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fall, towards eventide, just outside Nathanael’scell, whose ears he at once assailed with themost lamentable cries for assistance, saying,u Father Nathanael, have pity on me, and stretchforth a hand to help.” The monk opened hisdoor, and surveyed the scene ; asked who thesuppliant was, and was told that he was servantto another monk. He urged too that his masterwas celebrating an agape or love feast, and thatthe next day being the Sabbath, oblations wouldbe required, wherefore he asked help to raisethe fallen load of bread. The boy appealed tohis compassion also; wild beasts were about,and if he left him unassisted, the hyenas willdevour him. The poor recluse was in a diffi-culty. He pondered for a while, reflecting uponthe various tricks the demon had played uponhim. Then he said, “ Listen, boy, I worshipGod, whose rule is over all. If you really wanthelp He will send it without causing me tobreak my vow; and He will not permit hyenasor anything else to hurt you. But if you area tempter God will reveal you,” and he shuthis door. Whereupon the demon with a howlwas resolved into a whirlwind, and Nathanaelwas left to die in peace. [G. T. S.J

NATHANIEL ( ) (Nathanael), the sixthreputed abbat of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury{Mon. Angl . i. 120; Elmham, ed. Hardwick,pp. 4, 184, 199-201; Thorn, ap. Twysden, cc.1768, 1769, 2232). According to the history ofSt. Augustine’s, whether legendary or fictitious,Nathaniel was one of the Roman missionarieswho accompanied Justus and Mellitus to England;was elected abbat by the brethren on the deathof Petronius in 654, after obtaining a licence ofelection from Ercombert, king of Kent; he wasthen blessed by archbishop Deusdedit, and heldhis office until the year 667, when he died. Theexact place of his burial was unknown. Nathanielis not mentioned by Bede, as he probably wouldhave been, if he had known of his existence, inconnexion with the history of Benedict Biscopand abbat Adrian. The detailed circumstancesof the licence and election, probably drawn byElmham from the usage of his own time, are notmentioned by the earlier writer. [S.J

NATHCHAEIMHE (Nathchaoimhe, Nat-

CAEIMHE, NACOEMIUS, NaITCHAINN, NaTH-CHEIMIIE, NATHCOMEUS, MOCHOEMA, MOCHOE-Mius), abbat of Terrygiass, co. Tipperary, wasson of Coemioga of the Dal Messincorb, andCaemell of the Hy Lugair. His feast is May 1,and he died a.d. 588. {Ann. Tig .; M. Doneg. 117et al.; Four Mast, by O’Don. A.D. 584.) [J. GJ

NATHI (Nathias, Nathineus, Nathtus,Dathi, Dathyus, David), surnamed Conrachand Cruimther, one of the most famous saints ofConnaught, yet the details of his life are obscure.He is said to have received Achonry, co. Sligo,from St. Finnian of Clonard about a.d. 530, tohave been a contemporary of St. Attracta, andto have educated, and perhaps instituted, St.Fechin at Fore, but this is doubtful. In theKalendars and old Lives he is always calledcruimther or priest; but Ware and later writerscall him first bishop of Achonrv, Luigny, orLeyney (Cotton, Fast . iv. 97-8; Gams, S&r. Fp .204), a see joined to Killalain the 17th century.His feast is Aug. 9, and he flourished in the

second half of the 6th century. (Colgan, ActaSS. 140, 396; Lanigan, E. II. Ir. ii. 190; iii.39 ; Ussher, wks. vi. 538, 600.) [J. G.]

NATHYEAS (Natoras, Netras), bishop ofPharan. He was previously a monk of Sinaiand a disciple of Silvanus, the superior of theAnchorites of Sinai. He exercised greaterausterities as a bishop than as a monk, on theground of the greater danger of his position.(Rosweyd. Vit. Patt. v. 10 ; Coteler. Eccl. Graec.Monum. i. 579 ; Tillem. Mem. x. 453, xiv. 191;Le Quien, iii. 748.) [G. T. S.]

NAUCELION, a person to whomAlypius andAugustine wrote a.d. 402 in reply to a state-ment made by Clarentius, probably the Donatistbishop of Tabraca {Carth. Coll. i. 187), to theeffect that Felicianns of Musti was condemned inhis absence by the original Donatist party, but,having cleared himself from blame, was after-wards received by them. To which they repliedthat if he was innocent he ought not to havebeen condemned, but if guilty, he ought not tohave been received afterwards. Maximian hadbeen condemned at the same time by the Dona-tists, yet they did not re-baptize Maximianistswho came over to them. (Aug. Ep. 70.) [Fhlicia-nus (4).] [H. W. P.]

NAUCHLAN, saint. [Nathalan.]

NAUCEATIUS (1), the brother, next mage, of Basil the Great. He was born c. 330 A.D.,and was the only one of the four sons who didnot take holy orders. According to his brotherGregory’s account he was equally remarkable formental and physical endowments. His beautyof person, strength and agility of body, werethrown into the shade by his intellectual giftsand eloquence (Greg. Nyss. de Vit. S. Macr. ii.182). At the age of two-and-twenty, after havinggiven a public proof of his rhetorical powers,which had called forth the applause of a crowdedtheatre, under a strong conviction of the vanityof all earthly honours and pleasures, he retiredfrom the world {deta nvl Trpofirjdeta), accom-panied by a single servant, Chrysaphius, leavingall his property behind him, and settled on thewooded slope of a hill above the river Iris, threedays’ journey from the monastery of his sisterMaerina, which was also his mother’s abode. Herehe gathered about him a little handful of sickand destitute old men, whom he tended lovinglyin their sickness, and supported by the produceof the chase, of which he was passionately fond.He proved himself at the same time a dutifulson, fulfilling his mother’s desires with a gladand ready will. After about five years spent inthis manner, he and his servant Chrysaphius losttheir lives by an accident in hunting, c. 357.(Greg. Nyssen, Vit. S. Macrinae , ii. 182-183.)

[E. V.]

NAUCEATIUS (2), addressed by Nilu*(lib. i. epp. 259-263, in Pat. Gr. lxxix.). [C. H.]

NAUSTIANUS, bishop of Dumium andBraga, and a writer under the Moorish dornina*tion in Spain, a.d. 790-830. (H. Florez, Esparn

Sagrada , xv. 170.) [G. T. S.]

NAVATUS (Novates), bishop of Sitifa orSitifis, an important town and colony of Maure*