshire, in 759. He is known only from a charter found in the Shaftesbury chartulary, preserving
  • ECGWIN(Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 708, 717, n M. H, B. 540a, 541a; id. Nom. Praesul. Wice. ib. 622e; Id. Ad Chron, App. ib. 637 b;
  • ECHAanchoret at Crayke, [Eava.]
  • ECHDACH(Eacuap, Ann. Tig.), son of Eudin Cutin) king of the Saxons, clericated and put n confinement (Ann. Ult. A.p. 730; Ann.
  • ECHEAniece of St. Patrick. [Ecur.] ECHEN, ECHEUS. [Ercuen.]
  • ECHFERD(Gaimar, Lstorie, v. 1932, in M. H. B, 787), king of the Mercians. [EGFRID (2).] {C. H.]
  • ECHFIRD(Nenn. Hist. Brit. in M. H. B. (4 b), ECHGFRID (Nenn. Hist. Brit. in M. H. B. 74"), king of Northumbria, son of Iswy. [E
  • ECHFRITH(Arrrirs), the fifth abbat of Glastonbury in William of Malmesbury's list. He presided, according to the same authority,
  • ECHI(Ecura, Acuna), niece of St. Patrick, commemorated Aug. 5. In Evinus' Life of St. Patrick (Colgan, Tr. Thawm. 132, c. 21
  • ECHLECHGson of Daighre and brother of Ynimmein and Caemhan, is commemorated on \ng. 14 (Mart. Doneg.). (J. G.J
  • ECHTACH(Ecracta), commemorated Feb. 5. In the Life of St. Corbmac (Mar. 27) it is related (Colgan, Acta SS. 753, c. 13) that St
  • ECHTBRANNabbat of Glendaloch, co. Wicklow, died A.D. 795 (Ann. Inisf. in O'Conor, Scriptt. ii.). [J. GJ
  • ECHU([Eocuarpu.]
  • ECIAa lady of " glorious memory," mentioned by pope Gregory the Great, Hp. 55 (Migne, Patr. Lat. Ixxvii. 516). (C. H.]
  • ECIANUSbishop of Cluainfoda. [ErcHen.]
  • ECLECTICSEclectic philosophers have existed in many ages of the world: and the early history of Christianity furnishes a remarkab
  • ECPHYSIUSmartyr. [Epuystus.]
  • ECTGAILEson of Bait, abbat of Muicirt, died A.D. 787 (Ann. Ult, in O'Conor, Scriptt. iv. 113). (J. G.]
  • ECTHESISa declaration on the nature of the Person of the Son issued by the emperor Heraclius, in A.D. 639.
  • EDA(Hardy, Cat. Mat. i. 188, note), one of the names of Aidan or Maidoc bisaop of Ferns, (Evan. ] [C. HJ
  • EDALDUS(1), bishop of Vienne, the supposed recipient of an undated letter from pope John IIL, (560-573). This letter, which pur
  • EDANa common form of AEDHAN, is most frequently attached to St. Maedhog, of Cluainmor-Maedhog (Apr. 11), brother of bishop E
  • EDANA[Eraorn.]
  • EDANCIUSmagister militum, and duke of Sardinia, alluded to in a letter of Gregory the Great to the deacon Honoratus, concerning
  • EDAPHIUSone of the three deacons of Constantinople whom Chrysostom was accused of having maltreated. (Phot. Bibloth. cod. 59, p-
  • EDATIUSpresbyter of Arthona, now Ar-tonne, a village of Auvergne, dep. Puy-de-Déme, (Greg. Tur. de Glor. Conf. cap. 5.) [C. H.]
  • EDBALD(A. S. C. text, anno 640, in M, H. B. 3103 Malmesb, G. &. A. i. §§ 10, 48, ed. Hardy), king of Kent. [EADBALD (1).]
  • EDBALTBrut y Tywysogion, Engl. tr. in M. H. B. 842), king of the Saxons. [ETHEL-BALD. | [C. H.]
  • EDBERGE(EppureGer), Mercian princess, venerated in Flanders (Butler, Lives of the Saints, June 20; Chambers, Book of Days, i. 7
  • EDBERT(1) (Malm. G@. #.i. § 15, ed. Hardy ; Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M, H. B. 724e), king of Kent, son of Wihtred. [EapBe
  • EDBIRTking of the West Saxons, mentioned in a spurious charter of A.D. 801 (Kemble, C. D, 178) as conferring land in Bodecanle
  • EDBRICTUS(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. iv. in M. H. B. 727 e), king of Northumbria, succeeding Ceolwulf. [EADBERT (2).] [C. H.]
  • EDBRIHT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H, B. 734"), king of Kent, son of Wihtred. [EADBERT (2).] [{C. H.]
  • EDBRIT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H. B.728b), king of Kent, who reigned twenty-two years and died in the ninth year of C
  • EDBRITH PREN(Malm. G. &. i. § 95, ed. Hardy), king of Kent. [EapBrrr (4) PRAEN.] (Cc. H.]
  • EDBURGA(1) (Dugd. Monast. i. 531, 542 ; Birch, Fast. Mon. 64), queen of Mercia, and afterwards abbess of Gloucester. [EADBURGA
  • EDDANUS(Gall. Christ. v. 784), bishop of Strassburg. [Erno.] (C. H.]
  • EDDI(Kemble, C. D. 19, A.p. 680), bishop, who grants lands in Lantocal and Ferramere to abbat Hemgislus. [Heppa, bishop of W
  • EDDIUS(or " ArpptI," named STEPHEN, as Bede calls him (iv. 2), '""AEDDE" as he calls himself (Vit. Wilfr. 14), was distinguish
  • EDDO(1), bishop of Curia Rhaetorum, now Chur or Coire, a town of the Grisons. He stands sixth in the list, between Sidonius
  • EDDRANIrish bishop. [ETHERNAN.]
  • EDELARD(Malm. G. BR. A. i. § 38, ed. Hardy), king of Wessex, [ETHELHARD (1).] [C. H.] EDELBALD (1) (Gaimar, Zstorie, 1105, in M
  • EDELBALD(2) (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. 725 e, 727 e, 728 a, d, e, 729 a, b, 734d, 735 c; Gaimar, Lstorie, vv. 1656, 1730, 1749,
  • EDELBERT(1) (Gaimar, Estorie, v. 1073, in UM. H, B.777), EDELBRIT (Gaimar, Estorie, vv. 955, 977, 1108, in M. H. B. 776, 778), E
  • EDELBRICT(Hen. Hunt. iv. Hist. Angl. in M. H. B. 632b), king of East Anglia, beheaded by order of Offa. [ErHELBERT (3).] ([C. H.]
  • EDELBRITH(Gaimar, Zstorie, vv. 2210, 2306, in M. H. B. 791, 792), king of Kent. [EADBERT (4) PRAEN.] [C. Ha}
  • EDELBURG(Gaimar, EFstorie, y. 1247, in M. H. B. 779), daughter of Ethelbert king of Kent, wife of Edwin king of Northumbria. (Er
  • EDELBURGA(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 90, ed. Hardy), daughter of Offa king of Mercia, wife of Brithric king of Wessex. [EADBURGA Oe 1]
  • EDELDRUD(Gaimar, Lstorie, v. 1469, in | M. H. B. 782), daughter of Anna king of East
  • EDELFEID, EDELFFEDis given as chorepiscopus of Caerleon or Llandaff; he is also claimed by London, Colchester, and Lincoln, being probably
  • EDELFERT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. ii. in WM. H. B. 714d,e, 715b, 719d), EDELFRID (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. ii. in I H. B. 715 a,c, d
  • EDELHARD(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1761, in M. H, B. 785), king of West Saxons. [ETHEL-HARD (1).] [C. H.]
  • EDELHERE(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. ii. in M. H. B. 717 a), king of East Anglia, brother of Anna. [ETHELHERE. | (C. H.]
  • EDELRED(1) GH. Hunt. Hist. Angi. ii. iv. in M. H. B. 718c, 723c, 724c, 725b, 727 d, 735 b; Gaimar, Lstorie, vv. 1467, 1653, " E
  • EDELWALCH(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 34, ed. Hardy), king of the South Saxons. [ETHELWALCH. | (C. H.]
  • EDEN'Edéu, Hippol. Ref. v. 26, pp. 150-159. [Jusrrnus.]
  • EDENUSsixteenth bishop of Meaux, conseerated about A.D. 552. His predecessor and suc- cessor were Medoveus and Baudowaldus res
  • EDESIUS(1), martyr.
  • EDESSA, MARTYRS OFIn the reign of Trajan a fierce persecution was carried on at Edessa. Barsimaeus was bishop there at the time; he was ar
  • EDESTUSmartyr. [HEDERTUS.]
  • EDEYRN(1) (Every, Epvrn, EpyRN) son of Gwrtheyrn (Vortigern) king of the Britons 449- 466). He belonged to the company under S
  • EDGILS(Aerpatts), a priest in the monastery of Coldingham, who, after its destruction by fire in A.D. 679, took up his residen
  • EDGUIN(Nenn. Hist. Brit. in M. H. B. 75 b), king of Northumbria. [EDWIN.] HJ
  • EDGYNcalled brother of Cyngar and son of Geraint ab Erbin in the Pedigrees of Welsh Saints, but he does not appear as either
  • EDHAMAIR(AepAmarir, AUDOMARA, EADHAMAIR, EUDOMARA), virgin, daughter of Aedh, commemorated Jan. 18. Eadhamair, or Edhamair, is c
  • EDHNIUCH(Eenactvs), son of Erc, abbat of Liath, died A.D. 767 (Four Mast.). His place is supposed by Colgan (Acta SS. 598, c. 4,
  • EDIBIUS(1), ST., bishop of Soissons a.D. 451, preserved his city from an assault by Attila "through the intercession of the mar
  • EDICTIUS(Epicivus, Ecpicrus, Hecpicus), ST., said to have been the thirty-fourth occupant of the see of Vienne, between St. Synd
  • EDILALD"illustrious virgin," commemorated by Mar. O'Gorman at April 21 (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 107 n. *). [J. G.]
  • EDILBALD(Bed. H. Z. v. 24, Addend. ann. 740, 750, in M. H. B. 288 b, c), king of Mercia. [ETHELBALD (1).] ({C. H.]
  • EDILBERCT(Annal. Juvavens, Maj. in Pertz, Mon. Germ. Hist. Scriptt. i. 87, ann. 620), Cantuariorum rex, filius Irminrici, obiit 6
  • EDILBERT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in UM. H. B. 724 e), king of Kent, son of Wihtred. [ETHELBERT II.) [C. H.}
  • EDILBINeleventh bishop of Llandaff (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 156), and probably the same as Ufelwy, a bishop in Ergyng. [UreLwy
  • EDILFYWappears to have been bishop of Llandaff, and to have died in the middle or latter part of the 7th century. Beyond his re
  • EDILHARDUS(Bed. H. #. v. 24, Addend. ann. 739, in M. H. B. 288 b), king of Wessex. [ETHELHARD (1).] [C. H.]
  • EDILHUN(Bed. H. EL. iii, 27, ed. Moberly), brother of Ediluini, [ErHELHUN.] [C. H.]
  • EDILTRUDIS[Eruenprepa.]
  • EDILUALD(Bed. 7. Z. v. 23, in M. Hl. B. 283 c), EDILWALD (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H. B. 726 d, 727 a), bishop of Lindis
  • EDILUINI(Bed. iii. 27, iv. 12, ed. Moberly), bishop of Lindsey, [ETHELWIN.] [C. H.]
  • EDILUUALD(Bed. H. Z. vy. 25, add. ann. 759, in M. H. B. 289 a), king of Northumbria. succeeded Oswulf. [ETHELWALD MOLL.]
  • EDLFERD FLESAUR(Nenn. Hist. Brit. in M. H. B. 74 b), king of Northumbria. (ETHELFRID. } (C. H.]
  • EDNYFEDis said to have been the son ot Macsen Wledig (the Roman emperor Maximus). by Elen, daughter of Euddaff, a wealthy lord
  • EDOBICUS(Epovicus, Epocumus, EBopI cHus, EpoBEccuS, OpoBEccus), a general of the
  • EDOCHIMUS[Epozicus.]
  • EDOLDUS(Hetpoatpts) is placed twenty-fourth in the list of the bishops of Meaux, after St. Ebrigisilus, and preceding Adulfus.
  • EDOVICUS[Eposicus.] EDRABORDUS, an unknown or corrupt
  • EDRIC(1) (Bed. H. Z£. iv. 26, in M. H. B. 242a; Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 686, in M. H. B. 537d; Malm, G. R. A. i. §§ 13, 14, ed
  • EDULF(Malm. G. P. i. § 7, ed. Hamilton, p- 16; Id. G. R. A. i. § 87, ed. Hardy), bishop of Sidnacester, suffragan of the arch
  • EDUS, ST(MS. Vita, referred to in Hardy, Cat. Mat. i. 189), one of the names of Aidan, Aedhan, or Maidoc, bishop of Ferns. [EDAN
  • EDWALD(Annal. Cambr. ann. ccexiii. i.e. A.D. 757, in MZ, H. B. 833 ¢, and note), king of the Saxons; perhaps ETrHELBALD king o
  • EDWENa female saint of Saxon descent, has been allowed a place among the saints of Wales. She is said to have been a daughter
  • EDWIN(AeEpGuUIN, AEDWINE, AEDWINI, EADWINE, EDWINE) was the son of Ella or Alla, who for at least thirty years was king of De
  • EDWINE(Epwinus, Epa), described by Simeon of Durham as once a dux of the Northumbrians, afterwards abbat of Et-Gegenforda, mig
  • EGBALD(1) (EcBaru, EcaBaLn, EGcBalp), mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as third abbat of Peterborough or Medeshamstede (
  • EGBERHAT(2) (Flor. Wig. Nom. Archiep. Ebor, in M. H. B, 625 b), archbishop of York. [EGBERT (6).] [C. H.]
  • EGBERHTS. C. ann. 784, in V. H. B. 336), king of Wessex. [EGBerr (4).] [C. H.]
  • EGBERT(1) L., king of Kent, son of Earcombert and Sexburga, succeeded his father in 664, and reigned until 673. (See Ann. Cant
  • EGBIRHT(Malm. G. R. A. i. §§ 15, 96, 98, 106, 107, 108, ed. Hardy), EGBIRT (id. § 43), EGBRICHT (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. iv. v.
  • EGBRICHT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H. B. 726 a), archbishop of York, [Ea-BERT (6).] (C. H.]
  • EGBRICT(1) (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. iv. in M.#H. B.735a), king of Northumbria. [EApBERT (5).] (C. H.]
  • EGBURGA, EGBURGwho writes to bishop Boniface a.D. 716-722; Ep. 32 in Paty,
  • EGCBALD(Kemble, C. D. 35), presbyter and abbat. [EGBALD (1).] (C. H.]
  • EGCLAF(Kemble, C. D. 87), bishop ot Dunwich. [EGLarF.] (C. H.
  • EGCULFUS(Kemble, @. D. 193), bishop of
  • EGDUNUSa presbyter, martyred at Nicomedia with seven others. They were amongst the first victims of the Diocletian persecution
  • EGELBERHT(A. S. C. ann. 552 in M. H. B. 302), king of Kent. [EruerserrI.] [C. H.]
  • EGELBRIBT, ST(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 97, in § 86 ErHeLprinT), king of East Anglia, slain by Offa, [ETHELBERT (3).] (C. H.]
  • EGELRED(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 70, ed.
