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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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