Pope Urban VIII

Standard Name: Urban VIII, Pope

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Material Conditions of Writing Mary Ward
From the time of the suppression of the Institute in 1631, MW 's letters teem with code names (the Pope is the Scouf or Antony). One letter, written invisibly in lemon juice in England...
Occupation Mary Ward
Pope Urban VIII ordered the closure of MW 's houses in Italy; her schools in Rome shut down that summer in spite of the tears and lamentations
qtd. in
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
2: 172
of the pupils' parents.
Peters, Henriette. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. Translator Butterworth, Helen, Gracewing Books, 1994.
403
Occupation Mary Ward
MW spoke about her Institute to a pair of senior clerics appointed by Pope Urban VIII to advise him; they were not, as he supposed, neutral or favourable towards it.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
2: 288-9
Occupation Mary Ward
The Pope granted MW several concessions: she was declared free of heresy; Winefrid Wigmore was to be released from prison, and a few English ladies permitted to live in Rome under Papal protection.
Oliver, Mary, and Maisie Ward. Mary Ward, 1585-1645. Sheed and Ward, 1960.
161-2
politics Mary Ward
It was devastating to her to be labelled a heretic—although she had been writing to her communities urging them to comply with Pope Urban VIII 's suppression of the Institute. Having behaved with great dignity...
politics Mary Ward
Several years after MW 's schools in Rome and houses elsewhere in Europe had already been closed in fact, Pope Urban VIII signed the Bull of Suppression.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
2: xxv, 333
Textual Production Mary Ward
MW composed a petition to Urban VIII , setting forth her record of religious vocation, her unworthiness, and her faith in his decision: implicitly appealing against the expected suppression of her Order.
Among MW 's...

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29 May 1537

Pope Paul III issued a Bull that classified American Indians as men, not brutes.
“Sublimus Dei”. New Advent.
New Catholic Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill, 1967, 18 vols.
under Racism

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