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  • HABALAHAthe name of one of the thirteen presbyters and confessors of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and likewise of a deacon and confes
  • HABERILLA(Hasritia), Jan. 30, virgin honoured at Augia near Bregenz, on the lake of Constance. According to the Chronicon Constan
  • HABETDEUS(1), Donatist bishop of Aurualianae or Sulianae, in Byzacene, one of the issistant managers on the Donatist side in Cart
  • HABIBUS(1), martyr. [Hipparcuus.]
  • HABITUSbishop of Urci (Almeria) from before 688 until after 693, subscribed the acts of the fifteenth (A.D. 688) and sixteenth
  • HABRILIAvirgin. [HaBerta.] HACCA: (Kemble, Cod. Dip. 58.) [Acca] HACONA, abbat. [Hacona.]
  • HADALINUSFeb. 3, confessor, a.p. 690 A monk and missionary from Aquitaine, who preached and founded a monastery in Belgium. (Acta
  • HADDAa Mercian abbat who attests the forged charter of Medeshamstede, purporting to be granted by Caedwealha, Sighere, Swebhe
  • HADDEa West Saxon abbat, whose name is appended as a witness to the charter of Coinred of Wessex to the Tisbury charter in 75
  • HADDI(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 48, a.v. 701), bishop. [HeEppa (1).] [C. H.]
  • HADECERDITAE[ApDECERDITAE.]
  • HADELOGA(ApatoGa), ST., said to have been the first abbess of the nunnery of Kissingen in the 8th century. According to an anony
  • HADES[Dearu anv THE Dean, EscuaTOLOGY. ]
  • HADO(Apo), thirty-sixth archbishop of Chartres, between Leobertus and Flavinus, in the first half of the 8th century. He is
  • HADOINDUS(Hapurypvus, CHapornus, CADUINDUS, CHADAENUS, HaRDUINUS, CLODAENUS) ST., thirteenth bishop of Le Mans, St. Bertramnus, a
  • HADRIANISTAEThe title ADRIANISTAE occurs in an enumeration by Theodoret (Haer. Fah. i. 1) of short-lived heretical sects, the origin
  • HADRIANUS(1), PUBLIUS AELIUS (117-137). The early life and the general policy of this emperor may be compressed for our present p
  • HADUFRITHpriest. [HaTHUFRITH.]
  • HADUINDUSbishop of Le Mans, [HaDOINDUS. ]
  • HADULAGbishop of Elmham. [HrarHoLAC. ]
  • HADULFUS, STeleventh bishop of Cambrai and Arras, between Hunaldus and Trau- vardus. He was, according to some, a son of St. Ragnulf
  • HADUMARUSbishop. [Hatuumarvs.]
  • HADWALDa servant of Elfleda abbess of Whitby, circ. A.D. 685. He was killed by a fall from a tree, and St. Cuthbert is said to
  • HADWINa bishop, consecrated in 768 to the see of Machui, or Mayo of the Saxons, on the west coast of Ireland. (Sim. Dun. in UZ
  • HAEDDIbishop of Wessex. [Heppa (1).]
  • HAEHAan abbat who attests the charter of Ine to Malmesbury dated May 26,704. (Kemble, C. D.50; W. Malmesb. GP. lib. v. ed. Ha
  • HAELRIGan abbat who attests a grant of Ethelred king of Mercia to Worcester, in 692. (Kemble, C. D. 34.) [S.]
  • HAEMATITAE(Aluariraf). An early heretical sect mentioned by Clement of Alexandria as deriving their name, like the Docetae, from t
  • HAEMGILSa monk mentioned by Bede. (i. BE. v.12.) He lived in the neighbourhood of the solitary Drycthelm, probably at Melrose, a
  • HAEMORRHOISSA[VERONICA.]
  • HAERES(Heres) (Cave, Hist. Lit. i. 631; Fabricius, Bibl. Med. et Inf. Lat. lib. i. vol. i. p- 134, ed. 1754; Velser, Rerum Boi
  • HAERHUNEN(HAERNUNEN), bishop of Menevia in the 8th century. (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 154; Godwin, de Praesul. Angi. eee
  • HAESITANTESthe current rendering of diaxpwduevr (Phot. cod. 24; Valesius, note 79 on Theodor. Lect., HF. H. ii. 29, p. 578; Assem.
  • HAGIOCAUSTAEThe opponents of image-worship were so called. They were anathematized under that name by a synod convened at Jerusalem
  • HAGONA(Hacuna, Huacon, Hacona), an abbat whose name appears among the signatures of charters of the last decade of the 7th cen
  • HAIARNGEN(HarrnGen), clerical witness to grant of the church of Ma Mouric, that is, Lann Vuien, to bishop Cadwared (Catgwaret) an
  • HAICO(Narco), twenty-second vio te Nantes, between Taurinus and Salapius, towards the middle of the 7th century. (Gall. Chris
  • HAIDObishop of Basle. [Hurro.] HAIMO, ST. [Haymo.]
  • HAINMARUS(Ayman), twenty-sixth bishop of Auxerre, succeeding Savaricus. According to the annals of the see, he was of noble birth
  • HAITObishop of Basle. [HETTO.] HALACHAH. [Tatmoup.]
  • HALANUS(Atanus), sixth abbat of the monastery of St. Mary at Farfa, a Sabine town in the Roman states, upon the Farfa, a tribut
  • HALMUNDan abbat who attests a grant made by Cuthred, king of Kent, to archbishop Wulfred in a synod at Acle, in Aug. 805. (Hadd
  • HANANIAS(Hanina in Syr. Mart.), a priest and martyr with another priest named Abedecales and Simeon Barsaboe archbishop of Seleu
  • HANTO(Harvo), fourteenth bishop of Augsburg (809-815), between St. Sintbert and St. Nitger. He was at the same time abbat of
  • HANUS(1), presbyter martyr in Persia under Sapor II. in the month of May, A.D. 375. He suffered with forty others, including
  • HARDUINUSbishop of Le Mans. [HaDOINDUS. }
  • HARDULF(Hen. Hunt. Hist. Angl. iv. in M. H. B. 773 a), king of Northumbria. [EarpULF (2).] [C. H.]
  • HARIBERTUS[Artrrertvs), fourth abbat of the monastery of Murbach (Morbacum, Maurbacum) in the diocese of Basle, succeeding Balde-
  • HARIFEUSof Besangon.
  • HARIMARUSbishop. [HaTHuMARvs.]
  • HARIOLFUSthirty - fourth bishop of Langres, between his brother Erlolfus and Waldricus. He was founder and first abbat of Ellwan-
  • HARMACARUS(Harmackarvs), fifth bishop of Utrecht, between Theodardus and Richfriedus or Rixfridus. He is said to have been a Frisi
  • HARMASIUSa Eutychian and Monothelite of Alexandria, contemporary with Sophronius bishop of Jerusalem, c. A.D. 636. He is mentione
  • HARMATIUS(1), a pagan, whose son was converted to Christianity. Basil writing to Harmatius, styling him 6 uéyas, begged him to re
  • HARMOGEN[Armocen, ARMAGIL.]
  • HARMONIUS(1), son of Bardesanes (Bardaisan) of Edessa, A.D. 190. He is said to have studied at Athens, where he became familiar w
  • HARPOCRAS(1), one of the seven emissaries of Peter of Alexandria, probably bishops, sent by him to Constantinople, A.D. 380, as s
  • HARPOCRATIANSCelsus, quoted by Origen (Adv. Cels. v. 62), mentions a heretical sect "apmoxpatiavols amd Sadrouns." It is natural to c
  • HARPOCRATION(1), bishop of Cynopolis in Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile. He was
  • HARUCHUS(Harrvucuus, Harrurn), third bishop of Verden, between Tanko and Haligad, 808-830 (Potthast. Bibl. Suppl. p. 435). He wa
  • HASSEAIrish saint. [HeEtsE.] HASTULPHUS. [HEtstutrus.]
  • HATESvirgin and martyr in Persia under Sapor II. a.p. 343. She is noted in Rom. Vart. on Oct. 17; in Bas. Men. on Oct. 5. In
  • HATHELAGbishop. [Hraruo.ac.]
  • HATHOBERHT(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 175, A.D. 798), bishop. [HesTHOBERT.] [C. H.]
  • HATHOREDbishop. [HEATHORED.]
  • HATHOWALDa priest of Worcester, who attests an act of bishop Deneberht in or about the year 802. (Kemble, C.D. 181.) (S.)
  • HATHUBERTbishop. [HEATHOBERT.]
