LAPUINTI 3 Ul&ZOHAEDIX
penance, but Popes Blaroellus and Eusebius adhered a part of the sultanate of Konia, and after the pos- strictly to the tiaditional penitential discipline. The sessions of the Seljuks were divided, it became the confusion and disputes caused by this difference capital of Caramania, conquered in 1486 by the Os- among the Roman Christians caused Maxentius to manli Sultan Bajazet II. The name Laranda is sel- fcMinish MarceUus and later Eusebius and Heraclius dom heard in modern davs, the city is generally known (cf. Inscriptions of Pope Damasus on Popes Mar- as Caraman. It has about 15,000 mhabitants, the cellus and Eusebius in Inm, Damasi epigrammata, majority being Mussulmans, and is one of the chief Leipzig, 1895, p. 51, n. 48; p. 25, n. IB). In Africa towns of the vilayet of Konia. Cbtton and silk fab- the unhappy Donatist schism arose from disputes rics are made there, and it is a railway-station be- about the lapsi, especially the traditores (see Dona- tween Konia and Eregli on the way to Bagdad. There TiSTs). Several synods oi the fourth century drew up are no ancient ruins. Laranda is mentioned as a suf- canons on the treatment of the lapsi, e. g., the fragan of Iconium bv the *'Notitise Episcopatuum" Synod of Elvira in 306 (can. i-iv, xlvi), of Arlee in imtil about the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Only 314 (can. xiii), of Ancyra in 314 ([can. i-ix), and the four of its bishops are known: Neo, mentioned by General Council of >fice (can. xiii). Many of the Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., VI, xix); Paul, present at the decisions of these synods concerned only members of Council of Nicsea, 325; Ascholius, at Chalcedon, 451 ; Uie clergy who had committed acts of apostasy in Sabbas, at Constantinople, 879.
time of persecution. L» quikn, Orien$ Christ., l, 1081; Smith, Diet, of Greek and
HsrBLB. KonxUienoeKh., I (2nd ed.. FreibuiK. 1873). Ill i^oman Get^., 8. v.; lUittAr, A«ia if inor, poMtm.^
■qq., 155 sqq.. 211. 222 sqa., 412 sqq.; Duchksnb. Hiat. an- b. I'ETIUDES. eUnne de VBglise, I (Paris. 1906) ..397 sqq.; Funk, Zur altchrittl.
f.'TSi^^'^.^'tSSl^rSS::^:^^^ ^»', formerly a titular areluepiscopal aee in pn>.
rian 'mZeUaehr. fur KirchengeMch., XVI (1896), 1-44. 187-219; consular Afnca. In ancient times it was a fortified
8ip3p^R,DieBehandlunoderOejaU^ town, mentioned by Sallust (JuRurtha, xc), later it
i;SE»!;^^VEfe?J^teiKrdr2?.i5^^: ^}yf the.name of Colonia ^lia Aug. La.res. At
ThUe (LvoDfl, 1904); 8ch6naich, Die ChristenverfoJoung dtt least five of its bishops are known: Hortensian, who
Kainer»fieciu9 (Jauer. 1907): Db Roasi. Roma toUerruneaari*- took part in 252 and 255 at the Councils of Carthage;
^Stii^-^y>^^ii>^'^^id^'J%^T'"^' ^' * •'^ yictorinu8 who with his Donatist colleague Honoratus
J. p. KiRSCH. figured at the conference of Carthage; Qumtian who
Uved at the time of the persecution of Iluneric (about
Lapuente (D'Apontb, db Pontb, Dupont), Luis 480); Vitulus, who was living in 525 in the time of
DB, Venerable, b. at Valladolid, 11 November, 1554; King Hilderic. St. Augustine (Ep. ccxxix), Victor
d. there, 16 February, 1624. Having entered the So- Vitensis (Hist. Pers. Vand., 6 and 9), Procopius (Bell,
ciety of Jesus, he studied under the celebrated Suarez. Vand., II, 22 and 28), also Arabian and other historians
and professed philosophy at Salamanca. Endowed mention the town. It is the Loroeus of to-day, be-
with exceptional talents for government and the for- tween Tunis and Tebessa; the ruins cover a large
mation of young reli^ous. he was forced by impaired area, which would indicate that once it had been a
health to retire from offices which he had filled town of considerable importance. A mosque has
with distinction and general satisfaction. The ^ears taken the place of a church, and the ruins of a basilica
that followed were devoted to Uterary composition, are still visible.
