BEATIFICATION

in the R.C. Church an figs stage in the proce of canoni~ sation. cardinal; s. of John B. of Balfour (Fife); ed. St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Paris; Abbot of Arbroath (1525); Lord ahh! Seal (1528); cr. Cardinal by Paul ITI. (1538); succ. his uncle, James B., as abp. of St. Andrews (1539); became Chancellor of Scotland, and made himjself hated by his persecutions of the Protestants; died at the hands of a a ins in the castle of St. Andrews, May 29, 1546.