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A69462	Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.; De pietate Romana. English	Ameyden, Dirk, 1586-1656.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. Pietas Parisiensis.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3033; Wing W3450; ESTC R10919	86,950	204

those who forsaking Baal or turning from being Jews Saracens Musulmans or any other prophane Sects in the world fly to her for succour For these there is appointed a place at the foot of the Capitol and a Church there dedicated to St. John Baptist The house is very large and in it are received in several quarters such men and women who are come over happily to the Service of the true God They are first taught the sacred Principles and Mysteries of the Christian Faith then brought to be baptized and when baptized if they be young people and adult and can easily get their living they are dismissed If they be old persons they are retained if Children they are there educated till they be fit for labour and Girls if they come thither Infants with their Parents they are both maintained so long together till they want no Nurse for then they are led away to a Monastery of Female Catechumens near to Nerva his Forum where they are educated in all Piety and grown marriageable are either provided with Husbands or if they had rather live Nuns in the same Monastery under the Rule of St. Dominick Both these houses are under the government of a Sodality of grave men Citizens and Priests but the maintenance is supplyed by the Rectors of the Church of our Lady in Montibus of which in its place The Protector to both is the same Cardinal of great integrity and learning who alone by the Popes Bull is the competent Judge of the Catechumeni CHAP. IV. Of publick Sermons and Preaching of the Word of God in Rome ALtho in the Advent before the Nativity of Christ our Lord and in that antient time of fasting in the Church of God the Lent before his Resurrection from the Dead Sermons are most frequent the word of God being then preached every day in most Convents Collegiate and Patriarchal Churches at which times come abroad great and learned Orators most powerful in preaching yet for the rest of the year the Pulpits are not silent for on every Festival there are Sermons at the Augustines at the Dominicans Servites Carmelites Jesuites and other Mendicants in the Mornings after Mass and in the Afternoons after Vespers and the same is done likewise in many Colledges of Secular Priests which occasions a very great increase of spiritual improvements There is in Rome a congregation of pious men termed from their praying Oratorians whose Founder was Bishop Philip Neri now registred in the Catalogue of Saints by Pope Gregory the fifteenth To these Gregory the thirteenth assigned a little Church called St. Maries in Vallicella which being pulled down was built again into a larger and statelier Fabrick for the most part by the Caesii as we shall declare anon The Institute of this congregation is to meet every day at set hours to spend them in Prayer both vocal and mental where are present a very great number of Secular persons The time of Prayer being ended there is proposed by any one of the company some short point tending to the edification of their neighbour From thence one of the Congregation takes occasion to discourse by way of Sermon for half an hour that done another steps up and doth the like and after him another even to four so that every day at divers times you may have no less than four divine discourses or Sermons all much conducing to Christian perfection These are made in the Church But besides these there are others twice a week Mondaies and Fridaies made in the Oratory different from the former both in argument and design For first the Litanies are said next a Quire of Musick consisting of most sweet melody of voices and admirable harmony of musical instruments whereby Praises are sung to God then follows a Sermon whereby all that are present are invited to chastise themselves at which time the lights are removed and the company being onely men begin to chastise their bare backs some with Cords some with other kind of Whips in good earnest during which time the Psalm Miserere mei Deus is recited with a loud voice which being ended sign is given of ceasing and every one putting on his Doublet again returns to his place the lights are brought in and after most solemn Musick all are dismissed This custome of praying chastising preaching conferring and singing is used in many other confraternities and sodalities of Lay-men It is observed at St. John Baptist in Campo Martio near St. Silvesters on Mondaies Wednesdaies and Fridaies On Tuesdaies in the Congregation of Somasca at St. Blases in Mount Citerius On Thursday at the Clarks regular of St. Paul in Antoninus's Forum On Saturdaies at St. Maries de Plancta And on the same day and on the Sundaies at the Jesuites in the Oratory of the congregation of Noblemen where meet not only Lay-men of the chiefest Nobility but also the greatest Prelates of the Court even the most eminent Cardinals of the Roman