The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . n in the Tower ofLondon. During his absence from Scotland he wasdeprived of the revenues of his bishopric and was re-duced to great poverty. Theiner prints an interestingletter addressed by him to the pope in 1580, showingthe efforts he made, though absent from his diocese, toconfirm those wavering in the faith, and recover thosewho had fallen away. Liberated in 1573, but ban-ished from the country, he visited various Europeancourts to plead th
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . n in the Tower ofLondon. During his absence from Scotland he wasdeprived of the revenues of his bishopric and was re-duced to great poverty. Theiner prints an interestingletter addressed by him to the pope in 1580, showingthe efforts he made, though absent from his diocese, toconfirm those wavering in the faith, and recover thosewho had fallen away. Liberated in 1573, but ban-ished from the country, he visited various Europeancourts to plead the cause of his queen, and finallywent to Rome. The Archbishop of Rouen appointedhim his vicar-general in 1579. James VI restored thebishop, his mothers lifelong friend and champion, tohis former dignities, but he never returned to Scot-land. In letters he is principally remembered as theauthor of a Latin account of the history of Scotland,De origine, moribus, ac rebus gestis Scotiae libridecem (Rome, 1578), a Scottish version by DomE. , It comes down to 1571, and in its lat-ter part presents a Catholic account of LESSIUS 192 LESSIUS Durgh, 1S69). 402-407; Keith, Hxst. Catalogue of ScottishBishops (Edinburgh, 1S24 , 194-200 (with extracts fromongmal writs); Tytler, HMo^ of Scotland (Edfnburgh, IsS^III, IM, and passim; Cody in Introd. to Leslies Histohjof^rntland Scot. Text Soc,,.Edinburgh, 1888), with a Ml a^couS oLeshe s historical wntings. See also complete bibliography atend of article m Diet. Nat. X5CXIII, 93-99 Thearticle Itself (by Hendebson) is written with prejudice, andp?elat? ^^^ ^ *° ^ PO. and patrio«c D. O. Hunteh-Blaib. Lessius (Lets), Leonaed, a Flemish Jesuit and atheologian of high reputation, b. at Brecht, in theprovince of Antwerp, 1 October, 1554; d. at Louvain,15 January, 1623. His parents, honest people of thefarming class, died when he was but six years old. In1568 he entered the college of Arras in the Univ
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