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"they that carry the pen of the ■BTiter", i. e. such as recruiting and inspecting officers (Jg., v, 14). The reference is to Barac's campaign against Sisara, the commander of the forces of Jabin, Iving of Chanaan (Judges, iv, 10). They answered the call of Gedeon and joined in battle against Madian (Judges, vi, 35); and gave to Israel Aliialon, who judged her ten years (Judges, xii, 11). Among those that followed David to Hebron to make him king were 50,000 fully armed men of Zabulon with no double heart (I Par., xii, 33), who brought with them, as sign of their hearty alle- giance, bounteous supphes of meat and drink to cele- brate the accession of their new ruler (I Par., xii, 40). When Ezechias made reparation for the abominations of his father Achaz, he invited all Israel to keep the pasch in the house of the Lord. Mockery and ridicule met the emissaries of the reformer; 5-et some were true to the religion of their fathers, and, even from far away Zabulon, went up to Jerusalem, destroyed the idols, and kept the feast of the unleavened bread (II Par., XXX, 10-23).

At the division of the land between the seven tribes not yet provided for, the lot of Zabulon was third. The tribe's territory started with Sarid (Jos., xix, 10), which is supposed to have been Tell Shadud, some five miles soutli-west of Nazareth. Zabulon's boun- daries have not been made out. Of the nineteen proper names that the Book of Josue gives to guide us, only Bethlehem (Beit lahin, seven miles north-west of Nazareth) can be identified with certainty. Jose- phus (Antiq. Jud., V, i, 22) assigns to Zabulon the land near to Carmcl and the sea, as far as the Lake of Genesareth. To its north-west lay Aser, to the south-east Issachar. It included a part of the Plain of Esdraelon, and the great highway from the sea to the lake. Within the territory of Zabulon Christ was brought up, and did and said much that is nar- rated in the Gospels, especially in the Synoptics, about His Galilean ministry.

Walter Druii.

Zacatecas, Diocese of (de Zacatecas), in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Guadalajara. Its area is almost the same as that of the State of Zaca- tecas. Its popu- lation (1910) 475,- 863. The bishop and governor of the state reside in Zacatecas, which has 25,905 inhab- itants (census of 1910), situated ■_' 142 metres above SI a level. This ii rritory was con- c|ucred and peo- pled by the Span- ish between 1546 and 1548. The fu-st parish, found- rd in 1569, be- onged to the See of Guadalajara. The following orders established themselves in this famous mineral region: Franciscans in l.")67; Augustinians, 1.576; Dominicans, 1604; Order of St. John, 1610; Jesuits, 1616; and Merceflarians, 1701. The famoiis College of the Propagation of the Faith, founded by the Venerable Father Margil, and inaugur.ited, 4 May, 1721, sent out missionaries to Texas, to the French in Louisiana, and to Tamaulii)as (176S), and took charge of various mis.sions abandoned by the .Icsuits, when ex- pelled from Tarahumara and Lower California. Wlien,

in 1836, the Mexican Government asked that a bish- opric be created at San Francisco, CaUfornia, Fran- cisco Garcia Diego of this college wa.s consecrated first bishop in 1S40. During the rehgious persecution in 1859 all the rehgious of the college were iuijirisoiK d, and all priests who denied absolution to those who had given their oath to the constitution of 1857, wen- liable to punishment; the few priests in the town hastily fied. The Diocese of Zacatecas was created from parishes of Guadalajara by Pius IX in 1863, and became suffragan of Guadalajara. It has: 2 sen i- naries with 101 students; 144 parochial schools; 19 colleges with about 7000 students. Protestants have 3 colleges with 55 students and 9 churches. The capi- tal, Zacatecas, has a celebrated cathedral, situated on the site of the first church, built in 1559. The cathe- dral was begun in 1612 and completed in 1782. Its fagade is of red stone, elegant, severe, and gi'andiose. On the hill known as the Bufa, on the outskirts of Zacatecas, is the venerated sanctuary of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios.

Vera, Caterismo geogr. hist, estad. de la Tglesia Mexicana (Aniecameca, ISSl): Sotomayor, Historia del apostdlico Colegio de Ntra Sra de Guadalupe de Zacatecas,

Camillus Crivelli.

Zaccaria, Francesco Antonio, theologian, his- torian, and prolific WTiter, b. at Venice, 27 March, 1714; d. in Rome, 10 October, 1795. He joined the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus, 18 October, 1731, taught grammar and rhetoric at Gorz, and was ordained priest at Rome in 1740. He spent some time in pastoral work at Ancona, Fermo, and Pistoia, gaining renown as a preacher and controversial lecturer. In 1754 he succeeded Muratori as ducal archivist and librarian of Modena, but was removed in 1768, owing to his "Antifebronio", in which he strenuously defended the rights of the Holy See. He was now appointed librarian at the Jesuit professed house in Rome. Clement XIII allowed him an an- nual pension, continued under Clement XIV, and increased by Pius VI, who appointed him professor of church history at the Sapienza and director of the Accademia de' Nobili Ecclesiastici. He was a member of at least nineteen Itahan academies. Of the 161 printed works ascribed to him by Sommervogel the following are the most important. On Church His- torj-: "Series epi-scoporum Cremonensium" (Milan, 1749); "Laudensium" (ibid., 1763); "Auximatium" (0.simo, 1764); "Vico ^quensium" (Rome, 1778); "Ca-senatium" (Cesena, 1779); "Forocornehensium" (Imola, 1820); "De' santi martiri Fedele, Capoforo, Gratiniano, e Fehno" (Milan, 17.50); "Acta SS. Bol- landiana apologeticis libris in unum volumen mmc primum contractis vindicata" (Antwerp, 1755); "De rebus ad historiani atque antiquitates ecclesia> perti- nentibus" (Foligno, 17S1); "Raccolta di dis.sertazioni di storia ecclesiastica" (22 vols., Rome, 1792-7). Theology and Canon Law: "Thesaurus theologicus", a compilation of theological treatises by various authors, arranged so as to form an orderly exposition of the different topics of theology (13 vols., Venice, 1762); "De ea.suisticse theologia> originibus, locis atque prxstantia", written at the instance of St. .\lphonsus and prefixed to the third edition of the latter's "Moral Theology;" "Apparatus omnigense eruditionis ad theologiam et jus canonicum" (Rome, 1773); etc. Polemics: ".\ntifebronio" (Pe.saro, 1767), Latin edition (Cesena, 1771-2; and in Migne, "Theol. Cursus Completus", XXVII, 463-1300); "Storia polemica del celibato sacro" (Rome, 1774), German translation by Pius John (1783); "Storia polemica delle proibizi'one de' libri" (Rome, 1777); "Difesa di Ire Sommi Pontefici Benedetto XIII, Benedetto XIV, e Clemente XIII, e del Concilio Romano tenuto nel 1775" (Ravenna, 17S41. Liturgy: "DcU' anno santo" (Rome, 1774); "Bibliotheca ritualis" (2 vols., Rome, 1776-8); "Nuovo effermerologio universale