Church And that the ordinary sort of Citizens who get their maintenance by their handicrafts may not be deprived of their portion in these Spiritual Reflections and Sermons there is preaching for them by the Fathers of the same Society on every Sunday and Holiday in the Roman Colledge at what time all other Lections cease Besides in the same Colledge there is a congregation of Scholars of the better sort that frequent that Colledge devoted to the blessed Virgins Annuntiation these being proposed as Examples to the rest And because besides these Gentlemen Merchants and Tradesmen there is a great multitude of common country people that flock to Rome from all the places round about adjoining upon all Holidays therefore the Jesuites have a fatherly care of them also and preach to them the word of God where they stand assembled in the publick Streets and Market places of the City thereby working upon them to free them from their natural rudeness and breed in them a deeper sence of piety and devotion Wherefore in those Sermons to the vulgar they use such fervour of Spirit and such incitements to repentance that you shall see great companies of them immediately after Sermon ended following the Preacher into some Church and there presently to confess their sins to a Priest ready for that purpose and with due preparation more than usually is found in such people to the great comfort of their Souls to come and receive the Holy Communion which is there delivered to them in great charity and commonly when they are to depart to every one is given some little present as a token of Christian Charity For a Close and as it were a Corolary to this Chapter we will crown it with the Institute of the Sodality of the Rosary of the blessed Virgin which to so great benefit of Souls was erected in the Church of St. Maries Supra Minervam The Brethren of this Sodality meet still upon the first Sunday of every month and having recited first the prayers of the

have time to deliberate whether they will make that profession in that other house or else continue here as long as they can live single Thirdly A house for old and decrepit Persons We have seen how the Roman charity hath made provision for all of all ages and degrees that need their help And it is not to be believed that it should fail them who fail through age Wherefore Pope Sixtus Quintus a munificent Prince hath built a very large Hospital and endowed it with a great yearly Revenue for old people and for the blind lame maimed or made impotent by any other natural defect so that they cannot labour Over this Hospital is set a Sodality of certain honest men who are to take care of all things and to judge of such as are fit to be received They admit alike men and women but in several apartments and maintain all in decent diet and cloathing as long as they live CHAP. VI. Of certain Alms of Bread Wine and Monies ordered to be given AT the foot of the Vatican near the Church of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles at the West end there stands a fair Church dedicated to the blessed Virgin and near it a large Church yard wherein none but Strangers and Pilgrims are buried Behind this Church is a large house wherein by the appointment of several Popes thirteen poor people are daily dined by two Priests that have that charge It is piously believed that this custome came down from St. Gregory the great that most holy Pope who usually entertaining twelve poor men every day had the honour once to treat for a thirteenth poor person our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ whence this number hath ever since been religiously observed to this day Besides this charity there is distributed by the Popes liberality Bread and Wine in great abundance unto two thousand poor people on every Friday in honour of our Lord's Passion The Convent of St. Anthony gives every day two loaves of bread a peice to as many poor people as come thither for it The Hospital of our holy Saviour near the Lateran Church bestows every day upon every one of the poor as much bread as will suffice each of them for a day The like is done by the Convent of St. Paul in Via Ostiensi The Hospital of the Holy Ghost gives bread and wine every evening to a great multitude of poor But because the forementioned Alms are not given but to such as come themselves to demand them and many because they live afar off or because they come of honest families reduced into povery are ashamed to go from door to door to ask an alms for these who are stiled the shame-fac'd poor an ingenious provision is made by the Sodality which we spake of above of the Holy twelve Apostles There is placed in that Church a little Desk under lock and key into which at a chink are thrust in the Petitions wherein the necessitous person expresseth his wants and sets down his place of habitation Thrice every week this Desk is opened by the officers the Petitions read and some of the Sodality dispatched away to find out the Supplicants and to releive them according to the quality of their indigency The like order is observed by that Sodality of Charity set up under Pope Leo the tenth