ROOT, a name sometimes found in the inventories of English church furniture, by which were designated richly embroidered coy^es that had the "stem of Jesse" and the genealogy of our Lord figured upon them.
Root, Henry, a Presbyterian minister, was bom in Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y., July 17, 1818. He grad- uated at Williams College, Mass., studied theology at Auburn Seminary, N. Y., and was licensed by Cayuga Presbytery. After graduating he removed to Michi- gan, where he was ordained in 1835, and was stated supply for Dexter and Howell churches. Subsequent- ly he preached for Granville, Portland, and Bunker Hill churches. He was connected with the American Home Missionary Society, and was one of their most suc- cessful missionaries. He died at Feltz, April 5, 1860. Mr. Root was a powerful preacher, and in building up churches in the faith he had no superior. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. A Imannc, 1861, p. 163. (J. L. S.)
Ropes, Timothy Pickering, a Baptist minister, was born in Oxford, N. H,, Sept. 13, 1802, and was grad- uated at Waterville College in the class of 1827. He was ordained as an evangelist Aug. 13, 1828, and became pastor of the Baptist Church at Hampton Falls in July, 1829. He was afterwards pastor of the churches in Weston and Lexington, Mass., and for several years was engaged in teaching in different places. He went West in 1854, and for ten years was pastor of the Bap- tist Church in Le Roy, Minn., where he died, July 3, 1873. (J. C. S.)
Roque, St., a popular saint of the Roman Cath- olic Church in France, who is considered the special patron of those sick of the plague. Few particulars of his history have been preserved. He was born of a noble family in Montpellier, at the end of the 13th or
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early in the 14th century; and having undertaken a )iiliirimage to Kome, was surprised on his way through Italy b\' an outbreak of the plague at Piacenza. He labored with generous zeal tor the victims, fell sick, was abandoned In' men, but a <log licked his sores. He recovered his health, returned to France, and after a life of great sanctity died at IMontpellier, probably in 1327. — Clutmbers's Encydop. s. v.
Roquelaure, Jean Arjiand de Bessuejouls, Count of, a French prelate, was bom at Roquelaure in 1721. Of a noble family, he entered the Church when quite young, was doctor of theology at the age of twen- ty-six, and vicar-general of Arras when, in 1754, he re- ceived the bishopric of Senlis. In 17G4 he was first almoner of the king, in I7G7 councillor of state, in 17(18 abbe of St. Germer, and in 1771 member of the French Academy. He was one of the few bishops who re- mained in France after the civil oath was required, but did not yield to the constitution of 1790. During the Keign of Terror he retired to Arras. He resigned his see of Senlis, but was in 1802 made archbishop of Ma- lines. In 1808 he received a canonry in St. Denis, and spent the remainder of his life in Paris. He died of old age, April 23, 1818. His writings are, Oraiaon Fu- n'ebre de la Reine d'Esparjne (Paris, 17G1) : — Onmon Fumbre de Louis XV (ibid. 1774): — Mandements, and Lettres to the clergy. — Hoefer, Nouv.Bioy. Gemrale, s. v.
Roques, Piekre, a Protestant French theologian, was born at La Canne, July 22, 1085. His parents were obliged to leave France on account of their faith, and Eoques was educated in Switzerland, at Geneva and Lausanne. He was ordained in 1709, and in 1710 be- came pastor of the Protestant French Church at Basle, where he died, April 13, 1748. His principal writings are, Le Pasteur Ecani/elique (Basle, 1723), transl. into German (Halle, 1741-44) : — Elements des Verites 11 is- toriques, etc. (Basle, 1720): — Lettres a un Protestant de France etc. (Lausanne, 1730-35): — Les Devoirs des Sujets (Basle, 1727): — Sermons sur Divers Sujets de Morale (ibid. 1730), transl. into (Jerman (Halle, 1731): — Le Vrai Pielisme (Basle. 1731): — Traite des Tribunaux de Judicature (ibid. 1738). Besides these are scattered pieces in several works, an edition of the JHct. of Moreri (ibid. 1731-45), and one of INIartin's Bible (ibid. 1736). He continued with Beausobre the Sermons of Saurin, and revised the P'rench translation of Hlibner's Geo(jraphie (ibid. 1747). See Frey, Vie de P. Roques ; Haag, La France Proiestante. — Hoefer, Nouv. Bio(j. Generale, s. v.
Roquette, Gabriel de, a French prelate, was born at Toulouse in 1G32. After tinishing his studies he went to Paris, where he soon obtained ecclesiastical preferment, became abbe of Grandselve, prior of Char- lieu and of St. Denis de Yaux, vicar-general of Armand, and abbe of Chun'. In 1006 he was made bishop of Autun, and in 1669 founded the Hospital of St. Gabriel in that place. He resigned his see in 1702 in favor of his nephew, Bertrand de Senaux. He died at Autun, Feb. 23, 1707. Koquette was an ambitious man, a slave of the Jesuits, and devoted to the interests of cardinal Mazarin. He left a work entitled Ordonnances pour le Rftablissement de la Discipline Ecclesiaslique (Autun, 1669-74), and an Oraison Funkbre d' Anne-Marie Mar- tinozzi, Princesse de Conti (Paris, 1674). — Hoefer, Nouv. Bioff. (Jeuerale, s. v.