  • EGEMONIUS(Arcemontvs, I@Nomvs),
  • EGEREDUSbishop of Salamanca in A.D. 646. His signature appears among those ot three councils, the seventh, eighth, and tenth of
  • EGFRID(1) (Ecrrin, Ecerrira, Ecuarrip, EGFERD, EGFERTH, EGFRED), one of the younger sons of Oswy king of Northumbria and Kanfl
  • EGHLIONNAvirgin, commemorated Jan. 21. She is commemorated along with Faincher a virgin, and they are both in Cluain-Caoi or Clua
  • EGIALEUS(Azeratevs), Grammaticus, one of the judges between Manes and bishop Archelaus (Baron. Ann. 277. 13). (C. H.]
  • EGICA(1), bishop of Segontia (Siguenza) in A.D, 655. His signature appears last but one among those of the eleventh council o
  • EGIDIUS(Ararp1us, GiLuEs), nineteenth occupant of the see of Rheims, succeeding Mapinius (A.D. 565), not to be confused with th
  • EGILA(1), bishop of Osma from about A.D, 633 to 656. His signatures appear among those of the fourth, fifth, sixth and sevent
  • EGILBART, EGILBERTbishop of Wiirzburg. [EGILWALD.]
  • EGILO, EGILONAthe wife of Roderic, last Gothic king of Spain. Our only information about her comes from Isidore of Beja (Isid. Pacensi
  • EGILULFUSbishop of Asta. [GILULFUS..
  • EGILWALDabbat. [Ecewaxp.] EGILWARD (1) (Anon. Vit. Willibald. c. i
  • EGILWARD(2) (E1cttwarp, AGILWwaRD, EGILBERT, EGILBART), fifth bishop of Wiirzburg, succeeding Liuterich, and followed by Woltgar
  • EGINHARDbiographer of Charlemagne. [EINHARDUS. ]
  • EGINOtwenty-first bishop of Constance, succeeded Johannes III. and was followed by Wolfleoz a 781 to 813). At this time the t
  • EGLAF(Stubbs, Regist. Sac. 168), bishop of Dunwich. (Ecazar.] (C. H.]
  • EGNACIUS(Colgan, Acta SS. 598, c. 4, Irish saint. [EDHNIUCH.] [J. G.]
  • EGNATIUS(Cypr. Zp. 34, ed. Migne), uncle of Celerinus, martyr. [I@narrvs.] (C. H.]
  • EGOALDUS(Eppoatpus), twenty-fifth bishop of Geneva, succeeding Aridanus and followed by Albo. The compilers of the Gallia
  • EGREAS(E1erap, Everap) appears in Caradoc's Life of Gildas (Albanius), as brother of St. Gildas [Gm~pAs], son of Caw. With his
  • EGREDa son of Eata, and brother of Egbert archbishop of York, and Eadbert king of Northumbria. When his brother Egbert went t
  • EGREGORI(éypiyopo, watchers), a name for angels, derived from Dan. iv. 13 (versions of Aquila and Symmachus) and used by Clement
  • EGRIC(1), king of the East Angles. He was allowed by his kinsman Sigebert, who acquired the kingdom after the usurpation of R
  • EGRILIUS(Aericona), martyr at Caesarea
  • EGRYNis given by Professor Rees ( Welsh Saints, 71, 304) among the Welsh saints of the latter half of the 7th century, as the
  • EGTANking of the Scoti (Gaimar, Estorie, y. 1013, in MH. B.777). [Awan.] [C. H.]
  • EGULF(Wend. F. H. ann. 675, ed. Coxe), bishop of London. [E@WULF.] [C. H.]
  • EGUUALD(J), a bishep witnessing a spurious charter of Caedwalla, king of Wessex, Aug. 3, 683, bestowing land at Selsey on Wilfr
  • EGWADis placed by Professor Rees ( Welsh Saints, 298, 330) among the Welsh saints of the first part of the 7th century, asson
  • EGWALTabbat.
  • EGWIN(Ecewrne, Ecuurnr, Ecwine), third bishop of Worcester (JZ. H, B. 623), and founder of the abbey of Evesham. He is not me
  • EGWULFthe seventh bishop of London (H. M. B. 617), and successor of Ingwald, who died in 745 (Sim. Dun. in M. H. B. 662). Egwu
  • EGYPTIANS, GOSPEL ACCORDING TO[GospeLs, APOCRYPHAL. |
  • EHOARNhermit and martyr in Brittany, cir. A.D. 520, mentioned in the anonymous Vita of Gildas Sapiens (cap. vii. § 40, in Boll
  • EHRENFRIED(Gams, Ser. Episc. 271), bishop of Constance. [ERNFRIDUS.] ([C. H.]
  • EIBEACHTAone of St. Patrick's attendants (Four Mast. a.p. 448). [J. G.]
  • EICHBERICHT(Ann. Uit. a.p. 728), Egbert the priest. [EGBERT (5).] {J. G.]
  • EIDDIGIRNabbat of the monastery of Docunnus, in the diocese of Llandaff. He witnessed several grants to that see in the time of S
  • EIDDILFFREDclerical witness to the grant of the village of Is-pant by Cuchein, son of Glywi, to Guodoloiu bishop of Llandaff in the
  • EIDDILIGWelsh saint. [Ippawe.]
  • EIELBRIHT(Malm. G. P. ed. Hamilton, § 170, p. 305), king of the East Angles.
  • EIGENin the legendary accounts of Wales, has the honour of being regarded as the first female saint among the Britons. She wa
  • EIGILWARDbishop of Wirzburg. [EGIL-
  • EIGRADWelsh saint.
  • EIGRONis enumerated among the many sons of Caw the father of Gildas, and founded a church in Cornwall in the 6th century (Rees
  • EILUNWYa Welsh saint in the first half ot the 7th century, was brother of Drydaw, and son of Helig Foel ab Glanawg ; he thus be
  • EIMBETHA(Eryserta), ST., a virgin, commemorated with two others, Vorbetta and Villibetta, on the 16th of September. They are unk
  • EIMHIN(Emr, Evry), son of Eoghan, bishop of Ros-glas and Ros-mic-Triuin, commemorated Dec, 22. The name is evidently a phoneti
  • EINBETTA(Emperua.]
  • EINGAN(ENEAN) is commemorated on Apr. 21, and styled "king of Scots," about a.p. 590. This is probably Aidan, son of Gauran, w
  • EINHARD(Eynarpvs), ST., a solitary. In the Auctaria of Grevenus to the Martyrology of Usuard these words occur: "In Altona cast
  • EINHARDUS, EINHARD(EeInnARD is not found in contemporary documents), biographer of Charlemagne. He was the son of Einhard and Engilfrita,
  • EINION(Eryyyawn, Eryyavun), surnamed Frenhin, is called " King in Lleyn," in the pedigrees of the Welsh saints, and was son of
  • EIRENACH[ErNnapnacn.]
  • EIRENEaccording to Basilides daughter of Dikaiosyne, having with her mother her abode in the Ogdoad (Clem. Alex. Strom. iv. 25
  • EITHNE(Erane, ETHNEA) appears to have been a common name among the women of Ireland, so that we find it often among the saints
  • EITHRAShas no pedigree given him among the Welsh saints; it is merely stated that he was one of Cadfan's companions, when the l
  • ELADIUS, ST(Hetavrus), fourth bishop of Auxerre, cir. A.D, 387. He followed St. Valerianus, ruled for twenty-three years, and was s
  • ELAETHsurnamed Frenhin or Vrenin " the king," was a bard and saint, but though his genea- 1ogy is traced to Coel Godebog, and
  • ELAFIUS(1), a British chief who appears in the story of Germanus returning to Britain to put down the Pelagian heresy. Hearing
  • ELAGABALUSThe short reign of this feeble and profligate emperor, though not presenting any points of direct connexion with the his
  • ELANGbishop of Menevia, now St. Davids, but possibly the same as ErvaED (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr, Angl. 155). : G.J
  • ELAPHIUS(1), a notary to whom, in reward
  • ELAPIUS(Exapuivs), fifteenth bishop ot Poitiers, succeeding Adelphius and followed by Daniel, about A.D. 535 to 540, His name o
  • ELASIPPUSMelasippus, and Speusippus, "tergemini fratres," were Cappadocians by birth, horse-breakers by profession, and martyrs i
  • ELASIUS(Exarutus), ST., seventeenth bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, succeeding Tattinodus and followed by his brother, St. Leudome
  • ELAVEbishop of Menevia, possibly the same as ELVAED (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 155). ELBODG (Annal. Cambr, ann. ecelxv. i.e. t
  • ELBODUS, STbecame bishop (or archbishop) of Bangor in 755, and induced the people of North Wales to adopt the Roman cycle of Easter
  • ELBWALDking of the East Angles. [ELFWALD. }
  • ELCHASAI[EtKesat.]
  • ELCWOLDstated by William of Malmes. bury (G.R.A. i. § 97, ed. Hardy) to have been king of East Anglia, the brother of Aldulf [A
  • ELDAD(HE tpan) is the name of two Welsh saints mentioned by Prof. Rees.
  • ELDEBERTimpostor. [ALDEBERT.]
  • ELDULF(Sim. Dun. G. 2. A. ann. 732, in M. H. B. 657 ¢), bishop of Rochester. [ALDULF (2).] (C. H.]
  • ELDUNEN, ELDUVENfifteenth bishop of Menevia or St. David's (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 155; Girald. Camb. Itin. Kamb. ii. c. 1, wks. vi. 1
  • ELEAZARUSmartyred with eight sons at Lyons, in company with Minervius ; commemorated Aug. 23. The Martyrologies give the names on
  • ELECTI, ELECTAEone of the two classes into which the Manichaeans were divided, the other being called '"' Auditores" (Possidius, Vit. A
  • ELECTION[PrRepestination, Vocation. ]
  • ELECTUSchamberlain. [EcLecrus.]
  • ELEDANIUSlegendary bishop of Alclud or Dumbarton, said to have been appointed by king Arthur in 519 (Galt. Monum. ix. 15; Stubbs,
  • ELEEMOSINARIUS[InpEaRcaicu.] [J. G.]
  • ELEFANTUS_ bishops.
  • ELELETHone of the four luminaries in the Barbeliot system (Irenaeus, i. 29, p. 108). [G.S.]
  • ELEN(HELENA). Elen or Helen Llywyddawy, daughter of Coel Coedhebawg, has been represented in monkish legend, the Welsh Bruts
  • ELENARA(ELEVARA), martyr with Sponsaria, virgins, in Gaul, under Rictiovarus in the reign of Diocletian; commemorated at St. Ri
  • ELENOGa Welsh saint of the 7th century (Rees, Welsh Saints, 307). He might be the same as Elnog son of St. Tudglyd of Holyhead
  • ELEOCADIUS(Ughell. Zéal. Sac. ii. 327).
  • ELEOCHADIUS(Gams, Ser. Zpiscop. 716), bishop of Ravenna, [ELEucHADIUs.] ([C. H.]
  • ELEPHANTUS(Eterantus) I., eleventh bishop of Uzes, succeeding Arimundus and succeeded by Walafridus, is said by the compilers of t
  • ELEPHAShas been placed seventh in the list of the bishops of Valence, succeeding Ragnoaldus and followed by Salvius I., at the
  • ELERI(Etrrt, Metert) (1). In the Pedigrees of the Welsh Saints, Eleri is entered as " daughter of Brychan, and wife of Ceredi
  • ELERIUSwas a Cambrian monk, who lived in the vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, and is to be distinguished from Elerius or Helerius,
  • ELESBAANThe difficulties which beset the biography of this king, hermit, and saint (Rome, Oct. 27; Ethiopia, Ginbot, xx. May 15;
  • ELEUCHADIUS100 a.p., bishop of Ravenna; commemorated on the 14th of February. He is the subject of the sixth sermon of Peter Damian
  • ELEUSINIUS(1), a very reverend person (aidec.uétatos) despatched by Eustathius of Sebaste, A.D. 371, to apprise Basil of the appro
  • ELEUSINUS(1), tribune of Thamugada, in Numidia, bearer of a request from the people of that place to St. Augustine that he would
  • ELEUSIPPUS(Baron. Annal. ann. 179, xxxvii.; Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 716, in I. H. B. 541a; Sim. Dun. G R.A. in VM. H. B. 653 a), ma
  • ELEUSIUS(1), a deacon and philosopher in the reign of Constantine, quoted by Codinus as one of the authorities for the events at
  • ELEUTERIUS(Gams, Ser. Zpisc. 731), bishop of Terracina, [ELEUTHERIUS (6).] (GC. HJ ELEUTHERIUS (1), bishop of Rome. {EveuTHerus (1
  • ELEUTHERIUS(2), a bishop of Ilyricum, the son of Anthia and the consul Eugenius, martyred, together with his mother, during the rei
  • ELEUTHERUS(1), Bishop of Rome in the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, during 15 years, 6 months, and 5 days, according to t
  • ELEVARA(Chron.
  • ELFAN(Etvay) appears in the legend of king Lucius and his application to pope Eleutherus for instruction in the Christian fai
  • ELFEIS(Aitrrw, Attvyw, Etvets), Welsh saint of the 6th century, and son of Dirdan by Danaldwen, daughter of Gynyr of Caergaweh
  • ELFFIN(Etrury) (1) was a ae of a college of St. Illtyd in the beginning of the 6th century. He was son of Gwyddno Garanhir ab
  • ELFFRYTT(Brut y Tywysog., text in M. H. B. 842), king of Northumbria, son of Oswy. [AtcHrriru (1), ALprriru.] ([C. H.]
  • ELFLED(Nennius, Hist. Brit. cap. 66, in M. H, B., 74b, marg. EANFLED), daughter of Edwin king of Northumbria, an error for Kan
  • ELFLEDA(1) (AELBFLED, AELFLED), abbess of Whitby, daughter of Oswy king of Northumbria, and of Eanfled daughter of king Edwin.
  • ELFOD([Exzop.]
  • ELFRIDA(1), abbess of Repton (Ripadun), the monastery in which St. Guthlac received the tonsure. (Mab. AA. SS, O, S. B. saec. i
  • ELFRYT(Brut y Tywysog., Eng. transl. in M. H. B, 842), king of Northumbria, son of Oswy. [Atcurriru (1), ALprRiTH.] [C. H.]
  • ELFTHRITHA(1) (AELFDRYDA), a lady mentioned in the letter addressed by Waldhere, bishop of London in 705, to archbishop Brihtwald.
  • ELFWAD(Chron. de Mailros, ann. 791, ed. venson), king of Northumbria, son of Oswulf. 'ALD (2).] (Cc. H.]
  • ELFWALD(1) (ArLFwatp), king of East Anglia. According to the Chronicle of Melrose, he succeeded Selred in 747 and died in 749,
  • ELFWOLT(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 2017, in M. H. B. 788), king of Northumbria, son of Oswulf. [ALFWOLD.] (C. H.]
  • ELGAR, STthe hermit, a life of whom is printed in the Liber Landavensis, p. 1. The life says that he was born in Devonshire, and
  • ELGUDlived in the latter half of the 6th century, but has no festival or church dedication. He was son of Cadfarch ab Caradog
  • ELGWORED[ELWwarep.]
  • ELHAEARN(Ae LHararN, AELHAYARN, ELHAERN), son of Hygarfael ab Cyndrwyn of Llystinwennan, in Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. His fes
  • ELHAFEDa clerical witness to the grant of the village of Bertus by " King Ithael in the presence of Meurig (Ithael's father), b
  • ELI(Ixn, a clerical witness to many grants to the church of Llandaff, while Berthgwyn and Trychan were the bishops, in the
  • ELIABdeacon and martyr of Ethiopia. He was one of forty martyrs, viz.: two bishops, Abdas and Ebedjesus, sixteen presbyters,
  • ELIANGeimiad (the pilgrim), a Welsh saint, whose name is confused with that of Hilary. His churches at Llanelian, Anglesey, a
  • ELIANUS(AettiAnvs), the proconsul of Africa, before whom Felix bishop of Aptunga, the consecrator of Caecilian of Carthage, was
  • ELIASbishop of Jerusalem, c. A.D. 760-797, of whom very little is certainly known. His see was invaded by an ambitiou
  • ELIAS, APOCALYPSE OFAn apoeryphal work under this title was current in the 2nd century, and was supposed by Origen (89 in Matt. 27, vol. iii
  • ELIDIUS(1), ST., from whom one of the Scilly Isles is named. The name is now corrupted into "St. Helen's Isle;"- but we find in
  • ELIEZER8s. HYRCANOS, also called Eliezer the Great, or simply R. Eliezer, one of the most distinguished Jewish teachers during
  • ELIFANTUS(Everantus, ALEFANTUS), thirty-third archbishop of Arles, between Ratbertus, or, according to Le Cointe, Arladis, and Jo
  • ELIFIUSmartyr. [Exrenivs.]
