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212 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
and chapters of Portugal,^ stem rebukes. On the whole,
however, the Council met with willing obedience. As the
Pope himself recognized, in many places similar institutions
had already been set up, while new ones were coming into
existence every day.^ The Congregation of the Council had
to answer many questions,^ especially from Italy, as to the
to found a seminary, as he had many parishes under his care, in
Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 15, p. 238, Papal Secret Archives. *Praise
for the Bishop of Breslau for having erected a seminary ;
t. 13, p: 187.
ibid.
^ Briefs to the Bishops of Guarda, Evora, Portalegre and Viseu
of July 26 and 27, 1569, in Laderchi, 1569, n. 318, 321 ; to their
respective chapters, ibid. n. 322-325 ;
two of these letters are also
in GouBAU, 193 seq., 200 seq. ; letters to the Bishops of Portalegre,
Porto and Leiria, of July 27, August 9, and September i, 1569,
Corpo dipl. Portug., X., 331, 335, 339.
* " Et in aliis locis quam plurimis huiusmodi seminaria in-
stituta fuerunt quotidie instituuntur," (to the Archbishop of
Prague in Goubau, 95.)
^ e.g. in 1566 :
at Gravina (Pogiani Epist., I., 382), at Reggio
{ibid. 394), at Turin (403) ; in 1567 :
at Casale (404), Imola
(405, 445), Nocera (411, 441), Marsico (414), Como (417, 428, 435),
Naples (419, 450 seq.), Majorca (433), Benevento (430), Braga
(439), Milan (439), Trani (440), Nicastro (441), Brescia (448, 462).
Venice (453) ; in 1568 (up to September 25) : at Milan (454, 490),
Cremona (445), Ravenna, " cardinali Urbinatensi " (460), Padua
(461), Catanzaro (463, 465), Perugia (460), Nicastro (466), Naples
(463, 480 seq., 488), Portugal, " cardinali Infanti " (467^ seqq.,
470, 489, 491 seq.), Braga (471), Coimbra (471), Rimini (472 477),
Salerno (475), Gerace (476), Savona (484), S. Angelo de' Lombard!
(495). The list in Theiner, Bildungsansalten 118 seq., is incomplete,
and Bergamo, Messina (and Polizio) are wanting. Ex-
hortation to Antonio, Bishop of Como, to found a seminary,
April 24, 1567, in the Archives of Briefs, Rome. Ibid. * bulls of
August 6 and December 8, 1567, for the seminaries of Eichstatt
and Naples * Praise to the Bishop of Saint-Omer for the erection
of a seminary, ibid. According to Siebengartner (p. 87) the
earliest seminaries were set up at Rieti and Eichstatt in 1564, at
Milan in 1565, at Benevento, Verona and Larino in Sicily in 1564,
at Brixen ( ? certainly Brescia) in 1568 ; in the meantime France