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A85757	The history of the sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland with the reasons of her late conversion to the Roman Catholique religion. As also a relation of the severall entertainments given her by divers princes in her journey to Rome, with her magnificent reception into that city.; Historia della sacra real maestà di Christina Alessandra, regina di Svetia. English	Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo, Conte, 1606-1678.; Burbury, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing G2171; Thomason E1851_1; ESTC R23369	167,308	510

a madness to depart from their common consent and adhere unto those who without the reputation of goodness and vertue have for their own passion and private advantage endeavoured to darken the world to confound it and vizard it with many chimeras and malignities To these her reflections the wise Queen added diverse other weighty considerations and amongst them this seem'd to have force that by the continu'd succession of Popes and uniformity in Rights and Doctrine the Church of Rome though tost by fierce tempests invaded by her enemies armes and molested with contrary Doctrines had allwaies like the Palmtree grown higher and been still more resplendent and glorious Her Majestie observed that the very same Nations and particularly the Septentrional which now do live out of the lap of the Roman Church have more than any others for many ages past had the Catholique faith in veneration and produc'd many men who with their holy lives have enobled the world and with their souls beautify'd Heaven That the writings esteem'd the most learned the famousest actions the conspicuousest vertues and most refin'd wits have been the perseveres in the Catholique faith insomuch that as examples more forcibly perswade us than precepts it seem'd to her impossible so many good men so intelligent and so learned should have been blind to follow so tenaciously and so long the opinions and doctrines which hereticall Ministers represent to the simple and Ideot for falsities and errours Besides she consider'd the very same Protestants confess'd the Spaniards the French and Italians were of a more elevated spirit and more compos'd mind of more profound Knowledge and a civiller and soberer behaviour than all other people of the world and that amongst these of the Northern Inhabitants themselves he was most valued that was best acquainted with the customs and dictates of the Nations aforesaid insomuch that though Arius had in Spain spread the poyson of his heresie and France had both open'd her bosom and arms to the errours of the neighbouring Countries yet those great Kings and most of the Nobility without ever changing their opinions among so many accidents had continu'd in the obedience of the Catholique Church and the Vicar of Christ which afforded a strong argument for the goodness and truth of his faith Her Majesty received an additional force in her mind that the Authors of heresies could never yet shew when how or why the Catholique Church did prevaricate in her faith nor where and in whom perpetuated and conserv'd it being very necessary the true Church should alwaies have endur'd in some part But the consideration of the qualities of the Authors of heresies made a very strong breach in this Princesses heart her Majestie being now well inform'd that interest alone and the pleasures of the flesh not the benefit of the publique nor integrity of the mind were the Councellours and Promoters of these novelties She examin'd Martin Luthers condition● and the other opposers of the Catholique Church and found they were men of an ill life sensual and extreamly ambitious whereupon like seditious persons who in a State-Government do cloak their pretences with the zeal of the publique good and the service of the Prince against whom they fight they never had other design than the ruine of the State and Monarchy of the Church in revenge of the wrong they pretended to receive in their minds in that the Popes of Rome comply'd not with their boundless desires so as she foresaw in the end that when Luther began to impugne the value of indulgences by depressing the authority of the Pope he did it out of envy and anger that the care of delivering them in Sermons was committed to others and not to himself as he had desir'd That when Purgatory was condemned by him he being unwilling to admit any pain did remain to the souls which dy'd in the state of grace 't was meerly his invention either to discredit more the said indulgences or let loose the reins to sensuality since the contumacy is the greater when the punishment is represented the less That when he deny'd fastings Pennance Confession the single life of Priests the intercession of Saints the Mass the Ornaments and Images of the Church and the like it onely proceeded from his inward design to make the people follow him who are apt to believe what allureth the senses and furthers the appetite of nature as likewise his principall motives for promoting his wickedness had their rise from his unplacable hatred of the Pope as one that condemned his errours To this pious Queen the resolution of Henry the eigth King of England seem'd too sacrilegious and wicked who withdrew from the obedience of the holy Church a Catholique and well compos'd Kingdom and onely for the pleasing of his humours and abandoning and debasing himself in the loves of Anne Bullen She dislik'd the unworthy actions of those Princes of Germany who spoiling the Churches had seized the revenues of so many Orders of Religious who in honour of our Saviour and the Heavenly Court had employ'd them in sacred Temples to glorifie and exalt him But more than all the rest she came to the Knowlege of the truth by considering how unseemly it was to believe the Holy Ghost would use such men that were vitious and unworthy for reforming of his Church while there were so many others renown'd for their Doctrine and sanctity With these speculations and the guide of the holy Fathers exactly perpended by her she saw a great light before her eyes whereupon as in the way long chosen by her she discover'd great stumblings and disturbances so among these new lights she walking in the best and readiest paths began to examine particularly the substance and foundation of the truest religion With great rewards she invited to her the famousest men in the Lutheran profession and under the colour of learning what they knew extracted with admirable dexterity the sum of their belief and understanding Truth the only Catholique and Roman religion among the black darkness of so many opinions and contrary doctrines began to shew her cleanness and beget in her mind a great loathing of the manifest falsities and immoderate absurdities which usually by the malice of hereticall Ministers with great industry are instill'd into the minds of unwary and simple people In the mean time Don Joseph Pinto Parera the Portugall Ambassadour arrived in Swedland making his entrance into Stockholm about the end of July with whom as his confessour was Father Anthony Macedo a Portugess together with his Companion Father John Ardrada both Jesuits The Queen inform'd of all was glad of that encounter by her so desir'd insomuch as concealing in her mind a resolute inclination to the Catholique faith she began in her discourses and treaties to shew some esteem and affection to Father Macedo He on the contrary side observing the Queen when she spake of the Pope to shew much

