in church-history, the followers of Eon, a wild fanatic of the province of Bretagne, in the 12th century, whose brain was disordered. He concluded from the resemblance between cum, in the form for exercising malignant spirits, viz. Per cum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, and his own name Eon, that he was the son of God, and ordained to judge the quick and dead. Eon, however, was solemnly condemned by the council at Rheims, in 1148, at which Pope Eugenius III. presided, and ended his days in a miserable Eosians miserable prison. He left behind him a number of followers and adherents, whom persecution and death so weakly and cruelly employed could not persuade to abandon his cause, or to renounce an absurdity which, says Mosheim, one would think could never have gained credit, but in such a place as Bedlam.