Pommeraye, Jean-Francois, a French Benedic- tine monk, was hcirn iii H',i7 at Rouen. He entered in 1637 the Congregation of Saint-Maur, made his profes- sion at Tumieges, and renounced voluntarily all charges of his order to devote himself to study. He died at Rouen Oct. 28, 1687. He lefl several works, mon re- markable for erudition than sound criticism. We men- tion, Hist. '/■ /' \bbay> de Saini-Ouen d\ Rouen, d* Saint-Amand, et de Sainte-Catherine de In mi (Rouen, 1662, foh): Hist, des A rch viquesch Rouetn ibid. !667,foL),the besl of his works: Hist, de la Cathedral tlr Rouen (ibid. 1686, tto). Pommeraye published after the demise of Dom dean Anger Godin, its true author, a Recueil des Con odesdi Rouen (1667, 4to);
but this collection was put into the shade bj the excel- lent work Conciles d* Normandie, published bj Dom Bessin (1717, foL). Hoefer, Vouv. Biog. Genirale, -. v.
Pomona, a female deitj among the ancienl Romans, who presided over fruit-tn es. Her worship was under the superintendence of a Bpecial priest
Pomoiani. See Pomori in&
Pomoryans are a small body of Russian Dissent- i ra, so called from their proximity to the Lake Ladoga and the White Sea. or from Pomori, a village in the
government of 01 tz, where they appear to have
originated. They believe that Antichrist lias already come; reigns in the world unseen, thai is, spiritually; and has put an end in the < Ihurch to ei erj thing that is holy. This belief they found upon the assertion by John (lsl Epist, iv, 3), "This is thai spirit of Anti- christ whereof ye have heard thai it should come, and even now already is it in the world." It is probable that Russian Dissenters, as well as others, consider the secular spirit of their Church establishment as the very Bpiril of Antichrist, blasting everything that is truly spiritual and holy. They are zealous in opposing the innovations of Nikon with regard to the < Ihurch books; prefer a life of celibacj and solitude, and rebaptize their con verts from other sects. Set Pinkerton,GreeZ Church, p. 330; Platon, Greek < 'hurch | see Index i.
Pomp, Nicholas, i of the earliest and most
prominent ministers of the German Reformed Church in this country, was a native of Germany, where he was horn dan. 20, 1734. He prosecuted his studies, classical and theological, in the University of Halle; came to America under the auspices of the church of Holland in 1760, and took charge of the German Re- formed Church in Faulkner Swamp. Montgomery Coun- ty. Pa., where he labored with much success. In 1783 he received a call to Baltimore, Md., where he < zeroised his mini-try for six years, when he returned again, in 1789, to ii,, bci ue ol his first labors; bul in the follow- ing year he removed to Indianfield, in Bucks County. Pa., where he continued in the faithful discharge of his pastoral duties up to the close of the last century, w hen failing health compelled him to retire from the active duties of his office. From that time onwards he resided with his son, the Rev. Th as Pomp, pastor of the Ger- man Reformed Church in Easton, Pa., where he died, Sept. 1, 1819. In the early part of his ministry he pub- lished an able little work in reply to a- mischievous book on Universalism" which was circulated among the Ger- mans, entitled Th Everlasting Gospel. lather Pomp occupied a prominenl position in the Reformed church of this country. See Harbaugh, Fathers of th /,'</'. Church, ii. 131- 138. - 1 >. 1 . H.)
Pomp, Thomas, an amiable and eminent minister of the German Reformed Church, son of the former, was born in Montgomery County, Pa., Feb. 4, 177.".. ■■Ih- Literary and theological studies he pursued prin- cipally, if not w holly, under the immediate care and supervision of his devoted and accomplished father.-' lie enured the ministry when only twenty years of age. I or a shorl time he was pastor of some congrega- tions in bis native county. In 1796, three year- after being licensed, he accepted a call from the Reformed Church in Easton, Pa. Here, in connection with some country churches, he labored earnestly and with sin- gular fidelity for considerably more than half a century, up to near t he close of hi- quit t and beautiful life. April •-'-'. 1852, when he was transferred from the Church mil- itant on earth to the blessed •'inheritance of the saints in light," Mr. Pomp was naturally gifted; but he was principally distinguished for bis singular amiability, gentleness, meekness, and peaceful relations with all mankind, lie retained to the last moment of his life tin' unabated confidence of his people and the warm- est esteem of all who knew him. See Heisler, Fathers ofth Ref. Church,iv, 15 25. (D. V. H.)
Pompa, a sol, procession among the ancient
heathens, on the oca-ion of a -acred festival, a funeral, a triumph, or lor am special reasons.
Pompa Circensis, the sacr.d procession with which the Circensian games were introduced. < >n this occasion the statues of the gods, placed on w len plat- forms, were borne upon the -boulders of nun. and when very heavy they were drawn along upon cam
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Fompaei (7rofnraloi), certain gods among the an- cient Greeks, who received this name as being conduct- ors by the way; but what gods are specially referred to is uncertain, unless Mercury be meant, whose office it was to conduct souls to Hades. On certain days, called Apopompa?, sacrifices were offered to the Fompaei.