Malacca Bean
the fruit of the Semecorpus Anacardium, or marking nut tree of India, belonging to the natural order Anacordiaceæ. It closely resembles the cashew nut.
MALACHI (mal'a-ki), the last of the Old Testament minor prophets. Of his history nothing is certainly known.
The Prophecies of Malachi, the last prophetic book of the Old Testament.
When it was penned, the Jewish people 425 B. C., during the first part of the Peloponnesian war, and was a contem- (480-406), Herodotus (484-424), and Thucydides (471-396).
MALACHITE (-kit), a monoclinic green mineral rarely found in crystals, but mostly as fibrous or compact stalagmitic masses. MALACHY (mala-ki), ST., an Irish prelate, Archbishop of Armagh, and the greatest of St. Patrick's successors; born in Armagh, Ireland, about 1095. In 1121 he became Abbot of Bangor. Archbishop Celsus, who had made him his vicar, procured his election to the see of Connor (1125), and on his deathbed (1129) recommended him as his successor in the primacy. It was not, however, till 1134 that Malachy could establish himself therein. In 1140 he journeyed to Rome, seeking the pallium, and Innocent II. appointed him papal legate for Ireland. In 1148 he once more repaired to France, to renew to Eugenius III. his request for the pallium; but before his arrival the Pope had gone back to Rome, and at Clairvaux, on Nov. 1, Malachy died of a fever in St. Bernard's arms.
He was canonized by Clement IV. The curious "Prophecy of St. Malachy" were first published in his "Wood of Life" (Venice, 1595).