  • HATHUFRITH(Havurrirn), a priest who was present at Ripon in a.p. 709 when Wilfrid gave his last instructions to the convent, and h
  • HATHUMARUS(Hapumarvus, HariMARUS), first bishop of Paderborn in Westphalia. This district was previously under the care of the bis
  • HATTOeighth bishop of Passau (A.D. 807-818), between Urolf and Reginar or Riucharius, is said to have obtained the see throug
  • HAUNEPERTUSabbat of Farfa, 716. He came from Toulouse. (Constructio Farfensis, in Pertz, Monum. xi. p. 528; Catal. Abb. Farf. ibid.
  • HAWYSTL, STa daughter of Brychan, in the 5th century, who founded the church of Llanhawystl, supposed to be Awst in Gloucester-shir
  • HAYMO, ST(Harmo), flourished towards the end of the 8th century. He and his brother Veremundus while hunting near Milan were purs
  • HAYNIUSthirty-second bishop of Chartres, between Berthegrannus and Agirardus. He is said to have been in occupation of the see
  • HEABERT(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 162, spurious charter of Offa king of Mercia, a.p. 793), bishop ; perhaps Heathobert bishop of London
  • HEABURGAabbess of Minster. [EADBURGA (2).]
  • HEADBERHT(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 1020, A.D. 799), bishop. [HEATHOBERT. ] (C. H.]
  • HEADDA(Heapp1), bishop of Winchester. [Heppa (1).]
  • HEADREDbishops.
  • HEAHBERHTa priest of the diocese of Rochester, who attested the acts of the council of Clovesho in 803. (Kemble, C.D, 1024; Hadda
  • HEAHBERTabbat of Reculver, to whom Eardulf, king of Kent, made a grant of land at Perhamstede. (Dugdale, Mon. i. 455, from the C
  • HEAHSTANa priest of the diocese of London, who attested the acts of the council of Clovesho in 803. (Kemble, C. D. 1024; Haddan
  • HEAMUNDa Kentish priest, who attested the act of archbishop Wulfred, dated April 21, 811. (Kemble, C. D. 195.) [S.]'
  • HEANthe founder of the monastery of Abingdon. In the chronicles of that abbey he is represented as nephew of Cissa, the eald
  • HEANBALD(Gaimar, Zstoric, v, 2199, in M. H. B. 790), archbishop of York. (EANBALD II.] (Cc. H.]
  • HEANFLET(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1196, in M. H. B. 779), daughter of Edwin king of Northumbria. [EANFLED (2).] [C.. H.]
  • HEANFRID(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1258, in M. H. B. 780), king of Northumbria. [EANFRID. ] (C. H.] HEARDBERHT, brother of Ethelbald k
  • HEAREDa deacon of the diocese of Rochester, who attended the council of Cloyesho in 803. (Kemble, C. D. 1024; Haddan and Stubb
  • HEATHOBALDa deacon of the diocese of Hereford, who attended the council of Clovesho in 803. (Kemble, C. D. 1024; Haddan and Stubbs
  • HEATHOBERT(Haruvusert), the thirteenth bishop of London. (M. H. B. 617.) His name is attached to charters of 798 and 799. He attes
  • HEATHOLAC(Hapvurac, HAtTHeELac ; Erexatus, Ang. Sac. i. 404), the third bishop of Elmham after the division of the East Anglian s
  • HEATHORED(1), 8th bishop of Worcester (IM. H. B. 623). According to Florence of Worcester (M. H. B. 545, 546) he succeeded bishop
  • HEBDOMASAll the early Gnostics of whose opinions Irenaeus gives an account, in a section (i. 23 sqq.) probably derived from an e
  • HEBREW LEARNING AMONG THE FATHERSJudging from @ priori grounds it would not be unreasonable to expect that we should find evidence in the works of the ea
  • HECAbishop of Dunwich, [Errtt.]
  • HECATEin the system of Pistis SOPHIA, one of the five great archons presiding over the punishments of the "middle region." She
  • HECBURCH(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1379, in M. H. B. 781), king of Kent, son of Erchenbert. [Eeprrr (1).] (C. H.}
  • HECCA(Ecoa, Acca), the seventh bishop of Hereford. (J. H. B. 621.) His name once occurs in a charter (Kemble, C. D. 193) whic
  • HECCE(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1461, in M. H. B.
  • HECEBOLIUSor HECEBOLUS, a rhetor in the reigns of the emperors Con-
  • HECFERD(Gaimar, Zstorie, v. 1466, in M. H. B. 782), king of Northumbria, son of Oswy. {E@rrip (1).] [C. H.]
  • HECHBERACTUSApril 24, an English saint supposed by the Bollandist (Acta SS. April, iii. 291) to have been the same as Hechbertus or
  • HECHERIUSeleventh bishop of Nevers, between Leodebaudus and St. Deodatus, in the lists of the Gallia Christiana and Gams, but omi
  • HECHTACHvirgin. [Ecuracu.]
  • HECTORas bishop of Cartagena, subscribes the acts of the council of Tarragona, A.D. 516 (Coleccion de Canones de la Iglesia Es
  • HED ABBUS[Ewat.]
  • HEDDA(1) (Harppr, Hwappt, see ArrLA), fifth bishop of the Gewissi, or West Saxons (MZ. H. B. 619). He was appointed, accordin
  • HEDDE(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 1009, charter of Osmund king of Sussex, a.p. 770; ib. 1018, spurious charter of archbishop Ethelhard,
  • HEDDIUShistorian.
  • HEDDObishop of Strasburg. [Erno.] HEDESIUS, martyr.
  • HEDIBIA(Eprera), a lady in Gaul, who corresponded with St. Jerome (then at Bethlehem) about A.D. 405. She was of a remarkable f
  • HEDILBURGA(Kemble, C. D. 35), abbess of Beddanhaam. [ETHELBURGA (3).] [C. H.]
  • HEDISTIUS(Episrrus)—Oct. 12. Martyr at Ravenna. (Mart. Rom. Vet., Hieron., Adon. Usuard., Wandalbert, Notker.) (G. T. S.]
  • HEDISTUS(1), Nov. 13, martyr at a place called Perinthus or Pdinthus (Wright, Syr. Mart. in Jour. Sac. Lit. 1866, p. 431). (G. T
  • HEDONEHan Aeon in the system of VALENTINUS, the consort of Autophyes, according to the account of Irenaeus (I. i. p. 6 ; II. xi
  • HEGEMONIUSa writer said by Photius (cod. 85) to have written out (dvaypdwavra, perscripsit) the disputation of Archelaus against M
  • HEGESIPPUS(1), commonly known as the father of Church history, although his works, with the exception of a few fragments which wil
  • HEIMARMENEeiuapuérn. According to the account given in Pistrs Sopu1A of the consti-
  • HEINIFclerical witness to the grant of the village of Bertus by king Ithael of Glamorgan to bishop Berthgwyn and the see of Ll
  • HEINYNbard of Maelgwn and Gwynedd and belonging to the college of Llanveithyn, flourished between A.D. 520 and 560, In the Myv
  • HEIRAsister of pope Damasus. (Boll. Acta SS. 21 Feb. iii. 244-5.) [IRENE] (J, G.]
  • HEISE(Hassea), of Airidh-foda, commemorated Feb. 24, Her place was perhaps Ard- Fothadh, a fort on a hill near Ballymagrorty,
  • HEISTULFUS(Astrutpnus, Hastutpuvs), apparently a Lombard, to whom Paulinus, patriarch of Aquileia, wrote a letter from Frankfort,
  • HEITObishop of Basle. [HETTO.]
  • HEIUa Northumbrian lady, the first person in that province who took the veil, which she received at the hands of bishop Aida
  • HELAIR, HELARIUSIvish saint of Inis Locha-Cre (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 239, 427.) [ELaArR.] [J. G.]
  • HELAN(1), a priest in the district of Rheims, in the 6th century. He is said to have come from Ireland soon after Clovis was
  • HELARIANUSthird bishop of Oleron in Gams's Series (p. 590), succeeding Licerius, and followed by Artemon, was sitting in A.D. 614.
  • HELARUSof Aquileia. [H1tarros.]
  • HELCESIANI(Joseppus, Memorialis Libellus, cap. 140, num. 38, ap. Galland. Bibl. Patr. xiv. 69). [ELKESAI.] (T. W. D.]
  • HELDANalternative name of ELDAD.
  • HELDOALDUSof Meaux. [Epo.pus.]
  • HELEBICIUS([E.Lesicuus (2).]
