The New International Encyclopædia/Ceillier, Rémy

CEILLIER, sắ’yắ’, Rémy (1688-1761). A French Benedictine scholar. He was born in Bar-le-Duc, France, became titular prior of the Benedictine monastery of Flavigny, near Nancy, and there died. His enduring fame rests upon his laborious and exhaustive analysis of ecclesiastical literature down to the middle of the Thirteenth Century, Histoire générale des auteurs sacrés et ecclésiastiques (1729-63, 23 vols.; new edit. 1858-65, 14 vols.).