Galura, Bernhard

Galura, Bernhard prince-bishop of Brixen, was born August 21, 1764. He was for some time preacher at Freiburg, made suffragan bishop and vicar-general at Feldkirch in 1820, in 1829 consecrated prince-bishop of Brixen, and died in 1856. He wrote, Diss. de Traditione altero Revelationis fonte (Freiburg, 1790): — Die Ehre der heiligen Messe (4th ed. Augsburg, 1827): — Biblische Geschichte der Welterlosung durch Jesum den Sohn Gottes (ibid. 1806): — Die ganze Katholische Religion (ibid. 1796-99, 5 vols.): — Gebet- und Betrachtungsbuch fur Christen (6th ed. 1836, etc.). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:61, 403, 456, 673; 2:241, 259,, 267, 272, 346, 352, 368, 386. (B. P.)