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likeness); (4) painting by Barber, drawing master at Oscott, 1817; (5) painting by Herbert, R.A. — said to be the most like, but it is in Gothic vestments and mitre, having been painted long after Milner's death. (These are all at Oscott.) (G) Painting of Milner as a priest, age about 45, at the convent, East Bergliolt. (7) Painting at the presbytery, Norwich, very similar to (5) . (8) Engraving in " Laity's Direc- tory ", 1827, from a painting by Radcliffe (Orth. Jour., I, 173). (9) Bust, by Clarke sen. of Birmingham: many copies to be met with. (1), (2), and (6) repro- duced in the " Dawn of the Catholic Revival"; (8) in Miss Harting's "Catholic London Mission"; (4) in "Catholic London a Century ago"; (5) in the penny "Life of Milner," by Rev. E. Burton (Catholic Truth Society). His chief works are: "Funeral Discourse on Bishop Challoner" (1781); "The Clergyman's Answer to the Layman's Letter" (1790); "Pastoral of the Bishop of Leon" (tran.slated, 1791); "Dis- course at Consecration of Bishop CUbson" (1791); "Divine Rights of Episcopacy" (1791); "Audi Al- teram Partem" (1792); "Ecclesiastical Democracy detected" (1793); "Reply to Cisalpine Club" (1795); "Serious Expostulation with Rev. Joseph Berington" (1797); "History of Winchester" (1798); "Brief Life of Challoner " (1798); " Letters to a Prebendary " (1800); "Case of Conscience solved" (1801); "Eluci- dation of the Conduct of Pius VII" (1802); "Argu- ments against Catholic Petition" (1805); "Cure of Winefride White" (1805); "Letter to a Parish Priest" (ISOS); " Letters from Ireland " (1808); "Pas- toral Letter on Blanchardists", "Sequel", "Supple- ment", and "Appendix" (1808-9); "Appeal to the Catholics of Ireland" (1809); "Discourse at Funeral of Sir William Jerningham" (1809); "Treatise on Ecclesiastical Architecture" (1810); "Instructions for Catholics of Midland Counties" (1811); "Letterto Prelate of Ireland" (1811); "Explanation with Bishop Poynter" (1812); " Pastoral on Jurisdiction of Church", i, II, and III (1812-3); "Brief Memorial on Catholic Bill" (1813); "Multum in Parvo" (1813); "Encyclical Letter" (18115) ;. "Inquisition. A letter to Sir John Cox Hippisley " (1816) ; " Humble Remon- strance to House of Commons" (1816); "Memoir of Bishop Hornyold" (Directory, 1818); "End of Re- ligious Controversy" (1818); "Supplementary Mem- oirs of English Catholics" (1820, and "Additional Notes to" in 1821); "Devotion to the Sacred Heart" (1821); "Vindication of the End of Controversy" (1822); "Exposer exposed" (1824); "Parting Word to Dr. Grier" (1825). (For a coni23lete list, see Hu- senbeth, infra, bT2.)

HcsE?<BKTFi. I,i{<- of Milner (Dublin, 1S62); Ward, Daun

o! the Cnti,,,ln I; ,/ i l.imtlon, 1909); Amher.st, Wistorj/ of

Citholic !■:,', l.c.iidon, 1886); Butler, Historical

Memoirs ^'f /, ' ' -/(cs (1819); Mli.vlKHt Supplementart/ Memoirs IIS 1 , Kii k, ISiographies (London, 1909); Ward, Colli, 'In- /,„/,,/,.., „ Ciituri/ Ago (London, 1905) ; Brady, CalhnliV lli.r.ir, liii (Rome, 1877); McCaffrey, Hist, of Church in Ni,i,i,, „ih I '. uluTij (Dublin, 1909); Flanagan, History of the Church ill Iiii,,l„nd (London, 1857); Laity's Directory (1827). Numerous artifles in the Orthodox Journal, Gentlemen' s Maga- zine, Catholic Miscellany, Catholicon, Oscotian, etc.

Bebnakd Ward.

