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men. Arcudius, too, among many works has left one classic, his treatise on the Sacraments.^[1]

Among the students of whom the Greek College is justly proud we may notice also Joseph Velamin Rutski, a Ruthenian, Metropolitan of Little Russia, and a mighty champion of the faith in his time (1637);^[2] Josaphat Azales,^[3] in the time of Paul V (1605-1621), who went to Athos and persuaded the monks there to send a letter of submission to the Pope; further, Demetrios Phalereus Kyriakos,^[4] professor at the Sapienza at Rome and one of the famous Hellenists of the seventeenth century; Neophytos Rhodinos († 1655),^[5] scholar and missionary in Poland, Macedonia, and Greece; John Tzigalas († 1687),^[6] professor at Padua, and many others. Rodotà in his book draws up a list of the distinguished students of the college: missionaries, monks, bishops, theologians, philologists, Hellenists, philosophers, physicians.^[7] To these I must add his own name. Peter Pompilius Rodotà was an Italo-Greek of Calabria, nephew of Felix Samuel Rodotà, the first ordaining Byzantine bishop in Calabria (p. 123). He was a student of the college, then became professor of Greek and scriptor at the Vatican library. By order of Benedict XIV he wrote his monumental history of his rite in Italy.^[8] It was published in three volumes at Rome in 1758-1763. The first volume is about the older Greek element in Italy, the second about the Basilian monks, the third about the Albanians, the Greek College, and other contemporary Greek colonies. This work remains the chief one on the subject. With incomparable patience Rodotà has gathered up all there was to say about the Italo-Greeks down to his time. Other books are needed to continue the story to later times; but it will be long before any other can take the place of this, as the quarry from which all kinds of information is to be gathered. A reference to my notes will show how much

1. "Libri VII de Concordia Ecclesiæ occid. et orient. in septem sacramentorum administratione," Paris, fol. 1626. For his Life see Rodotà, op. cit., iii, 164-165; De Meester, op. cit., 52-54.
2. Rodotà, iii, 192-198; De Meester, 43-44.
3. Rodotà, iii, 183-184; De Meester, 45-46.
4. De Meester, 51.
5. Rodotà, iii, 184-188; De Meester, 59-60.
6. Τζιγάλας or Κιγάλας, Cigala in Italian; E. Legrand, "Bibliothèque hellènique du XVIIᵉ siècle" (Paris, 1885), iii, 315-318.
7. "Del Rito greco," iii, cap. vii, §§ iv-v, pp. 161-216.
8. "Dell' origine, progresso, e stato presente del rito greco in Italia osservato dai Greci, Monaci basiliani, e Albanesi; Libri tre scritti da Pietro Pompilio Rodotà professore di lingua greca nella biblioteca vaticana."