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CORACESIUM closed his missionary career. He has left an Abnaki grammar and dictionary. In the Jesuit Relations (Thwaites ed., LXIX) is a memoir written by him for the Intendant of Canada, in which he describes the so-called "King's Posts" of Eastern Canada, with practical observations and suggestions that make it à valuable document for economic study.

ROCHEMONTEIX, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France au XVIII necle (Paris, 1906), I, iii; THWAITES ed., Jesuit Relations (Cleveland, 1896-1901), LXIX, 289, 290; PILLING, Bibliography of The Algonquian Languages (Washington, 1891), 94; Bois, Notice Rev. Claude Godfroid Coquart (copy in library of Wis. Hist.Society); SADLIER, An Historic Spot in the Catholic World (1893), LIX, 309 sq.; PRUD'HOMME, Revue Canadienne (1897), 1-92 BROWN, Two Missionary Priests at Mackinac; IDEM, St. Anne's Parish Register at Michillimackinac (Chicago, 1889).

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Coracesium, a titular see of Asia Minor. Accord- ing to Ptolemy (V. 5, 3), this town was not in Cilicia Cracheia, but in Roman Pamphylia. It had belonged to Isauria according to the pre-Roman ethnic system, and from 74 was probably included in Lycia- Pamphylia. Its port was the chief centre of the famous Cilician pirates: there Diodorus Tryphon was killed by Antiochus VII, and the pirates utterly de- stroyed by Pompey, who levelled their fortress. Coracesium became a suffragan of Side, metropolis of Pamphylia Prima. Lequien (I, 1007) mentions only four bishops, the first having been present at the Council of Constantinople (381), the last at the Council of Constantinople in 681; but the see is still mentioned in the "Notitiæ episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth or thirteenth century. Coracesium is now little town with about 2000 inhabitants (500 Greeks), the chief centre of a caza in the vilayet of Ionia. Its Turkish name is Alaya. The Armenians have completely disappeared, though the town was a very important one in the time of the Rupens. There are curious ruins, walls, ancient tombs, and other re- mains of antiquity, and inany romantic stories are associated with it.

BEAUFORT, Caramania (London, 1847); CUINET, Turquie Asie, I, 867-870; ALISHAN, Sissouan (Venice, 1899), 368 sq., illustrations.

S. PÉTRIDES.

Corbavia, Diocese of. See SZENY.

Corbeiensis Codex. See MSS. OF THE BIBLE.

Corbett, JAMES. See SALE, Diocese of.

Corbie (CORBY or CORBINGTON), AMBROSE, b. near Durham. 7 Dec., 1604; d. at Rome, 11 April, 1649. He was the fourth son of Gerard Corbie and his wife abella Richardson, exiles for the Faith. Of their Children, Ambrose, Ralph, and Robert, having be- come Jesuits (Richard died as a student at St.-Omers, the two surviving daughters, Mary and Catherine, came Benedictine nuns at Brussels), the parents by utual agreement entered religion. The father entered The Society of Jesus as a lay brother in 1628, and having reconciled his father Ralph (aged 100) to the Church, Watten, 17 Sept., 1637. The mother, in 1633, professed as a Benedictine at Ghent and died a tenarian, 25 Dec., 1652. Ambrose at the age of elve entered St.-Omers, going thence (1622) to the glish College, Rome. He entered the Society of Jesus at Watten in 1627, and in 1641 was professed. ving taught with success for some years at St.- hers, and been minister at Ghent in 1645, he was appointed confessor at the English College, Rome, were he died in his forty-fifth year. His works are: "Certamen Triplex" etc., the history of the mar- tyrdom of three English Jesuit priests: Thomas Hol- land, his own brother Ralph Corbie (see below), and Henry Morse (Antwerp, 1645, 12mo), with three en- graved portraits; reprinted (Munich, 1646, 12mo); English translation by E. T. Scargill under the title of "The Threefold Conflict", etc.; ed. W. T. Turnbull (London, 1858, 8vo). (2) An account of his family;

English version in Foley, "Records", III, 64. (3) "Vita e morte del Fratello Tomaso Stilintono [i. e. Stillington alias Oglethorpe] novitio Inglese della Com- pagnia di Gesu morto in Messina, 15 Sept., 1617"; MS. at Stoneyhurst College; see "Hist. MSS. Comm." 3rd Report, 338, tr. and ed. Foley, "Records", III, 15 sqq.

Sommervogel, Bibliothique de la c. de J., II, 1410; GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., 1, 563.

RALPH (called at times CORBINGTON), VENERABLE, brother of the above, martyr-priest, b. 25 March, 1598, near Dublin; d. 7 September, 1644. From the age of five he spent his childhood in the north of England, then going over seas he studied at Saint-Omer, Seville, and Valladolid, where he was ordained. Having be- come a Jesuit about 1626, he came to England in 1631 and laboured in Durham. He was seized by the Parliamentarians at Hamsterley, 8 July, 1644, when clothed in his Mass vestments, conveyed to London, and committed to Newgate (22 July), with his friend John Duckett, a secular priest. At their trial (Old Bailey, 4 September) they both admitted their priesthood, were condemned to death, and executed at Tyburn. 7 September. Stonyhurst has a relic of Father Corbie; for the Duke of Gueldres' attestation in 1650 of other relics, see Foley's "Records S. J.", I, 564; the "Certamen" portrait is reproduced in "Records", VII (I), 168; for his letters, see vol. III. 69 sqq., of the same work. The Corbie alias, according to Foley [op. cit., VII (II), 898] was Carlington or Carlton.

TANNER, Societas Jesu militans, 122; CHALLONER, Missionary Priests (1742), II, 278; DODD, Church History, III, 111; OLIVER, Collectanea S. J., 64; FOLFY, Records S. J., III, 59-98, 151 sqq.; VI, 299; VII (1), 167; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath, I, 564; COOPER in Dict. Nat. Biog., XII, 209; Certamen Triplex (Antwerp, 1645).

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Corbie (also CORBEY), MONASTERY OF, a Benedic- tine abbey in Picardy, in the Diocese of Amiens, dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul. It was found d

in 657 by Saint Bathilde, widow of Clovis II, and both she and her son Clotaire III endowed it richly with lands and privileges. The latter were subsequently confirmed by Popes Benedict III and Nicholas I. The first monks came from Luxeuil, Theodefrid being the first abbot. Under St. Adelhard, the ninth abbot, the monastic school of Corbie attained great celebrity and about the same time it sent forth a colony to found the abbey of Corvey in Saxony. In 1137 a fire destroyed the monastic buildings but they were rebuilt on a larger scale. Commendatory abbots were introduced in 1550, amongst those that held the benefice being Cardinal Mazarin. The somewhat drooping fortunes of the abbey were revived in 1618, when it was one of the first to be incorporated into the new Congregation of Saint-Maur. At its suppression in 1790 the buildings were partly demolished, but the church remains to this day, with its imposing portal and western towers. One of the most famous scholars produced by Corbie was Paschasius Radbert (d. 865), the first to write a comprehensive treatise on