. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. had had so much influence inSpain, that they procured the condemnation of the obnoxiousvolumes by the Spanish Inquisition. The Bollandists, whobelonged to the Society of Jesuits, appealed to the popeagainst this judgment; and the dispute ran so high betweenthe Carmelites and Jesuits, and caused such general scandal,that Innocent XII. published a brief, commanding the twoparties to keep silence on the subject from that time, forever. It was during this contest, that is, about the middle of theseventeenth century, that we find t
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. had had so much influence inSpain, that they procured the condemnation of the obnoxiousvolumes by the Spanish Inquisition. The Bollandists, whobelonged to the Society of Jesuits, appealed to the popeagainst this judgment; and the dispute ran so high betweenthe Carmelites and Jesuits, and caused such general scandal,that Innocent XII. published a brief, commanding the twoparties to keep silence on the subject from that time, forever. It was during this contest, that is, about the middle of theseventeenth century, that we find the churches of the Car-melites filled with pictures, in general very bad ones, whichwere intended as an assertion of their claims to superiorsanctity as well as superior antiquity :— pictures of Elijah, astheir patriarch; of St. Albert, as their lawgiver; of , as their martyr; of St. Simon Stock, receiving thescapulary from the hands of the Virgin; and particularly oftheir great saint, the Madre Teresa, of whom weare now to speak. ST. Ital. Santa Teresa, Fondatrice dei Scalzi. Fr. Sainte Therese de Jesus desCarmes-Dechausses. iSp. La Nuestra Serafica Madre Santa Teresa deGesu. Patroness of Spain. Oct. 17, 1582. Scarce has she learnt to lisp the nameOf martyr, yet she thinks it shameLife should so long play with that breathWhich, spent, could buy so brave a never undertook to showWhat death with love should have to doe ;Yet, tho she cannot tell you why,She can love, and she can die ;And has a heart dares hope to proveHow much less strong is death than love ! (From Crashaws Hymn in memory of the virtuous and learned ladyeMadre de Teresa, that sought an early martyrdom.) St. Theresa, even setting aside her character as saint andpatroness, was an extraordinary woman,—without doubt themost extraordinary woman of her age and country; which, 416 LEGENDS OP THE MONASTIC ORDERS. perhaps, is not saying much, as that country was Spain, andshe live
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