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fire to the fort and cabins at Sandusky, and withdrew to the Rividre Blanche, not far from the junction of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers. Until his death, which occurred some time after September, 1749, Orontondi continued to intrigue with the English emissaries, the Iroquois, and the disaffected Miamis. When there was no longer doubt of the renegade leader's demise, dc La Richardie resolved on a final attempt at concilia- tion. He had already at intervals spent months at a time among the fugitives, and now on 7 Sept., 1750, at the pern of his life he started, with only three canoe men for the country of the "Nicolites" as they were then termed. The greater nimiber remained obdu- rate. It is the descendants of the latter who in July, 1843, removed from their lands at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to beyond the Mississippi, and now occupy the Wyandot reserve in the extreme north-eastern part of Oklahoma. The father's failing strength obliged his superiors to recall him to Quelle in 1751, and on 30 June he bade a final farewell to the Detroit mis- sion. From the autumn of 1751 until his death he filled various important offices in Quebec College. His

Huron name was Ondechaouasti.

Original sources: Potier, MS. Journal, passtzo: Census of Hurona, Gramin.t 149-60; Paris Archives, Minisltre dcs Colonies, Canada: Corrcsp. gfnirale, LIII» c. xi, fol. 207- 14; LXXIV, c. xi, fol. 80. 268; L»CV, c. xi, fol. 90, 97. 121, 124, 130, 149. 164. 1.55, 249. 370; iZXXVIl, c. 3d. fol. 166, LXXXI, fol. 160; Archives Coloniales, Canada: Correspond. a6n., XCIII, c. xi. fol. 31, 282; Collection de MSS. rdatifs a la Nouvelle-France, III (Quebec, 1884). passim: N. Y. Colonial Does., X, 99-130. 134-46. 246-61; Wisconsin Hist. CoU., XVII, XVIII, passim.

Modern authors: Shea, Hu<. of Caih. Missions among the Indians (1856) 202-03; Idem, Hist, of Cath. Ch. in U. S.. I. 1886, 631; III, 1890, 330. Thwattes, Jes. Rds. and Allied Docs., LXVIII, 333; tXXIII. 80: db Rochemonteix, Les Jisuites et la Nouv. France, I, 346, UI. 626.

Arthur Edward Jones.

Larino (Larinum), Diocese of, in the province of Campobasso, Southern Italy. Larinum was a city of the t rentani (a Samnite tribe) and a Roman municip' turn. The present city is a mile from the site of the ancient I-Armum, destroyed by war and epidemic, and is first mentioned as an episcopal see in 668. Note- worthy among the bishops were Giovanni Leone (1440), a distinguished canonist and theologian; Fra Giacomo de' Petruzzi, a saintly and renowned phi- losopher; Belisario Baldovino (1555), present at the Council of Trent, founder of the seminary and epis^ copal palace; the Oratorian Gian Tommaso Eustachi (1612), famous for his sanctity; Carlo M. Pianetti (1706^, who restored the cathedral, with its beautiful marble fao^de; Gian Andrea Tria (1726), historian of Larino. The diocese is a suffragan of Benevento, and has 21 parishes with 79,000 souJs, 3 religious houses of men and 1 of women, and 1 school for girls.

Cappelletti. Le chiese d* Italia, XIX (Venice, 1867); Tria, Storia civile ed ecclesiastiche di Larino (Rome» 1744).

U. Benigni.

Larissa, the seat of a titular archbishopric of Thessaly. The city, one of the oldest and ricnest in Greece, is said to have been founded by Acrisius, who was killed accidentally by his son, Perseus (Stephanus Byzantius, s. v.). There lived Peleus, the hero be- loved by the gods, and his son Achilles; however, the city is not mentioned by Homer, unless it be identified with Argissa of the Iliad (II, 738). The constitution of the town was democratic, which explains why it sided with Athens in the Peloponnesian War. In the nei(hbourhood of Larissa was celebrated a festival which recalled the Roman Saturnalia, and at which the •laves were waited on by their masters. It was taken by the Thebans and afterwards by the Macedonian kings, and Demetrius Poliorcetes gained possession of it for a time, 302 b. c. It was there that Philip V. King of Macedonia, signed in 197 b. c, a shameful treaty with the Romans after his defeat at Cynosce- Great, won a great victory, 192 b. c. Larissa is fre-
 * ^1», and it was there also that Antiochus III, the

