Cienfuegos, Alvarez a Spanish prelate and statesman, was born at Aguerra, in the Asturias, February 27, 1657, and belonged to the Jesuit order. He was first a professor at Compostella, and afterwards at Salamanca. For some time he occupied the archiepiscopal see of Monreale; was, in 1720, cardinal priest; in 1724, president of the highest Spanish: council at Vienna; in 1733, imperial minister at Rome, and, in 1735, protector of the nuns of Santa Susanna there. In 1737 he resigned his archbishopric, and died at Rome, August 12, 1739. He wrote, De Perfectionibus Christi Servatoris: — De Sapientia Dei: — De Scientia Meiaa: — De Simonia: — Enigma Theologicum seu Potius Enigmatum et Obscurissimarum Quaestionum Compendium (2 volumes, fol.). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)
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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