The World's Great Classics
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ISBN13: 9780217618083
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: protection. Gregory XIII was alarmed, and turned his best efforts to withhold at least Freiburg from the league. Lucerne then came to his assistance. An embassy from that canton joined its labors to those of the papal nuncio, and the people of Freiburg not only declined the proposed alliance, but even invited the Jesuits to their city, where, with the assistance of Gregory, they established a college. The effects of Carlo Borromeo's exertions also began to make themselves apparent. His influence had extended particularly to the Wald cantons. Melchior Lussi, Landamman of Unter- walden, was esteemed the especial friend of the archbishop. Borromeo first sent Capuchins into the country, and these friars produced great impression on the people of the mountain districts, by the rigor and simplicity of their lives; they were followed by the pupils of the Helvetic college, which the archbishop had founded for that express purpose. Traces of their influence were soon to be discovered in all public affairs. In the autumn of 1579 the Catholic cantons concluded a treaty with the Bishop of Basle, in which they engaged, not only to protect him in religious matters, but also promised to bring back to the true Catholic faith, if occasion should serve, whoever among his subjects had gone over to the Protestant opinions. This engagement was evidently calculated to arouse the evangelical inhabitants of the cantons, and accordingly dissensions became more decided and bitter than they had been for a long time. A papal nuncio arrived, who was received in the Catholic cantons with every possible mark of reverence, while in those of the Protestants he was contemned and insulted. Section VIII?Crisis in the Netherlands The general state of things in Europe was at that time as we are about to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217618083 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217618081 |
| Weight | 1.15 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $24.67 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 354 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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