call it, by which, in all times, the true Worship, that
of the Invisible, has been polluted and withstood" (1753-1858).

STEWART, HOUSE OF. See STUART.

STEWART, MATTHEW, mathematician, born at Rothesay; bred for the
Church, was for a time minister of Roseneath, and succeeded Maclaurin as
professor of Mathematics in Edinburgh in 1747; was the author of a
mathematical treatise or two, and the lifelong friend of Robert Simson
(1717-1785).

STEYER (17), a manufacturing town of Upper Austria, at the junction
of the Steyer and Enns, 20 m. NE. of St. Valentin; noted for its
flourishing iron and steel manufactures, of which it is the chief seat in
Austria.

STHENO, one of the THREE GORGONS (q. v.).

STIELER, a celebrated German cartographer, born at Gotha; his
atlases are deservedly held in high esteem for their excellence
(1775-1836).

STIER, RUDOLF EWALD, German theologian; was a devout student of the
Bible as the very Word of God, and is best known as the author of the
"Words of the Lord Jesus" (1800-1862).

STIGAND, archbishop of Canterbury and favourite of Edward the
Confessor, who advanced him to the bishoprics of Elmham and Winchester
and to the Primacy in 1052; his appointment was popularly regarded as
uncanonical, and neither Harold nor William the Conqueror allowed him to
perform the ceremony of coronation; through William's influence was by
the Pope deprived of his office and condemned to imprisonment.

STIGMATA, impressions of marks corresponding to certain wounds
received by Christ at His crucifixion, and which certain of the saints
are said to have been supernaturally marked with in memory of His. St.
Francis in particular showed such marks.

STILICHO, a Roman general, son of a Vandal captain under the emperor
Valens; on the death of Theodosius I., under whom he served, became the
ruler of the West, and by his military abilities saved the Western
Empire; defeated Alaric the Goth in a decisive battle and compelled him
to retire from Italy, as he did another horde of invading barbarians
afterwards; aspired to be master of the Roman empires, but was
assassinated at Ravenna in 403.

STILL, JOHN, bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Grantham; rose in the
Church through a succession of preferments: is credited with the
authorship of one of the oldest comedies in the English language, "Gammer
Gurton's Needle," turning on the loss and recovery by her of the needle
with which she was mending