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LEFT ST. CLOUD 187 ST. DAVIDS gress in 1787; governor of Northwest Territory in 1789-1802. The expedition- ary force against the Miami Indians, numbering 1,400, commanded by him, was cut to pieces near Miami village in 1791. He resigned his command in 1792; pub- lished an account of the Miami expedition in 1812; and died near Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. ST. CLOUD, a city and county-seat of Stearns co., Minn.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Northern Pacific, and the Great Northern railroads; 75 miles N. W. of St. Paul. It contains the Min- nesota State Reformatory, a State Normal School, hospital, public library, water- works, street railroad and electric light plants, National and private banks, and daily newspapers. It has novelty works, manufactures of lumber and wagons, flour mills, foundry, several granite quar- ries, the Great Northern railroad car shops, and large grain interests. Pop. (1910) 10,600; (1920) 15,873. ST. CLOUD, a town of France, in the department of Seine-et-Oise ; on an emi- nence near the Seine, -5 miles W. of Paris. Henry III. was assassinated here in 1589 by the fanatical monk Jacques Clement. St. Cloud was long famous on account of its magnificent chateau, built by Louis XIV.'s brother, the Duke of Or- leans. Napoleon planned and carried out here the coup of 18th Brumaire, and after he became emperor made this chateau his favorite place of residence. It was destroyed, and its magnificent park (in which stands the Sevres porcelain fac- tory), greatly injured, during the siege of Paris in 1870. Pop. about 6,000. ST. CROIX, an American river, called also the Passamaquoddy and the Schoo- dic, which, flowing out of Grand Lake, on the E. border of Maine, runs S. E. 75 miles to Passamaquoddy Bay, and forms a portion of the boundary between the United States and New Brunswick. ST. CROIX, a West Indian island, formerly belonging to Denmark; pur- chased by the United States in 1916 and now one of the Virgin Islands. Area, 74 square miles; pop. about 20,000. Pop. of Fredericksted, chief town, 3,000. The W. portion is hilly, but the soil almost throughout the island is productive. Sugar is the principal crop, which is, however, diminishing. The island was discovered by Columbus. ST. CUTHBERT, an English bishop; born near Melrose, England; early in the 7th century. He was successively prior of the monasteries of Melrose and Lindis- farne, retired afterward to the lone and desolate isle of Fame, where he might en- joy a life of solitude. He finally yielded to the persuasion of the Northumbrian king, Oswy, and took the bishopric of the province of Lindisfarne. He held this of- fice for two years, when, worn out by labors and austerities, he died on the island of Fame, March 20, 687, which day is observed for his festival. ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, an Egyptian bishop; born in Alexandria, Egypt, about 376. He succeeded his uncle Theophilus as Bishop of Alexandria in 412. He compelled the Novatians to si- lence, banished the Jews, and caused Nes- torius to be condemned and deposed by the Council of Ephesus. A subsequent ex parte council of 42 bishops, headed by John, patriarch of Antioch, and favoring Nestorius, excommunicated and deposed his opponent. The emperor, appealed to in this strait, condemned both sides, and ordered the rival champions to be impris- oned. The powerful intercession of Rome, however, caused this sentence against Cyril to be abrogated. His works, mostly controversial, have been published, Paris, 1638, in seven volumes, folio. He died in Alexandria in June, 444. ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, a Church father; born in or near Jerusa- lem, Palestine, about 315. He was elected bishop of his native city in 351. He was soon engaged in hot conflict with his met- ropolitan, the Arian bishop Acacius of Caesarea, who caused him to be twice de- posed. He was for the second time re- stored to his episcopate in 360. Soon af- ter, his old enemy Acacius died, but Cyril was immediately involved in new difficul- ties. After considerable strife Cyril was banished by order of the Emperor Valens in 367; nor did he return till the emper- or's death in 378. His writings, mostly doctrinal, are extremely valuable. They present to us, in a more complete and systematic manner than the writings of any other father, the creed of the Church. He died in 386. ST. DAVID. See David I. ST. DAVID, FORT, a ruined defensive work on the coast of Madras presidency, British India; 100 miles S. of Madras, on the outskirts of Cuddalore. It became British in 1690, along with all the land round about to the distance of a "randome shott," and was an important place dur- ing the struggle with the French, forming the chief of the English settlements on the Coromandel coast from 1746 to 1752. It is of interest also from association with Clive, who became governor in 1756. ST. DAVIDS, a village in Pembroke- shire, South Wales, on the rivulet Alan, within lVz miles of St. Brides Bay and 16