"Inveni portnm: spes et fort una, valete ! Nil mihi vobiscum, ludite nunc alios."
Some authors have asserted without proof that Pucci was sent to Rome and burned. See Unicersalist Quar- ter///, July, 1873, art. i ; Ittig, Be Puccianismo ; Schmid, Br. F. Puccio in Naturalistis et Indifferentistis Redivivo (Lips. 1712, 4to) ; Bayle, Hist. Bict. s. v. (J. H. W.)
Puccianites is the name of the followers of Fran- cesco Pucci (q. v.), a class of Italian Universalists. See Univkrsalism.
Pucelle, Abbe, a French ecclesiastic who flourished in the first half of the 18th century, is noted as one of the ablest defenders of the Gallican liberties. He was born at Paris in 1655, and was in Parliament in 1714 when the adoption and registration of the bull Unigenitus, which aimed at the destruction of the Jansenists (q. v.), was discussed, and he most vigorously opposed this act on the part of the French state. He was then one of the clerical counsellors of the "Grand Chamber." In 1730, also, after the archbishop of Paris, De Vintimille, at-
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tempted to enforce the Unigenitus, and the king had suffered the "lit de justice" to strengthen the papists, Pucelle stood strong, and caused the counsellors to keep their places and assert the independence and supremacy of the temporal power of France over Roman ecclesiasti- cism. They contended that it does not belong to eccle- siastics to define the limits between civil and spiritual authority; that the laws of the Church do not become laws of the State until they are sanctioned and promul- gated by the sovereign; and that the ministers of the Church are accountable to the king and the Parliament for any offence against the statute law of the realm (see Memoires du Marechal Due <1, Richelieu, iii, 203). It was the first step of the opposition of the clergy of France to the crown and the hierarchy. See Franck; Gallican Church. Of Pucelle's " personal history nothing further is accessible to us than that he was obliged to go into exile after 1732, and returned only when peace was concluded between court and Parlia- ment. He died at Paris Jan. 7, 1745. See Guettee, Hist, de VEglise de France; Jervis, Hist. Ch. of France, ii, 220, 231, 272. (J.H.W.)
Puchta, Christian Rudolph Heinrich, a Lu- theran minister, was born Aug. 19, i808, at Cadolzburg, in Middle Franconia. After having received his pre- paratory education, he entered the university in 1826, and studied at Erlangen and Berlin. In 1832 he was appointed vicar at Munich, in 1837 he went to Erlangen as private teacher, and in 1839 he was appointed professor of philosophy and religion at the newly founded lyceum in Speyer. Being mentally and physically broken down by too much work, he retired from his professorship un- til 1842, when he took charge of the small congregation at Eyb, not far from Anspach. Here he wrote his Morgen- und A bendandachten (Erlangen, 1843). For ten years he labored at Eyb, in the meantime restoring his broken health. In 1852 he was called as second pastor of St. James's to Augsburg, advanced in 1856 to the posi- tion of the first pastor, and died Sept. 12, 1858. Puchta was one of the most excellent of modern hymnists, his hymns being full of depth and richness of thought. Be- sides his Morgen- und .1 bendandachten, he also published Ber Hausaltar (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1857); Hand- buch der praktischen Kateckese (Stuttgart, 1854), 1st pt. His hymns are found in Knapp's Liederschatz and in some of our modern hymn-books. See Knapp, Biogra- phy of Puchta. printed in the preface to Puchta's hymns (Stuttgart, 1860). p. iv-xxiii ; .1 ugsbui -g, r A llg, ineine Zei- tung, 1858, No. 268; Koch. Geschichti des deutschen Kir- chenliedes, vii, 277 sq. ; Zuchold, Bibliothecu Theologica, ii, 1021; Hauck, Theol. Jahresbericht, 1865, p. 404 sq. (B.P.)
Pudari were, in the Indian mythology, gigantic be- ings with flaming hair and a number of arms, who were held in great honor as protectors of the cities. Temples were built in their honor outside of the places which stood under their guard. Sacrifices, even human victims, were offered to them.— Tollmen Worterb. </. Mythol. s. v.
Pudas, an Indian god whom we find frequently in the company of Ixora (one of the incarnations of Siva). Nothing is known as to his attributes. His Appearance is strange and grotesque : he is small, with an enormous belly ; his head is surrounded with snakes; another snake winds itself in many circles around his legs, chest, and arms; his right hand holds a staff. — Yollmer, Worterb. d. Mythol. s. v.
Pu'dens (Gra'cized, Uovdi]Q), a Christian friend of Timothy at Rome. St. Paul, writing about A.D. 64, says. ■• Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia" (2 Tim. iv, 21). Pudens is commemo- rated in the Byzantine Church on April 14, in the Ro- man Church on May 19. He is included in the list of the seventy disciples given by Pseudo-Hippolytus. Papebroch, the Bollandist editor (A eta Sanctorum. Mail, iv, 296), while printing the legendary histories, distin- guishes between two saints of this name, both Roman
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senators — one the host of St. Peter and friend of St. Paul, martyred under Nero; the other the grandson of the former, living about A.D. 150, the father of Nova- tus, Tiroothj (who is said to have preached the Gospel in Britain), Praxedis, and Pudentiana, whose house, in the valley between the Viminal bill and the Esquiline, served, in his lifetime, for the assembly of Roman Chris- tians, and afterwards gave place to a church, now the Church of Sta. Pudenziana, a >li' >rt distance at the back of the Basilica of Sta. Maria Maggiore. Earlier writers know from Lhe Epistle to the Romans (xvi, 13) thai i lie