in the Church of St. Hierome near to the Palace of Farnesi This Sodality there distributes every Saturday a great quantity of bread to to the poor and to those modest beggars what money the confraternity thinks fit by whose piety the largess hath been maintained and increased Besides all these munificences and charities the Pope monthly distributes to the Convents of Mendicants and to other shame fac'd poor great summs of monies under the name of common charity which are still encreased as the exigents of times require and are dispensed by the secret Almoner as they call him who hath no limits set him what to bestow The Pope is imitated by the sacred Senate or Colledge of Cardinals as in all other vertues so especiaily in their liberality to the poor To instance in every particular Cardinal would be besides my purpose and therefore I omit it It is found by an Extract out of his Book of accounts That this one Cardinal viz. Alexander Perettus Cardinal Montalto Nephew to Pope Sixtus the fifth by his Sister did bestow upon the poor a million and seven hundred thousand gold Crowns besides the Alms that he distributed to single persons with his own hands and great gifts conferred upon his freinds CHAP. VII Of the Mount of Piety and Pawns THere is nothing more for the benefit of poor people than when their necessity requires it to lend them money upon their pawns without exacting any use for it In the time of Pope Paul the third there was a place appointed for the receiving of the pawns of poor people and they called it the Mount of Piety and of Pawns It grew much in request by the liberalities and priviledges indulged unto it by the same Paul and other Popes of Rome even unto this day Here are received the pawns of all poor and indigent people whatsoever and no or at least no considerable use paid for the money given out upon them The time alotted for redemption is eighteen months if the pawns are not redeemed in that time they are sold at an outcry and the summe registred for how much it it exceed the money given out upon them the overplus is restored to the owners whensoever they shall call for it neither is their calling for it limited to any time There are great store of Officers that belong to this place all which have their monthly Salaries paid to them for their labour out of the Treasury of the house It is governed by very able and sufficient men both Roman Citizens and Courtiers that make up a Sodality Who take exact accounts of all the incomes that no fraud be used by any inferiour officer The work is indeed a peice of very great Charity and extreamly beneficial to the meaner sort of people for all such flock thither not onely of the City but of the Villages Farms and Towns all round about to whom it is very gainful to take up monies upon their pawns before harvest and then having done their harvest and made money thereof to redeem them again CHAP. VIII Of visiting the Prisons and releiving poor Prisoners SInce in a great confluence of people of divers Nations some outrages will still happen for repressing of them there are in Rome many publick Prisons and Judges appointed to give sentence of punishment upon the guilty The Judges are the Pope's Vicar the Chamberlain the Governor of the City the Auditor of the Chamber the Senator of the people and many others And whereas Judges exercise judgment many times not in their own persons but by Deputies it happens sometimes that the prisoners are deferred and so lye longer in fetters than

not able of himself to discharge that peice of Charity The Third PART Containing the General Devotion towards GOD. CHAP. I. Of the publick Devotion of the Pope and Cardinals and People of Rome in observing Holy Festivals and Visiting Churches FIrst on all the chief Feasts of the year the Pope is publickly present together with the Cardinals at Morning and Evening Prayer and in the greater Solemnities himself sings Mass At which Masses there is always a Sermon in Latine unfolding the Gospel appointed by the Church for that day In Advent upon every Wednesday and in Lent upon every Friday there Preaches before the Pope and Cardinals some Religious Person learned and eloquent who with great Power and Christian liberty reprehends the vices of the greatest Prelates if any such are found faulty On the day of our Lord's Supper that is Maundy-Thursday the Pope with his own hands following the example of our Saviour doth publickly wash the feet of twelve poor men and after wipe them with a Towel and then giving them a dinner in which he himself serves at the Table suffers them not to depart till they have received every one a Garment and a summe of Money On the Feast of Corpus Christi the Pope with great Devotion carrieth in Procession the Blessed Sacrament about a great part of the Borgo On Ash-Wednesday he introduceth the Solemnity of Stations at St. Sabinas in his own person And in all these Solemnities the Cardinals do perpetually accompany him On the Feast of the Resurrection and Nativity of our Lord both the Pope and the Cardinals administer with their own hands the Blessed Body of our Lord to all of the Court rightly prepared