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enthroned in the little chapel erected by Eber- hard, is the object of their devotion. This chapel stands within the great abbey church, in much the same way as the Holy House at Loreto, encased in marbles and precious woodwork, elaborately deco- rated, though it has been so often restored, rebuilt, and adorned with the offerings of pilgrims, that it may be doubted whether much of the original sanctuary still remains. The fourteenth of Sep- tember and the thirteenth of October are the chief pilgrimage days, the former being the anniversary of the miraculous consecration of Eberhard's basilica, and the latter that of the translation of St. Meinrad 's relics from Reichenau to Einsiedeln in 1039. The millenary of St. Meinrad was kept there with great

bnues (Pari! 1S37); Pm Dame-des-E Benediktmi / 1 ', / -, Benediktiu' ! i> ' \\ ; fiirsttichen 1>> m i.l. 'm. >- 1904), the most import of the abbey.

1856); Regnieh, Chronique d' Einsiedeln (Paris,

Hi^toriqiie de I'Abbaye et du PHerinage de Notre-

' '. Ijii-i.Meln, 1870); UoRBh, Die Regesten der

I / ' - /./n (Chur, 1848); Brunner, Ein

' ^^\ '•: iiru:, 1880); Rii^ gholz, Geschichte des

' I.S L. F. von Einsiedeln (Ein.siedeln,

work on the history and antiquities

G. Cyprian Alston.

Eis, Frederick. See Marquette, Diocese of.

Eisengrein, Martin, a learned Catholic theologian and polemical writer, b. of Protestant parents at Stutt- gart, 28 December, 1535; d. at Ingolstadt, 4 May, 1578. He studied the humanities at the Latin school of Stuttgart, and the liberal arts and philosophy at the University of Tubingen. To please his father, who was

splendour in 1861. The great church has been many times rebuilt, the last time by Abbot Maurus between the years 1704 and 1719, and one of its chief treasures now is a magnificent corona presented by Napoleon III when he made a pilgrimage there in 1865. The library, which dates from 946, contains nearly fifty thousand volumes and many priceless MSS. The work of the monks is divided chiefly between prayer, the confessional, and study. At pilgrimage times the number of confessions heard is very large. The community nimibers about one hundred priests and forty lay brothers, and attached to the abbey are a seminary and a college for about two hundred and sixty boys, both of which are taught by the monks, who also direct six convents of nuns. In 1854 a colony was sent to America from Einsiedeln to work amongst the native Indian tribes. From St. Meinrad's Abbey, Indiana, which was the first settlement, daughter-houses were founded, and these in 1881 were formed into the Swiss-American Congregation, which comprised (in 1906) seven monasteries and nearly four himdred religious. Dom Thomivs Bossart, the fifty-third .\bbot of Ein- siedeln and formerly dean of the monastery, was elected in 1905.

Gallia Christinna (Paris, 1781), V; Album Benedictinum (St. Vincent's, Pennsylvania, 1880); Migne, Did. des Ab-

burgomaster of Stuttgart, Eisengrein matriculated as student of jurisprudence at the University of Ingol- stadt, 25 May, 1553, but before a year had passed he was at the University of Vienna, where he took the degree of Master of Arts in May, 1554. During the tolerant rule of Ferdinand 1, Eisengrein, though still a Protestant, became in 1555 professor of oratory and, two years later, of physics at the University of Vienna, a Catholic institution. Though his Catholic surround- ings and especially his frequent intercourse with the Jesuits of Vienna may have had great influence in bringing about his acceptance of the Catholic Faith, still his conversion was one of conviction, as is appar- ent from his numerous controversial writings and his scrupulous solicitude for the integrity of Catholic Faith and morals at the University of Ingolstadt. His conversion took place about 1558. In 1559 he received a canonry at St. Stephen's in Vienna, and a year later he was ordainetl priest. In 1562 he went to the l^niver- sity of Ingolstadt whither he had been invited by the superintendent of the university, Frederick Staphylus. He was appointed pastor of the church of St. Maurice, which was incorporated with the university, and in April of the same year he was elected rector of the university. Besides being professor, he devoted much of his time to the study of theology and, after receiv- ing the degree of licentiate in this science on 11 No-