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The Life and Times of Cardinal Ximenez; Or, the Church in Spain in the Time of Ferdinand & Isabella

The Life and Times of Cardinal Ximenez; Or, the Church in Spain in the Time of Ferdinand & Isabella

Hefele, Karl Joseph Von

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ISBN10: 1458923908
ISBN13: 9781458923905
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.39 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. XIMENEZ IS NAMED CARDINAL, AND OUAND INQUISITOE OF CASTILE AND LEON. One of the first acts of Ferdinand, the new regent of Castile, was to procure the cardinal's hat for Ximenez. For a long period the Spanish episcopacy had heen honoured by having several cardinals in its ranks. The kings themselves generally solicited this dignity from the pope in favour of those amongst their subjects who had served the State more than the Church. It was during the time when Ferdinand was residing in Italy, that he proposed to the holy father to invest Ximenez with the purple, alleging most powerful reasons for wishing to honour him with this distinction; amongst which were the great services he had rendered to himself, to his deceased queen, and to the kingdom of Castile. Often had the Holy See been obliged to accede with regret to solicitations of this kind. But, in this case, Pope Julius II. and the Sacred College were exceedingly delighted to be able to accord such an honour to a man who was one of the most illustrious prelates of his time. Nay, so loudly and frequently did the cardinals express their joy at this new creation, that a great number of letters having been sent from Home by the resident Spaniards there, the news quickly spread through Spain. Gomez assures us that he himself found several of these documents in the archives of the church of Toledo. After all the negotiations and necessary formalities had been completed at Rome, on the 17th of May, 1507, the brief was published, which raised Ximenez to the dignity of a cardinal of the Roman Church. With the title of St. Balbinus, was also united the honourable appellation of Cardinal of Spain, which his immediate predecessor in the primatial see of Toledo had also borne, as well as Pedro Fri...

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