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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

others who built also close by it a Church dedicated to the most Holy Trinity And near about the same time a certain English Merchant built a Church to the honour of St. Edmond King of that Nation Whose Feast is kept the twentieth of November and adjoined to it a little Hospital for English Mariners in the Region beyond Tyber near St. Chrysogonus In both these places was Hospitality practised till the defection of that Nation After which English-men coming very seldome to Rome Gregory the thirteenth being Pope added to that house of Entertaintment a Colledge for that Nation and adjoined moreover the foresaid Hospital for Mariners but not yet taking away the former custome of Entertainment The Scots had in Rome their house of Entertainment in Campo Martio and near it a Chappel dedicated to St. Andrew the Patron of that Kingdome but when it fell off from the Church there was none left either to exercise or to receive Hospitality Some years after Alexander Seaton a Nobleman of Scotland yeilded up in the name of his Nation that House and Chappel to the Sodality of Corpus Christi of the Parochial Church of St. Andrew near adjoining upon this condition That the Sodality should be obliged to receive and entertain poor Strangers of the Scottish Nation which it willingly undertook and bound it self by publick Instruments drawn to that purpose and is ready to perform the promise when any one come to receive the benefit An house of reception was assigned for the Indians near St. Stephen's Church in the Vatican by Pope Clement the seventh What is necessary for their entertainment being supplyed to that house out of the Apostolical Palace it self it being thought a very unworthy thing that any kindness should be wanting to a Nation that came to Rome for Devotion sake from a Country so exceeding far off And by reason of that great distance there is no time prescribed them for to stay but if they will always abide here they shall be always maintained where they are with all diligence taught the Catholick Faith that if they return again to their freinds they may discover to them too how they are deceived Much what in the same manner are the Armenians treated who after three days Entertainment are asked for their Testimonials which being produced if they are found to be of the Grecian Schisme they are advised to forsake their Error and are taught the Latine Rites and Religion that if they should return again to their freinds they may profess and defend it There is also near to the Porta Pia founded by Pope Pius the fourth an house for the reception and entertainment of Hermits Most of these houses of Charity formentioned have a Church also adjoining to them and divine offices administred there by a certain number of Priests The care of the Hospital and Church is undertaken by a congregation of Lay persons of the chief of the said Nations electing others when any dies The Hospitality used and shewed to men and women apart for avoiding scandal The time of their entertainment is ordinarily for three or four days but some for a longer time namely for a month or more CHAP. XII Of the Roman Charity for Burial of such Dead as dy extream poor or are executed by the hand of Justice IT is not to be imagined that Rome the great advancer of Piety while she releives Living by so many inventions like a careful Mother should leave the Dead without all obsequies The Sodality of Piety did first take care to bury in holy ground such dead bodies as they found throughout the streets and passages of Rome or could recover when drowned in Tyber But because as we have seen they came to be wholly imployed in other works of Charity There was erected another Sodality of good people who were wholly to intend their office and no other and for such poor as dying left not wherewith they might be decently and christianly buried they were to take care to have such bodies carried to their graves with all just rites with a convenient number of torches and Priests and brethren of the Sodality accompanying them even when they were to be brought from any of the Suburbs or farthest part of the liberty of the City or out of the fields and Country not a little way distant neither could the Winter rains nor the Summer heats any way retard them in so holy a custome so that there was still found in this City more than one good Tobias Add we unto this peice of Charity another of the Florentines or rather of the whole people of Tuscany which is a work admirable for its extraordinary benignity towards such as are condemned to dye This Sodality the day before that execution is to be done upon the condemned person sends some of their number such as are most fit for that important work and very often those of the prime Gentleman to the prison wherein the person to be executed is kept who receives not the sentence for execution till these be present He after this sad sentence given commonly falls down before them on the gournd immediately howling and beating himself almost distracted and miserable wretch as it were tortured with the thoughts of his punishment denies the fact beseeches the Judge and knowing not what to do or say like a foolish man imputes the justice he hath deserved either to some fate of the Stars or blasphemously chargeth God with what his sins have brought on him The Brethren