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popes from Clement (A.D. 100) to Gregory the Great (A.D. 600)
and later incorporated in a ninth century collection purporting to
have been made by “Isidore Mercator.” The falsity of the Pseudo-
Isidorian fabrications is now admitted
Page 38. Purgatory. Dr. Joseph Faa Di Bruno thus defines
purgatory: “Purgatory is a state of suffering after this life, in which
those souls are for a time detained, who depart this life after their
deadly sins have been remitted as to the stain and guilt, and as to
the everlasting pain that was due to them; but who have on account
of those sins still some debt of temporal punishment to pay; as also
those souls which leave this world guilty only of venial sins.”—
Catholic Belief, p. 196(ed. 1884; imprimatur Archbishop of New
York).
See The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XII, art. “Purgatory.”
Page 39. Indulgeces. For a detailed history of the doctrine of
indulgences, see The Catholic Encyclopedia, art. “Indulgences,” vol.
VII; A. H. Newman, A Manual of Church History (Philadelphia:
The American Baptist Publication Society, 1953), vol. II, pp. 53,
54, 62.
Page 44. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses. Historical evi-
dence exists for some observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among
the Waldenses. A report of an inquisition before whom were brought
some Waldenses of Moravia in the middle of the fifteenth century
declares that among the Waldenses “not a few indeed celebrate
the Sabbath with the Jews.”—Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger,
Beitrage zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Contributions to the
History of the Sects of the Middle Ages), Munich, 1890, part 2,
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p. 661. This source indicates the observance of the seventh-day
Sabbath.
Page 49. Edict Against the Waldenses. A portion of the papal
bull (Innocent VIII, 1487) against the Waldenses is given in an
English translation, in Dowling’s History of Romanism, bk. 6, ch.
5, sec. 62 (ed. 1871).
Page 53. Indulgences. See note for page 39.
Page 54, 60. Wycliffe. For the original text of the papal bulls
issued against Wycliffe with English translation, see John Foxe, Acts
and Monuments of the Church (London: Pratt Townsend, 1870), vol.
III, pp. 4-13; Merle d’ Aubigne, The History of the Reformation in