See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM A SANCTA See also:

• CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

CLARA (1644—1709)  , See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch, in See also:

• JULY

July 1644 . His real name was See also:

• ULRICH

Ulrich Megerle . In 1662 he joined the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of Barefooted See also:

• AUGUSTINIANS

Augustinians, and assumed the name by which he is known . In this order he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose step by step until he became See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior provipcialis and definitor of his See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province . Having See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early gained a See also:

• GREAT

great reputation for See also:

• PULPIT (from Lat. pulpitum, a staging, platform: equivalents are Fr. chaire d'eglise, Ital. pulpito, Ger. Kanzel)

pulpit eloquence, he was appointed See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court preacher at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna in 1669 . The See also:

• PEOPLE

people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, the grotesqueness of his See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular . In See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general he spoke as a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of the people, the predominating quality of his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style being an over-flowing and often coarse wit . There are, however, many pass-ages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language . He died at Vienna on the 1st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1709 . In his published writings he displayed much the same qualities as in the pulpit . Perhaps the most favourable specimen of his style is his didactic novel entitled Judas der Erzschelm (4 vols., See also:

• SALZBURG

Salzburg, 1686—1695) . His See also:

• WORKS

works have been several times reproduced in whole or in See also:

• PART

part, though with many See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious interpolations .

The best edition is that published in 21 vols. at See also:

• PASSAU

Passau and See also:

• LINDAU
• LINDAU, PAUL (1839– )

Lindau (1835-1854) . See Th . G. von Karajan, See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham a Sancta See also:

• CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

Clara (Vienna, 1867); Blanckenhurg, Studien fiber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Sprache Abrahams a S . C . (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, 1897) ; Sexto, Abraham a S . C . (See also:

• SIGMARINGEN

Sigmaringen, 1896) ; Schnell, See also:

• PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

Pater A. a S . C . (See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, 1895) ; H . Mareta, fiber Judas d . Erzschelm (Vienna, 1875) .