Athaliah

the wife of Jehoram, King of Judah. the death of her son Ahaziah she slew all the members of the royal house, except Joash, her grandson, who escaped, and six years (878 B.C.) a erted his rights, and put her to (2 Kings xi.; 2 Chron. xxii.). er history the subject of a French tragedy by Racine, has been musically treated by Handel and Athanaric, a Gothic king in Thrace during the century A.D. He was compelled by Valens abandon his encroachments on the empire, and subsequently driven by the Huns to seek in Constantinople, where he died in 381. A than asian Creed, a statement of the ortho faith of the Church, not, however, the work of but of a Latin author of the fifth po ibly either Hilary of Arles or Victricius, of Rouen. The name, however, has been on the ground that the creed states the maintained by St. A than as i us against the (q.v.). The Church of England orders the to be said or sung on certain festivals. The Church of Ireland and the Protestant Church of the U.S.A. have, howevey, the practice. The so-called “ damnuclauses” have often excited discu ion.