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mooks were dispersed ; but the abbey ohureh, built in held it until the coming of Pompey to Judea (I HmL,

the purest French Gothic of the fourteenth eentuir, xi, 34, 67; Joeephua, "Antiquities", Xlv, x, 6).

was not destroyed; neither were the cloister* and eon- Julius CaeArin 48 b. c. gave Lydda to the Jews, but

ventual buildings. Until the passing of the recent Casaius in 44 sold the inhabitants, who two years later

laws against the Church in France these building were set at liberty by Antony (Joeephus, "Jewiah

were being used as a grand s^truiire for the Diocese of War", I, xi, 2; " Antii^uities", XIV, lii, 2-6).- The

Besan90n. They are now either empty or turned to city also experienced civil ware and the revolt of the

some secular use. The church itself haa fi" ' — ' ' .. ., -n. ..

used as the parish church of Luxeuil.

Gallia ChriHiatia XV. ISeO: Besbe. Let Jtf « FrWKc (Psni, 1B06I: Lbcistse. Abbauu n

IS for long been Jews against the Romans in the first century of our

1 und KoBBmoatioiiBn, I (Ptdt, —

T, Quid Luxovienta monachi dudpjdi S. Coium^n ngulan monatUriorvm contuUTiiU (Faris, ISOSi.

Urbak Butlis.

LnzoT. See Thebes, Diocese ow.

Lwow. See Lsubbrg, Diocese of.

I^copoUs, a titular » of Aiitinoe. As Siout o in Egyptian history. After &o fall of the afarth dynasty, its princes, freed from the supremacy of Memphis, bore ol-

"e Christians in this locality from the first, and St.

Peter, having come to visit them, there cured the

paralytic Eneas (Acts, ix, 32-6). The earliest known

bishop is Aetius, a friend of Arius; the episcopal title

of Lydda has existed since that time in the Greek

Patriarchate of Jerusalem. In December, 415, acoun-

cil was held here which absolved the heretic Pelagiua,

at the same tinie condemning his errors. Lydda has

c in Thebais Prima, suffragan been sumamed Georgiopolis m honour of the martyr

Siaout it played a minor r61e St. George, who is said to have been a native of

1^^,^ this town. The pil-

W^^ ^im TheodoaiuB is

ll^.ll the 6rBt to mention

(about 630) the tomb of the martyr. A magnificent church, erected above this tomb, was rebuilt ^ the Crusaders, and partly restored in modern times by the Greeks, to whom the sanctuary belongs. On the arrival of toe Crusadetfi in 1099 Lydda became the seat of a Latin see, many of whose titu- lars are known. At present the city con- tains 6800 inhabi- tants, of whom 4800 arc Mussulmans, 2000 - schismatic Greeks. and a few Protes- tants. The CathoUcs have a parish of 2S0 faithful in the neigh- bouring town of ItamlA.

cleopolis or Thebes. The principal object of worship was the jackal Apouaitou, whence the Greek Lycopolis, or city of tiie wolf. It subse- quently became the oapital of the Prinei- piuity of Terebinthos, and mter of the nome of that name. Among the ancient bishops of Lycopolis (Le- quien, " Cniens Chris- tianus". II, 697) were Alexander, au- thor of a treatise against the Mani- C^ans; Heletius, author of the (Egyp- tian) Meletian schism, -

and opponent of Peter of Alexandria; Volusianus, who attended the Council of Nictea in 325, and others. It is now the see of a Coptic schismatic bishop. TTieodosius the Great threatened to destroy the town after a fratricidal war, and it was savef* — '" by the intervention of St. John of Lycopoli., . ._ of its most celebrated citizens. Flotinus, the third- century neo-Platomc philosopher, was bom at Siout. Under the Arabs the town was very prosperous, became the capital of Said, and the rendezvous of caravans for Darfur. It also possessed a flour- ishing slave market. To-day it is the capital of

DiKTiplion dc la Patatin lucu lu uraiiu. uuc —, OewA-dM ;11(1 Fottu, I audi

,d it was save/ only «* <*« J" iK«* »■ '■

_.^: II (1901), 196; r Judie, I. 323-34; , panm; Vioooaocv,

S. VAILBfc.

Lydgate, John, b. at Lydgato, Suffolk, about 1370; d. probably about 1450. He entered the Benedictine abbey at Bury when fifteen and may have lieen edu- cated! earlier at the school of the Benedictine monks

^ _... _ __ __^ there and have been afterwards at the Benedictine

province, numbers 40,000 inhabitants, a tew trf whom house of studies at Oxford. It is possible, as Bale

are Catholics, and is chie9y noted for Arabian cemetery, and its ancient necropolis.

AutuNLiTi.Lagiotpiipliitde I'Eouple h V(poa\u cople <P«ria, 1893), 462-3: JotHMB, L'EavpIt (Faru), 422-6.

8. VAiMfe.

I^dda, a titular see of Paleetina Prima in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The town was formariy called Lod, and was founded by Samad of the tribe * Benjamin (I Par., viii, 12). Some of ' " ' ' ' were taken in captivity to Babylon, an rotumed later (I Esd- " ""'"-■

asserts, that he studied at both Oxford and Cambridge,

and it is fairly certain that he travelled in FraDce,and

perhapsinltaiy. He was ordained priest in 1397. Bale

(Soriptonim Summarium) says he opened a school

for sons of the oobility probably in the monastery of

Bury. His verses seem to have been much in request

by noble lords and ladies, and having been court poet

ha wrote a ballad for the coronation of Henry VI.

For eleven years (1423-1434) he was prior of Hatfield

inhabitants Broadoak, but is said not to have busied himself much

of them with his duties there. He then returned to Bury. At

rewards for his poetry

About the middle of the second century b. c, the city some land and a pension. Many of these details of his — -lagjvenbytbekingsofSyriatotbeludiabeee.wbo cai^eer can only be vaguely asserted, but his poetic