  • HELENA(1), said to have been the companion of Srmon Magus. According to Justin Martyr (Apol. i. 26) and Irenaeus (i. 23, p. 99
  • HELENIANIfollowers of Simon Magus,
  • HELENUS(1) (Etenvs), bishop of Alexandria (Scandaret, Iskenderun) in Cilicia, men- tioned in the Menologium Graecorum Dec. 24,
  • HELImartyr with Zoticus and Lucianus in Scythia, in the reign of Licinius ; commemorated on Sept. 13. (Basil. Menol. i. 35.)
  • HELIADESbishop of Zeugma on the Euphrates, in the province of Commagene, one of the Easterns who accompanied John of Antioch to
  • HELIANUS(1) (Etranvs), one of the forty martyrs of Sebaste. His relics were said to have been transferred to Beneventum in 763.
  • HELIAS(Ettas), bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, deposed by the emperor Anastasius I before 512. On the accession of Justin I.
  • HELICONa sophist or professor of rhetori: at Constantinople, who composed in ten books ar Abstract of Chronology and History fr
  • HELICONIA(Bas. Men.), HELICONIS (Rom. Mart.)—May 28. A native of Thessalonic: martyred at Corinth, under the proconsul Peren nius
  • HELIG FOELWelsh saint, without any known church dedication, descended from Carado; Fraichfras. He owned a low-lying tract of lanc
  • HELIGWYDD(Hetieur), clerical witness to a grant of Ithael ab Morgan king of Gla- - morgan, late in the 6th or early in the 7th _
  • HELIMENAS(Hetenas, ELIMENES), presbyter and martyr with the presbyters Parmenius and Chrysotelus, at Cordula; commemorated on Ap.
  • HELINGAUDUS([Hetmcavnvs.]
  • HELIO(1) ('HA(wy), a civil officer of high rank under the emperor Theodosius II. It was by him that Theodosius sent the diade
  • HELIODORUS(1), bishop of Laodicea (LataKieh) in Syria, The only mention of his name is by Dionysius of Alexandria, who relates tha
  • HELIOGABALUS[ELAGABALus.]
  • HELIOTROPITAE('HAcorpon?raz), according to Joannes Damascenus, a heretical sect who worshipped the plant heliotrope, which they conce
  • HELIUSa deacon, present at the time when Silvanus committed the act of tradition of which he was. afterwards convicted. [S1Lva
  • HELIX(HELtIc0), a heretic, the evidence for whose existence consists in the fact that Anastasius in the 7th century gives pas
  • HELLADIUS(1) (Evtapvtvus), 4th bishop of Auxerre, between Valerianus and Amator. He was present at the synod of Valence, 374, die
  • HELLANICUS(1), bishop of Tripolis in Phoenicia. He was present at the first general council at Nicaea, A.D. 325, and was subsequen
  • HELLEBICHUSor
  • HELLEBICIUS(HeLEBecuvs. |
  • HELLENIUSsurveyor of customs at Nazi-anzus, the confidential friend both of Basil and Gregory Nazianzen. He was an Armenian by bi
  • HELMGAUDUS(Etm@aupus, HerincaupUs, HELMENGAUDUS, the spelling is very un- certain) was an officer (comes) of Charlemagne sent on a
  • HELOGARUSfifth bishop of St. Malo, succeeding St. Armaelus, and followed by Emmorus, was abbat of St. Mevennius (Méen) at the sam
  • HELPIDIUSSee also Exprprus.
  • HELVEform of AILBHE. HELVIANDUS. [Etvianpvs.]
  • HELVIDIUSalphabetically, though not chronologically, the first of those westerns who, like Novatian and Pelagius, Jovinian and Vi
  • HEMELINconfessor. [HIMELINUS.]
  • HEMERIUS('Hyépios, Himertvs), a civil eatholicos (see Dict. Chr. Antig.). According to Athanasius he was enjoined by the emperor
  • HEMETHERIUSone of the twelve sons of the centurion Marcellus, martyred with him in Spain under the praeses Agricolaus, A.D. 298. (B
  • HEMGISLUS, HEMGISEL(Haermarts), abbat of Glastonbury. In the ancient list preserved in the Cotton MS. Tiberius B. 5, Haemgils appears as th
  • HEMIAREIANI('Hmapeavol, Mansi, iii. 560 ; 'Husapeto, Jo. Damas. de Haeres, num. 72). ([SEMIARIANS. ] (lS W.Dil
  • HENANUS(ENAnvs), hermit in the diocese of Meath, given by the Bollandists among their praetermissi at Sept. 18, perhaps Enan of
  • HENEN, HENNEN, HENNWYENWalch
  • HENOCH, BOOK OF[Enocu, Book or.]
  • HENOSISin the system of VALENTINUS, an Aeon, the consort of Ageratus. (Irenaeus, I. i, p- 6, Il. xiv. p. 135; Epiph. Haer. 31,
  • HENOTICON, THEor " INstRuMENT OF Union," a document owing its existence to Acacius, the patriarch of Constantinople, and probably the
  • HENRICUSsixth bishop of Vicentia (Vicenza), circ. 580, between Apollonius and Horontius. He refused to hold communion with his m
  • HENWYN, HENYN[Hywyn.] HEORDWALD, bishop. [HEREWALD.]
  • HEORTASIUS(Heorricus, Eorrastvs), bishop of Sardis, who signed the synodical letter issued by the council of Ancyra, 358 (Epiph. H
  • HEORTICUSbishop of Metropolis in the province of Pisidia, present at the council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451. In the subscriptions he
  • HEORTIUSbishop, an old and attached friend of Chrysostom, who wrote to him from Cucusus, 4.p. 404, begging him to cheer his extr
  • HEPHAESTIUSbishop of Commacum in Pamphylia, who signed the letter of his province to the emperor Leo, A.D. 458. (Mansi, vii. 576 ;
  • HERACLASpatriarch of Alexandria, A.D. 233-249. He was the brother of the martyr Plutarch, one of Origen's converts (Eusebius, H.
  • HERACLEIDAS[II uractrpas.]
  • HERACLEON(1), a Gnostic described by Clement of Alexandria (Strom. iv. 9, p. 595) as the most esteemed (Soxiudraros) of the schoo
  • HERACLEONAS, FLAVIUS(also called Heractius by Niceph. Cp. and Suidas), emperor, A.D, 641, son of the emperor Heraclius and his second wife M
  • HERACLIANUS(1), bishop of Pisaurum (Pesaro), c. A.D. 3847. He was a disciple of St. Severus archbishop of Ravenna, who appointed hi
  • HERACLIDAS(1), Manichaean, [ApuTHoNUS, HIERACAS. ]
  • HERACLIDES(1)—June 28. A disciple in the school of Origen, and martyr at Alexandria. (Mart. Rom. Vet., Adon., Usuard. ; Baronius,
  • HERACLIDIANUSbishop of Settae (Satta, Sitae), in the province of Lydia, signed the synodal letter of the province of Lydia to the emp
  • HERACLITAE(Pseudo-Hieron. Indic. de Haeres. cap. 24 in Oehler, Corp. Haeres. i. 293), heretics, properly Hieracitae, Cotelier obse
  • HERACLITUS(1) ('Hpdkderros, Euseb. ; 'HpdkAes, HeRACLITUs al. HeRACLIUS, Jerom.),
  • HERACLIUS[Eracttvs.]
  • HERACLONASemperor, [HERACLEONAS. ]
  • HERASMUSmartyr. [Erasmus (2).]
  • HERASTUSmartyr at Philippi, commemorated on July 26; supposed to have been the Erastus of Acts xix. 22, (Ustiard.) (C. H.]
  • HERBALDUSbishop. [GarrBaupvs.]
  • HERBERT(Hereserct, HeEREBERUT), a priest, and one of St. Cuthbert's oldest and most attached friends. He lived as a hermit on t
  • HERCAITHdisciple of St. Patrick. (Todd, S. Patrick, 510.) [J. GJ
  • HERCHENRADUS[ErcHenravvs.] HERC-NASCA. [Ere (3).]
  • HERCONWALD(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 994, A.D. 688), bishop. [ERKENWALD. | [C. H.]
  • HERCULANUS(1), (Cyp. Zp. 41), African bishop. Appears first as colleague of Caldonius in Cyprian's commission, A.D. 251 (Zp. 42),
  • HERCULESbishop of Narnia (Narni) A.D, 455-470. He was son of his predecessor, Pancratius I., and brother of his successor, Pancr
  • HERCULIANUS(Hercorranvs, Ruinart, Acta Sinc. 596), soldier martyr at Antioch, (Jovranus. ] (C. H.]
  • HERCULIUS(1), a person of rank, to whom Chrysostom wrote from Cucusus, expressing the confidence he felt in his deep affection wh
  • HERCUMBERTUS[HervumBertvs.]
  • HERDULFbishop. [Earpuxr (3).]
