The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…

Name: The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…
Author: Thomas Becon

The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.

Thomas Becon 1512–1567London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563

[28], 144, 147-266 leaves : port. · 109k words · STC 1755 · ESTC S101368

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The Relics of Rome. › Of Monks. › Of the Camaldinensis order.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Monkes. › Of the Camaldinensis order.

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Of the Camaldinensis order.

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Pope Leo the fourth occupying the See of Rome, the Monkish religion of the Camaldinensis was devised by Romoaldus of Ravenna, in the Mount Apenninus Their coal & cloak with all that ever they wear from top to toe is white. They keep perpetual silence. Every wednesday & Friday they fast bread and water. They go barefoot and lye on the ground. In the year. &c. 850. Chron. Pol. Lib. Germ.

POpe Leo the fourth occupyeng the See of Rome, the Monkishe religiō of the Camaldinensis was deuised by Romoaldus of Rauenna, in the Mount Apenninus Their coule & cloke with all that euer they weare from top to toe is white. They kepe perpetuall silēce. Euery wednisday & Friday they fast bread and water. Thei go barefote and lye on the grounde. In the yere. &c. 850. Chron. Pol. Lib. Germ.

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Of the Hieronimians order.

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Pope Innocentius the Seventh, being bishop of Rome, the Monkish order of the Hieronimians, began under the name of Saint Hierom which after Christs birth. 490. leaving his native country, went into Jury & there not far from Bethlehem, builded him an house where he lived very devoutly in the latter end of his life, These Apes and counterfeiters of S. Hierome wear their clothes of white and a cope plaited above over their coat, gird with a leather girdle. In the year. &c. 145. This order was endued with divers privileges, franchises and liberties by certain bishops of Rome, as Gregory the twelfth Eugenius the fourth. &c. Chron. Polydor. Libro Germ.

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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…

Of the Camaldinensis order.

Of the Hieronimians order.

Of the Gregorians order.

Of the Shadowed valley order.

Of the Grandimontensis order.

Of the Cisterciensis order.

Of the Humiliates order.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of the Camaldinensis order.

Of the Hieronimians order.

Of the Gregorians order.

Of the Shadowed valley order.

Of the Grandimontensis order.

Of the Cisterciensis order.

Of the Humiliates order.

The author

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