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[582] Jo. de Turonis Regest. (loc. cit. pp. 862, 865).--aen. Sylvii Hist.

Bohem. c. 59.--Naucleri Chron. ann. 1437.

[583] aen. Sylvii Epist. lxxi. (Opp. inedd. _ap._ Atti della Accademia dei Lincei, 1883, p. 465).--Jo. de Turonis Regest. (Mon. Conc. Gen. Saec.

XV. T. I. pp. 855, 857).--Camerarii Hist. Frat. Orthod. pp.

57-8.--Naucleri Chron. ann. 1436, 1438.

Concil. Basiliens. Sess. x.x.x. (Harduin. VIII. 1244).--Pet.i.tiones Bohemorum (Fascic. Rer. Expetend. et Fugiend. I. 319, Ed.

1690).--Martene Ampl. Coll. VIII. 942-3--aen. Sylvii Epist. 101 (Ed.

1571, p. 591).--Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet (Martene Ampl. Coll. V.

445).--De Schweinitz, Hist. of Unitas Fratrum, pp. 91-2, 94.

[584] aen. Sylvii Hist. Bohem. c. 58.--Ejusd. Epist. xix. (Opp. inedd. p.

397).--Raynald. ann. 1448, No. 3-5.

[585] aegid. Carlerii. Lib. de Legation. (Monument. Conc. Gen. Saec. XV.

T. I. pp. 691, 694).--Cochlaei Hist. Hussit. Lib. XII. ann.

1462.--Wadding, ann. 1452, No. 1-4.--Raynald. ann. 1446, No. 3, 4; ann.

1447, No. 5-7.--Harduin. VIII. 1307-9.

The papal view of the permission to use the cup, as set forth by Pius II. (aeneas Sylvius) in 1464, was that it was only conceded to those accustomed to it until the Council of Basle should decide the question.

Had this been observed those who used it would in time have died out, and it was an infraction of the agreement to give it to children and new communicants, through whom the custom was perpetuated.--aen. Sylvii Epist. lxxi. (Opp. inedd. pp. 465).

[586] Loserth, Mittheilungen des Vereins fur Gesch. der Deutschen in Bohmen, 1885, pp. 102-4, 107.--Wadding. ann. 1436, No. 1-11.--aegid.

Carlerii. Lib. de Legation. (Mon. Conc. Gen. Saec. XV. T. I. p. 691).

[587] Wadding. ann. 1437, No. 6-12.--Synodd. Strigonens. ann. 1450, 1480 (Batthyani Legg. Eccles. Hung. III. 481, 557).

[588] Wadding. ann. 1437, No. 13-21; ann. 1438, No. 12-16; ann. 1439, No. 41-6; ann. 1440, No. 7; ann. 1444, No. 44; ann. 1446, No.

10.--Herburt de Fulstin Statuta Regni Poloniae, Samoscii, 1597, p.

192.--Raynald. ann. 1446, No. 10.--Theiner Monument. Slavor. Meridian.

I. 394.

[589] aen. Sylvii. Epistt. 130, 246-7, 259, 404 (Ed. 1571, pp. 667, 782-3, 788, 947).--Wadding. ann. 1455, No. 2; ann. 1456, No. 11-12.

In George Podiebrad's letter of 1468 to his son-in-law Matthius Corvinus, complaining of his treatment by the Holy See, he says, "In truth there were formerly in Bohemia many errors concerning the sacrament, and also concerning the ornaments and vestments in administering the rite, and the veneration of saints, but by divine grace these have been so reduced that there is scarcely any difference now existing with the Roman Church. By comparing what was customary thirty or forty years ago with the present, it will be seen that little remains to do in comparison with what has been accomplished."--D'Achery Spieileg. III. 834.

A notable part of this retrogression occurred in 1454, when edicts were issued in the name of Ladislas, with the consent of Rokyzana, ordering that the epistles and gospels, in the canon of the ma.s.s, should be recited in Latin and not in the vulgar tongue; that confession should be a prerequisite to communion; that children should not receive communion without due preparation; that the blood of the Eucharist should not be carried beyond the churches for fear of accidents; that no one should administer it without letters authenticating his priesthood; that no marriage should be celebrated without banns published in full church.--Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet. ann. 1454 (Martene Ampl. Coll. V.

486-7).

[590] Wadding. ann. 1451, No. 1-16; ann. 1452, No. 34.

[591] Wadding. ann. 1451, No. 17-20; ann. 1452, No. 18, 26; ann. 1453, No. 2-8.

[592] Wadding. ann. 1451, No. 24-36; ann. 1452, No. 1, 12,--Sommersberg Silesiac. Rer. Scriptt. I. 84-5.--Cochlaei Hist. Hussit. Lib. X. ann.

1451.

[593] Wadding. ann. 1452, No. 2-4, 13-14.--Cochlaei Hist. Hussit. Lib.

XI. ann. 1452.

[594] Chron. Gla.s.sberger ann. 1452.

[595] Wadding, ann. 1453, No. 9-10; ann. 1254, No. 12-13, 17-19--Chron.

Cornel. Zantfliet (Martene Ampl. Coll. V. 486-7).--aen. Sylvii Epist. 404 (Ed. 1571, p. 947).

[596] Wadding, ann. 1254, No. 7-12; ann. 1255, No. 2-7--aen. Sylv. Epist.

405 (p. 947).--Ejusd. Epistt. x.x.xix.-xliii., xlvi., lviii., lx. (Opp.

inedd. pp. 415-24. 426-9, 440-1, 448).

