- OANprinceps, that is, abbat, of Egg in the Hebrides, died a.D. 724. (Ann. Ult.; Reeves, 'S. Adamn. 307, 382.) (J. G]
- OBINUS(Ournus), the fourth name in the mythical list of the British bishops or archbishops of London (Godwin, de Praesulibus,
- OCCILIANUSaddressed by Gregory the Great in A.D. 599, on his appointment as tribune of Hydruntum or Otranto by the exarch, request
- OCEANUSa Roman of noble birth in the 4th and 5th centuries, connected by birth with Fabiola (q. v.) and the Julian family, and
- OCHAadh abate
- OCLEATINUSforbidden by Gregory the Great in A.D. 591, in letters to Severus, bishop of Ficulum, and to the governor and inhabitant
- OCTAVIANAwife of Hesperius, used her husband's influence with the usurper Maximus in favour of a Tertullianist teacher whom she h
- OCTAVIANUSan archdeacon and martyr in the Arian persecution under Hunneric. (Greg. Turon, Hist. Franc. ii. 3.) [G. T. 8.]
- OCTAVIUS(1). [Mrxverus Farrx.]
- OCTOBER[Lyons, Martyrs or.]
- ODAwidow, said by some to have been daughter of Childebert III., king of the Franks. She was married to Bogo or Boggus, duk
- ODDA(Opa), virgin, patron of Rhoda in Brabant, commemorated Noy. 27. She is called daughter of a king of Scotia; Dempster sa
- ODDOof Mercia. [Doppo.]
- ODHRAN(Opranus, Oran, OTTERAN) is a name often met with in Irish hagiology, and perhaps is allied to the Latin Adrianus. (Por
- ODILIA(Opa, Orui1a, Orrmza), virgin and abbess, has an abundant literature, but her biography is based on a life of the eleven
- ODILLEOZa monk sent to Aleuin in 796 from the brethren of the church of St. Liudgar, which may have been at Autun, or else at Mi
- ODILO(Orin), dux of Bagoaria (Bavaria), who greatly encouraged the mission of St, Boni. face among his people, and in conjunc
- ODOAOCER(Opovacar), king. The first is the generally received form of the name, but the latter is correct. (ODOVACAR, Cassiod.,
- ODOARIUSfirst bishop of Lugo, after its recovery from the Mahommedans.. He had fled before the invaders, and after long banishme
- ODRENE(Oprinvs, Horpurertni, HuorDREN), bishop of Moyille, co. Down, died A.D.) 694. (Ann. Ult. A.D..693; Reeves, Lecl. Ant. 1
- ODUINUSa presbyter, to whom Alcuin addressed his epistle De Baptismi caeremoniis (Pat. Lat. ci. 611). ; CCH.) |
- ODULFUS(Avuputrvs, AoToLFus), count,| a friend of Aleuin, who asks Arno archbishop' of Salzburg to remind him to. be just~ in j
- OEDILRAEDUS, and OETHILRAED(Kemble, C. D.'35). [Hopmrxp.] {C. Hy}
- OEGETCHATRbishop of Mahee Island, co. Down, died a.p. 735. (Ann. Ult..a.p. 734, ealling him OnpGEpcAR. See also Reeves, Eccl. Ant.
- OENGUS(1) (Azneuus), son of Tibraide or Tipraite, priest or abbat of Clonfad, county Westmeath, is known only for his hymn in
- OENNAJan. 20, Mac ua Laighisi, abbat of Clonmacnoise, King's County, succeeded the founder St. Ciaran,.a.D. 549, and died a.p
- OFELLUSbishop of Cleopatris in Egypt. Mentioned in the paschal letter of Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria for the year 404 (tra
- OFFA(1), the youngest son of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria (4.p, 593-617), by ~his second wife Acha, daughter of Ella.and
- OFTFOR(Estror, VU. H. B. 622; Ostror, W. Malmesb. G. P. § 136), the second bishop of Worcester (Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 622). He w
- OGDOADThe number eight plays an, important part in Gnostic speculations; but it is necessary to distinguish three different fo
- OIDDIa priest who assisted Wilfrid in the conversion of the South Saxons (Bed. H. £. iv. 13). [Pucu, s. f.] {C. H.]
