Bar, Louis de a French theologian, was a native of Sens. At theage of thirty he went to Rome, where he embraced the ecclesiastical calling; became secretary of the cardinal of Ferrara; was appointed legate to France to Charles IX, and accompanied to Spain the cardinal Ugo Buoncompagno (afterwards pope Gregory XIII), who appointed him prodatary. After the death of this pontiff, De Bar gave his attention wholly to his functions as dean of the apostolic subdeacons of St. Peter's at Rome, and to the relief of the poor. He died in 1617.: He wrote, among other works, Ex quatuor Evangelistarum Textu Confecta Narratio, which was published four months before the death of the author. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v.
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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