Note 264 — Chapter VI · THE MENDICANT ORDERS. (continued 2)
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Campana, Vita di San Piero Martire, p. 257.—Juan de Mata, Santoral de San Domingo y San Francisco, fol. 13.—Zurita, Añales de Aragon, Lib. II. c. 63.—Ricchinii Proœm. ad. Monetam, Dissert. I. p. xxxi.—Paramo de Orig. Off. S. Inquis. Lib. II. Tit. ii. c. 1.—Pegnæ Comment. in Eymeric. p. 461.—Chron. Magist. Ord. Prædic. c. 2 (Martene Ampl. Coll. VI. 348).—Monteiro, Historia da Santo Inquisição P. I. Liv. I. c. xxv., xlviii.
It is an interesting illustration of the softened temper of the nineteenth century to see, in 1842, the learned and zealous Dominican, Lacordaire, writing his “Vie de S. Dominique” to prove the impossibility of Dominic’s participation in the cruelty of the Inquisition exactly one hundred years after an equally learned and zealous Dominican, Ricchini, had claimed the Inquisition as the glorious work of the saint. Yet since the time of Lacordaire there has been a reaction, and M. l’Abbé Douais does not hesitate to state, on the authority of Sixtus V., that “Saint Dominique aurait ainsi reçu une délégation pontificale pour l’Inquisition après l’année 1209” (Sources de l’Histoire de l’Inquisition, Revue des Questions Historiques, 1 Oct. 1881, p. 400).