MARIOTTE, EDMÉ. - Physicist, b. at Dijon ca. 1620, d. at Paris on 12 May 1684; prior at St-Martin-sous-Beaune (Dijon).

Having learned, through Fr. M. Mersenne, of the Minims (1588-1648), of the experiments of Galileo, Viviani (1643), Torricelli, Pascal (1648) and of somewhat attenuating certain dogmatic divergences and against biting attacks by dissidents against the pope and the Roman Church, M. entered the fray, pointing out the right path of union under the motto "veritatem in caritate facientes", writing voluminous works of fundamental value: Leo the Great and Gregory the Great on the primacy of the chair (Zara 1883); The Primacy of the Pope in the Church during the first eight centuries (Zagreb 1883; for this work Leo XIII conferred on him the title of doctor honoris causa); Caesarism and Byzantinism in the history of the Eastern schism (2 vols., ibid. 1891); On the Eucharist with particular regard to the epiclesis (ibid. 1893; 2nd ed. ibid. 1894); The Slavs and the Popes (2 vols., ibid. 1897). Also worthy of mention are: Sinj and its glory (ibid. 1898); Metropolis of Dioclea and Antivari (ibid. 1902); numerous articles and dissertations in which he polemicizes with the Russian convert Solovyov and others.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: manuscripts in the Archive of the Franciscan Convent of Sinj; M. I., in Znameniti i zaslužni Hrvati, Zagreb 1925, pp. 175-76; P. Berković, Istočno pitanje i franjevac Marković, in Nova Revija, 2 (1926), pp. 105-23; 6 (1927), pp. 39-46, 138-49.

Pietro Čapkun

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Mariotte, Edmé

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