LANA TERZI, FRANCESCO. - Jesuit, mathematician, and physicist, born in Brescia on Dec. 10, 1631, died there on Feb. 22, 1687. He taught grammar at the College of Terni with such acclaim that citizenship was granted to him and his family; in gratitude, he composed the sacred drama: *La rappresentazione di Valentino martire e protettore di Terni con la co-ronazione di Tacito e Floriano, terniani, imperatori romani* (Terni 1656). Subsequently, he devoted himself to the sciences, teaching philosophy for three years in Brescia (which then included physics and natural sciences), and for six years mathematics at the University of Ferrara; the remainder of his life was spent in Brescia, engaged in his inventions and writing his works.
Already in Rome, under the influence of Fr. A. Kircher, Lana Terzi conducted several notable experiments, which he continued and later published. His works include, besides an essay on the natural history of the province of Brescia (in Latin, left unfinished and published in translation by C. Pilati as *Saggio di storia naturale bresciana,* I, Brescia 1769, pp. 13 ff.), the work: *Prodromo ovvero saggio di alcune invenzioni nuove, premessa all'Arte Maestra* (Brescia 1670), which serves as a prologue to his more complete and erudite work: *Magisterium naturae et artis* (I-II, Brescia 1684-86; vol. III, posthumous, Parma 1692). In the *Prodromo* (ch. 6) he studies
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serves 157 diocesan priests and 69 regulars, a seminary, 7 male and 17 female religious communities; in 1948 there were 583 conversions.
The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution *Universalis Ecclesiae sollicitudo* of Nov. 22, 1924, by separating territory from the archdiocese of Liverpool and the dioceses of Hexham and Newcastle. It comprises the counties of Lancashire (north of the River Ribble), Westmoreland, and Cumberland. It is a suffragan of Liverpool. The cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter.
The first bishop was Thomas Wulstan Pearson O. S. B., consecrated in 1925, d. 1 Dec. 1938; his successor is Thomas Edward Flynn, consecrated 24 July 1939; auxiliary bishop is mons. Thomas Bernard Pearson, consecrated 25 July 1949. The diocese is exceedingly rich in historical memories, having given many martyrs and confessors of the Church, among whom the blessed martyrs John Finch (1584), William Marsden (1586), John Boste (1594), James Duckett (1602), Richard Herst (1628), William Harcourt (1679), and the venerable martyrs George Haydock (1584), George Beesley (1591), Edward Bamber (1646). Many of them suffered martyrdom at Lancaster. Moreover, the blessed Edmund Campion carried on his glorious apostolate in the Fylde (north-west Lancashire). Relics of the martyrs remain, for example, chalices or portable altars used by them, at Chaughton on Brock, Fernyhalegh, Catforth and elsewhere. Pilgrimages are made to Catforth in summer. Near Blackpool was born the great confessor William cardinal Allen (1520–94), founder of the English colleges at Douai (1568) and Rome (1578).
A renowned historian born at Winchester, John Lingard, was rector of the mission at Hornby, near Lancaster, from 1811 until his death in 1851. Many missions in Lancashire, in this diocese, date from the time of persecution; among them are mentioned Mary’s, Preston, Chaughton on Brock, Whitehaven, Fernyhalegh, Newhouse, Great Eccleston, Westby, Scorton.