The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ecember, 415, a coun-cil was held here which absolved the heretic Pelagius,at the same time condemning his errors. Lydda hasbeen surnamed Georgiopolis in honour of the martyrSt. George, who is said to have been a native of this town. The pil-grim Theodosius isthe first to mention(about 530) the tombof the martyr. Amagnificent church,erected above thistomli, was rebuilt bjthe Crusaders, andpartly restored inmodem times by theGreeks, to whom thes
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ecember, 415, a coun-cil was held here which absolved the heretic Pelagius,at the same time condemning his errors. Lydda hasbeen surnamed Georgiopolis in honour of the martyrSt. George, who is said to have been a native of this town. The pil-grim Theodosius isthe first to mention(about 530) the tombof the martyr. Amagnificent church,erected above thistomli, was rebuilt bjthe Crusaders, andpartly restored inmodem times by theGreeks, to whom thesanctuary the arrival of theCrusaders in ; (Ida became theseat of a Latin see,many of whose titu-lars are known. Atpresent the city con-tains C800 inhabi-tants, of whom 4800are Mussulmans, 2000schismatic Greeks,and a few Protes-tants. The Catholicsha\e a parish of 250faithful in the neigh-bo u r i n g town ofRaml^, Oruns Christ., Ill, 581-8, 1271-6; Dn Cange,i. s Fumilhs dOutremrr (Paris, )S6!)). 799-802; Edbel,Hiiranlna mlhohni. I (.Munich, 1898), :ilH; II (1901), 196(ilf;RlN, Df^.-irrtpluin dr la Palestine: Judee,. John Lydgate in His .StchyFrom an old manuscript \i]hisianus,and others. Srie RER, Ge^ch. , de la Biljle, s. I, 322-34 ViGOUROUX, jld. Volkes, I and II, passim S. Vailhe, Lydgate, John, b. at Lydgate, SuiTolk, about 1370;d. probably about 1450. He entered the Benedictineablje> at Bur\- when fifteen and may have been edu-cated earlier at the school of the Benedictine monksthere and have been afterwards at the Benedictinehouse of studies at Oxford. It is possible, as Baleasserts, that he studied at both Oxford and Cambridge,and it is fairly certain that he travelled in France, andperhaps in He was ordained priest in 1397. Bale(Scriptorum Summarium) says he opened a schoolfor sons of the nobility proliably in the monastery ofBury. His verses seem to have been much in requestby noble lords and ladies, and having been cour
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