Studies in Church History, Vol. 4: Centuries XVII. XVIII (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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No people have been more firm in their devotion to the Catholic faith than were the citizens of the venerable Vene tian Republic, while that state existed as an independent nationality. And nevertheless we are about to narrate an epi sode of Venetian history, which has but few parallels in the annals of rebellion and schism. The reader must know that the Republic of Venice was the first state to receive the de crees of the Council of Trent; and that as a token of his ap preciation of its promptitude, Pope Pius IV. Presented to La Serenissima, the magnificent palace in Rome yet styled di Venezia - a regal gift which elicited from the proud oligarchs the return present of the majestic palace Gritti in Venice, as a residence for the papal nuncios. But these interchanges of courtesy were by no means indicative of sterling sympathy between the political cabinets of Rome and Venice. Zealous as the Venetians had ever been in their attachment to Cath olic doctrine and to every Catholic custom, they had, from.

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