  • HEREBALDa young scholar under the charge of St. John of Beverley, with whom he was a great favourite. On one occasion, when the
  • HEREBERCT, HEREBERHT, HERE-BERTpriest and anchoret. [HERBERT.]
  • HEREBERGIS, HEREBURGISabbess, [HERIBURG. ]
  • HEREBERHT(1), a Kentish abbat, whose name is attached to a charter of Sigiraed king of Kent, granted to Rochester in the time of
  • HEREDNATIrish saint. [Erepnart.]
  • HEREFERTHUS(Wend. Flor. Hist. ann. 712, ed. Coxe), bishop of Worcester between Tilhere and " Debert." He is therefore the same as H
  • HEREFRITH(1), the familiar priest and friend of St. Cuthbert, to whom we are indebted for many valuable reminiscences of his life
  • HEREMIUS(Eremtvs), bishop of Thessalonica, the metropolis of Macedonia, present at the council of Ariminum, A.D. 359, after whic
  • HEREMODa Kentish priest, who attests an act of archbishop Wulfred, dated April 21, 811. (Kemble, GC. D. 195.) {S.J
  • HERENAwidow of the Roman martyr Castulus. (Boll. Acta SS. 22 Jan. ii. 415; St. Ambrosius, Opp. ap. Migne, Patr. Lat. xvii. 105
  • HERENATvirgin. [Ercnar.]
  • HERENNIANUSCarthaginian, sub-deacon, A.D. 257. (See AMANTIUS.) Cyp. Ep. 77, 78, 198 [E. W. B.]
  • HERENNIUS(1), a Christian philosopher who lived subsequently to Porphyry and Jamblichus, for whom he expresses admiration. Fa- br
  • HERENUSMart. Carth. a.p. 250. (See ARISTO.) [E. W. B.]
  • HERERIGCson of Radfrith, and a nephew of Edwin, king of Northumbria, who was baptized with him by Paulinus at York on Easter Sun
  • HERESIOLOGYFor a definition of heresy, as the term was understood in the early church, the reader is referred to the article Heresy
  • HERESWITHA, ST(Heresvuip, HERESWYDE, HAERESVID), queen of the East Angles. She was the daughter of Hereric, of the royal family of Nor
  • HERESWYTHAa Kentish abbess between A.D. 696 and 716, whose name is attached to the privilege of Wihtred. (Haddan and Stubbs, iii.
  • HEREWALD(Heorpwatp, Herewarp) the third bishop of Sherborne (4. H. B. 620). He succeeded bishop Forthere when the latter went to
  • HEREWARDthe name of a bishop attached to a doubtful charter of a king Cynulf, whom Kemble (C, D. 193) wrongly identifies with Ke
  • HERGUSTa bishop of the Scottish Picts (Ware, Jr. Writ. c. 4), but in reality Fergustus. [Fercustus. } (J. G.]
  • HERIBURG(Herpourais, Herepureis), the abbess of a Yorkshire nunnery called Vetadun (Watton, E. R. Y.). When John was bishop of Y
  • HERIGERUSreputed eleventh bishop of Mainz before the 4th century; ruled for eight years, and was martyred. (Gall. Christ. v. 434
  • HERINA, ST[IreNe.]
  • HERLEMUNDUS(1), son of a Frank noble, succeeded Aigilbertus as sixteenth bishop of Le Mans in A.D. 698. He is said to have died Oct
  • HERLINDIS(Hartinpis), ST., abbess of Eike, near Masacum, in Belgium, together with her sister St. Renildis or Reinula, about the
  • HERLINGUStwenty-first bishop of Meaux, succeeding St. Hildevertus and followed by St. Patusius, towards the close of the 7th cent
  • HERMAEI('Epyato:). A Valentinian sect, called from their leader HERMAEUS, and said to have borne anything but a good character
  • HERMAEON(2)(1), bishop of Sais (Sa) on the Nile Delta; mentioned in the Breviarium of Meletius as one of the bishops consecrated by
  • HERMAEUSbishop of Balbura, in the
  • HERMAMMONa bishop of some part of Egypt. Letters to him "and the brethren in Egypt" from Dionysius of Alexandria, are mentioned o
  • HERMANFROIZ(Chron. S. Denys. v. 24 in Bouquet, iii, 306 D), [ERMENFRIDUS (2).]
  • HERMANNUS(HeErmianus, HERNANUS, HERNIANUS), said by Dempster (Hist. Zecl Geut. Scot. ii. 351) to have been one of the presbyters
  • HERMAS(1), bishop of Philippopolis in Thracia, reputed to have been the Hermas mentioned by St. Paul, Rom. xvi. 14. (See Basil
  • HERMEAS('Eppetas), one of the three principal disciples of Manes, the other two being Addas and Thomas. Hermeas was sent by Man
  • HERMELANDUS(Usuard. Mart. Mar. 25), abbat, [HERMENLANDUS. ] [C. H.]
  • HERMELINDAwife of Cunipert (680- 700), king of the Lombards, "ex Saxonum Anglorum genere." (Paulus Diaconus, v. 37.)
  • HERMELLUS(Hermitvus, HERMOLUs), martyr, commemorated at Constantinople on Aug. 3. _(Usuard.; Boll. Acta SS, Aug. i. 212.)
  • HERMENmartyr, commemorated at Rome on May 9; supposed disciple of St. Paul, Hermes, in Rom. xvi. 14, (Mart. Usuard.) [C. H.]
  • HERMENARIUSarchbishop of Bourges. [HERMINARDUS. ]
  • HERMENFREDUS(Ermenrrepvs), 12th bishop of Verdun, succeeding Charimeres, and followed by Godo, or, according to the Vita S. Pauli Ep
  • HERMENIGILD(Ermenicixp), ST., Visi-
  • HERMENILDA(Kemble, @. D. 44), abbess. ([EORMENGILDA. ] [C. H.]
  • HERMENLANDUSor HERMELANDUS (ST.), abbat of Antrum (Aindre) at the beginning of the 8th century, was born of noble parents at Novioma
  • HERMEONERIC[Hermeric.]
  • HERMEONITAE, HERMEORITAE, HERMEOTITAE(Philastr. de Haer. lvi.), a heretical sect. [HERMIAS (1).] [T. W. D.]
  • HERMERIC and HERMIGARjoint kings (?) of the Suevi in Spain (409-440). In the autuma of 409 (between Sept. 28 and Oct. 13, Dahn, Kénige der Ge
  • HERMESSee also Hermas. HERMES (1) TRISMEGISTUS. Under
  • HERMESIGENES(1), presbyter, oeconomus, and apocrisiarius, one of three representa- tives of Ephraim patriarch of Antioch at the conf
  • HERMETIUSIrish abbat. [ERMepHACH.] HERMIAS (1), HERMEONITAE (ai. Her-
  • HERMIAS(2)—July 6. A martyr with Felix under Numerian, A.D. 284, at Apollonias. (Bas. Men.)
  • HERMIGAR[Hrrmeric.]
  • HERMINARDUS(HERMENARIUS), thirty-seventh archbishop of Bourges, succeeding Landoarius, and followed by Deodatus, was present at the
  • HERMINARIUS[ERMenartivs (2).]
  • HERMINGILDprince. [Hermenicrxp.]
  • HERMINUS(Herminivs), count, a correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium, of whose letters forty-three are addressed to him, The most
  • HERMIONbishop of Tanis, in the Delta. He was present at the synod of Alexandria, A.D. 362, and signed the epistle addressed to
  • HERMIONE(1)—Sept. 4, daughter of Philip the apostle, according to Bas. Men. probably the deacon being meant (Acts xxi. 8). She l
  • HERMIONITAEheretics. [HERMrAs (1).]
  • HERMIPPUSor HERNEMPUS (Usuard. July 27)--July 26. <A presbyter, and martyr with two other priests, Hermolaus and Hermocrates o
  • HERMOCRATESmartyr. [HeRmippus.]
  • HERMOGENESsome lost work of Origen's is intended. The passages cited make up our list of primary authorities about Hermogenes, if
  • HERMOGENIANUS(1), placed by the Sammarthani fifth bishop of Limoges, between Atticus and Adelphius, cir. 210-247, and imagined by som
  • HERMOGRATES(Wart. Usuard. July 27), martyr. [HERMIPPUS.] (G. T. S.]
