Inquisition, c. 1564 (Limborch; Chandler, tr., The History of the Inquisition, 1731)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: a historic event (c. AD 1564)
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37... speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church.

[...] John Stock, Notary of the Apostolick Rota, relates, in a Letter written at Rome, October 8, 1564. to J. Hensberg, a Divine of Cologn, a remarkable Instance of this. These Wretches of ours are not so holy as they appear. They walk in the Likeness of Sheep, but within are ravening Wolves, and their pretended Sanctity is a double Iniquity. They are under the Influence of a strong Ambition. The Venetians ordered one of them to be burnt alive, by Command of the Pope. He had been Father Confessor to some Nuns in the Dominions of Venice, and had got twelve of them with Child, amongst whom the Abbess and two others had Children in one Year. As he was confessing them, he agreed with them about the Place, Manner, and Time of lying with them. All were filled with Admiration and Astonishment, taking the Man for a perfect Saint, he had so great a Shew of Sanctity in his very Face.
Limborch, Philip; Samuel Chandler, tr., The History of the Inquisition, 2 vols., London: J. Gray, 1731, vol. 2, p. 81.


Online Source: https://archive.org/details/theinquisition00limb; https://books.google.ca/books?id=NhdcAAAAcAAJ



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