  • ELIGIUSbishop of Noyon (640-648), saint. The only authority is the Vita S. Eligii, Novio mensis Episcopi, auctore Dadone sive A
  • ELILEUSGiven by Epiphanius (Huer, 26, p- 91) as the name of one of the seven ruling spirits in one of the Gnosticsystems. This
  • ELIMASmartyr. [Etymas.]}
  • ELINANDUS(Esretinvvs, EBRETINGUS), fourth bishop of Laon, between Gondulphus and Robertus I. (Gall. Christ. ix. 510.) [S. A. B
  • ELINED(AELIvepHA, ALED, ALMEDHA, ELEVETHA, ELUNED, LuNED, LUNETTE) is given in the Pedigrees of Welsh Saints as "daughter of B
  • ELINGAUDUSofficer of Charlemagne. (HeLmcaupus. |
  • ELIPANDUSarchbishop of Toledo and primus of Spain under Mahometan rule, in the later part of the 8th century, is generally regard
  • ELIPHIUS(E.irivs), martyr at Toul, on the Moselle, in the West of France, is said by Cratepolius to have been the son of Fincorm
  • ELISAEUS(1) (Euisua, surnamed VarTABED, 7.e. Doctor, Magister, Rabbi), bishop of the Amadunians, an Armenian writer of the 5th c
  • ELISAKEUS(5), forty-third bishop of Auch, or Aux, succeeding Galinus and followed by Joannes, about the close of the 8th century.
  • ELISENIUSa Cretian, is placed by Spots-wood (Hist. Ch. Scot. p. 5, A.D, 370) among the companions of St. Regulus, but the name is
  • ELISSAEUS(I), bishop of Diocletianopolis, in Palaestina Prima, one of the forty-three bishops who signed the semi-Arian formula a
  • ELITHIR(ArirHer, AriiTir, ALITHERIUS, ALITHERUS, ELITIR, EULITHERIUS). There are three of this name in the Irish kalendars, and
  • ELIUDa Welsh saint. [TErL0.]
  • ELIZABETHThaumaturga, or the wonder-worker, commonly called of Constantinople. A short account of her is given in the menology of
  • ELKESAI, ELKESAITES(HaAxacal, Hippolytus; *HAgal, "EAxeooaior, Epiphanius ; 'EA- xeoaital, Origen). A book bearing the name of Elkesai, and
  • ELLA(1) (Artua, ArLiI, ALLA, ELLE, UL11), king of Deira, and, according to his recorded pedigree, a lineal descendant of Wod
  • ELLADIUSpresbyter of the palace. [HELLADIUS. |
  • ELLBRIGHabbess of Cluain-Bronaigh (Clonbroney, bar. Granard, co. Longford), died A.D. 785 (Four Mast. a.D. 780; Ann. Ult. A.D. 7
  • ELLDEYRN(1), according to the Achau y Saint, was son of Gwrtheyrn (Vortigern), and must have flourished towards the end of the 5
  • ELLDYD[lIttryp.]
  • ELLEking of Deira. [ELLA.]
  • ELLEBICHUSGregory Nazianzen addressed his two hundred and twenty-fifth letter to this man, wherein he regrets his inability t
  • ELLELa Jewish patriarch, who lived in the time of Constantine, and was baptized on his death-bed (Epiph. Haer. 30, p. 128). [
  • ELLENIUSsucceeded St. Cadoe in the abbacy of Llancarvan [Capoc], but Ussher gives too early dates, when he says Ellenius became
  • ELLI"unmarried disciple," the " very dear unmarried auditor" of St. Cadoe, is said, in the Life of St. Cadoc, to have been t
  • ELLOOof Cill-moelloc, is given by O'Clery (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 3) and Colgan (Acta SS. 312, c. 5) among the sons
  • ELLTIN(1) Son of Maelan of Senchua, commemorated Jan. 11 in the Martyrologies of Donegal and Tallaght. His church was one whic
  • ELLYW(Etyw) 1s given by Professor Rees as a grand-daughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, yet he does not think it unlikely that
  • ELNOG[Etenoa.]
  • ELOAEUS(Eloeus, Irenaeus; Aidaards, Origen ; "EAwatos, Epiphanius), one of the seven ruling spirits in the OpHiTE system (Irena
  • ELOCclerical witness to the grant of Mafurn by king Cynfyn, son of Pebiau, to Aidan, bishop of Llandaff, probably in the 6th
  • ELODIAa virgin martyr, put to death, together with Nunilo at Osca (Huesca). Commemorated Oct. 22 (Mart. Us.). [T. S. B.]
  • ELOHIM'EAwelu, Hippol. Ref. v. 26, pp. 150-159, [Jusrinus.] [G. 8.]
  • ELOI, STbishop of Noyon.
  • ELOPHIUSmartyr of Toul. [Exrpuivs.]
  • ELOQUIUSabbat of Lagny, commemorated Dec. 3. He was one of that illustrious stream of missionaries which flowed from Ireland and
  • ELOTHERUS(ELevTHERIvs), twenty-seventh bishop of Avignon, succeeding St. Saturninus and followed by Julianus. He is said to have
  • ELOY, S8Tbishop of Noyon.
  • ELPENIPSA(Exprs, Boll. Acta SS. Jun. i. 155), one of the forty-eight martyrs at Lyons. [Lyons, MARTYRS OF. ] [L. D.]
  • ELPICIUSa deacon in the 5th century, nephew of Elpidius reputed bishop of Atella. (Boll. Acta SS. 24 Mai. v. 282.) [ELPrprus (12
  • ELPIDEPHORUS(1), a Persian of senatorial rank, converted to Christianity by wit- nessing the constancy of the martyrs Acindynus, Peg
  • ELPIDIUS(1), bishop of the Tauric Chersonese. [EUGENIUS.] (L. D.J
  • ELPIDOFORUSan apostate from the ranks of the Catholics during the general persecution of the orthodox in Africa by the Vandal king
  • ELPIDOPHORUS(1) (Mansi, Concit. iii. 148), bishop of Cuiculis. [ELPIDEPHORUS (2).}
  • ELPINof Glais-Naidhean (Glasnevin, an ancient monastery founded by St. Berchan, who is better known as Mobhi Clairenech (Oct.
  • ELPIS(1), one of the aeons in the system of VALENTINUS (Iren. I. i, p. 7; Hippol. Ref. vi. 30, p. 187; Epiph. Haer. 31, pp. 1
  • ELPISTUSa contemporary of Dionysius bishop of Corinth. [Dionysius (3)]. Eusebius relates that Dionysius attributes his letter to
  • ELRICson of Ealdwulf (or Aldulf) king of East Anglia, according to Nennius, who is the only authority for his existence. He w
  • ELTUTUS(Nennius, Hist. Brit.in UW. H. B. 74 4), Welsh saint. [ILrurus.] [C. H.]
  • ELUEUS, ELUIUSbishop of Menevia. [HELVAEvs.]
  • ELUOC(Etnor, Etvor, ELwap) was bishop at Caergyli in Anglesey, and in the Achau Saint ynys Prydain is identified with ELBon,
  • ELURIONa.v. 347, Egyptian bishop, present at the Council of Sardica (Mansi, iii. 68 d ;
  • ELVEISWelsh saint.
  • ELVETUSbishop of Arezzo, 775. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'/talia, xviii. 76; Ughelli, Ital. Sacr, i. 412.) LA. H. D. A.)
  • ELVIANDUS(HEtviannus), bishop of Treviso (Tarvisium). When Attila had sacked Aquileia, Concordia, and other neighbouring cities,
  • ELVOD(Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. p. 157), bishop of Bangor, archbishop of Gwynned. [ELBop, ELVAED. | [C. H.]
  • ELVODUGUSeducated at Bangor in Wales, and author of Historia Britonum, lib. i., is probably the same as St. Elbod, whose contempo
  • ELVOEDbishop of Menevia (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr, p. 155). [ELVAED, ELBop.] (C. H.]
  • ELVOGUS(Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. p. 156), bishop of Llandaff, [ELwoe.] (C. H.]
  • ELWAED[ELvAep.]
  • ELWARED(ELGworep), a clerical witness to grants of land to Llandaff when Teilo and Arwystyl were the bishops in the 6th century
  • ELWINUS(1), ST., or Alunus, one of Breaca's companions in her voyage from Ireland to Cornwall, A life of him was extant in Lela
  • ELWOED(Etworp, Etwop), abbat of St. Illtyd's, now Lantwit Major, and witness to several grants of land to the see of Llandaff,
  • ELWOG(Etvoeus) was bishop of Llandaff in the time of Meurig, Rhys, Ffernwael, and Rhodri, sons of Ithael, king of Glewyssig (
  • ELWORED[ELWARED. ]
  • ELWYSTYL(Eteisti1), one of the clergy under St. Dubricius, is placed among the bishops of Llandaff, but only as one of the suffr
  • ELXAI(Epiphan. Haeres. xix.), founder of Elkesaites. [ELKESAT.] ({C. H.]
  • ELYMASa presbyter, martyred in Persia, together with Polychronius bishop of Babylon, and several other presbyters and deacons
  • ELYW([Ettyw.]
  • EMAor AMA—May 22. Martyr with six other nuns, captives with Eliabus. [ELIABus.] They were offered freedom on condition of m
  • EMAGOLA[Motocvs.]
  • EMANa clerical witness to a grant made to Grecielis, bishop of Llandaff, late in the 7th or early in the 8th century (Lib. L
  • EMANTof Cluain, commemorated July 1. He is called a bishop by Mar. O'Gorman, and his name is inserted by the second hand in t
  • EMANUELarchimandrite. [EMMANUEL.]
  • EMANUSmartyred at Chartres in the 6th century with St. Maurilius and St. Almerus. According to the legend he was a Cappadocian
  • EMCHAT(Emcuarn), an old man in Gle Urquhart, on the side of Loch Ness, Inverness shire, who was converted and baptized by St C
  • EMEBERTUSbishop of Cambray. [H™pDE
  • EMERENTIANAa virgin, martyr a Rome, A.D. 304. She was the foster-sister Agnes [AGNES]; as she mourned for her at he tomb, she was s
  • EMERIA(1) is the name given by Jocelin and Evinus in their Lives of St. Patrick to th two daughters of St. Patrick's master Mi
  • EMERINUS(EAmEnvs), a bishop of Limoges whose name is found in the catalogues betweei Atticus and Hermogenian, who flourished in
  • EMERITA(1), supposed sister of the Britis! king Lucius. Her death by martyrdom, afte she had followed her brother in his missio
  • EMERITUS(1), Donatist bishop of Julia Caesarea, or Jol, once an important town on the coast of Morocco, now called Scherschell (
  • EMERIUS(1), bishop of Treves. [EVEME-
  • EMERUSbishop of Treves. [EVEMERUS.]
  • EMETERICUSbishop of Tarentaise. [EmtTERIUS. J
  • EMETERIUS(1) AGRICOLA (Marinus, Sr. Maprr), said to have suffered martyrdom near Barcelona about A.D. 680. He was commemorated on
  • EMETHERIUS(Harmatrertus, HeEmeTERIUS, HEMITHERIUS), martyr, who is said to
  • EMIGDIUS(Emyeptvs), first bishop and tutelary saint of Asculum or Ascoli in Picenum. In the reign of Diocletian he came out of G
  • EMILA(1), bishop of Barcelona (?) from about A.D. 600 to about 615. His name appears among the signatures to the disputed dec
  • EMILIANUS(1) (Aemrnianvs), reckoned by the Sammarthani, according to their authorities, the first bishop of Valence in Gaul. He i
  • EMILIUS(1), an African martyr, commemorated May 22. [Casrus (2).] (Mart. Rom. Vet., Bedae, Ad., Us. ; Cal. Carth.) (T. S. B.]
  • EMIN, EMINUS[Eimury.]
  • EMINENTIUSa Donatist bishop, who, instead of appearing personally at the Carthaginian conference, A.D. 411, sent his signature by
  • EMINIANUSabbat of Lagny. [EmuttANus (10.)] EMINO, bishop of Tarentaise. [Emmo.]
  • EMITERICUS, EMITERIUStwelfth bishop of Tarentaise, succeeding Budemarus and followed by Widenardus, about the middle of the 7th century. The
  • EMITERIUS(Adon. art. Mar. 3).
  • EMITHERIUS(Wand. Mar. 3), martyr. [EMETHERIUS. ]
  • EMMAthe wife of Eadbald king of Kent, 616-640; daughter (according to Florence of Worcester, who probably followed the Kenti
  • EMMANUEL(MAnNvEL), presbyter and archimandrite of Constantinople. In a.p. 448 he appears as informing the archbishop Flavian, th
  • EMPODIUSbishop of Volterra. [ELprpi1us (15).]
  • EMPTACIUSbishop of Sicessa, a town in all probability to be identified with Siga, in the African province of Mauretania Caesarien
  • EMUNDUSis said to nave been the fifteenth bishop of Avignon, following St. Maximus, and succeeded by St. Magnus, about a.p. 630
  • EMYR LLYDAWthough not the ancestor of any of the "three stocks of saints of the island of Britain," like Brychan, Cunedda Wledig an
  • ENAN(Henan). (1) Son of Gemman, commemorated Jan. 30. Mart. Doneg. places him at Ros-Mor in Ui-Deagha, in Ui-Ceinnsealaigh,
  • ENBALD(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H, B, 731 A, 732, B, C), archbishop of York, [EANBALD I.] (C. H.]
  • ENBALD II(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in Mon. Hist. Brit. 732 Cc), archbishop of York. (Eanpwacp II.] © [C. H.]
  • ENCHONIUS(Baron. A. Z. ann. 608, xi.), bishop of Maurienne. [Icontrus.] (C. H.]
  • ENCHORACH UA DODAINabbat of Glendaloch, bar, North Ballinacor, co. Wicklow, died A.D. 769 (Four Mast. a.D. 764; Ann. Ult. A.D. 768). [J. G.
  • ENCOLPIUSDonatist bishop of Vallis or Balita, in proconsular Africa (Opt. ii. 4; Baron. A, E. ann. 321, iv.; Gams, Ser. Episc. p.
  • ENCRATIS, STor ENGRATIA, " Santa Engracia " in Spanish parlance, one of the Saragossa martyrs in the persecution under Dio- cletian,
  • ENCRATISTAE(Cod. Just; I. v. 5), heretics. [ENCRATITES. ] (T. W. D.j
  • ENCRATITES(Eyxparets, Irenaeus; 'Eykparntat, Clem. Alex.; "Ey"parira:, Hippol.), heretics who abstained from flesh, from wine, and
  • ENCTHONINa crocodile-shaped archon presiding over the first division of the place af punishment (Pistis Sophia, p. 320). [G. 8.]
  • ENDA, ENDE[Enya (1).] ENDDWYN is a Welsh saint of uncertain
  • ENDELECHIUSa rhetorician, who is said to have held the chair of rhetoric at Rome, mentioned by St. Paulinus of Nola in his twenty-e
  • ENDELIENTA, STdaughter of Brychan, king of brecknock, one of the numerous Welsh devotees who settled on the Cornish coast opposite to
  • ENDEUS(Hardy, Descr. Cat. Mat. i. 86), Irish abbat. [ENNA.] [C. H.]
