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He entered the Society of Jesus, 11 November, 1651, joined the Mission of Canada in 1666, and laboured there for forty-six years among the Iroquois. From 1693 to 1698 Bruyas was Superior General of the Canadian missions, and in 1700, 1701, actively helped to secure for the French a general peace -with the Iroquois tribes. Besides writing a catechism, prayers for the sick, and similar works, he is the author of the oldest known Iroquois grammar. It was published from the original MS. by the Regents of the I'niversity of the Stale of New York in their Sixteenth Annual Report of the State Cabinet of Natural History (Albany, 1863). Father Bruyas is considered to be the author of the "Iroquois Dic- tionary" preserved in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal of Paris.

Souhkbvoqel, Bib], de In e. de J., II, 290; Jesuit Relations (Cleveland, L899), I., 323.

Joseph M. Woods.

Bruys, Pierre de. See Petrobrusians.

Bryanites. See Methodism.

Bryant, John - Delavau. physician, poet, author, and editor, b, in Philadelphia, U. S. A.. 1811; d. 1.S77. He was the son of an Episcopalian minister, the Rev. Win. Bryant. His mother, was a daughter of John Delavau, a shipbuilder of Philadelphia. His early education was under his father and in the Episcopalian Academy. He received the degree of A. B. in 1839, and A. M. in 1842, from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and entered the General Theo- logical Seminary of the Protestanl Episcopal Church in New York in 1839. After one year he left the seminary to travel in Europe. On his return he was received into the Catholic Church at St. John's Church, Philadelphia. 12 February, 1842. He grad- uated in medicine at the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1848. In 18.55, during the yellow fever epidemic in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia, lie volunteered for duty and returned only after the epidemic had subsided. In 1857, he married Miss Mary Harriet Piston, daughter <>t George Piston.

For two years in the early sixties lie was editor of I ttholic Herald.'' His principal work, published in 1859 by subscription, is an epic poem entitled "The Redemption", apparently inspired by a visit to Jerusalem. It is founded on the Bible mid Catholic tradition, and, when it was first published, attracted some attention and received many fa- vourable reviews. He also published, about 1852, a controversial novel entitled "Pauline Seward'' which had considerable vogue at the time, especially among Catholics, and ran through ten editions. In 1855 he published "The Immaculate Conception

of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Cod", an exposition of the dogma recently promulgated. All of his works are now out of print and can be found practically only in reference libraries. Records of the Amer. Cathtdic Hist. Sue.. September, 1904.

Joseph Walsh.

Bubastis, a titular see of Lower Egypt, on the right bank of the Pclusiac branch of the Nil. the modern Zagazig, where its ruins are shown under the Dame of Tell Bastah, I'- true name was Bast

owing to the name ,,i the [oca! goddess Bastet;

mie in Old-Egyptian Plr-bdstet (Coptic basti, Hebrew Pirbeseth, (Ireek Boifkurris or more commonly Boi//3a<rro!, i. e. House oi Bastet I. It wis a place of importance under the twenty-third dynasty

about 950-750 B. C. When the eastern pari of Power

Egypt was divided into Augustamnica Prima in the north and Augustamnica Secunda in the south.

Bubastis wa.s included in the latter, whose capital

wis Leontopolis (Hierocles, Synecdemos, 7_'.v i i, as the chief town of i he Bubastites norrws, and like every Egy] was the seat of a bishopric.

Its bishop, Harpocration. was mentioned at Nicaea by

Meletius among his well-wishers (Athan. Apol. c. Arianos, 71). About 340 the see was occupied by Hermon (Acta SS., May, III, 61). Julianus was present at the Latrocinium of Ephesus, 449. The see is mentioned in Georgius Cyprius (ed. Gelzer, 705). In the Middle Ages its fate is blended with that of Khandek, a Jacobite see near Cairo, to which it had been united. Thus in 1078 Gabriel, ep. Basta, muE 'I Khandek, interfered in the election of the Patriarch Cyrillus (Renaudot, Hist, patriarch. Alex- ander. 450, 458, 465), and in 1102 John took a share in the consecration of the Patriarch Macarius II (ibid., 182). Under the Patriarch Cyrillus III (1235-43), the see is often mentioned, but without the name of its titular.

I equien, Or. Christ., II, 559-502; Gams, Series episcop.. 401.

L. Petit.

Bucelin (Buzlin), Gabriel, Benedictine histori- cal writer, b. at Diessenhofen in Thurgau, 29 Decem- ber, 1599; d. at Weingarten, 9 June. 1681. A scion of the distinguished line of Bucellini counts, Gabriel, at the age of thirteen, entered the Benedictine mon- astery at Weingarten. After a course in philosophy and theology at Dillingen he was ordained priest 23 April, 1624, and in the same year sent, as master of novices, to restore the primitive fervour and raise the standard of studies in the monastery of St. Trudpert in the Black Forest. Having filled the posi- tion of master of novices at Weingarten and professor of humanities at Feldkirch (1035), whence on the approach of the Swedish army he was forced to Hee to Admont (1646), he was appointed prior of St. John's monastery, Feldkirch (1651), where he re- mained until a few months before his death. Bucelin was a very prolific writer, being the author of some fifty-three works, a large number of which are still in manuscript in the royal library at Stuttgart. His chief claim to the gratitude of posterity lies in the fact that he was, if not the very first, at least among the first authors to deal with the ecclesiastical history of Germany. Of his published works the most im- portant are: "Gennania sacra'' (Augsburg, 1655), containing accounts of the principal ecclesiastics, archbishops, abbots, etc., as well as a list of the most important monasteries of Germany; "Germanise topo-chrono-stemmatographia sacra et prof ana" (1655-78), treating, as its name implies, of the genealogy of the most distinguished members of the clergy and the nobility; "Constantia sacra et pro- (Frankfort, 1667); "Rlurtia etrusca, romana, gallica, germanica" (Augsburg, Ki(il); "Nucleus his- torian universalis" (I'lm, 1650, 1654; carried from 1650 to 1735 by Schmier, "Apparatum ad theologian) seholastico-polemieo-practicam "). of great impor- tance to scholars interested in ancient charts, bulls, diplomata, etc. Bucelin was also the author of many works on the Benedictine Order and its most illus- trious members, among them "Aquila imperii benc- dictina" (Venice, 1651); "Menologium benedicti- num" (Feldkirch, 16'

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Bucer, Martin (also called Butzer), one of the leaders in the South German Reformation move ineiit, b. 11 November, 1191, at Schlettstadt, Usace; d. 28 February, 1551, it Cambridge, England, He

received his early education at the Latin School of his native place, where at the age of fifteen (1506) he also entiled the Order Of St. Dominic. Later he was -i nl to the University of Heidelberg to prosecute his studies, and matriculated, 31 January, 1517. He became an ardent admirer of Erasmus, and soon an