Adventius, Bishop Of Metz, early embraced the clerical life, and was educated under the supervision of Drogo, whom he succeeded in the above-mentioned see in 855. He was present and spoke in the Synod of Metz in 869, and in that of Douzi in 871. Besides his own epitaph, which he made, there is extant (in Baronius) the writing which he composed in favor of the divorce between Lothair and his queen Thietburga See Mleurisse, Hist. des Eveques de lEglise de Metz; Rivet, Hist. Lit. de la France, v, 249.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More