  • ENDRIGHETTUSbishop of Feltre, received a grant of certain privileges from Charles the Great between 769 and 781. (Cappelletti, Ze Ch
  • ENDULUS(Enpvtanvs, Enro.anus, EvruLANUS), fourteenth bishop of Toul, following Autmundus and succeeded by Theodefridus, was bor
  • ENEDOR, ST(Cressy, Ch. Hist. of Brét. lib. iv. 19, § 1), saint. [ENoporus.] [C. H.}
  • ENFAIL(ENVAEL, ENVAIL) is in the list of Brychan, of Brycheiniog's children (or grandchildren) in the Bonedd y Saint, and had
  • ENGELBERTUS(AnGILBERTUS, ANGHILBERTUS), a Frank of good birth (" haud ignotae familiae" Nithard, iv. 5), brought up from his earlie
  • ENGELMUNDpresbyter, abbat, and patron saint of Velsena, a fortified spot four miles from Haarlem. He was an Englishman of Frisian
  • ENGHENELwas son of Cynan Garwyn ab Brochwel Ysgythrog, descended from Cadell Deyrnilug. Rees ( Welsh Saints, 161, 297) says he i
  • ENGLATIUS, ENGLACIUSabbat, commemorated Nov. 3. This saint appears in most of the Scottish Kalendars, but is not in the Litany of Dunkeld. D
  • ENGRATIASpanish Martyr. [Encratis.]
  • ENIbrother of Redwald and father of Anna, kings of East Anglia (Malm. G. R. A. i. § 97, ed. Hardy ; Wend. F. H. ann. 652, e
  • ENIMIA(Enymta, Emmta), abbess; said to have been the sister of Dagobert king of the Franks and daughter of Clotaire II., thoug
  • ENNA(Enpa, ENpE, ErnNg, _latinised Enpevs) (1) Son of Conall Derg, and abbat of Aran, commemorated March 21, The primary aut
  • ENNATHASa virgin, martyred in Palestine during the Diocletian persecution. She was brought before Maxys the tribune, who caused
  • ENNEIMone of five virgins martyred in Persia under Sapor II. (a.D. 326). Commemorated June 9. (AA, SS. Jun. ii. 172.) [T. S. B
  • ENNEPIUSbishop of Maximianopolis (formerly Impara) in Thracia, near Rhodope. He was present at the council of Ephesus, a.p. 431,
  • ENNIUS(1) (Evntvs), appears in the ancient lists of bishops of Nantes as second among them, and is said to have built the firs
  • ENNODIUS(1) MAGNUS FELIX, bishop of Pavia, was born at Arles (Ennod. Zpist. lib. vii. 8) about 473. Through his father, Camillus
  • ENNOEA("Evvoia). In the attempts made by the framers of different Gnostic systems to explain the origin of the existing world,
  • ENOCH, APOCRYPHAL BOOK OFIn Gen. v. 24 it is said of Enoch that he walked with God. This expression was interpreted to mean not only that he led
  • ENODOCUS(Gurxepocts), ST., to whom a chapel in the Cornish parish of St. Minver (Menefrida), on the Bristol Channel, is dedicate
  • ENODORUS, STan Irish saint, who gave the name to St. Enoder, or Enedor, in Cornwall. His feast is the Sunday nearest the last Thursd
  • ENOGATUSsaid to have been bishop of Maclovium (St. Malo) in Brittany, and to have died A.D. 631 (Migne, Hayiog.). But the Sammar
  • ENONmartyred together with Quirio and forty others under Gallienus, A.D. 263. He is commemorated Jan.13. (Mart. Hier. ; AA.
  • ENTHEUSa monk, commemorated by the Ethiopian church on the 17th of the month Nahasse (August 10). Ludolphus adds no note to his
  • ENTULANUSbishop of Toul. [Enpunus.]
  • ENTYCHITARa sect of the followers of SIMON, who, according to Clem. Alex. (Strom. vii. 17, p. 900), derived this name from the unl
  • ENUTIUSbishop of Noyon. [Eunurius.]
  • ENVAELWelsh saint. [ENvar, ENFAIL.] ENYMIA, abbess,
  • EOAINIrish saint. [Ioary.]
  • EOALDUS(Eotpus, Goatpus, EpALpDus, CanoLpbUus), ST., was an archbishop of Vienne. In the Gallia Christiana (xvi. 35) he is plac
  • EOBANACH(Eopanvs), martyr, commemorated June 5. His name occurs in the list of martyrs in the Dunkeld Litany, and Camerarius, ca
  • EOBANUSpresbyter of Boniface, of Mentz, in whose correspondence his name is also written EABA and Eoso. The archbishop calls hi
  • EOBEan abbat who attests a charter of Ethelbald, king of Mercia, between 723 and 737. (Kemble, C. D. 83.) He is probably ide
  • EOBO(Monum. Mogunt. ed. Jaffé, pp. 99, 100, 166), presbyter of Boniface. [EOBANUS.]
  • EOCHAIDH(2), bishop of Tamlacht, Jan. 28. He is commemorated on this day in the Irish Martyrologies, and, dying a.D. 812, is cal
  • EOCHODapostle of the Picts. [Eucuaptrvs.]
  • EODBALD(Annal. Juvaviens. Maj. in Pertz, Mon. Germ. Hist. Scriptt. i. 87, ann. 640), filius Edilberti, depositus 13 kal. Februa
  • EODEBERTUSby a deed dated the 16th of May, in the tenth year of king Childebert (704), sold all his possessions at Rumliacum, in t
  • EODWALD(Eapwatp), the son of a poor woman whom Wilfrid is said to have restored to life at a place called Ontiddanufri ( ? Tixo
  • EOGHAN(Evcentvs, "well-born," Joyce, Trish Names of Places, 2 ser. 150). (1) Son of Cainnech, and bishop of Ardsrath and Raths
  • EOGLODIUSIrish saint. [Eucuaptvs.]
  • EOGONson of Tripot, an abbat, died A.p. 745, but the entry in the Stowe copy of the Four Mast. is modern (O'Conor, Rer. Hib.
  • EOLANG(Evuaie, Evioeius), of Achadbo, commemorated Sept. 5. O'Clery (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 237) has on this day '"*
  • EOLDUS(Adon. Chron. ann. 718 in Patr. Lat cxxiii, 120 b), bishop of Vienne. [EOALDUS.] -
  • EOLLAthe second bishop of Selsey (MZ. H. B. _ 618). He is mentioned by Bede as the successor _ of Eadbert, and as dead some t
  • EONUS(Acontvs), of noble birth in the territory of Chalon-sur-Saéne, succeeded Leontius as bishop of Arles. The Sammarthani d
  • EOPA(Wend. Flor. Hist. ann. -661, ed. Coxe); EOPPA (A. S. C. ann. 657, 661, in M. H. B. 316, 317), presbyter. [EAppa.] F
  • EOPPAson of Ingeld, who was brother of Tne king ot Wessex. Eoppa was great-grandfather of Egbert. (Chr. 8. MH. B. 348.) [S.]
  • EORCOMBERT(ancient Cotton MSS. fragments described in Hardy, Deser. Cat. i. 259), king of Kent. [EARCOMBERT.] [C. H.j:-
  • EORCONGOTHA(Flor. Wig. Geneal. Reg. Cantw. in M. H. B. 627), daughter of Earcombert. [EARcONGOrA. ] [C. H.]
  • EORICHUS(Greg. Tur. Hist. France. ii. 20), king of the Goths. [Eurtc.] [C. H.]
  • EORMENBEORGEor -GA (Flor. Wig. Geneal. Reg. Mere. in M. H. B. 630; id. Geneul. Reg. Cantw. in M. H. B. 627), daughter of Eormenred o
  • EORMENBURGA(1), (EormEeNBURH, ERMENBURGA), otherwise called Dompneva or Domneva, a name probably derived from ** Domina Eaba," the
  • EORMENGILDA, EORMENHILDa daughter of Earcombert, king of Kent, by his wife Sexburga; married to Wulfhere king of Mercia. (Flor. Wig. JZ H. B. 5
  • EORMENGITHA(Ermencirna), daughter of Eormenred, son of Eadbald king of Kent. (Flor. Wig. Geneal. Reg. Cant. in M. H. B. 627.)
  • EORMENREDson of Eadbald king of Kent. According to the Canterbury tradition, as delivered by Simeon of Durham (M. H. B. 646), he
  • EORPENWALD(Wend. F. H. ann. 624, 632, 636); EORPUALD (Bed. H. JZ. ii. 15, in M. H. B. 167 B); EORPWALD (4. 8.C, ann, 632, in M. H.
  • EORPWINabbat of the northern monastery described by the monk Ethelwulf (AA. SS O. S. B. saec. vi. part 25 pp. 323, 327). See ET
  • EOSTERWINUS(MSS. described in Hardy, Cat, Mat. i. 413; Sim. Dun. G. R.A. in M. A.B: 651 ¢), abbat. [EASTERWINE. ] (Cc. H.]
  • EOVALDUS(Hov), saint and martyr' who, along with Sixtus, suffered under Dacian the governor of Spain, during the Diocletian pers
  • EPACHIUSpresbyter of Ricomagus (Riom) in Auvergne, spoken uf by Gregory of Tours im the 6th century. Being of senatorial rank an
  • EPAENETUSbishop of Carthage, according to Baronius (Annai. s. a. 58, iv.), who, however, gives no authority for his statement but
  • EPAGATHUS(1) VETTIUS, one of the Martyrs at Lyons under Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 177); commemorated June 2, (Euseb. H. EZ. v. 1; Mar
  • EPAPHRAS(Col. i. 7, iv. 12; Philem. 23), legendary bishop of Colossae. Jerome in his Commentary on the Ep. to Philemon, vv. 23,
  • EPAPHRODITUS(1), reputed bishop of Philippi, and imagined to have been the aréorodos of Phil. ii. 25. Theodoret (Comment. in loc.) i
  • EPARCHIUS(1), bishop of Sicca, in the proconsular province of Africa. His name is found in the preface of the acts of the council
  • EPARCIUS(Aparcius, Huparctus), bishop of Italica [EULALIUS], from about 630 to 653, He signs the acts of the fourth Council of T
  • EPATHIMITUS(Ugh. Jtal. Sucr. vi. 26), bishop of Naples. [Eprrm1rvs. ] [C. H.]
  • EPHEBUS(1), CLAUDIUS, one of the bearers of Clement's epistle to the Corinthians (ch. 45). He must have been at the time (about
  • EPHESIUS(Faustin et Marcellin. Zibell. Prec. in Migne, Patr. Lat. xiii. 99), Luciferian bishop at Rome. [EuRrstus; Lucirrrrans.
  • EPHESUS, THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF'The first person in the West to relate the legend thus entitled appears to have been Gregory of Tours (Greg. Tur. de Gl
  • EPHRAIM(1), bishop of Alexandria. Le Quien (Or. Chr. ii. 389) says that the fourth bishop, called Primus by Eusebius (Chron. an
  • EPHRESbishop of Jerusalem. [EPHRAIM
  • EPHYSIUSwas born at Jerusalem in the 3rd century. His parents were pagans, and when Ephysius came to reside in Rome he still adh
  • EPICARPIUSpresbyter of Beneventum, the subject of a letter of pope Leo I. to Dorus, bishop of Beneventum, March 8, A.p. 448. Paulu
  • EPICHARISa martyr at Rome under Diocletian. She was arrested by Caesarius the prefect, tortured, and put to death. She is commemo
  • EPICTETUSThis philosopher was born at Hierapolis in Phrygia. Afterwards we findhim . a slave at Rome; his master was Epaphro
  • EPIDAURUSbishop of Side, the metropolis of the first Pamphylia, subscribed the canons of the council of Ancyra, A.D. 314; Pisiden
  • EPIGONIUSan African bishop, one of two legates sent by the first African council, A.D. 399 or 401, under Anastasius (Mansi, iii.
  • EPIGONUSa disciple of Norrus of Smyrna, who came to Rome about the year a.D. 200, and there promulgated his master's opinions (H
  • EPIMACHUS(1), a martyr at Alexandria with Alexander during the Decian persecution ; commemorated Dec. 12. They were kept for a lo
  • EPINOEA[ENNOEA, Srimov.]
  • EPIPHANESa Gnostic writer, who taught about the middle of the 2nd century, or earlier. Clement of Alexandria (Strom. iii. p. 511)
  • EPIPHANIA(2), also called Evupocta, daughter of the emperor Heraclius by his first wife Eudocia. She was born July 7, 611; baptiz
  • EPIPHANIUS(1), bishop of Salamis, in the island of Cyprus, and one of the most zealous champions of orthodox faith and monastic pi
  • EPIPHANTUS(54), Patricius of Constanti-
  • EPIPODIUS(1), one of the martyrs of Lyons. When the persecution had commenced, he retired, together with his friend Alexander, to
  • EPISEMONThe word éntonuoy is included in this dictionary, being strangely absent from Greek lexicons, ancient and modern, in the
  • EPISTEMEmartyr. [GALACTEON.] EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS. The Greek
  • EPISTLES, APOCRYPHAL. IL—1The Epistles of Abgarus or Agbarus, King of Edessa, to Christ and The Answer of our Lord are given by Eusebius (H. Z. i.
  • EPITACIUS(Errrativus, Epicrerus, Epic-virus, Epirectus, Epicrritus), said to have been bishop of Tude (Tuy) in Galicia, and after
  • EPITHYMIAin a Gnostic system described by Irenaeus (i. 29, p. 108), one of the evil offspring of the Maker of the world. [G. S.]
  • EPITIMITUS(Eparurmirvs), bishop of Naples in the 1st century according to the received lists; he stands third, following Patrobas,
  • EPITYNCHANIUSbishop of Germa in the province of the Hellespont, present at the synod held at Constantinople under Mennas, A.D. 536. (
  • EPLECIUS, EPLETUS[Expiecivs.]
  • EPODIUSbishop of Opitergium in Italy, A.D. 421, according to Ughelli (Jtal. Sacr. x. 152) on the authority of an ancient inscri
  • EPOLONUSone of three children baptized by Babylas [BAByLAS (1)], and martyred with him at Antioch during the Decian persecution.
  • EPPA(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv.in M. H. B. 717 D), presbyter. [EApPPA.] [C. H.]
  • EPPOALDUS[Eaoaxpus.]
  • EQUITIUS(1), tribune of the first schola of scutarii at the time of the death of the emperor Jovian, 364. His name was proposed
  • ERACLIANUSsixth bishop of Sens, between Audactus and Lunarius, in the 4th century (Gall. Christ. xii. 4; Gams, Ser. Ep. 628). [R.
  • ERACLIUS([Heractivs.]
  • ERADIUS(1), martyr at Tudertum in the Diocletian persecution, together with Cassian the bishop. (Baron. Anna. 303. 21.) [T. 8.
  • ERAMBERTUSbishop of Senlis.
  • ERAMBOLDUS(Gall. Christ. xi. 350), bishop of Bayeux. [FRamBotpus.] [C. H.]
