A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.
Innocent, Pope, III., 216, 234, 239, 242;
  IV., 250;
  VIII., 339. 
Inquisition, The Holy, the Albigensian crusade and, 233;
  relation of Dominicans toward, 235;
  its establishment and management, 238. 
Intellectual progress, monasticism opposed to true, 407;
  in Europe, 409. 
Introspection, evil effects of morbid, 392. 
Iona, Monastery of, 168. 
Ireland, St. Patrick labors in, 123;
  monasteries of, as centers of culture, 169. 
Isidore, the hermit, visits Rome, 72. 
Itineracy, substituted for seclusion in cloister, 244.

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Jacob of Vitry, on abuses of charity, 411. 
James, the Apostle, quoted on rich men, 377. 
Jerome, St., his life of Paul of Thebes, 35;
  on Pachomian monks, 59;
  his letter to Rusticus, 59;
  on solitude, 61;
on number of Egyptian monks,
  63; on clergy of the fourth and
  fifth centuries, 77; in his cell,
  85; Schaff on, 86; his birth
  and early life, 86; his travels,
  and austerities, 87, 92; organizes
  monastic brotherhood,
  88; his literary labors, 88;
  glorifies desert life, 89; influences
  Rome, 91; his temptations,
  93; his fondness for the
  classics, 95; his biographies of
  Roman nuns, 96; his life of
  St. Paula, 97, and of Marcella,
  102; on folly of Roman women,
  108; on marriage and celibacy,
  112; on household duties, 113;
  attacks the foes of monks, 127;
  on vices of monks, 128; on
  monastic aim, 360; on the
  natural, 366. 
Jesuits, see Jesus, The Society of. 
Jesuits, The Pagan, 22, 426. 
Jesus Christ, the Essenes and, 26;
  quoted by early ascetics, 31,
  and by Jerome, 92; teachings
  of, used by monks, 366, 376;
  his doctrine of wealth, 377;
  his attitude toward rich men,
  379; the doctrine of the cross
  and, 418. 
Jesus, The Society of, Sherman on
  nature of, 258; rejects seclusion,
  258; Bishop Keane on,
  259, 273; how differs from
  other monastic communities,
  259; founded by Loyola, 264;
  constitution and polity of, 265;
  grades of members of, 265;
  vow of obedience in, 266; von
  Hoensbroech on, 268; confession
  in, 269; Carlyle on
  obedience in, 271; casuistry of,
  272, 429; its doctrine of probabilism,
  274; the Roman
  Church and, 275; Roman foes
  of, 276; mission of, 276; its attitude
  toward Reformation, 277;
  the Thirty Years’ War and, 277;
  calumnies against, 279; Clement
  XIV. dissolves, 279; expulsion
  of, from Europe, 279;
  missionary labors of, 280; Parkman
  contrasts, with Puritans,
  281; failure of, 283; restoration
  of, 283; causes for rise of,
  374; hostility of, to free government,
  402; liberal education
  opposed by, 409. See Loyola. 
Jewish asceticism, 23. 

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