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wherein Catholik Religion is further excused against the opposition of several Adversaries" (1665); (6) "Three Letters declaring the strange, odd Proceed- ings of Protestant Divines when they write against Catholics," etc. (1671); (7) " T<? KafloXim? StilUng- fleeto; being an account given to a Catholik friend of Dr. StilBngfleet's late book against the Church of Rome" (1672).

Gillow Bibl Diet of Eng Calk. (London, 1885), I, 392-93; Hurter. .Y„ m, nclalur, II, 90-97; Tiiaddeus, The Franciscans in England (London, 1898), xiii, 109-10.

Stephen M. Donovan.

Canice (or Kenny), Saint, commemorated on 11 October, b. in 515 or 516, at Glengiven, in what is now County Deny, Ireland; d. at Aghaboe in 600. He was descended from Ui-Dalainn, a Waterford tribe which dwelt on an island now identified as Inis-Doimhle in the Suir. The father of the saint was a distin- guished bard who found hiswayto the North and set- tled at Glengiven in Cinachta under its chief. His mother was called Maul; her name is commemorated in the church of Thomplamaul, Kilkenny, dedicated to God under her invocation. The early years of Canice were spent in watching his chieftain's flocks, but, God calling him to higher aims, we find him in 543 at Clonard, under St. Finian, where he was a fellow-pupil of St. Columba. In 544 he was studying in the school of Glasnevin, with St. Kieran of Clon- macnoise and St. Comgall of Bangor, under the tuition of St. Mobhi. He was ordained priest in 545 in the monastery of Llancarvan in Glamorganshire, and set out for Rome to obtain the blessing of the reigning pontiff. In 550 Ave find him again at Glen- given, where he converted his foster-brother, Geal- Breagaeh, who afterwards assisted him in founding Drumaehose. In 565 he passed over to Scotland, where his name is recalled in the ruins of an ancient church, Kil-Chainnech on Tiree Island, and in a burial ground, Kil-Chainnech, in Iona. He built cells on the islands of Ibdon and Eninis, an oratory called Lagan-Kenny on the shores of Loch Lagan, and a monastery in Fifeshire on the banks of the Eden. He is known in Scotland as St. Kenneth, was closely associated with St. Columba in the latter 's missionary work, and, nexl to him and St. Bridget, is the favourite Irish saint in Scotland (Eammack). See Reeve's "Adamnan" t Dublin, 1S57, xxvi, xxxi); also the ancient lives in the "Codex Solmanticensis" edited by De Smedt and Backer (see below), and the "Liber Kilkenniensis" in Marsh's Library, Dub- lin. His Irish foundations were Drumaehose, two miles southeast of Limavady, Kilkenny West, in County Westmeath, and the great Abbey of Aghaboe in ( Issory, Queens County. Tradition asserts that he founded a monastery in Kilkenny by the round tower and cathedral which bear his name. A man of great eloquence and learning, he wrote a commentary on the Gospels, known for centuries as Glas-Chain- n 'gh-

UARRIGAN, lliifi'i'i/ "nil \ nl njintiis of Ossory. IV, ii, 26; Mokw, Oiiinnf \rrlniiil So, Inmmurai Address; Acta SS.,

Oct., V. ill" 16; l'> Smedt-Backer, icta SS. Hib. (1888), 361-92; Forbes, Kalendar »/ Scottish Sum's, 295.

Michael M. O'Kaxe.

Canisius, Henricus (de Hondt), canonist and his- torian, 1). at Nymwegen in Geldern and belonged to i!i,' same distinguished family as Saint Peter Can- isius. who was his uncle; d. 2 Sept.. 1610, at In- golstadt. He studied at the University of Louvain,

and in 1590 was appointed professor of canon law at Ingolstadt. He was the author of "Summa Juris Canonici" (Ingolstadt, 1594); " Praelectiones Aca- demics" (ib., 1609); "Comment, in lib. Ill decre- talium" nil, 1629 ; " De Sponsalibus et Matrimonio " (ib., 1613). \ complete edition of his canonical writings appeared at Louvain in 1649 and at Cologne in L662. Tlic fruits oi his labours in the historical

