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Jacobi (MARY PUTNAM an American)

MARY PUTNAM, an American physician; born in London, England, Aug. 31, 1842. She graduated from the Woman's Medical Coland maintained that Christ had but one nature. They were thus named from Jacob Baradæus, Bishop of Edessa, and apostle of the East, who restored the sect about 545. From this man, Mosheim remarks, as the second father of the sect, all the Monophysites in the East are called Jacobites. Baradæus died in 578. A small section of the Jacobites joined the Roman Catholics in the 17th century, but the majority remained firm in the faith of their ancestors. Riddle enumerates among the remains of Oriental sects or Christian communities existing in 1037, the Syrian Jacobites living under their patriarch at Antioch. Roger of Wendover mentions a new sect of preachers called Jacobites, because they imitated the life of the apostles, who sprang up in 1198, under the auspices of Pope Innocent III. They were mendicants, and suffered great privations. Mosheim believes the sect ceased to exist soon after the Council of Lyons, in 1274.