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his death the preparatory examinations for his beati- tication began; in 1887 lie was declared Venerable.

It was Venerable Pallotti who started in ISiSti the special observance at Rome of the Octave of the Epiphany. Since then the celebration has been faithfully maintained. Pallotti's chief desire was to make this obser\ance a means of uniting the dissent- ing Oriental Churches with Rome.

Melu.\, \'inci-ut Piillotti (London): tlierc is a biography in Ital- ian by Orlandi (Rome), and in German by the Pallottini F.VTHERS (Limburg). JOHN VoGEL.

Palma Vecchio (J.\copo Nigreti), b. at Serinalta near Bergamo, about 1480; d. at Venice, 30 July, ) 328. Like Giorgione and Lotto, he studied uniler Giovanni Bel- lini, from whom he drew the inspiration for his altar-pieces, introducing, however, more freedom of arrangement. His works are strong and broad rather than graceful. Imitat- ing Giorgione, Palma treated sacred subjects as "tableaux de genre", wherein the scunr- times exuberant strength, ani- mation, and limpid, transpanm colouring deserve admiratidii while they lack religious senti- ment. Among these produc- tions are: the "Madonna with St. George and St. Lucy", painted for San Stefano, Vi- cenza; "Saint Peter with six saints" (Accademia of Venice) ; "Adoration of the Shepherds" (Lou\Te); "Meeting of Jacob and Rachel" (Dresden Mu- seum). His favourite subjects were the so-called "Holy Con- versations", i. e., the H0I3' Fam- ily or the Madonna surrounded by saints. Examples are to lie seen at Rome, in the Colonna and Borghese Galleries, at Flor- ence, in the Uffizi and Pitti Palaces, at Dresden, Munich, and Vienna. One of his \W)<t beautiful "conversations" is that of the Holy Family with St. John Baptist and St. Lucy, in the Accademia of Veiiiii'. His master-piece is the altai- piece in Santa Maria Formosa, Venice. It is a triptych rcpiv- senting St. Barbara betw. m St. Anthony the Hermit tmd St. Sebastian. Palma was also a remarkable portrait painter,

excelling especially in portraits Saint

of women, most of whom were Palma Vecchio, Santa

court ladies. Worthy of note are: the "Bella", in the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild; the "Violante", in the museum of Vienna; the "Three Sisters", in the museum of Dresden. His portraits of men are also excellent, especially that of an unknown man (museum of Berlin), and Palma himself (Pina- cothek, Munich). He received the surname Vecchio to distinguish him from his nephew, Jacopo Palma Giovane (1544-1628).

Vasabi, Le tile de' piii eccellenti pittori, ed. Milanesi, V (Flor- ence. 1880). 243-96: Blanc, Hi.1l. rles peinlres de toMtes les Ecoles: Ecole vlnitienne (Pari.'j, lSfi.7-77) : MCntz. Hint, de I'art pendant la Renaistance. Ill (Paris, 1R95). 612-14; Bryan. Diet, painters and enaraters, IV (London, 1904); P^RAxt. Pnlma Vecchio in Hist. gtn. de Vart. ed. Michel. IV (Paris. 1909). 437-40.

Gaston Sortais. Palmas, Las. See Canary Islands, The.

Palmer, William, b. at Mixbury, Oxfordsliiiv, 12 July, 181 1 ; (1. at Rome, 4 April, 1879; the elder brot her of Roundell Palmer, afterwards Lord Chancellor of England and first Earl of Selborne. He hiiii.scir was educated at Rugliy and Oxford (Magdalen Col- lege), where he proceeded .\1.A. in bS.'i:!, being then in deacon's orders of the Church of England. He was, successively, tutor at Durham University (1834-37), classical examiner at Oxford 1837-39, and tutor at Magdalen College (1838-43). In 1,840 he visited Russia to obtain, if possible, official iiconnilinn of tlu Anglican Church as a branch of the ( 'atlioln' Chureli; but after a year's fruitless laboni his ( lairji to cdin- muiiion was rejected by the Metropolitan of Moscow. A second attempt in 1842 only resulted in the express reject ion by the Ru.ssian Church of Anglican claims to Catlioii- eisni. After the Gorham Judg- ment in 1,S")2 he eimtianphited joining the Russi;in Church, but was deterred by the neces- sity for rebaptism. He spent some time in Egypt and then went to Rome, where he was re- ceived into the Chiui'h, 28 Feb., 185.5, and where he spent the rest of his life. His works, which show a wide acquaintance with both Anglican and Eastern theology, were mainly con- cerned with his efforts to ob- tain inteiconununion between these bodies. Chief among these were: "Harmony of Anglican Doctrine with the Doctrine of the I'jistcrn Church" (Aber- (leiii, Isti'i: Greek version, Athens, IS.'ill; "An appeal to tlie ."Scottish Bi.shops and Cleigy" (Edinburgh, 1849); and "Dissertations on subjects relating to the Orthodox or F^ast ern Cat holic Communion " (London, IS.'!,';). After he be- came a Catholic he devoted himself to archa'ology and wrote: "An Introduction to Karlv Cliristi:m Symbolism" (l.onduu, is.'.'.l); and "Egyp- tian ( III nnii'les, with aharmony of sacred and Egyptian Chro- nol.ogy" (London, 1861). He also wrote a Latin commentary on the Book of Daniel (Rome, 1874), and a number of minor works. After his death his friend Cardinal Newman edited his "Notes of a Visit to the Russian Church" (London, 1882).

Rugbi/ Sckool Registers, 1675-187.', (London, 1881-6); Bloxam. Magdalen College Registers (London, 18.53-85); Neale, Life of Patrick Torry, D.D. (London, 18.56), vi; Wordsworth, Annals of my Life, 1847-1856: (London. 1893); LiDDON. Life of Pusey (Lon- don. 1893-4) ; Browne. Annals of the Tractarian Movement (Lon- don, 1856): Mozley, Reminiscences (London, 1882).

Edwin Burton.

Palmerston. See Northern Territory, Pre- fecture Apostolic of the.

Palmieri, Domenico, theologi.an, b. at Piacenza, Italy, 4 July, 1829; d. in Rome, 29 May, 1909. He studied in his native city, where he was ordained priest in 1852. On 6 June, 1852, he entered the Society of Jesus, where he completed his studies. He taught in several places, first rhetoric, then philosophy, theology, and the Sacred Scriptures. In these courses, espe-