Corpus Cbri-t i College, and later was given a professor- ship in theology | 1768). He died at I ixford .March •_>}. 1783. Dr. Thomas Randolph published a work on the Prophecies cited in tht New Testament compared with the Hebrew Original and th Septuagint Version, which is ex- ceedingly valuable and scarce. •• I: presents," says Orme,
"at sview the Heb. text, the Sept. version of it, and the
quotation in the Greek N'\\ Test." The substance of the work is incorporated in Home's ( hapter on Quotations. | His son John, who was horn duly 6, 171V. and was
educated at Oxford, became under his father's adminis- tration professor ol Greek and theology, in 1799 was made bishop of Oxford, was transferred to the see of Bangor in 1807, and in 1809 to that of London, where he died July 28, L813. He was a member of the Royal Society of London, and published several sermons. See Gentleman's J/a#azt°n*',lxxxiii,lxxxiv.andthe biograph- ical sketch prefaced to the collected writings of Thomas Randolph; Saunders. Evenings with Sacred Poets, p. •-'•'•1 ; Hook. Ac/,,, Biog.viii, 191. (J. II.W.i
Ranew, Nathaniei . an English divine of the 17th century, noted as a Nonconformist who was ejected at the Restoration, was minister of Little Eastcheap, Lon- don, and afterwards vicar of Tilsted, Essex. He died in 1672, aged aboul seventy-two. He published, Soli- huh Improved by Divint Meditation, etc. (Lond. 1670, 8vo; last ed. 1847, l8mo), a very excellent work in the domain of practical theologj i lecouni concerning the Saint's Glory, etc., equally devout in spirit and excel-
j lent in composition and purpose.
Ranfaing, Marie Elisabeth de, a French lady. celebrated as the foundress of a religious order, and known under the name of Elizabeth of the Cross of Jesus, was horn. Nov. 30, 1592, at Remiremont, of a noble Lorraine family, and was noted for her beauty.
I She was affianced to a man lor whom she had not the shadow of affection, and therefore objected to wedlock; and when her parents persisted, she sought the retire- ment of the monastery. She was, however, brought hack to society, and married M. Dubois, by whom she had three children. Her husband's death and other mishaps led her to determine the founding of a religious com- munity made up wholly of women reclaimed from a life of debauchery. The number of these women having increased, the prince bishop of Toul thought proper to form them into a religious order, under the name of •■Our Lady of Refuge." Mrs. Dubois and her three daughters took the dress belonging to the monastery
dan. 1. 1631. In 1634 I'rhau Y1II gave his approval to
this order. It extended over several of the cities of
the realm, especially Avignon, Toulouse, Moiitpcllier,
and Rouen; and it survived the storms of the Revolu- tion. The mother of Ranfaing died the death ofa saint, dan. 1 1. 1649. Sec Hoed. Nouv. Biog. Generate, >. v.
Range is the rendering of two Heb. words of mark- ed import, besides one or two in an ordinary sense.
1. "Z.l.ir (only in the dual. C"~"~. lira ' I xi, 35, " ranges for pots"), apparently a cooking-furnace,
perhap- of | cry (as it could be broken), and double
(as having places for two pots or more, or, perhaps, con- sisting of two stoves set together). See Oven; Pot.
2. FJ^iZJ, seder ah', a rank, or row. of soldiers, drawn up in cordon ("range," 2 Rings xi, 8, 15; 2 Chron. xxiii. 14); also timh. rs or chambers in the stories of a building (■■hoard.'' 1 Kings vi, 9). See Athaliah,
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Rangier'us i, a French cardinal of mediaeval times. was born, aboul 1035, in the diocese of Rheims. St. Bruno of that place was his tutor. ( >ne ofhis pupil- was Eudes of Chatillon, pope under the name of Urban II. Rangier went, to lake the habil "f Benedictine, to Martnontii i-.
where he would probably have died in ohscurily. had it
not been for contention which arose among the monks, and Raoul of Sangeais, archbishop of Tours. Rangier'a abbot, Bernard of Saint-Venant, charged him with a
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mission to Rome, to maintain the rights of the abbey. The two ecclesiastics obtained a bull conformed to their wishes; but Rangier was kept at Rome by Urban II, who soon made him cardinal, and, in 1090, archbishop of Reggio. In 1095 he went with the pope to France, and took part in the Council of Clermont, where the tirst crusade was decided upon. After the Council, Rangier followed Urban II to Limoges and to Poitiers, and found himself, March 10, 1096, at the consecration of the abbey of Marmontiers. He soon after returned to his own dio- cese, and left it no more, excepting to assist Rascal 1 1 at the Council of Guastalla (HOG). Ughelli speaks of him as a man of great power ('; vir magine auctoritatis"). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.