Fabre, Jean a French preacher, was born at Tarascon, in Provence, about 1370. He entered the order of the Carmelite friars in 1390, and preached with success in divers churches in Provence. Pope Martin V appointed him archbishop of Cagliari in 1423. Fabre governed his diocese for seventeen years. Having been made patriarch of Cmesarea, he resigned his archiepiscopacy, and ended his days in retirement about the year 1442. His sermons have been collected under the title of Homiliae Sacrae. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generacle, 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