. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. THE SECULAR CLERGY. 2Q7 The desire to remedy this general disorder was at that time uppermost inevery Christian mind, for the question as to the territorial possessions of thetwo Churches had long heen settled. Rome possessed nearly all Italy, exceptthe manufacturing and maritime States of the peninsula ; she also hadGermany, a part of Switzerland, Bohemia, Hungary, England, and other Church was recognised by France, French or Vaudois Switzerland,Savoy, Lorraine, Luxemburg, the Metz district, Sco
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. THE SECULAR CLERGY. 2Q7 The desire to remedy this general disorder was at that time uppermost inevery Christian mind, for the question as to the territorial possessions of thetwo Churches had long heen settled. Rome possessed nearly all Italy, exceptthe manufacturing and maritime States of the peninsula ; she also hadGermany, a part of Switzerland, Bohemia, Hungary, England, and other Church was recognised by France, French or Vaudois Switzerland,Savoy, Lorraine, Luxemburg, the Metz district, Scotland, and Spain. Themost respected of the Christians, alarmed at a state of things which was sofatal to religion, in vain attempted to stem the torrent. The only remedylay in the reformation of the clergy, and the Churchs independence of thecivil power. In the year 1469, a noble and pious woman, the Countess Viodi Thiene, gave birth at Gaeta to a son, afterwards known as Cajetan, whobecame cardinal-bishop, and was one of the greatest men of the age. TheCountess Vio di Thiene had r
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