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Tlifirtee nuns)^ nuninfi; sisters and teachers; their mother-house is at Limoges. The religious orders maintained in this diocese at the close of the nine- teenth century 19 nurseries. 1 home for sick children, 2 orphanages for boys, 14 for girls, 1 for both sexes, 5 work rooms (ouvroira), 4 reformatories, 28 hospitids, 26 houses to care for the sick at their homes, 2 houses <^ retreat, 1 asylum for the insane. At the end of the concordat period the Diocese of Limoges contained 679,584 inhabitants; 70 canonical parishes; 404 suocursal parishes, and 35 curacies supported by the Government.

Oonoeniinc the date of St. Martial's miaaion, aee Greoort or Tours: Arbbllot, Elude hialorique 9ur Vancienne vie de Saint Martial (Paris, 1892). ^vee the text of the Vita Primttiva; Grat-Birsch. The life of St. Martial (LoDdon, 1877)* Vita AU finiani in Labbb, Nova hibliotheca manuacnptorum, 11, 472.

Writers who place the missioa in Apoetolic times: Bonaten- TURB DB Saint -Amable, Histoire die Saint Martial (3 vols., Parim 1676-1685); Arbbllot, Dieeerlation eitr VapoeloUit de Sdni Martial et eur VarUuiuUi dee Eglieee de France (Paris. 1855); Bbi:j..bt, La proee ruthnUe el la critique hagiographique (Parb, 1899).

Writers belonidng to the critical school: Duchesne. Faetee ipiaeopaux, II, 47-54 and 104-117; de Lastetrib, L'^66ai/e air Satnt Martial de lAmoffet (Paris, 1001): De Uiiedt. Analecta BoOandiana^ XVI (1807). 501; XVII (1S98). 387.

For the histoiy of the (%urch of Limoges, see Gallia Chrieli' ana [lumi, II (1720), 498-548. inetrumenta, 161-204]; Chroniquee de Siuni Martial die Limogee, ed. Duplib-Auier (3 vols.. Paris, 1874); Lbroux, Lee eourcee de Vhieloire du Limouein (Lunofi:cs, 1805); Grbnibr, La eit^ de Limogee, eon ivfque (Limoges. 1007); Guibbrt, Lee fvfquee de Limogee et la paxx eociale (Limoges. 1808); Lbclbr, PouOU du Diocree de Limogee (Limoges. 1887); DouAiSfLef Friree Pricheure de Limogee (Toulouse. 1802); Ar- bbllot, Saint'Pierre-Damien h Limogee (Limoe;e8, 1893); Ar- bbllot, JVoCtoe eur Saint Anloine de Padoue en Limouein (Paris* 1805); Db Moussac, Une corporation d'autrefoie encore vivante OHJpwyFhui: la corporation dee bourhere de Limogee in Revue de Ltue, V (1892): Metnxeux, Le clergA du diochee de Limogn; Veiuvre de riforme morale dee iv^quee d'aprie lee etatute eynodaux: 1976-1689 (Limoges, 1901); Aulaone, Im riforme cathclique du XVI'^ eiMe dane le dioclee de Limogee (Paris, 1006); Lecler. Martifre et eonfeeeeure de la foi du dioctee de Limogee pendant la riiolvUon francaiee (4 von., Limoges. 1902-1904): Rupin. Vetuvre de Limogee (Paris, 1800); Molinier, UimatUerie (Paria. 1891); Cbbvalibr, Topobihl^ s. v.

Georges Goyau.

Umyra, a titular see of Lycia, was a small city on the southern coast of Lycia, on the Lim^Tus^ and twenty stadia from the mouth of this river. It is mentioned by Strabo (XIV, 666J, Ptolemy (V, 3, 6), and several Latin authors. Notning, however, is known of its histoi^ except that Caius Csesar, adopted sonof Augus- tus, died there (Velleiiis Paterculiis, II, 102). Limyra is mentioned in the " Notitia) EpLscopatuum'* down to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of Ifyra. Six bishops are known: Diotimus, mentioned by St. Basil (ep. ccxviii); Lupicinus, present at the douncil of Constantinople, 381; Stephen, at Chalce- don (451); Theodore, at Constantinople (553); Leo, at Nicsa (787); Nicephorus, at Constantinople (879). The ruins of Limyra are to be seen three or four miles east of the villa^ of Fineka, in the sanjak of Adalla, \-ilayet of Koma; they consist of a theatre, tombs, sarcophagy bas-reliefs, Greek and Lycian inscrip- tions, etc.

