. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. and labo-rious work, entitled A History of the mo-nastic Orders, religious and military, and of-the secular Congregations of both Sexes, whichhave been established to the present Time;containing an Account of their Origin, Found-ation, Progress, principal Events, Declension,Suppression, or Reformation, and the Lives oftheir Founders or Reformers, Illustrated withEngravings of their ditferent Habits. Havingemployed hi
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. and labo-rious work, entitled A History of the mo-nastic Orders, religious and military, and of-the secular Congregations of both Sexes, whichhave been established to the present Time;containing an Account of their Origin, Found-ation, Progress, principal Events, Declension,Suppression, or Reformation, and the Lives oftheir Founders or Reformers, Illustrated withEngravings of their ditferent Habits. Havingemployed himself for more than twenty-fiveyears on this work in Italy, he returned toFrance, where he successively chosen tofill the post of secretary In three provinces ofhis order. These situations furnished him withthe opportunity of collecting additional ma»terlals from the different institutions which hevisited during a period of twelve or thirteenyears, and of finishing the composition of hiswork. He v/as afterwards twice elected Ac-finitor of his order. In the year 1714 he beganto print his history. In quarto ; but died whenthe filth volume v^as in the press, in 1716, at. ^JficioloiULS, iahiis . Crrcccus ct 9i)f}criCLis ^ HEM ( 109 ) HEM Picpii5, when he was about fifty-cix years ofage. Four other volumes of this \^or!c vicreafterwards printcti, under the superintendenceof father Maximillian Bullot, a member of thesame society. It is a performance which isheld in much estimation, on account of thelearned research which it displays, and its su-perior accuracy, on the whole, to the otherproductions of the same description ; and it iswritten in a style which, though not elegant, isneat and easy. A kind of abridgment of thiswork was published at Amsterdam, in 1721, infour volumes octavo j which is said to be butindifferently executed, and valuable only for itsengravings. Father Helyot was also the authorof some devotional pieces, of whicli that mostknown is entitled A View of the
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