Rely, Jean de, a French preacher, was born about 1430. He was made doctor of theology at Arras, and became successively canon, chancellor, and archdeacon of Notre Dame at Paris, and rector of the university. In this capacity he drew up in 1461 the Remonstrances which the Parliament presented to Louis XI for the maintenance of the Pragmatic Sanction, written with remarkable energy of style, and often reprinted both in French and in Latin. In 1483 he was deputy to the States-General of Tours, and presented to Charles VIII the result of their deliberations. In 1490 he be- came canon of St. Martin of Tours, and in Dec, 141)1. he was elected bishop of Angers. He accompanied Charles VIII to Italy, where he was charged with sev- eral duties near pope Alexander VI. Rely died at Sau- nmr March 27, 1499. Besides the Breviary of St. Mar- tin of Tours, he revised by royal commission the trans- lation of the historical books of the Bible by Guyart de Moulins (1495, foL). — Hoofer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Remali'ah (Heb. Remalydhu, ^Tf^^q"}, protected of. I, kovah ; Sept. 'PafteKiog or 'Po/xeXioc, v. r.'Pofiekia),
the father of Pekah, king of Israel (2 Kings xv, 25, 27, 30, 32, 37; xvi, 1, 5; 2 Chron. xxviii, 6), probably a man whose character was such as to make his name a reproach to his descendants (Isa. vii, 4, 5-, viii, 6). B.C. ante 756. See Pekah.
Rembrandt, commonly called Rembrandt van Rhyn, was the son of Hermann Gerritsz, and was born in his fa- ther's mill on the banks of the Rhine, between Leyderdorp and Koudekerk, near Leyden, June 15, 1606 (or 1608). The former date rests on the authority of Orlers, Descrip-
tion of Leyden (1641). The latterdate rests on the paint- er's marriage certificate, lately discovered, dated June 10, 1634, in which Rembrandt's age is stated to be twenty- six. He became the pupil of Jacob van Swanenburg, with whom he remained three years. He studied also under Pieter Lastman at Amsterdam, and Jacob Pinas at Haar- lem. He settled at Amsterdam in 1630, and appears to have died there, according to Immerzeel, July 19, 1664; but no register of his burial has yet been discovered. Rembrandt was equally distinguished as an etcher and- a painter. His etchings amount to nearly 400, and they are dated from 1628 to 1661. The chief char- acteristic of his works is forcible light and shade. Among his most remarkable historical paintings are Moses Destroying the Tables of the Law : — The Sacrifice of Abraham: — The Woman. Taken in Adultery: — The Descent from the Cross: — The Nativity : — Christ, in the Garden with Mary Magdalene: — and The Adoration of the Magi. There are 640 of his paintings specified in Smith's Catalogue. The best of them are still owned in Holland. He is well represented in the National Gallery, and his influence has been more direct upon the British school of painters than that of any other master. See Immerzeel, Aanteekeningen op de Lofredd op Rembrandt, also De La vi ns en H'< rh n der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Kunstschilders, etc. (1843); Bartsch, Le Peintre-graveur ; Burnet, Rembr. and his Works (1848); Middleton, Etched Work of Rembr. (Lond. 1879).
Re'meth (Heb. id. Tttft, height; Sept. 'Pappc'iS v. r. 'Papeete), a city in the territory of Issachar (Josh. xix, 21), called, as it seems, Ramoth (q. v.) in 1 Chron. vi, 73. As the place is named in the first of the above passages next to En-gannim (Jenin), the site is possi- bly represented by a tell with ruins south of Zerin (Jez- ree] ) between Sundela and Mukeibileh. Dr. Porter (in Kitto's Cyclop, s. v.) suggests that the place may be identical with the ruined fortress and village called Wezar, perched upon the northern rocky face of Mr, Gilboa (Robinson, Researches, iii, 157, 160 ; new ed. iii, 339).
Remi. See Remigius.
Remigius of Auxeere was a learned French Ben- edictine monk in the 9th century, and was brought up in the abbey of St. Germain, Auxerre. He was ap- pointed teacher to the schools belonging to the monas- tery, afterwards taught at Kheims, then went to Paris and opened the first public school in that city after learning had sunk under the ravages of the Normans. His works are. ( 'ommentarius in Omnes Davidis Psa/mos (Cologne, 1536) : — Enarraiiones in Posteriores XL Mi- nores Prophetas (Antwerp, 1545), with the Commen- taries of CEcumenius on the Acts and Epistles, and those of Arethas on Revelation : — and Expositio Misses. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Remigius, or Remi (St.'), of Lyons, a celebrated French archbishop in the 9th century, and grand almo- ner to the emperor Loth aire, succeeded Amolo in the above see about the year 853 or 854. It is supposed to be this St. Remigius who, in the name of the Church of Lyons, wrote an answer to the three letters of Hincmar of Kheims, and others, in which he defends St. Augus- tine's doctrine on grace and predestination. This an- swer may be found in the Vindicia- Predestinationis et Gratia} (1650, 2 vols. 4to), and in the library of the fa- thers. He presided at the Council of Valence in 855, and others of the same kind ; and, after founding some pious institutions, he died Oct. 28, 875. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.