A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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WILLIBALD.
WILLIBALD, Born of an * 1.1 illustrious Family, [in Devonshire] in England, [Scho∣lar and Nephew to S. Boniface, was by his Parents put into the Abby of Waldheim to * 1.2 be instructed by the Abbot Egviwald, when he was but Five Years old,] being grown up he travelled to Rome, and Jerusalem, and at length retreated about the Year 728 into the Mona∣stery of Mount Cassin. In the Year 739 [going to Rome again] he was sent into Germany by S. Gregory III, [to assist Boniface in the Conversion of that Nation,] and [by him] in the Year 741, was ordained Bishop of Eistad, and was present at a Synod held in Germany in 742, he * 1.3 Died about the Year 786. He left us the Life of S. Boniface, Arch-Bishop of Mentz, written at the request of Lullus his Successor, which is extant in Canisius's Antiqui∣ties, and in the Third Century of the Saints of the Benedictine Order, set forth by F. Ma∣billon.