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Fisher THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG Flsoins pointed for life. In 1504 he was consecrated to the for the cause of missions, he sailed from Boston for see of Rochester, but his interest in his university =the Nov. 3, 1819, accompanied by Parsons w~ undiminished, sad he was active in the foun- During the next five years he traveled extensively wasion both of Christ's College and of St. John's in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, learning College, in addition to holding the presidency of languages, particularly Greek and Arabic, and dis Queen's College from 1505 to 1508. Though he tributing tracts and Bibles. In May, 1825, he induced Erasmus to visit Cambridge' Fisher was a joined the mission at Beirut. He preached in faithful adherent of Roman Catholicism, and Italian, French, Greek, and Arabic, published a assailed the teachings of Luther in his Confutatio number of papers in the Missionary Herald, and assertions Lutheranor (Antwerp, 1523) and other on the day before his death completed an ~ng~ish treatises, criticizing as well iEcolampadius and Arabic dictionary. Velenus-the latter maintained that the Apostle BIRLIooRAPHT: A. Bond, Memoir of P. Flak, Boston, 1828; Peter never was in Rome. R. Anderson, IlietorV of the Mi8ei°m of the Ann Fisher lost the royal favor by his opposition to Board, Oriental Missions, vol. ii., ib. 1872. Henry's claim to spiritual supremacy and to the FISK, ,BUR: First president of Wesleyan divorce of Queen Catherine, whose confessor he was. University (Corm.); b. in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 31, His unpopularity was increased by his unfortunate 1792; d. at Middletown, Conn., Feb. 2, 1839. belief in the impostures of Elizabeth Barton (q.v.), After his graduation from Brown University (1815) the Maid.of Kent, who named him one of her he studied law, but became an itinerant minister in confederates. Early in 1534 he was sentenced to the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1818. He held be attainted of misprision, to be imprisoned at the pastorates at Craftsbury, Vt., and Charlestown, king's pleasure, and to forfeit all his goods, although Maw., and was presiding elder of the Vermont dis he was. released on the payment of £300. On Apr. trict 1823-27, when he was placed upon the super 13, however, he was cited to appear at Lambeth annuated list. For a time he was agent of the New to take the oath of compliance with the Act of market (N. H.) Academy, where he was chosen to Succession, but though he and Sir Thomas More make the address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. were willing to admit the succession of the children He was chaplain of the Vermont legislature in of Henry and Anne Boleyn, both refused to declare 1826 principal of the Wesleyan Academy at Wil the children of Catherine and the king illegitimate. braham, Mass., 1826-31, and president of Wesleyan Three days later Fisher was committed to the Tower, University 1831-39. He had aided materially in and with the passage of the Act of Supremacy in the organization of the university, and under his Nov., 1534, both Fisher and More were again direction it became the most influential educational attainted of misprision of treason and the see of institution of the Methodist denomination in Amer Rochester was declared vacant from Jan. 2, 1535. ica. While traveling in Europe in 1836 he was Fisher's doom was sealed by the inadvertent act elected bishop, but declined the office. In 1828 of Paul III., who on May 20 created him cardinal he had declined the bishopric of the Canada con priest of, St. Vitalis, not knowing the extreme dan- ference. Besides occasional sermons and lectures, ger in which the biehop stood. Henry, in fury, for- he published The Science of Education (Middletown, bade the hat to be brought to England, and Fisher 1831; New York, 1832), the inaugural address on was trapped into statements which were twisted the opening of Wesleyan University; The Calvin into treason. On June 17 be was condemned to be istic Controversy (New York, 1837); and Travels in executed at Tyburn as a traitor, but the sentence Europe (1838). was changed to decapitation at Tower Hill, where BmwooakrHT: J. Holdich, Life of W Fisk, New York, it was carried out a fortnight before the execution 1842; D. D. Whedon, A Tribute to the Memory of Presi of More. The chief works of Fisher were his De dens Fisk, i. 1839. unica Magdalena (Par s, 1519) and his De eueiuH ristia contra Johannem (Ecolampadaum (Cologne, 1527); the greater part of his Latin writings were collected and published at W iirzburg in 1597. A volume of a projected edition of his English works was edited for the Early English Text Society by J. E. B. Mayor (London, 1876), and a few other writings by him are extant in manuscript. BIHLIoaRAPH1: The Life was first written ostensibly by Thomas Bailey, really by Richard Hall, London, 1655, republished, 1835. Consult also: John Lewis, Life et Dr. John Fisher, 2 vols., ib. 1854; J. Gillow, Bibliograph- ical Didionarv of Bn91ia. Catholics, ii. 262-270, ib., 1885; DNB, xix. b8-83. FISH;, PLINY: American Congregationalist, mis sionary in Syria; b. at Shelburne, Mass., June 24, 1792; d. at Beirut, Syria, Oct. 23, 1825. He was graduated from Middlebury College in 1814 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1818, and with Levi Parsons (q.v.) was appointed by the Amer ican Board to the Palestine mission in Sept., 1818. After traveling in the South for a year, raising funds
FISTULA: A tube, usually of gold or silver, through which the consecrated wine of the Eucharist was administered to the communicant. Its use came up in the sixth century, when the particularly holy character of this wine was generally recognized. The priests had never used it themselves, and so, when the cup was withdrawn from the laity, the fistula. was entirely laid aside, except in the papal masses, where to-day the pope receives the Eucharistic wine through a golden fistula.
FITZGERALD, JAMES NEWBURY: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Newark, N. J., July 27, 1837; d. at Hongkong, China, Apr. 3, 1907. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1858, but in 1862 gave up his practise and entered the Methodist ministry. After holding various pastorates in the Newark Conference he was recording secretary of the Missionary Society of-the Methodist Episcopal Church, from 1880 till in 1888 he was elected bishop. Besides being presiding elder of the Newton, New-