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discovered the inscription , " In , honorm S . S . CordisJe $ y , "~~ " To the honour of the most sacred heart of Jesus , " This pious fr ^ ud he found to have beeii the contrivance of the ]? x-Jesuit Salvi . Horrified at this attempt to entra p the Anti-rcardiolatrist himself into an act of Cardiolatry , he denounced it to the civil power ; and Salvi was required to apologize to Rice } . The mildness of his disposition was strikingly shewn on this
occasioo ; for , although justly offended , instead of receiving Salvi with cold disdain , to the surprise of the Jesuit , he found himself met with affectionate cordiality . Ricci had hoped that Salvi * s heart was to be won ; but in this he found himself deceived : he still prosecuted his dark and treacherous operations . " It is known to every one , " says Ricci , writing many years after this event , " and melancholy experience has made it but too evident in the troubles by which Europe , is yet agitated , of how many machinations the Jesuits have been the authors , under the powerful protection of Pius VI ., with the view of re-establishing their body . They have found this worship of the heart of Christ to be a most plausible and convenient pretext , and have therefore promoted it with all the a . rt and address of which they are capable . With such trials God is pleased to prove and purify his qhurqh , "
We may add that the festival at Rome in honour of the Sacred Heart , founded b y Pius VI ., withstood the shock of the French Revolution , and maintained its ground under Pius VU ., as we learn from a little book we have seen , published at Rome in 1809 , by the « Accademia della Religions CatQlica with approbation , " entitled * ' Devotions for the Festival and Novene ( i . e . nirie days' exposition of the Sacrament to adoration , preparatory Xq the more solemn festivals ) of the Sacred Heart / 1 Saint Heart has now , however , 1828 , followed the fate of Saint Handkerchief , Saint Girdle , &C ^ and is no , longer to tje found , in the Calendar .
If in opposing the worship of the St . Heart , our Reformer may seem to ha v ^ been only employed in lopping off a branch of ranker growth than usual in the great tree of Papal corruption , which happened to cross his way , he now aimed a blow at the root , by applying himself to reform the education , of the clergy . Amongst Ricci's own parish priests , ( not to speak of the monastic clergy , ) he mentions some who were not only unable to construe a plain page , of the historical parts of the Latin Bible , but who could
barely manage to sign their qwp names . Nor was gross ignorance the worst part of the e , vU , When sent to Rome for education , they returned either filled with preposterous notions of the universal empire claimed to itself by the Holy See , or imbued with the principles of a gross and brutal * izing Jltheisw * To this melancholy fact the published letters of Ricci's correspondents bear a , mple testimony . One of them , the Dean Ricci , of Qenoa , observes , " \ know of a College at Rome where
Athe-X&M , 19 taught iex yKQFESSo" ! Such are the genuine fruits of that corrupted form of Christianity which defaces the fairest provinces of Southern Europe ! Under the short but enlightened reign of Peter Leopold in Tuscany , men pf learning and genius were encouraged to draw up and lay before the Spve ^
rejgut their schemes for the public good , thus forming a splqndid exception to . the rework with which the ejpqpent Neapolitan Jurisconsult , Filaflgieri , opens his celebrated treatise qn legislation : * ' AH the . plans , estimates , aqcj Calculations hitherto presented to princes apd diflcqpaexl before them , have bad for th ^ ir design the solution of or * e problem , how to ^ est * oy thet gwatest number of tjie human race in the shortest tira&" $ Qienw defta Juegi ^ la-j
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450 Memoir of Scipio de Rictt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/18/
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