  • HERMOLAUS(1) (Harmolaus, Mart. Rom. Vet.)—July 26, Bus. Men.; July 27, Usuard. Martyr at Nicomedia under Maximin. He converted St
  • HERMON(1), bishop of Jerusalem; succeeding Zabdas, or Zebadiah, 302, and succeeded by Macarius A.D. 311 (Euseb. H. LF. vii. 32
  • HERMOPHILUS(1), apparently a heretic o: the school of ARTEMON, mentioned in company with Theodotus, Asclepiades, and Apollonides 0;
  • HERNANUS, HERNIANUS[Eran (8).] HERNEUS, abbat of Le Mans. [ERNEvs.]
  • HERNICIUS(Ernictvus), a disciple of St. Patrick, when he was at Kill-garadh, co. Gal-way. In the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick (
  • HERO(1) (Heros, "Hpwy, '"Hpws), successor of St. Ignatius as third bishop of Antioch. Neale calls him "friend and deacon" of
  • HERODES(Euseb. EZ H, iv. 15.) [Potycarpus. ]
  • HERODIANUSapparently one of the deacons of Macedonia addressed by Innocent, A.D. 414. (Dionys. Exig. Collect. Deer. num. 50; Innoc
  • HERODIONreputed to have been one of the seventy disciples and bishop of Novae Patrae (Patras). He was murdered in a riot of the
  • HERON; see generally Hero. For Heron II. of Antioch see Eros.
  • HERONIUSa friend at Lyons to whom Sidonius Apollinaris wrote from Rome, giving an account of his journey and illness. (Sidon. Ap
  • HEROS[Hero (2), Eros.] HEROS (1) ("Hpws), reputed first bishop of
  • HEROTESthe bearer of a message to St. Augustine from Honoratus, a Donatist (Aug. Zp. 49). [Honoratus (7).]} (H. W. P.j
  • HERREDa Mercian priest, who attests the act of bishop Deneberht of Worcester, by which he grants land for lite to a priest nam
  • HERTGENOBERTUStwenty-first bishop. of Limoges between Rusticus and Caesarius, in the latter half of the 7th century. (Gall. Christ, ii
  • HERUMBERTUS(Hercumpbertus, HERIMBERTUS, ERKANBERTUS), ST., first bishop of Minden in Westphalia. If this see was founded in 780, as
  • HERUSal. lec. Heros (Hieron. Chron. amas Chr, 143), bishop of Antioch. [Eros.] [C. H.]
  • HERVAEUS(Huvarnvs), ST., abbat in Brittany in the 6th century, He was the son of Huvarnion, an accomplished and pious noble, who
  • HESECHIUS, HESICHIUS(Hesycutvs.]
  • HESIODUS(1), imaginary bishop of Corinth, according to "Praedestinatus" (i. 49) a man who is said to have raised the dead, who w
  • HESPERIUSmartyr.
  • HESYCHAShermit. [HeEsycurvs (19).]
  • HESYCHASTAE('Hovxacral). Solitaries, who retired to the desert, and there spent their lives in quiet meditation and worship (Nil. E
  • HESYCHIUS(1) (Istcrus), one of the seven apostolic men sent to Spain from Rome by the apostles, according to ancient Spanish trad
  • HETAEMASIUS(Eruymastvus), bishop of Philadelphia, one of the Nicene fathers, A.D. 325. (Mansi, ii. 695; Le Quien, Oriens Christ. i.
  • HETHEREDUSabbat. [HEaTHORED.] HETHERIUS of Chartres.
  • HETHNAIrish saint.
  • HETTIbishop of Strasburg.
  • HETTObishop. [Erro.]
  • HEUNNAthe wife of the comes Aldfrid, said to have been cured by St. Cuthbert of a disease when she seemed to be at the point o
  • HEUTERIUSfirst bishop of Lectoure, "in the time of St. Hyginus," who may possibly have been the pope of that name in the middle o
  • HEUUA(Hardy, Cat. Mat. i. 284), a nun. (HEtrv.] (C. H.]
  • HEVIN, HEVNIN[Hywyy.]
  • HEWALDthe name of two missionary priests, of English birth, who haying spent some years in pious study in Ireland, went to pre
  • HEWNIN, HEWYN[Hywyn.]
  • HEXAPLATHE (7a étaraG, rd EEarAodr, 7" étacéAidov), or sixfold Bible of Origen, consisted in the main of six columns, severally
  • HIA, ST(Hya, Ye, Ia, Ira, Ites, Ira, Irna, Iva), a disciple of St. Barricus, the companion of St. Patrick, and one of the devot
  • HIBERNICIUSdisciple of St. Patrick. (HERNICIUS. ]
  • HIBERNIUSa person said to have been present at the council of Arles, A.D. 314. But the name is doubtful (Jfon. Vet. Don. p. 201,
  • HICCILAbishop of Salamanca from about 632 to about 640, was present at the fourth (A.D. 633) and sixth (638) councils of Toledo
  • HICETAE('Inéra:). A sect of orthodox ascetics who lived in monasteries and spent their time in singing hymns, accompanied with
  • HICONIUS(Orcontus; Econtvs), 2nd bishop of Maurienne, between Felmasius and Leporius. He was present at the first council of Mac
  • HIDBURGAone of the virgins. to whom Aldhelm dedicated his treatise De Laudibus Virginitatis (q. v. § 1). [C. H.]
  • HIDDIthe name of a priest attached as witness to the charter of bishop Leutherius to Malmesbury (spurious), dated Aug. 26, 67
  • HIDDILAa priest, to whom Wilfrid committed the spiritual charge of that portion: of the Isle of Wight which Caedwalla had given
  • HIDDOthirty-second bishop of Autun, suc- - ceeding Gairo, and followed by Reginaldus, is said" tobe omitted from all the cata
  • HIDELBALDarchbishop. [JTILDEBALD.]
  • HIDOLPHUS, HIDULFUS, MHIDULPHUSbishop of Treves. [HILDULFUS.]
  • HIDULFUS(2) (Hitputrvs), ST., a noble of Hainault, of the court of Pippin of Heristal, and husband of St. Aya. According to the
  • HIERACAS(Hrerax), an Egyptian teacher, from whom the sect of Hieracitae took their name. Our knowledge of him is almost entirely
  • HIERACESbishop of Aphnaeum, to the east of Pelusium, in the province of Augustamnica Prima. He was present at the third and four
  • HIERACHITAE[Heracrirar.] HIERACITAK. [Hrxzracas.] HIERAX, heresiarch.
  • HIERAX(1), according to the acts of Justin Martyr, a Christian who suffered at the same time with Justin. He seems to have bee
  • HIEREMIAS(1)—June 7. Martyr at Cordova with Peter a presbyter and four others. (Mart. Usuard. ; Eulogius, Jemorial. SS. lib. ii.
  • HIERIUSpresbyter [Prerius].
  • HIERLATH, HIERLATIUSbishop of Armagh, [IARLAITHE.] >
  • HIERO(1)—Nov. 7.
  • HIEROCLES(1), a native of a small town in Caria, where he must have been born at latest some time about A.D. 275. He was a Neopla
  • HIERONYMUS(1), an early Christian writer, of whose works nothing now survives. — He is mentioned in the Canon Paschalis of Anatoli
  • HIEROPHILUSbishop of Plotinopolis in Eastern Thracia, on the Hebrus, translated to this see from that of Trapezopolis in Phrygia, a
  • HIEROTHEUSa writer whose works are quoted by the Pseudo-Dionysius, who styles him his teacher. Two long extracts are preserved in
  • HIGBERT(Hycperut), the fourteenth bi- 'shop of Lichfield, and the single archbishop of that see (. H. B. 623). He was appointed
  • HIGELRICUSnineteenth bishop of Le Puy, succeeding Dulcidius and followed by Torpio in the first years of the 8th century. Le Coint
  • HIGERIUSeleventh bishop of Die (Gall. Ch. xvi. 511), [R. T. S.J
  • HILADUS(Hetiaptius, Hinarvs), March 12, martyr at Nicomedia with eight others. (Wright, Syriac Martyrol. in Jour. Sac. Lit. 186
  • HILARIA(1), martyr of Augsburg, c. 304, mother of the martyr St. Afra. Aided by three servants, Digna, Eunomia (or Eumenia), an
  • HILARIANUS(1), QUINTUS JULIUS (Hinanrion), a Latin Chiliast writer, cir. 397, author of two extant treatises, both written at the
  • HILARINUS(1) (Vet. Rom. Mart.; Adon.), HILARIUS (Usuard.)—July 16. A monk and martyr, under Julian at Ostia. (Mart. Rom. Vet.)
  • HILARIONArian bishop of Jerusalem. (Hitartivs (4).]
