Collin, Nicolas

Collin, Nicolas a French theologian, was born about the commencement of the 18th century. He was canon-regular of the strict Observatists of the Premonstrant order, and prior of Rengeval. He died at Nacy in 1788, leaving Observations Critiques sur le Traite des Dispenses (Nancy, 1765; Paris, 1770): — Du Signe de la Croix (Paris, 1775): — De l'Eau Benite (ibid. 1776): — Du Pain Benit, etc. (ibid. 1777): — Des Processions de

l'Eglise Catholique (ibid. 1779): — Du Respect aux Eglises (ibid. 1781). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.