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tires, not previously published): (Euvres completes df Saintc T^rgse, par les Carmililes du premier monaslere de Paris (6 vols.. Paris, 1907-10) ; SI. Teresa, ed. Bcrke (New York. 1911).

Benedict Zimmerman.

Teresian Martyrs of Compiegne, The Sixteen Blessf.ii, ^uiUni iiicil :ii tlic I'hicc .111 TroTic Rcnverse, now rallcl I'hur ,1,. hi Xalicii. I'.iris, 17 July, 1794. They arc the first sufforer.s under the French Kevohi- tion on whom the Holy See ha,s pa.sseil jiitlgnient, and were solemnly Ijeatified 27 May, 190G. Before their execution they knelt and chanted the " Veni Creator", a-s at a profession, after which they all renewed aloud their baptismal and religious vows. The novice was cxecutetl first and the prioress last. Absolute silence prevailed the whole time that the executions were pro- ceeding. The heads and bodies of the martyrs were interred in a deep sanil-pit about thirty feet square in a cemetery at Picpus. As this sand-pit was the re- ceptacle of the bodies of 1298 victims of the Revolu- tion, there seems to be no hope of their relics being recovered. Their names are as follows: (1) Made- leine-Claudine Ledoine (Mother Teresa of St. Augus- tine), prioress, b. in Paris, 22 Sept., 1752, professed 16 or 17 May, 177.5; (2) Marie-Anne (or Antoinette) Bri- deau (Mother St. Louis), sub-prioress, b. at Belfort, 7 Dec, 17.52, professed 3 Sept., 1771; (3) Marie-Anne Piedcourt (Sister of Jesus Crucified), choir-nun, b. 1715, professed 1737; on mounting the scaffold she said " I forgive you as heartily as I wish God to forgive me"; (4) Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 171.5, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub- prioress in 1764 and 1778. Her portrait is reproduced opposite p. 2 of Miss Willson's work cited below; (.5) Marie-Antoniette or Anne Hanisset (Sister Teresa of the Holy Heart of Mary), b. at Rhcims in 1740 or 1742, professed in 1764; (6) Marie-P'rangoise Ga- brielle de Crois.sy (Mother Henriette of Jesus), b. in Paris, IS June, 1745, i)rofessed 22 Feb., 1764, prioress from 1779 to 1785; (7) Marie-Gabrielle Trezel (Sis- ter Teresa of St. Ignatius), choir-nun, b. at Compiegne, 4 April, 1743, professed 12 Dec, 1771; (8) Rose- Chrdticn de la Neuville, widow, choir-nun (Sister Julia Louisa of Jesus), b. at Loreau (or EvTeux), in 1741, professed probably in 1777; (9) Anne Petras (Sister Mary Henrietta of Providence), choir-nun, b. at Cajarc ("Lot), 17 June, 1760, professed 22 Oct., 1786. (10) Concerning Sister Euphrasia of the Im- maculateOjncept ion account svarj-. Miss Willson .says that her name was Marie Claude Cypriennc Brard, and that she w;is Ixim 12 May, 1736; Pierre, that her name was Catherine Charlotte Brard, and that she was bom 7 Sept., 1736. She was bom at Bourth, and professed in 1757; (11) Marie-Genevieve Meunier (Sister Constance), novice, b. 28 May, 1765, or 1766. at St. Denis, received the habit 16 Dec, 1788. She mounted the scaffold singing "Laudate Domi- num". In addition to the above, three lay sisters suffered and two lourieres. The lay sisters are: (12) Angelique Roussel (Sister Marj' of the Holy Ghost), lay sister, b. at Fresnes, 4 .Vugust, 1742, professed 14 May, 1769; (13) Marie Dufour (Sister .St. Mar- tha), lay sister, b. at Beaune, 1 or20ct., 1742, entered the community in 1772; (14) Julie or Juliette Vero- lot (Si-stcr St. Francis Xavier), lay sister, b. at Laignes or Lignieres, 11 Jan., 1764, professed 12 J.an., 1789. The two touribres, who were not Carmelites at all, but merely servants of the nunnerj' were: (15 and 16) Catherine and Tere.sa Soiron, b. respectively on 2 Feb., 1742 and 23 Jan., 1748 at Compiegne, both of whom had been in the service of the community since 1772. The miracles proved during the process of beatification were (1) The cure of Si.ster Clare of St. Joseph, a Carmelite lay sister of New Orleans, when on the point of death from cancer, in June, 1897; (2) The cure of the Abb*"- Roussarie, of the seminarj- at Brivc, when at the point of death, 7 March, 1897; (3)

The cure of Sister St. Martha of St. .Jo.scph, a Car- melite lay sister of Vans, of tuberculosis and an ab- cess in the right leg, 1 Dec, 1897; (4) The cure of Sister St. Michsl, a Franciscan of Montmorillon, 9 April, 1898. Five secondary relics are in the possession of the Benedictines of Stanbrook, Worcestershire.