  • HILARIUS(1) (Herarvs), bishop of Aquileia, commemorated on March 16. He is said to have been a native of Pannonia, to have acced
  • HILARUS(1) (HinARrvs), one of the twi clerks (exceptores), emplloyed at the Carthaginian conference, A.D, 41.1, on the part of
  • HILBERTUS(Hivpevertvus), ST., fourth abbat of Fontanelle, succeeding St. Ansbert, and followed by St. Bainus (circ. 700). At his
  • HILDEBALDUS(Hitprvatpus, HintrBa.- DUS), twenty-third or twenty-fourth archbishop of Cologne, succeeding Ricolfus and followed by H
  • HILDEBERTUS(1), instructor of Coelius Sedulius, said by Ussher (Brit. Zccl. Ant. c. 16, wks. vi. 319, 576) to have flourished A.D.
  • HILDEBOLDof Cologne. [H1LpEBALD.]
  • HILDEBRANDL., ninth bishop of Séez, succeeding Leudebaudis, and followed by Rodobertus, is said to have been sitting in 575, but n
  • HILDEFONSUS, HILDEFUNSbishop of Toledo. [ILDEFONSUS. }
  • HILDEGARDA(Hitprearnis, HILpIGARDA), the 2nd wife of Charles the Great, of a family of high rank among the Suevi. For her pedigree
  • HILDEGARIUS(1), twenty-first occupant
  • HILDEGERUSbishop. [HitpEecanrtvs.]
  • HILDEGODUS(Hizpieunets), 32nd bishop of Soissons, between Deodatus I. and Rothadus I., one of the subscribers of the Placitwm of A
  • HILDEGRINUS[Hitpicrimvs.] HILDEGUARD, bishop. [Hitpoarp.]
  • HILDELITHAabbess. [H1ip1i1p.] 2
  • HILDEPRAND(Hi~pepranp), nephew of Luitprand king of the Lombards, associated with his uncle during the latter part of his reign. V
  • HILDERIC(1) (Hiuprix), son of Hunneric king of the Vandals (by Eudocia the daughter of the emperor Valentinian III.) and grandso
  • HILDEVERT(Hitprsert, DATLEVERT), twentieth bishop of Meaux, between St. Faro and Herlingus, said to have been born of noble and p
  • HILDIGRIMUS(Hivpeerinvs), 31st bishop | of Chalons-sur-Marne, between Bovo and Adelel- | mus. He was brother of St. Liudger bishop
  • HILDILID(Hivpetirna), 2nd abbess of Barking. Bede, who extracted several miraculous stories from a book of Barking, mentions the
  • HILDMER(HitpMarr), a prefect of Egfrid king of Northumbria, and a person of great piety, at whose house Cuthbert, who was great
  • HILDOARDUSfifteenth bishop of Cambrai and Arras, succeeding Albinus, and followed by Halitgarius, was consecrated A.D. 790, and co
  • HILDUARAa Gothic queen, wife of GuNTHIMAR. She is known to us from a letter of the comes Bulgara or Bulgchramn, addressed to Gun
  • HILDULFUS(Hrputrus, HypDvuLpuus, Ipo.Frus, Ipov), ST., founder of the monastery of Moyen Moutier (Medianum), in the Vosges, and r
  • HILDUTUSWelsh abbat, master of St Gildas. (Colgan, Acta SS.181,c. 3.) [Ituryp, ss [J. G.]
  • HILINclerical witness to grants to bisho} Trychan, and the see of Llandaff, early in the 7tl century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees,
  • HILLAan early benefactor of Glastonbury who in a charter dated 744 gave lands at Bald heresberge and Scobbanwirthe to the mon
  • HILLARIUSIvish saint. [Evarr.] © HILLIDIUS, bishop. [Iturpr0s.]
  • HILLUS4th bishop of Séez, between St Landericus and Hubertus, towards the close of th 5th century., (@all. Chr. xi. 675.) [S.
  • HILMICHISarmour-bearer of Alboin, kin; of the Lombards. He was persuaded by th queen Rosamund to plot the death of the king The t
  • HILTBERTabbat. [HILBERT.] HILTIBALDUS. [Hitpesapvs.] HILTIGARIUS. [Hi~pEcarius.]
  • HILTIGISUS(Hixtiei1siwwvs), a bishop wh was present at the fifth council of Paris, in A.D 615, and subscribed the canons with the
  • HIMBERTUS(Hiresertvus) appears as sixteenth in the list of the bishops of Beauvais given by the Gallia Christiana, succeeding Mau
  • HIMELINUS(Heme.inus, HyYMe.invs), ST., a priest commemorated March 10 at Vissenack, near Tillemont in Brabant, where he was burie
  • HIMERIOUScatholicus of Alexandria. [HzMERIUS. ]
  • HIMERIUS(1), a celebrated sophist during the reigns of the emperors Constantius and Julian (Photius, cod. 165). He was a native
  • HIMILTRUDISmother of Ebbo archbishop of Rheims (A.D. 816-851), commemorated in a spirited epitaph ascribed to Ebbo himself. It is t
  • HINCHOfourth in the list of the bishops of Lisieux, between Launobaudus, and Leodeboldus, one of the bishops who signed the pr
  • HINGUETENUS, STninth bishop of Vannes, succeeding Budocus, and followed by St. Mereadocus, perhaps towards the close of the 7th <ent
  • HINNA(Hyatna),Trepresented as a holy abbess in the third and fourth lives of St. Brigida as given by Colgan (Zr. Thawm. 541,
  • HIPPARCHUSmartyr at Samosata with Philotheus, Habibus, Jacobus, Paregrus, Romanus and Lollianus. Their martyrdom is fixed at A.D.
  • HIPPOLYTUS(1), a martyr of Apulia under Antoninus, commemorated at Placentia on Jan. 30. (Ferrarius, Catal. General. SS, from the
  • HIPPONICUSa Keeper of the Records (scriniarius), to whom St. Nilus addressed a letter in which he says that many pray to God to de
  • HIREBERTUSbishop. [Himberrvs.] HIRENA, HIRENE. [Irene.]
  • HIRMYNHILDA(Elmham, ed. Hardwicke, - p- 296; Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 246), abbess. [EORMENGILDA. | {C. H.]
  • HIRUNDINUSbishop of Misua, in Proconsular Africa, was banished to Corsica by Huneric after the convention at Carthage, A.p. 484. (
  • HISACIUS(Anast. Hist. Zecl. ex Theoph. 56, Bonn, 1841), confessor. [Isaacius.] [J. G.]
  • HISCIPIO(Hispicio), sixth in the series of the bishops of Carcassonne, his predecessors being unknown for more than a century. H
  • HISERMUNDUSbishop of Rieti, c. 773. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, v. 302.) [A. H.D. A.J HISMAELIS, Welsh saint, [IsMAE..]
  • HISTOPODESSuggested by Gothofred, and adopted by Suicer, as the true reading, instead of "Spadones" in the Cod. Theod. XVI. v. 17.
  • HITENLAUleader of a Christian emigration from Armorica to Britain. (Rees, Cambro- Brit. Saints, 504.) (J. G.]
  • HLODUIUS(Bed. H. Z. iii. 19), king of the Franks. [Cxovis II.] (C. H.]
  • HLOTHEREbishop of the West Saxons. [LeurHertvs.]
  • HLOTHERI, HLOTHERE(Loruanivs), king of Kent. He was a son of Earcombert and Sexburga, and succeeded his brother Ecgbert in July, 673. Ecgb
  • HOCCAa prefect or reeve of Wilfrid bishop of York, mentioned by Eddi as recovering for his master a youth who had been promis
  • HODIERNUSbishop of Senlis (Gall. Chr. x. 1382), He signed the tifth council of OrJeans in 549, and the third of Paris c. 557, but
  • HODILREDa person who, calling himself "parens" of Sebbi king of the East Saxons, bestowed on the abbess Ethelburga the lands of
  • HODINGUS(Opieus, AUDINGUS), twentieth bishop of Le Mans, succeeding Gauziolenus, and followed by Merolus, and afterwards twenty-
  • HOELWelsh saint. [Hywet.]
  • HOEL III(Jurnart, Howett), king of Brittany, son of Judual and grandson of Hoel II. According to the Breton historians he reigne
  • HOENUSa poet, mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris as his instructor. (Sidon. carm. ix. p- 361, in Patr. Lat. lviii. 703 B.) {C.
  • HOILDIS(Hortpe), virgin. [Hoyrtpts.]
  • HOLEMUNDUS(Honemunpvs), bishop of Salamanca from 682 to 693 onwards, subscribed the acts of the thirteenth (683), fifteenth (688),
  • HOLY GHOSTThe doctrine of the Holy Ghost embraces the teaching of the Church with regard to His person and His mission. Under the
  • HOMERITE CHURCH AND MAR- 4TYRS([Evespaan, ErsioplaN CHURCH, Josevuus DuNAANUS.]
