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

l66 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
forty, and would have wished to remain a simple lay-brother,
if his superiors would have allowed him to do so. Later on
he was offered several bishoprics, which he refused, until, after
the death of Cardinal Scotti in 1568, Pius V. obliged him to
accept that of Piacenza. As a bishop he continued to live
as he had done as a Theatine ; he built schools for the poor,
in which the instruction was given gratis, a seminary, an
orphanage, a home for girls and widows, a refuge for penitents,
a convent for the Capuchins, and another for the Theatines.
The acts of the synod which he held in 1570 were printed.^
Among the new Cardinals, Giuho Antonio Santori stood
out on account of his extraordinary nobility of soul.^ A man
of the greatest purity of life and vast learning, Santori led a
life of great asceticism, slept very little, and did penance after
the manner of the early saints ;
his charity led him to expend,
during the time of his cardinalate, 70,000 ducats on the poor,
whose father he was called.^ Like Burali, he had originally
been an advocate, though he soon gave up his career in order
to enter the priesthood, and was soon made vicar-general of
the Bishop of Caserta. Since he worked with all his energies
against the Protestant movement, which was very powerful
in that place, he had to bear many calumnies and attacks,,
and was even in danger of his life.* In the autumn of 1563
he had to flee before his enemies, and retired to Naples, where
he helped Cardinal Antonio Carafa. But the persecution
broke out anew in that place, and after the death of the
Cardinal, Santori went into retirement, and gave himself up
to works of charity and his studies ; it was at this time that
^ CiACONius, III., 1053. Biographies of Burali were written
by G. A. Cagnano, Rome, 1649 ; G. B. Bagatta, Venice, 1698 ;
G. Bonaglia, Rome, 1732. Clement XIV. proclaimed Burali
Blessed ; see brief of May 13, 1772, Bull. Rom. Contin., IV.,
Rome, 1841, 428.
^ Cf. App. n. 67.
* He is styled " Promotor delle opere pie et padre dei poveri "
by the author of the *Relatione fatta aU'ill. sig. card. d'Este, in
1599. Cod. 6619, p. 89b, Court Library, Vienna.
* Cf. Vol. XIV. of this work, p. 285.