Pierre. Les Seize Carmelites de Compiegne (Paris. 1905) ; Will- son, The Martyrs oj Compiigne (Westminster. 1907).

John B. Wainewright.

Terill (Bonville), Anthony, English theologian, b. at Canford, Dorsetshire, in 1623; d. at Liege, 11 Oct., 1676. His mother was a Catholic but his father was estranged from the Faith, and in conse- quence the young Anthony was reared in heresy until his fifteenth year, when he was converted and left England, taking the ali.as Terill. He studied for about three years at the English College of St. Omer and then began his studies for the priesthood at the EnglLsh College, Rome, where he was ordained on 16 Alarch, 1647. Two months later he entered the Jes- uit novitiate at San Andrea. After his noviceship he was successively penitentiary at I_x)reto, professor of philosophy at Florence, professor of philosophy and scholastic theology at Parma, director of theological studies and professor of thcologj' and niatheniafics at the IJif^lish College, Liege, and for throe years rector of tlu' same college where he died with a reputation for "extraordinary piety, talent, learning, and prudence". He wrote " Conelusiones philosophica;" (Parma, 1657), "Problema mathe- matico-philosophicura de termino magnitudinis ac virium in animalibus" (Parma, 1600), "Fundamentum tot ills theologi;e moralis. seu tract at us de conscien- tia probabili" (Liege, U)GS), and "Regula morum" which was published shortly after his death (Liege, 1677). His reputation as a moral theologian w-as established by these last two works. In the " Funda- mentum" he ably defendcil the floctrine of probabil- i.sm, and in the "Itegula monun" refuted the objec- tions brought against his (irsi work by the Dominican Concina, the .lonii i;iiz,iM<', and other exponents of the Rigorist ScImicI, Num. it speaks of him as "em- diti.ssimum et prnli,iliihsi:ii-uTii antesign.anum".

FoLEV. Records of the EnijUxh Province S.J., III (London, 1878). 420; SOMMERVOGEL, Bift. de In Comp. de Jfaus, VII (Brus- sels, 1896); HuRTER. Nomenclator, II (Innsbruck, 189:i), 275-270.

Edward C. Phillips.

Tennessus, a titular see, suffragan of Perge in Pamphylia Secunda. This is one of the most ancient cities of the Pisidians, inhabited by the Solymi, who.se name was preserved for several centuries in Mount Solyma, known to-day as Guldcre-Dagh, and was re- ferred to by Homer, II, VI, 184, and Strabo, XIII, 630. A warlike city, Termessus maintained its inde- pendence even under the dominion of the Persians, and refused to receive Alexander the Great, who dared not besiege it (Arianus, I, 27). Under the suc- cessor of Alexander, Termessus preserved its auton- omy and, in 189 B. c, formed an alliance with the Roman consul, Cn. Manlius, who confirmed it ; under the Emperor t)omitian it still enjoyed this alliance. Subseqviently the city was incorporated with the Province of Pisidia and later with that of Pamphylia. From the ruins of the monuments which remain, it is evident that this was one of the ricliest and the most civilized cities* of Asia Minor; jis far back at least as the fourth century b. c, it had been colonized by the Hellenic race. Among its bishops we note: Euresius present at the Council of Nica;a in 325; Timothy at Ephcseus in 431 ; Sabinianus in 448; and Auxentius in 458. Timothy and Sabinianus bear the double title of Termessus and Eudocias. Ramsay (Asia Minor, 18) has taken for granted (hat these two names refer to one and the same city, but in the ye.ar 4.58 we find at the same period Auxentius, Bi.shop of Termes.su8, and Innocentius, Bishop of Eudocias; moreover, in the Ecthesis of Pscudo-Epiphanius, towards 640 (Gel-