of the Sodality begin with gentle words to perswade the miserable Creature yea they take him up lovingly in their arms and embracing him exhort him to patience according to the condition of the party and with many arguments drawn out of the principles of Christian Religion As that God himself for his sake became man and endured all the miseries of humane nature and tho he had committed no offence yet refused not to suffer death upon the Cross That he was guilty of many and indeed very greivous crimes such as often deserved death before God and therefore that he came now to bear the punishment due to so many heinous offences and so they go on suggesting these and such other things whereby desperate and exulcerated minds are brought to a sounder temper till at last he come to confess his faults and being truly contrite be reconciled to God All that whole time both of the day and night is spent in divine exhortations and discourses till the hour of execution come which when it begins to draw near Mass is said and the person to be put to death receives the Communion wherewith being fortified he is presently led forth towards the place of execution the Sodality going by two and two before the man that is to dye being all covered over head and all down to the very feet with black vestments or frocks of Buckram and carrying a black Cross continue reciting Prayers Those two that spent the night before with him

therefore others adjoining are always hired for the year of Jubile And as this and the other expences put them much in debt then so are they freed from that debt again in the other years wherein the layings out are not so excessive The year of Jubile 1600. being ended and an account taken of the number of Strangers here in the compass of that year entertained and booked they were found to be of men four hundred forty four thousand five hundred and of women twenty five thousand five hundred The order used in the practice of this charity is admirable As soon as the Strangers are arrived they all have the first night their feet washed and are refreshed the women apart by themselves from the men After thus washing in the Holy year a Sermon is made to them and then they are conducted to the table their meat being served-up as also their feet washed this first night usually by honourable persons The Supper ended they are conducted to Bed so without all noise that it may seem a kind of miracle that so many men of several nations accord so quietly together The time of their entertainment here is but for three days tho it be extended further to those who come from far To this pious work because the Revenues of the house are not able to bear so great a charge many and large charitable contributions are supplyed by others This is certain and to be admired that by the providence of God there was never yet wanting to furnish the table in a handsome manner For such Strangers as are Priests tho the diet allowed them be the same with the rest yet in reverence to their order they have a proper house apart destined to that use About the year of our Lord 1460. by the confraternity of St. Lucy between the Capitol and Marcellus's Baths and because it hath not a Church commodiously adjoining there is hired by the Sodality till they can build one of their own another large house wherein all the poor Priest may be entertained for a whole months space or longer if need be And this house that it may be publickly known wears this title in the front Hospitium Pauperum Sacerdotum Peregrinorum An House of Entertainment for such poor Priests as are Pilgrims or Strangers Like to this house there is another of later times erected by Don John Baptista Vives a Spaniard who buying a fair Palace standing at the foot of Collis Hortulorum in Rome designed it for such Strangers Priests such as are of those nations who have no particular Colledge of their own in that City and for the propagation of the Faith as the following Inscription on its Frontispeice declares added in Pope Vrban the Eight's Pontificate Collegium De Propagan in univer Mundum Per Sacerdotes Seculares Catholicâ fide Urbani VIII Anno primo And altho this Founder dwells himself still in this Palace yet was he no hindrance to the Priests living there but conversed with them and was often on his occasions permitted present at their consultations of which the chief scope is to propose advises ways and helps by which the Christian Catholick Religion may best be propagated over all the world Some of these Priests make no scruple voluntarily to offer themselves to be sent even into the Countries of Hereticks or Infidels either by preaching and good example of life to recover them from their errors or even by effusion of their own blood to assert the Catholick verity CHAP. XI Of National Hospitals for Entertainment of Strangers according to the Nation they are of BEsides the general places of receit for strangers forementioned many Nations because of the general confluence of them to Rome have here erected houses for the Reception of of their own Countrymen The first of these in honour to be named is that of the Germans dedicated to the Blessed Virgin under the title de Animâ or of the Soul It had its beginning An. Dom. 1350. upon occasion of the Jubilee by some of their own nation who having no Issue of their own gave up their houses for the Entertainment of such Strangers subject to the Empire as came to Rome