On Whitsun-Monday the parishioners in the diocese often came to blows about right of precedence, so that bishop Storey made injunctions (1478) for order on this occasion, when the shrine of St. Bichard was visited an- nually. Crosses and banners were permitted, but the long painted rods with which the contending parties had hitherto belabored each other were proscribed, as well as laughing, crowding, and noise. The pilgrims entered by the great south porch and assembled in the choir at 10 A. M. and left the building by it, having duly visited "the chancel and church." In 13G4 the primate forbade such dangerous contentions throughout England. As late as 1551 the city companies of Lon- don went in procession — the Fishmongers' to St. Mi- chael's, Cornhill, with three crosses, a hundred priests, and the parishioners and members of the guild carrying white rods; and the parish of St. Clement Danes" dis- played eighty banners and streamers, and was preceded by the city waits. On Easter-Monday at Kinnersley and Wellington the parishioners, adult and children, joined hand -in -hand, surrounded the church and touched it with a general simultaneous embrace, called "clipping the church." They afterwards attended di- vine service. The procession at Wolverhampton on Monday and Tuesday in Bogation week, in which the children bore poles dressed with flowers and the clergy chanted the Benedicite, only ceased in 17C5. Some of the Gospel trees or holy oaks where the stations were formed still remain. — Walcott, Sacred Archceol. s. v. See Middleton, Letters from Rome; Wilier, Synops. Pap. ; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, viii, 803-809 ; Martigny, Diet, des A ntiquites Chret. s. v. ; Siegel, Christ' lielie Alterthiimer ; Biddle, Christian Antiquities, p. 757, 758, 771-774, 833 ; Barnum, Romanism, p. 468.
Prochazka, Francis Faustin, a Bohemian mo- nastic, noted as a writer, was born at Neupaka, Bohe- mia, Jan. 13, 1749. He studied with the Jesuits of Gischin and at the University of Prague. In 1767 he entered the Order of Barnabites, where he had for his master the celebrated Durich, who taught him Hebrew and encouraged him iu his predilections for the Slavonic literature. When the Barnabites were suppressed in Bohemia (1788), he became successively theological censor, professor and director of the Gymnasium at Prague, and librarian of the university of that city. He published the New Testament in Bohemian with commentaries, an edition of the Bible in that dialect, a reprint of the Chronique de Bunzlau : — Commentarius de Secnlaribus A ilium Liberalium in Moravia Fatis (1782): — Melanges de Litlerature Boheme -(Prague, 1784, 8vo). This religious man also assisted on the Barnabite Bible, and at the moment of his death was occupied on the valuable Bibliotheca Slavica of Durich. Prochazka died at Prague in 1809. — Hoefer, Xouv. Biog. Generate, s. v.
Prochet, Matteo, a noted modern Italian Prot- estant theologian, was born in Piedmont in 1836. He was afforded by his Waldensian parents all the educa- tional and religious advantages that might properly fit him for Church service, but on the outbreak of the Franco-Italian-Austrian war in 1859 he took up arms for his country's freedom and greatly distinguished him- self by his bravery. After his return from the field of battle he continued his theological studies, and in 1862 was ordained minister in the Church of the Vaudois. He soon rose to positions of distinction, and was repeat- edly honored by his ecclesiastical associates in missions to the sifter churches of the Continent and of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He finally became the president of the Waldensian missions in Italy, and in 1873 was sent to represent his Church in the Evangelical World Alliance at New York. While in this country he spoke frequently and greatly impressed that distinguished body by his learning and wisdom. He was at the time pastor in Geneva and also professor of theology. On his return voyage from this country he was accompanied
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by the much-lamented Carrasco, the Spanish convert to Protestantism) who was one of his most intimate friends, and with wli.un he had planned several impor- tant polemical treatises against Romanism and her rela- tions to the >taie. Prochet is of a fine, commanding presence— tall in figure, broad-chested, quick in move- ment and speech, like most of the sons of tin- South; keen in perception, and accurate in his scholarship. He is a power, not only in Italian Protestantism, but in evangelical Christianity. See Report of the Alliance, (1873). i.l. II. W.)
Proch'orus (rTptixopoc). one of the seven deacons, being the third on the list, and named next after Stephen and Philip (Acts vi, 5), A.D. 30. No further mention of him is made in the X. T. There is a tradi- tion that he was < secrated by St. Peter bishop of \'i-
comedia (Baron, i, 292). In the Magna Bibliotheca Patrum (Colon. Agripp. 1618, i. 49-69) will he found a fabulous "Historia Prochori, Christi Discipuli, de Vita B. Joannis Apostoli." — Smith.
Proclamation (Pip, iX^, etc., or some form of SattJ, as in 1 Kings xv, 22; Jer. 1, 29), the edict of any governing power, published in a solemn manner. The laws of .Moses, as well as the temporary edicts of Joshua, were communicated to the people by means of the gen- ealogists, or "officers," as in the English version; but the laws and edicts of those who subsequently held the office of kings were proclaimed publicly by criers (Jer. xxxiv. 8, 9; Jonah iii, 5-7), a class of persons men- tioned by Daniel (iii, 4; v, 29), under the word fctti"lS>, Iceroza, which our translators have rendered "herald" (q.v.).