prevesa, or " Old Prevesa." — Kitto. See Bowen, ^-1 ihos and Epirus, p. 21 1 ; Merivale, Royne, iii, 327, 328 ; Smith, Diet, of Greek and Roman Geogr. s. v. ; Lewin, Lfe and Ejnstles of St. Paul (4to ed.), ii, 353 sq. ; Krenkel, Pau- las der Apostel (Leipsic, 18G9), p. 108.
Nicquet, Honorat, an ascetic French author, was born in Avignon August 29, 1585. Admitted in 1602 into the Order of the Jesuits, he taught rhetoric and philosophy during several years ; his superiors, informed of his merit, called him to Rome, where they intrusted to him the double duties of censor of the books and the- ologian of the provost-general. On his return to France he devoted himself to the pulpit, and sought less to please than to reach and edify his hearers. Then he directed successively the colleges of his order at Caen, Bourges, and Rouen. In this latter city he established, under the name of (Euv?-es de la Misericorde, a charita- ble society designed to aid the poor and the sick. He died at Rouen May 22, 1667. We have of his works, Le Combat de Geneve, ou falsifications faites iwur Geneve en la translation Fran^oise du Nouveau Testament (La Fleche, 1621, 8vo ; AleiKjon, 1638, 8vo) : — Apologie pour Vordre de Fontevrauld (Paris, 1641, 8vo) : — Histoii-e de Vordre de F'ontevrauld (ibid. 1642, 4to; Angers, 1642, 1686, 4to) ; it was composed at the entreaty of the nuns of this order, and dedicated to their superior-general, Jean Baptiste de Bourbon : — Gloria Beati Roberti de A 1-brissello (La Fleche, 1647, 12mo) ; the life of this per- sonage is already found in French in the preceding work :
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— Titulus sancics Crucis,seu Mstoria et mysterium tituli Crucis (Paris, 1648, 1675, 8vo; Anvers, 1670, 12mo) :— Phi/siof/nomia humana lib. iv distincta (Lyons, 1648, 4to) : — De sancto aiKjdo Guhriele (ibid. 1653, 8vo) : — La Vie de Nicolas Gilbert, instituteur de Vordre de PAnnonciade (Paris, 1655, 8vo) : — La Vie de sainte Solange, vierge et martyre (Bourges, 1655, 8vo) : — Le Servitew de la Vierge, ou traite de la devotioti envers la mh-e de Dieu (Rouen, 1659, 1665, 1669, 12mo) : — Stimulus ingrati animi (ibid. 1661, 8vo) : — Nomenclator Marianus, sive nomina Virgi- 7iis Marim (ibid. 1664, 4to) ■.—Iconologia Mariana (ibid. 1667, 8vo). He left in manuscript a collection en- titled Elogia seu Nomenclator sanctorum et celebrioritm in Ecclesia scripiorum, owned by the library of the no- vitiate of Rouen, See Solwell, Bibl. script. Soc. Jesu, p. 350, 351 ; Lelong, Bibl. Hist, de la France, s. v. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxviii, 22.
Nid, Council of {Concilium Niddanuni), was an ecclesiastical assemblage convened A.D. 705 near the River Nid, in Northumbria, by Bertwald of Canterburj', assisted by Bosa, bishop of York, John of Hagustald, and Eadfrid of Lindisfarn. Several abbots, and the ab- bess St. Elfrida (daughter of Oswy, king of Northum- berland), were present, together with Wilfred, whom Bosa succeeded in the bishopric of York. Wilfred was reconciled with the other bishops of the province, but it does not appear that he was restored to his bishopric, which Bosa retained until his death, and after him John of Hagustald (or Hexham) was translated thither. See Eddius, cap. 57; Labbe, Cone, vi, 1389; Wilkins, Cone. i, 67 ; Landon, Manual of Councils, s. v. ; Soames, Hist, of the Anglo-Saxon Church, p. 83; ejusd. The Anglo- Saxon Church under the Latins, p. 376.
Niddui ("^113), the lesser sort of excommunication used among the Hebrews. He who had incurred this was to withdraw himself from his relations, at least to the distance of four cubits. It commonly continued thirty days. If it was not then taken off, it might be prolonged for sixty or even ninety days. But if with- in this term the excommunicated person did not give satisfaction, he fell into the cherem, which was the sec- ond sort of excommunication ; and thence into the third sort, called shammatha, the most terrible of alL See
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Wider, Nieder, or Nyder, John, a distinguished German Roman Catholic theologian, was bom towards the close of the 14th centur}-. He joined the Domini- cans at Colmar in 1400, then went to study phUosophj' and theology at Vienna, in Austria, and was ordained at Cologne. He afterwards returned to Vienna, and became prior of the Dominican convents of Nuremberg and Basle. In 1428 he accompanied the general of the Dominicans on a tour through Franconia, and at- tracted such attention by his preaching that he was sent as delegate to the Council of Basle in 1431, of which he was one of the most distinguished theologi- ans. Appointed bj' that assembly to convert the Huss- ites, he at first undertook to do so by mildness and per- suasion: he wrote them letters full of encouragement and of good advice, went himself to see them at Egra, and induced them to present their complaints to the council. The conferences, opened with the representa- tives of Bohemia, led, however, to no result. But in a second mission, in which Nider took part with ten other nuncios, he showed none of his former moder- ation. He was one of the ecclesiastical leaders of the crusade which desolated Bohemia, burning towns and villages, destroying the country, and murdering thou- sands of people. After his return to Basle he broke off his connection with the council, and even refused to have anything more to do with it. Nider died in 1438, according to Cave, and in 1440, according to Echard. Among his numerous works we notice Praceptorinm di- vinm legis, seu de decern jimceptis (Cologne, 1472, fol. ; Strasb. 1476; Paris, 1507, 1515, etc.) : — Manuale confes- eorum (Paris, 1473, fol. ; 1489, 1513, 4to) i—Tractaius de