Though not reckoned among Spanish classics, his OAiia, Serie* episcoporum. I, 466; Toulotte, O^ographie d§
works are so replete with practical spirituaUty that VAfriquechritienneproconsulaire (Paris, 1892). 191-4.
they claim for him a place among the most eminent • ^^^^^^'
masters of ascetidwn Ordwned priest in IMO, he be- j^ Eichardie, Armand de, b. at P<5riKueux, 7 June,
owne the spintual dujwstor of the celebrated Marma de iggg ^ ^^ q^^^ 17 ^^^^ 1758 g^ ^^t^^ed th^
f^?^'u^A^'t,°B'^ » continued till his death. Society of Jelu8atBordeaux,40ct., 1703,andinl725
In 1599 he devoted himself with great chanty to the „^ J^^. ^ the Canada misdon. He s^nt the two
care of the plagius-rtncken in Villagarcia. Of remark- snowing years helping Father Pierre I^iel Richer
able umocence of life he not only avoided all^evous ^^ Lorett/, and studying the Huron language. In
sin, but bound himself by vow, some years before his ^728 he went to Detroft to re-establish^e long-
f^i'^^'tSr^eilf ^S'J5i'!?^i:r!fl?„^J^jrJi!l^ interrupted mission to.the dispersed. Petun-Hurons^
Christian did had been bap-
ineHurons. During the
father was stricken with
lhu^ vu ^u&unx ij^ucir,. xiiu, i«iv woriL xii« ue«u ^j^fy^i^ and on 29 Julv he was placed in an open
trandatod mto ten different languag^, indudmg Ara- ^oe ^nd thus conveyeJ to Quebei. ^
bic. A few years irfterhw death, the SacredC^^ j^ 1747 ^y^^ HuroM insisted on his returning to
tiOQ of Rites admitted the cause for his beatification ^^^ tranquiUity to their nation. The fatherliad
- %S22^S2.S:j.. VI. Ix; N,.H.MB.Ro. Varones Husire.. ^^8^ completely Tecovered from his palsy, and will-
IX. mgly consented. He set out from Montreal on 10
Henrt J. Swift. Sept., and reached Detroit on 20 Oct. From this
date until 1751, leaving the loyal Hurons in the keep-
Laranda, a titular see of Isauria, afterwards of in£ of Father Potier at the Detroit village, he directed
Lycaonia. Strabo (XII, 569), informs us that Laranda allhis energies to reclaiming Nicolas Orontondi's band
had belonged to the t3rrant Antipater of Derbe, of insurgent Hurons. These had already in 1740,
whence we may infer that it was governed by native owing to a bloody feud with the Detroit Ottawas and
princes. The city was taken by storm and destroyed to the reluctance, if not refusal, of Governor Beauhar-
Dy Perdiccas (Diodorus Siculus, XVIII, 22), after- nais to let the Hurons remove to Montreal, sullenly
wards rebuilt. Owing to its fertile territory Laranda left Detroit and settled at " Little Lake" (now Ron-
beoune one of the most important cities of the di»- deau Harbour) near Sandusky. There they had been
trioty also one of the principM centres for the pirates of won over to the English cause, had openly revolted in
Uauria. It was the birthplace of the poets Nestor and 1747, and had muroered a party of Frenchmen. Earl)'
- '*- son Pisander (Suidas, s. v.). In later times it was in the tpring of 1748 Orontondi (not Oronteny) set