  • ERARD(EbERHARD, ERHARD), bishop at Ardagh and Ratisbon. Commemorated Jan. 8. The life and acts of this saint are involved in
  • ERARICone of the tribe of the Rugii who had accompanied Theodoric into Italy, and always kept themselves distinct from the Ost
  • ERASISTRATUSbishop of Corinth, present at the robber-synod of Ephesus, a.p. 449, where he spoke in favour of Eutyches (Mansi, vi. 83
  • ERASMAa noble Roman virgin, said to have suffered martyrdom at Aquileia with Euphemia, Dorothea, and Thecla, under Nero; comme
  • ERASMUS(1), sent, together with Onesimus and fourteen others, to Rome to Licinius: by him they were delivered to Diomedes the p
  • ERASTUSthe oixovduos of the city of Corinth (Rom. xvi. 23), reputed bishop of Philippi. The pseudo-Dorotheus, confusing his tit
  • ERATAOTHthe name of a dogfaced demon in the diagram of the Ophites (Origen, adv. Cels, vi. 30). [HEBDOMAD.] [G. S.J
  • ERBINbrother of St. Digain, and son of Cystennin Gorneu, a prince of Devon, was himself included among the Welsh saints, and
  • ERC(1) (Earc, Ercus, Hercos), bishop of Slane. Commemorated Nov. 2. He was son of Deg or Dece, of the race of Corb Olum, de
  • ERCA(1), virgin, daughter of Ernin, of the family of St. Ita, is confounded by Colgan with Ere of Tullylish. (Ere (3).]
  • ERCAMBERTis given in the list of the bishops of Beauvais as twentieth, succeeding Radingus and followed by Rocoaldus. (Gall. Chri
  • ERCANBALD(ErcexBap, Baron. Annal. ann, 801, xx. ed. Theiner), an officer (notarius) of Charlemagne, sent by him to Liguria in 801
  • ERCANRADbishop of Paris.
  • ERCEMBERT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. lib. ii. in M. H. B. 717 ©), ERCENBERHT (A. 8. C. ann. 640, in M@. H. B. 310), king of Kent. [EA
  • ERCENUUALD(Kemble, @. D. 35, 38, 40), ERCENWALD (ib. 18), bishop of London.
  • ERCHANclerical witness to the liberation from laical possession of the church of Trylec Lann Mainuon (Trelech, Monmouthshire)
  • ERCHANFRIDUSnamed as bishop of Laureacum, and likewise of Juvavia (Salzburg), in the 6th century (Gams, Ser. Ep. 307, 327), the form
  • ERCHANWALDUS(Fredegar. Chron. continuat. i. 91, in Patr. Lat. Ixxi. 665), mayor. (ERcHINOALDDS. | (C. H.]
  • ERCHEMBRICT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. fi.in M. H. B.719 8B), ERCHENBERT (Gaimar, Estorie, v. 1377, in M. H. B. 780), ERCHENBRICTH (Hen
  • ERCHENEGODE(Gaimar, JZstorie, vy. 1285, in M. H. B. 780), daughter of Earcombert, king of Kent. [EARconcora.] [C. H.]
  • ERCHENRADUS(Hercuenrapvs) was the forty-third bishop of Paris, following Deo¢zfridus, and succeeded by Ermenfredus. The? is exta
  • ERCHINOALDsucceeded Aega as mayor of the palace in Neustria to Clovis IL. in 640. Erchinoald was of the Merovingian royal race, an
  • ERCNAT(Erenat, Erca HeRENAT), virgin,
  • ERCOMBERT(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. ii. in M. H. B. 716; Malm. G. R. A. i. § 76, ed. Hardy), ERCOMBIRCHT (Malm. G. &. A. i. $11)
  • ERCONGOTAS GC. ann. 640, in M. H. B. 310; Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 640, in M. H. B. 5290p; id. ad Chron. App. ib. 635; Malm. G.
  • ERCONVALD(Bed. H. 2£. iv. 11, in M. H. B. 221 4), ERCONWALD (Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 664, 675; M. H. B. 532 0, 535 a, B; d. Nom. E
  • ERCUNBERHT(Nennius, Hist. in M. H. B.
  • ERCUNUALDUS(Bed. #. Z&. iii. 19, in
  • ERECHTHIUSbishop of Antioch in Pisidia, . 440, A fragment of a sermon delivered by jim in the great church at Constantinople befor
  • ERECHTIUSbishop of Lagania. [ERE-
  • ERECLECH(Erectactus), commemorated March 3. Colgan gives a short memoir of St. Ereclacius, presbyter and confessor, from the T'r
  • EREDNAT(EretnaTan, HEREDNAT), commemorated Apr. 10, Known under these names in the Irish Wartyrologies, she is identified with
  • ERELIEVAa concubine of Theodemir, by whom she was the mother of Theodoric the Great, c. 454. She became a Catholic, and was know
  • EREMBERCHT(Willibald. Vit. Bonif. § 23, in Patr. Lat. Ixxxix. 603B; Baron. Annal. ann. 739, i.), bishop of Freising. [ERIMBERT. ]
  • EREMBERTUS(1), ST., eleventh bishop of Toulouse, succeeding Willegisilus. He was born at a place called Viliolicorte, on the Seine
  • EREMITAEgiven by Macarius Magnes (Apocrit. iii. 43, p. 151) as another name for ENCRATITES. [G. S.]
  • EREMIUSbishop of Thessalonica. [HEREMIUS. }
  • EREMWULFUSa Bavarian condemned for heresy, and excommunicated by St. Boniface in A.D. 732. (Willebaldi Vita S. Bonif. c. 6, ap. Ja
  • ERENAsister of pope Damasus (Boll. Acta SS. 21 Feb. iii. 244.) [IRENE] [J. G.]
  • ERENAEUS(ERNENEUS), confessor and Eremite, is a saint in Marr, Aberdeenshire, mentioned by Dempster and Camerarius, but he is pr
  • ERENBRECHTUS(EREnsBretTUs), tenth bishop of Worms, succeeding Folewicus, and followed by Bernhardus. From a distinguished abbat at W
  • ERENDRUDA(ERENDRUDIS, ERENTRUDE, EREDRUDA, ERNDRUDA, ARIODRUDA), abbess at Salzburg cir. 585 or later. She was niece of Rudbert o
  • ERENFRIDUSbishop of Constance. [ERNFRIDUS. }
  • ERENNIUS(HERENNIUS 5 ; IRENAEUS, Jerome ; *Apphvws, Soc.; "Epévyios, Soz.5 'Epévvios, Epiphan.), one of the bishops intruded int
  • ERENWALDUS(Baron. Annales Eccles. A.D. 724, 13), bishop. [ERKENWALD.] (1. G. S.J EREPTIOLUS, bishop of Coutances, died about A.D.
  • ERETIUS(Labbe, Concil. i. 1488D, eds 1671), bishop. '"Eretius Placianensis Galatiae Primae.". [ERECHOREUS.] (Tt. W. Dae
  • ERFO4.p. 762. His name occurs in an ancient charter of a morastery of Friuli, found in the monastery of S'. Mary, Val d'Aost
  • ERFOINUS4.p. 720. In a charter dated at Anninchova, February, in the reign of Chilperic II., Erfoinus and his sons Teotarius —_
  • ERFURWIN(Evurwin, EFORWIN), a benefactor, with his coheirs Hildirad and Irminevin, to the monastery of St. Saviour at Verden on
  • ERGNATIrish saint.
  • ERHARDUS(Gams, Ser. Ep. 304), bishop of Ratisbon. [ERARD.] {C. H.]
  • ERHARTa Northumbrian abbat who attended the synod in which the legatine canons of 787 were accepted. (Haddan and Stubbs, iii.
  • ERIBALDUSeighteenth in the list of the bishops of Viviers, succeeding Arcontius, and followed by Thomas I. at the beginning of th
  • ERIBALDUS CERNUUSpraepositus or provost of the cathedral of Arles, mentioned in the years 796, 799, during the pontificate of bishop Elif
  • ERICIUS(Arricus), bishop of Lausanne, present at the council of Chalon-sur-Saéne, A.D. 650. (Gall. Christ. xv. 329; Mansi, x. 1
  • ERIMBERT(EREMBERCHT, ERMBERT), second bishop of Freising, brother (apparently the elder brother) of Corbinian, his predecessor,
  • ERINALDUSthirty-seventh bishop of Auch, succeeding Anerius and followed by Lupus or Aster, about the middle of the 8th. century.
  • ERINNYSin a Gnostic system described by Irenaeus (i. 29, p. 108), one of the evil offspring of the Maker of the world, [G. S.J
  • ERIPHIUSaddressed by Sidonius Apollinaris (v. 17), who describes to him the solemni- ties of the feast of St. Justus at Lyon. (C
  • ERKEMBODUSor ERKEMBODO, ST., fifth abbat of the monastery of St. Bertin (also called the monastery of Sithiu from its position) in
  • ERKENBERT(1) (Gams, Ser. Episc. 294), bishop of Minden. [HERUMBERT.] (C. H.]
  • ERKENGOTA(Wend. F. H. ann. 640), daughter of Earcunbert, king of Kent, abbess of Brie. [EARCONGOTA. ] [C. H.]
  • ERKENWALDthe fourth bishop of the East Saxons, whose capital and episcopal see was London (M. H. B. 617); brother of St. Ethelbur
  • ERLAUREUStwenty-eighth bishop of Meaux, following Sigenoldus, and succeeded by Aidenerus, in the 8th century. (Gall. Christ. viii
  • ERLEFRIDUSIn the Chartulary of Saint Bertin, compiled by Folquinus, a monk of that abbey, about A.D, 875, chapter xix. recounts th
  • ERLINGUSan archbishop of Tours, said to have been the forty-third, succeeding Gavienus, and followed by Josephus I., but there i
  • ERLOMHANhad been kept in chains by Moenach, king of Munster, but on being released at the intercession of St. Fechin, he embrace
  • ERMARICUSappears among the signatures of the third Council of Toledo as Ermaricus Laniobrensis. The see of Laniobria cannot, howe
  • ERMBERT(Annales Altahenses Major. ann. 750; Boll. Acta SS. 8 Sept. iii, 291 a), bishop of Freising. [ERIMBERT.] [C. H.]
  • ERMECornish saint. [Hermes.]
  • ERMEDHACH(Arrmepuacu, EIRMBEADHACH, ERMEDUS, HERMITIUS), abbat of Craebh- laisre, commemorated Jan. 1. He was the founder and pat
  • ERMEFREDUSbishop of Lugo from about A.p. 653 onwards, signs the eighth council of
  • ERMEGUNDISan Anjevin woman, healed of blindness and contraction of the limbs on the feast day of St. Martin at Tours. (Greg. Tur.
  • ERMELENDISa virgin anchoret in Brabant, cir. A.D. 600. She was born of noble parents, Ermenoldus and Ermensindis, and was related
  • ERMELIUSa Belgian saint. [ELMERUS.]
  • ERMEMBERTUS(ErminBertus, Mon. Carol. 278), thirty-ninth occupant of the see of Bourges, succeeding Deodatus. There is extant
  • ERMENARIUS(1), bishop of Limoges. [ErMeEnvs. ]
  • ERMENBERGA(1), daughter of Betteric or Witteric, king of the Spanish Visigoths. In 607 she was sought in marriage by Theuderic kin
  • ERMENBURGA(1) (Flor. Wig. Gen. Reg. Cant. in M. H. B. 627; id. ad Chron, App. in M. H. B. 635), daughter of Eormenred king of Kent
  • ERMENFREDUS(1), son-in-law of Aega
  • ERMENFRIDUS(1), abbat of Cusantia (Cuisance) in Franche-Comté, a spot about seven miles from the left bank of the Doubs at the sour
  • ERMENGITHA(Flor. Wig. ad Chron. App. in M. H. B. 6350), daughter of Eormenred king of Kent. [EorMENGITHA.] (Cc. H.]
  • ERMENHILDA(Malm. G. R.A. i. § 76, ed. Hardy; Wend. F. H. ann. 676, ed. Coxe), ERMENILDA (Flor. Wig. ad Chron. App. in M. H. B. 635
  • ERMENIUSthirty-first occupant of the see of Avignon, succeeding Eucherius and followed by Antoninus. The compilers of the Gallia
  • ERMENObishop of Senlis. [Ermrnus.]
  • ERMENRED¥. C. ann. 640, in M. H. B. 310; Flor. Wig. Chron. ann. 675, in M. H. B. 534; id. ad Chron. App. in M. H. B. 6384; W
  • ERMENTHEVUSnineteenth bishop of Toul, succeeded Adeodatus, after whose death the see was vacant for some months, owing to the wars
  • ERMENTRANNUSan archdeacon who subscribed the council of Rouen, held in a.p. 682. (Baron. an. A. E. 682, n. xi.; Labbe, Conc. vii. 14
  • ERMENTRUDAa matron of rank, who bequ -athed certain possessions to certain churches ab at A.D. 700 at Paris. A long fragment of he
  • ERMENUS(EpmMenarivus, ERMENO), 23rd bishop of Limoges, succeeding Caesarius, and Yollowed by Salutaris. In A.D. 690 he is said
  • ERMESINDA(BerMEsINDA), — Pelayo's daughter and the wife of Alfonso the Catholi¢ duke of Cantabria. Through her marriage (? before
  • ERMINA[Ern1N (7)]
  • ERMINFRIDson of Eadbald king of Kent. [EoRMENRED. ] (C. H.]
  • ERMINUS(Ermeno, HeRminivus, ERMENALDUS), twenty-fifth bishop of Senlis, following Ragnaldus, and succeeded by Godefredus. All w
  • ERMIUSbishop of Nantes. [ENNIUs.]
  • ERMOALD(1), a Frank noble near Chartres in the 6th century, who after an ill-spent life sent a present of forty solidi on his d
  • ERMOLANDUSbishop in Brittany, 710.
  • ERMULFUSbishop of Coimbra in 633, in which year Renatus, archpriest of Coimbra, signs as his vicar the acts of the fourth counci
  • ERMUVOLFUS(Baron. A. Z. ann. 733, _ iv.), heretic. [EREMWULFUS.] [C. H.]
  • ERNACHUAGof Dun-da-en, is given in the Felire of Aengus at Oct. 30 as " Ernachuag, son of Jairnn his name, and at Dun-da-en in th
  • ERNADHACH(Errenacn), son of Echin, abbat of Leithghlinn (Leighlin, co. Carlow), died A.D. 774 (Ann. Ult. 773; Four Mas Gy
  • ERNAEUS(Ernevs, Ertyeus, HERNEUS), founder and abbat of the monastery of St. Martin, near Le Mans, in the 6th century. His name
  • ERNANisa name which assumes many forms, such as ERNEN, ERNIN, also MeERNoc, MARNOCK (from the use of the affectionate prefix
  • ERNANIAwas a nun in a monastery called Druim-forachadh or Kill-Ua-sona, in Carbery, co. Longford, who is said in the Vita St. F
  • ERNDRUDAabbess. [ERENDRUDA.] © ERNENKEUS, Scottish saint. [ERENAEUS.] ERNENGILDA, Irish saint. [ERMEN.] _
  • ERNESTUSabbat, mentioned as present at a council held at Dingolvinga, or Dingolfing, in Bavaria (Baron. Annales Eccles. A.D. 772
  • ERNFRIDUS(ERENFRIDUs, ANEFRIDUS), abbat of Augia Dives, and 18th bishop of Constance, succeeding Rudoltus or Rodulfus, and follow
  • ERNIN(ERNENE) is only another form ot the name of ERNAN, and often, like it, becomes MERNOC, MarNoc, and MARNAN. In the Irish
  • ERNISIUSpresbyter, one of two who are said to have founded Llanthony, Monmouthshire, in the time of St. David, its original patr
  • ERNTRUDIS(Hund. Metrop. Salisburg. p- 2, ed. 1719), abbess. [ERENDRUDIS.] [C. H.]}
  • ERONUS(Hero), twenty-eighth bishop of Langres, succeeding Garobaldus, and followed by Astoricus, In the chronicle of the Monas
  • EROS("Epws, Heros, Herus), fifth bishop of Antioch, coming between Cornelius and Theophilus (Euseb. H. ZL. iv. 20; Niceph. C
  • EROTEISmartyr.
  • ERPULION(ExPution), son of Witiza king of Spain. On his father's death he fled with his brother Farmarius or Furmalus to Africa,
  • ERPWALD(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angi. iii. ann, 582, in WU. H. B. 720D), king of East Anglia.
