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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX PARAVICINO Y ARTEAGA (158o–1633)  , See also:Spanish preacher and poet, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 12th of See also:October 158o, was educated at the Jesuit See also:college in Ocana, and on the 18th of See also:April 1600 joined the Trinitarian See also:order . A See also:sermon pronounced before See also:Philip III. at See also:Salamanca in 16o5 brought Paravicino into See also:notice; he See also:rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important See also:foreign See also:missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the See also:death of Philip III. in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy . He died at Madrid on +;'e 12th of See also:December 1633 . His Oraciones evangelical (1638–1641) show that he was not without a vein of genuine eloquence, but he often degenerates into vapid declamation, and indulges in far-fetched tropes and metaphors . His Obras posthumas, divinas y humans (1641) include his devout and See also:secular poems, as well as a See also:play entitled Gridonia; his See also:verse, like his See also:prose, exaggerates the characteristic defects of Gongorism . PARAY-LE-MONIAL, a See also:town of See also:east-central See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Saone-et-See also:Loire, 58 m . W.N.W. of See also:Macon by the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway, on which it is a junction for See also:Moulins, Lozanne, Clermont and See also:Roanne . Pop . (1906), 3382 . It lies on the slope of a See also:hill on the right See also:bank of the Bourbince and has a See also:port on the See also:Canal du Centre . The See also:chief See also:building in the town is the priory See also:church of St See also:Pierre . Erected in the 12th See also:century in the Romanesque See also:style of See also:Burgundy, it closely resembles the See also:abbey church of See also:Cluny in the length of the transepts, the height of the vaulting and the See also:general See also:plan .

The town is the centre of a See also:

district important for its See also:horse-raising; bricks, tiles and mosaics are the chief manufactures of the town . In the loth century a See also:Benedictine priory was founded at Paray-le-Monial . In the 16th century the town was an See also:industrial centre, but its prosperity was retarded by the See also:wars of See also:religion and still more by the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes . In 1685 the visions of See also:Marguerite See also:Marie See also:Alacoque, a See also:nun of the See also:convent of the Visitation, who believed herself to possess the Sacred See also:Heart of Jesus, attracted religious gatherings to the town, and yearly pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial still take See also:place .

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