Lbquibn, Oriene chrietianue^ I, 971; T^.ake, Asia Minor (Loodon, 1803), 180; Fbllowb, Journal of an Excursion in Aeia Minor (London, 1859). 214; Idem, Acamnf of Difcoveriet m Lucia (London, 1852), 205 so^ Smith, Dictionary of Greek andlHoman Oeography, s. v.; Texxer, Asie mineure (Paris, 1802). 094.

8. P^rrRiDf:8.

Unacre, Thomas, English phvsician and clergy- man, founder of the Royal Oollcge of PhysicLins, London, b. at Canterburjr about 1400; d. in London, 20 October, 1524. Nothing is known of las parents, but they seem to have been poor and obscure. His preliminaiy education was obtained at the monastery school of Christ Church, Canterbury, then presided over by the famous William Selling, the first great stu- dent of the ''new learning" in England. Through Selling^s influence Linacre entered All Souls College, Ozfora, about 1480, and in 14S4 was elected follow.

He distinguished himself in Greek under Comelio Vitelli. When Selling was sent to Rome as ambassa- dor by Henry VII, Linacre accompanied him, ob- taining an introduction to Lorenzo de' Medici, who welcomed him into his own household as a fellow- student of his sons, of whom one was later to become Pope Leo X. Here under Politian in Latin^ and Demetrius Chalcondylas in Greek, Linacre obtameda knowledge of these languages which made him one of the foremost humanistic scholars in England. During ten years in Italy, Linacre also studied medicine at Vicenza under Nicholas Leonicenus, a famous physi- cian of the time, and received his degree of M.D. at Padua. Returned to England, Linacre became, after years of distinguished practice, the royal physician to Henry VIII and the regular medical attendant of Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop Warham. Primate of England, Fox^ Bishop of Winchester, ana many of the highest nobihtv of the country. He was also the intimate friena of Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, and Dean Colet. After some eleven years of a life which brought him constantly in contact with the great nobles and the best scholars of England, he resigned his position as physician to the king in 1520 to be^me a priest. He devoted the fortune which had come to him from his medical practice to the foundation of chairs in Greek medicine at both Oxford and Cam- bridge, and to the establishment of the Royal College of Physicians. This institution was for the regulation of the practice of medicine, which had fallen into d\sn^ pute in consequence of the great increase of irregular practitioners. After Linacre obtained his charter, no one except a regular physician could practise in and around Ix>ndon. The constitution of the colle^, drawn up by Linacre, and still in force, is a standing monument of his far-seeing judgment. The college is an honoured English institution and the oldest of its kind ia the world. Linacre's contributions to medi- cine consist mainly of his translations of Galen's works from Greek into Latin. Erasmus said Lin- acre's Latin was better than Galen's Greek. He pub- lished the "Mcthodus Medendi", "De Samtate Tucnda ", " De Symptomatum Differentiis et Causis ", and "De Pulsuum Usu". Linacre was greatly re- spected by his contemporaries; Johnson, his biog- rapher, says, " He seems to have had no enemies ", and

his reputation has lasted to the present day.

Johnson, Life of Thomae Linacre (London, 1835): Murray, Livee of Britieh Phyeiciane (London. 1830); The Roll of the Ccilege of Phyeiciane: Walsh, Catholic Chwrchmen in Science (PhiladolphJa, 1006); Patnb, in DicL NaL Biog, (London. 1885), s. v.

James J. Walbh.

Linares (or Monterey or Nuevo L£6n), Arch- diocese OP (db Linares). — In 1777, at the request of Charles III of Spain, Pius VII erected the episcopal See of Linares as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico. Its first bishop was Fra Antonio di Gesu, O.F.M. For reasons of ecclesiastical administration the see was raised to archiepiscopal rank by Leo XIII, 23 June, 1891, with San Luis Potosi, Saltillo, and Tamaulipas, or Ciudad do Victoria, as suffragans. Monterey, the cathedral town and residence of the archbishop, is the capital of the State of Nuevo Le6n, Mexico. It is situated about 1600 feet above sea- level, and in 1900 it had a population of 62,206, rank- ing as sixth city in the republic. Its streets are hand- some, well navcd and clean, and the suburl>s are famous for the Ixjauty of their gardens wid orchards. The principal buildings include the fine cathedral, a spacious seminar>% schools of law and medicine, and elaborate public schools where education is free and compulsory, as it is throughout the republic, though the law on this head cannot always be enforc^. Owing to improved railway facilities the trade of Monterey is very active, as it lies in the heart of a rich agricultural district, and the ncighlwurhood abounds