Ecclesiastical History of Newfoundland

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Doyle and Whittle, 1888 - 426 páginas
This is the history of the Roman Catholic church in Newfoundland and Labrador to 1850, from the earliest missions to the end of Bishop Fleming's episcopate. Topics include the Presentation and Mercy sisters, education, and the persecution of the Roman Catholics in Newfoundland, as well as the role played by the church in the aftermath of the great fire of 1846.
 

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Página 80 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any authority of the see of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever.
Página 85 - Declared and sett forth) that noe person or persons whatsoever within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creekes, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent...
Página 110 - Hereupon I have had strong temptations to leave all proceedings in plantations, and being much decayed in my strength, to retire myself to my former quiet ; but my inclination carrying me naturally to these kind of works, and not knowing how better to employ the poor remainder of my days, than, with other good subjects, to further, the best I may...
Página 164 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.
Página 154 - Whereas our good brother the most Christian King hath, at our desire, released from imprisonment on board his galleys such of his subjects as were detained there on account of their professing the Protestant religion...
Página 87 - Catholics took quiet possession of the little place ; and religious liberty obtained a home — its only home in the wide world — at the humble village which bore the name of St. Mary's.
Página 87 - Under the mild institutions and munificence of Baltimore, the dreary wilderness soon bloomed with the swarming life and activity of prosperous settlements; the Roman Catholics, who were oppressed by the laws of England, were sure to find a peaceful asylum in the quiet harbors of the Chesapeake; and there, too, Protestants were sheltered against Protestant intolerance.
Página 154 - Newfoundland, that have been, or are to be yielded to us by virtue of the late treaty of peace, and are willing to...
Página 68 - Dakotas lived eighteen days' journey farther to the west. Thus, says BANCROFT, in his eloquent chapter on Jesuit Missions, "did the religious zeal of the French bear the cross to the banks of the St. Mary, and the confines of Lake Superior, and look wistfully...
Página 87 - Ever intent on advancing the interests of his colony, Lord Baltimore invited the Puritans of Massachusetts to emigrate to Maryland, offering them lands and privileges, and free liberty of religion,' but Gibbons, to whom he had forwarded a commission, was ' so wholly tutored in the New England discipline...

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