FRA 
eae their sada to increafing their numbers hoi 
among the members of the different Italian univerfities, in’ 
prsciog and inftruCting young penfons, and in laying the 
os of the famous fociety of Jef Imoft as foon 
as the. 
this’ new ae. John III. king of Portugal applied to the 
holy fee of Rome for mifionaties to 
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the. catholic faith in the Fiat Indies.. 
one of the perfons et for this caheapel enterprize 3 he 
embarked at Li the Indies in 1541, and in the ses 
lowing year arrived: a the Portuggele fettlement at 
where he laboured inceffantly i in cigas the knowledge oe 
the catholic faith in that‘ city, the fouthern pe of 
India, goiied ~ ere cca iflands, a an. Many 
ri aie anity, and t Francis 
catechifm,’? and fome other {mall pie was 
beatified by pope Paul V. in 1613, and Guna by his 
ped pope Gregory XV. in 1662. 
NcIS DE Boreta, ‘a Romifh faint, born about the 
i r1 a5 was ey ares as 2a saree VI. 
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he might have obtained the higheft honours of the ftat 
but he grew difgufted with the world, and determined . 
-embrace the ecclefiaftical life. e became a mem mber of the 
Aociety of Jefus in ined and, in 1565, he was raifed to the 
order. 
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y the 
bea his nephew 
egate into Spain, 
died at — in 1572, in the 
ized the year es 
written in the Spanifh nae wer 
‘tranflated 1 into Latin, a publifhed i in ils at Bruffels in 1675. 
RANCIS DE SALES, a faint and — of the religious 
order of the “ Vifitation,”” was born at Sales, near Geneva, 
d was: educated partly at Annecy and 
a He was eanteaere a the 
profelion of the law, but 
he ced the polls eat life. 
font by his bifhop on miffions into the valleys of his diocele, 
o endeavour -to bring back the difciples of Zuingle and 
He was afterwards appointed 
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o the charaéter of a vigilant ecclefiaftical fuper- 
ae me pe of a good paftor, and benevolent friend of 
the © people committed to his care. In every cafe of. a 
e had given his fanction to tie eflabhifhment of - 
FRA 
he was ee to igre oe affiftance, and in his own a he 
exhibited a fhare of piety, purity, ee | un~ 
affected impli and uae Stull ¢] 
tied 
year 1665. y many devotional 
pieces highly efteemed by the catholics. Thefe have been 
collected and publithed i n two bear ela olio. oreri. 
FRANCIS, or FRANCISCUS Victoria, a celebrated 
Spanith ras in the’ 16th: century, ares his fludies at 
ook his. degrees. He entered into. the 
ae ominican preaching friars, was appointed pro- 
feffor of theology, and delivered rau. t Salamanca and 
other celebrated Spanifh univerfities, 
author have been highly prized i 
the moft important of them is a ° ; 
moral le¢tures, entitled ‘Theologice Prelectiones XIII. in 
Francis pr Jesus-Ma Spanith carmelite 
monk of the reformed order of St. ahaa hie flourifhed 
in the 17th century, was a native of Burgos-in Old Cattile. 
He ayer the : h office of delnitorgeneral as au 
+* rfus ologie moralis Salmanticenfis 3’ and o 
iS Comtienateie on the Apovalyple’’ a at Lyons in 
1648, in two volumes folio. He died 
Francis, St. in Geography, a ‘che or ie of the 
river St. Lawrence, between Kingfton ontreal, 
ike fh arc paffes the line dividing Upper from Lower 
Can Alfo, a river in the province of Lower Canada, ; 
ea wiles from various fources near the northern boundary 
of the United States, and runs northward into the river Ste 
Lawrence, at the W. end of lake St. Peter. If it were 
ae way oekiaan it would afford an important communica- 
n from the northern. ha of oo. to the markets of 
vane and oe ebec. 
a {mall river in LLouifian, which a ih a SE. pant 
It is the 8 
sacs who winter heres and colleét a It meat, fuet, and, 
bear’s oil, for = ces? of that. city.— Alfo, the name of 
a {mall river W. tetritory, which runs a S. 
by W. courfe te he Mifiiffippi, ie Cold and Rum 
rivers, 60 miles. above nthony’s Falls. : The country: 
above it is hilly, arid the foil tclevably cor To the N. BE. 
are the fmall lakes called: the Thoufand Lakes. Here the 
Mifiifippi is Ea above 90 yards wide. 
FRANCISCANS, in £cele, hairgs Hiftorys: are religious 
y him in the 
of the order of St. Francis,, founded year 
1209. Francis was.the fon of a aecat of Ali, in the 
ravines of Umbria, ern oe ute life, was | 
reclaimed by a. fit of ficknefs, ae pvebeen ot into. an 
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