Movable (and Immovable) Feasts. The feasts kept in the Christian Church are called movable and immovable, according as they fall, always on the same day in the calendar in each year, as the saints' days; or depend on other circumstances, as Easter, and the feasts calcidated from Easter. The Book of Common Prayer contains several tables for calculating Easter, and the following rules to know when the movable feasts and holydays begin : Easter Day, on which the rest dc[)end, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March ; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after. Advent Sunday is al- ways the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew, whether before or afier.
SeptUMgcsima ~) C Nhie Weeks ~)
Sexairesima (_ Snndny I Eiirlit Weeks I before
Quinqtiagesima i is "] Seven Weeks ( Easter. Quadriitrer^imii J I Six Weeks J
llo-iition Sundiiy "S ( Five Weeks "]
Ascension Diiy I ,^ I Fortv Dnvs I nfter Whii Smubiy f '^ 1 Seven Weeks f Easter.
Trinity Sunday J L l''i.i,'ht Weeks J
—Hook, Church Diet. s. v. See Feasts.
Movers, Fkaxz Kaut,, a German Roman Catholic theologian and Orientalist, was born, of hum))le but honorable parentage, at Kiisfeld, Rhenish Prussia, July 17, 180G. Franz Karl studied Orientalia and theology at Milnstcr; was ordained priest; in 1830 became vicar
at Rath, near Deutz; in 1833 priest at Berkum. near Godesberg, and there remained until 1839, when he was appointed ]irofess<jr of Old-'i'estament theology in the Roman Catliolic faculty of Breslau University, which office he lield till his death, Sept. 28, 185G. His princi- pal work, iJie Phonizier, presents a comprehensive view of Phoenician history. The first volume (Breslau, 1840) treats of the religion and the divinities of the Phoeni- cians; the second volume bears the title of JJas I'ho- nizische A Iterthum, and is divided into parts, embracing the political historj' (1849) and the colonial history (1850) of that nation. He further enriched this field of knowledge by the publication of two volumes of Phoeni- cian texts (1845-47), and wrote the article PhOnicier for Ersch u. Gruber's Fnn/ktopddie (§ 3, vol. xxi v). Among his other works worth mentioning are, Kiilische L'nter- suchungen il. d. Alttestanitntliche (Jhronik (Bonn, 1834) : — De utriusque receiisionis vatinniorum Jeremice indole et orif/ine (Hamb. 1837) : — Loci quidam historiie Vcleris Testamenti illustrati (Bresl. 1843) -.—Zustand der katho- lisch-theol. Facultdt an der Uniiersildt Breslau (1847). He was also a frequent and esteemed contributor to the periodical literature of Germany, especially the philo- sophical and theological quarterlies; among which that of his own Church, the Zeitschrift Jur Philosoph. v. Ku- tholische Theolor/ie, enjoyed a very large number of val- uable articles. (J. H.W.)
Mowes, IIi;ixKicir, a Lutheran clergyman who flourished in (iermany in the early jiart of this centurj', was settled near IMagdcburg, Prussia. His life was marked by severe afflictions, which he bore with heroic faith. He died in 1831. He will be known to the English reader principally from his triumphant hymn, "Hallelujah! I believe," translated in lli/mns from the Land of Luther.
Mowing (Ta, gez, Yulg. tonsio, Amos vii, 1 ; the Sept. reads Viuy u jiaaiXivc, either from a various reading or a confusion of the letters T and 5), a word signifying also a shorn fleece, and rendered in Psa. Ixxii, G, "mown grass." As the great heat of the climate in Palestine and other similarly situated countries soon dries up the herbage itself, hay-making in our sense of the term is not in use. The term " hay," tlierefore, in the Pray- er-book version of Psa. cvi, 20, for 3w", is incorrect; A. V. "grass." So also Prov. xxvii, 25, and Isa. xv, 6. The corn destined for forage is cut with a sickle. The term ""Itp, A. V. " mower," Psa. cxxix, 7, is most com- monly in A. ^^ " reaper," and once, Jer. ix, 22, " harvest- man." See Rkapino.
The " king's mowings," Amos vii, 1 , i. c. mown grass, Psa. Ixxii, G, may perhaps refer to some royal right of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry. Comp. 1 Kings xviii, 5. See Shaw, Trav. p. 138; Wilkinson, .4 nc. Krj. abridgm. ii, 43, 50 ; Early Trav. p. 305 ; Pietro d. Vallc, IVaf////, ii, 237; Chardin, Uoj/. iii. 370; Layard, .V/«. and Hah. p. 330; Niebuhr, Desc'r. de VA rab. p."l39; Harmer, Ohs. iv, 38G; Burckhardt, Notes on Bed. i, 210. — Smith. Sec Guass.
Moya, Don Mattheo, a Spanish theologian, Avas born in 1G07 at floral, in the diocese of Toledo. Ad- mitted into the Society of Jesus, he taught theology in Alcala and ^Madrid, became confessor to the duke of Ossuna, when the same was sent to Sicily, and received a like position witli queen Mary Anne of Austria, widow of Philip IV. He became somewhat notorious by his Opusruhiiu simpilaria iinirersip fere theolot/ice moralis complectens adrersiis quornmdam expostulationes contra nonnulUis .lesiiittirum opiniones morales (Palermo, 1G57, 4to\ published under the pseudonyme of "Amadeus Guimenius," in which he attempted to justify the Jesuits for the laxity of their morals. This treatise was subse- quently rejirinted in Valentia. Madrid, antl Lyon (the lat- ter edition, IGiM. in 4to\ The Sorlionne. Ft b. ,'). ICiiS, denounced it as sliameful. seandnldus. imprudent, detest- able, and as containing ])ropositiuiis which should be en-