Bellegarde, Jean Baptiste Morvan de a laborious French writer, known as the Abbe de Bellegarde, was born at Pihyriac, August 30th, 1648. He was a Jesuit 16 years, but was obliged to leave the society on account of his Cartesianism. He translated the Letters and Sermons of Basil, the Sermons of Asterius, the Moralia of Ambrose, many of the works of Leo, Gregory Nazianzen, and Chrysostom, the Imitatio Christi and other works of Thomas a Kempis, and various other writings. His translations betray great negligence. He died April 26, 1734. — Hoefer, Biog. Generale, 5, 39.
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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