oratorian's Usage Examples:

See also the critical study by the oratorian A.

In 1785 he left the Oratorian college where he was prefect of studies, came to Paris, married and bought a position as avocat in the parlement.

At nineteen he donned the robe of an Oratorian, but did not take the vows, and busied himself with literature rather than with religion.

The first edition of Massillon's complete works was published by his nephew, also an Oratorian (Paris, 1745-1748), and upon this, in the absence of MSS., succeeding reprints were based.

Thus the Oratorian Andrea Gallandi (1709-1779), in re-issuing Cotelier's collection in his Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum (1765-1781), included the fragments of Papias and the Epistle to Diognetus, to which recent editors have added the citations from the "Elders" of Papias's day found in Irenaeus, and, since 1883, the Didache.

Though the son of a poor joiner, he received a good education in the Oratorian colleges of Tournon and Lyons.

He published a number of theological works, and edited the Oratorian Lives of the Saints.

The writer of the Oratorian Commentary (Theodulf of Orleans?) addressing a synod which instructed him to provide an exposition of this work on the faith, writes of it, as " here and there recited in our churches, and continually made the subject of meditation by our priests."

and the following winter he spent abroad, chiefly in Rome, where he saw Newman "wearing the Oratorian habit and dead to the world."

Six of his most famous sermons were edited, with a biographical sketch of their author, by the Oratorian Borde in 1704.