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ver the Divine will occurs in the Acts (i, 24-26) in
nnexion with the olection of Matthias.
3iGOT. iiuii / ./. ,,,s/i Hist. (New York. 1903), 87. 316;
jss-.\rn"i \ I / , ,uid Thummim, a Suggestion as to Ihcir ginal Sai-. -ance in American Journal of Semitic
eralurc. \\I c r .,-.. l'.)00), 218 seq.
James F. Driscoll.
Uritana. Sec Oria, Diocese of.
Urmiah, a residential see in Chaldea, in the iiviiiie of .\dherbaidjan, Persia. The primitive tnc of this city seems to have been Urniui, or ther Urmedji (Barbier de Meynard, " Dictionnaire la Perse", 27). It is said, but with little truth, that is the native place of Zoro;ister, and that he lived in trotto near by. Nothing is known of its primitive itorj-. Some wrongly locate at Urmiah Bishop hn of Persa, or Perrha, present at the Council of caea in 325 (Gelzer, "Patrum Nicoenonim nomina", xi.x and Ixviii). The "Sjiiodicon" of the Chalde.an lurch during several centuries has no mention Urmiah. On the other hand there existed from D. 420 to the thirteenth century, a See of Adher- idjan. a suffragan of Arbela (Le Quien, "Oriena iristianus ", II, 12S.i) . But there is no proof that its
- hop resided at Urmiah rather than in any other
y of this province. In the sixteenth century the istorian Metropolitan of Iclu, Seert, and Salamas ibraced Catholicism; he was recognized by Rome in 32 as the Chaldean patriarch, under the name of neon, and fixed his residence at Urmiah. His 3cessors took the name of Mar Seman, and remained .tholics until 1670; then they returned to Nes- •ianism, and established themselves at Kotchannes Kurdistan, where they may be found to-day ssemaiii, " Bibliotheca orientalis ", I, 621; 11,457; [, 621 ; Le Quien, op. cit., II, 1327). The present Chal- AU Diocese of Urmiah w:vs established by Rome in 90; it has 5000 Catholics, 42 priests, 4-1 churches d chapels, 70 secondary stations, several schools for ys an<l girls under the direction of the Lazarists and
- Sisters of Charity. The Lazarists established
imsclves at Urmiah in 1S3S; the Sisters of Charity 18.56. The first possess a seminary .and a Syrian nting press, where P. Bedjan has published many itions of the ancient texts. The city contains 40,000 labitants, and is the centre of the American Prot- ant missions. It is situated on the Tchahar- hai, near Lake Urmiah.
Morgan. Mission scientifique en Perse, I (Paris. 1891). 289- i; Reuue de I'Orienl chrltien (Paris. 1896). 4.51; Piolet. Les sions catholiques franfaises au XIX' siicle, I (Paris), 202-209; ssiones catholica (Rome, 1907), 813.
