Identifier: historyofallnati14wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n the church dogmas also concessions were made to the claimsof a verj moderate rationalism. Already INIuratori had, in his philo-sophical treatises, declared the adoration of saints, and especially ofthe Mother of God, a good and edifying, but by no means an obliga-tory, act of devotion, and not to be placed on a level with theordained worship of the Saviour — a ^^ew of which Benedict XIV.later made himself the patron and promoter. In Germany it mostpeculiarly found acceptance with the same Archbishop Finnian ofSalzburg (Plate XXIV.) who, some years before, had driven theProtestants forth from his diocese, l;)Ut v.ho had now become the fur-therer of reform views in regard to doctrine and the di^ane service.The too ardent defenders of the unconditional cult of Alary and thesaints were, in his diocese, punished, and sent to the monasteries.And in these ■views Archbishop Firmian did not stand alone. Arch-bishop Trautson of Vienna, in his pastoral of 1752, made it a matter PLATE XXIV.
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Aren bibliop Firmian of Salzburg.Froiu an cngraviug by Christopher Slayrlioffer.History 0/ AU Xaliaiii, Vul. XIV., page Si!. MISGOrSENMENT OF SAXONY. 323 of reproof that clergymen preached of the saints, but said nothing ofHim who was above all saints. With such sentiments the distinction between Protestantism andCatholicism lost much of its sharpness. Yet it may be mentioned,as a curious fact and an evidence of how close contrarieties lie to eachother, that, at the same time when the rationalists and the highestcircles of the CathoUc church began to understand each other, thelast German witch was burned in 1749, at Würzburg. While the German Empire, as such, no longer exercised influ-ence on the affairs of Europe, four of its states played an importantrole; namely, Hanover, Prussia, Saxony, and Austria. The firststate has been already taken notice of in our observations on Eng-land ; of the second, we will s))eak more specially hereafter. j\Iean-while we turn om- attention to the cu

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