. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. orks, and attacking his detractors andpersecutors with equal vigour, repeatedly declares his own submission tothe Catholic Church. HIS SUCCESSFUL CRUSADE AGAINST VICE, xao cern was for the improvement of manners, the diffusion ofmorality, and the regeneration of the true doctrines ofChrist, to which mens souls appeared dead. It was tothis end that he now specially dedicated his whole timeand strength his entire heart and soul. When preachingon the holy life and Christian virtue h^s soul almost seemedto shine forth from his eyes, and his spiritual energy
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. orks, and attacking his detractors andpersecutors with equal vigour, repeatedly declares his own submission tothe Catholic Church. HIS SUCCESSFUL CRUSADE AGAINST VICE, xao cern was for the improvement of manners, the diffusion ofmorality, and the regeneration of the true doctrines ofChrist, to which mens souls appeared dead. It was tothis end that he now specially dedicated his whole timeand strength his entire heart and soul. When preachingon the holy life and Christian virtue h^s soul almost seemedto shine forth from his eyes, and his spiritual energy tobe transfused by his voice into the people, who daily andvisibly improved under his beneficent influence Contemporary writers never cease expressing their wonder atthis quasi-miracle ; some are edified by the triumph thusachieved by religion, others regret the days of joyousballads and carnival songs ; but all are equally emphaticis to the change in public manners, and acknowledge thatat was solely the work of Fra Girolamo Savonarola. &>^
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