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school que stion "Bessy Conway with the trials of the Irish immigrant girl; "Aunt Honor's Keepsake" with the sa\dng of the desti- tute Cathohc chil- dren of New York for whom the great protectory was then founded. Irish his- tory also supplied her with a constant source of inspiration which resulted in "The Red Hand of Ulster", "The Con- federate Chieftains", "Maureen Dhu", "Life in Gal way", Maky .\n-xe Madden Sadlieb "MacCarthy More", "The Old House by the Boyne" and other tales. She translated Orsini's "Life of the Blessed Vir- gin", and de Ligny's " Christ " and other works, and compiled a "Catechism of Sacred Historj^". After her husband's death Mrs. Sadlier remained several years in New York, and then returned to Canada, where she spent the remainder of her days.

Allibone, Dirtionary of Authors, a. v.; The Messenger (New York, Mav, 190.3); The Ave Maria (Notre Dame, Indiana), files; The Catholic News (New York), files.

Thomas F. Meehan.

Sadoleto, .Jacopo, cardinal, humanist, and re- former, b. at Modena, 1477; d. at Rome, 1547. His father, a distinguished lawyer, intended him for his own profession ; but Jacopo de- voted himself to classical and phil- osophical studies. At Rome he. en- joyed the favour of Cardinal Car- affa, and after- wards of Leo X, who made him his secretary. In 1.517 he was ap- pointed Bi.shop of Carpcntras near Avignon. Unlike many of the hu- manists, he was a man of blameless life and attentive U} all his duties as a priest and bishop. It was only at the ex- press command of the succeasive popes whom he served that he would cxjnsent to absent himself even for a time from his dioce.se. In him were combined in an eminent degree the qualities of a man of piety, a man of letters, and a man of action. Aspoet,orat<jr, theologian, and philos<^)pher he wfis in the foremost rank of his time. His poem on the recently discovered Laocoon first brought liim to the notice of the learned. His mild and gentle rharacter, nliunning all extn'mes, and his profound learning fitted him for the difficult task of conciliating the Protectants. Indeed, his commentary

Jacopo Sadoleto, Cardinal Bishop of Carpe.vtras

on the Epistle to the Romans was considered to favour them too much, and the publication of it was for- bidden at Rome until it had undergone correction. He would have nothing to do with persecuting the heretics. In 1536 he was summoned to Rome by Paul III to be a member of a special commission for the reform of the Church. In the following December he received the cardinal's hat, at the same time as Caraflfa (afterwards Paul IV) and Pole, also members of the commission. With Cardinal Contarini (q. v.), the president of the commission, they drew up the famous "Consilium de emendanda Ecclesia", which they presented to the pope. Sadoleto was sent as legate to Francis I to bring about a reconciliation between him and Charles V (1542), but his mission failed. After 1543, when a coadjutor was appointed to govern Carpentras, he was constantlj^ at the side of Paul III, ever urging the pontiff in the path of peace and reform. Sadoleto's works were published at Verona in four volumes (1737-8), and at Rome (1759).

JoLY, Etude sur Sadolet (Caen, 1856); Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana, XVIII (Venice, 1824) ; Pastor, Geschichte der Pdpste, IV-V (Freiburg, 1906-9). It is only by perusing this last-named work that the extent of Sadoleto's activity and in- fluence in the counter-Reformation can be estimated.

T. B. SCANNELL.

Sagalassus, a titular see in Pisidia, suflfragan of Antioch. Sagalassus was one of the chief towns of Pisidia, near the no^th-west boundary of that prov- ince, in a fertile plain surrounded by hills, situated on the banks of an affluent of the Cestrus, a river which is represented on its coins. Alexander stormed it, after defeating its inhabitants in the neighbour- hood. Cneius Manlius ravaged the district and made it pay a heavy war indemnity. After being subject to Amyntas, Tetrarch of Lycaonia and Galatia, it be- came part of the Roman province of Pisidia. Nothing else is known of its history, though it is mentioned by most of the ancient geographers; it is to be noted that Strabo (XII, 569) places it less accurately in Isauria, and Ptolemy (V, iii, 6) locates it erroneously in Lycia. Until the thirteenth century the "Notitia) epis- copatuum" mention it as the first suffragan see of Antioch in Pisidia. Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 1041) mentions four of its bishops: Jovius, present at the Council of Constantinople, 381; Frontianus, at Chalcedon, 451; Theodosius, at Nica-a, 787; Leo, at Constantinople, 869. This formerly wealthy and fortified city is now a poor village, called Aghkussoun by the Turks, about twenty-three miles south of Lsbarta, in the vilayet of Koniah, containing some hundred inhabitants. It has immense ruined monu- ments, all later than the second century a. d.: a theatre, vast portico, gymnasium, ramparts, tombs, sarcophagi, churches, etc.

Arundell. a Visit to the Seven Churches, 132 seq.; Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor, I, 486 seq.; Fellows, Asia Minor, 164 seq.; Smith, Diet, of Gr. and Rom. Gcog., b. v., with bibliog- raphy of ancient authors; Texier, Asie mineure, Tl.'j; MOller (ed. bidot), Notes d Ptolemy, I, 483.

S. P^tridJis.

Sagard, Th6odat-Gabriel, Recollect lay brother, missionary, and historian, b. in France at the end of the sixteenth century; d. towards the close of the seventeenth. In 1623, with Nicolas Vicl, the future martyr, he was sent to Canada on the Huron mission. Anne of Austria, the consort of Louis XIII, had pro- vided them with a portable altar and vestments. On his way to the Ilurons, he acquired from .Joseph Le Caron, his superior, the first nidiincnts of their difli- cult tongue, so that on reaching his ixist he began to catechize and bai)tize the Indians. He shared in the incredible hardshijjs of his companions, "^riie pro- vision of mass wine having been exhausted, they had recourse to tin; juice of the wild grape (Vitin Cana- densiH). In one year's residence he won the affection of his neophytes and acfjuired a certain ascendency