. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. In cases where the crime seemed of a nature to deserve no clemency, thelaw remitted the culprit to be judged by the bishop or a priest delegated byhim, whose tribunal, standing in the midst of a church, was from that veryfact inviolable, and placed under the tutelary protection of religion. Theroyal decree added, When the culprit shall take refuge in a church, let noone dare to drag him out with violence; if he has already crossed thethreshold of the sanctuary, let the bishop or curate of that church be sent
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. In cases where the crime seemed of a nature to deserve no clemency, thelaw remitted the culprit to be judged by the bishop or a priest delegated byhim, whose tribunal, standing in the midst of a church, was from that veryfact inviolable, and placed under the tutelary protection of religion. Theroyal decree added, When the culprit shall take refuge in a church, let noone dare to drag him out with violence; if he has already crossed thethreshold of the sanctuary, let the bishop or curate of that church be sentfor, and if they refuse to deliver him up, it is to them that the pursuersshall look for his punishment. For more than a century before, the spiritual and temporal constitution THE SECULAR CLERGY. of the Church was regularly organized throughout France. The diocesecomprised the territorial boundaries which the Roman administration hadestablished in the provinces for the civil government of the vicars and thecounts, and most of these dioceses were kept, within about the same limits,. Fig. 226.—Consecration of St. Kemigius, Bishop of Rheims.— Fac-simile of an Engraving of the Bheims Tapestry, in the cathedral of that city, puhlished by M. Ach. Jubinal. (SixteenthCentury.) down to 1789. The ecclesiastical province, of which the metropolitan orthe archbishop was head, was made up of several dioceses or suffraganbishoprics, and when a provincial council took place, it assembled in themetropolis under the presidency of the archbishop. Above the metro-politans there were the patriarchs and the primates, dignitaries occupying 284 THE SECULAR CLERGY. the principal apostolic sees, such as Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch,Jerusalem, Cesarea, and Heraclea in the East, and in the West, Milan,Lyons, Rheims, Treves, and Mayence—which latter city became, under PopeZacharias (741—752), the metropolis of all Germany. The supremacy ofRome was acknowledged by the universal Church from t
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