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What ho Intended in his writings was not to give a re^jident priest, 14 without priest, 85 primary schools

lone treatise, exhaustive from every point of view; he with an attendance of 67<iO. The diocese has no

wished only " to open up a small nver, to the ocean", seminary, but twenty-two ecclesiastical students are

without repeating what others had said before him being trained elsewhere. The city of Lugos itself

and without giving a series of opinions of previous has 16,000 inhabitants, 1030 Uniat-Rumanians, 7440

writers or fumishine authors and quotations in num- Latins, 4760 Orthodox Rumanians; the remainder

ber; he aimed at adding what he had found from his Protestants or Jews. Situated on the right bank of

own reflexion and deep meditation on each subject, the Temes, a tributary of the Danube, in Kras86-

Other important features of his theological concep- Szdi^ny ooimty, it has a church built by Etienne

tions are the union he always maintains between moral Bathory, a Franciscan monastery, and several other

and dogmatic theology, the latter being the support of objects of interest. It was the last place of resort of

the former, and the same treatnient TOing applied to the Hungarian Government of 1849. Its trade is fairly

both, discussing thoroughly the principle on wnich the important; in the suburbs are fine vineyards,

main points of the doctrine rest. From this point of ,„^eher in iTu^^/er. b. v. Fogaraa; Mwumes <:athol%ca

«-;»«» 4^A lao4-i;r>Aa#\^k;ciT>«»f«AA«'nA ;iia^;f:o Af^;ii«M>" (Rome, 1907), 787-8; Dteeesa Luooshului Shematxam xstonc

View the last hnes of his preface De JUStltia et jure, \ux^^ 1903). containi all the oflScial documente ooncemm« the

are instructive. creation of the Diocese of Lugoe and detaUed statistics.

All his writings, whether on dogmatic or moral S. Vailhi^.

theology, exhibit two main qualities: a penetrating. ,

critical mind, sometimes indulging a little too much Luini, Bernardino, Milanese pamter, b. between

in subtilities, and a sound judgment. He may be 1470 and 1480; d. after 1530. The actual facts known

ranked among the best representatives of the theo- respecting the life history of this delightful painter are

logical revival of the sixteenth and seventeenth oen- very few. We are not even certain that his name was

turies. The small river he wished to open up, is in- Luim, as he himself uses the Latin form Lovinus, and

deed one of the most important which empties its Vasari calls him in one place, del Lupino, and in another

waters into the ocean of theology, so that m many di Lupino. As Luini he has, however, been generally

dogmatic or moral questions, the opinion of de Lugo known, and his birth is stated to have taken place at

is of preponderating value. In several problems he Luino, where there still remain certain frescoes of

formed a system of his own, as for instance about simple work, said to have been amongst his earliest

faith, the Eucharist, the hypostatic union, etc., and productions. All we do know about him is that in

owing to the thorougii discussion of the question at 1507 he was a master with many commissions, that m

issue, his opinion is always to be taken mto account. 1512 he was worldnK at Chiaravalle and Milan, that

In moral uieology he put an end, as Ballerini re- ^e is referred to in the archives of Legnano in 1516,

marks, to seveml disputed points. St. Alphoiiflus t^^ ^^ ^^ ** "WQirk in the Great Monasteiy at Milan

de Liguori does not hesitate to rank him immediately for Cou^t Bentivoglio between 1522 and 1524, that he

after St. Thomas Aquinas, "post S. Thomam faSfe was at Saronno in 1525, that in 1529 and 1530 he was

princeps", and Benedict XIV calls him "a Udbt of at work at Lugano and in the side chapel of the Great

the Church". Two complete editions of Lugo's Monastery at Milan, and that he is said to have died,

works were published at Venice in 1718 and 1751, according to one authority in 1532, and according to

each edition containing seven volumes. Another edi- another m 1533, whilst a manuscript preserved at

tion (Paris, 1768) was never completed. The last Saronno seems to imply, although it does not actu-

edition is that of Foumials (Paris, 1868-69), in seven ally state it as a fact, that Luini was alive and residing

volumes, to which an eighth volume with the "Re- at that place in 1547. Beyond these facts everything

sponsa moralia" and the "Indices" was added in is conjecture-. The inhabitants of Luino point to an

1^91 . old house in an open space at the top of a steep road as

HoRTER. Nomenclaior, III (Innsbruck, 1907), 91 1 ; Sommer- his birthplace. They have called two of the streets of

^S^]F.^\SH^^S?^tl^ ^ ^ Campagnie 4$ JUnu.^ V (Brussels, the town after his name, and there are three trades-

1896). 176: IX. 619; Andradid, y^^^'^ ^;^^^^; ^^};^^^ men in the place bearing the same name, and claiming

^^^■•■1^^^^^ direct descent from the painter.

Logos, Diocese op, in Hungary ,^£^jii!^^^Wlfcs^ The frescoes in Luino are characteristic of the garas and Alba Julia of the Uniat-RujJKanian Rite, was painter's work in many respects, exemplifying his erected in November, 1853, with th^ of Armenopolis, strange faults of composition, out possessing a general or Szamos-Ujvdr, out of parishes taken away from sense of immaturity, and there seems considerable Fogaras and Grosswardein (Najgy-Vdrad) ; it had then probability that the Luino traditions respecting them 90 parishes and about 47,(X)0 faithful. Its first bishop, and the birth of the painter, are accurate. We have Mgr Dobraj 1854-70, was also the first of all the Aus* no evidence that he was a pupil of Leonardo. Influ- tro-Hunganan clergy of the Byzantine Rite to obtain enced, of course, he was by the great painter, and in the title of Doctor; m spite of countless difficulties, he certain respects — more particularly m his *' Christ contributed by his learning and holy life to bring crowned with Thorns'' at Milan, and in certain pic- several thousand Orthodox back to Catholicism, tures of the Virgin and Child, notably those at Saronno As his diocese had no foundation, Mgr Dobra estab- — he comes exceedingly close in style to Leonardo, lished the Rudolph foundation for poor students and while in colouring, design, effect of relief, and depth ot another for aged priests or widowers. After him feeling, he approaches more nearly to that master than the diocese was administered by Mgr John' Olteanu, any otner artist of the period. His works, however, transferred to Grosswardein in 1873; Mgr Victor Mi- show a sweetness and an intense fervour of devotion hdlyi de Apsia, 1874-96, subsequently transferred marking them out from those of Leonardo. There is to the archiepiscopal See of Fogaras, and during no sign of the mysterious Leonardo smile, nor of the whose episcopacy a diocesan synod was held in No- semi-pagan quality which at times is so marked in vember, 1882; Mgr Demetrias Radu, 1896-1903, Leonardo's female figures. Luini was evidently not a to-day occupying the See of Grosswardein; finally, philosopher nor a man of deep intellectual diiscem- Mgr Basil Hosszu the present bishop* This venr ment, but one of sweet disposition, simple mind, and extensive diocese comprises the Counties of Krasso- lofty religious belief. He lacked, no doubt, coherence 8z6r6ny, Torontal, Temes, HunyacL and a part of and skill in composition where many figures are r^ Arad; it contains about 98,000 Uniat-Rumanians, quired, but he possessed to a supreme degree the 552,000 Catholics of the Latin Rite, 1,002,000 Ortho- power to create emotion, and to produce upon those dox Rumanians, several thousand Protestants and who looked at bia pictures the still, quiet, religious Tews. There are 15 unmarried priests, 139 married, quahty at which he aimed. His earliest fresco work and 1^ widowers; 163 parishes, 149 churches with was orobably that done for the Casa Polufij^sb.