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Robinson, William (2), a Congregational min- ister, and lather of Or. E. Robinson, was born at Leb- anon, Conn., Ang. 1."), ITol. He was fitted for college in the school of Mr. Tisdale in Lebanon, entered the soph- omore class in Yale College in 1770, and graduated in 1773. In 1775 he returned to New Haven to study theology, united with the Church in Vale College, May 5, 177(5, and was licensed to preach May 29. In the summer of 177f<, ^Ir. Kobinson was chosen to a tutorship in Yale College, and held that office one year, preaching in the towns adjacent. He was invited in December, 1778, to settle in Southington, which call he accepted, but was not ordained until -June 13, 1780. So limited was liis income that he was obliged to devote considerable of his time to agricultural pursuits. He was retired from active duties in September, 1820, after a ministry of forty-one years and two months, and died in 1825 on the anniversarj' of his birth. See Spra.gu.e, Annuls q/' the A me?: Pulpit, ii, 131.
Robinson, William S., a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Harrison County, Ky., in 1825. He joined the Church in his eighteenth year, was licensed to preach in August, 1851, and was received on trial in the North Indiana Conference in 1852, In 1854 he was admitted into full membership, but was obliged to give up his work in May, and on July 11, 1855, he died. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1855, p. 619.
Rob'oam ('Po/3oa/.(), the Greek form (Ecclus. xlvii, 23 ; Matt, i, 7) of the name of king Kehoboam (q. v.).
Hoc. See IJoK.
Rocaberti, Juan Tomas de, a Spanish prelate, was born at Perelada, Catalonia, March 4, 1G27. While very young, he took the habit of St. Dominic at the Convent of Cerona, but later removed to that of Valen- cia. In 10G6 he was provincial of Aragon, was elected general of the order in 1G70, and in 1G76 was nomi- nated archbishop of Valencia by Charles II. This prince twice made him viceroy of that province, and in 1695 gave him the title of " grand inquisitor of the faith." He died at Madrid June 13, 1G99. The fol- lowing are his principal works: Alimento Espiritual, Colidiano Exercioio de Meditaciones (Barcelona, 1668) • — Teolo(jia Misticu (ibid. 1699): — De Romani Pontificis A uctontdte (Valencia, 1691-94). The last-named work, though held in great esteem in Spain and Italy, was not so regarded in France, where it was considered contrary to the doctrines of the fathers, and the Parliament of Paris forbade its sale in 1695. Rocaberti also collected and printed at his own expense all the works which up- held the pontifical authority and infallibility. This col- lection is entitled Bibliotheca Pontijicia Maxima (Rome, 1695-99). As general of his order, he edited the works of several Dominicans which had never before appeared. See Antonio, /iibl. Ilispana Nova, — Hoefer, Nouc. Biog. Generate, s. v.
Rocca, Angiolo, a learned Italian prelate, was born in Rocca Contrada, Naples, in 1545. In 1552 he took the habit among the Hermits of St. Augustine, and afterwards continued his studies at Rome, Venice, Perugia, and Pad- ua, receiving the title of doctor of ilivinity at the Universi- tyof Padua in September, 1577. In 1579, Fivizani, vicar- general of the Augustinians, invited him to become his secretary. Pope Sixtns V placed him in the Vatican in 1585, and conlided to his superintendence those editions of the IJible, the coimcils, and the fathers issued from the apostolical press during his pontiticate. In 1595 Clement VIH made him apostolical sacristan and titular bishop of Tagaste, in Numidia. He jjresented his large and excellent library to the Augustinian monastery at Rome (Oct. 23, 1G14), on condition that it should always be open to the public. He died April 8, 1620. Among liis works are, Jiildidlheca Apostolica Witicana: — Bi- bliot/iecii T/ieolo/jira et Scripturalis : — Notm in Novum Textiimentiim : — J)c Piitientia : — De Cometis : — Oliserra- tionvs in VI Libras Elerjantiurum, etc.: and Obsercu-
tiones de Lingua Latina, etc. (1719, printed together, 2 vols. fol.).
Roch, St., a wonder-worker of the Romish Church, respecting whom there is evidence to show that he was born at IMontpellier, abt)ut A.D. 1295; that he visited the towns of Italy during an epidemic to nurse the sick, and effected cures by the might of his prayers; that he subsequently returned to his native city, and was there imprisoned during several j-ears on the charge of being a spy; and that he died in 1327. It is said that while himself sick of the plague, and lying in a hovel in the neighborhood of Piacen^ia, he was saved from starvation by a hound, who brought him bread from time to time. The stories of his descent from a royal stock and of his having attained the cardinalate are wholly fabulous. Various miracles are said to have been wrought by him after his death. A plague which broke out at Costnitz during the sessions of a coiuicil was stilled by invoking the aid of "the blessed confessor and physician Rochus." It is said that his body was stolen in 1485 and brought to Venice; but Montpellier, Turin, Antwerp, and other towns boast that they possess genuine relics of St. Roch, and churches and chapels bearing his name are found in all the important towns of Roman Catholic Europe. A Confraternitas S. liochi, a Murbo Epidemice Liberutoris, has existed in Rome since the close of the loth century, and was endowed with rich privileges and exemptions by popes Alexander VI, Leo X, and Pius IV ; and associa- tions bearing similar names were formed at Bologna, Venice, Turin, Aries, and Antwerp — one having been founded in the place last named so late as 1685. St. Roch is commemorated Aug. IG. Seeylc/a Sanctorum, Aug. iii, 380-414. — Herzog, Reul-Encgldop. s. v.