Berthelot Gregoire a French Benedictine of the congregation of St. Vannes, was born at Berain in Barrois, Jan. 20, 1680. He became engaged at the age of seventeen in the Abbey of Munster, in Alsatia. He devoted himself with ardor to the study of ecclesiastical antiquities, and was finally considered worthy of the position of librarian of the Abbey of St. Leopold of Nancy, where facilities were afforded to him for improvement. Unfortunately he formed a friendly alliance with M. de Talvennes-Conseillon, who was a Jansenist and favored the Jesuits by certain writings, and who, in order to escape the storm which threatened him, fled to Holland. Among his writings which were condemned we mention, Memoires de Port Royal: — Instructions du Cardinal de Noailles, etc. Berthelot was also sent into exile to the Abbey of St. Mihiel, where he died, March 31, 1745. He was the author of Traite Historique et Moral de l'Abstinence des Viandes, et des Revolutions qu'elle a eues depuis le Commencement du Monde jusqu' Aujourd'hui (Rouen, 1731); a learned work, and full of interesting research. We might mention the titles of a number of his works, the MSS. of which are lost. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Biog. Universelle, 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