Maccabees, Festival of the

M'CABE, JOSEPH: English ex-Franciscan; b. at Macclesfield (15 m. s.e. of Manchester), Cheshire, Nov. 11, 1867. He was educated at St. Francis' College, Manchester (1883-84), Holy Trinity, Killarney (1884-85), St. Anthony's, London (188rr91), and the University of Louvain (1893-94). In 1891 he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood and appointed professor of scholastic philosophy at St. Anthony's College, London, where he taught in 1891-93 and 1894-95. In 1895-96 he was rector of St. Bernardine's College, Buckingham, but in the latter year abandoned the Church on account of his adoption of agnostic views, and since that time has been a private secretary, lecturer, journalist, and author. Besides translating E. Hasckel's Riddle of the Universe (London, 1900); Wonders of Life (1904); Evolution of Man (1905); and Last Words on Evolution (1906); F. K. C. Buchner's Last Words on Materialism (1901); and W. BSlsche's Haeckel (1906), he has written From Rmne to Rationalism (London, 1896); Modern Rationalism(1897); Twelve Years in a Monastery (1897); Life in a modern Monastery (1898); Can we Disarms (1899); The Religion of the Twentieth Century (1899); Peter AbB.

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lard (1901); Saint Augustine and his Age (1902); Haeckel's Critics answered (1905); Religion of Woman (1905); The Origin of Life (1906); Secular Education (1906); Tolleyrand (1906); The Bible in Europe; an Inquiry into the Contribution of the Christian Religion to Civilisation (1907); Life and Letters of George Jacob Holyoake (2 vols., 1908); and The Decay of the Church of Rome (1909).

MACCABEES, FESTIVAL OF THE: The celebration on Aug. 1 of the martyrdom of the seven brothers and of their mother under Antiochua Epiphanes (cf. II Macc. vii.). The festival dates from the fourteenth century.

Bibliography: H. Wace, The Apocrypha, ii. 689 sqq., in "Speakers Commentary," London, 1888.