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Placidus Ralli
Placidus is Latin for "placid, gentle, quiet, still, calm, mild, peaceful" and can refer to: * Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix (480–511), Consul of Rome *Placidus de Titis (also de Titus, Latinization of Placido de Titi, 1603–1668), astrologer *Placidus Böcken (1690–1752), German Benedictine canon lawyer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salzburg *Placidus Braun (1756–1829), Bavarian Benedictine priest, historian and archivist *Placidus Fixlmillner (1721–1791), Benedictine priest, first astronomer to compute the orbit of Uranus *Placidus Nkalanga (1919–2015), Tanzanian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church *Saint Placidus, follower of St. Benedict * Saint Placidus (martyr), Sicilian martyr * Placidus a Spescha (1752–1833), Swiss monk and Alpine explorer See also * Placidian system, for calculating astrological houses *'' Lucanus placidus'', beetle in the Family Lucanidae * Placido (other) *Placid Placid is a masculine given name, and may refer to: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix
Arcadius Placidus Magnus FelixAlan Cameron, "Basilius and his diptych again: career titles, seats in the Colosseum, and issues of stylistic dating", ''Journal of Roman Archaeology'', 25 (2012), p. 517 (''floruit'' 511) was a Roman politician who was appointed consul during the reign of Theodoric the Great. He belonged to an ancient and noble family from Gaul; he lost his father in his youth, inheriting his wealth. Theodoric bestowed on him at least one noteworthy office, as in 511 he was already ''vir illustris''. That same year he was appointed consul in the West, while Secundinus was appointed consul by the Eastern court; the formal announcement was preserved by Cassiodorus (''Variae'', 2.1). Another letter to him from Theodoric has survived, which is assumed to have been written in the same year, asking him not to pay some debts claimed by the charioteers of the Hippodrome of Milan (''Variae'', 3.39). Notes References * "Secundinus 5", ''Prosopography of the Later Roman E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus De Titis
Placidus de Titis (also ''de Titus'', Latinization of Placido de Titi, pseudonym ''Didacus Prittus Pelusiensis''; 1603–1668) was an Olivetan monk and professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Pavia from 1657 until his death. Placidus popularized the system of astrological houses now known as the " Placidian system", current in modern astrology. He did not invent the method; it is acknowledged by the 12th century Hebrew astrologer Abraham Ibn Ezra as the system employed by Ptolemy, an attribution that was accepted by Placidus. Biography Placidus was born in Perugia, into the Titi noble family. His father died early, and he was looked after by his mother Cecilia. He studied at the University of Padua where his uncle Girolamo de Titi was professor of theology. One of his teachers was the astronomer Andrea Argoli. The Duchy of Milan at the time was owned by Habsburg Spain, administered by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. The Archduke showed st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus Böcken
Placidus Böcken (or Böckhn) (13 July 1690 – 9 February 1752) was a German Benedictine canon lawyer, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salzburg. Life Böcken was born in Munich, in Bavaria. He entered the Order of St. Benedict at an early age, made his religious profession at the Abbey of St. Peter, Salzburg, in 1706, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1713. Having been made a Doctor of Canon and Civil Law (1715), he was sent to Rome and on his return was chosen, in 1721, to succeed Benedict Schmier, as professor of canon law at the Benedictine University of Salzburg, where he remained for a period of twenty years. He was also attached to the theological faculties of Salzburg and Fulda, was secretary of the university, and an ecclesiastical councillor of four successive archbishops in the See of Salzburg and of the Prince-Abbot of Fulda. Eventually he appears to have incurred the displeasure of Archbishop Leopold of Salzburg, and in consequence of repeated fric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus Braun
Placidus Braun, (11 February 1756 in Peiting near Schongau, Upper Bavaria – 23 October 1829 in Augsburg, Germany) was a Bavarian Benedictine priest, historian and archivist. Biography At thirteen he went as a choir-boy of the Benedictine Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg and was a pupil for six years in the Jesuit gymnasium of the same city. He entered the Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra as a novice on 13 May 1775 and was ordained a priest on 18 September 1779. In 1785 he was made head librarian of the abbey. He arranged and catalogued the library and made known to scholars the rarities it contained through the fine descriptions he gave of its early printed books and manuscripts in two works which he published while librarian. These publications were: # ' # ' After the abbey was dissolved as a result of secularisation, and its building converted into a barrack in 1806, Braun lived with a number of fellow-members of the order in the house of Kaufmanns Fusami nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus Fixlmillner
