chael Angelo. Declining the office of the leaden seal, he returned to Venice, only to receive an invitation from Cliarles V to visit the court of Spain, and reached Madrid in 1550. Here he became a gentleman of the emperor's bedcliamber, a count palatine of the empire, received the Order of St. Jago, and had bestowed upon him an annual iiicotne of two hundred ducats. After a residence of three years at Madrid, he returned to Venice, which he soon left for Innspruck. Returning again to Venice, he continued there until his death, of the plague, in 157G. Tliere is no list of the works of Titian, and it would not be an easy task to make one. One of his grandest achieve- ments is the Assumption of the Vir(/iv. From 1520 to 1530 the most celebrated of his works were, St. Pete?- Martyr: — Victory of the Veneivtns over the Janizaries : — and St. Sebastian. Other noted paintings are, A n A n- mnidation (1537): — Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apost/(\^ (l-'^-ll) -—Sacrifice of A hraham (eod.) : — David and Goliath (eod.): — Death of Abel (eod.)^77ie Virgin (1543): — San Tiziano (eod.). Among the religious works which he executed for Philip II of Spain are, The Last Supper: — Christ in the Garden: — St. Marga- ret inith the Dragon: — and a Martyrdom of San Lo- renzo. The Academy of Venice contains his Assump- tion and Presentation (f the Virgin, and the Manfrini Palace in the same city Tlie Entombment of Christ. In the Escurial is a L(rst Supper, upon which he labored seven years; in the Uffizi (iallery, A Virgin and Child with Saints; and in the Vatican, r//)w« Crowned with Thorns. See Northcote, Life of Titian (Lond. 1830, 2 vols.); Crowe and Cavalcaselle, A//? of Titian (1875); Spooner, Piog. Diet, of the Fine A rts, s. v.
Title is the rendering in the A. V. of 'I^U, tsiyiin, a pillar or cippus set up as a sejiulchral sign, 2 Kings xxiii, 17, or as a " wayinark," Jer. xxxi, 21; "sign," Ezek. xxxix, 15; and of titXoc, Lat. titulus, a tablet with a superscription (John xix, 19, 20), set up by Pilate over Christ's cross (q. v.).
TITLE, in the canon law, is that by which a cleric holds his benefice. In Church records and deeds, it is a Church to which a cleric was ordained, and where he was to reside. It is also applied to a cure of souls and a ministerial charge. Augustine says that the title of the cross was written in Hebrew for Jews who gloried in God's law; in (ireek, for the wise of the nations; in Latin, for Romans, the coiKjuerors o{ the world. Hence churches were called titlis. not oidy because the clergy took titles from them which fixed them to particular cures, but as dedicated to the Crucified. The appella- tion is first used hy the Council of Braga (572). A title was also a right to serve some Church from which an ordained clerk took his title, a name derived froin the titles of the martyrs' toml)s, at which service was origi- nally said, and so called for the reasons given above, or the fiscal titulus which marked buildings belonging to the sovereign, and thus also cluirches dedicated to the King of kings. The earliest title was St. Pudentiana, now called St. Praxedes. The Roman cathedral had. in 142, a title or parish church attached to it by pope Pius I. The Council of Lateran (1179) enforced ordination on a distinct title. — Walcott, Sac. A rchieol. s. v.
TITLE to orders in Episcopal churches. This is best explained l>y quoting the 33d canon of the Established Church of England :
"It has been long since provided by many decrees rf the ancient fathers that none should be admitted, either dencoii or priest, who had not first gome certnin i)lace where he mi^ht use his function : according to wliicli ex- amples we do ordiiin that henceforth no person shnll lie admitted into sacred orders except (1) he shall at that time exhibit to tlie bishop of whom he desireth iini)o>i- tion of hands a preseiitalion of himself to some ecclesi- astical preferment then void in the dincese; or ('2) shall brinu; to the said bi^hoii a trne and iitidoubled rertiticate that either he is provided of some church witliiu the said diocese, where he may attend the cure of souls, or (31 <if some minister's pl.ire vacant, either in the ciilhedral chmrh of that diocese, or in some other colle;:iate chin-cli therein also siluate, where he may execute his ministry ;
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or (4) that he is a fellow, or in right as a fellow ; or (5) a conduct or chapliiin in some colleije in Cambridire or Ox- ford : or ((!) except he he a master of arts of live years' etandin" that liveth of his own charge in either of the nniversfties; or (T) except by the bishop himself that doth ordain him minister he be shortly after to be admitted either to some benefice or cuiateship then void. And if any bishop shall admit, any person into the ministry that haih none of these titles as is aforesaid, then he shall keep and maintain him with all Ihinsrs necessary till he do prefer him to some ecclesiasiical living: and if the said bish()|) refuse so lo d<>, he shall be suspended by the arch- bishop, being assisted with another bishop, from giving orders by the space of a year."