S. Vailhe.
[Jiraburu, Juan Josfi, Scholastic philosopher, h. Ccanuri, Biscay, 23 May, 1S44; d. at Burgos, 13 gust, 1904. He entered the Society of Jesus on Vlay, 1860, at Loyola (Guipi'izcoa). He was pro- sor of rhetoric, and after having finished his own idies he taught philosophy in the Jesuit house of idiis, and later theology at Poyanne, France. In ■ ScIh >lastic revival promoti'd by Leo X 1 1 1 , Urrdburu s c.illcd to Rome (1878) to teach philosophy in • Gregorian University. He remained there nine irs and on his return was made rector of the Col- e of V'alladolid (1887-90); of the Colegio Maximo, a (1891-97); and of the seminary of Sal.am.anca >98-1902). His i)rincipal work is entitled "Institu- nes philosophiie qu.as Roma- in Pontificia Universi- eGregorianatradiderat . . .", Valladolid: I, Logica, •0; ll.Ontologia, 1891; III, Cosmologia, 1892; IV, kchologia' part 1, op. 1894; V, Psvchologix part 2, )6 ; VI, Psvrhologia> part 2 (continual ion), 1898; VII, eodicea; vol. I, 1899; VllI, Theodicea' vol. II, K). Other works are: "Coinixndium pliilosophise lola-sticie . . .", 5 vols., Madrid, 1902-1904; "El •dadero puesto de la filosofla entro las demiis ncias", articles published in " Raz6n y Fe", I, XV.— 15
57, 137(1901); "El principio vital y el materialismo
ante la ciencia y la filosofla", ibid., VIII, 313 (1904);
IX, 180, 325 (1904): X, 219 (1904); XI, 54 (1905);
posthumous: " L;i inenic de la Compaiiia acerca de
las doctrinas es<()hisli('as (lue se refieren & la constitu-
ci6n de los cuerpos. Pldctica familiar" (Oiia, printed
privately). Two chapters (Disputat., XI) of "Psy-
chologia fusior", translated into Spanish by Antonio
Madariaga, were published at Madrid, 1901, with
the title "Principios fundamentales de antropo-
logla". The value of Urr;iburu's philosophical work
is fully attested by the favour with which it was
received and the care with which it was examined by
the most competent critics. The influence of his teach-
ing has been notable, especially among the members
of his order; the "Institutiones" has been constantly
consulted by professors and students (new edition,
"Logica", 1908); the "Compendium" is the textbook
used at present in the Jesuit scholasticates of Spain
and other countries. Father Carlos Delmas published
an exhaustive appreciation in the " Etudes biblio-
graph.", March, 1893, and in "Etudes", LXXXVIII,
123. Father Jos6 Espi contributed a serious study,
"Un nuevo libro de filosofia escoldstica" in "Raz6n
y Fe", IV, 51. To these articles may be added
Nadal's notice, "La psicologia del P. Urrdburu" in
"Raz6n y Fe", XIV, 314. Urraburu's work, a last-
ing monument to the School in general, and particu-
larly to that of Su&rez, is solid, learned, uncompro-
mising towards error, moderate in expression, and
well-balanced by common sense.
Antonio Nadal.
Ursinus, Antipope. See Damasus I, Saint, Pope.
Ursperger Chronicle, a history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninus and extends to the year 1229. At the present day it can hardly be doubted that the chronicle was written by Burchard of Bibcracli. Burchard was born in the latter half of the twelfth century in Biberach, an imperial free city of Swabia. He spent the years 1198-99 in Italy and was ordained priest at Con- stance in 1203. In 1205 he entered the Premon- stratensian monastery, Schussenried, and in 1209 he became its provost. In 1215 he was called as provost to Ursperg, where he died in 1230. He began to collect material for his work at an early age and, in particular, made use of his stay at Rome to examine the papal Regesta. The basis of the first part of his work is the chronicle of the world written by Ekkehard of Aura which he copied almost word for word ; for a later period he used the records concern- ing the Guelphs made by the monk of Weingartcn, and for the time of Frederick I Barbarossa the records of the priest John of Cremona. Burchard's original work does not begin until the last years of Henry I ; from this point on he narrates independently but in clumsy language the events in which he has taken part himself, or concerning which he has gained rehable information. He does not disguise his adherence to the Hohenstaufen party, and often speaks bitterly of the papal policy. The chronicle was last edited by Abel and Weiland in the "Mon. Germ. Ili.st.: Script.", XXIII, .337-83; also separately for school use (Hanover, 1874).
Abel, Die Ursperger Chronik in Arehiv der Gesellschaft far dtlere deulsche Gcschiehlskunde, XI (1858), 76-115: PoTTll.tST, Bibl. hislorica (Berlin, 1896), 178, 296; Wattenbacb. DeiUsch- lands GeschichlsqueUen, II (Berlin, 1894), 448-450.
Patricius Schlaqeh.
Ursula, Saint, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins. — The history of these celebrated virgins of Cologne rests on ten lines, and these are open to question. This legend, with its countless variants and increasingly fabulous developments, would fill more than a hundred pages. Various characteristics
