Powtai is the name of a Chinese divinity signify- ing contentment.
Poya the day on which the moon changes, which is held sacred among the Buddhists. They reckoned
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four poya days in each month. 1. The day of the new moon. ' 2. The eighth day from the time of the new moon. 3. The day of the full moon. 4. The eighth dav from the time of the full moon. It is said hy Prof. H. Wilson that the days of the full and the new moon are sacred with all sects of the Hindus; but according to the institutes of Manu the sacred books are not to be read upon these days. — Gardner, Faiths of the World, ii, 689.
Poydras, Julien, an American philanthropist of French descent, who flourished in the early days of our republic, and was first delegate to Congress from the territory of Orleans (1809-12), gave $100,000 for the founding of a French orphan asylum, and left $20,000 for a college at Point Coupee, La. He died there Jan. 25, 1824.
Poynet (or Ponet), John, an English prelate of the Reformation period, was born about 1516 in Kent- shire. He enjoyed a distinguished education, learned Italian and Flemish, was proficient in mathematics, and constructed in his youth a clock the complicated ma- chinery of which was the admiration of Henry VIII's court. He graduated at King's College, Cambridge ; was made doctor of theology and chaplain of archbishop Cranmer. At the age of thirty-three he was appointed bishop of Rochester (1549). In 1551 he succeeded at Winchester the deposed Gardiner, and was appointed to take a share in the redaction of the new code of ecclesi- astical laws. He was indebted for these distinctions to his zeal for the cause of reform ; he defended it in the pulpit and in his books, and explained its doctrines in bis Catechism, adopted under the name of " King Ed- ward's Catechism." At Mary Tudor's accession to the throne he repaired to foreign parts, either dreading per- secution for having had a share in Wj-att's Rebellion, or because he had been deprived of his see for having married. He died April 11, 1550, at Strashurg. He is spoken of as a man of great erudition and eminent piety. In his theology he was a decided Calvinist. Other works of his are, Defence for Marriage of Priests (1549, 8vo) -.—Short Treatise of Politic Power (1556, 8vo ; reprinted 1639 and 1642) : — and De Eucharistia (1557, 8vo). See Strype, Life of Cranmer; Dodd, Church History; Fuller, Worthies of England; Milner, History of Winchester, i, 346; Lecky, History of Ration- alism, ii, 174; Hook, Eccles. Biography, viii, 158; Col- lier, Eccles. Hist, of England (see Index in vol. viii). (J. H. W.)
Pozzi, Giovanni Battista, a Milanese painter who flourished in the latter part of the 16th century, was employed by Sixtus V in the palace of St. John of Lat- eran and in the library of the Vatican. In the Sistine Chapel he painted the Visitation of the Virgin and the Angel appearing to St. Joseph in his dream ; in II Gesu, a Choir of Angels. He died in the pontificate of Sixtus V, aged twenty -eight, deeply lamented as the most promising young artist of his time. He was considered the Guido of his day; and had he survived to the time of the Caracci, it is impossible to say what degree of perfection he might have attained.
Pozzi, Stefano, an Italian painter, born at Rome in the 18th century, studied first under Carlo Maratti and afterwards with Agostino Masucci. Lanzi says he was more noble in his design than Masucci, and more natural and vigorous in his coloring. He acquired con- siderable distinction, and executed several works for the churches at Rome, one of which, an altar-piece, repre- sents the Death of St. Joseph. In the pontifical palace of Monte Carallo is a fine picture by him representing St. tin gory. He died in 1768.
Pozzo, Andrea, an eminent painter and architect, was born at Trent in 1642. While studying at Milan he fell into vicious company and became extremely dis- solute, until, disgusted by his course of life, he joined the Society of the Jesuits, who placed him under the
instruction of Scaramuccia. Afterwards, at Rome and Venice, he studied design and color, and the works of Raffaelle and other great masters. His oil and fresco works at Rome, Genoa, and other places gained him the reputation of one of the ablest artists of the time. His pictures are composed in grand style, and he is excelled by few artists in perspective and architecture, the prin- ciples of which he perfectly understood, and pub- lished a treatise on them. Among his best works in oil are, St. Francesco Borgia, in the church of II Gesii- at Rome ; the Wise Men's Offering, at Vienna, and four pictures from the life of Christ, in the church at Genoa. The ceiling of the church of St. Ignazio at Rome is re- garded as one of the ablest productions of his time, be- cause of its animated execution. As an architect he gained some distinction, and executed, among other works, the altar of St. Ignazio in the church of II Gesii at Rome, which is said to be the richest altar in all Eu- rope. He died at Venice in 1709.