Stanley, William, an English divine, was born at Hinckley, Leicestershire, in 1647, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambriilge. In 1689 he was made a canon residentiary of St. Paul's. In 1692 he was made archdeacon of London, and in 1706 dean of St. Asaph. He died in 1731. He published. The De- votions of the Church of Rome Compared with those of the Church of England (Lond. 1685, 4to): — The Faith and Practice of a Church-of-England Man (1688, 8vo) ; — Essay on Theology (8vo) ; — Sermons (1692, 1708): — and two tracts. See Hook, Eccles. Biog. s. v., Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. Authors, s. v.
Stanly, Fkank, a minister of the Methodist Epis- co[)al Church, South, was born at Newbern, N. C, March 31, 1«07. He was licensed (1828) by the Supreme Court of his state to practice law, but, meeting with a change of heart, he felt it his duty to preach, and in 1831 was admitted into the Virginia Conference, Within its bounds he labored until October, 1861, when he died of a|K>plexy. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1862, p. 387.
Stansbury, .Iomn T., a minister of the ISIcthodist E|)i>cop!il Clainli, was born in Haltimore. Md., .July 15, 182H, and joiiicil the Church when about ten years of age. Not long after he removed to l)ul)nque, la.; but returned, and was admitted into the Haltimore Confer- ence in IH.V). In IH.'jH lie became supernumerary, and held this relation and that of a superannuate until his death, at Maltimore, Md., Jan. 26, 1873. See Minutes of Annual Cmfereweg, 1873, p. 32.
Stantes Laici, a name given, in the early Church, to the laity who remained faithful to their vows. They heljMMl to form the councils lield to treat of the case of tho-M- who had lapsed into idolatry (Cyprian, Epist.31). See Colcinnn, Atinenl Christianity, p. 484.
Stanton, Hkn.iamin Euanki.in, a Presbyterian mini-sKT, was born at Stoniiigton, Coim., Feb. 12. 1789. He graduated at Union College in 1811; studied the- ology for some months under tlic distinguished Hebrew
scholar the Rev. Dr. Banks, and after\vards graduated in Princeton Theological Seminar}', 1815 ; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in April, 1815 ; or- dained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hudson, N.Y., Nov. 12 of the same year; resigned on account of ill-health, April 20, 1824 ; in 1825 became pas- tor of the Congregational Church in Bethlehem, Conn. In 1829, owing to continued and increasing ill-health, lie again resigned his pastoral charge, removed to Vir- ginia, and preached to the Hanover Church until 1842, After the death of Rev. John H. Rice, D.D., professor in the Union Theological Seminary, he delivered a course of lectures on theology to the students ; and afterwards, during a vacancy in the presidency of Hampden Sidney College, he delivered lectures to the senior class. He died Nov. 18, 1843, Mr. Stanton was a close thinker, an impressive preacher, and a vigorous writer. He pub- lished. The Apostolic Commission (1827, 8vo), a sermon : — A Seiinon on the National Fast (1841), occasioned by the death of general Harrison: — Selections f-om his Manuscript Sei-mons, with Preface by the Rev. P. D. Oakley (1848). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pul- pit, iv, 524 ; Allibone, Diet, of B7-it, and A mer. A uthors, s. V. (J. L. S.)
Stanyhurst, Richard, a learned Irish divine, was born in Dublin, about 1545 or 1546 ; and, having received a preparatory education in his native city, entered Uni- versity College, Oxford, in 1563. After taking his de- gree of A.B. he studied law, but returned eventually to Ireland, where he married, and became a Roman Cath- olic. Losing his wife, he entered into orders, and was made chaplain to Albert, archduke of Austria, at Brus- sels, At this place he died in 1618. In addition to other works, he wrote, De Vita S. Patrici Hyhernice Apostoli, Lib. II (Antwerp, 1587, sm. 8vo) : — Hebdomada Mariana (1609, 8vo) : — Hebdomada Eiicharistica (Du- aci, 1614, 8vo) : — The Principles of Catholic Religion. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. v.
Stanzioni, Massimo, an Italian painter, was born at Naples in 1585. He was the pupil of Caracciolo, but afterwards became the imitator of the great Bolognese painters, especially Guido Reni. He was an excellent portrait-painter, and was also distinguished for his fres- cos. There are several excellent works of bis in the Church of Certosa at Naples, especially the picture o{ St. Bitino Presenting the Rules of his Order to his Monies. In the same church is a picture of a dead Christ and the Maries, which, as it had somewhat darkened, Spagno- letto, through jealousy, persuaded the Carthusians to wash with a corrosive water, which completely spoiled it. Stanzioni would not restore it, preferring to leave it as a monument of Spagnoletto's meanness. Stanzio- ni died at Naples in 1656. See Eiiglish Cyclop, s. v.
Stapf, the name of two Roman Catholic theologians, viz. :
1. Franz, born May 2, 1766, at Bamberg, where he also studied theology. He died in his native city, while professor at the clerical seminary, in the year 1826. He wrote, Katechismus der christkatholischen Religion (Bam- berg, 1812) -.—I/andlmrh dazu (ibid. 1815; 2d ed. 1818): —.A usfiihrlirhe Predigtenfwiirfe (ibid. 181(;; 2d ed. 1817) : — M aterialien zu jtopnUiren Predigten (ibid, 1827 ; 3d ed. 1837). See Regensburger Reul-Encyliop. s. v.; Winer, llandbuch der iheol. lAteratur, ii, 51, 129, 787.