- OIDILUALDhermit of Farne (Bed. v. 1). [ETHELWALD (3).]
- OIDILVALDof Northumbria. WALD (1).]
- OISSEIN(O1ssene, OssENEUS, OISSENIUS, OsENIUS), surnamed Fota (the Long), abbat of Clonard, co. Meath, died a.D. 654 (Ann. Tig.
- OISSENE(Ossentus), abbat of Clonmacnoise, King's Co., died a.D, 706. (Ann. Tig.; Ann. Ult. A.D. 705.) {J. G.]
- OJA(Ota), bishop of Barcelona, subscribes the canons of 5th and 6th councils of Toledo, held in June A.D. 636 and January A
- OLBIANUSa bishop, whose martyrdom by fire in the reign of Maximian for refusing to sacrifice to Juno, is commemorated in the Bas
- OLCAN[Botcay.]
- OLOMUNDUS(Otemunvvs), abbat of the monastery of St. John the Baptist, honourably mentioned by Alcuin in a letter to the monks. (Z
- OLOPUEN(Lo-PuEn), first Nestorian bishop: of Sighanfu in India, a.D. 636 to 699, (Le Quien, Or. C. ii. 1269.) [J. G.]
- OLYBRIUS(1), ANICIUS HERMOGENIANUS, son of Sextus Anicius Probus and his wife Anicia Faltonia Proba, husband of Juliana and fath
- OLYMPIANUS(Orymervs.]
- OLYMPIAS(1), the elder, queen of Armenia. She was the daughter of ABLAVIUS, the famous pretorian prefect in Constantine's jreign
- OLYMPIODORUS(1), historian of the 5th century. He wrote a work in twenty-two books on the history of the empire under Honorius from
- OLYMPIUS(1), a bishop, sent to Africa on a mission of enquiry in company with Hunomius. [Eunomius (2).] {H. W. P.]
- OMARthe second of the caliphs. and one of the numerous fathers-in-law of Mahomet. He was one of Mahomet's three 'chief compa
- OMER, ST[AUDOMARUS.] 35%
- OMMATIUS(1), senior, a man of rank in Auvergne, whose daughter Iberia was the wife of Ruricius the elder, bishop, of. Limoges. S
- OMOLINGC, OMULUNG[Homo.unos.}
- OMOTARIUSbishop of Laon late in the seventh century (Gall. Chr. ix, 512). (c. H.]
- ONASUSof Segesta, an opponent of Jerome in Rome (anno 384). He had taken some of Jerome's satirical descriptions as personal t
- ONCHU(OncHon, OncHv0), Mac-in-Eccis (son of the poet), poet in Connaught in the middle of the 6th century, embraced the Chris
- ONESICRATIAa lady, a correspondent of 'Chrysostom's, to whom he wrote, from Cucusus, a letter of consolation on the death of her da
- ONESIMUS(2), TITUS FLAVIUS, reputed husband of Flavia Domitilla, daughter. of Clement the martyr, and grandniece of Domitian. Th
- ONESIPHORUSbishop of Iconium about A.D. 450. He was present at the general council of Chalcedon, and also at the Robber-synod of Ep
- ONOEL[Hespomas, Vol. II. 850, b.]
- ONUPHRIUS(1) (Onorr10, Honorrio), June 12, an Egyptian solitary, who left the monks of the Thebaid, with whom he had been brought
- OPHELIUS(1), a grammaticus addressed by Isidore of Pelusium (lib. i, Epp. 11, 86, _ 41, 42, 55, 119, 255, 273, iii, 31, 70, 92,
- OPHELLUS([Orertivs.]
