Cellot, Louis a French theologian and historian, of the Jesuit order, was born at Paris in 1588. He was successively rector of the colleges of Rouen and of La Fleche, afterwards provincial. The society charged him with the defense of the privileges of the regulars against the rights of the pastors. He died in Paris. Oct. 12, 1658, leaving De Hierarchia et Hierarchieis (Rouen, 1641, fol.); a work censured by the Sorbonne, and put into the Index at Rome: — Horcem Subcisivce (Paris, 1648, 4to, which is a response to the treatise of Hallier, entitled De Hierarchia Ecclesiastica): — Historia Gothescalchi (ibid. 1655, fol.). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale 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