entered the Bangor Seminary in 1854, and, after having completed the course, was ordained and installed pas- tor of the Walpole (N. H.) Congregational Church, Jan. 31, 1855. After serving this Church faithfully and suc- cessfully for nine years, his health failed, and he deemed it necessary to seek a new field. His relation as pastor was dissolved in 18G5. He served the Church at Sul- livan, N. IL, as a stated supply for a period of seven years. In 1870 he was called to the pastorate of the Church in his native town, and was duly installed. In 1877 he was thrown from a wagon and received inter- nal injuries from which he never recovered. When death came. May 9, 1877, it was sudden, but it found him prejiared for his change. He was a man of solid, substantial qualities, of deep and unaffected piety. His sermons were wrought out carefully and of Biblical conception, and hence mostly of a topical character. He was loved and honored by his ministerial brethren and the Church at large ; a man of the people, a faithful and successful pastor, and thoroughly devoted to his work. (W. P. S.)
Strabo (or Stkabus, i. e. the sqi/inter) is the home- ly appellative under which a not unimportant theolo- gian belonging to the former half of the 9th century is usually mentioned in history. His real name was Wukifried (Walafridus). He was born probably at the close of the reign of Charlemagne, and in the Upper Rhine country (though some writers call him an Anglo- Saxon) ; and was educated, according to some authori- ties, at St. Gall, under (irimwald, and, according to oth- ers, at Reichenau, under Tato, but, at all events, in the end of his course at Fulda, under Rhabanus Maurus. Af- terwards he became dean of the convent at St. Gall, and in 842 abbot of the Benedictine convent at Reichenau, on an island in Lake Constance, where he is reported to have previously been a teacher. Trittenheim (q. v.) makes him to have been also president of the school in the Convent of Hirschfeld. Strabo died while engaged in a diplomatic mission to the court of Charles the Bald, July 17, 849. For a view of the uncertainties in which our knowledge of this monk is involved, see the larger bibliographical collections, e. g. those of Oudin, D. Ceil- lier, the Histuire Litteraii-e de France (torn, v), and Fabricii Bibl. Latina Medice ^tatis. Older sources are given in those works.
Walafried's writings usually offer nothing of histori- cal interest to the student. We note, first, his Latin poems relating generally to Church festivals, i. e. to apostles and martyrs. One, entitled Ilortulus, describes the author's garden. These poems have been collected in Canisii LecHones Antiquce, vi (or ii, 2, new ed.). The historical poems are also found in the Bollandists and in patristical collections. A prose life of St. (iall by Strabo is printed in (ioldasti iScript. Rerum Atle- munn. tom. i, and Mabillon, Acta Ord. S. Ben. Sa>c. II (comp. Ermenrich of Reichenau, in Oudin, ii, 76). (ireater importance attaches to a little compeiidiiim of Christian arclucology, entitled De ICrordiis el Incremen- tis Rerum Kcclesiastunim (in Hittorp, ^Vvi/j^ de Oj/iciis Vivinis [Cologne, 15()8], and elsewhere). It treats of ecclesiastical usages, buildings, altars, pra3'ers, bells, images, sacraments, in thirty -one chajiters, and in a scliolarly and judicious manner. In the matter of image- worship, a position midway between supersti- tious iconolatry and fanatical iconoclasm is assumed ; and on the Lord's supper the statement is made that bread and wine afforded the most ade(]uate symbols to indicate the union between the head and members, thus departing from the transubstantiation doctrine of the contemporary Radbert.
The fame of Walafricd rests principally, however, on the great e.xegetical comjiilation (of which he was mainly, if not exclusively, the author ), which consti- tuted the principal source of Hiblical learning for the Western ('liurch during nearly five hundred years. It bore the title of (Jlosxa Ordiiunia, and rapidly became authoritative in matters of interpretation. Numerous
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editions were published down to the 17th centurj', all of which are mentioned in the art. " VValafrid" in the Hist. Lit. cle France, and in Biisse's (JrundrL^s d. christl. Literatur, § 583. The work was generally printed in connection with Nicholas ile Lvra (q. v.), and has brief scholia interpdlated between the lines of the text by the hand of Anseltn of Laon in the 12th century. Walafried's Notes contain the kernel of the older patris- tical exegesis in considerable perfection. In the lOth century the report was current that Charlemagne had caused the Bible to be rendered into German, and Fla- cius, in the preface to his edition of Otfried, speaks of three doctors who performed the work — Khabanus, Haymo of Halberstadt, and Walafried ; but the story is without support of any kind. See Herzog, Real-Encrjkiop. s. v.
Strada, Famiano, a learned Jesuit, was born in Rome in 1572, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1591. His ordinary residence was in the Roman Col- lege, where he taught rhetoric, and where he died in 1649. He was the author of Prolusiones AcndemiccB (Cologne, 1617, 8vo; reprinted at Oxford in 1631), by far his best work: — De Bello Belgico (Rome, 1640-47, 2 vols. fol.). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.