thanks to Bishop Freppel, was chosen for the western portion of France, including the Dioceses of Angers, Rennes, Laal, Le Mans, Angouleme, Tours, and Poitiers. The university then took the title of "Facultés Cathohques de rOuest ". It comprises the faculties of letters, of sciences, and law, and a superior school of agriculture, with a teacliing staff of 45 professors and from 200 to 300 students, most of whom are laymen belonging to the faculty of law. Angers has numbered among its faculty in the past Monsignor Sauve, author of numerous theological and philosophical works, Father Billot, now a pro- fessor in the Gregorian University at Rome, Father Antoine, author of a remarkable course of social economy, while it still retains Monsignor Legendre, an authority on biblical geography, and the dis- tinguished novehst, Ren6 Bazin. The University publishes the "Revue des Facultés Catholiques de l’Ouest" and a "Bulletin des Facult^s Cathohques de l’Ouest".
Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (Oxford. 189.5), II, 148; Rangeahd, Histoire de l’université d’Angers (Angers, 1872); De Lens, L'universite de l’Anjou (Angers, 1880), a continuation of Rangeard; Fournier, Leg atatuts et privileges des universites fran^-mses (Paris, 1890- 92); Calvet, The Catholic Institutes of France in Catholic University Bulletin, Jan., 1907.
George M. Sauvage.
Anges, Notre Dame des (Our Lady op the
Angels), a miraculous shrine near Lurs, France, con-
taining a crypt (Sainte Chapelle) which tradition dates
back to an early period. Archieological finds, inscrip-
tions, and the records left by antiquaries give evi-
dence that this was once the site of a Roman colony
and a station termed in ancient itineraries Alaunium
(founded 150 B. c). Situated as it was on a Roman
road connecting cities which are believed to have been
evangelized at an early period, Alaunium probably
received the Faith at the same time. There is an
ancient tradition to the effect that one of the imme-
diate disciples of Christ erected an oratory here in
honour of the Mother of God, and that it took
the name Alaunium, later contracted into Aulun.
Though several chapels were built on this site and
destroyed, an ancient tablet sur'ived all calamities.
On the occasion of a cure wrought before tliis tablet
(2 August, 1665) a choir of angels, it is said, was
heard singing; on the repetition of the marvel the
following year the name of the shrine was changed
to Our Lady of Angels, and it was placed in charge
of the Recollect Fathers of St. Francis. In 1752
Bishop Lafiteau of Sisteron instituted the feast of
the Relatives of Marj', making this sanctuary a centre
of the devotion. In 1791 the religious were expelled,
and the church despoiled. On the reopening of the
churches the pilgrimages recommenced, and still
continue. The most important of them takes place
on 2 August.
Leroy, Histoire des pelerinages de la Saints Vierge en France (Paris, 1873), III, 423 sqq.; Acta SS. 2 August.
F. M. RUDGE.
Angilbert, Saint, Abbot of Saint-Riquier, d.
18 February, 814. Angilbert seems to have been
brought up at the court of Charlemagne, where he
was the pupil and friend of the great English scholar
Alcuin. He was intended for the ecclesiastical
state and must have received minor orders early in
life, but he accompanied the young King Pepin to
Italy in 782 in the capacity of primiccrius palalil, a
post which implied much secular administration.
Ill the academy of men of letters which rendered
Chariemagne's court illustrious Angilbert was known
as Homer, and portions of his works, still extant,
show that his skill in verse was considerable. He
was several times sent as envoy to the pope, and it
is charged against him that he identified fiiiiisclf with
the somewhat heterodox views of Ch.irlcin.igno in
the controversy on images. In 790 he was named
Abbot of Centula, later known as Saint-Riquier,
in Picardy, and by the help of his powerful friends
he not only restored or rebuilt the monastery in a,
very sumptuoiLs fashion, but endowed it with a
precious hbrarj' of 200 volumes. In the year 800
he had the honour of receiving Charlemagne as his
guest. It seems probable that Angilbert at this
period (whether he was yet a priest is doubtful) was
leading a very worldly life. The circumstances are
not clear, but modern historians consider that Angil-
bert undoubtedly had an intrigue with Charlemagne's
unmarried daughter Bertha, and became by her the
father of two children, one of whom was the well-
known chronicler Nithard. This intrigue of Angil-
bert's, sometimes regarded as a marriage, has been
disputed by Hdnocque and others, but is now gen-
erally admitted. We should probably do well to
remember that the popular canonizations of that
age were very informal and involved little investiga-
tion of past conduct or virtue. It is, however,
stated by Angilbert's twelfth-century biographer
that the abbot before his death did bitter penance
for this "marriage", and the historian Nithard, in
the same passage in which he claims ."jigilbert for
his father, also declares that Angilbert's body was
found incorrupt some years after his burial. Angil-
bert has been claimed as the aiithor of a fragment
of an epic poem on Charlemagne and Leo III, but
the authorship is disputed. On the other hand,
Monod believes that he is probably responsible for
certain portions of the famous “Annales Laurissenses”.
Acta SS., 3 Feb.; Werner in Kirchenlex. s. v.; Bouthors, Histoire de St. Riquier (.Abbeville, 1902), 62-86; Henocque, Histoire de r.ibbaije de St. Riquier (Paris, 1880). I. 95-208, etc.; Wattenbach. Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen (Berlin, 1904), I, 191-198; Monod, Etudes critiques sur les sources de I'histoire carolinffienne (Paris. 1898). 120-126; Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders (Oxford. 1899), VIII. 150-154; Tracbe, Karolingische Dichtunqen (Berlin, 1SS8). 55 sqq,; Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, II, 174-176; Althof, Angilberts Leben und Dichtungen (Munden. 1888). For Angilbert's poems (ed. Dummler) see the quarto series of the Mon. Germ. Script.
Herbert Thurston.
Angilram, Bishop of Metz. See False Decretals.
Angiolini, Francesco, a noted scholar, b. at Piacenza,
Italy, 1750; d. at Polotsk, 21 February, 1788.
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1765, and after
the suppression of the Jesuits retired to Polotsk.
Angiolini has left after him many works that attest
his scholarship. He is the author of a Polish gram-
mar for the use of Italians; he wrote original poems
in Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and several
comedies in Polish, and a translation from the Greek
into Italian in three octavo olumes of Josephus
Flavins (Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1840-44). An-
giolini also translated into his mother tongue the
Electra, (Edipus, and Antigone of Sophocles (Rome,
1782). Other works of Angiolini are an Italian trans-
lation of Thucydides, incomplete, and a Polish trans-
lation of Sophocles.
Sommervogel, Biblioth., I, 391; Cassani, Varonea Iluatree. Ill, 268-277.
Joseph M. Woods.
Anglesea, The Priory of, Cambridgeshire, England,
was founded in honour of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and St. Nicholas for a community of Austin Can-
ons, by Henry I. Dugdale wjus unable to find any
charter of foundation; but a deed cited by him in an
appendix, with regard to the rights of patroiuige and
election ceded by Elizabeth de Burgh, Laily de
Clare, to the canons in 1333, lends some support to
the opinion of Leland and Speed that Ricliard de
Clare was a foimder, or at least a patron, of the
house, as was also Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,
in the reipi of Henry V. Information with regard
to this priory is scanty. No register is known. The
ruins are meagre. "There are some remains of Anglesea
Priory in the back part of a mansion-house ",
