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Doring, Matthias, historian and theologian, b. be- tween 1390 and 1400, at KjTitz, in Brandenburg; d. there 24 July, 1469. He joined the Friars Minor in his native place, studied at Oxford, was graduated (1424) at Erfurt as doctor of theology, and for some years taught theology and Biblical exegesis. In 1427 he was elected provincial of his order for Saxony. In the disputes between the Conventuals and those of the Observance he took an active part. In 1443 at Berne the Conventuals elected him minister general. This position he held for six years, receiving approbation from the assembly of prelates still posing as the Gen- eral Council of Basle. In this council he had been prominent since 1432 as an over-zealous reformer and an adherent of the supremacy of a general council over the pope. He was sent by it to Denmark, to win over the king and the people, and assisted in the de- position (1439) of Eugene IV and the election of the antipope, Felix V. Excommunicated by the Arch- bishop of Magdeburg he appealed to Rome. In 1461 he resigned his office and spent the last years of his life in literary work at the convent of KjTitz.

Doring is said to be the author of the " Confutatio primatus Papae", written (1443) anonymously and without title. Name and title were added when the article was edited in 1550 by Matthias Flacius Illy- ricus. It is in part an extract from the "Defensor pacis" of Marsilius of Padua (printed in Goldast, Monarchia, I, 557 sqq.). Other works attributed to Doring are " Defensorium postillae Nicolai Lj-rani", against the Spanish bishop, Paul of Burgos, since 14S1 frequently printed with the "PostUla?"; "Liber per- ple.xorum Ecclesise" (lost); continuation (1420 to 1464) of the Chronicle of Dietrich Engelhus. He also wrote on the so-called "Donation of Constantine" and (1444) on the relics of the Precious Blood of Wilsnack.

Pastor, History of the Popes, tr. Antrobus. II, 127; .Albert, Driring, ein Minorit des 15. Jahrh. (Stuttgart, 1892"); Hist. Jahrb. (1892), XI. 439; Zeitschrift fur kalh. Theol. (1894), 711; Der Kalholik (1893). II, 16; M.VRK, Forschungen, XVI. 198; Hist.- polit. Blatter (1S94), 114, 624.

Francis Mershman.

Dorman, Thomas, theologian, b. at Berkhamp.stead, Hertfordshire, England, date uncertain; d. at Toumai, 1572 or 1577. He received his early education through his uncle, Thomas Dorman of Agmondesham, now Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His master at Berk- hampstead was Richard Reeve, a noted Protestant schoolmaster. He was also known to Thomas Hard- ing, the Catholic scholar, then professor of Hebrew at Oxford, w-ho took great interest in the boy and sent him to Winchester school in 1547. From Winchester Dorman went to New College at Oxford, of which Harding was a fellow, and here he was elected a pro- bationer fellow. During the Catholic revival under Mary he was appointed fellow of All Souls College (1554) and on 9 July, 15,58, took the degree B.C.L. A year or two after Elizabeth's accession, finding that he could not live in England without conforming to the new religion, he sacrificed his fellowship and hLs patri- mony and went to Antwerp, where he met Harding who was also an exile for the Faith. Harding per- suaded hira to resume his studies, and Dorman accord- ingly went to Louvain and devoted himself to the study of theology. In 1565 he became B.D. in the University of Douai and finally received the doctorate there. During this period he engaged in controversy with the .\nglican divines. Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, and Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's. In 1569, at the invi- tation of Dr. Allen, he joined the band of scholars at the newly founded English College at Douai which he assisted both by hLs services and his private means. He died at Toumai where he had been given an im- portant benefice. His works are: " Aproufeof certeyne articles in Religion denied by M. Juel" (.^ntwerj), 1564); " A Disproufe of M. Nowelle's Reproufe" (.Ant- werp, 1565); "A Request to Mr. Jewel that he keep

his promise made by solemn Protestation in his late Ser- mon at Paul's Cross" (London, 1567; Louvain, 1567).

