MARLORATUS, AUGUSTINUS, a French Pro testant divine, born at Bar-le-Due, department of Meuse, in the year 1506. Left an orphan at an early age, he was placed by his guardian in a monastery of the Augustinians, and in his eighteenth year he took the monastic vows, and subsequently became prior of the convent at Bourges. As early as 1533 he began to exhibit in his sermons some approach towards the reformed doctrines. After some time he openly avowed himself a Protestant, and, to save his life, fled to Geneva. Here he worked for a while as a corrector of the press, but subsequently removed to Lausanne, and gave him self to the study of theology. In 1549 he was ap pointed pastor at Crissier, and a little later was invited to Vevey. In 156o he was called to the responsible duty of superintending the Reformed Church at Rouen. He took a prominent part at the Conference of Poissy in 1561, and in May of the same year presided at the Provincial Synod at Dieppe. In the spring of the following year war began between the Huguenots and Catholics, and Rouen was seized by the former. Although Mar loratus laboured to the utmost to moderate the violence of the Protestants, and kept aloof from all political affairs, he was apprehended by the royal ists, after the recapture of the town, and condemned to death. He was executed in front of the church I
of Notre-Dame on 3oth October or 1st November 1563. His various exegetical works may be best described as a painstaking and not injudicious selec tion of the interpretations of other writers, of all ages of the Church. They are—I. Novi Testa onenti Catholica expositio ecclesiastica sere bibliotheca expositionum Novi Testamenti, Genev. 1561, fol. This work passed rapidly through a large number of editions, and several portions have been trans lated into English, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, by Thomas Timme, 157o-83 ; John, 1575 ; Jude, by J. D., 154 ; and the Apocalypse, by Arthur Golding, 1574. 2. In 15o Psalmos Davidis et aliorun: SS. Prophetarum explicatio ecclesiastica, sive bibliotheca expositionum in Psalmos. Item Cantica sacra ex diversis Bibliorum loci; cunt simili expositione, Genev. 1562, fol. Selections from this were translated into English under the title Prayers in the Psalms, by Rodolph Warcup, Lond. 1571, I6mo. 3. Esaia Prophetic cum cath. exp. ad., Paris 1564, Genev. 161o, fol. 4. Expositio in 7obum, Genev. 1585. 5. Genesis, cum calk. exp. eccl., Paris 1562.—S. N.