7 mars 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jürgen Sarnowsky, « The Priests in the Military Orders », Casa de Velázquez, ID : 10670/1.b1pvuw
In one of the treatises on the reform of the Empire, the Reformatio Sigismundi from about 1438, the Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights are accused to suppress their priest brethren: «The commanders, great or small, they represent the order, carry the cross and do not sing and read, and take the priest that they have in the order to be nothing and their servants». A similar impression was also at some point prominent at the Roman Curia. In summer 1456, Pope Calixtus III in gave orders to th...