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he br each ,. trusting that others animated b y his example , would press forward and secure the victory . ; Resuming his iorrner reproofs of the reigning errors and superstitiqn , he was a second time denounced to the Holy Office , which condemned him to wear a sanbenito , and to be imprisoned for life . When conducted , along * with other penitents , to the church of St . Salvador .
in Seville , to , attend public service on festival days , instead of exhibiting * the marks of sorrow exacted from persons in his situation , he scrupled not to address the audience after sermon , and to warn them against the erroneous doctrine which they had heard from the preacher , whenever he thought it contrary to the word of God . This of itself would have been reckoned sufficient cause for adjudging him to the flames ; but the reasons already mentioned had influence to save him from that fate . To rid themselves in the
most quiet way of so troublesome a penitent , the inquisitors came to the resolution of confining" him in a monastery belonging to the town of San Lucar , pear the mouth of the Guadalquiver , where , secluded from all society , he died about the age of fifty .. His sanbenito , which was hung up in the metropolitan church of Seville , long attracted curiosity by its extraordinary size , and the inscription which it bore , —* Rodrigo Valer , a citizen of Lebrixa and Seville , an apostate , and false apostle who pretended to be sent of God . "—Pp .
145—151 . Next follows Egiclius , Bishop of Tortosa , who , after all , however , attains to little more than the honour of being " violently suspected . " We will quote Dr . M'Crie ' s remarks on the eager zeal which was manifested by the clergy to perform the duties which Egiclius , by his condemnation , ceased to supply . " No sooner was it known that Egidius was condemned , than a flight of hungry applicants gathered round the fat benefice of Tortosa , like crows round carrion . The holy fathers assembled at Trent were not so intently occupied
in watching over the interests of the Catholic Church as not to have one eye turned to Spain , and ready to discern what might happen there to their advantage . While the trial of the bishop elect was in dependence , Cardinal Granville , then Bishop of Arras and Prime Minister of Spain , had his table covered with applications , in which the incense of adulation was thickly sprinkled on rancid avarice . In a letter , dated from Trent on the 19 th of November , 1551 , the titular Bishop Jubin , in partibus Infidelium , writes : ' We have received intelligence here , that the bishop elect of Tortosa has been
condemned to perpetual imprisonment . I shall be infinitely obliged to you to think of me—the least of your servants—provided his lordship of Elna shall be translated to the bishopric of Tortosa , now vacant by this means . ' Oa the preceding day , the bishop of Elna had addressed a letter to the same quarter , in which , without giving the least hint of the object he had in view , he begs the premier to command him ' as the meanest domestic of his household , ' calls himself ' his slave / and assures him that the rare qualities of his eminence , his native goodness , and the favours he had conferred , were so deeply seated in the heart of his servant , that he remembered him without
ceasing * , especially ' in his poor sacrifices , the fittest time to make mention of one ' s masters . ' Two days after , the modest bishop has acquired as much courage as to name his request : he acknowledges that the bishopric of Tortosa was * too weighty a burden for his weak shoulders , ' but urges that he could discharge his episcopal functions better in such a tranquil spot than in the frontier province of Roussiilon , where his pious exercises were interrupted b y the noise of warlike instruments , and that he ' felt a strong desire to end his days in tending his infirm sheep in the peace of God . ' The bishop of Algeri was equally disinterested as his brethren in seeking promotion . ' It was not avarice that induced him to ask the favour' to be translated from the
island of Sardinia ; he onl y wished to * hav © his residence on terra Jirma , ' that his spirit being relieved from the continual agitation in which it was kept by the restless wares which surrounded him , he might be * at more liberty to
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J'J 2 ftefitprmatioh in Spain .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/40/
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