field appeared in a work entitled, " Antique Lectiones, seu antiqua monumenta ad historiam media 3 ;etatis illust randam " (6 vols., Ingolstadt, 1601-1604). In 1608 a seventh volume, a " Promptuarium Eeelesias- ticum " was added by way of supplement. The work lacked systematic arrangement, and included much matter of minor value. It was afterwards entirely recast and critically sifted by Basnage, under the title "Thesaurus Monumentorum eccle- siasticorum et historieorum" (7 vols., Antwerp. 1725). Canisivis edited for the first time the "Chronica Vic- toris Episcop. Tunnunensis et Joannis Episcop. Bi- clariensis", and the "Legatio Luitprandi" (Ingol- stadt, 1600). We are likewise indebted to him for an edition of the " Historian miscelke Pauli Diaconi " (ib.. 1603).

Hurter, Nomcnclalor, I, 203 sq.; Schulte, Gesch. der Quel- len u. Lilt, des Canon. Rechts (Stuttgart, 1S75-S0), III, 130. Thomas Oestreich.

Canisius, Peter. See Peter Canisius, Blessed

Canisius, Theodorich, b. at. Nimwegen, Holland, 1532; d. 27 Sept., 1606, at Ingolstadt. He was a half-brother on his mother's side to St. Peter Canisius. After winning, at the age of twenty-two, the highest academic distinctions at Louvain, he decided to fol- low his stepbrother and enter the Society of Jesus, and was sent to St. Ignatius in Rome, who received him into the Society. On the completion of his novi- tiate. Theodorich was appointed professor of theology in Vienna, but was soon after appointed rector of the Jesuit College at Munich. Here, in 1562, one of the first productions in Germany of the morality play "Homulus" (Everyman) was given in Latin by the students under his direction. From Munich .where he was succeeded in 1565 by the celebrated Paul Hof- fa?us, he was transferred to Dillingen, where for twenty years he presided over the college and the academy and laboured with zeal and success for the improve- ment of studies and for the religious training of the students. From 1565 to 1582 he held the office of chancellor of the university. In company with his distinguished brother, he attended the first provincial congregation of the Society of Jesus in Upper Ger- many, and furthered important reforms in the teach- ing of philosophy. In 1,585 he was made rector of the college of Ingolstadt. and in this capacity became a member of the German commission which tested in practice the first draft of the Ratio Studiorum. At length, having spent thirty years at the head of three of the foremost colleges of Germany, he was sent to Lucerne in Switzerland to enjoy a period of rest; but soon again, at the age of sixty-three, he had to undertake the government of the college of Ingolstadt. Two years later, on the advice of his physician, he was relieved of the burden and allowed to return to Lu- cerne. A fortnight after his arrival the death of St. Peter Canisius was announced. The shock deprived Theodorich of memory and speech, an affliction which he bore with exemplary patience for seven years. For his amiable disposition and spotless purity of life he deservedly received the surname of Angelus. In 1604. he was transferred again to Ingol- stadt, where he died, and was laid to rest in the church of the Holy Cross.

Imago Primi Saculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640\ 863;

SPKCHT. Ccsfhichti ,li V i In mm nil U I n i r. : s, i.i' /',;'.'.,':

tiui-nnBr. 19021, jr..-,; l'wiiTLER, Von. Germ. Pad., 1, 357;

Ratio Studiorum, II, 5, 4S2; KOBLBH in KirchcnliT., B. v.;

Ih nii, Oetch der Jeeuiien in den Landcrn deuiecher Zunge (Freiburg im Br., 1907), passim,

George H. Derry.

Cano, Alonso (or Alexis), a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor, b. at Granada, 1'.' March. 1601 ; d. there ,'i or 5 ( Ictoher. 1667. He received his first lessons in art from his father. Miguel Cano, an architect. Later he studied sculpture under Juan Montafies, and painting under Pacheco and Juan del