The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

XXXIV TABLE OF CONTENTS
A.D.
Ancestor worship .....
The divine names .....
Dissensions among the Missionary Orders
1692 Kanghi's decree permits the preaching of Christianity
but
1697 Vicar Apostolic Maigrot condemns Chinese rites
1704 Investigations by Rome and representations from
China ......
Discussion ......
Decision reached but not pubhshed in Europe
Contents of the Decree ....
1699 Tournon arrives in China as Papal Envoy
He awaits an interview with Kanghi, w^ho is
At first most gracious ....
Then suspicious .....
Lengthy discussions betrvveen Tournon and Kanghi
Intervention of Maigrot leads to
Indignation of the Emperor .
Continued tension ....
Tournon ordered to return to Canton
Failure of his embassy and its results
His personal heroism and death
Lack of support for the Holy See
Further enactments against the Chinese rites
Intervention of Theodoric Pedrini
His prevarications further entangle the issue
The Emperor's wrath against him .
The action of the Jesuits
Mezzabarba appointed Legate
His troublous reception, his failures and .
Imprisonment, whence he publishes Concessions
His subsequent return to Europe
The Malabar rites—Nobili's adoption of Indian ideal
Repudiated by Tournon, whose
Action is upheld by Rome
Further examination entrusted to Lambertini
CHAPTER VHI.
THE CITY OF ROME AND THE PAPAL STATES—FURTHER
ING OF SCIENCE AND ART—DEATH OF CLEMENT XI
1 701 Christmas-tide inundation of Rome by Tiber
1703 Earthquakes do much damage throughout Italy
Unusually severe weather is
Followed by cattle disease
Papal aid to the suffering people
Clement XL's administration of justice
His encouragement of learning and
Research in Eastern Manuscripts