Prie, Link de, a French cardinal, was bom in Tou- raine, in 1 151, of a noble family. He was successively, by the favor of cardinal George D'Amboise, bis cousin, grand archdeacon of Bourges, archdeacon of Blois, dean of St.-Hilairc-de-Poitiers. apostolic prothonotary, abbot commendatory of Laudais, of Loroux, of Issou- dun. etc, and, at last, almoner to the king. He was raised to the bishopric of liayeux. on the express rec- ommendation of Louis XII. Sept. 17. 1498. He was shortly after sent to Etaples to subscribe to the treaty concluded in 1499 with Henry VII. king of England. He accompanied, a little while after this. Louis XII in his expedition against the Genevese, and was promoted to the cardinalate by .Julius II (May 17. 1507). When that pope took up arms against Louis XII. be prevent- ed De Prie from leaving Lome, under pain of being de- prived of his livings (1509). In spite of the pontifical in- terdict, the cardinal quitted Rome, and, together with some other prelates attached to the interests of France, opened at l'isa (Nov. 1. loll) a council against Julius 11. who. on Oct. 24, bad declared him deposed from the cardinalate. In the interval he had been raised to the bishopric of Limoges (in 1510), and two years after be was provided with the bishopric of Lectoure. Set ing the chair of Limoges contested, He Prie made an ar- rangemenl with his competitors I Aug. 18, 1513 i by which In- relinquished bis rights to the bishopric of Lectoure to William of Barton, who in bis turn waived in He Prie's favor his claim to the chair of Limoges; Foucaud de Bonnival then obtained tin- bishopric oi Soissons. Rene de Prie, who had in the meantime been created cardinal by pope Leo X, celebrated at St Denis the funeral cere- monies of Anne of Brittany (Jan. 20, loll) : blessed the marriage of Louis XII and Mary of England (Sept.
1 1 i ; held at liayeux a diocesan synod, where be pub- lished the laws (April 15, 1515); and resigned his two bishoprics of Limoges and of liayeux Sept. 1516. While at Milan, in 1512, whither the Council oi Lisa bad been transferred, the University of Paris declared against him in a work of Thomas de Vio (cardinal Caje- tan), On tin Authority of the Pope, wherein tin- doctrine of Gerson was attacked, which be bail espoused. Car- dinal De Prie died at Lyre Sept. 9, 1519.— Hoefer, Xmir. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Prie-Dieu is a term in ecclesiastical architecture designating a small lectern (q. v.), or book-desk, which was introduced in the 1 5th century.
Prierias, Svi.\ t stes, a Roman Catholic theologian of tin- tiitie of the Reformation, and noted for his antag- onism to tin- new movement, was born in 1460. His family-name was Mazolim, but he was called /'. Prierio, or Prierias, from tin- place of his birth (Prierio, in the county of Asti. in Piedmont). At the age of sixteen he
entered the Dominican order, and was soon received as baccalaureate. As he had the gift of a singularly clear
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and ready exposition, he was surrounded by a crowd of pupils at the Gymnasium of Bologna, of which he had become the director. At the request of the Senate of Venice he accepted for a few years a professorship of theology at Padua, and was then prior at Milan, Verona, and Como. In 1508, in an assembly of the members of his order from both Lombardys, held at Mantua, he was elected vicar-general; two years later he was elected prior at Bologna. His renown and the recommendation of Dominico Grimaui, bishop of Porto, induced pope Ju- lius II to call him to Rome in 1511 as public lecturer on theology. Upon the death of the Magister Sacri Palatii, Prater Joannes de Rafanellis (generally called Ue Fer- raria), in 1515, Prierias was promoted to the vacant dig- nity by pope Leo X. Prierias died in 1523, and was buried in the church of St. Mary ad Minervam. He was the first non-German theologian who took up the pen against Luther. In 1518 he published Dialogue inprce- sumptuosas Martini Lutheri conelusiones de potestate Pa- pa and his Replica in Lutherum ; then in the following years his Errata et A rgumenta Lutheri reeitata, detec- tata, et. copiosissime trita, and his Epitoma Responsionis ad eundem Lutherum. The style is quite scholastic, and his defence of the papal primacy not without ability from a Romanist standpoint. But Luther, in his blunt and telling manner, laid so bare all the weaknesses of papal pretension as to make the defence of Prierias con- temptible. The pope himself saw the inferiority of his defender in the contest, and admonished Prierias to si- lence; though he appointed him one of the judges of Luther at a later time. Some writings attributed false- ly to Prierias are the works of a later magister of the order, Franciscus Sylvester. After his death appeared under his name some satires, composed after the fashion of the Epistola obscur. — viz., Modus solenniset authenticus ad inquirendum et convincendum Lutheranos valde neces- sarius, and the Tractatus de arte et modo inquirendi hcereticos. See Echard and Quetif, Bibliotheca Prcedica- torum ; Pressel (in Herzog), Real-Encyclopddie, for the Protestant, and Aschbach, Kirchen-Lexikon, for the Ro- man Catholic estimate of this man. See also Fisher, Hist, of the Reformation, p. 96; Alzog, Kirchengesch. ii, 262. (J.H.W.)