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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 1091 — XXV. THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY.

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Gravamin. Ordin. Imperii cap. xxi., lvii., lxx. (Goldast. I. 464).

When such complaints were made by the highest authority in the empire, it is not difficult to understand the reasons which led the senate of Nürnberg—which city had not yet embraced the Reformation—to deprive, in 1524, the Dominicans and Franciscans of the superintendence and visitation of the nuns of St. Catharine and St.. Clare; nor do we need Spalatin’s malicious suggestion—“cura et visitatione, pene dixeram corruptione.”—Spalatin. Annal. ann. 1524.

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