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have produced cannot now be known ; death removed him from the scene of strife A.D. 490, shortly before the death of Zeno. He was succeeded in the see of Alexandria by another Monophysite, Athanasius II. See Cave, Hist. Lift, i, 455; Fabricius, Bill, Graca, xi, 336 ; Le Quien, Oriens Christianvs, vol. ii, col. 416, etc.; Tillemont, Mhnoires Ecclesiastiques,v(A. xvi. — Smith, Diet, of Gr. and Bom. Biog. and Mythol. iii, 225.
Peter {Pierre}, archbishop of Narbonne, the son of Ameli, was born in the last half of the 12th century, lie was at first clerk of Saint-Nazaire of Beziers; canon, chamberlain, grand archdeacon of Narbonne ; then elect- ed archbishop in the month of March, 122G. The ex- termination of the Albigenses having ended the war so long prosecuted against these people, Peter used all his efforts to pacify his diocese. But observing the method practiced in his time, he seized, according to that cus- tom, all the goods which had belonged to the heretics, made all the inhabitants of Narbonne take oath to massacre any one who should dare in the future to separate himself from the Roman orthodoxy, and in or- der to watch over, discover, and point out all the dis- senters, introduced in 1231 into the city of Narbonne the St. Dominican friars. But the Albigenses were conquered, not subdued. An occasion having offered in 1234, the inhabitants rose in insurrection, and drove out their archbishop. Vainly he excommunicated them. In order to return to his metropolis, after about a year's exile, Peter was obliged to descend to conditions." The insurgents imposed upon him, among others, that of ex- pelling from their city the Brother Preachers, and un- der his eyes, for greater safety, they invaded the convent of these brothers and put them (to flight. Peter dared not recall them. Yet he was a prelate energetic in his designs, courageous in his conduct, who had the tem- perament of a man of arms, and who oftener faced perils than turned his back upon them. In 1238 he made a campaign against the Moors with Jayme I, king of Ara- gon. and. according to the Chronique of Alberic, he took an active part in the battles fought under the walls of Valence. The following year he raised other troops, and at their head went to drive from Carcassonne Ray- mond de Tancarvel and some other lords in revolt against the king of France. He was less fortunate in his attempt against Aimeric ; the latter drove him from Narbonne in 1242. Finally, in 1243, we see the arch- bishop Peter making the siege of the chateau of Mont- segur, and taking it from the heretics. This was the last exploit of this belligerent prelate. He died at Nar- bonne May 20, 1245. See Gallia Christiana, vol. vi, col. 65; Hist. Litt. de la France, xviii, 331; Vaissetto, Hist. du Languedoc, iii, 352 ; Alberic, Chronicon, ad aim. 123!) ; Gulielmus de Podio, Hist, bellor. adversus Albigenses, c. 39, 40 sq. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xl, 195.
Peter of Nicomedia, an Eastern ecclesiastic, was born in the early part of the 7th century. He was one of the prelates who, with certain deacons and monks, had to clear themselves in the third Constantinopolitan, or sixth oecumenical, council (A.D. 680), from the suspicion of holding the Monothelite heresy, by oath and solemn written confessions of their belief in the orthodox doc- trine of two wills in Christ. The confessions were of considerable length, and all exactly alike, and are given in the original Greek with a considerable hiatus but completely in a Latin version in the A eta Concilii ( 'Poli- tani Hi. Actio x ; or, according to one of the Latin ver- sions of the Acta given by Hardouin, in Actio ix. See Concilia, vol. vi, col. 784, 842, ed. Labbe ; vol. iii. col. L202, 1248, 1537, 1561, ed. Hardouin; Cave. Hist. Litt. ad aim. 680, i, 595. — Smith, Diet. o/Gr. and Rom. Bivy. and Mythol. iii. 226.
Peter {St.) Nolasco (Sp. San Pedro Xolasco), a Romish saint, noted as the founder of "the Order of Our Lady of Mercy," flourished in the rir-t half of the 13th century. He was the son of a noble of Languedoc. and became a convert of St. John de Matha. He was
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much cultivated, and greatly esteemed for his learning ami application, and was made a tutor of the young king .lames of Aragon. As the needa of the crusaders called for help from various directions, Peter brought about the formation ofthe order above referred i". At first ii was military, and consisted of knights and gentle- men. The king himself was placed at the head, and his arms served as a device or badge. Soon, however, the
the orders of Justinian, demanded reparation f.>r it, and (Inland war against Theodotus. The latiir. terrified, commissioned him to convey to Justinian the most hum- ble propositions of peace, and even, ii necessary, the offer of his abdication. The last offer only was accept- ed; but when Peter returned to communicate the will ofthe « mperorto Theodotus, the latter was not to aci epl it. The king ofthe ( tstrogoths even violated
order became very popular, and extended itself on all the law of nations by imprisoning the Byzantine am- sides. Peter Nolasco was the superior, and spent his life in expeditions to the provinces under the Moors, from which he brought hark hundreds of redeemed