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THE NEW

SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE

EMBRACING

BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL, AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY
AND BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL
BIOGRAPHY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE PRESENT DAY

Based on the Third Edition of the Realencyklopädie
Founded by J. J. Herzog, and Edited by Albert Hauck

PREPARED BY MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED SCHOLARS AND SPECIALISTS
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF

SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, D.D., LL.D.
(Editor-in-Chief)

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF

CHARLES COLEBROOK SHERMAN

AND

GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE, M.A.
(Associate Editors)

AND THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENT EDITORS

CLARENCE AUGUSTINE BECKWITH, D.D.

(Department of Systematic Theology)

HENRY KING CARROLL, LL.D.

(Department of Minor Denominations)


JOHN THOMAS CREAGH, D.D.

(Department of Liturgics and Religious Orders)

(VOL. I.)


JAMES FRANCIS DRISCOLL, D.D.

(Department of Liturgics and Religious Orders)

(VOLS. II. TO XII.)

JAMES FREDERIC McCURDY, PH.D., LL.D.

(Department of the Old Testament)


HENRY SYLVESTER NASH, D.D.

(Department of the New Testament)


ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D.

(Department of Church History)



FRANK HORACE VIZETELLY, F.S.A.

(Department of Pronunciation and Typography)


VOLUME I

AACHEN-BASILIANS


BAKER BOOK HOUSE

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

1951

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SECURED BY BAKER BOOK HOUSE FROM FUNK AND WAGNALLS
1949

LITHOPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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