- OPHIANITAKEheretics, in the list of Sophronius (Mansi, xi. 850D). In Hardouin's
- OPHITES(Oquavol, Clem. Alex., Orig. ; *Opira, Hippol., Epiph.] Among the peculiarities of several of the Gnostic sects of the 2
- OPILIOdeacon of the church of Venafrum, and Crescentius were accused of selling certain
- OPILIUSbishop of Ebusus (Ivica), attended the council of bishops assembled by Hunneric at Garthage in A.D. 484 (Wotitia African
- OPINATORES(OPINARi, OPINANTES), heretics so named from the Latin rendering of the word Aoxnrat (Baron. A. Z. ann. 191, ii), (Docer
- OPPAbishop of Tuy, signs thirty-third the canons of the 13th Council of Toledo, in A.n. 683. His episcopate must have been s
- OPPASarchbishop of Seville, son of king Leica, and brother of king W1rizA, the last but one of the Gothic kings of Spain. He
- OPPILAan ambassador from the Spanish Arian king Leovigild to Chilperic, the catholic king of the Franks, On his first arrival
- OPPORTUNA, STabbess of Monasteriolum or Montreuil in Normandy. To other virtues she added extreme gentleness, correcting the faults o
- OPPORTUNUS(J), abbat of the monastery _ of Sr. LEONTIUS (72), complained to Gregory the Great that certain relics of the martyr ha
- OPTATIANUS[Porrietus.]
- OPTATUS(1), a bishop stated to have appeared after death in a vision to St.*Saturus,
- OPTIMUS(1), bishop of Antioch in Pisidia, to which he was translated from Agdamia (Soc, yii. 36), which Le Quien (i. 817) calls
- ORACHabbat of Lismore and of Inch VarShelmaliere, co. Wexford, died A.D. 781. (Ann, Ult, A.D. 780.) {J. G.].
- ORATORIAthe name of an abbess addressed in one of the letters of Caesarius bishop of Arles, according to the reading of Holsteni
- ORDBRIHT(1), the name assigned to the first. of the fictitious abbats of Westminster. He is stated, in Sporley's MS. history of
- ORENNe arts eter:
- ORENTIUSPelagian bishop at council of Ephesus (Labbe, iii. 666). [ORonTrIUs (3).]
- ORESIESIS(al. Orusts), a friend and coadjutor of Pachomius.. He wrote a treatise, now
- ORESIUSa Spaniard of Tarragona, addressed by Sidonius (lib. ix. Zp. 12 in Pat. Lat. lviii. 629), the date of the letter being i
- ORESTES(4), keymaker, addressed by Nilus ib. ii. ep. 217). [C. H.]
- OREUSsee Hespomas, Vol. II. p. 580.
- ORGARUSabbat of Westminster (744-56) in the spurious list of the monk Sporley (Monast, Angi. i. 267). [C. H.]
- ORIBASIUSaddressed by Nilus (lib. iv. ep. 15); another, addressed by Isidore of Pelusium (lib, i, ep, 437), {C. H.]
- ORIENTIOUSbishop of Auch (Ausci, Augusta Ausciorum, or Auxium), in the early part of the 5th century. Of this bishop it is related
- ORIGEN AS A THEOLOGIANVill.
- ORIGENES(2), a layman,
- ORIGENIANIEpiphanius,. who makes the errors of the celebrated Origen the subject of the sixty-fourth section of his work on here-
- ORIGENISTIO CONTROVERSIESwe L—ConTRovERsY DURING ORIGEN's Lire.
- ORION(1), bishop of Erythrum in Cyrenaica in the fourth century. When a very old man, his extreme gentleness brought him into
- ORONTIANUS(Horontranvs), addressed by St. Ambrose, c. 387, on the nature of the soul (ep. 34) and on some passages in St. Paul (35
- ORONTIUS(1), Jan. 22, martyr during the Diocletian persecution with Vincentius and Victor in Spain under the governor Rufinus. (
- OROSIUS, PAULUSwas a native of Tarragona, in Spain, as he himself says (Hist. vii. 22), though an expression in a letter of Avitus may
- ORSISIUS(Orsresius, 'Apoictos), abbat of Tabenna, A.D. 350, in succession to Petronius, He soon transferred the burden to Theodo
- ORTIGIUSbishop, was expelled from his see by the Priscillianists in consequence of his defence of the Catholic faith (Idatius, C
- OSA(Bosa, UM. H. B. 618, note), the sixth bishop of Selsey; preceded by Aluberht, and succeeded by Giselhere (Jf. H. B. 618
- OSBALDa "patrician" of Northumbria, addressed c. 793 along with king Ethelred and the dux Osberct by Alcuin (ep. 11 in Pat. La
- OSBERCTa dux, addressed c. 793, with Ethelred, king of Northumbria, and the patrician Osbald, by Alcuin (ep. 11 in Pat. Lat. c.