quently mentioned in connexion with the Roman civil wars which preceded the establishment of the empire, and Pompey sought refuge there after the defeat of Pharsalus. First Roman, then Greek until the thir- teenth century, and afterwards Prankish until 1460, the city fell into the liands of the Turks, who kept it imtil 1882, when it was ceded to Greece; it sufifeied greatly from the conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks between 1820 and 1830, and quite recently from the Turkish occupation in 1897. On 6 March, 1770, Aya Pasha massacred there 3000 Christians from Trikala, who had been treacherously brought there.

Very prosperous under the Turkish sovereignty Larissa, which counted 40,000 inhabitants thirty years ago, has now only 14,000, Greeks, Turks, and Jews; the province of which it is the chief town has a population of 140,000. Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the Council of Nicsea. We must mention especially, St. Achilius, in the fourth century, whose feast is on 15 May, and who is celebrated for his mira- cles. Lequien, *'Oriens Christ.", II, 103-112, cites twentjr-nine bishops from the fourth to the eighteenth centuries; the most famous, Jeremias II, occupied the patriarchal See of Constantinople in the sixteenth century. As to the archbishops of Latin Rite, about ten names were recorded by Lequien, op. cit., Ill, 979. and chiefly by Eubel, ** Ilierarchia catholica medii aevi" (MQnster), I, 307; II, 191. The metro- politan See of Larissa depended directly on the pope as Patriarch of the West imtil 733, when the Emperor Leo III the Isaurian annexed it to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In the first years of the tenth cen- tury it had ten suffragan sees (Gelzer, " Un^edruckte . . . Texte der Notitiffi episcopatuum '\ Munich, 1900, 557); subsequently the number increased and about the year 1175, under the Emperor Manuel Comnenus, it reached twenty-eight (Parthey, **Hieroclis Synec- demus", Berlin, 1866, 120). At the close of the fif- teenth century, under the Turkish domination, there were only ten suffragan sees (Gelzer, op. cit., 635), which gradually grew less and finally disappeared. Since 1882, when Thessaly was ceded to Greece, the Orthodox Diocese of larissa has been dependent on the Holy Synod of Athens, not Constantinople. Owing to the law of 1900 which suppressed all the metro- p(3itan sees excepting Athens, Larissa was reduced to the rank of a simple bishopric; its title is united with that of Pharsalus and Platamon, two adjoining bishop- rics now suppressed.

S. Vailh^.

La Roche, Alain de. See Alanus de Rupe.

La Roche Daillon, Joseph de, Recollect, one of the most zealous missionaries of the Huron tribe, d. in France, 1656. He landed at Quebec, 19 Jime, 1625, with the first Jesuits who came to New France, and at once set out with the Jesuit Father Br^beuf for Three Rivers, to meet the Hurons into whose country they hoped to enter. Owing to a report that the Hurons had drowned the Recollect Nicolas Viel, their mis- sionary, the journey was put off. In 1626 La Roche Daillon was among the Hurons, leaving whom he passed to the Neutral Nation after travelling six days on foot. He remained with them for three months, and at one time barely escaped being put to death. This caused his return to the Hurons. In 1628 he went to Three Rivers with twenty Huron canoes, on their way to trade pelts with the French. From Three Rivers he journeyed to Quebec, and on the taking of the city, in 1629, the English sent him back to France. La Roche Daillon published an account of his voyage to and sojourn amongst the Neutrals, de- scribing their country and their customs, and men- tioning a kind of oil which seems to be coal oil. Sa- gard and Leclerca reproduced it in their writings, in a more or less alniaged form.