Milner, R.vlph, Venerable, layman and martyr, b at Flacsted, Hants, England, early in the sixteenth century; sutTercd at Winchester, 7 July, 1591. The greater part of his life was prol -ably passed in his native village, where, being practically illiterate, he supported his wife and eight children by manual laljour. He was brought up an .\nglican, but, struck l>y the contrast between the lives of Catholics and Protes- tants of his acquaintance, he determined to embrace the old relif^ion, and, after the usual course of instruc- tion, was received into the Church. On the very day of his first ('(iMHiiiiiiion, however, he was arrested for changing his religion and committed to Winchester jail. Here his good behaviour <luring the years of his imprisonment won him the jailer's confidence to such

a degree that he was frequently allowed out on parole, and was even trusted with the keys of the prison. This lenienc.y enabled him to render valuable service to the other Catholic prisoners and to introduce priests to administer the sacraments. Soon, extending the sphere of his charitable activity, he acted as escort first to Father Thomas Stanney, and later to his suc- cessor at Winchester, Father Roger Dicconson, con- ducting them to the different villages to minister to the spiritual needs of the scattered and persecuted flock. Finally seized with Father Dicconson, Milner was with him placed under clo.se confinement in Win- chester jail pending the approaching sessions. Prob- aljly moved with compassion for tlie aged man, the judge urged Milner to attend even once the Protestant church and tlius escape the gallows. The latter re- fused, however, " to embrace a counsel so disagreeable to the maxims of the Gospel ", and began immediately to prepare for death. Every efTort was made to per- suade him to change his purpose and renounce the Faith, and, when he was approaching the gallows with Father Dicconson, his children were conducted to him in the hope that he might even then relent. LTnshaken in his resolution, Milner gave his children his last blessing, declared that " he could wish them no greater happiness than to die for the like cause ", and then met his death with the utmost courage and calm. Challoner, Memoirs, I (1741). 260, 425; Ribadeneira, .San- dcrs' De Schism. Angl. (1610), appendix, p 36; Dodd, Church History, II, 149.

Thomas Kennedy. Milo. See Sira, Diocese op.

Milo Crispin, monk, and cantor of the Benedictine Abbey of Bee, wrote the lives of five of its abbots: Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, Gulielmus de Bellomonte, Boso, Theobaldus, and Letardus. His life of Lanfranc is printed in the " Acta Sanctorum " of the Bollandists (May 28). The other four (those of Theo- baldus and Letanlus being mere summaries) are in- cluded in P. L. (Vol. CL.). Milo must have been an old man when he wrote them, for in the last chapter of his life of Lanfranc he relates something which he himself heard St. Ansclm say. As St. .\nsclm died in 1109, and Letardus did not die till 1149, Milo Crispin shows here incidentally that his o%vn religious life had lasted more than forty years. He came of the noble race of Crispin descended from the Neustrian, (iisle- bert, who first received the name Crispin because of his erect curly hair. All Glslebert's sons distinguished themselves, and the family proved generous bene- factors to the Abbey of Bee. Two of his descendants subsequently became monks there — Gilbert, after- wards Abbot of Westminster, who wrote the life of St. Herluin, founder and first Aliliot of Bee, and Milo himself. No details of the latter's career have been preserved, nor is it known when he died.

Fabricius, Bibliotheca Latina vied, cetatis, V (Hamburg, 1736); Sevestre, Diet. Patrol. Ill (Paris, 1854), 1343-1; Hardy, Descriptive catalogue of documents illustrating British History (London. 1862-71); Migne. P. L., CL (Paris, 1880); 714; HuRTER, Nomenclator Lilerarius, II (Innsbruck, 1899), 108.

Edwin Burton.

Milopotamos, a titular see of Crete, suffragan of Candia. Certain historians and geographers identify this locality with the ancient Pantomatrion mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium, by Ptolemy (III, xv, 5), who places it between Rhethymnosand the promon- tory of Dium, and l)y Pliny (IV, xx, 3), who places it elsewhere. If Milopotamos is identical with Avlo- potamos, this Greek see is alludeil to for i he first time towards 1170 (Part-hey, "Hieroclis Synecdemus", 1 IS) ; it is spoken of again in another undated " Notitia episcopatmmi " (Gelzer, " Ungedruckte . . . Texte der Notitia- epi.scop. ", 627). As to the Latin residen- tial see, its first titnlir, Matthew, is mentioned about 1212, shortly after the conquest of the island by the Venetians. From 1538 ta 1549 the Diocese of Cher-