- OSBRANanchorite and bishop of Clooncraff, co. Roscommon, died A.D. 752. (Ann. Tig.) (J. G.] OSFRIDA, queen. [OsrHRyp.]
- OSFRITHson of Edwin, king of Northumbria, and Coenburga his wife, daughter of Cearl,
- OSHEREking, viceroy, or ealdorman of the Hwiccii.. He first appears in history as granting land at Ripple to Frithowald in 680
- OSITHAsaint, [Osyru.] OSIUS, of Cordova. [Hosrus.]
- OSLAF(Ostap), called in another place Osa, was a younger son of Ethelfrith and Acha, king and queen of Northumbria. When Edwi
- OSLAVAthe wife of Hormenred, son of Eadbald, king of Kent, and mother of the martyrs Ethelbert. and Ethelred, and of the saint
- OSMUND(1), the fourteenth bishop of London (Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 617; W. Malmesb. G. P. § 73). Nothing but his name and place i
- OSRED(1), son of Aldfrith, king of North-CHRIS, BIOGR,—VOL. Iv.
- OSRIC(1), son of £lfric, and cousin of Edwin king of Northumbria, succeeded that monarch in A.D. 633, but his rule only exten
- OSSENI(Ossaxt), a sect which Epiphanius (Haer. xix., xxx. 3, liti. 1) describes as distinct from the Essenes. He got his infor
- OSSENIUSabbat. [OrsseyE.]
- OSTALDUSbishop of Tours from 765 or 6 to 777, according to the Chronicle of the Archbishops of Tours. (Gall. Chr. xiv. 33.) [C.
- OSTHRYD(OstritHE, OsTHFRIDA, Osr- . DRIDA, OsTRICH, OsrGiDA), daughter of Oswy, king of Northumbria, and wife of Ethelred, " ki
- OSTRUS(Ostryrs), a Gothic count who com-
- OSULFUSa wayward disciple of Alcuin, mentioned in the Lives of Alcuin (ed. Duchesne, cap. vili. sec. 15, ed. Froben. cap. x. se
- OSWALD(1) (OsuvatD, OsauaLp)—a name dear to the Northumbrian church and people— was a son of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria b
- OSWARDbrother of the Mercian king Kenred, in a spurious charter of Egwin, bishop of Worcester, A.D. 714. (Kemble, C. D. 64.)
- OSWIN(1), son of Osric, who, after the death of his kinsman Edwin, had a year's tenure of the princedom of Deira, On his fath
- OSWUDU(Oscunv), one of the sons of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria, who on the death of their father in A.D. 617, took refuge
- OSWULF(1), son of Eadberht king of Northumbria, succeeding him on the throne in -A.D. 758. His father voluntarily resigned it
- OSWY(Osuuiv, Oswro, Ospiu, OseurD, Oswecivs), a son of Ethelfrith, and a younger brother of Oswald, both kings of Northumbri
- OSYTH, ST(Ostrua, OsartHa), Oct. 7, virgin and martyr of the East Saxons, who has given her name to a village in Essex. She is no
- OTHMAR(Avupemarus, A@pomarvs, AvtTMARUS, OTMARUS), first abbat of St. Gall, and called also "abbas Durgaugensis," from the ''p
- OTHORoman emperor, 4.p. 69. M. Salvius Otho, born A.D. 32, the son of L. Otho, who had been Proconsul of Africa, was conspic
- OTILO[Onito.]
- OTREIUS(1), bishop of Melitina in Upper Armenia and metropolitan ; one of the leading orthodox prelates in the latter part of t
- OTRENUS ZOTICUS([Zortcvs.]
- OTTILIAabbess, [Op1L1A.]
- OUDOCEUS(Ounoc, Ovupocuus, Docnvy, third bishop of Llandaff and one of the chief saints of Wales, being the last of the three, S
- OUEN, ST[AvpoEnvs.] — OUSIA, recluse. [Usra.}
- OVAN, STof Autun. [Evanrivs (1).]
- OWAINap Macsen Wledig, surnamed Vinddu, numbered among the Welsh saints, but of uncertain character and history; the Triads p
- OWEN, ST[Avupoenvs.] OYAN, ST. [Evernpus (2).]
- OZEASa presbyter, commended by Theodoret as a champion of godliness, by whom he sent a letter to Ibas, bishop of Edessa. (The