PF minutes, 1650-07-04, Rome
Poland
Non-Catholic Christians
Minutes of PF general meeting of 4 July 1650 discussing among other issues, the letter of the nuncio to Poland. He writes that the king of Poland has granted concessions to the Ruthenian Orthodox, and that he has protested against those concessions. The cardinals decided to ask Cardinal Panzirolo to write to the princes of the country [they mean the patrician families of Ruthenia], asking that they not accept those concessions. PF also decided that the issue should immediately be referred to the Assessor of the Holy Office, so that a course of action may be discussed in its tribunal.
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PF
APF ACTA 19, 378r, 382r, issue 18 NOG DOEN
1650-07-04
Latin
Minutes
465
Origin: Rome
Destination:
PF minutes, 1654-02-23, Rome
Poland
Minutes of PF general meeting of 23 February 1654 discussing among other issues, a letter from the nuncio to Poland. He asks for a number of missionaries to be sent to Sweden to help the Catholics, now that they are no longer persecuted. The cardinals decide to send three or four priests of CM, and that the nuncio to France should also talk about this with the superior of CM [Vincent de Paul].
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PF
APF ACTA 23, 15r, 18v-19r, issue 17
1654-02-23
Latin
Minutes
553
Origin: Rome
Destination:
PF minutes, 1654-08-24, Rome
Poland
Minutes of PF general meeting of 24 August 1654 discussing among other issues, a petition on behalf of the bishop of Cracow. He asks that the faculty that he has previously been granted (namely that he can communicate his privileges to two or three other priests), be extended to communicating them to 50 priests, due to the vastness of his diocese. The cardinals decide that he can grant his privileges to a maximum of 30 other priests, and that the Holy Office should be asked to give him this faculty.
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PF
APF ACTA 23, f. 85r, 88v, issue 18
1654-08-24
Latin
Minutes
559
Origin: Rome
Destination:
PF minutes, 1658-02-18, Rome
Poland
Jesuits
Minutes of PF general meeting of 18 February 1658 discussing among other issues, the missions in Poland. The nuncio to Poland writes that the missionaries never report anything to him. He also proposes the foundation of a college to educate the secular clergy, in 'Leopoli' [L'viv]; he moreover says that only zealous missionaries should be sent, and that the provisions should be higher. Missionaries who do not know the language should first practice some years in a convent in Cracow or L'viv. In every region the prefect should be virtuous and esteemed by the missionaries, and he should report often to the nuncio and to PF. Lastly he says that the missions of the Jesuits and other religious orders from Prussia are very successful. The cardinals decided: a) that the missionaries should be led by (and subject to) the nuncio of their region, or via another way subject to PF; b) that missionaries should not be sent to the mission unless PF has been informed about their life and behavior, not only from their own superiors but also from the local bishop; and c) the state of the mission, its missionaries and colleges has to be examined to see whether the foundation of a college in L'viv is desirable.
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PF
APF ACTA 27, 69r, 71r-72v, issue 4
1658-02-18
Latin
Italian
Minutes
486
Origin: Rome
Destination:
Summary of the mission reports from Scotland, [1667 or 1668]
Scotland
Mission reports
Petitions for faculties
Other religious orders
Visitation
Poland
Jesuits
Franciscans
Summary of the mission reports from the Scottish missionaries. It is a general report about the ongoing problems of the Scottish mission and the steps already taken by PF. The main issue is the chronic lack of priests, and although PF has done much to find other secular priests for the Highlands, there has been little result. Now they have sent two Irish regular priests and want to send others under the direction of a regular prefect. John White has been asked to go, but he is unwilling and cannot be constrained. In his place Cussak, an Irish priest in Paris, is proposed. Since there will be more regulars in the Highlands, Francis White, who is working there, might start teaching himself. In this way there would be no need to send students from the Highlands to the Continental Colleges. The priests in the Lowlands should be divided better over the different regions, as the regular priests (nine Jesuits, one Dominican and one Franciscan) currently all stay with rich Catholics. Two secular priest are about to be sent to the mission, both called Irvine, one of whom is currently in Poland visiting his sister. Furthermore a few concrete requests are repeated. The summary contains requests of faculties for the prefect (which allow him to consecrate chalices and altars): missionary patents, money for rosaries and other devotional objects, a visitation of the Scottish Colleges and monasteries, the replacement of the rector of the Scottish Colleges, a solution for the house where the missionaries can retreat, and a visitation of the Scottish mission. The decisions made by PF at the meeting of 23 January 1668 are on f. 384v.
Date discussed 1668-01-23
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The summary was written no later than 23 January 1668, since that is the date of its discussion.
APF SOCG 308, 381r-384v
This summary and the PF decisions are also in APF ACTA 23, 9v-13r, which have been published as an appendix to an article by Cathaldus Giblin: 'The Acta of Propaganda Archives and the Scottish mission, 1623-1670,' Innes Review 5, no. 1 (1954) 39-76, 73-76.
[1667 or 1668]
The discussion of this summary can be found in: APF ACTA 23, 3r, 9v-13r (not in the database).
Italian
Latin
Summary
362
Origin: unknown
Destination:
Letter from Giovanni Battista Garbi a slave in Algiers to [the PF Prefect, Paluzio Altieri], 1677-05-20, Tunis
Algiers
Conversion
Poland
Ransom
Slaves (Christian)
Letter from Giovanni Battista Garbi to PF. The slave Gian Battista Garbi, who used to work in the service of Abbot Carlo Grapi in the court of his Eminence in Poland, threw himself at his knees before his Emminence. He begged his Eminence for some alms, in order to help him out of the infernal pains that he is suffering in slavery. His master is mistreating him, in order to make him a renegade of the faith of Christ, or to ransom himself. He is however not able to buy his own freedom, because his master asks for 400 scudi. For this reason he asks the viceroy and the mother of his eminence, to give him some alms to help his ransom. Garbi asks the nuncio to Spain to recommend him to the redemption Fathers, who come to Algiers to ransom slaves; they ask him to write down his name, Gian Battista Garbi Omperial, who is a slave in the baths of the Divan.
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Gian Battista Garbi
APF SC Barbaria 1, 407r-408r
1677-05-20
[Adressed to Paluzio Altieri]
original; signed
Italian
Letter
886
Origin: Algiers
Destination: [Rome]