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SMARIUS, Cornelius Francis, clergyman, born in Telburg, North Brabant, Holland, 3 March, 1823; died in Detroit, Michigan, 2 March, 1870. After completing his studies at the University of North Brabant, he came to the United States and joined the Society of Jesus at Florissant, No., 13 November, 1841. In 1843 he went to Cincinnati, where he pursued theological studies, and was assistant professor of poetry and rhetoric in a school there until 1848. During this period he published anonymously many poems of much beauty. Ha was ordained priest in 1849, afterward studied in Ford-ham, New York, and was pastor of the church of St. Francis Xavier in St. Louis in 1859-'60. Here he displayed such powers as a pulpit orator that he became very popular. In 1861 he was detailed for missionary work, with a large field of operations, and in 1865 he visited Europe for his health, He was vice-president of the University of St. Louis in 1850-'2, and again in 1857-'8. He published "Points of Controversy" (New York, 1865).
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