RENAUDOT, re-nau'dô, EUSÈBE: French Roman Catholic; b. at Paris July 20, 1646; d. there Sept. 1, 1720. He was educated by the Jesuits, and for a month was an Oratorian, after which he became a secular priest. In 1700 he accompanied Cardinal Noailles to the conclave at Rome, and on his return began a series of works on the history of the East and the harmony of the Greek and Roman churches as regards the Eucharist. These comprise: Défense de la perpétuité de la foi catholique (Paris, 1708); La Perpétuité de la foi de l'église catholique touchant l'eucharistie (1711); De la perpétuité de la foi de l'église sur les sacrements et autres points que les réformateurs ont pris pour prétexte de leur schisme (2 vols., 1713); Gennadii patriarchœ Constantinopolitani homiliœ de eucharistia, Meletii Alexandrini, Nectarii Hierosolymitani, Miletii Syrigi et aliorum (1709); Historia patriarcharum Alexandrinorum Jacobitarum a Sancto Marco usque ad finem sœculi tertii decimi (1713); and Liturgiarum orientalium collectio (2 vols., 1715-16; Eng. transl., A Collection of the Principal Liturgies, P. Le Brun, Dublin, 1822). Mention should also be made of his Anciennes relations des Indes et de la Chine de deux voyageurs mahométans (Paris, 1718; Eng. transl., Ancient Accounts of India and China, London, 1733.)

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