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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

in you Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the Fisher on the 10th day of October 1655. in the First year of our Papacy Natalis Rondinnius And the Queen very reverently received it and read it all presently She with a modest blush shewed the evident signes of the joy in her heart for the fatherly and loving expressions of his Holinesse her Majesty apprehending the forcible sense of the Vicar of Christ to whom she had given long since the liberty of her thoughts and affections and concluded she would by her letters as soon as the could thank his Holiness for it Her Majesty supt privately on the first of November but was waited on by some Ladies who desired that honour for their own satisfaction Among whom was the Princess Mary Cla●d●a Hundbissin of Schaumbourg who presented the water for her hands and the Countess Piccolomini the little Arch-Dutchesses Lady of Honour the Napkin Princess Catherine Countess of Spaur was the Cupbearer and Sewer There were too besides Princess Mary Fuggerin Countess of Weisenhorth the Princess of Trocbenpach the Princesse Mary Brigit Countesse of Artzh the Princess Malaspina and the Princess Anne Teresa of Stoplar Her Majesty was publickly feasted on Tuesday by their Highnesses the Arch Dukes with regal magnificence and sumptuousnesse The Queen sate alone at the upper end of the Table under a cloath of Stare with a very great carpet on the ground The Arch-Dukes were on her right side a little way off from her Majesty but under the same Canopy the Arch-Dutchess alone on her left side o're against the Arch-Duke and Pimentel the Spanish Embassador below the Arch-Dukes The Marquis Lonati and the Lord George Olstein gave the water for her Majesties hands and the Arch-Duke himself presented her the Napkin taking it from the Lord W●itkunight chief Gentleman of his chamber Baron Sig●smond of Welsberg G●ntleman of the Chamber to his Highness was her Cupbearer and the Baron of Stakel-bourg likewise Gentleman of his chamber was Sewer Her Majesty accompanied by their Highnesses together with all the Court w●nt after dinner to a Palace called D' Ambre without Inspruch where she saw with much delight a great quantity of ancient medalls of gold and silver together with other metalls collected long since by Arch-Duke Ferdinand as likewise many very ancient manuscripts and other fine curiosities conserved in that place In the mean time my Lord Holstenius attended to the ordering of the necessary things for the function of the following day He instructed the Notary the Master of the ceremonies the Priests and other Clerks which were to be assistent as well at the act of Profession as at the solemne Masse Holstenius was to sing to the end that each doing his part the function might go on with order quietness and decorum as it happily succeeded The Queen desired this action might be as p●blick as could be and conspicuous to the World and therefore instead of going into the Church by the gallery within she resolved to go thither through the publick street which goes between the one and the other to which purpose in the morning the said street was covered over with boards as well for honour as conveniencie The Queen cloathed in a gown of black silk very plain and without any ornament but a crosse of five faire and rich diamonds at her breast lead by the Arch-Duke was met at the gate of the Church with a solemne Procession of all the Priests and Clerks of the Court and by the two Benedictin Abbots of that Province the one of Tegernsee and the other of Marieberg both with the Miter Rochet and Crosier staffe The one gave her holy water and the other presented her to kisse a very fine Cross of Christal of the Mountain My Lord Holstenius followed after the Abbots who after a low congee to her Majesty and their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes caused one of the Abbots to begin Come O Holy Ghost c. which was sung with most excellent Musick The Queen following the Procession went into the Quire of the Church where a chair was prepared with a kneeling place before it covered with cloath of gold A cushion of the same cloth of gold was laid too upon the last step of the Altar below and a chair of velvet for Holstenius o're against the place of the Epistle Here then Holstenius stood up before the chaire expecting when the Queen the Arch-D●kes and all the Cavaliers would sit down in their places Then he beheld by all with silence and attention began with a loud voice to declare his Commission by the Pop●s express Brief of the following tenor To our beloved son Luke Holstenius Priest of Hambu●g Canon of St. Peters in Rome one of our family and continual attendance at our table Alexander the VIIth Pope BEloved son Greeting and Apostolical Benediction whereas we have received not without the spiritual joy of our mind that Christina the noble Queen of Swedland born of heretical parents and bred up and instructed in heresies illuminated by heavenly light and knowing the way of truth desires to renounce the same heresies and returne by the blessing of God into the bosome of the holy Roman Church we who by our Pastoral function are chiefly obliged to attend unto this that if any Sheep wander from the path of the truth they may be brought back into the way of salvation being very much confident in our Lord of your singular piety prudence zeal of the Catholick rel●gion and the honour of Gods house of our own free motion sure knowledge mature del●beration and out of the fulnesse of our Apostolical power by vertue of these presents do grant and impart to you the free and full power of absolving by our authority in both Courts the said Queen Christina from these heresies all excommunication suspension interdict and other ecclesiastical sentences censures and punishments howsoever incurred by her for the same whether any juridical or extra-juridical abjuration or any at all pre●●d● but in place of abjuration her Profession of the Catholick Faith according to the Articles long propounded by the Apostolical Sea some healthful pennance being enjoyned her and other things you shall know to be expedient for the good of her soul and we grant and impart the same power of reconciling and receiving the said Queen into the bosome of the holy Roman Church some publick Notary be●ng used about the Acts aforesaid we willing to your sole attestation without any any witnesses your subscription onely added full and absolute belief should be given Notwithstanding the Apostolical universal or special constitutions published in general provincial or other Councills the decrees use and stile of the Office of the holy and general inquisition and all other things to the contrary Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the Ring of the Fisher on the tenth of October 1655. in the fi●st year of our Pa●pacie