The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . isplaying an outburst of joy which contrasted strongly with the sadnessvisible on every face when Clement XIV. suppressed the^same society. This bull is as follows : PiTJS, Bishop, Servant of the Seevants of God, fob a Perpetual Remem-brance OF THE Fact. The care of all the churches committed, such being the disposition ofProvidence, to us, unequal in our lowliness to the task, either by merits orby strength, compels us to employ all the means in our power, and such asdivine Providence mercifully supplies unto us, in order tha
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . isplaying an outburst of joy which contrasted strongly with the sadnessvisible on every face when Clement XIV. suppressed the^same society. This bull is as follows : PiTJS, Bishop, Servant of the Seevants of God, fob a Perpetual Remem-brance OF THE Fact. The care of all the churches committed, such being the disposition ofProvidence, to us, unequal in our lowliness to the task, either by merits orby strength, compels us to employ all the means in our power, and such asdivine Providence mercifully supplies unto us, in order that we may season-ably, without distinction of nation or people, meet the spiritual wants ofthe Christian world to which the various and manifold changes of the timesand of the State give rise. This burden of the pastoral ofiice it was our desire to discharge, asFrancis Karew, then living, and other secular priests, who had formerlybeen members of the Society of Jesus, suppressed by our predecessorClement XIV. of happy memory, and who had been for many years in the. :1 0(SK!i\\rUillS !L®^®1LA PIUS VII. 699 vast empire of Russia, pi-esented to us their petition whereby they askedthat power might be given them to unite in a body corporate under ourauthority, so that they might more easily, according to the scheme of theirpecuhar institute, apply themselves to the instniction of youth in the rudi-ments of faith, and imbuing them with good morals and habits, preach,hear confession, and administer the other sacraments. We deemed thattheir prayer should be more readily granted, because the Emperor Paul II.,then reigning, earnestly recommended the same priests to us in his mostfriendly letter of the 11th of August, A. d. 1800, in which, after giving ex-pression to his singular good-will towards them, he declared that it wouldbe most pleasing unto him, if by our authority the Society of Jesus should,for the good of the Cathohcs in his empire, be there established. Wherefore, having car
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