and built them a Church tho not very large in honour of the Blessed Virgin on this condition That therein Prayers should be made to God by such Strangers as were there to be entertained for the Founders Souls and thence it had its name of St. Mary of the Soul By the munificence and charity of later times this house of entertainment hath been much enlarged a fairer add more capacious Church built and the Revenue thereof much increased Over it is set a congregation of twelve or fourteen men of the same Nation by whose prudence and authority it is menaged and laid out in pious uses especially in Hospitality to poor German Pilgrims at what time soever they come For to such there is provided for many days convenient dyet and lodging When they depart the town a peice of money do correspondent to the quality of the person is bestowed on them for their voyage The women have a house apart where are constantly maintained in a decent manner such as have been the Daughters and Wives of Germans To the Church for divine offices celebrated after a collegiate manner belong fourteen Priests a Sacrist an Organist four Acolytes Out of these Priests who are stiled the Chaplains is chosen one to have a care of the Pilgrims and to order them and therefore is named their father And whereas by a late Rule solemn High Mass is to be said early in the Morning he is not to dismiss them until they have heard it There is an house of Hospitality also for the French dedicated to St. Lewis with a fair Church adjoining It is governed by a Congregation of thirty persons twelve Frenchmen six Lorainers six Savoyards and six Britons and when any one of them dieth the congregation chooseth another in his room All things belonging to the Church are administred by twenty six Priests to whom Cardinal Contarello added eight Singers and an Organist that on Festivals sing the Service That Hospitality is ordered by three of the said Priests whereof one is always the Entertainer and the other two his Assistants by turns All Strangers of the French Nation that come are received here for three days and then are dismissed with some gratuity given them as a pious and charitable Token Such houses of Hospitality and publick entertainment are here provided for most other Nations namely such distinct houses for the Spaniards for the Fortugueses the Lombards Geroneses Low-Courtrica Bohemians Polonians Hungerians Illyrians Swedes Goths and Vandals for the Britons in France for the English the Scots the Indians and Armenians The House for the English was begun An. Dom. 1398. by John Shepard an English-man and then Inhabitant of Rome upon a sad accident happening upon an English woman straying up and down the City by night augmented afterwards by

and Wine and Manies ordered to be given CHAP. VII Of the Mount of Piety and Pawns CHAP. VIII Of visiting the Prisons and relieving poor Prisoners CHAP. IX Of the plentiful provision of Dowries for poor Maids CHAP. X. Concerning publick places appointed for the reception and entertainment of Pilgrims and Strangers of all Nations CHAP. XI Of National Hospitals for entertainment of Strangers according to the Nation they are of CHAP. XII Of the Roman Charity for Burial of such Dead as dye extream poor or are executed by the hand of Justice The SECOND PART Of Spiritual Works of CHARITY CHAP. I. Of initiating Children in the first Rudiments of Learning and Holy Mysteries of Christian Religion CHAP. II. Of the greater Schools and Publick Roman College and the Vniversity call'd the Sapientia CHAP. III. Of certain private Colleges in the City of Rome I. Of the Roman Seminary II. Of Colleges built in Rome for particular Nations 1. Of the German College 2. Of the English College 3. The Greek College 4. The Maronites College 5. The College for Neophites 6. The Scots College 7. The Clementine College for the Illyrians 8. Of two particular Colleges founded by two Cardinals in their own Palaces 9. Of the College for Orphans 10. Of the College Matthaei or St. Hierom's College 11. Pallotta's College 12. Cardinal Gymnasius's College 13. Of several Religious Houses having Readers and Professors after the manner of Colleges 14. St. Bonaventure's College of Minor Conventuals 15. Of the College for Catechumeni CHAP. IV. Of publick Sermons and preaching the Word of God in Rome CHAP. V. Concerning certain Religions Com-promisers of Strifes Deciders of Law-Cases and just Defenders of right Pleas. CHAP. VI. Of visiting sick and weak persons and the Administring of Spiritual Refection to the devout while they are dying CHAP. VII Touching the Indefatigable Administration of the Sacraments Penance and the Eucharist CHAP. VIII Of publick and common Suffrages for the Dead The THIRD PART Concerning 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 CHAP. II. Of the Patriarchal Collegiate and Parish Churches in Rome CHAP. III. Of the many Monasteries in Rome of Religious Men and Women reciting the Canonical hours and offering up other Hymns and Lauds to God night and day and the Priests at due times celebrating the Holy Mass CHAP. IV. Of the Lay-Sodalities and Confraternities in Rome and of their Oratories CHAP. V. Of the Congregations of Cardinals consulting about Ecclesiastical Affairs and matters of Religion A Faithful Relation of several sorts of Charitable and Pious Works eminent in the City of ROME THE FIRST PART Of Corporal Works of CHARITY CHAP. I. Of Hospitals for the Sick and Infirm And first of those common for all sick Persons Such are 1. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit THere is not far from the Vatican near the banks of Tyber the most famous Hospital for Sick Persons that is in all the world It contains within its circuit so many great Palaces and Courts and so many more ordinary houses that it seems to be rather a whole town than one house The first Author of this great Work was Innocent the third as appears by many Inscriptions upon the Hospital it self This Innocent left behind him in Rome two remarkable Monuments of his charity towards necessitous persons The one was an Hospital for Slaves who being redeemed out of the hands of Infidels have not wherewith to subsist of which elsewhere The other in this place where Pope Leo 4. Anno 851. having finished that part of the City called after his name Borgo Leonino built therein a Church dedicated to the perpetual Virgin St. Mary And Anno 1204. This Innocent the third adjoyned thereunto another Hospital this which we are now treating of And as he put the first Hospital under the care of a certain religious order then newly instituted by him so did he this under another Order likewise approved by him whose Title is that of the Holy Spirit yet without changing the Title of the Churches dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin in Sassia And this Hospital because built at the sole charge and cost of the See Apostolick is immediately under it onely and exempted from all kind of Impositions and Grievances Now tho in the Bull of Innocent exposed Infants which are here generally received and maintained are not particularly mentioned yet it seems such also were meant by the clause added and other objects of Pity Which clause was also in the Bull of Nich. 4. Anno 1291. And at last was so declared by the Bull of Sixtus the fourth An. 1476. And because none should imagine that the Reception of such Infants did begin first under his Pontificate there is set up in the Hall being a great and fair room many Inscriptions and the Pictures of many dead Infants brought out of the neighbouring Tyber and laid at Pope Innocents feet And an Angel said to advise him from heaven to make some provision against such miscarriages Hence all exposed Infants are here received by order from the Pope and being once received are never turned off again or forsaken For the Males as soon as they are grown up to it are taught husbandry or some other Mechanical Trade and some made Scholars as the Genius of every one is discerned to be addicted and what they take to therein they may be always furthered if they will As for the Females they are delivered into the hands of Nurses and honest Matrons to be trained up and being grown of age are compelled either to to become Nuns or to be bestowed by the House in Marriage And if they become Widdows are received again into the Hospital if they desire it very freely as the Daughters of the place Time indeed that silently eats all things had much decayed what Innocent had built when Pope Sixtus the fourth 1471. set himself to rebuild all from the very foundations and amplified it to a magnificent State which went on still augmenting by the munificence of several succeeding Popes Leo X Paul III Pius IV Pius V Gregory XIV In gratitude to which liberalities are set up distinct Inscriptions But to return to the description of this great Hospital and the Church adjoining There serve and officiate in the Church men of a religious order wearing a white Cross on their breasts who likewise are set over the Hospital to govern it and take care of its Incomes Rents and Revenues These have an innumerable company of servants that receive wages under them Over all is a Master with the title of a Commendator who now for some years hath been still chosen out of the chief Prelates of the whole Court The Church is all built of Tivoli Stone beauteously adorned with pictures and all other sacred furniture that may advance the devotion of christians the Hospital or Common-house for reception of strangers is exceeding

make the Auditors Licentiates and Doctors in the faculty of the Law but the promoting of Doctors of Divinity is in the power of the Master of the Sacred Palace Apostolical of whom we shall speak in due place more largely CHAP. III. Of certain private Colledges in the City of Rome BEsides these two publick ones The City of Rome hath many other private Colleges founded by divers Popes Cardinals and other Ecclesiastical persons and the Alumni or Students maintained in them have either Readers of their own or else at the hour of publick lectures according to the Statutes of their houses repair to the foresaid publick Schools and Lecture being done return home to their own Colledges I. Of the Roman Seminary The first of these private Colledges is that which they call the Roman Seminary which Pope Pius the fourth according to the Decrees of the Trent Council instituted and founded wherein a hundred young men are maintained and taught Divinity according as that Council prescribes The maintenance for them and their Rector is by a competent yearly Revenue taken out of the Ecclesiastical income of the City of Rome This Seminary is governed by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus with exact care taken of the young men Besides these Alumni who live upon the publick charge there are in this Seminary also Gentlemens