  • ERVIGIUS(1), ERVIG, ERWICH, Gothic king of Spain from A.D, 680 to 687. Sebastian of Salamanca, a 9th-century chronicler (Zsp. Sa
  • ERWALD(1) (Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. in ii M. H. B. 719 D), king of East Anglia, [EARpPWALD. | (C. H.]
  • ERYTHARIUSpractorian prefect under Leo I. and Zeno. (Cod. Just. lib. i. tit. 4, 16.) Finding that the taxes which Zeno was trying
  • ERYTHRAEUS(Eryrurtus), bishop of Amisus, in the province of Helenopontus, who signed the letter addressed by the bishops of that p
  • ERYTRIUSbishop of Lagania. [ERECHTIUS.] Cl Wea]
  • ESADDAEUSthe name of one of the paternal angels in the system of JUSTINUS (Hippol. Ref. v. 26, p. 151). The name is apparently th
  • ESAIAS(4), bishop of Hermopolis Parva (Damanhur) on the Egyptian Delta. He took part in the Ephesine " Latrocinium," A.p. 449,
  • ESALDAEUS([Esappaevs.]
  • ESCHATOLOGYThe word, of comparatively late origin in theological language, is applied to that branch of theology which deals with t
  • ESCHROPOEI(Aioxporoiol), mentioned by Antiochus, the monk of St. Saba, as a designation of the later Origenist sect (Antioch. Mona
  • ESCONNbishop of Bochluain, commemorated Nov. 20. He is thus designated at his commemoration in Mart. Doneg., but in Dr. Reeves
  • ESCUUALDa presbyter of Kent, a.p. 761 (Kemble, C. D. 107, 132). [C. H.]
  • ESCWINE(Axrscwine, Arscuuinr, EscuiNus, Escuurne, Ese wink, OSWINE, CHENFUSIEN, i.e. CENFUSING or son of Cenfus), king of Wesse
  • ESDRAS(Ezr, Jeser), catholicos or patriarch of Armenia. He was born at P'har- hajnagerd in the canton of Nik or Nica, and the
  • ESEWINE(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1412, in
  • ESICHUSand II., bishops of Poitiers, stand respectively eleventh and twelfth in the episcopal lists of that see, but nothing
  • ESICIA(Greg. Mag. Epp. lib. i. ind. ix. ep. 6, Patr. Lat. Ixxvii. 450), a lady. ([Esycuta.] [C. H.]
  • ESIMPHAEUS(EsmupHaevs), king of the Homeritae or Himyari, the people of Yemen in Arabia Felix. He was a Christian, and was raised
  • ESNE(AErNe), the tenth bishop of Hereford. (i, H, B. 621.) Under the form of Aeine his name appears among the signatures to
  • ESNIGArmenian patriarch. [Ezn1K.] ESOTIUS. ([Exortvs.]
  • ESPASANDUSbishop of Complutum (Alcala de Henares), subscribes the acts of the fifteenth and sixteenth councils of Toledo, under Eg
  • ESPERAINDEDObishop of Italica, signs the twelfth Council of Toledo, called by Ervig, and presided over by Julian. [Ervic.] His name
  • ESPIANvenerated at Beauvais in France* is said, by Guerin and Giry, to have been son of Ella, king of Scotland and Northumbria
  • ESPIUSfifth bishop of Syracuse, probably early in the 2nd century. He succeeded Eulalius I., and was followed by Ethimotheus.
  • ESSENESor ESSAEANS (Eooaio: or Egonvol). One of the three sects of Judaism at the time of Christ, the other two being the Phari
  • ESTERUINabbat of Wearmouth. [EasTERWINI. ]
  • ESTHAaccording to the account given by Africanus to reconcile the two genealogies of our Lord, the name of the wife of Mattha
  • ESTHENIgiven by Procopius of Gaza on (2 Kings xviii. 4) as another name for OpHITEs. He came by this name from a corrupt readin
  • ESUS(Est), an abbat from whom Bede obtained his few details respecting the foundation of the East Anglian Church. (H. Z. pra
  • ESYCHIA(Estcta), a lady to whom, along with two others, Dominica and Eudochia, pope
  • ESYCHIUSa "vir illustris," who carried a letter from Julian, bishop of Cos, to pope Leo I, in a.p. 453. (Leo. Mag. Zp. 118, 1210
  • ETAOIN(Epana, EpAENA), virgin, commemorated July 5. According to O'Clery, she was of the race of Brian, son of Eochaidh Muighm
  • ETBALT(Brut y Tywysog. text, in M. H. B, 842, and note), king of the Saxons. [ETHELBALD
  • ETCHAENIUS[Ercuen.]
  • ETCHEN(Ecuey, Ecuevs, ErcnaEntus, —
  • ETECUSAalso called Numeria, a Carthaginian woman, who, with her sister Candida, lapsed at Rome under the Decian persecution. Fe
  • ETELIGis witness, as a cleric, to two grants of land made to the see of Llandaff, in the time of bishop Berthgwyn, in the end
  • ETERNITYfrom a patristic point of view solely, which, however, was not original, but culled from Greek and other philosophies in
  • ETERNITY OF PUNISHMENTS[EsCHATOLOGY. ]
  • ETESIUS(Arpzstvs), bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria, on the river Calycadnus. He was present at the first general council at N
  • ETFRIDpresbyter of Leominster, Hereford-shire, whose legend is recorded in a manuscript (Harl. 2253, ff. 132, 133) described b
  • ETGALabbat of a monastery on one of the Skellig islands, off the coast of Kerry, was taken by the Northmen, whom the Ivish An
  • ETGFIRD(Nennius, Hist. Angl. in M. H. B. 75 B), king of Northumbria, son of Oswy. [EerRip.] {C. H.]
  • ETGUIN(Annal. Cambr. ann. elxxxii. ie. A.D. 626, in M. H. B, 832 A), king of Northumbria. [EDWIN.] [C, H.]
  • ETHA(Sim. Dun. G. R. A. ann. 767, in UM. H. B. 663 D), anchoret at Cric, [Eava.] [C. H.}
  • ETHAN(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1456, in M. H. B. 782), bishop of Lindisfarne. [Eava.] [C. H.]
  • ETHBALDE(Malm. @. R. A. i. § 39, ed. Hardy), king of Mercia. [ETHELBALD. ] (C. H.]
  • ETHBIN(EaBrn, Erin), commemorated Oct. 19. Dec. 30. Of this saint a life is given by the ae]
  • ETHELA[Arria.]
  • ETHELARD(Dugd. Monast. i. 255), abbat of Malmesbury. [ETHELHARD (2, 3).] ([C. H.]
  • ETHELARDE(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 39, ed. Hardy), king of Wessex. [ETHELNARD (1).] (Cc. H.
  • ETHELARDUS(Malm. G. R. A. i. §§ 89, 94, ed. Hardy), archbishop of Canterbury. [ETHELHARD (3).] [C. H.]
  • ETHELBALD(1), king of Mercia, 716-757. He was the son of Alwih or Alweo, son of Eawa, the brother of Penda (Chr. S. a.p. 716). He
  • ETHELBERHT(1), (Flor. Wig. Geneal. Reg. in M. H. B. 633), ETHELBERT (Malm. G. R.A. i. §§ 72, 93, ed. Hardy), king. of Northumbria.
  • ETHELBERT(properly ArrHeLBERHT or AETHELBRIHT; Bede, AEDILBERCT), king of Kent. He was the son of Irminric, and great-gran
  • ETHELBIRHT(Malm. G. PR. A. i. § 9, title § 10, ed. Hardy), ETHELBIRT (ibid. § 9) ETHELBIRTH (iid. § 17), king of Kent [ETHELBERY (
  • ETHELBRICT(Hardy, Cat. Mat. i. 264), martyr. [ETHELBERT (5).] [C. H.]
  • ETHELBRIHT(Malm. G. R. A. i. § 86, ed. Hardy), king of East Anglia. [ETHEL-BERT (3). ] [C. H.]
  • ETHELBURGA(1) (TATAE), daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent and his queen Bertha. She was bestowed in marriage by her brother Eadba
  • ETHELBYRHT(1) (Sim. Dun. G. R. A. ann. 616, in M. H. B. 645 B, Cc, D, 646 A, 647 A) xing of Kent. [ETHELBERT (1).] [C. H.]
  • ETHELDRED(1) (Hardy, Cat. Mat. i. 264), young prince of Kent, martyred. [ETHELBERT
  • ETHELDREDA(1) (AEpDILTHRYD), a daughter of Edwin king of Northumbria and Ethelburga his second wife. She was baptized at York in A
  • ETHELFLEDA(Malm. G. BR. A. i. § 50, ed. Hardy), daughter of Oswy king of Northumbria, abbess of Whitby. [ELFLEDA (1).]
  • ETHELFRID(Ernetrriru, ETHELFRYTH, AEDILFRID, EADFERED FLESAURS, ETALFRAICH), king of Northumbria. He was the son of Ethelric, and
  • ETHELFRITH(Ersetrrip, AETHELFERTH), the fourth bishep of Elmham (J. H. B. 618). He was consecrated by archbishop Nothelm, who rece
  • ETHELGITHA(ArrTHELGITHA, Se a Northumbrian abbess, probably of Coldingham, whose relics were brought to Durham by Elfred the sacri
  • ETHELHARD(1) (AETHELHEARD, AETHELHARD, ADELHARD, EDELHEARD), king of the West Saxons, 725-739 (Cont. Bed. MZ. H. B. 288 ; 728-741
  • ETHELHERD(1) (ETHELHEARD), a Northumbrian " dux" who adopted the religious habit, and died at York, August 1, A.D. 794 (Symeon, C
  • ETHELHERE(ArEpILHERE), son of Eni, the brother of Redwald, succeeded his brother Anna as king of the East Angles in 654. As his b
  • ETHELHILDa sister of Ethelwin bishop of Lindsey, and Aldwin abbat of Partney. She was abbess of a monastery near Partney, and sur
  • ETHELHUN(i) (AepituuN), a son of Edwin king of Northumbria and his second wife Ethelburga of Kent. He was baptized by Paulinus s
  • ETHELINGAthird prioress of Minster in Thanet, according to Weever (Fun. Monum. p. 262) as noticed by Dugdale (i. 448, note a), bu
  • ETHELMOD(AerHELMop, OrTHELMop, ADALMUNDUS), fourth bishop of Sherborn (M. H. B. 620). His name occurs in the charters first in t
  • ETHELNOTH(2), the fifteenth bishop of London (M. H. B. 617). He succeeded bishop Osmund between 805 and 811, and subscribed chart
  • ETHELRED(1), ST., young prince of Kent, martyred with his brother Ethelbert. [ErHe.- BERT (5). ] [C. H.]
  • ETHELSWITHAa daughter of Offa, mentioned in the Chertsey charter of 787. (Kemble, C. D. 151.) [S.J
  • ETHELWALCH(Aerpitwatcu), the first Christian king of the South Saxons. He was baptized in Mercia at the suggestion of king Wulfher
  • ETHELWALD(1) (OrILvaLp), a son of Oswald king of Deira, and nephew of Oswy. He ruled some portion of Northumbria under Oswy after
  • ETHELWALKIUS(Malm. G. BR. A. i. §76, ed. Hardy), king of the South Saxons. [ETHELWALCH. | [C. H.]
  • ETHELWIN(Oepiiwint). (1) A prefectus or reeve of Oswy king of Bernicia, who at his master's command put to death Oswin of Deira
  • ETHELWOLD(2) (AEpILUvALDUS), bishop of Lindisfarne, A.D. 724-740. There is some doubt as to the duration of his episcopate. The b
  • ETHELWULEF(8) (AETHELULPR), the tenth bishop of Selsey. (J. H. B. 618.) He first appears as taking part with archbishop Wulfred an
  • ETHEMBRIA[Creruvuseris.] ETHERIANUS. ([Fivetis.]
  • ETHERIUS(1), (Euruertus, Evcuertus), fonyth bishop of Antibes, following Agraecius, and
  • ETHERNAN(1) (EppRAN, IPHERNAN), bishop and confessor, commemorated Dec. 2. This holy bishop lived in the 6th century, and is oft
  • ETHERNASC(Ersernalss, IoTHARNAISC, ITHARNAISE), confessor, commemorated Dec, 22. Ethernas is not to be confounded with Ethernan o
  • ETHI(Cod. Theod. XVI. v. 8), followers of Aetius. [Axtrus, Vol. L 51.] [T. W. D.J
  • ETHICOPROSCOPTAE(Hé:korpockéx-tat), literally "offenders (apookdrtovtes) in matters of ethics," is the title under which St. John of Dam
  • ETHILAUSbishop of Edessa, [EUTHALIUS (2).]
  • ETHILBALD(Sim. Dun. G. R. A. ann. 732 M. A. B. 657 dD, 658 .¢; ann. 750, ib. 6628), king of Mercia, [ETHELBALD (1).] [C. H.]
  • ETHILIUSsixth bishop of Vaison, succeed- "
  • ETHIMOTHEUSsixth bishop of Syracuse, early in the 2nd century. His predecessor was Espius, his successor Venatius. (Pirri, Sicilia
  • ETHIOPIAN CHURCHThe designation "Ethiopia" (Aethiopia, " Ai®ioria of Herod. iii. 114, and also of Strabo and Pliny; the LXX translation
  • ETHNE, ETHNEA[Erreye.]
  • ETHNOPHRONES('Eévéppoves), = =ame |
  • ETHO(Ero, Erro, HEppus, Heppo, Appa), twenty-second bishop of Straburg, is said to have been the son of Hugh, whose sister w
  • ETHOLIUS(Arrauianas), ordained bishop of Edessa, the metropolis of Osrhoéna, A.D. 324, and present at the council of Nicaea, 325
  • ETIANUS[ErcHen.]
  • ETIRSCEL(Epirscet, Errirscer), son of Ceallach, bishop and abbat of Glendaloch, co. Wicklow, died a.p. 814 (Ann. Uit. A.D. 813;
  • ETObishop of Strasburg. [ETHo.]
  • ETTA(Wharton, Angi. Sacr. i. 404), bishop of Dunwich. [ETri.] [C. H.]
  • ETTI(Ecca, Axrcca, Arcct, Heca, W. Malmesb.), the first bishop of Dunwich after the division of the East Anglian see in 673;
  • ETTO(1) (Herto, Orro, Ze), bishop, confessor, commem. July 10. Of this bishop and con- fessor the Bollandists (Acta SS. Jul.
  • EUAGEES(Evayéns), nephew of Hilderic king of the Vandals and brother of Hoamer the Achilles of the Vandals. On the dethronement
  • EUAGRIUS(1), martyr at Tomi with
  • EUANTHASa name suggested by Irenaeus (vy. 30) as a possible solution of the number of the beast (Rev. xiii. 18), the numerical v
  • EUARESTUS(1), the writer of the martyrdom of PoLycaRP. [G. S.J
  • EUARISTUS(Ev'dpeoros), Cyp. Ep. 50, 52, 1, an Italian bishop, probably one of the three who consecrated Novatian (Euseb. vi. 43),
  • EUBERTUSbishop and martyr in Flanders ; said to have fled from Rome in the persecution of Diocletian; to have preached in Gaul i
  • EUBODIUS(1), the first known bishop of Tifernum (Citta di Castello). He was present at the council of Rome, a.D. 465. (Ughelli,
  • EUBOLUSbishop. [EBvutvs.]
