Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...which condemned them altogether with other heretics, as we have seen above, p. n. 76. V. Schm1dt, op. cit, i. 143; ii. 294, 295. Cfr. with Neander and Hahn. 2 Steph. De B. Cf. con Preger, Beitrage, &c. 3 V. Historia. Pontificalis in my St. de1 Martiri, Introd. p. 1S2. Some mention of them occurs here and there. Thus at the siege of Crema, an. 1159, there was seen "magna societas pauperum et egenorum," sneeringly called "filii Arnoldi."--Otto Morena, ad an. 1159, ap. Pertz. authority, priests should be successors of the apostles in faith and custom, and that where this was not the case their office was usurped, and even the administration of the sacraments was void.1 As for the Umiliati, they originated from a free association of Milanese exiles, who, when they returned to their country, had not given up their religious habits nor their trade of weavers.2 They worked in common, and divided their profits with the poor. They prospered, so that they did not fear competition: they multiplied both within and without Lombardy, like fishes of the sea.3 Among their first statutes, there was none forbidding marriage, but taking the oath was forbidden. Therefore it was said: --Sunt et in Ytalia fratres humiliati Qui jurare renuunt et sunt uxorati. But this religious and beneficent association was too open to escape the suspicion of the papal police, and not to give rise to hateful murmurings.5 It was denounced, 1 Arnaldistae tamen perfidi haeretici dicunt nusquam legi quod im-' mundis et luxuriosis ministris Christum sponsam suam ecclesiam traderet custodiendam, vel potestatem ligandi vel solvendi: quia illi soli (ut ait Gregorius) et justi in hac carne positi potestatem habent ligandi atque solvendi, sicut Apostoli, qui vitam vel fidem illorum cum...