The Pope also and Cardinals do often visit as their employments permit divers Churches of the City Here also we must not forget that great order of extraordinary Piety which Pope Clement the eighth instituted and transmitted to his Successors For that a holy Guard of men devoutly praying might never cease no not for the least moment of time in this City of Rome He ordained that Prayers for forty hours continuance should be still observed in a successive order throughout all the Churches of the City This takes its beginning for the first forty hours in the Popes own Chappel then passeth into St. Peter's next into St. John Lateran's and so in order into all the Collegiate Churches of the City The order and manner of these Prayers is thus The Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist beset with great company of Torches and Tapers is publickly exposed over the Altar immediately one of that College kneels before that Altar most intent to his Prayer for the space of an hour and that hour ended another succeeds him doing the like and then another him People of all sorts and condition during the same time night and day coming in by turns and making their particular private Prayers there until full forty hours are run out these finished the devotion is transferred to another College for the same time and afterwards to another until it returns as at first to the Popes Chappel again This Solemnity of the forty hours Devotion is celebrated in the most decent sacred and silent manner as is possible The Popes of Rome have also this custome for the averting of Wars between Christian Princes and upon other grand occasions to institute solemn Supplications Litanies and Processions wherein themselves are assistant going on foot a great part of the Town as from their own Palace unto St. Mary Major or some other Church of the City The whole Body of the Clergy preceding and singing the Litanies with an exceeding great Devotion The Piety also of the people of Rome as eminently appears in observing Festival days to the honour of God and also his Martyrs and Saints in which Rome far exceeds all other places There is scarce any one in the number of all the Saints that hath not some Church or Chappel dedicated to his name in this City And upon the Anniversary Feast it is adorned with handsome furniture and visited in great devotion by an infinite multitude of people especially by the chief and noble persons men and women and liberally supplyed with gifts and presents During the time of Lent-Fast there are always observed in some Church or other by the faithful people certain holy Stations out of antient Tradition which Stations are held in great veneration and celebrated by a great concourse of all sorts of People in a solemn manner And tho the Worship of God be still continued in all times yet the Solemnity of visiting the Churches is so great in the year of Jubile and so numerous the devout people that perform it as will hardly find belief I my self saith the Author lately saw in the beginning of this year of Jubile 1625. more than once above forty thousand persons upon one day devoutly going from Church to Church in very great fervour of Spirit and in comely order not one discomposed not one but what appeared with that modesty which becomes a Christian There are heard no prophane pratlings among them no wanton glances cast to and fro but every one having God present in his mind and his eyes fixed on the ground he walks upon either recites his Rosary or directs either mental or vocal Prayers with great affection to Almighty God That which I most wondered at in this matter was That all that great multitude consisted of the people of Rome for in that beginning of the year Strangers were not yet come thither They as it were endeavouring to give good example and to be Leaders to all others in the paths of Piety CHAP. II. Of the Patriarchal Collegiate and Parish Churches in Rome There are three chief and Patriarchal Churches in this City The first whereof is St. John's in Lateran the Episcopal See of Rome altho by reason of the unwholsomness of the air thereabouts and for greater security to the Popes their habitation hath now for many years since been translated from thence to St. Peter's in the Vatican where the Palace is grown as big as a little City This Church hath for its Founder Constantine the Great tho by its age falling into decay it hath been often repaired by several Popes The second Patriarchal Church is that of St. Peter's in the Vatican This also originally was built by Constantine the Great but since levelled with the ground and another in its place built far more magnificent The third Patriarchal Church is that of St. Maries ad Presaepe which is also called ad Nives because by a miracle of Snow falling there in August it was built in that place by John Patricius by intimation of Pope Liberius In all these three Churches there is dayly celebrated the Holy office of the Mass and the Canonical hours sung upon Festivals with Musick and the Organs to the praise and honour of Almighty God the Bestower of all good things There are also in this City twelve