Zacharias
father of St. John the Baptist, and husband of St. Elizabeth.
He was a priest of the temple of Jeru- ZACHARIAS salem, and became dumb on refusing to believe the announcement, made by the the birth of St. John the Baptist. He is Herod. believed to have been put to death by the birth of St. John the Baptist. He is believed to have been put to death by Herod.
Pope from 741 to 752; a Greek by birth.
Pope from 741 to 752; a Greek by birth.
He gave his consent to the setting aside of the Me March 14, 752. French throne (752). He died in Rome, Merovingian Childeric III. and March 14, 752. logian; born in Mörs, Prussia, Oct. 10, 1838. He was appointed Professor of Theology in the University of Erlangen in 1878, and wrote "Marcellus of Ancyra" (1867); "The Shepherd of Hermas" (1868); "Ignatius" (1873); "The Acts of St. John" (1880); us of Antioch" "Cyprian of Antioch and the German Story of Faust" (1882); "Researches Into the History of the New Testament Canon" (5 vols, 1881-1893); "The Gospel of Peter" (1893); "Introduction to the New Testament" (1897).
ZÄHRINGEN, the house from which the former grand-ducal family of Baden took its origin. The name is derived from the ruined castle of Zähringen, in a village of the same name, 2 miles N. of Freiburg in Baden. The first founders of the family were from the 8th to ers of the family were from the 8th to but the authenticated history of the the 10th century Counts of Breisgau, house really begins with Bertold I., "the Bearded," who became duke in 1050, was house really begins with Bertold I., "the much esteemed by the Emperor rich III., and received from him the reror Heinversion of the duchy of Swabia. He rich III., and received from him the rewas, however, passed over in 1057 by was, however, passed over in 1057 by Agnes, the widow of Heinrich III., in ceived in 1061 duchy of Kärnthen with the march of as compensation the duchy of Kärnthen with the march of ceived in 1061 as compensation the Rudolf in 1070, and fought by his side at Melrichstadt, Aug. 7, 1078. When Rudolf in 1070, and fought by his side of his lands by Heinrich IV. he became insane, and died soon after-Nov. 8, 1078. His elder son, Hermann, had died in 1074, leaving a son, Hermann II., who married Judith of Baden, and from whom the present house of Baden is directly descended. The younger son of ited the dominions of his father-in-law, Rudolf of Swabia, and was followed by ited the dominions of his father-in-law, 1122), the founder of Freiburg. His brother and successor Konrad, who ZALINSKI founded Münster, was made in 1127 by the Emperor Lothar, "Rektor" of Burgundy, where his son Bertold IV. (died founder of Bern (1191), received rich possessions. As Bertold V. died childless (Feb. 18, 1218), his dominions fell to the nearest heirs, the Duke of Teck, who sprang from a brother of Bertold IV., and the elder Baden line. His Swathe wife of the Graf von Urach, and his bian possessions fell to his sister Agnes, Swiss lands mostly to his youngest towns Zürich, Bern, Solothurn, and Offenburg, fell by testament to the em- towns Zürich, Bern, Solothurn, and Ofburg. The remainder, including the sister Anna, wife of the Graf von Kiperor.