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Moi'se, FRAN901S Xavikr, a French theologian, was born at Gras, in Franche-Comte, in 1742. He was professor of theology at Dole when the Revolution broke out ; and, taking the oath of loyalt_v to the civil con- stitution, in 1791 was elected bishop for the Jura dis- trict. During the reign of terror he had to conceal him- self in the mountains. But being a learned canonist, and conversant with theology and the Levantine lan- guages, his country needed his services, and he was called out to take a prominent part in the discussions which marked the national councils held in Paris during the years 1797 and 1801. At the expiration of the lat- ter year he resigned his sacerdotal functions, together with abbe Gregoire, with whom he was intimately ac- quainted, left Paris soon thereafter, and retired to his farm at jMorteau. Bishop Lecoz then bestowed upon him the title of honorary canon of Besan<;,on. Jloise died at Morteau in 1813. He wrote : Repoiises critiques a 2}liisieurs qxiestions jiroposees par les incredules mo- dernes sur divers endroits des Livres Saints (Paris, 1783, 18mo) : — De VOpinion de M. Gregoire dam le proces de Louis AT/. (1801); together with some articles in the Annates de la Religion, La Chronique Religieuse, etc. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Mokanna (i. e. the Concealed') is the name of a Mohammedan prophet who flourished about A.D. 778. He was so called because, as the Mohammedans say, " he shrouded from his followers the excessive glory of his human face divine with a golden mask." He was the first who introduced into Islamism the doctrine of the transmigration of souls. IMokanna taught that God had assumed a human form, had commanded the angels to adore the first man, and from that time the divine nat- ure had descended from prophet to prophet to Abu Moslem, the founder of the Abassides, and finally to him- self. He afterwards added the Indian dogma of the incarnation of the human and divine nature, as well as the metempsychosis adopted by the Ghullats. See Mad- den, Hist, of the Turkish Empire, ii, 169. See Moh.oi- 3IKDAN Sects.
Moket, Richard, an English theologian, was bom in Dorsetshire in 1578, and was educated at Oxford University, of which he finally became fellow and doc- tor, distinctions that opened to him several prominent positions, of which he finally accepted that of provost of All-Souls' College, Oxford. He was also appointed one of the roj'al commissioners to supervise ecclesias- tical affairs. He translated into Latin the Liturgy, sundry catechisms, the constitution, and several other instruments and documents relative to the Anglican Church, in order to distribute them as models worthy of imitation by foreign Church establishments. The col- lection was printed at London (1616, folio). But it had hardly been given to the public when theologians and schoolmen raised such a hue and cry against the work as finally consigned it to the fire. According to Hej'lin (Life of Laud, p. 70), this proscription was due solely to the unintentional omission on the part of the hapless translator of one of the prerogatives of the English Church. The whole edition of his work was utterly de- stroj'ed. One of the treatises which it contained — De Polita Ecclesice Anglicance — was reprinted at London, 1G83, 8vo. Moket died at Oxford in 1618. See Wood, A thence Oxon. ; Hoefer, Xouv. Biog. Generale, s. v. ; Alli- bone. Diet, of British and American Authors, s. v.
Mol, Peter van, a Flemish painter, was born in Antwerp in 1590. He was a pupil of Rubens, and painted, in the style of his master, many noted works for the churches of Flanders and Brabant. In the ca- thedral of Antwerp is his Adoration of the Magi, which is a superior work. Another remarkable work by him was in the gallery of the Louvre, representing Christ after the Crucifixion, with the Marys, Joseph of Arima- thaja, and John. The time of his death is unknown. See Spooner, Biographical Hist, of the Fine Arts, ii, 574.
Mola, a term derived from the sacramental immo- lation of Christ, alludes to the middle of an altar, signed with the dedication cross, and covering the sepidchre of relics. — Walcott, Sac. A rchceol. s. v.
Mola, Giovanni Battista, a French painter of the Bolognese school, was born about 1620, and was a scholar of Albano. He copied a vast work of Paul Ver- onese for cardinal Bichi. Lanzi gives but one example of his works from the collection of the marchesi Rinuc- cini, at Florence, the Repose in Egypt. Mrs. Jameson mentions a fine Holy Family by him in the Louvre, in which the Virgin watches with upturned eyes while Joseph and the Child sleep. Mola died in 1661. See Lanzi, Hist, of Painting, transl. by Roscoe, iii, 92; Mrs. Jameson, Legends of the Madonna, p. 241.
Mola, Pietro Francesco, an eminent Italian painter and architect, was born in the diocese of Como in 1612. He studied successively under Giuseppe Al- bano and Guercino. In his earlier life the works of the latter master were greatly admired by him, but sub- sequently he went to Venice, where he devoted himself to Titian and Veronese. From the result of this course of study he formed a style peculiar to himself, combin- ing parts of all those from whom he had studied, and his fame spread throughout all Italy. He went to Rome in the pontificate of Innocent X, by whom he was immediately employed in executing numerous works, among which are St. Peter delivered from Prison by the A ngel and the Conversion of St. Paul, in the chapel of the church Del Gesu. He was also patronized by pope Alexander VII, for whom he painted, in the pontifical palace of Monte Cavallo, his most celebrated work, Joseph making himself knotvn to his Brethren. At Milan are two of his most admired productions, in the church of S. IMaria della Vita, St. John in the Wilderness and <S7. Paul the Hermit. Mrs. Jameson mentions sev- eral works by this artist, among which are Jacob wrest- ling u-ith the A ngel, the Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, and the Baptism of Christ, in which an angel is disrob- ing the Saviour. Mola died suddenly at Rome in 1668, while preparing to set out for Paris, whither he had been invited by the king of France, who had appointed him court-painter, with a liberal pension. See Lanzi, Hist, of Painting, transl. by Roscoe, i, 402 ; ii, 535 ; iii, 92; Spooner, Biographical Hist, of the Fine Arts, ii, 574; Jameson and Eastlake, History of our Lord, i, 151, 153, 297.