Note 20 — Chapter II

“So soon another,” says Schultes, “I think I hear the traveller and the reader exclaim, who may not be acquainted with the magnitude of this order.” And then he proceeds to give, from Hemmauer, the following list of popes, priests, emperors, kings, etc. who had, up to that time, embraced the Order of Saint Benedict: viz. “Sixty-three popes, two hundred and twenty-three cardinals, two hundred and fifty-five patriarchs, sixteen thousand archbishops, forty-six thousand bishops, twenty-one emperors, twenty-five empresses, forty-eight kings, fifty-four queens, one hundred and forty-six imperial and royal children, and four hundred and forty-five sovereign princes and dukes!” Donaufahrten, tom. i. 8. 374. note.