Pits, De Anglia ScHptoribus (Paris, 16231, 914; Dodd, Church History (Brussels, 1739), II, 88; Wood, Athena Oxon., Bliss ed., I, 434, 718; Douay Diaries (London, 1878), 272; GiLLow, Bibl. Did. Eng. Cath. (London, 1885). II, 94; Cooper in Diet. Xat. Biog. (London, 1S88), XV, 244; Chcrton, Life of Sowell (London, 1809).

Edwin Bubton.

Domin, Bern.akd, first publisher in the United States of distinctively Catholic books, b. in Ireland 1761; d. in Ohio, 1836. He was forced to leave his native land, in 1S03, because of poUtical troubles and, arriving in New York soon after, began a book-selling and publishing concern. He got out a New Testa- ment, printed for him in Brooklyn, in 1S05, and an edition of Pastorini's "History of the Church", in 1807. He moved to Baltimore, in 1809, and from there to Philadelphia in 1817. During many years he was the leading Catholic publisher of the country, and as such enjoyed the friendship of Archbishop Carroll and of other members of the hierarchy, who esteemed him as a vigorous and gifted writer and editor. In the early thirties he disposed of his business in Phila- delphia, where he had published a number of CathoUc books, and w-ent to Ohio to reside near his daughter.

Thou.\s Aloy-sius Dornin, son of Bernaril, b. in Ireland, 1800; d. at Savannah, Georgia, U. S. A., 22 April, 1874. He entered the United States Navj', 2 May, 1815, as a midshipman, from Maryland. Com- missioned a lieutenant in 1825, he made a five-years' cruise around the world. In 1841 he was promoted commander and helped to successfully carry out an expedition to prevent the invasion of Mexican terri- tory by the filibusterer William Walker. After being commissioned captain, in 1855. he engaged in destroy- ing the slave-trade. During the Civil War he at- tained the rank of commodore on the retired list, 16 July, 1862, and at its close was put in charge of the fifth lighthouse district.

FiNOTTl, Bibliographia CathoUca .Americamz (Xew York, 1872); B.tTLET, .4 Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Catholic Church on the Island of Xew York (New York, 1870); Register of the Xavy of the U. S., s. v.

Tho.mas F. Meehan.

Dorothea, Saint: (1) virgin and martyr, suffered during the persecution of Diocletian, 6 Feb., 311, at Caesarea in Cappadocia. She was brought before the prefect .Sapricius, tried, tortured, and sentenced to death. On her way to the place of execution the pagan lawj'er Theophilus said to her in mockery: "Bride of Christ, send me some fruits from your bridegroom's garden." Before she was executed, she sent hira. by a six-year-old boy, her headdress which was found to be filled with a heavenly fragrance of roses and fruits. Theophilus at once confessed him- self a Christian, was put on the rack, and suffered death. This is the oldest version of the legend, which was later variously enlarged. Dorothea is repre- sented with an angel and a wreath of flowers. She is regarded as the patroness of gardeners. On her feast trees are blessed in some places. In the West she has been venerated since the seventh century.

QuENTiN, Les martyrologes historiques (Paris, 1908), 156-157; Acta SS., 6 Feb. ; Butler, Lives of the Saints.

(2) DoROTHE.4. OF Montau, Saint, rccluse, b. at Montau, 6 Feb., 1347, d. at Marienwerder, 25 June, 1394. At the age of seventeen .she married the sword-cutler Albrecht of Danzig, a hot-tempered man, whose nature underwent a change through her humility and gentleness. Both made frequent pil- grimages to Cologne, Aachen, and Einsiedeln, and they intended (1.390) to visit Rome also; but Al- brecht was prevented by illness and remained at home where he died, while Dorothea journeyed to Rome alone. Of their nine children all dietl, except one daughter who joined the Benedictines. In the sum- mer of 1391 Dorothea moved to Marienwerder, and on