Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy, and Two Years in the Islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor: Containing a View of the Manners and Customs of the Popish Clergy ...Jordan, Swift and Wiley, 1845 - 321 pages |
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Page 35 - Salve Regina Mater misericordiae. Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae; Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrymarum valle. Eia ergo advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exilium ostende. O Clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.
Page 36 - Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping in this valley of tears.
Page 237 - God, would be remitted and expiated by them, and the person be freed both from punishment and guilt. That this was the unspeakable gift of God, in order to reconcile men to himself. That the cross erected by the preachers of indulgences, was as efficacious as the cross of Christ itself. Lo!
Page 237 - For twelve pence you may redeem the soul of your father out of purgatory...
Page 142 - ... consented to bear his share of the task imposed. The deluded simpleton obeyed, and was admired as a saint by the multitudes that crowded about the convent ; while the four friars that managed the imposture, magnified in the most pompous manner, the miracle of this apparition, in their sermons, and in their discourses.
Page 144 - The draught threw the poor wretch into a sort of lethargy, during which the monks imprinted on his body the other four wounds of Christ in such a manner that he felt no pain. When he awakened, he found, to his unspeakable joy...
Page 144 - Jetzer a soporific draught, which had in it the blood of an unbaptized child, some grains of incense and of consecrated salt, some quicksilver, the hairs of the eye-brows of a child ; all which, with some stupifying and poisonous ingredients, were...
Page 142 - Jetzer's cell, and about midnight appeared to him in a horrid figure, surrounded with howling dogs, and seeming to blow fire from his nostrils, by the means of a box of combustibles which he held near his mouth. In this frightful form he approached Jetzer's bed, told him that he was the ghost .of a Dominican, who had been killed at Paris, as a judgment of heaven for laying...
Page 141 - Dominicans asserted the contrary. The doctrine of the Franciscans, in an age of darkness and superstition, could not but be popular ; and hence the Dominicans lost ground from day to day. To support the credit of their order, they resolved, at a chapter held at Vimpsen, in the year 1504, to have recourse to fictitious visions and dreams, in which the people at that time had an easv failli ; and they determined to make Bern the scene "of their operations.
Page 237 - The terms in which Tetzal and his associates described the benefit of indulgences, and the necessity of purchasing them, are so extravagant, that they appear to be almost incredible. If any man (said they) purchase letters of indulgence, his soul may rest secure with respect to its salvation. The souls confined in purgatory, for whose redemption indulgences are purchased, as soon as the money tinkles in the chest, instantly escape from thatplace of torment and ascend into heaven.