Beauvais, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de
A French bishop, b. at Cherbourg, 17 October, 1731; d. at Paris, 4 April, 1790.
Bebian, Roch-Amboise-Auguste
Sent to France, committed to the care of his godfather, the Abbé Sicard, the well-known educator of the deaf and dumb.
Bec, Abbey of
The Benedictine Abbey of Bec, or Le Bec, in Normandy, was founded in the earlier part of the eleventh century by Herluin, a Norman knight who about 1031 left the court of Count Gil…
Becan, Martin
Controversialist, born at Hilvarenbeck, Brabant, Holland, 6 January, 1563; died at Vienna, 24 January, 1624.
Beccus, John
Patriarch of Constantinople in the second half of the thirteenth century, one of the few Greek ecclesiastics who were sincerely in favour of reunion with the Church of Rome.
Beckedorff, George Philipp Ludolf von
Studied theology at Jena, then medicine at Göttingen, obtained the degree of doctor in 1799.
Beckx, Pierre-Jean
Twenty-second General of the Society of Jesus, born at Sichem, Belgium, 8 February, 1795; died at Rome, 4 March, 1887.
Becquerel, Antoine-César
French physicist, b. at Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret), 7 March, 1788; d. at Paris, 18 January, 1878.
Bedard, Pierre
French-Canadian lawyer and member of the Assembly of Lower Canada, b. at Charlesbourg near Quebec, 13 November, 1762; d. at Three Rivers, 26 April 1829.
Bede, The Venerable
Benedictine monk, priest, historian, Doctor of the Church, d. 735.
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