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the Bishops of Augsburg, Eichstadt, and a few more were
willing to set them up, but they were rather hampered than
helped by their cathedral chapters.^
A pontificial brief to the Bishop of Breslau added to praise
for the foundation of a seminary, congratulations on the synod
held there for the purpose of promulgating the Tridentine
decrees. 2 A seminary and a synod were also the things
which above all recommended to the Archbishop of Prague,
in a letter which was sent to him by the Pope.^ What real
importance the Pope attached to the holding of synods
everywhere, in accordance with the decrees of Trent, is shown
by a letter to the Archbishop of Salerno, who sought to excuse
himself in Rome for having twice postponed his promised
provincial synod. The Pope rebuked him for his delay,
saying that the excuses which he had put forward were worth-
less, that the archbishop must pay no attention to the dis-
content of some of the bishops and lay judges, but go forward
quietly with the work and that he, the Pope, now that the
deliberations of the Council had at last, after such great
labours and difficulties, and so many delays, been brought
to a happy issue, was fully resolved to carry them into effect.'*
Ingolstadt, Munich, Treves, Mayence. The bishops also sought
to secure free places in the Papal seminaries. The synods of
Augsburg 1566, Constance, 1567, Salzburg, 1569 . . . and others,
had, however, decided upon the establishment of seminaries.
Similar decisions were actually carried out, though on a very
modest scale, at Eichstatt in 1564, at Wiirzburg in 1570, and at
Breslau in 1571." (Siebengartner, loc. cit.). The Bishop of
Wiirzburg on August 7, 1566, expressed to the Congregation of
the Council his readiness to found a seminary. C/. the reply of
the Congregation of March 25, 1567, in Pogiani Epist, I., 412.
iTo Francis Borgia, April 5, 1568, Canisii Epist., VI., 181.
2 *Brief of May 14, 1568, Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 13, p. 186, Papal
Secret Archives.
» Brief of June 23, 1568, loc. cit. p. 216, printed in Goubau 93,
with the date July 23.
* Brief of May 2^, 1566, in Laderchi, 1566, n. 182, where is also
the letter of the archbishop. The provincial synod was held at
Salerno in 1566, diocesan synods in 1565 and 1567. Laderchi 1566,
n. 183. C/. ihid. 341 the exhortations to the Archbishop of Gnesen.