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numerous. Under his direction the numbers grew so considerably that new buildings were needed. After three years the church and convent were ready for occupancy; at first of wood, they were rebuilt of stone in 1407. The foundation was placed under the Windesheim chapter, who named Brinckerinck as its confessor. Numbering in that year twelve sisters and novices, by the middle of the century the community had grown to considerably over a hundred, including all classes. It was self-supporting; the sisters copied and illuminated manuscripts, or occupied themselves profitably in other ways according to their gifts. In 1408 a new house was erected at Diepenveen, a few miles away, in the choir of whose church Brinckerinck was buried. He was known far and wide for bis popular preaching, which, according to the testimony of Rudolf Dier, one of his hearers, and of the Brethren of the Common Life, gave to all the impression that he had sat at the feet of Jesus. From a manuscript biography by Elizabeth of Delft, one of the twelve first sisters, we learn that she wrote down some of his sermons, and Rudolf Dier adds that out of such materials eight vernacular " collations " were formed, containing his admonitions to the sisters. These were discovered not long ago, and published by Moll in 1866. They read like notes of spoken discourses, sometimes apparently combinations of different ones. Like the usual " collations " of the Brethren of the Common Life, they were not formal sermons following a rhetorical method, but simple and artless talks which pass readily from one topic to another, and are rich in short, pithy sentences of a kind to be easily understood and remembered by his hearers. L. Schulze.
Bibliography: The Vila by Thomas a Kempis is in the Chronicnn monasterii S. Agnetis, ed. H. Rosweyde, Antwerp, 1615; another by J. liuschius is in the Iatter's Ckronicon Wi-ndeshmense, ed. K. Grube, Halle, 1886. Consult: G. Dunbar, Analecta, vol. i., Deventer, 1719; idem, Bet Kerlcelyk en Wereltlyk Deventer, ib. 1732-88; W. Moll, Kerkgeschiedenis van Nederland voor de Hervorming, ii. 2, 209 sqq., Utrecht, 1871.
BRISTOL, FRANK MILTON: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. in Orleans Co., N. Y., Jan. 4, 1851; elected bishop, 1908.
BRITISH CHURCH. See Celtic Church.
BRITISH HONDURAS. See Central America.
BRITTINANS, BRITTINIANS. See Brictinans.
BRLXEN, BISHOPRIC OF: A diocese which takes its name from Brixen, a town of the Tyrol, situated 40 m. s.s.e. of Innsbruck. The present Tyrol became a part of the Roman Empire 15 a.d., and the rapid spread of Christianity in north Italy gives ground for the supposition that it penetrated comparatively early into the Alpine region. The earliest authentic mention of a bishopric in southern Rha-tia, however, dates from the end of the sixth century. Among the bishops of Venetia and Rha'tia Secunda who addressed a letter to the emperor Maurice in 591 appears the name of a certain Ingenuinus, whom Paulus biaconus and the author of the Versus de ordine conjrrovincialium pontificum describe as bishop of Sabiona, the
present Seben. The existence of the bishopric seems to have been continuous from this time. It embraced to the south of the Brenner the upper Eisackthal and the Pusterthal, to the north of the Brenner almost the whole of what is now the Tyrol. Probably under Otto II., the see was removed from Seben to Brixen; in a document of 907 Bishop Richpert is designated as Prihsinensis ecclesice episcopus. (A. Hauck.)
Brixen counts among the most ancient examples of exemption from the secular jurisdiction, having received it from Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. Its territory increased largely by donations from successive emperors, and Frederick I. (1179) gave its incumbent the princely title and rights. Henceforth the bishops received investiture immediately from the emperor, and had a seat and a voice in the imperial diet. The secular privileges, however, were gradually absorbed by the powerful magnates of the Tyrol, and at the Peace of LuneVille the principality was formally suppressed, to be conferred the next year on the house of Austria. Brixen was the meeting-place in 1080 of a council of imperialist prelates who undertook to depose Gregory VII. and elect Guibert of Ravenna pope in his place. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa occupied the see from 1450 to 1464, and Caspar Ignatius, Count Kunigl (1702- 1747), was among the greatest and most active prelates of his day. The nomination to the see is vested in the emperor of Austria.
BROAD CHURCH. See England, Church of.
BROADUS, JOHN ALBERT : American Baptist ; b. in Culpeper County, Va., Jan. 24, 1827; d. in Louisville, Ky., Mar. 16, 1895. He was graduated at the University of Virginia 1850, and was assistant professor of Latin and Greek there, 1851-53, chaplain to the University 1855-57, pastor of the Baptist church in the place until, in 1859, on its organization, he became professor of the interpretation of the New Testament and of homiletics in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, then in Greenville, S. C. In 1877 the seminary was removed to Louisville, and in ISsS he became its president. He attained high rank as teacher, preacher, and scholar, and published two notable volumes in the field of homiletics, The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (Philadelphia, 1870; 25th ed., by E. C. Dargan, New York, 1905) and Lectures on the History of Preaching (New York, 1876); also Sermons and Addresses (1886; 6th ed., 1905); a commentary on Matthew (Philadelphia, 1887); Jesus of Xazareth (New- York, 1890); Harmony of the Gospels according to the Revised Version (1893); Memoir of James Petigru Boyce (1893). He also prepared a commentary on Mark (Philadelphia, 1905), and edited and revised the Oxford translation of Chrysostom's homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, with an essay on St. Chrysostom as a homilist, in vol. xiii. of Philip Schafi's Xicene and Post Nicene Fathers (New York, 1889). Bibliography: A. T. Robertson, Life and Letters of John
Albert Broadus, Philadelphia, 1901.
BROCHMAND, brek'mand, JESPER RASMUS- SEN: Bishop of Zealand; b. at Koge (20 m. s.w.