LEBAT If
the Domimean convent of St-Germain, where he m&de his proCessioD in 1682. Excepting oocujonal short abaenoes he never left Paris. At the time of his deatli he was librarian of the coovent in Rue St-Honort, a poaitioa which he bad filled almost all his life, lending kindly assistance to the learned men who sought in- formation on theology and eccIesiastLcal antiquity. Under the supervision of the celebrated Pfire Marsol- lier he mastered the classical languages Arab, and Hebrew, to the detriment, it seems, of his mother- toueue.
His chief works, in chronological order, are: (1) " De- fense dutext« h^breuet de la version vulgate" (Paris, 1690), reprinted in Higne, "Scriptune Sacne Cursus", m (Paris, 1861), 1525-84. It is an answer to " L'an- tiquit^ des temps rftablie" by ^e Cistercian Pezron, who took the text of the Septuagint sole basis for chronology. zroD repliei), i was again an- ered by Le . ien. (2) "Jo- hannis Damasceni
Greek text witJl Latin translation (2 vols, fol., Paris, 1712) in Migne, "Patrologia Gncca", XCIV- VI. To this fun- damental edition he added excel- lent dissertations; a third volume, which was to have contained other works of the great Damascene and various studies on him, was never com- pleted. (3) " Panoplia contra schiama Ura?corum ", un- der the pseudonym of Stephanus de Altimura Ponti- cencis (Paris, 1718), a refutation of the ll(pi <IpkS' f<»' tliwa of Patriarch Xeetarius of Jerusalem, Lo Quien maintained, with historical proofs derived chiefly from the Orient, the primacy of the pope. {!) " La nulliti^ des ordinations anglicanea" (2 vols., Paris, 1725), and "La nullity dcs ordinations anglicanes demontri'C de nouveau" (2 vols., Paris, 1730), against Le C'ourayer's apology for Anglican Orders. (5) Various articlra on archjTology and ecclesiastical history, published by Desmolets (Paris, 1726-31). (6) " Oriens chrislianus in quatuor patriarchatus digcstus, in quo exhibentur EccleaiiB patriarchie caeterique pnesules totius Orien- tis", published posthumou-sly (3 vols., Paris, 1740). I« (^ien contemplated issuing this work as early as 1722, and had made a contract with the printer Si- mart (Revue do TOricnt latin, 1894, II, 190). In edit^ ing it, he used the notes of the Benedictine Sainte-Mar- thes, who had projected an "OrhisChristianus", and had obligingly handed him over their notes on the Orient and .Africa. The "OriensChristianus", as pro- jected by Le Quicn, was to comprise not only the hier- archy iM the lour Greek and Latin patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, and that of the Jacobite, Melchitc, Nestorian, Maron- ite.and Armenian patriarchates, but also the Greek and Latin texts of the various "Notitim episcopatuum", a catalogue of the Eastern and African monasteries, and also the hierarchy of the African Church. The last three parts of this gigantic project were set aside by Le Quien's literary heirs. As to the " Notitiie cpis- copatuiun", the loss is unimportant: the learned Do- mmicnn had not a very clear concept of the work called for by the editing of this text. His notes on ('hristian Africa and its monBMteries have never been
uaed.at leastintheirentirety. (7) "Abi^gtf del'bli-
toire de Boulogne-sur-Mer et de sea comtea " in Des-
molets, "lUmoirea de litt^ratuie", X (Paris, 1749),
36-112.
Qofcnr AND EcHjLBO.Senpi. onl. Pml^ II, 808: Jeunud dm Sa«inU,a: Hicbiud, fiiwr. i.mwrKlle, XXIV. 241; Hcbtir. NamtTKlaloT, II, lOM-fl; Stumb in Kinhtnttx., i. v.; ZCc«- ■ " ■ :Lfarprvl.Tka>l..:T.
6. VuLst.
Uilda, DiocEBB OP (Ilerdenbib), suffraran of
Tarragona. La Canal says it was erected in 600, but
others maintain it goes back to the third century, and
there is mention of a St. Lycerius, or Glycenus, as
Bishop of L^rida in a. d. 269. The signatures of other
bishops of L^rida are attached to various councils up
to the ycar716, when the Moors took pomeesion of the
town, and the see was removed to Roda; in 1101 it was
transferred to Bar1>astro. An unbroken list of bish-
ops of Wrida goes back to the year 887. _ L£rida, the
Roman Ilerda, or Herda, the second city in Catalonia,
is built on the right bank of the River Segrs, about
100 miles from Barcelona. During the FWic wan
it sided with the Carthaginians; near it Banno wu
defeated by Scipio in 216 b. c, and Juhus Cfsar dft-
fcated Pompey's forces in 49 b. c. The Hoors to(A
poi^ession of it in716, and in 1149 Berengerof Catft-
lonia drove them out, and it became the residence (rf
the kings of Aragon. During the Peninsular War the
French held it (1810), and in 182.'i Spain once more
obtained possession of it. Owing to its natural po«i-
Aei . -
ithic Cathedral, of which the r ._ __
the citadel, dates from 1203. During the Uid- dle Ages the University of Lfrida was famous; in 1717 it was suppressed, and united with Cervara.
In 514 or 524 a council attended by eight bishops passed decrees forbidding the taking up of arms or the shedding of blood by clerics. A council in 54fi regulated ecclesiastical discipline. Another in 1173 was presided over by Cardinal Giacinto Bobone, who afterwards became Celestine III. A council in 1246 absolved James I oF Aragon from the sacrileee of cutting out the tongue of tlic Bishop of Gcrona. The cathedral chapter prior to the concordat consisted of 6 dignities, 24 canons, 22 benefices, but after the concordat (he number was reduced to 16 canons and 12 beneficed clerics. The seminuy, founded in 1722, accommodaU-3 500 students, lie Catholic population of the diocese is 185,000 souls scattered over 395 parishes and minist«red to by 598 prirats. Besides 395 churches for public worship, there are in the diocese five religious communities of men, six of women, and several hospitals ui charge of nuns. Former bishops of L^rida include Cardinal de Rom,- Cardinal Ccrdan, and Inquisitor General Martinei d« Villatoricl. The present bishop, Mgr J. A. Ruano y Martin, was bom at Gijude del Barro, in the Diocese (M Salamanca^ 3 Xov., TR48. appointed titular bishop of Claudiopohs, and .\dmini-f1 rator of Barbastro, 3 Nov., 1898, and transferrcil to Wrida, 14 Dec., 1905, when he succeeded Mgr Josf Meseguer y Costa.
Bipa.ia Sa^rada (Madrid, 17S4); Billobo, Aniiatio' Kdaida- tiai de EipaHa (Madrid, 1904).
J. C. Gbet.
Urins, Abbey of, situated on an island of the same name, now known as that of Saint-Honorat, about a league from the coast of Provence, in the De- partment of the Maritime Alps, now included in the Diocese of Nice, formerly in that of Grsase or of Ad- tibcs. It was founded in the Ix^inning of the fiftli