well within as without the Kingdom hath sufficiently made known the vivacity of his Spirit the readiness of his wit and constant fidelity He is of a most affable behaviour a vigorous judgement great foresight and rare capacity in every affair His wit is refined with experience his mind very sprightly and his thoughts aime only at glory and an excellent report He is full of solidity in his discourses of wariness and dexterity in affairs and sincerity and sweetness in his carriage being especially a friend unto vertue with which he deservedly attracts to himself the encomiums and praises of every one that know him Besides the said Comedy he presented her Majesty with a stately collation of most excellent sweet-meats and in extraordinary abundance and gave her a fine Ball danc'd after the French fashion by some nimble and agile Savoyards with which the Queen was very highly satisfied On the first day of Lent her Majesty went to the house of the Prince of St. Gregory to behold the sollemne Cavalcata with which the Pope accompanyed by the sacred Colledge and the rest of the Court went from the Vatican to Aventino to visit there St. Sabina the Church of the Dominicans This Convent is famous for severall memorialls of the residence there of the glorious St. Dominick After dinner she went likewise to that station where the Father Generall received and attended her as likewise the chief Fathers of that order which met there that day On the second of March her Majesty went to the Church of Madonna della Scala the discalceate Carinelites an order she loved well At the Gate of the Church the was received by Father Joachim di Giesu Maria the Generall accompanyed by the most eminent Friars of that order While she prayed before the most holy Sacrament a very fine Motetto was sung Thence passing into the Convent she went into the Oratory which she found richly hung and adorned with Pictures Mottos and Emblems Here she heard Mass at which the devotion of her mind was augmented with exquisite Musick She then honoured a pretious relique of a foot of St. Teresia the foundress of that order and heard a Latin oration recited by one of those Fathers The day after which was the first Friday in March she visited St. Peters as she did all the Fridayes of the moneth aforesaid for the gaining the treasures of that famous indulgence She was pleased afterwards to visit the Colledge of the English where the good and generous zeale of Pope Gregory the thirteenth erected under the instruction of the Jesuits a place of refuge for the English youth who retaining the true seeds of the Catholick Religion should recurre to this City the common Country of all to be the better setled in their Faith with the Sciences and Piety they learn there This Colledge had desired ever since her arrivall in Rome to testifie to her their dutifull respects and Father Edward Courtney the Rector employed soone his parts in composing a book in which are contained the Elogies of above fifty Saint the Queens or daughters of the Kings of England he adding to each Elogie some verses very handsomly applyed to this Princesses rare qualities She came thither accompanyed by divers Princes and Cavaliers and particularly by my Lord Torregg●ani who had invited thither her Majesty she going into the Church dedicated to the glorious English Martyr St. Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury found it finely adorned and abounding with the Pictures of Saints the Kings of England lent them by my Lord Somerset Chamberlain of Honour to the Pope and a Gentleman nobly borne who was likewise there Her Majesties prayers were accompanyed with most admirable musick and a harmony of Viols in which the English excell She sitting down afterwards under a state had recited to her a short Latin oration with some verses by two of those young Scholars they presenting to her the said book of printed Elogies which her Majesty most courteously accepted On the day of St. Thomas of Aquin the solemne Feast of the order of St. Dominick her Majesty went to the Church of Minerva of the Fathers aforesaid one of the chiefest of Rome as well for the service of the Church as the sacred Congregation of the Cardinalls held in that Convent every Wednesday in the morning of the holy office of the greatest importance in Rome The rooms where they hold the said Congregation were seen by the Queen as likewise all the Convent her Majesty remaining highly pleased with the magnificence both of the one and the other She was received and attended by the Father Generall and Father Raymund Capisucchi Master of the Sacred Palace and one of the examiners of the Bishops a Prelate of much vertue and rare parts which are the more remarkable by the ancient Family of the Capisucchi which as appears by authentick writings and is gathered from the very same arms is a branch sprowted out of the most noble stock of the Counts of Tunn in Germany the head of which now is the Prince Arch-Bishop of Saltzbourgh a Gentleman of most eminent qualities Her Majesty had likewise some thoughts of seeing the curious study of the Knight of St. Stephen Sir Francis Gualdo of Rimini a Gentleman well deserving of the learnedest of the ancients which he gave to his most Christian Majesty but the ill weather and the greater affairs of this Princess have not yet permitted her to behold it I therefore forbear to speak of the said study till a fitter opportunity be presented me The Queen then continuing her vertuous entertainments at the beginning of Lent introduced the spirituall exercise of a devout oratory in her Palace every Wednesday which was ordered by the Prince of Gallicano They began the second Wednesday in March and the history of Daniell was recited in musick a composition well becoming the said Prince In the second Oratory Father Rho the famous Preacher made a Sermon in the third Father Spinola in the fourth Father Nicholas Zucchi all Jesuits in the fifth Father Spinelli a Celestine and in the sixth Father Don Carlo di Palma a Theatine all Persons of great learning and worth But behold us at the end of these our relations The sincerity of my Penne which cannot deliver truly to Posterity the glorious name of Christina great without the true Characters of a perpetuall Panegirique concludes that as 't is doubtless this great Princess deserves for a thousand respects the greatest obsequiousness and complyance in order to her eminent qualities and parts so 't is to be hoped the fortunate Climate of Rome the Epilogue of Celestiall and humane felicities will deserve the good fortune to enjoy and serve her long 'T is certain as this Queen with the incomparable endowments of her mind and the franke resolutions of her heart like the Sun among the Starrs may justly pretend to be singular in the World so Rome the sacred the great and majestick Phoenix among the Metropolitan Cities