Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy, and Two Years in the Islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor: Containing a View of Manners and Customs of the Popish Clergy in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta, Corfu, Zante, Smyrna, Etc. With Anecdotes and Remarks Illustrating Some of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church

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Hall & Voorhies, 1836 - 382 halaman
 

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Halaman 47 - Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping in this valley of tears.
Halaman 287 - God, would be remitted and expiated by them, and the person be freed both from punishment and guilt. That this was the unspeakable gift of God, in order to reconcile men to himself. That the cross erected by the preachers of indulgences, was as efficacious as the cross of Christ itself. Lo!
Halaman 287 - For twelve pence you may redeem the soul of your father out of purgatory...
Halaman 177 - ... his constitution was so vigorous, that, though they gave him poison five several times, he was not destroyed by it One day they sent him a loaf prepared with some spices, which, growing green in a day or two, he threw a piece of it to a wolf's whelps that were in the monastery, and it killed them immediately. At another time they poisoned the host, or consecrated wafer ; but, as he vomited it up soon after he had swallowed it, he escaped once more.
Halaman 176 - The draught threw the poor wretch into a sort of lethargy, during which the monks imprinted on his body the other four wounds of Christ in such a manner that he felt no pain. When he awakened, he found, to his unspeakable joy...
Halaman 175 - Jetzer a soporific draught, which had in it the blood of an unbaptized child, some grains of incense and of consecrated salt, some quicksilver, the hairs of the eyebrows of a child, all which, with some stupifying and poisonous ingredients, were...
Halaman 173 - Jetzer's cell, and about midnight appeared to him in a horrid figure, surrounded with howling dogs, and seeming to blow fire from his nostrils, by the means of a box of combustibles which he held near his mouth. In this frightful form he approached Jetzer's bed, told him that he was the ghost .of a Dominican, who had been killed at Paris, as a judgment of heaven for laying...
Halaman 175 - The virgin thus equipped, addressed a long discourse to Jetzer, in which, among other things, she told him that she was conceived in Original Sin, though she had remained but a short time under that blemish She gave him, as a miraculous proof of her presence, a...
Halaman 287 - The terms in which Tetzal and his associates described the benefit of indulgences, and the necessity of purchasing them, are so extravagant, that they appear to be almost incredible. If any man (said they) purchase letters of indulgence, his soul may rest secure with respect to its salvation. The souls confined in purgatory, for whose redemption indulgences are purchased, as soon as the money tinkles in the chest, instantly escape from thatplace of torment and ascend into heaven.
Halaman 174 - Morning was no sooner come, than Jetzer gave an account of this apparition to the rest of the convent, who all unanimously advised him to undergo the discipline that was enjoined him, and every one consented to bear his share of the task imposed. The deluded simpleton obeyed, and was admired as a saint by the multitudes that crowded about the convent ; while the four friars that...

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