A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[1] I have considered this subject at greater length in “Chapters from the Religious History of Spain,” but the views there expressed have been somewhat modified by access to additional documents.

[2] II. Corinth. xii, 2-4.

[3] Est hodie soror apud nos revelationum charismata sortita quas in ecclesia inter Dominica solemnia per ecstasin in spiritu patitur; conversatur cum angelis, aliquando etiam cum Domino, et vidit et audit sacramenta et quorumdam corda dignoscit et medicinas desiderantibus submittit.—De Anima, cap. ix.

[4] Rufini Aquileiensis Historia Monachorum, passim.—Vitæ Patrum, Lib. III, c. 141.

[5] Chapeavilli Gestt. Pontiff. Leodiens., II, 256-7.

[6] Treatises of Richard Rolle, VIII, pp. 14-15 (Early English Text Society).

[7] Basnage in Canisii Thes. Monum. Ecclesiæ, IV, 366-7.

[8] Johann. PP. XXII, Bull. In agro dominico (Ripoll. Bullar. Ord. Prædic. VII, 57).

[9] S. Cypriani Epist. iv ad Pomponium.—Concil. Antioch. (Harduin Concil. I, 198).—Lactant. Divin. Institt. VI, xix.

This test of continence was tried by St. Aldhelm (Girald. Cambrens. Gemm. Eccles., Dist. II, cap. xv) and was practised by the followers of Segarelli and Dolcino (Bern. Guidonis Practica, Ed. Douais, p. 260).