  • HOMINICOLAEA term of reproach applied to the Catholics by the Apollinarists.
  • HOMOBONUS(1), sub-deacon of the Roman church, by whom Pelagius I. sent. relics to king Childebert in 556 (Pelag. ep. 9 olim 10 in
  • HOMOLUNCH(Omutune, Omotrnec), a Mercian abbat, whose name as witness is attached to three of the Evesham charters. (Kemble, C. D.
  • HOMONIUSAn Apollinarist bishop, a letter addressed to whom by Timotheus, another bishop of thesame sect, is quoted by Leontius B
  • HOMOPHRONIUSone of the chief members of the board of the hospital founded by St. Basil at Caesarea. During the troubles relating to
  • HOMOUSIANIA term of reproach applied by the Arians to the Catholics. (Collat. Au. c. Pacent.; Augustin. Op. Migne, Patrol. xxxiii.
  • HOMOUSIOS, HOMOEUSIOS(6po0dct0s, buorovc1os). The formation of these words may be compared with that of dudBios and duordBios, duoesd)s and d
  • HOMUNCIONATESThe Catholics were so called by the Arians. (Arnob. Jun. c. Serap. Conjl. i. 2; Migne, Patrol. liii. 241.) [T. W. DA
  • HOMUNCIONISTAEA designation applied by Augustine to Arians generally, as well as to the Photinians. (Fragm. Serm. d. v. " Noli me tang
  • HOMUNCIONITAEA designation applied by the Catholics to the Photinians (Mar. Mercat. Diss. ad Contradict. xii. Anathem. Nestor. § 20;
  • HONEMUNDUSbishop of Salamanca. [Ho-
  • HONESIMUS(Usuard. Mart. Feb. 16), disciple of St. Paul. [OnEsmwvs.] [C. H.]
  • HONESTUS(1), presbyter, apostle of Pampeluna. His story is told in the Acta of his disciple Firminus, the first bishop of Amiens
  • HONOBERHTUSarchbishop of Cologne. [CuvnrBertvs.]
  • HONOBERTUS(Annosertus), twenty-second bishop of Sens, succeeding Hildegarius, and followed by Armentarius, subscribed the deed of
  • HONORATAvirgin, a younger sister of Epiphanius bishop of Pavia, mentioned by Ennodius in his life of that saint (see Patr. Lat.
  • HONORATUS(1), African bishop, Syn. 2 Carth. sub Cyp. A.D. 252 (Cyp. Zp. 57); in Syn. 4, A.D. 254 (Cyp. Zp. 67); and in Syn. Carth
  • HONORICUS(Wend. F. H. ann. 482, ed. Coxe), king of the Vandals, [HUNNERIC.]
  • HONORIUS(1), FLAVIUS AUGUSTUS, emperor, born 384, died 423, A full account of the life of Honorius is given in the Dictionary of
  • HONWYN, HOWYNWelsh saint. (Jy. Arch. ii. 45.) [Hywyn.] {J. G.]
  • HOOGa priest and abbat who attests the grant of Oethilred to Ethelburga (Kemble, C. D. 35), in 692 and the questionable or s
  • HOOTFRIDUS(Hortrrepus), seventeenth bishop of Carpentras, succeeding Oloradus and followed by Agapitus, is said to have sat from 7
  • HOR(Or, "Qp, Soz.), Egyptian monk, cir. 400, contemporary with Rufinus and Palladius, from whom our fullest information of
  • HORAEA('QOpala), according to the Srru— irEs, the wife of Seth (Epiph. Haer. 39, p. 286). Mosheim conjectures instead of Horae
  • HORAEUS[HEBpomMAD.] HORMISDAS (1), a Persian prince,
  • HORMISDASbishop. [Hormizas.]
  • HORMISDATES(Asseman.), HORMIS-
  • HORMISDATSCIRUSprince of the Magi, and a fierce persecutor of the Christians under Sapor II. king of Persia. Simeon Metaph. divides his
  • HORMIZASbishop of Comana in Cappadocia, about 460; appointed by the archbishop Atypius to investigate the charges against Lampet
  • HORMUZDpresbyter and martyr at Seleucia in Persia, under Sapor II. (Wright, Syrian Mart. in Jour. Sac. Lit. Jan. 1866, p. 432.)
  • HORONTIUSbishop of Vicenza, one of the ten bishops, who, after a synod of bishops of the district of Venetia, signed a letter to
  • HOROSIUS" abbas," sent by pope Gregory the Great for the disposition and correction of the affairs of the monasteries of the isl
  • HOROTHETESin the Valentinian fragment preserved by Epiphanius (Haer. 31, p. 171) one of the five Prunici, who formed the latest bi
  • HORTENSIANUSAfrican bishop. Syn. 2 Carth. sub Cyp. (Cyp. Ep. 57.) Probably the same as the one at Syn. 5 Carth. sub Cyp. de Bapt. Ha
  • HORTULANUS(1), bishop of Bennefensis in Byzacene, banished by Hunneric a.p. 484. He seems to have distinguished himself by his bol
  • HORUS(8pos). According to the doctrine of Valentinus, as described by Irenaeus i. 2, p. 10, the youngest Aeon Sophia, in her
  • HOSEApresbyter of bishop Abda and martyr with him under Isdegerdes I. (Assem. Bibl. Or. iii. pt. 2, p. xi.) {C. H.]
  • HOSIUS(1), (Osrus), a confessor under Maximian and bishop of Corduba, the capital of the province of Baeticain Spain, He took
  • HOSPITALISbishop of Valencia towards. the end of the 7th century. He was represented by his deacon, Asturius, at the twelfth counc
  • HOSPITIUS, STa recluse in the neighbourhod of Nice in Provence. The authority for his life is Gregory of Tours, who places him in the
  • HOSPITO"dux Barbaricinorum," in the island of Sardinia. He is praised by Gregory the Great because he is a Christian, while his
  • HOTIFREDUS[Hoorrrivvs.]
  • HOWEL, HOWELUSbrother of Gildas. (Rowlands, Mon. Ant, Rest. 180; Colgan, Acta
  • HROTHWARI, HROTWARAa Mercian abbess, daughter of Bugga, and grand-daughter of Dunna, the abbess of a monastery at Withington, in the dioces
  • HUA BECCEIrish abbat. [Hur Brcce.]
  • HUAETBERT(Hvaersercrus, HwaerrBYRUT), abbat of Jarrow and Wearmouth, A.D. 716.—At the close of his Life of Ceolfrid, Bede gives s
  • HUAIL(Hue, Hurt), son of Caw, was first a warrior under king Arthur, and called in the Welsh Triads one of the three front le
  • HUBERTUS(1), fifth bishop of Séez, between Hillus and Litaredus, A.D. 500. (Gall. Christ. xi. 675.) [S. A. B.]
  • HUCBERTUS(Huserrus), ST., a monk at Bretigny (Bretiniacum), on the Oise, in the diocese of Soissons, in the early years of the 8t
  • HUEAMINANAIGthe Wise, abbat of Jlonmacnois, is in Ann. Ulé, A.D. 767. (O'Conor, Rer, Hib, Script. iv. 101, cf. Four Mast. by O'Donov
  • HUEILWelsh saint. [Hvar] HUEL, Welsh saint. [HyweEt.]
  • HUETLAC(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 87, charter of Ethelbald king of Mercia, A.D. 742), bishop; probably Heatholac bishop of Elmham. [C.
  • HUGBERT(Kemble, Cod. Dip. 1023, charter of Kenulf king of Mercia, a.D. 801), bishop ; probably Higbert of Lichfield (C. H.]
  • HUGHIERIUS(Hitpericvus, HuLpEricvs), bishop of Coutances, succeeding Waldalmarus, and followed by Frodomundus, thought by Mabillon
  • HUGO(1) PEREGRINUS, ST., confessor, commemorated July 7 at Nanvigné, in the diocese of Auxerre. The Bollandists publish a sh
  • HUGONabbat. [Ifacona.]
  • HUI BECCE(Hua Beccr), abbat of Fobhar . now Fore, co, Westmeath, died a.p. 769 (Ann.. Uit.) or 765 (Four Mast. a.p. 765). [J. GJ
  • HUILLUSa Jew who instructed Origen. (Jerom. Apol. adv. Rufin. § 13, Opp. ii. 469, ed. Vall.) [C. H.]
  • HUITAbishop of Lichfield. [Hwrrra.] HULDERICUS, bishop. [HuGurertus.]
  • HUMATUS19th bishop of Bourges, between Siagrius and St. Honoratus (circ. A.D. 523-7). (Gall. Christ. ii. 11.) [S. A. B.]
