Agudi, Luigi Maria, an Italian divine, was a native of Milan. He was at first. a Barefooted Carmelite, and was considered one of the first preachers and theologians throughout Italy during the 17th century. He taught theology at Naples and Bologna; but applying himself subsequently to preaching, he addressed, vast crowds at Como, Naples, Verona, Milan, Venice, and other Italian cities. After being a Carmelite for twenty-nine years, and filling the office of prior, provincial vicar, definitor, and visitor, he assumed the habit of the Dominicans, by permission of the pope, in 1669, in the Convent of Santa Maria at Milan. His works are, Carmelus Sapiens, sive de Scriptoribus Utriusque Carmeli, etc.: — Fontes Salvatoris, sive de Sacramentis, in Genere et Specie, etc. (Lugd. 1683, 4to):-De Justitia et Jure, de Restitutione, de Contractis:-De Censuris:-Anima Bibliothecce: Quadragesimale, sermons for all the Sundays of. the year:-Silva Sermonum, or homilies gathered from the early fathers.
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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