Martinelli
SEBASTIAN (märte-nelle), a papal delegate; born in Lucca, Tuscany, Aug. 20, 1848; studied at the St. Anne Seminary in Lucca, and at the College of St. Augustine in Rome; was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in March, 1871; made prior-general of the Augustinian Order in 1889; appointed apostolic delegate to the United States, and consecrated a special archbishop in 1896; was raised to the cardinalate, April 15, 1901, and recalled in 1902.
MARTINIQUE MARTINIQUE (mär-ti-nēk), native name Madiana (mä-de-änä), one of the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies; area, 381 square miles; pop. (1916) 193,- 087, of whom only 10,000 are whites.
Sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, and cotton are the main crops, besides about 40,000 acres under cultivation for food products; imports (1918) about $10,500,000, exports about $9,800,000. Chief commercial town Fort-de-France (about 22,000). The island was colonized by the French in 1635. A terrible volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée devasted the island in 1902, reducing the population two-thirds and entirely destroying the city of St. Pierre, where only one survivor remained. The loss of life was over 30,000.