Pitra, JEAN BAPTISTE, was born at Champforgueil, near Autun, August 31, 1812, entered the order of St Benedict, and devoted himself to historical studies in the abbey of Solesme. In 1858 he was sent by the pope to Russia to study the Slavonic liturgy, was created a cardinal-priest in March 1863, librarian of the Vatican in 1869, and Cardinal-bishop of Frascati in 1879. He died February 3, 1889. His works include Histoire de Saint Léger (1846), Vie du R. P. Libermann (1855), the invaluable Spicilegium Solesmense (5 vols. 1852-60), Juris Ecclesiastici Græcorum
Monumenta (1864), Triodion Katanacticon (1879), and Hymnographie de l'Eglise Grecque (1867).