ABRAHAM A SANCTA CLARA (16441709)

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ABRAHAM A SANCTA CLARA (16441709) , Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch, in July 1644. His real name was Ulrich Megerle. In 1662 he joined the order of Barefooted Augustinians, and assumed the name by which he is known. In this order he rose step by step until he became prior provipcialis and definitor of his province. Having early gained a

great

GREAT

reputation for pulpit eloquence, he was appointed

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

preacher at Vienna in 1669. The

people

PEOPLE

flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

in particular. In general he spoke as a man of the

people

PEOPLE

, the predominating quality of his

style

being an over-flowing and often coarse wit. There are, however, many pass-ages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language. He died at Vienna on the 1st of December 1709. In his published writings he displayed much the same qualities as in the pulpit. Perhaps the most favourable specimen of his

style

is his didactic novel entitled Judas der Erzschelm (4 vols., Salzburg, 16861695).
His works have been several times reproduced in whole or in

part

PART

, though with many spurious interpolations. The best edition is that published in 21 vols. at Passau and Lindau (1835-1854). See Th. G. von Karajan, Abraham a Sancta

Clara

CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

(Vienna, 1867); Blanckenhurg, Studien fiber die Sprache Abrahams a S. C. (

Halle

, 1897) ; Sexto, Abraham a S. C. (Sigmaringen, 1896) ; Schnell,

Pater

PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

A. a S. C. (

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

, 1895) ; H. Mareta, fiber Judas d. Erzschelm (Vienna, 1875).

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