(3.) In September of the same year (1576), still anoth- er meeting was held at Maulbronn, in which Heerbrand, Schnepf, Magirus, Bidembach, L. Osiander, Dietz, Scher- dinger, and Strecker took part. Its object was to dis- cuss the Book of Torgau, and it ended in expressing its approbation of it as a whole. See Heppe, Gesch. d. luth. Concordienformel, p. 120 sq. — Herzog, Real-Ency- ifo;7. ix, 178 sq. (J.N. P.)
Maulmont (or Malmont), Jean pk, a learned Frenchman, was born in Limousin, in the 10th century, of an ancient noble family, which possessed one of the baronies of Limousin, the chateau of Maumont. Of his personal histor}- but little is known except that he was principal of the College of Saint-Michel, otherwise called Chanac, which had been founded in 1530 by the Pompadour house for the Limousin students. Accord- ing to La Croix du Maine, "jMaidmont was a very learned man, master of many languages, especially the Greek, a great theologian, and a prolific orator." He was an intimate friend of Julius Scaliger. IMany of his contemporaries have pretended that he was the true au- thor of the translation of Plutarch which liears tho name of Amyot ; this assertion lias been refuted by La Monnoye in a note on UAnti-Baillet of Menage. We have of Maulmont's works, Les (Euvres de Saint Justin, pliilosojihe et marti/r (Paris, 1538, fol.) : — Les Histoires et Chi'oniques du Monde, tirees tant du gros volume de Jean Zonare, auteur Byzantin, que cle plusieu7's autres scripteurs Hebrevx et Grecs, urec annotations (Paris, 1563, fol.) : — Les g7-ares et sainies 7-emo7itrances de l'e7n- jiercnr Ferdinand au pope Pie IV sur le Candle de Trente (Paris, 1563, 8vo) : — Renumt7-a)ices Chretieimes enfo7-me d'epitre a la reine d'A7iglete7-7-e, t7-ad. du Latin
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(k Hierosme Oserias, evesque Porttigalois (Paris, 1653, 8vo). The same author has written in Italian a life of Rene de Birague, chancellor of France, who died in 1583, and the Gallia Christiana quotes it as a correct and use- Ad work. See La Croix du Maine et Du Verdier, Biblioth. Francoises; Goujet, Biblioth. Francoises, vol. xii; Gal- lia Christiana, vi, 571.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biocj. Generale, vol. xxxiv, s. V.
Maunday Thursday, also known under the term Dies Ccen-.e Dominic.e (q. v.), is the name given to the Thursday before Faster. The origin of this name is Dies maiidati—7nandate Thursday; either from the commandment which our Saviour gave to his disciples to commemorate the sacrament of his supper, which he instituted on this day (hence also called dies paiiis, day of bread; and dies lucis, day of light) ; or because on this day our Saviour washed his disciples' feet, and gave them commandment to follow his example. Others de- rive it from the Saxon mand, which means a basket, and subsequently any gift or offering contained in the bas- ket. On this day penitents who had been put out of the Church on Ash- Wednesday were readmitted. There was also a general celebration of the Lord's Supper, with which the ceremony of washing the feet was connected. Candidates for baptism publicly recited the Creed. The origin of this practice is generally referred to the 7th centuT}', but Riddle {Christian Antiquities, p. GG9) con- tends that " it appears to have been of much earlier in- stitution." See Pedilavium.
Maunoir, Julien, a learned French ecclesiastic, was born Oct. 1, 1606, in the province of Saint-Georges de Reinthembaidt, diocese of Rennes. At the age of twenty he entered the Order of the Jesuits at Paris, and tijiishcd his studies at La Flijche. A professor- ship in the College of Quimper was offered him, but he preferred to preach, and accordingly entered the min- istry. He studied the dialect of Brittany, began to travel over the country, and displayed so much zeal in his preaching that his health became impaired, and he was obliged to resume the career of teaching, which he followed at Tours. After having been ordained at Nevers, he consecrated the remainder of his life, accord- ing to a vow that he had made, to the evangelization of Brittany. For forty-two consecutive years Maunoir labored for the accomplishment of his project. Un- moved by the injury and violence with which his devo- tion was often repaid, accepting or imposing on himself the rudest privations, travelling on foot, with a wallet on his shoulders, and carrying only the clothing and nour- ishment absolutely indispensable, he visited successively and repeatedly nearly all the parishes in the dioceses of Cornovaille and Leon, the islands of Ouessant, of Mo- lene, of Sizein, etc., without mentioning a great number of localities in the other dioceses of Brittany, and every- where his preaching was attended with success. He died Jan. 28, 1683, at Plevin, near Guincamp. In ac- cordance with his expressed desire, he was buried like a pauper, but later a statue was erected to him in the church of Plevin. With the triple object in view of understanding thoroughly a language so indispensable to himself, of purifying it from the mixed dialect used by the preachers of the times, and of generalizing the learning of the language, Maunoir aided in the promo- tion of the colleges of Quimper and of Morlaix, where the language of Brittany was generally used. The same motives actuated him in the composition of the follow- ing works, which have been adopted by all the ecclesi- astics of the country : Canticon spii'ituel hoc instructio- non 2}rofetubl evit quisqui an hent da vont d'ar bar-ados (Quimper) : — Vita S. Corentini, A reniorici ; Cosopeti (Quimper, 1685, 12mo, et al.) ; far from being written in Latin, as father Southwell and Le Long have sup- posed, this life is comiwscd of 766 Breton verses: — Le Temple consacre a la passion de Jesus-Christ, in Breton, prose and verse (Quimper, 1679, 1686, 8vo) : — Le sacre College de Jesus divise en, cinq classes, ou Von enseigne en