Fieldhouse Flyer wrote:billyjack wrote:
The Dominicans kinda had a significant part in the Spanish Inquisition
I wasn't going to mention that, but since you brought it up ... Dominicans Became Dreaded Inquisitors - Christianity.com
1227 - Pope Gregory IX appointed a Board of Inquisitors in Florence, Italy.
1233 - Pope Gregory IX placed the operation of the Inquisition into the hands of the Dominicans.
1483 – Pope Sixtus IV appointed Dominican friar Tomás de Torquemada as the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain.
1789 - Georgetown University founded.
1826 - Last execution by the Spanish Inquisition.
1831 - Xavier University founded.
1834 – Spanish Inquisition ended.
1842 - Villanova University founded.
1855 - Butler University founded.
1856 - Seton Hall University founded.
1870 - St. John's University founded.
1878 - Creighton University founded.
1881 - Marquette University founded.
1898 - DePaul University founded.
1917 - Providence College founded.
The Inquisition ran for 607 years, providing centuries of employment for the Dominicans.
........ Tomás de Torquemada ........
EMT wrote:
It was dirty work but someone had to do it.
The Spanish Inquisition
The Jesuits are famous for their role in the Spanish Inquisition, though contrary to popular opinion the Jesuit Order did not begin it. The inquisition was set up in 1480, 60 years before the Papal bull that formalised the creation of the Society of Jesus.
The Spanish Inquisition was originally overseen by members of the Dominican Order, though members of the Jesuit brotherhood were involved at a later date. Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was not formally disbanded until 1834, though its influence had significantly dwindled prior to that date.
The Inquisition was famous for its use of torture to elicit confessions from accused 'heretics'.
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt against [Protestant] King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
From the first moment of the plot’s discovery, the government sought to have the Jesuits incriminated as its instigators. Four of the Jesuits on the wanted list - Garnet, Edward Oldcorne, Ralph Ashby and Nicholas Owen - were starved out of their priest holes at Hindlip Hall at the end of January 1606.
At their trial in January 1606 the remaining living conspirators including Guy Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. So by the time of the trial of the Jesuits no one was alive to testify to their innocence. The trials of the Jesuits uncovered no evidence of their guilt of conspiracy. The thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot is still commemorated in Bonfire Night every 5th November.
On 5th November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605. Guy Fawkes instantly became a national bogeyman and the embodiment of Catholic extremism. It was a propaganda coup for the Protestant English and served as a pretext for further repression of Catholics that would not be completely lifted for another 200 years.
Through the centuries the Guy Fawkes legend has become ever-more entrenched, and by the 19th Century it was his effigy that was being placed on the bonfires that were lit annually to commemorate the failure of the plot.
........................................ The Execution of Guy Fawkes, 1606 engraving .........................................
muskienick wrote:
Jesuits are best known for their ability to educate (in the form of logical thinking) and to raise large amounts of cash (particularly for their college basketball programs). They also know a great Bourbon when they taste one!
The suppression of the Jesuits in the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Two Sicilies, Malta, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767), and Austria and Hungary (1782) is a highly controversial subject. It has been argued that it was a result of a series of localized political moves rather than a theological controversy. Monarchies attempting to centralize and secularize political power viewed the Jesuits as being too international, too strongly allied to the papacy, and too autonomous from the monarchs in whose territory they operated.
Papal Suppression of the Jesuits - 1773
After the suppression of the Jesuits in many European countries and their overseas empires, Pope Clement XIV issued a papal brief on July 21, 1773, in Rome titled: “Dominus ac Redemptor Noster.” That decree included the following statement:Having further considered that the said Company of Jesus can no longer produce those abundant fruits...in the present case, we are determining upon the fate of a society classed among the mendicant orders, both by its institute and by its privileges; after a mature deliberation, we do, out of our certain knowledge, and the fullness of our apostolical power, suppress and abolish the said company: we deprive it of all activity whatever... And to this end a member of the regular clergy, recommendable for his prudence and sound morals, shall be chosen to preside over and govern the said houses; so that the name of the Company shall be, and is, for ever extinguished and suppressed.
— Pope Clement XIV, Dominus ac Redemptor Noster
Restoration of the Jesuits - 1814
As the Napoleonic Wars were approaching their end in 1814, the old political order of Europe was to a considerable extent restored at the Congress of Vienna after years of fighting and revolution, during which the Church had been persecuted as an agent of the old order and abused under the rule of Napoleon. With the political climate of Europe changed, and with the powerful monarchs who had called for the suppression of the Society no longer in power, Pope Pius VII issued an order restoring the Society of Jesus in the Catholic countries of Europe. Nation by nation the Jesuits became re-established.
billyjack wrote:The Dominicans kinda had a significant part in the Spanish Inquisition
billyjack wrote:
"Hanged, drawn and quartered"... yikes... think of the people that came up with those 3 items...
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a statutory penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge.
Over a period of several hundred years many men found guilty of high treason were subjected to the law's ultimate sanction. They included many English Catholic priests executed during the Elizabethan era.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger
Fieldhouse Flyer wrote:DudeAnon: Your photo shows a Franciscan friar - not a Dominican friar.
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