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Rh AMPHORA 439 AMPULLAE canons of Clialcedon, although hiter he wrote to the ICmperor Leo (458) that he did not acknowledge the authority of that council. Photius quotes (Hihl. Cod., 230) Eulogiu.s of Alexandria (579-G07) in evi- dence of a later acceptance and .subscription by Aniphilochius. Only one brief letter-fragment has reached us (I'. C, LXXVII, 1515-16). LlonTFOOT in Diet, o/ Chrint. Bw,/r., I, 107. Thom.vs J. Sh.vhan. Amphorae, vessels generally made of clay, and furnislieil with ears or handles. Ainphoru' were used for various purposes, but especially for liolding wine. Several monuments of the catacomb of St. Calixtus contain representatio:is of amphora". A fragment of one of tliese represent.s a boat with sails attached to a trident, and a cargo consisting of two amphora;; on the prow a dove is perched, with the usual olive branch. A fresco al.so, of the catacomb of Fontianus, represents a boatman on the Tiber with a cargo of amphonc. Hoth representations evidently allude to the calling of the decea-sed; the dove in the former case with the brandi of olive is a symbol expressing the belief that the dece:isod was already in possession house given to Father Anselm Bolton by Lady Anne Fairfax. This house was taken over by Dr. Brewer, President of the Congregation, 30 July, 1802. The conununity, since leaving Uieulouard in Lorraine, where its members had joined with Spanish and Cassinese Bene<lictines to form the monasterj' of St. Lawrence, had been successively at Acton Biir- nell, Tranmere, Scholes, Vernon Hall, and Parbold Hall, under its superior Dr. Marsh. On its migra- tion to Ampk'fortfi Lodge, Dr. Marsh remained at Parbold and Father Appleton was elected the first prior of the new monastery. Shortly afterwards Parl)ol(l was broken up and the boys of the scliool there transferred to .mpleforth. The priory was erected into an abbey, in 1890, by the Hull "Diu quidem"; and has an important and flourisliing col- lege attache<l to it. The Bisliop of Newport, Dr. Hed- ley, is one of the most distinguished of its alumni, ils well iis its present superior. Abbot Smith. The mon- astery was finished m 1897. "It is", says Almond "a tall, spacious building of four stories and a biise- ment, joiticd to the old monastery by a cloister. It is of great architectural beauty. The whole of the Mktai, Ampulla in Monza (Sixth Century) of everlasting peace. Fragments of amphora; have been found in the cataconil)s, one of which, now in the Lateran museum, is inscribed with the words: "Vivas in Deo". The handleof anamphora in the Kircherian Museum at Rome has the monogram of Christ. The same monogram, engraved between two palms, ap- pears on the neck of an amphora discovered in excavations on the Via Xazionale, at Rome. Alto- get lier about sixty of tlicse utensils have been found inscribed with emblems peculiar to the Christians. A few of the most interesting of this categorj', con- taining the monogram, belong to the collection of amphora- found in the cellar of the house of SS. John ana Paul on the Coelian. Leclebcq in Diet, d'archiol. chrH. et de lit., I, IG82-1712. Maurice M. H.vssett. Ampleforth.THE Ahhev of, in the County of York- shire, LngUuul, belongs to the Knglish Congregation of Benedictines and has a lineal continuity with the pre-Refomiation abl)ey of Westminster through Father Sebert Buckley, last surviving monk of that community. The present abbey was founded in a basement is taken up by the monastic library, con- sisting of some 30,000 volumes, many of them of extreme rarity. The refectory, lecture halls, and the abbot's rooms are on the first floor; above are the cells of the monks, forty-eight in all. The public rooms are on the scale of the larger abl>eys of pre- Reformation times". According to the English "Catholic Directory" for 1900, there are fifteen priests in the abbey; but there arc a number of dependent missions served by monks of the com- munity. The titular abbacies of Westminster and York and the Cathedral priories of Durham, Worces- ter, Chester, and Rochester are attached to the abbey. AL.MOND, The llittory of .impteiorth Abbey. Fr.^nois Aveling. Ampullae. — .mong the smaller objects discovered in the catacombs are a number of fragments of ves- sels ordinarily used for domestic purposes. Some of tlieso fragments are, probably, portions of the drink- ing cups u.sed in the celebration of the funeral a'jajx or banquet, while others again are the remains of