22.06.2013 Views

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

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

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

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

THE MILITARY ORDERS. 259<br />

Benedictines, which on <strong>the</strong> whole was able to point to many<br />

worthy members,^ received an exhortation to restore <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

former purity <strong>of</strong> observance, since, through <strong>the</strong> neglect <strong>of</strong><br />

superiors, <strong>the</strong> Order had fallen away <strong>from</strong> its former eminence.^<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pope addressed a similar repro<strong>of</strong> to <strong>the</strong> General <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Carthusians, saying that he had learned with great sorrow<br />

that even <strong>the</strong>re <strong>the</strong>re was reason to fear <strong>the</strong> loss <strong>of</strong> discipline,<br />

unless attention was paid at once to repairing <strong>the</strong> damage<br />

done, and that holy men must be placed at <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

houses, whose whole care must be devoted to <strong>the</strong> maintenance<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> weakening <strong>of</strong> discipline.^ Pius V. was<br />

specially dissatisfied with <strong>the</strong> Carthusians in Spain.*<br />

Several apostolic letters were sent to Portugal complaining<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> state <strong>of</strong> affairs in <strong>the</strong> military Orders <strong>the</strong>re. <strong>The</strong><br />

struggle with <strong>the</strong> Moors, on account <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong>se bodies<br />

had been founded and endowed with property and ecclesiastical<br />

privileges, had lost its importance as far as Europe was con-<br />

cerned, but Pius V. could not understand how <strong>the</strong> heirs <strong>of</strong><br />

those heroes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Moorish wars could live in ease on <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

Briefs, Rome. *Brief <strong>of</strong> March 10, 1570, " Nicolao praesidenti<br />

generali congregationis Vallumbrosae," with powers to carry out<br />

a reform, ibid.<br />

1 SCHMIEDER, loc. cit. 69.<br />

^ *Brief <strong>of</strong> April 7, 1571, " Capitulo generali Congregationis<br />

S. lustinae de Padua O.S.B." in Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 16, p. 23.<br />

*" Ivlemoriale ad Pium V. pro reformatione congregationis Casin-<br />

ensis " in Archives <strong>of</strong> S. Angelo, Arm. 12, caps, 4, n. 10, Papal<br />

Secret Archives. A brief with faculties to absolve, June 13, 1571,<br />

in Bull. Rom., VII., 919.<br />

^ *Brief <strong>of</strong> March 19, 1571, Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 16, p. 40, Papal<br />

Secret Archives.<br />

*Laderchi 1568, n. 28. *Brief <strong>of</strong> June 11, 1571, to Basilio<br />

d'Urbino, on <strong>the</strong> reform <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Certosa <strong>of</strong> Pisa, Archives <strong>of</strong> Briefs,<br />

Rome. *Brief to <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> Poland, July 5, 1568, against his in-<br />

terference in <strong>the</strong> administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Certosa "Paradisus Mariae,"<br />

in Brevia, Arm. 44, t. 13, p. 225, Papal Secret Archives. For <strong>the</strong><br />

reform <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Augustinians see *Avvisi di Roma <strong>of</strong> September 27,<br />

1570, and April 14, 1571, Urb. 1041, p. 343<br />

Library.<br />

; 1042, p. 47b, Vatican

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!