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EUGENIUS, the name of four popes. EUGENIUS L, pope from 654 to 657. Elected on the banishment of Martin I. by the emperor Constans II., and at the height of the Monothelite crisis, he showed greater deference than his predecessor to the emperor's wishes, and m ...

EUGENIUS L, pope from 654 to 657. Elected on the banishment of Martin I. by the emperor Constans II., and at the height of the Monothelite crisis, he showed greater deference than his predecessor to the emperor's wishes, and made no public stand against the pa ...

EUGENIUS II., pope, was a native of Rome, and was chosen to succeed Pascal I. in 824. His election did not take place without difficulty. Eugenius was the candidate of the nobles, and the clerical faction brought forward a competitor. But the monk Wala, the re ...

EUGENICS (from the Gr. ti-ytrip. well born), the modern name given to the science which deals with the influences which improve the inborn qualities of a race, but more particularly with those which develop them to the utmost advantage, and which generally ser

ERPENIUS (original name VAN ERPE), THOMAS (1584-1624), Dutch Orientalist, was born at Gorcum, in Holland, on the nth of September 1584. After completing his early education at Leiden, he entered the university of that city, and in 1608 took the degree of maste

EUSEBIUS (Gr. Eiw«/3io$, from twre/Sijs, pious, cf. the Latin name Pius), a name borne by a large number of bishops and others in the early ages of the Christian Church. Of these the most important are separately noticed below. No less than 25 saints of this n

... ecretly put to death at Viennc (in Gaul), and Arbogast, naming as his successor Eugenius, a rhetorician, descended into Italy to meet the expedition which Theodosius was heading against him. He proclaimed himself the champion of the old Roman gods, and as a re ...

... ue romanus, &c.), concealed but clumsily a purely oligarchical government. Pope Eugenius III. and his adherents had been forced after a feeble resistance to resign themselves to exile at Viterbo. Arnold, after returning to Rome, immediately began a campaign of ...

... ior of the Dominican house first in Valladolid and then in Toledo. In 1431 Pope Eugenius IV. called him to Rome and made him " magister sancti palatii." At the Council of Basel he was one of the ablest supporters of the view of the Roman curia, and he was rewa ...

... l centre of an extensive agricultural district; does a large business EUGENICS— EUGENIUS in grain, fruit, hops, cattle, wool and lumber; ami has various manufactures, including flour, lumber, woollen goods and canned fruit. Eugene was settled in 1854, and was ...

... rs as the excuse for this contumacy. He was banished from the kingdom, but Pope Eugenius terrified Stephen into a reversal of the sentence. In 1153 Theobald succeeded in reconciling Stephen with Henry of Anjou, and in securing for the latter the succession to ...

... pire Arbogast had slain the young Emperor Valentinian and set up the grammarian Eugenius in his stead (May 15, 392). Theodosius made extensive levies and with a force partly composed of barbarian auxiliaries marched out against Eugenius. The armies met near th ...