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names 115 persons who had been accused of heresy, and even
so the list was not complete. About half the accused had to
be released for lack of proof, but the others were visited with
the severest penalties, such as death, the galleys, and imprison-
ment. A painter named Giovanni Battista Bertucci was sent
to prison merely for having said that indulgences which
had been bought with money were of no value. ^ It would
seem that at first Pius V. was well pleased with the Inquisitor
of Faenza, for on November 20th, 1570, he made him Bishop
of Polignano in Apulia. But this satisfaction of the Pope
had been based upon false information, and quickly evaporated
when he was better informed. A contemporary writer says
that if Gazini had not died the Pope would have ignominiously
deprived him of his bishopric.
In spite of the wide extent which the Protestant movement
seemed likely to attain at Faenza, it was soon evident that
even there, as in the rest of Italy, it had taken no real root
among the masses of the people. In a great fire which had
broken out in the city an image of the Madonna remained
unharmed amid the flames. Everyone saw a miracle in this
occurrence, and at once the daily diatribes of the Protestant
preachers against the worship of the saints and of their images
failed to have any effect. The clergy, the city council and
the populace ran to witness the miracle ; pilgrimages came
in great number from the surrounding country to the miracu-
startling cures were effected to the amazement
lous image ;
of the physicians ; a little church was erected by popular
subscription to contain the image, and finally Pius V. in a
brief which gave the city the assurance of the Pope's forgive-
ness, approved the religious celebrations which were held in
celebration of the event. Later on Gregory XIII. condoned,
in the case of those persons who had been condemned by
Gazini, those penalties which had not already been complied
1 From Donati. Cf. P. Beltrami, L'atto d'abiura deU'eretico
faentino G. B. Bertucci (1564) in Romagna, II., 6 seq. According
to Marcello Valgimigli, *Notizie storiche, for the year 1567, 200
persons were condemned at Faenza under Pius V. Library,
Faenza.
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