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CEILLIER (1688-1761)  , Benedictine monk of the Lorraine congregation of St Vannes . He was the compiler of an immense Patrology, Histoire generale des auteurs sacres et ecclesiastiques (23 vols., Paris, 1729-1763), being a history and analysis of the writings of all the ecclesiastical writers of the first thirteen centuries . He put infinite trouble and time into the work, and many portions of it are exceedingly well done . A later and improved edition was produced in Paris, 1858, in 14 vols . Ceillier's other work, Apologie de la morale des peres de l'eglise (Paris, 1718), also won some celebrity .