Sons called Convictors to distinguish them from those Alumni These pay so much a Month more than what is allowed for any one of the Alumni whom they exceed likewise in number for hither come to be brought up in Learning not only the Nobility and Gentry of Rome but of all Italy and many too from the other side of the Alpes and beyond the Seas The manner of Education and breeding of young men here is admirable for they are trained up to Piety as well as Learning They go to hear their Lecture to the Roman Colledge and every Classis of them hath one of the Fathers of the Society that calls them to Repetition of those things that they heard from their Readers Every particular Chamber hath one of the same Society for a Prefect which is never out of the company of the young men of that Chamber but is always with them whilst they dine and supp and walk and when they go to the Colledge and when they return Their Diet is plentiful and yet frugal After this same manner live all the other Colledges which are subject to the Government of the Fathers of the Society here to be set down in order II. Of Colledges in Rome built for particular Nations First Of the German Colledge Pope Julius the third founded a Colledge in this City for the German Nation For whilst Luther raged so in Germany he thought by the means of the Alumni maintained in this Colledge who after some time spent in Rome were to return again to their own Country their seduced Countrymen might be reclaimed to a better understanding Neither was his hope altogether frustrate but yet he dying this Colledge which was scarce supported by a competent yearly Revenue began to decay so that it was almost reduced to nothing Whereupon Gregory the thirteenth for the great zeal he had for the house of God much approved the design of this Colledge and even founded it again by setling on it a very ample yearly Revenue The Government hereof as of all the other Colledges founded by that Pope is committed to the Religious of the Society of Jesus and he would have it called the German and Hungarian Colledge because in it are maintained both Germans and Hungarians and some Flemings The Alumni of this Colledge are about a hundred and fifty more or less their diet and clothing convenient they go as we said before of the Seminary at their set hours to hear the publick Lections in the Roman Colledge There are among them some young men of the chiefest Gentry in their own Country who having finished their Studies return home and do excellent service for the Catholick Faith The Church belonging to this Colledge is the Parish Church of St. Apollinary near to the place Navona as also the great House adjoining belongeth thereto The Service in the Church is performed by the Alumni and to it is added a Quire most famous for Musick for which alone there is allowed yearly the summe of two thousand Gold Crowns II. Of the English Colledge The same most Holy Pope Gregory founded Colledges in Rome for almost all other Nations that fell into Schisme from the true Faith and Religion As to the English he assigned the Church of the most Holy Trinity near the Campus Florae together with the adjoining houses very ample and large and a sufficient yearly Revenue III. The Greek Colledge For the Greeks he built a Colledge from the Foundation and a Church dedicated to St. Gregory Nazianzen in the Via Flaminica and endowed it with a yearly revenue IV. The Maronites Colledge For the Maronites that is for those that to this day remain Christians almost by a kind of Prodigy inhabiting still Mount Libanon he built likewise a Church and Colledge at the foot of the Mount Quirinal from the very Foundations adding unto it a yearly Revenue That so they being well instructed in the true Religion when they return home may be able to inform others in what themselves have so well learnt and when they are to take that journey they have a very large Viaticum allowed them by reason of the length of the way V. The Colledge for Neophytes For the Neophytes that is for those that are newly converted from Judaisme or Athisme to the Christian Faith he began to build a very large Colledge as the beginnings thereof do shew near to the Basilica Agrippa but being prevented by death could not finish it Yet afterwards Pope Clement the eighth by a good summe of money contributed much to the setting forward of that work before begun VI. The Scots Colledge For the Scots the same Pope Clement built a Colledge in the Mount Quirinal and endowed it with a yearly Revenue All these foresaid Colledges are governed by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus and the Students in them at the tolling of a Bell go all to the publick Lections in the Roman Colledge as we said before of the Roman Seminary VII The Clementine Colledge for the Illyrians The holy house of Loretto famous throughout all the world hath ever anciently maintained in the City of Rome some young Schollars Illyrians to be instructed there in Learning and especially in Divinity That returning to their freinds they might inform them in sound Doctrine These wanted a common Colledge which the aforesaid Pope Clement insisting in the piety and zeal of Pope Gregory built for them a capacious one in Campo Martio upon the banks of Tyber calling it after his own name The Clementine Colledge He intrusted it to be governed by the Religious Fathers of the Summascan congregation who besides the Illyrians