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had shown by this how much can be accomplished by a good
pastor who, without any human help, and armed only with
his own zeal, is ready to expose his life to all risks, to shoulder
every burden, and who will not admit into his city even royal
officials, if they are objects of suspicion. ^ When he bestowed
the title of patriarch of Antioch on the distinguished Juan
de Ribera, who had been Bishop of Badajoz since 1562, and
Archbishop of Valencia since 1568, Pius V. used even stronger
terms of eulogy, styling him the " light of all Spain " and a
model of sanctity, before whose humility and strictness
of life the Pope felt himself quite ashamed ; he recalls
the way in which Ribera himself took the sacraments
to the sick, and states that he led the life of a monk
rather than of a bishop, and that his example had been
a mighty influence for good upon many of the Spanish
bishops. 2
By his regulations concerning examination for orders and
parochial office,^ and on the choice of parish priests,^ Pius V.
had seen to it that the bishops should have good priests to
assist them in the care of souls. In his capacity as Bishop of
Rome he issued a series of ordinances on the sacerdotal
manner of life for those holding office in the Eternal City,^
but he left it to the bishops to make their own provision for
this elsewhere ; very few constitutions of the kind which
^ *Brief of May 7, 1569, Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 14, p. 107b, Papal
Secret Archives. Cf. brief of July 5, 1569, in Laderchi, 1569,
n. 193. Praise for Valeriano Protaszewicz, Bishop of Vilna,
September 6, 1567, in the Archives of Briefs, Rome.
2 In Nic. Antonio, BibUotheca Hisp. nova, Madrid, 1783, 767.
Pius VI. beatified Ribera (died 161 1) on August 13, 1796 (Barberi,
Bull. Rom. contin., X., Rome, 1845, 34)
Escriva wrote his hfe, Valencia, 1612. He was the son of the
Viceroy of Naples, Pedro Afan de Ribera.
^ See supra, p. 184 seq.
; the Jesuit Francesco
* Editti of March 18 and August 19, 1567, Bull. Rom., VII.,
555, 605. Cf. *Avviso di Roma of May 17, 1567, Urb. 1040,
p. 396b, Vatican Library.
5 Cf. supra, p. 183,