Dom Placidus Fixlmillner, O.S.B., (May 28, 1721 – August 27, 1791) was a Benedictine monk and priest and was one of the first astronomers to compute the orbit of Uranus. Biography Born in the village of Achleuthen Schloss Achleiten bei Limbach (de) near Kremsmünster, Austria, Fixlmillner was educated in Salzburg, where he displayed an aptitude in mathematics. At the age of 16, he joined the Benedictine monks of Kremsmünster Abbey, where his uncle was the abbot. In 1756 he published a small non-astronomical treatise entitled ''Reipublicæ sacræ origines divinæ'' which was interrupted in 1761 when he returned to studying the transit of Venus. He was appointed director of an observatory at the abbey, which had been established by his uncle. He continued in charge of the observatory until his death. Outside astronomy, he was in charge of the college connected with the abbey and acted as professor of canon law. He was honoured by the Holy See with the office of Notary Aposto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus Nkalanga
Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, OSB (19 June 1919 – 18 December 2015) was a Tanzanian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a monk of the St Maurus & St Placidus Hanga Abbey in Hanga, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania, a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien. He lived there for 42 years, from his resignation from the bishopry in 1973 until his death in 2015. Biography Born in Ruti, Tanganyika, Nkalanga was ordained a priest on 15 July 1950. He was consecrated on 21 May 1961 by Pope John XXIII after being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba and Titular Bishop of Balbura on 18 April 1961. The new bishop attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, missing only Session Two running from 29 September 1963 to 4 December 1963. Between February 1966 and 29 May 1969 he served as the first Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabale in Western Uganda after it was just established in the Ecclesiastical province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Placidus
Placidus (also known as Placid) was a disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He was the son of the patrician Tertullus, was brought as a child to Benedict at Sublaqueum ( Subiaco) and dedicated to God as provided for in chapter 69 of the Rule of St. Benedict ( oblate). Life Placidus was the eldest son of the patrician Tertullus. When he was about eight years old, his father placed him under the care of Benedict at Subiaco, to be educated. Gregory the Great (''Dialogues'', II, vii) relates an account of Placidus being rescued from drowning by his fellow monk, Maurus, who, at Benedict's order, ran across the surface of the lake below the monastery and drew Placidus safely to shore. It appears certain that he accompanied Benedict when, about 529, he removed to Monte Cassino, which was said to have been made over to him by the father of Placidus. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Placidus (martyr)
Saint Placidus (Placitus), along with Saints Eutychius (Euticius), Victorinus and their sister Flavia, Donatus, Firmatus the deacon, Faustus, and thirty others, have been venerated as Christian martyrs. They were said to be martyred either by pirates at Messina or under the Emperor Diocletian. In their ''Acts'', this Placidus was confused with a saint of the same name who was a follower of St. Benedict. Thus, the legend of this unknown Sicilian martyr has him go to Italy in 541, and found a monastery at Messina, of which he was abbot, and where he was said to have been martyred with thirty companions. The feast day of the martyr saints was not in the Tridentine Calendar, but was included in the General Roman Calendar from its 1588 to 1962 editions for celebration on 5 October, the feast day of the two monks who were disciples of Saint Benedict of Nursia from their boyhood, Saint Maurus and Placidus.Martyrologium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2001 ) Some traditionalist Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placidus A Spescha
Placidus a Spescha (December 8, 1752 – August 14, 1833) was a Benedictine monk and early Alpine explorer born in Trun, near Disentis, in the valley of the upper Rhine in Graubünden. He became a monk in 1774 in Disentis and went to Einsiedeln to complete his education.Adapted from W. A. B. Coolidge, ''The Alps in Nature and History'', p. 212, 1908 The rest of his life was spent in serving various cures in his native valley, though he suffered much at the hands of his brother monks, who could not understand his scientific tastes. In 1799 he was accused of being a spy (his climbs and maps were held suspicious) in favour of the French invaders, and, when the French did come, he had to give up to them all his scientific collections. In addition he had the dreadful experience of learning, soon after his departure, that his monastery, with all its most precious archives, including his own original collection, had been burnt by order of a French general so as to punish the peasants w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
