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. 1922 Excerpt: ...against the sending of the Secular clergy to Maryland.32 In February, 1642, having received the Memorial, the Congregation of the Holy Office ordered the faculties of the Secular clergy suspended and the mission put off "until such time as this Sacred Congregation shall have examined some points, and determined that ...
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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...against the sending of the Secular clergy to Maryland.32 In February, 1642, having received the Memorial, the Congregation of the Holy Office ordered the faculties of the Secular clergy suspended and the mission put off "until such time as this Sacred Congregation shall have examined some points, and determined that which is best to do for the greater service of God ever blessed, and for the propagation of the holy faith."33 In the meantime the clergy appointed to go to the colony were impatiently awaiting their faculties. Not knowing entirely the causes of the delay, they were minded to proceed at first in virtue of their ordinary faculties for the royal dominions of Great Britain. However, Rosetti dissuaded them from proceeding in this manner.34 Meanwhile Lord Baltimore, finding his purpose of sending Secular missionaries thwarted, decided that the Jesuits also should not go, while at the same time, Leonard Calvert endeavored to prevent the missionaries actually in the colony from leaving.35 A deadlock resulted. To overcome the difficulty the General of the Jesuits wrote to Father Edward Knott, the Provincial of the Society of Jesus in England on November 22, 1642: "I myself will see that faculties are asked for them from the (Cardinal) Protector, to buy off vexation. If they are obtained I will let your Reverence know." 36 Whether this arrangement of the General was agreeable or whether the suspended faculties were granted to the Secular Fathers, we cannot say. However, two Secular priests, Fathers Gilmett and Territt, set sail sometime about November, 1642, on different vessels.37 The Proprietary, in a letter dated November 21, 1642, commends the Fathers to the Governor's care; in another letter written from Bristol, on November 18,1...
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Fair. No dust jacket. 1 microfilm. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight inside pages with some pencil in front blank page. Cover is worn and torn. No bent corners. No remainder mark.
