The Roman Court: Or, a Treatise on the Cardinals, Roman Congregations and Tribunals, Legates, Apostolic Vicars, Protonotaries, and Other Prelates of the Holy Roman Church
The Roman Court: Or, a Treatise on the Cardinals, Roman Congregations and Tribunals, Legates, Apostolic Vicars, Protonotaries, and Other Prelates of the Holy Roman Church
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in Rome was undertaken by the warlike Pope, Julius II, in the year 1506. The old basilica was fast decaying and so also was the morality of that period. The erection of the new St. Peter's proved the occasion of convulsing the Christian world and clearing the Church of much that kept her heavy and unfit for great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in Rome was undertaken by the warlike Pope, Julius II, in the year 1506. The old basilica was fast decaying and so also was the morality of that period. The erection of the new St. Peter's proved the occasion of convulsing the Christian world and clearing the Church of much that kept her heavy and unfit for great spiritual development. Pope Julius II needed funds for his immense undertaking, and therefore he issued an appeal to the Christian world, granting indulgences and other spiritual benefits to those who by their alms would assist the pious work. Leo X succeeded to the papal throne and likewise to the re-building of St. Peter's. He was munificent and splendid, and with corresponding recklessness had indulgences published in Germany, the proceeds of which were to be applied to this great undertaking. The civil and ecclesiastical authorities had but recently enacted measures restricting the grants of indulgences and therefore this publication of them gave no little offense. Pope Martin V had in 1418 made a corcordat with the Germans by which it was hoped to remedy the terrible evils and correct the flagrant abuses which afflicted the Church. The tenth article of it was concerning indulgences, and by it the Pope agreed "to avoid for the future too great an effusion of indulgences lest they become despised, and to recall and annul all the indulgences granted since the death of Gregory XI." (Hardt, Concil. Const. Vol. I.) Later, in the year 1500, the electoral princes entered a protest against the publication of indulgences, for the corcordat was ignored, and enacted in 1510 that sums of money arising from this source should not be sent out of the country. The emperor, Maximilian, was at special pains to see that the latter provision was faithful...
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