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Ag'ee (Heb. Age, MM; fugitive, Sept. 'Ayd v. r. Ao-rt), a Hararite, father of Shammah, which latter was one of David's chief warriors (2 Sam. xxiii, 11). B.C. ante 104G.
Agellius, or Agelli, Antonio, born at Sorrento, in Naples, a bishop of Acerno. An account of him will be found in the letters of Peter Morin (Paris, 1G75). He was remarkable for his extensive knowl- edge of languages. He died at Acerno in 1G08. His works are : 1. A Commentary on the Psalms and Can- tieles I Rome, 1606, fob); 2. A Commentary on the Book of I. a in ntations, taken from the Greek writers and trans- lated ( Rome, 1589, 4to); 3. A Commentary on the Book of Proverbs I Verona, 1649, fol.) ; 4. .1 Commentary on Habakkuk (Antwerp, 1097, 8vo).
lie was employed by Gregory XIII upon the beau- tiful Greek edition of the Septuagint, published at Rome, and was a member of the institution of persons called Scholastic!, who were charged with the office of superintending the printing establishment of the Vat- ican.— Landon, Eccl. Diet. s. v.
Agenda (Lat. things to be don'?), among ecclesias-
tical writers of the ancient Church, denotes (1,) divine service in general ; (2,) the mass in particular. We meet with agenda matutina and vespertina— morning and evening prayers ; agenda diet — the office of the da}-, whether feast or fast day ; agenda moriuorum — the ser- vice of the dead. It is also applied to church-books, compiled by public authority, prescribing the order to be observed by the ministers and people in the cere- monies and devotions of the Church. In this sense agenda occurs for the first time in a work of Johannes de Janua, about 1287. The name was especially used to designate a book containing the formulas of prayer and ceremonies to be observed by priests in their sev- eral ecclesiastical functions. It was generally adopted in the Lutheran Church of Germany, in which it is still in use, while in the Roman Church it has been, since the lGth century, supplanted by the term ritual (q. v.). For the history of the Lutheran Agendas, see Liturgy.
Aggse'us (Ayya7oe), the Graicized form (1 Esdr. vi, 1 ; vii, 3; 2 Esdr. i, 10) of the name of the proph- et Haggai ^q. v.).
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Agier, Peter John, a French jurist, was born at Paris December 28th, 1748, of a Jansenist family. When forty years old he commenced the study of He- brew, and gave translations and comments on the prophets (principally on the four greater). In 1789 appeared his Vues sur la reformation des lois civiles, suivies d'un plan el d'tme classification de ces lois (Paris, 2 vols. 8vo), followed by his Psaumes nouvellenunt tra- duits en Francois sur VHebren, etc. (Paris, 1800, 3 vols. 8vo) ; Psalmi ad Jlebraicam veritatem translati, etc. (Paris, 1818, 1 vol. 16mo); Vues sur le second avenement de Jesus-Christ (Paris, 1818, 1 vol. 8vo) ; Propheties concernant Jesus-Christ et VEglise, eparses dans les Livres saints (Paris, 1819, 8vo) ; Les Prophetes nouvellement traduits de l Jlebreu, avec des explic. et des notes critiques (Paris, 1820-1822, 9 vols. 8vo) ; Com- mentaire sur V Apocalypse (Paris, 1823, 2 vols. 8vo). In all these works the Jansenist doctrines are strong- ly upheld. It is said of him that Napoleon, on seeing him once, said, "Voilh. un magistrat!" He died at Paris September 22d, 1823. — Mahul, Annuaire necrolo- gique (Paris, 1823).
Agion, or rather Hagion (uyiov or liytov ayiwvi the holy or the most holy place). See Temple. A name anciently given to the inner portion of the church, which was appropriated to the clergy. See Adytum. It was so called because the most sacred services, especially the consecration of the Eucharist, were per- formed within it. This place had various names. See Bema.
Agmon. See Rush.
Agnes, saint and martyr. The acts of her mar- tyrdom which have come down to us as written by Ambrose are spurious, and nothing further is know n of her history than what Prudentius relates in the 14th Hymn, Trspi arecpdviov, and Ambrose in lib. i, de Vir- ginibus, which amounts to this : Agnes, at the early age of twelve or thirteen, having made profession of the Christian faith at Rome, was put to the torment to induce her to retract, in vain, and the judge ordered her to be conveyed to a house of ill fame, hoping that fear for her chastity might force her to recant. But God preserved his servant in this trial ; for, according to the tradition, the first man who cast his eyes upon her was struck with blindness, and fell nearly dead at her feet! Nevertheless the saintly story adds that she was immediately delivered over to the executioner and was beheaded, according to Ruinart, in 304, or, according to Bollandus, in the preceding century. Augustine, in his 273d Sermon, declares that he made that discourse on the anniversary of the passion of St. Agnes, St. Fructaosus, and St.Eulogius, viz., Jan. 21st, on which day her festival is celebrated by the Latin, Greek, and English Churches. Many churches con- tend for the honor of possessing her remains. — Butler, Lices of Saints, Jan. 21.