Patornay, Leonard a French Jesuit, was born in Salins in 1569. He joined the Jesuits at the age of seventeen, and for several years taught theology and the Holy Scriptures in different houses of his order. A skillful controvertist, he opposed the Lutheran heresy, and cardinal Richelieu, who esteemed his talent, several times employed him to reply to the ministers of the Reformed doctrine. Patornay died at Besancon in 1639. He published, under a fictitious name, Declarationes aliquce multorum deductorum ad Ecclesice casira. See Backer, Biblioth. des Ecriv. de la Comp. de Jesus, 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