  • EUBULEin the time of th® emperor Maximian, mother of the Greek martyr Panteleemon, the physician. Her husband was a pagan of N
  • EUBULUS(1), bishop of Avignon. [Exu-
  • EUCADDIRESa burlesque name for pagan priests, suggested by St. Augustine (Hp. 17). [H. W. P.] EUCARPIUS, a monk of the 5th century
  • EUCHADIUS(Eocnopius, Eoaropacu EoGLopIus), commemorated Jan. 25, Oct. 13, The identity of this saint is obscured by the later Sco
  • EUCHAITAE(Baron. Annal. ann, 328, XXxiii.), heretics. [Evcuires.] But it may not be amiss to add the caution that Euchaitae is al
  • EUCHARISTthe sacrament of the Christian Church, commonly so designated in the writings of the Fathers, and here considered solely
  • EUCHARISTUS(Eucuarisrius), bishop of Volterra c. a.p. 492. He was deprived by Gelasius I. for maladministration of the revenues of
  • EUCHARIUS(1), brother of Eliphius, and martyred at the same time [ELIPHIUs], is said to have been a bishop, about A.D, 362, and b
  • EUCHERILAwife of Dynamius Patricius,
  • EUCHERIUS(1), ST., bishop of Lyons in the 5th century. The date of birth is uncertain, but it most probably falls within the last
  • EUCHINUSis mentioned by Boece (Scot. Hist. c. viii. fol. 151 a, ed. 1575), but is omitted in Bellenden's version (vol. ii., p. 5
  • EUCHITESDoctrines and Practices.—At the beginning of the last quarter of the 4th century or a little earlier, fanatics made thei
  • EUCHOLIUS(Evcouvs, Ascuotius, AcHoLIUs), a man at Constantinople suborned to assas- sinate the Patriarch Macedonius. The attempt
  • EUCHROCIA(Evcrocra), wife of the orator and poet Delphidius, described as a noble matron of Bordeaux. After the rescript of Grati
  • EUCOLUS([Evcnortrvus.]
  • EUCRATIUSbishop, who consults Oyprian as to the Christian lawfulness of the calling of a
  • EUDAEMON(2) (Evdaluwv, EUTHEMON), a Meletian bishop, who with others was sent by his party to the emperor Constantine, with friv
  • EUDAS UA DICHOLLAabbat of Kildare, died a.p. 798 (Ann. Ult. A.D. 797; Four Mast.
  • EUDEMclerical witness to the grant of the village of Bertus by King Ithael to the see of Llandaff in the time of bishop Berth
  • EUDEMUSL, bishop of Patara in Lycia, one of the Nicene fathers, A.D, 325, (Le Quien, Oriens Christ. i. 977 ; Mansi, ii. 695.) [
  • EUDEMUS ILbishop of Patara, one of the Lycian bishops who in A.D. 375 were reported to Basil as holding orthodox views and as desi
  • EUDOduke of Aquitaine at the beginning of the 8th century. Aquitaine, which in 630 had been brought directly under Frankish
  • EUDOCETUS(Evdoxnrés). For the account given by a section of the Valentinians why this name was given to the Saviour see Irenaeus
  • EUDOCHIAa lady to whom, along with two others, Esychia and Dominica, pope Gregory the Great sends greetings through Narses Patri
  • EUDOCIA(1), martyr, Mar. 1, born at Samaria during the reign of Trajan. In her early days she lived an immoral life, but upon h
  • EUDOCIMUS(Theoph. Chronogr. 395, Patr. Gr. cviii. 940a; Zonaras, Annal. xv. 12, ibid. cxxxiv. 1350 a), son of Constantine Coprony
  • EUDOCIUSa youthful member of a monastic community at Caesarea, who, having quarrelled with the superior, Sacerdos, laid complain
  • EUDOLIUSbishop of Toul. [EnpuLus.]
  • EUDOXIA(1), martyr at Alexandria with Athanasia her mother, and two sisters, in the reign of Diocletian. Commemorated Jan. 31.
  • EUDOXIANTIparty of Eudoxius bishop of Constantinople. [Eupoxrus (2).]
  • EUDOXIUS(1), bishop of Antioch in Pisidia, mentioned in the menologies (June 23) as baptizing and ordaining St. Eustochius durin
  • EUELPISa layman of Laranda in Lycaonia, whose permission to preach to the congregation by Neon, the bishop of that city, is men
  • EUELPISTUSaccording to the acts of Justin Martyr, one of the emperor's slaves, who suffered martyrdom at the same time with Justin
  • EUEMERUSof Treves. [EVEMERUS.]
  • EUENTIUSa presbyter, martyred at Rome with pope Alexander under Hadrian (A.D. 117). He is commemorated May 3. (Mart. Hier., Us.,
  • EUERTIUS[Evortivs.]
  • EUETHIUS(1), a presbyter of Constantinople, a faithful friend of Chrysostom's, who accompanied him on his banishment to Cucusus.
  • EUFIMIAwife of Sergius, archbishop of Ravenna, c. 750. When, having been a layman, he suddenly became archbishop, he consecrate
  • EUFORUSbishop of Cordova. [EUPHORUS. }
  • EUFRASIUS(1), said to have been sent, along with six others, by the apostles to preach in Spain, and to have died at Iliturgis (A
  • EUFRATESa presbyter to whom, together with Saturninus, St. Augustine wrote to congratulate them on their return from Donatism to
  • EUFRIDIUSdeacon of Toledo (Baronius, s. a. 537, xli.; Hildefons. de Vir. Jllustr. praef. 6). [Lronrtius, deacon of Toledo.) [T. W
  • EUFRONIUS(1), fifth bishop of Nevers, sueceeding St. Aregius, and followed by St. Aeola- dius, flourished about A.p. 560. He subs
  • EUGENDUS(1), Carthaginian.
  • EUGENIA(1), a daughter of Philippus, who was appointed by Commodus governor of Alexandria. There she became acquainted with Chr
  • EUGENIANUSa martyr, commemorated Jan. 8 (Mart. Usuard., Wandalb.). No other ancient writer seems to be acquainted with a martyr of
  • EUGENIUS(1) I, bishop of Rome during the breach between Rome and Constantinople in consequence of the Monothelite controversy ;
  • EUGENTIUSmartyr. [EvcEntus (35).]
  • EUGIPPIUS(1), ST. (Evcyprius), abbat of Lucullanum, born at Carthage about the middle of the 5th century,. and at the age of twel
  • EUGNOMONa bishop of Asia, one of those who presented a complaint against Chrysostom at the Council of the Oak, for having unjust
  • EUGNOMONIUS(Evanomon) appears among the Eutychians, who as éAdxioTor apximavdpirat, made an appeal to Marcian the emperor for a gen
  • EUGRAPHIA(1), a rich widow of Constantinople, an intimate associate of the empress Eudoxia, and a leading member of the female ca
  • EUGRAPHUSa martyr at Alexandria with Menas and Hermogenes, under Maximin; commemorated Dec. 10. (Men. Bas.; Baron. Annal. 307, 38
  • EUGYPPIUSabbat. [Evarprius.]
  • EUHEL(Eorz), commemorated November 14 with Fachtna of Cill-toma, and Gabhran, his two brothers. They are called the three son
  • EUINduke of Trent (Tridentum), one of the dukes who ruled Italy for ten years after the death of Kleph, when there was no Lo
  • EUIPPIUSa bishop of long standing, holding Arianizing doctrines, from whom, though there was much reason for his being united to
  • EULADIUS(Evtatius), placed by the diptychs of the church of Arles as_ bishop between Patroclus and St. Honoratus (Mabillon, 'Yet
  • EULADIUS, STsaid to have been the first bishop of Nevers. In the twenty-fifth year of his reign (506) Clovis sent for St. Severinus,
  • EULALIA(1), virgin martyr, born in the 4th century, of noble parents, at Merida (St. Emerita) in Spain. At the age of twelve, d
  • EULALIUS(1), an antipope, elected and ordained as bishop of Rome atter the death of Zosimus at the close of the year 418, in opp
  • EULAMIUSa heathen Phrygian _philosopher of the 6th century, who in company with Damascius a Syrian, Priscianus a Lydian, Hermias
  • EULAMPIA(1), a martyr together with Eulampius her brother. They were natives of Nicomedia. When the Diocletian persecution broke
  • EULAMPIUSmartyr. [Evnamrra (1).] EULANCIUS, a friend of Basil, residing at
  • EULOGIUS(2), bishop of Ambianum (Amiens), at the council of Sardica, 347 (Athan.
  • EULYSIUSbishop of Apamea in Bithynia, one of Chrysostom's most loyal adherents. He was one of the leading members of the body of
  • EUMACHIUS7th bishop of Viviers, about the beginning of the 5th century, succeeded by Auxonius. (Gall. Christ. xvi. 543.) [R. T. S
  • EUMALIUSimperial vicar of Africa (see Gibbon, ii. 314, ed. Smith), to whom Constantine wrote, informing him of the decision of t
  • EUMENES(Hymenaevs), bishop of Alex andria. According to the chronicle of Eusebius, he succeeded Justus in A.D. 130, and occupie
  • EUMENIAservant of Afra the converted courtesan of Augsburg, and martyred there with
  • EUMENIUS(8), a bishop mentioned with another, Maximianus, by pope Innocent I. in a letter to Rufus and other bishops of Macedoni
  • EUMERIUS(1) (Evemerius, EvMELIUs), bishop of Nantes at the council of Valence, A.D. 874. (Ceill. iv. 600; Gall. Christ. xiv. 798
  • EUMORPHIUSthe son of a Roman widow
  • EUNAPIUSThe biographer of many of the Neoplatonist philosophers. Born at Sardis in A.D. 346 or 347, he received his earliest ins
  • EUNICIANUSof Gortyna, martyred with nine others under Decius, A.D. 250. Commemorated Dec. 23. (Aen. Bas.) (T. S. B.]
  • EUNIUSbishop. [Enntvs.]
  • EUNOin the system of the PERATAR, one of the heavenly powers, the ruler of the day, and identified by them with that which i
  • EUNOCUSis spoken of by Dempster as a disciple of St. Columbanus (November 2), and a Scot, who wrote Gesta Columbani Magistri, '
  • EUNOICUSmartyr.
  • EUNOIUSbishop of Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos, subscribed the synodal decree of Gennadius of Constantinople against the Si
  • EUNOMIEUTYCHIANI(Ebvomevrvyiavol, Soc. v. 24), one of the sects into which the Eunomians of Constantinople became diyided after the bani
  • EUNOMIOEUPSYCHIANTan Eunomian sect, called from their founder Eupsychius (Niceph. Call. H. H. xii. 30), They seem to be the Eunomieutychia
  • EUNOMIOTHEOPHRONIANTI(EdvoqioOeoppoviavol, Niceph. Call. xii. 30), one of the sects into which the Eunomians became divided on a question rai
  • EUNOMIUS(1), presbyter of Auvergne, cir. A.D. 179, father of Fedanius. (Greg. Tur. Glor. Mart. i. 53.) [C. H.]
  • EUNUSFeb. 27, the surname of a martyr named Cronion, who together with Julian was earried through Alexandria on a camel, scou
  • EUO-[See under Evo-.]
  • EUPARDUSwas a bishop of Autun, and is placed by the compilers of the Gallia Christiana (iv. 343) seventeenth on the list, betwee
  • EUPATERIUSa layman who, together with his daughter, had written to Basil requesting that he would declare his faith. Basil replies
  • EUPATORmagister militum in Sardinia, who in 598 testified to the fanatical conduct of Petrus the convert from Judaism at Caglia
  • EUPHEBIUS(Epuesus, EvpHemos, ErriMUS), a bishop of Naples. Ughelli states that his date cannot be positively ascertained, there b
  • EUPHEMIA(1)—Sept. 16. Virgin and martyr at Chalcedon under Galerius, A.D. 307, and celebrated over the east and west. She was ar
  • EUPHEMIUS(2), the owner of a farm at Apenzinzus, wrongfully occupied by Meletius, brother-in-law of Gregory Nazianzen. Gregory in
  • EUPHORUS(Evrorus, PHospHoRvs) signs the acts of the eighth Council of Toledo, an. 653, as bishop of Cordova. His name stands thi
  • EUPHRAIM(Ev¢patuos, Soph. Lp. Synod. ad Honor. ap. Photius, Biblioth. cexxxi. in Patrol. Gr. ciii, 1090 ¢.), bishop of Antioch.
  • EUPHRANONaccording to " Praedestinatus," i. 24, a bishop of Rhodes, who opposed
  • EUPHRANORa Libyan bishop, cir. A.D. 263. He was inclined to Sabellianism, on which account Dionysius bishop of Alexandria wrote h
  • EUPHRASIA(1)-—Jan. 19. . Virgin and martyr at Nicomedia under Maximin, A.D. 309. Being condemned to violation, she ingeniously co
  • EUPHRASIUS(1), bishop of Andujar or Illiturgi. [EurRasrus (1).]
  • EUPHRATAS(1), bishop of Cologne, 343, said to have been deposed for Photinianism by a synod at Cologne, 346 (Mansi, ii. 1371, and
  • EUPHRATES[PeERaTaE.] Origen (contra Celsum, vi. 28) states that the Ophites boasted of one Euphrates as the introducer of th
  • EUPHRATIONbishop of Balaneae (on the Syrian coast, at the mouth of the river Eleutherus), present at the Nicene council, A.D. 325
  • EUPHRONIUS(1), bishop of Antioch, one of the prelates intruded by the Arian party after the deposition of Eustathius, cir. 332. He
  • EUPHROSIUSbishop of Rhodes, the metropolis of the Cyclades, one of the Nicene fathers, A.D. 325. (Le Quien, Oriens Christ. i. 924;
  • EUPHROSYNA(2)—Jan. 1. Martyr at Alexandria. (Mart. Adonis, Usuardi.)
  • EUPILIUS(Lupixits), bishop of Como (539), came from Utrecht. (Acta Sanctorum, Boll. Oct. 11, v. 632 ; Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'I
  • EUPITHIUSbishop of Stratonicia (Hadrianopolis) in Caria, present at the council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451. (Le Quien, Oriens Christ.
  • EUPLUS(1), a member of the Ephesian church, sent by that church to meet IGNariUs at Smyrna on his way to Rome. (Ignat. Lp. ad
  • EUPNIUSa magistrate addressed by Firmus bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, who pleaded for justice to be done to the bearer of h
  • EUPORUS(1)—Dec. 23. Martyr in Crete during the Decian persecution, with Evarestus, Eunicianus and seven others. The magistrate
  • EUPRAXIUS(1), a slave of Gregory. Nazianzen, brother of Theophilus, manumitted in his will, and bequeathed a legacy of five gold
  • EUPREPIAservant of Afra of Fuse martyr with her fellow servants Digna and Eumenia; commemorated Aug. 12 (Bas. Men. ; Mart. Usuar
  • EUPREPIUS(1), first recorded bishop of Verona, imagined to have been one of the Seventy, and to have sat A.D. 60-72; commemorated
  • EUPROBUS(Evrroprtvs), April 30. Bishop and martyr at Saintes, whither he had been sent to preach the gospel. He died in the 3rd
  • EUPSYCHIUS(1), martyr, who suffered in the reign of Hadrian. He was discharged after his first arrest, when he gave away all his p
  • EUREDUS(Evsenpvus), bishop of Lerida ; signs the acts of the thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth councils of Toledo, A.D. 683,
  • EURESIUSa bishop of the civil diocese of Asia denounced as a heretic by an edict of the emperor Arcadius, addressed to Aurelian
  • EURFYL(Ervovt), ST., a Welsh saint of the 7th century after whom Llaneurfyl (Llanerfyl, Llanervul) in Montgomeryshire is named
  • EURGAIN(Eu@ar, EurGerry), the foundress of Llaneurgain or Northop, Flintshire, and wife of Elidr Mwynvawr (the courteous), a La
  • EURIC(1) (Evaricu, Evortcu, EvrnoRIK, EvARIX), king ef the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse from 466 to 484, and from 477 onwar
  • EURIELABreton saint of the 7th cent., daughter of king Hoel III. (otherwise called Judicael) and sister of St. Josse. Lobineau
  • EUROLDUS(Corotpus, Conrapus) is given as twenty-fourth bishop of ,Besancon, between Wandelbertus and Auruleus, about the middle
  • EUROSIAvirgin martyr at Jacca, a town in Spain by the river Aragon, under the Saracens in the 8th century; commemorated June 25
  • EURVYL[Eurryt.}
  • EURYNwas one of the sons of Helig Foel, who was descended from Caradog Fraichfras, and chieftain of a district which was over
  • EUSANIUS(1), martyr under Maximinian in the Samnite town of Furconium, near Aquila; commemorated July 9. (Boll. Acta SS. Jul. ii
  • EUSEBIA(1), empress, second wife of Constantius If. We learn from Julian that she was born at Thessalonica, and was the daughte
  • EUSEBIANTfollowers of Eusebius of Nico-
  • EUSEBIUS(1), succeeded Marcellus as bishop of Rome A.D. 309 or 310. He was banished to Sicily by Maxentius, where he died after
  • EUSENDUSbishop of Lerida. [EUREDUS.} EUSICHIUS. [Eusrr1vs.]