[597] Wadding, ann. 1455, No. 8-13; ann. 1456, No. 9-12.

[598] Wadding. ann. 1456, No. 16-67, 83-4.--aen. Sylv. Hist. Bohem. cap.

lxv. Six several attempts were made, at various times, to canonize Capistrano, but the fates were against it. The earlier efforts were neutralized by the opposition of the legate, Nicholas of Cusa, and the jealousy of the rival orders of Dominicans and Conventual Franciscans.

Repeated requests came from Germany, but they remained unheeded. In 1462 urgent letters were written by Frederic III., the Margrave of Brandenburg, and innumerable bishops and magistrates of cities from Cracow to Ratisbon; these were intrusted to a Franciscan friar to take to Rome, but he died on the road, and confided them to a knight of a.s.sisi. The latter brought them to his home, and then departed for Germany, where he died. The trunk containing them was piously preserved by his descendants until, towards the middle of the seventeenth century, Wadding chanced to see it, and took the letters to Rome, in the hopes of their still accomplishing their object. At the inquest held by Leo X. a cla.s.sified record of the miracles wrought by the thaumaturge shows, of dead brought to life, more than thirty; of deaf made to hear, three hundred and seventy; of blind restored to sight, one hundred and twenty-three; of cripples and gouty persons cured, nine hundred and twenty, and miscellaneous cases innumerable. This resulted in his admission to the inferior order of the Blessed, to be worshipped by the Franciscans of the diocese of Capistrano. In 1622 Gregory XV. enlarged his cult to the whole Franciscan Order; and in 1690 Alexander VIII.

enrolled him in the calendar of saints.--Wadding, ann. 1456, No. 114-22; ann. 1462, No. 29-78.--Weizfacker, ap. Herzog's Real Encyklop. s. v.

[599] Wadding, ann. 1457, No. 5, 10; ann. 1461, No. 1-2; ann. 1465, No.

6; ann. 1467, No. 5.

[600] aen. Sylvii Epist. 162, 324, 334-5, 337-40, 356, 369, 387 (Ed.

1571, pp. 714, 815, 821-22, 825, 831, 837, 840).--Ejusd. Hist. Bohem. c.

71-2.

Pius II. did not hesitate to publish to Christendom a positive a.s.sertion that George poisoned Ladislas, and said that, though the facts were obscure, the Viennese physicians in attendance attributed his death to poison.--aen. Sylv. Epist. lxxi. (Opp. inedd. p. 467).

[601] aen. Sylvii Hist. Bohem. c. 69.--Ejusd. Epist. lxxi. (Opp. inedd.

pp. 461-70).--Ejusd. Tractatus (Ib. pp. 566, 581).--Raynald. ann. 1457, No. 69; ann. 1458, No. 20-8; ann. 1459, No. 18-23; ann. 1463, No.

96-102.--Cochlaei Hist. Lib. XII.--Dubrav. Hist. Bohem. Lib.

30.--Wadding, ann. 1462, No. 87.--Pii PP. II. Bull. _In minoribus_.--Sommersberg Silesiac. Rer. Scriptt. II. 1025-6, 1031.--Wadding, ann. 1456, No. 12; ann. 1469, No. 4, 6.--Ludewig Reliq.

MSS. VI. 61.--Martene Ampl. Coll. I. 1598-9.--D'Achery Spicileg. III.

830-4.--Ripoll III. 466.

[602] Raynald. ann. 1468, No. 1-14.--Chron. Gla.s.sberger ann.

1468.--Dubrav. Hist. Bohem. Libb. x.x.x.-x.x.xI.--Cochlaei Hist. Hussit. Lib.

XII. ann. 1471.

[603] Wadding, ann. 1460, No. 55; ann. 1462, No. 87; ann. 1471, No. 5; ann. 1475, No. 28, 37-9; ann. 1489, No. 21; ann. 1491, No. 8, 78.--Chron. Gla.s.sberger ann. 1463, 1466, 1479, 1483.--Dubrav. Hist.

Bohem. Lib. x.x.xI.--De Schweinitz, Hist. of Unitas Fratrum, p.

168.--Camerarii Hist. Frat. Orthod. pp. 72-3.--Georgisch Regest. Chron.

Diplom. III. 158.

[604] aen. Sylvii Epist. 130 (Ed. 1571 pp. 661-2).

[605] Goll, Quellen u. Untersuchungen, I. 10, 32-33, 92, 99; II. 72, 87-88, 94.--De Schweinitz, Hist. of Unitas Fratrum, pp. 111-12, 159, 204-5.--Von Zezschwitz, Real-Encyklop. II. 652-3.--Hist. Persecutionum pp. 58-60, 90.--Palacky, Die Beziehungen der Waldenser, pp.

32-33.--Camerarii Hist. Frat. Orthod. pp. 59-66.--For the Calixtin views on the Eucharist see the treatises of Rokyzana and of John of Przibram in Cochlaei Hist. Hussit. pp. 474, 508; also the latter's articles against Peter Payne (Ib. 230).

When the Brethren undertook to explain their views on the Eucharist they become somewhat difficult to understand. The bread and wine became the body and blood, and they would have believed it had the bread been stone, but still the substance remained, and Christ was not present.--Fascic. Rer. Expetend. et Fugiend. I. 165, 170, 174, 183, 185.

[606] Camerarii Hist. Frat. Orthod. pp. 84-9.--Hist. Persecut. p.