distinguished both in Catholic and Huguenot annals. Among the eminent
Jesuit authors was Pierre Marie, who was born at Rouen, 1589, and died
at Bourges, 1645. He was author of "La Sainte Solitude; ou les
Entretiens solitaires de l'ame," and of "La Science du Crucifix: en
forme de méditations." The family was divided by the Huguenot movement,
and a Protestant branch took root in England. Concerning the latter,
Agnew (_French Protestant Exiles_, i. p. 100) gives the following
information:--

"Jean Marie, pasteur of Lion-sur-mer, was a refugee in England from
the St. Bartholomew massacre. He is supposed to have belonged to
the same family as the Huguenot martyr, Marin Marie, a native of
St. George in the diocese of Lisieux. It was in the year 1559 that
that valiant man, who had become a settler in Geneva, was arrested
at Sens when on a missionary journey to France, laden with a bale
of Bibles and New Testaments, and publications for the promotion of
the Protestant Reformation; he was burnt at Paris, in the place
Maubert, on the 3d of August of that year. Our pasteur was well
received in England, and was sent to Norwich, of which city he
appears to have been the first French minister. He was lent to the
reformed churches of France when liberty of preaching revived, and
so returned to Normandy, where we find him in 1583. The first
National Synod of Vitré held its meetings in that year, between the
15th and 27th of May. Quick's 'Synodicon' (vol. i. p. 153) quotes
the following minute:--'Our brother, Monsieur Marie, minister of
the church of Norwich in England, but living at present in
Normandy, shall be obliged to return unto his church upon its first
summons; yet, because of the great success of his ministry in these
parts, his church may be entreated to continue for some longer time
his absence from it.' He certainly did return to Norwich, because