I IX. i Held in l.;i l by Rainaldus the archbishop, five bishops and six proctors attending. Thirty-two cauous were published.
2. Orders mass to be said dailv for a month by the other la-hops in behalf oi a bishop deceased.
3. Orders that yearly, on July 20, a solemn service shall
be said for the deceased bishops; and that uii that day twelve poor persons shall be fed.
■I. Enjoins the same thing on behalf of patrons and ben- efactors of churches.
G Orders thai the sacraments be administered fasting. 1". Enjoins curate- to warn the people every Sunday,
after the gospel and offertory, of the festivals" and fa-t- da\ s in the coming week.
l'l. Orders that the form of baptism shall be publiclv said in church three time- a year.
15. order- that the canon " omnis ntrinsque soxas" shall be published at Advent and Lent. Thai medical men shall not vi-it a patient a second time if he have not called in the priest.
It',. Forbids to give a benefice to any one who caunot read .ir chant
I -. i >i dei - annual Synods.
■j::. Orders that .lew's shall wear a distinguishing badge.
•2<\. Renews the ran,, ideal penalties for striking, mal- treating, and driving the clergy from their churches.
— Labile. Concil. \\. 1569.
(X.i ll'ld in Kill by the same archbishop, assisted by six bishops and four deputies. Twenty canons were published.
'.'. Forbids to ordain to the priesthood persons under twenty-five years of age; also to ordain a deacon under
oul a sub-deacon under sixteen vears.
6. Orders that the church bells shall 'be rung when a bi-hop passes, thai the people may come OUt tO receive his blessing upon their knee- : also regulates the form to
be ob-erved by the chapter of a cathedral upon the bish- op's visit.
8. Declares, tinder pain of excommunication, that no monks, or other persons, can claim exemption from epis- copal visitation upon plea of prescriptive right, or any other plea.
10. Enacts that the clergy shall be soberly dressed : that II not cany arm-, nor die-- m colored clothes j
liall wear a elo-e cassock, ob.-ci ve the tOUSUre,
and I ;> their hair cnl short, eta
ii I liids men to enter the monastic houses of fe- male-.
. W. Orders i in ites to teach their people the form of ban- : year.
16. Order- fasting and almsgiving on the three davs be- fore the meeiing of provincial councils.
29. Revokes the permission given to monks to preach euces.
—Labbe, Concil xi. [603. See also Milman. Hist, of Latin Christianity ; Hefele, ( oncUiengesch. vol. v. el al.; Landon, Manual of Councils, s. v. For the Council of Ravenna held in L317, see Bologna.
Ravenscroft, John Stark, D.D., an Episcopal minister in America, afterwards bishop of North Caro- lina, was born mar Blandford, Prince George County, Va.. in 1772. He entered William and .Mary College in 1 r89, but with little profit, and, on his return li Land soon after, settled in Lunenburg County. In 1810 his mind changed, and he joint d the " Republican Meth- odists," and became a lay elder in their Church. lie was subsequently ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, became assistant minister al Richmond, and was elected bi-hop the -auie year. In 1828 he retired to Williamsburgh from ill-health, .and. on his return to North Carolina, died March 5, 1830. He published several Sermons and Charges:— also, Tin Doctrim of ili< Church Vindicated, tic: Revealed Religion Defend- ed against th No-Comment Principle. Sixty-one Ser- mons and a Memoir (2 vols. 8vo) wen- also published after his death. See Sprague, Annals ofth Amu. Pul- pit, v, 617.
Ravenscroft, Stephens, a ministerofthe Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was bom of pious and respecta- ble parentage in Staffordshire, England, March 6, 1803, was converted very young, and licensed to preach in his eighteenth year by the Wesleyans. In 1838 he emigrated to the United State-. lie was a great ad- mirer of republican institutions, .and as loyal a citizen as ever breathed the lice air oi America." In [839 he was admitted into the Indiana Conference, and appoint- ed to Booneville. His subsequent appointments were Mount Vernon, New Lebanon, Carlisle, Spencer. Bloom- field, and Howling Green. While on the last-named charge his health failed, and he was located al his own request, lie moved with his family to Point Com- merce, and supplied Linton and New Albany circuits. He afterwards travelled as a Bible agent in Clark and Floyd counties until his health became so poor thai he had to give up the work entirely, lie then moved to Rockport, Ind., where, as a supply, he ended his nine years' service as a local preacher. In 1859 he was re- admitted into conference and placed on the superannu- ated list, which relation he sustained until his death. In 1869 he moved to W'orthington, Ind.. and in 1*70 to Petersburg!), Ind.. where he was appointed postmaster, and where he died, Oct. 20, 1871. See Minutes ofConf. 1872, p. 79.
Ravenscroft, Thomas, an eminent English mu- sical composer, deserves a place here tor hi- devotion to .-acred subjects. He was boni in L592, received his musical education in St. Paul's choir, .and had the de- gree of bachelor of music conferred on him when only fifteen years of age. In 1611 appeared his Melismata, Musical Pkansies, a collection of twenty-three part- songs, some of them of great beauty: and three years later he brought out another collection of part-songs under the title of Brief Discourses, with an essay on the old musical modes. Turning his attention to psalmody, he published in 1621 a collection of psalm-tunes for four voices, entitled The Whol Booh of Psalms, a into Four Parts by Sundry Authors to such Tunes as havt been and are usually sung m England, Si Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and tht Netherlands. This was the first publication of its kind, and all similar