Lamiletiere, TiiiioriiiLE Brachet de, a noted French theologian, was born about the j'ear 1596. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, and afterwards practiced law at Paris. He soon, however, tired of the bar, and devoted himself to theology. Having become elder of the Protestant Church at Charenton, he took an
active part in all the religious controversies of the times, and was one of the most prominent members of the po- litical assembly of La KocheUe in 1690, whither he had been sent by the Consistory of Paris. He subsequently went witli La Cliapelliere to Holland, to ask aid of the states-general for the Protestants of F' ranee. We next find him at the Assembly of Milhau in 1625, and in 1627 at Paris, where he was aiTested as an agent of the duke of Rohan. He was condemned to death, but his life was spared on account of the threatening attitude which the inhabitants of La Kochelle assumed, in retaliative, towards the person of one of their prisoners, a relation of P. Joseph (the confessor and secret agent of Kiche- lieu). He was finally released, and even received a pen- sion from Eichelieu on the condition of using every ex- ertion to reunite the different Protestant churches. He now became the pliant tool of Richelieu, and was ex- communicated by the Church of Charenton in 1644 for not having partaken of the Lord's Supper in twelve years. He- finally joined the Roman Catholic Clnirch, April 2, 1645. The remainder of his life was employed in writing against Protestantism. He died in 1665, de- spised alike by Protestants and Romanists. His princi- pal works are. Discours des vrayes raisons pour lesquelles ceux de la religion en France peuvetit et doivent register par amies a la persecution ouverte (1622, 8v^o) ; very scarce, as it was condemned to be burned bj' the public executioner : — Lettre a M. Rambours pour la reunion des evangeliques aux catkoliques (Paris, 1628, 12mo) : — T)e universi orbis Christiani pace et concordia per curdina- lem ducem Richeliuni constituenda (Par. 1634, 8 vo; transl. into French, 1635, 4to): — Le Moye^i de lapaix Chretienne (Par. 1(>37, 8vo) : — La Necessite de la Puissance du Papie en VEglise (Paris, 1640, 8vo) : — Le Catholique reforme (Paris, 1642, 8 vo): — Le Pacifique veritable (Paris, 1644, 8vo) — condemned by the Sorbonne ; etc. See Benoit, Ilistoire de I'Edit de Nantes, ii ; De Marolles, Memoires ; Grotius, Kpistola ; Bayle, Dictionnaire Ilistorique ; Tal- lemant, Historiettes; Haag, La France Protestante ; Hoe- fer, Xour. Biog. Generale, xxix, 222. (J. N. P.)
Lammas-day is the name of a festival obsen^ed by Roman Catholics on the 1st of August, in memorj' of the imprisonment of St. Peter, and otherwise called St. Peter^s chains. The word is of doubtful meaning : some refer it to a Saxon term signifying contribution. Brande, in his '• Antiquities," says, '• Some suppose it is called Lammas-day, quasi Lamb-masse, because on that day the tenants that held lands of the cathedral church at York were bound by their tenure to bring a live lamb into the church at high mass on that day." jNIore proljably, however, is its derivation from "loaf-mass," it having been the custom of the Saxons to offer on this day (Au- gust 1) an oblation of loaves made of new wheat. Like man}' other Church festivals, it seems to have been ob- served already in pagan times, and, like the 1st of May, was a festive day with the Druids. Vallancey, in his Collectanea De Rebus llibernicis, says the Druids cele- brated the 1st of August as the day of the oblation of grain. See Farrar, Eccles. Diet. s. v.; Taylor, Ancient Christianity, Gen. Suppl. p. 92 , F.adie, Eccles. Diet. s. v.
Lammermann. See Lamormain.
Lanimists, a sect of Remonstrant Baptists. See Mennonitks.
Lament, David, D.D., a Scotch Presbyterian di- vine, riourished as minister of Kirkpatrick, Durham. He died in 1837. This is all we know of his personal history. His Sermons were published at London from 1760-87, in 2 vols. 8vo (new edit. 1810, 3 vols. 8vo).
Lamormain, Guillaiime Geinieau de, a
noted Belgian Roman Catholic theologian of the Order of the Jesuits, was born in the duchy of Luxemburg about 1570; entered the Jesuitical order in 1590, and then became professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Gratz. In 1624 he was appointed confessor of the emperor of Austria, F'erdinand II, and over this thoroughly monkish ruler Lamormain is said
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to have exercised perfect sway. He and John Wein- giirtner, another Jesuit confessor, Vehse (see below) tells us, '-constantly kept near him, and never let him (Fer- dinand) out of their sight ;" and it is due to this Jes- uitic influence, no doubt, that Ferdinand became such a fanatical adherent of the Chiu-ch of Kome, and a most cruel persecutor of Protestantism. See Austria. Of Lamormaiu himself, it is said that he was so devoted to the Romisli cause that he made upwards of 100,000 con- verts to the Church of Kome. He died Feb. 22, 16-18. He wrote a life of Ferdinand II, which abounds in flat- tering terms to the emperor, who had been a pliant tool in the hands of the crafty Jesuit. See Hoefer, Xouv. Biog. Generale, xxix, 2-15; Paquot, Menioires pour ser- vir a Vhistoire liUeraire cks Pays-Bus, v, 98-100; Yehse, Memoirs of the Court, A ristocracy, and Diplomacy of A ustria (transl. by F. Demmler, Lond. 1850, 2 vols. sm. 8vo), i, 287 sq., 319. (J. II. W.)