Bernardin Of Rome (surnamed the Small), an Italian theologian and preacher, was born at Feltri about 1420. He was of the order of Minorites. Sixtus IV and Innocent XIII employed him in some important affairs. His eloquence was admirable. — Bernardin of Butis, his fellow-laborer, attributed to him miraculous power, and claimed that there were millions of angels in the air as he preached. But the grandest proof which he gave of his charity was the erection of the loan bank for the relief of the poor, which the Jews crushed with usury. He died at Pavia in 1494, leaving a small treatise On the Manner of Confession (Brescia, 1542); and some sermons in Italian (Venice, 1532). See Dupin, Hist. Eccles. Writers, iii, 76; Cave, Hist. Lit. ii, App. p. 195; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 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