  • HUMBEAM(Chron. Mail. ann. 749), king of the East Angles. [Hunseanna.] ([C. H.]
  • HUMBERHTa priest who attests a charter of Aldred ealdorman of the Hwiccians, about the year 780. (Kemble, C. D. 146.) [S.J
  • HUMBERTUSbishop. [Husertvs (2).] HUMBERTUS (1) (Huntsertvs), ST., first
  • HUMELIANUS(Emmianvs), bishop of Seville, was one of the successors of OPPAS, and ranks therefore among the bishops of the captivit
  • HUMERIUSa deacon whom Acacius patriarch of Constantinople, a.p. 471-489, ordained to the presbyterate, notwithstanding that he h
  • HUNAa monk and priest of the family of St. Etheldreda, who attended her on her deathbed and buried her. After the burial he
  • HUNALDUS(Hunotpovs), tenth bishop of Cambray and Arras, between Hildebertus and St. Hadulphus (cire. A.D. 713-717). The name occ
  • HUNBEANNAking of East Anglia, who divided that kingdom with Alberht after the death of king Elfwald in 749. (Sim. Dun. MM. H. B.
  • HUNEGUND, STabbess of Humolariae (Hombliéres), near the walls of St, Quentin, in Picardy, inthe 7th century. Her body was supposed t
  • HUNFERTH(1) (Hunrrira), the seventh bishop of Winchester, appointed to succeed Daniel in 744, (Chr. S. MU. H. B. 329.) He held t
  • HUNFREDUS, HUNFRIDUSthe name of a bishop in a spurious charter of Ethelbert I. king of Kent. (Kemble, Cod. Dip. 982.) [C. H.]
  • HUNGUS(Unaus), son of Urguist king of the Picts, appears in the Legend of St. Andrew (Skene, Chron. Picts and Scots, 138 sq. 1
  • HUNNERIC(Uenericus, Hunrerrx, HonoRICHUS), the eldest son of Genseric, whom he succeeded as king of the Vandals Jan. 24, a.p. 47
  • HUNOLDUSbishop. [Hunatpvs.] HUNTBERTUS, abbat. [Humserrus.]
  • HUNUANUS(Minarus, Numranus), 27th bishop of Noyon and Tournay, between Framengerus and Guido I. He is said to have died in 741,
  • HUPARCIUSbishop. [Eparctus,]
  • HUPORTUNUStwenty-seventh bishop of Geneva, succeeding Albo and followed by Eucherius. The name is perhaps a corruption of Opportun
  • HURMANbishop of Hulwan in Persia and martyr under Sapor Il. (Wright, Syrian Mart. in Jour. Sac. Lit. Jan. 1866, p. 432.)
  • HWAETRAEDa Kentish abbat, who, together with archbishop Bregwin, attests an act of king Eanmund appended to a grant of Sigiraed,
  • HWICCAbishop of Lichfield. (Hwzrra.]
  • HWICCII, HUICCII, HWICCAS, WICCIIthe inhabitants of a district between the south and middle Angles and the Welsh, which is ecclesiastically represented b
  • HWITTA, HWITA(Hwira, Hwicca), the tenth bishop of Lichfield (Jf H. B. 623). On the death of bishop Aldwin, who had held the two Merci
  • HYAof St. Ives. [Hra.] HYACINTHUS (1)—July 3, martyr. He:
  • HYACINTHUS(2), a eunuch who brought up Marcia, afterwards concubine to the emperor Commodus. He was employed by her to bear to: Sa
  • HYCHAN, STthe saint of Llanhychan, in the vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, in the 5th century. His festival was Aug. 8. (R. Rees, Wels
  • HYDROCK, STto whom Lanhydrock in Cornwall is dedicated. The feast day is 5th May : William of Worcester (Jtin. 108), "Sanctus Ydroc
  • HYDROTHEITAEa name invented by the author of " Praedestinatus " (75) for the heretics represented by Philaster (96), and after him b
  • HYDULPHUSbishop. [Hiputrvs.]
  • HYGBALDan abbat in Lindsey, mentioned by Bede (H. £. iv. 3) as having heard from the great missionary Egbert St. Chad's vision
  • HYGBERHT(Kemble, C. D.1020). HYGEBEORHAT (K. C. D. 985). HYGEBERHT (K. GC. D, 141, 148, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 164, 167, 175),
  • HYGINUS(1), bishop of Rome after Telesphorus, probably from 137 to 141, during four years and some months. Our early authoritie
  • HYLASa freedman of Jerome's friend Melania. He accompanied St. Jerome and his friends from Aquileia to Syria, and died in 374
  • HYLDRADUSan abbat who sent a psalter to Florus priest of Lyons, with a request that he would correct it so accurately that it mig
  • HYLDREN, STWilliam of Worcester (Itin, 114) says, "Sanctus Hyldren episcopus jacet: in parochia Lansalux juxta parochiam Lanteglys,
  • HYLDULFUS(Orderic, Vital. JZ Z. v. 9),
  • HYMELINUS[Himerinvs.]
  • HYMENAEUSbishop of Jerusalem. He is stated to have held the see for the long space of thirty-two years, A.D, 266-298; but the who
  • HYMERIUSbishop of Ameria.
  • HYMETIUSa Roman of high rank, who held the office of vicar of the city of Rome, A.D. 362, in the time of the emperor Julian (Cod
  • HYMNAWelsh abbess. [H1inNA.]
  • HYMNETIUSa physician probably of Caesarea, from whose skill Chrysostom had derived great benefit, for which he expresses his grat
  • HYNYDdaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, wife of Tudval the yellow-haired, and mother of Cuincov. (Rees, Cambro-Brit. Saints,
  • HYPATIAThe account given by Socrates (Zecl. Hist. vii. 15) of this celebrated person is as follows:—' There was a lady in
  • HYPATIANUSbishop of Heraclea on the coast of Propontis, and metropolitan of Thracia. He is mentioned in a life of Parthenius bisho
  • HYPATIUS(1), bishop of Gangra in Paphlagonia. Our only knowledge of him is drawn from the untrustworthy Menaea of the Greek chur
  • HYPERECHIUS(1) (Srerecutvs), comes rerum privatarum, under the emperor Honorius, A.D. 397 (Cod. Theod, VII. xiii. 12; Spe-- rechio.
  • HYPERIUSbishop of Junopolis (A bonotichus) on the coast of Paphlagonia, mentioned in the heading of the letter of his province t
  • HYPOLISTUS(Hreporytus), presbyter and martyr, cir. 303, at Atripalda, or Tripalda, a village in the south of Italy, north of Saler
  • HYPSISTARIL(Greg. Nazianz.), HYPSISTIANI (Greg. Nyss.), worshippers " the Most High, a sect first discovered in the earlier part of
  • HYPSISTIUSbishop of Philadelphia in Isauria, on the river Calycadnus, to the north of Aphrodisias (Wiltsch. Handbuch der Kirchl. G
  • HYPSIUSor HYPSES appears among those Eutychians, who, styling themselves G&pxmavdpirat €Adxiorot, appealed for a general co
  • HYPYTHIANTIheretics mentioned by Origen (Comm. Ser. in Matt. 28) as using apocry- phal writings, different however from those used
  • HYRALDUS(Wend. Flor. Hist. ann. 765, ed. Coxe), bishop of Elmham. Matthew Paris (ed. Luard, i. 345) calls him Halardus, and the
  • HYSEBERHTan abbat of the diocese of Worcester, who stands first on the list of the clergy who attended bishop Deneberht at the co
  • HYSTASPES, PROPHECY OFIn the 2nd century there was in circulation a book of prophecies purporting to have been written by Hys- taspes, father
  • HYSTERAIrenaeus (i. 31, p. 112), followed by Epiphanius (Haer. 38, p. 276), speaking of the sect which the latter calls Cainite
  • HYSTEREMA(éoeré€pnya), a technical word 'in the system of Valentinus. As the system is reported by Hippolytus (vi. 31, p. 180) th
  • HYSYCHIUSbishop of Vienne. [Istcrus IL.]
  • HYVAIDD HIRstands in the Welsh Triads as one of three princes of alien origin, who were raised to sovereignty for bravery. He was s
  • HYWEL(HoeEt, HvEt), Welsh saint found at — Llanhywel or Llanhowell, attached to Llandeloy, co. Pembroke. He may be the same a
  • HYWGIor Buet, a saint who lived in the 6th century, and was the father of St. Beuno. He gave all his lands for the endowment
  • HYWYN, STsaid to have founded Aberdaron on the coast of Carnarvon, from whence pilgrims generally crossed to the island of Bardse
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