FLOREZ, HENRIQUE: Spanish priest; b. at Valladolid Feb. 14, 1701 (P); d. at Madrid May 5, 1773. He was an Augustinian friar, and became teacher of theology at the University of Alcala, rector of the royal college at the same place, theolog ical adviser for the supreme council of Castile and finally general assistant of his order for the Spanish provinces. He wrote a number of works, of which the most important is the Espaaa Sagrada, theairo geogra fco-historico de la igleaia de Espafia; the first volume appeared at Madrid in 1747, and the work was carried on by Floret to the end of vol. xxix (1775); a continuation, vols. xxx: xlviii (1775 1862), was made by his fellow Augustinians, Manuel Risco, Antonio Merino, Jose de la Canal, and the town librarian, P. S. de Baranda. The work contains a historical and statistical presentation of the Spanish bishoprics, with their respective chap ters and monasteries, and a catalogue of their bishops, martyrs, famous men, etc.

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Bibliography: H. Hurter, Nomenelatar Uterarius, vot. iii., Innsbruck, 1895. A list of his works is given in HL, ire

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FLORIAN, SAINT: The patron saint of Upper Aus. tria, said to have suffered martyrdom by drowning in the Enna at Laureacum (Loreh or St. Lorenz, near Enna, 10 m. s.e. of Linz) during the Diocletian persecution. His Passio, however (ed. B. Krusch, MGR, Script. rer. Merov., iii., 1896, 65-71), is a last of the Passio Irenmi Sirmii and of no value. The saint is first mentioned in the eighth century, when his relics are said to have been worshiped ad puoche ( = Buche, "the beech-tree," the site of the present abbey of St. Florian, 5 m. w.s.w. of Enna). There was probably a monastic settlement there as early as the eighth century under Otkar, an itinerant bishop. Charlemagne gave the cloister to Passau. In the beginning of the tenth century it is mentioned as a congregatio clericoram. Then it was destroyed by the Hungarians, but in the last quarter of the tenth century it was rebuilt,. without, however, regaining its former flourishing condition until Bishop Altmann of Passau made it a foundation of regular canons ire 1071, under an able leader, Hartmann. Since then its existence has never been shaken, but the relics of Florian are lost.

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Bibliography: Krusoh'e introduction in MGM, at SUP.; KL, iv . 1576-77.