Genet Francois, a French prelate, was born at Avignon October 16, 1640. He became canon and theologian of the cathedral of Avignon, and in 1685 bishop of Vaison. Implicated in the affair of the Daughters of Childhood of Toulouse, whom he had received in his diocese, and who were held to be Jansenists, he was arrested in 1688, and imprisoned for fifteen months. The pope finally persuaded Louis XIV to restore Genet to his diocese. He was drowned in 1702, while on his way from Avignon to Vaison. He is the author of Thiologie Morale, which was disapproved by the bishops, and condemned by the University of Louvain, March 10, 1703. The best edition is that of 1715 (8 volumes, 12mo): it was reprinted at Rouen in 1749. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 19:873.
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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