Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Volume 1 (1872) - Page 14

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TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS MAN

JOANNES THEODORUS BEELEN

PRIVATE CHAMBERLAIN TO HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS IX

CONSULTOR OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE INDEX

DOCTOR OF SACRED THEOLOGY

HONORARY CANON OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF LIÈGE

KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD

PROFESSOR OF SACRED SCRIPTURE AND ORIENTAL LANGUAGES

AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN

WHO FIRST IN BELGIUM

REVIVED SYRIAC LETTERS, WHICH HAD BEEN COLLAPSED THERE FOR ALMOST THREE CENTURIES,

THROUGH HIS WRITINGS AND SCHOLARSHIP.

THIS CHRONICLE OF BARHEBRÆUS

IS DEDICATED

BY HIS MOST OBSERVANT DISCIPLES

JOANNES BAPTISTA ABBELOOS

AND

THOMAS JOSEPHUS LAMY