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and direct all that we may deem it 

 our duty to prescribe and direct to 

 consolidate tlie said company more 

 and more, to render it stronger, 

 and to purge it of abuses, should 

 they ever creep in, which God 

 avert. It now remains for us to 

 exhort with all our hearts, and in 

 the name of the Lord, all Superiors, 

 Provincials, Rectors, Companions, 

 and pupils of this re-established 

 Society, to show themselves at all 

 times and in ail places faithful 

 imitators of their father : that 

 they exactly observe the rule pre- 

 scribed by theirgreat founder; that 

 they obey with an always increas- 

 ing zeal the useful adviv es and sa- 

 lutary counsels which he has left to 

 his children. 



Inline, we recommend strongly 

 in the Lord, the company and all 

 its members to our dear sons in 

 Jesus Christ the illustrious and no- 

 ble Princes and Lords temporal, as 

 well as to our venerable brothers 

 the Archbishops and Bishops, and 

 to all those who are placed in au- 

 thority ; we exhort, we conjure 

 them not only not to suffer that 

 these religions may be in any way 

 molested, but to watch that they 

 be treated with all due kindness 

 and charity. 



We ordain that the present let- 

 ters be inviolably observed accord- 

 ing to their form and tenor, in all 

 lime coming; that they enjoy their 

 full and entire effect; that they 

 shall never be submitted to the 

 judgment or revision of any judge 

 with whatever power he may be 

 clothed ; declaring null and of no 

 eft'ect any encroachment on the 

 present regulations, either know- 

 ingly or from ignorance ; and this 

 notwith'itandiog any ai)ostolical 



constitutions and ordinances, espe- 

 cially the brief of Clement XIV. of 

 happy memory, beginning with 

 the v/orda Dominus ac Redemptor 

 noster, issued under the seal of the 

 Fisherman, on the 22nd of July 

 1773, which we expressly abrogate 

 as far as contrary to the present 

 order. 



It is also our will that the same 

 credit be paid to copies, whether in 

 manuscript or printed, of our pre- 

 sent brief, as to the original itself, 

 provided they have the signature of 

 some notary public, and the seal of 

 some ecclesiastical dignitary : that 

 no one be permitted to infringe, 

 or by an audacious temerity to 

 oppose any part of this ordinance ; 

 and that should any one take upon 

 him to attempt it, let him know 

 that he will thereby incur the in- 

 dignation of Almighty God, and of 

 the holy Apostles Peter and Paul. 

 Given at Rome, at Sancta Maria 

 Major, on the l7th of August, in 

 the year of our Lord, 1814, and 

 the 15th of our Pontificate. 

 (Signed) 



Cardinal Prodataire. 



Cardinal Braschi. 



Edict issued by the Pope for the 

 re-establishment of the Monastic 

 Orders. 



Among the calamities occa- 

 sioned by the revolutions which 

 we have w itnessed, one of the most 

 severe, doubtless, is the oppression 

 and almost totalannihilation ofthose 

 religious societies, who formed one 

 of the firmest pillars of the church, 

 and were a fruitful source of advan- 

 tage to education and science in 

 Christian and civil com uiunitict. No 