  • EUSIGNIUSAug. 5, martyr at Antioch under Julian, in the autumn of A.D. 362. He was originally a distinguished soldier under Const
  • EUSITIUS(Evsicuivus, Evsicrus, UsicH1us, Evricuius, Evsycuius), abbat, born at Périgueux about A.D. 465, His parents being des-
  • EUSPICIUSwas a priest of Verdun when that city revolted against king Clovis. After a siege, it was on the point of being taken on
  • EUSTACHIUS(1), Oct. 12, presbyter in Egypt, and probably a martyr. Some MSS. of Mart. Hieron. and Usuardus place him in Syvia. (Ac
  • EUSTADIOLAabbess. She was the daughter of noble parents, at whose desire she married. After having given birth to a son whom she n
  • EUSTASIUS(1), ST., reputed 7th or 8th bishop of Naples, cir. 180, between Agrippinus and St. Euphebius, on the authority of Joann
  • EUSTATHIAsister of Ambrosia, at Jerusalem, whose acquaintance Gregory Nyssen made during his visit to the holy city, and to whom,
  • EUSTATHIANILgiven by Timotheus, presbyter (Cotelier, Mon. Ecc. Gr. iii. 400), as an alternative name for EucuHITES. See EusTaTHIus (
  • EUSTATHIUS(1), bishop of Parium, on the Hellespont ; he is mentioned among the bishops who attended the funeral of St. Parthenius,
  • EUSTERIUSbishop of Salernum, cir. A.D. 450; commemorated Oct. 19. He is mentioned in the Roman and other martyrologies. (Boll. Ac
  • EUSTOCHIUMthird daughter of PavLa (q.v.), the friend of Jerome, from whose writings all that is known of her is gathered. [The ref
  • EUSTOCHIUS(1), June 23, presbyter and martyr at Ancyra, in Galatia, under Maximin, A.D. 311. (Bas. Men.) [G. T. S.]
  • EUSTOLIUMa consecrated virgin of Antioch, whose intimate relations with Leontius, afterwards bishop of that see, having caused sc
  • EUSTOLIUSbishop of Nicomedia at the council of Ancyra, A.D. 314, (Mansi, ii. 534 d; Le Quien, Or. Chr. i. 584.) (C. H.}
  • EUSTORGIUS(1), April 11, presbyter and martyr at Nicomedia (Mart, Hieron., Usuardi.) [Go tase)
  • EUSTOSIUSNov. 10, martyr at Antioch, with Demetrius a bishop, and Anianus a deacon.
  • EUSTRATIUS(1), Dec. 13, martyr at Sebaste in Armenia, under the prefect Agricolaus in the Diocletian persecution (Bas. ven. ; Cal.
  • EUSYCHIUShermit. [Eusrrrvs.] EUTACTUS. [ARcHoNTICcI.]
  • EUTALIUSbishop of Edessa.
  • EUTASIUSa bishop in Cyprus, one of those to whom the synodical of Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria in the year 400, in condemnat
  • EUTERIUS(1), Feb. 22, martyr with thirty-one others at Nicomedia, under Diocletian, A.D. 304. He was a member of the imperial gu
  • EUTHALIA(1), Aug. 27, virgin and martyr at Leontini, in Sicily, about the year 257. She is said to have been killed by her broth
  • EUTHALIUS(1), bishop of Byblus in Phoenicia, north of Beyrout. He is mentioned in the Basilian Menologion (June 13, Patrol. Gr. e
  • EUTHARICan Ostrogoth, belonged to the stock of the Amali. He was an indirect descendant of Ermanaric, and grandson of Berismund,
  • EUTHASIUS(Evsrastvs), bishop of Augusta Praetoria (Aosta), represented by a presbyter,
  • EUTHERIUS(1) (Eruertvs), subscribed the council of Sardica, a,p. 347 (Athan. i. 132, Patr. Graec. xxv. 337). [W. M. S.]
  • EUTHIMIUSor Euthymius, deacon and martyr at Alexandria. He died in prison. (Mart. Vet. Rom., Adon., Usuard.) [G. T. S.}
  • EUTHONOMUSan Italian bishop who suffered martyrdom in Bithynia, a.p. 311. (Baronius, Annal. 311, 18.) [G. T. S.]
  • EUTHORICking of the Visigoths. [Euric.]
  • EUTHYMIUS(1), a convert at Milan, cir. A.D. 390. During the struggle between the empress Justina and Ambrose at Milan, Justina of
  • EUTICHIANUSor Eutychianus, Nov. 13, martyr, with his brother Paschasius and two others, in the Arian persecution, raised by the Van
  • EUTICHIUS(1)—May 21. A deacon and martyr, with Polius and Timotheus, at Caesarea in Mauritania. (Mart. Vet. Rom., Mart. Hieron.,
  • EUTICIUS(1), Oct. 5, martyr in Sicily, with Placidus and thirty others. (Mart. Hieron., Adon., Usuard., Raban.) (G. T. S.]
  • EUTICUS(1), Sept. 19, martyr, with St. Januarius, bishop of Beneventum. [JANUARIUS. ] (G. T. S.J
  • EUTIGHERN(Ecricern, ErcrigERN). In the Irish annals reference is made to a sacrilegious act of special enormity, which took place
  • EUTObishop. [Erxo.]
  • EUTONIUSone of the fourteen bishops who met at Diospolis (Lydda) to condemn Pelagianism. (Aug. Contra Julian. lib. i. cap. 5, §
  • EUTRECHIUSprefect of the East, a.D, 447. Theodoret addressed a letter of congratulation to him on his appointment, containing ex-
  • EUTROPIA(1), martyr. [Evprerta (1).]
  • EUTROPIUS(1), the first bishop of Saintes.
  • EUTULANUS[Enpvutuvs.]
  • EUTUUINUSan Anglo-Saxon king mentioned in one of the hymns attributed to Alcuin (Hym., iii. Ale. Opp. ii. 549, ed. Frob.), The ed
  • EUTYCHES(1), bishop in Africa, eighteenth in Tit. Cyp. Ep. 57, Syn. Carth. ii. de Pace.
  • EUTYCHETAE[Enrycurrae.] EUTYCHIA, April 1, confessor at Thessa-
  • EUTYCHIANUS(1), Numidian bishop, addressed Cyp. Ep. 70; Ep. Syn. Carth. sub Cyp. de Bapt. Haer. 1. ~ [E. W..B.}
  • EUTYCHIUS(1), bishop of Melitene. [Eu-
  • EUXITHEUSbishop of Thessalonica,
  • EUZOIUSbishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. On the death of Acacius, A.D. 366, Cyril of Jerusalem had infl
  • EVA(1), martyr. [Dativus.]
  • EVAGORAS(1), an Egyptian bishop, whe signed at the council of Sardica, A.D. 347, (Athanas. Opp. pars i. 133.) {J. W. S.J
  • EVAGRIUS(2), bishop of Mitylene in Lesbos, one of the seceding bishops at the council of Seleucia. He signed the Arian creed of
  • EVAL, ST(Uvetus), the patron saint of St. Eval in Cornwall. The parish feast is on the Sunday nearest Nov. 20. The Celtic names
  • EVALDUSbishop of Vienne. [EoALDus.]
  • EVANCIUS[(Evantivs.]
  • EVANDER(1), a bishop of Nicomedia, invented by " Praedestinatus " (i, 17) as an opposer of the Ophites. " + [Gedo
  • EVANDRIUSan Eastern bishop of the 5th century, addressed by Firmus archbishop of Caesarea, in his 15th letter. Firmus invites him
  • EVANGELICUSbishop of the Scythians, reckoned as "pontifex et praepositus" of the churches among that people (Vitae Patrum, cap. 16
  • EVANGELUS(1), a presbyter, known through two letters of Jerome to him (73 and 146, ed. Vall.). Vallarsi thinks he was of Africa,
  • EVANTHIUS(1), one of the judices appointed by the emperor Constantius to hear the defence of Photinus (Epiphan. Haer. Ixxi. 1. Pa
  • EVANTIUS(1), ST., seventh bishop of Autun, in the first half of the 5th century. He appears in the Auctaria of Grevenus and Mola
  • EVARIC(1), king of the Visigoths. @).J
  • EVARICUS[Exanrcius.]
  • EVARISTUS(called Aristus in the Liberian catalogue), bishop of Rome at the beginning of the 2nd century. With respect to the exac
  • EVARIX(Greg. Tur. Hist. Fr. ii. 25), king of the Visigoths. [Euric (1).] (C. H.}
  • EVASINUSbishop of Asti, c. 775. (Cap-
  • EVASIUS(1) L, ST., first bishop of Asti cir. A.D. 265, martyr under the praeses Astubalus, with Projectus a "levite" and Mallia
  • EVE, GOSPEL OFA book called the Gospel of Eve is said by Epiphanius (Haer. xxvi. p- 84) to have been current among some Gnostic sects;
  • EVEMERUS(Emenrtvs), said to have been sixteenth archbishop of Treves, succeeding Jamblichus and followed by St. Marus about a.p.
  • EVENTIUSSee also EUENTIUS.
  • EVERGISLUSof Cologne. [EBREGESILUS.] EVERGISUS of Tongres. [EBrecisus.]
  • EVERILDISvirgin in England, assigned to the 7th century and the kingdom of Wessex. Her story is mixed up with the times of both B
  • EVERIUS, STsecond bishop of Catana (Catania), succeeding St. Beryllus, in the time of Valerian and Gallienus. He built the church o
  • EVERMARUSmartyr cir. a.p. 700, commemorated on May 1. He is said to have been a Frisian and of noble family. He longed for martyr
  • EVETHIUSSee also Evrrutus.
  • EVETIUSprefect. [Evacrius (13).]
  • EVILLAinvoked among the holy virgins and widows in the Dunkeld Litany (Bp. Forbes, Kal. Scott. Saints, pp. 1xi. 335). [J. G.]
  • EVIPPUSbishop of Neocaesarea (Le Quien, Or. Chr. i. 504). In the synodal of the province of Pontus Polemoniacus to the emperor
  • EVODIUSSee also Evopivs.
  • EVOLIUSbishop of Avignon. [EBunus.]
  • EVOLTIUS(Evorctvs), bishop of Zeugma in the Syrian province of Euphratesia. His name appears also as Evolcius, and in Greek as E
  • EVOPTIUSa native of Cyrene, succeeded his elder brother Synesius, as bishop of Ptolemais, the chief city of the Libyan Pentapoli
  • EVORICking of the Visigoths. [Euric.]
  • EVORTIUS(Evourtivs, often in the English Calendar ENuRCHUS), bishop of Orleans, appearing in one Martyrology as a martyr, but in
  • EVOTUS[Saracossa, Martyrs OF.] EVREMUND. [Esremunp.]
  • EVRESIUSbishop of Termessus in the second Pamphylia, one of the Nicene fathers, A.D. 325. (Le Quien, Oriens Christ. i. 1019 ; Ma
  • EVRICHORIUSbishop of Lagania. [ERECHOREUS. ]
  • EVROU, ST[Esrutruvs.] EVURTIUS. [Evorrius.]
  • EWA, STgave name to the Cornish parish of St. Ewe, west of Mevagissey. John of Tin-mouth, Capgrave's predecessor in collecting
  • EWAIN, EWENIn the short prose
  • EWAL(Cressy, Ch. Hist. Britt. ix. 19, 1), Cornish saint. [EVAL.] [C. H.]
  • EWALD[Hewatp.]
  • EWENin the anonymous fragment which forms the earliest extant life of St. Kentigern, and is acknowledged to have been the ba
  • EWINUS, STor Uni, brother of St. Ia and St. Ercus, and patron saint of Uny-Lelant, in the Hayle estuary, where St. Ia landed. His
  • EXACIONITAE[Exocron1rAe. ]
  • EXARNUSbishop of Ossonoba, who signed the acts of the council of Merida, 666, in the eighteenth year of Rekesvinth. (Mansi, xi.
  • EXCALCEATIsuperstitious people classed as heretics by Philaster (81), followed by Augustine (68). They counted it a duty to walk b
  • EXCOMMUNICATION(excommumicatio) strictly construed = the judicial act excluding individuals or churches from communion, or participatio
  • EXHILARATUS(2), a Sicilian bishop, concerning whom pope Gregory the Great writes to Fantinus, the defensor at Panormus in 603. The
  • EXITIOSUSa secretary at the conference at Carthage, A.D. 411, (Mon. Vet. de Don. Oberthiir, pp. 344, 466.) [Hy Waka
  • EXITZIOSUSbishop of Veri, in the province of proconsular Africa, One of the catholic bishops summoned to a conference at Carthage
  • EXOCHIUS[Exorrvs.]
  • EXOCIONITAE(Efwxiovita, '"Etaxtovira in Theod. Haer. Fab. iv. 3), an Arian sect, so called from the district of Constantinople wher
  • EXOTIUS(Exocutus, Esortus), thirteenth bishop of Limoges, following Ruricius II. and succeeded by St. Ferreolus, or, according
  • EXPECTATUSninth bishop of Fréjus, succeeding Desiderius, and followed by Asterius, or, according to a conjecture of Le Cointe, by
  • EXPEDITUSApril 19, martyr at Melitene in Armenia, with Gaius, Aristonicus, Rufus, and Hermogenes, of whom nothing further is know
  • EXPLECIUS(Aepretivs, AEpPLITIUS, EPLEcrus, EpLeTus, and EPHETIUs), fourteenth bishop of Metz, succeeding Auctor and followed by U
  • EXPLICIUSaddressed by Sidonius Apollinaris (Epp. ii. 7), who prays him to end a dis- pute between Alethius and Paulus. ([R. T. S.
  • EXPULIONSpanish prince. [ERPULION.] EXSUPERIUS. [Exupenrivs.]
  • EXUCONTII*Efovrdyriot, a designation first applied to the Arians generally (Zp. Alex. ap. Theod. H. Z. i. 3, p. 740 in Pat. Gr. l
  • EXUPERANTIUS(1), reputed second bishop of Tudertum (Todi), cir. A.D. 139. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d' Italia, v. 242.) [{C. H.]
  • EXUPERIAmartyr at Rome under Valerian in 259, with Sempronius, Olympius, and others ;
  • EXUPERIUS(1), martyr under Hadrian,
  • EYNARDUS[Eruarp.]
  • EZEKIELa Jewish writer, the author of a dramatic work in Greek iambics, called the *Etaywyn, the subject being the exodus of th
  • EZIUS(izz1us, Ezzr1us), abbat of St. Peter's at Juvavia (Salzburg). According to Hund he was consecrated in 696 as fifth bish
  • EZNIK(Eznia, Esnia) is the name of an Armenian doctor of the chureh in the 5th century. His native place was Koghb or Kolp (w
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