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and afterwards chief judge of tlie Greeks. In 1438 lie fat'sfaftion and indignation, they beheld the fultan on h'S 

 accompanied the emperor to the council at Florence for tiie thrc^ne, who delivered into the hands of Gennadius the paf- 

 purpofe of bringing about an union between the Greek and tornl ftaff, the fymbol of his cccleiiaflical office, who con- 

 Latin churches : it is, however, a matter of much doubt dufted the patriarch to the gate of the feraglia, prefcntcd 

 whether Scholarius was in favour of the meafure which lijm with an horfe richly caparifoned, and direfted the vizirs 

 his duty to l\is mailer required him to fanclion and fupport. and baihaws to lead him to the palace which had been 

 After his return to Conftantinople he united witii Mark of allotted for hi:, refidence. The churches of Conilantir.ople 

 Ephefus, in oppofmg the reception of thofe terms of uinon were fhared between the two rehgions : their limits were 

 to which the emperor had acceded, as well by his influence marked, and till it was infringed by Seiim, the grandlcn of 

 as by his writings, which brought on him for a time the Mahomet, the Greeks enjoyed above fixty years the bene:.': 

 difpleafure of the emperor. After the death of Paliolcgus of this equal partition. Gennadius prefided over the fee ct 

 in 1448, Scliolarius was as violent as ever againil: th.e pro- Conllantinoplc between five and fix years, when he rcfigned 

 pofcd union, and finding that his oppofition muft fubjeft his dignity, and retired into a morallcry. He died r.bcut 

 him to danger with tiie new emperor, Con;lantine, he re- the year 1460. He was author of " An Explanation of 

 folved to reiinq'jilli his civil eraj)loyments, and to embrace the Chrillian Faith, dcUvered before the Turkifh rmpcrcr 

 the ecclefiafticdl life. He accordingly, in 1459, after fend- Mahomet." This work was the refuk of a long convcria- 

 ing a valedictory oration to th.c tniperor, ciiti.-red into a tion which he had with the emperor, foon after his inftalla- 

 monaftery adjoining Conftantinople, arid lived a fecluded tion, when Mahomet fullered him to produce all the arg'i- 

 life for two years, which is fuppofed to have been the relult ments he was able in fupnort of the truth of Chntlianity. 

 of the emperor's orders, to prevent him from taking part It is to be found in Crufius's Turco-Griecia ; and is alfo ,a 

 sgainft the propoled union. During his retreat from the David Chytrzeus's " Do' ilatu Ecclefiarum in Gnscia." 

 world he corapofed feveral homilies, wiiich could offend no Gcnnadius wrote likewife a trcatife concerning predeftina- 

 one ; but he did not engage in any controverfy until the tion, and another on the trinity. He conipofed many ho- 

 Ui-.ion was completed. This called forth his zeal in behalf milies in the early part of h^e, which were delivered before 

 of the Greek church : he wrote letters to all the ecclefiallics the emperor, as orations, which laymen were, in that age, 

 of Conllantinoplc, and to the different monaflic orders, ex- accuftomed to pronounce in the imperial dining-room. 

 hotting them to adhere to the faith of their anceftors, and Moreri. Gibbons Hill. 



not to lubmit to the Florentine union : he alfo remonilrated Genkadius, an ecclefiallical writer, fiourifaed towards 

 with the emperor on tlic fubjetl, but the monarch was not the clofe of the fifth century, and became prieft of Mar- 

 to be turned from his plan, and made every effort, by per- feilles. He was a great writer, and is faid to have com.- 

 luafi.in and by threats, to bring over Gennadius. The pofed eight books againlt ail hercfies, fix againft Ncftorius, 

 attempt was futde ; lie had gone too far to retraft, and had three againil Pelagius, and a treatife concerning the millen- 

 obtained a multitude of adherents whom he had converted niura and the book of Revelation ; but the only works re- 

 by his writings and exhortations, which reprefented the maining of this author are entillcd " De viris illuflribus," 

 UKion to be a deiertion of the caufe of God and his truth, which is a continuation of St. Jerome's catalogue of Eo- 

 The emperor fubfcribed the a£l of union at Conllantinople, clefiaftical Writers ; and a treatife " De Fide, leu de dog- 

 as it had been ratified in the council of Florence. On the matibus Ecclefiaflicis Liber ad Gelafium Papain niifl'us." 

 1 2th of December 1452, the two nations, in the church of This laft was for a coniiderable time attributed to St. Au- 

 St. Sophia, joined in the comniunion of facrifice and prayer, gulline, and was generally infcrted in the editions ot his 

 But the dreis and language of the Latin prieft who ofHciated works. The time of Gennadius's death is not known, but 

 at the altar were objects of fcandal ; and it was obferved, it did not take place before the year 395. 

 with a feeling of horror, that he confecrated a wafer of un- GENNARI, Cesare and Benedetto, two brothers 

 leavened bread, and poured cold water into the facraniental who both made painting their profeffion. They were ne- 

 cup. From the dome of St. Sophia, the inhabitants of phews, heirs, copyifts, and imitators of Guercino ; they 

 either fex, and of every degree, ruPned in crowds to the frequently repeated his pictures, but not with adequate 

 cell of Gennadius to confult him, as the oracle of the fwcetnefs or force. At firfl they wrought togetiier at 

 church. He was invifible, and entranced, as it fhould feera, feveral places in Italy.; but feparating, Cefare remained at 

 in deep meditation, or divine rapture ; but he had expofed Bologna, and Benedetto went to England, where there are 

 on the door of his cell a tablet, on which were written thefe many of his work?:, particuhirly at Windfor CalHe, difco- 

 worJs : " O miferable Romans, why will ye abandon the verable by a taboiired, drv imitation of Guercino ; with a 

 truth ; and why, inftead of confiding in God, will ye put mixture of the flutter and parade exhibited by the Frencli 

 your trull in the Italians ? In abandoning your faith, you painters of that period. Pie was made painter to James II. 

 will lofe youi- city. Have mercy on me, O Lord ! I pro- and executed a picture of that prince and his family. At 

 tell, in thy prcfence, that I am innocent of die crime. O their expulilon he returned to Italv : and as his manner, by 

 miferable Romans, confider, paufe, and repent ! At the the mixture of French art ho liad introduced, was novel, he 

 f.ime moment that you renounce the roJigion of your fathers obtained applaufe and employment. He died in 1715J 

 by embra.jng impiety, you fubmit to a foreign fervitude." aged 82. 



This was the fignal for infurreftion, (fee Constantino- GENNE, in G'o^^raphy, a town of France, in the de- 

 ple) ; and, after the capture of the city, the fultan Maho- partnient of the Maine and Loire, near tiie Loire ; 9 miles 

 met, dcfirous of conciliating thofe inhabitants who had N.W. of Saumur. 



furvived the immenfe flaughter made by his army, and of GENNEP, a town of France, in the department of the 

 recalling the Greeks, who had efcaped, to their deferted Roer, fituated on the Nie/s, near the Meuie. It contains 

 houfes, ordered Gennadius to be fought for, and offered two churches, one fr.r Roman Catholics, and another for 

 him to the choice of the cl=rgy and people, by Vvfhom he Proteflants ; 9 miles S. S. W. of Cleves. N. lat. 51 47. 

 was immediately el -cled their patriarch. In the eleftion E. lung. 5 50. 



and inveftiture of Gennadius, the ceremoni.il of the Byzan- GENNES, a town of France, in the department of the 

 tine court was revived and imitated. With a mixture of Maine and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 



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