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DEATH OF GONZAGA AND SERIPANDO. 3II
whither the Cardinal had sent him to found a college of the
Society of Jesus. ^
In the Congregation of Marcli 8th, Seripando, too, was
attacked by a dangerous illness, which caused his death on
the 17th. The celebrated General of the Augustinians died
as piously as he had lived. He insisted on receiving the last
sacraments fully dressed and on his knees. As certain views
which he had formerly advanced, concerning original sin and
justification, had shaken the confidence of many persons in the
perfect purity of his faith, the dying man took the occasion to
recite one by one, in the presence of the most distinguished
theologians, the articles of the Creed, and to swear that he had
believed them all without the least doubt.
More than any of the members of the Council to deplore the
loss of their colleagues, who had been distinguished by such
splendid qualities, were the two surviving legates, Hosius and
Simonetta. They felt the responsibility which was now laid
upon their shoulders all the more heavily as the differences of
opinion regarding the relations between the primacy and the
episcopate, and about the duty of residence, continued with
undiminished force, while the demands for reform on the part
of the French and the Emperor were daily growing more
urgent. In addition to all these difficulties there now came
the want of money caused by the death of Gonzaga,^ and the
outbreak of bloody combats among the retainers of the French,
Spanish and Italian prelates, in consequence of which the
holding of Congregations was altogether prevented from
March 9th to the 15th. "^
1 C/. BoNDONUs, 565; Mendo^a, 672; PoGiANi Epist., III.,
258; Pallavicini, 20, 6, 1-3 ; Sickel, Konzil, 439 ; Beitrage, I.,
52; Giuliani, 119; Susta, III., 253 seq., 257 seq. : Astrain,
II., 187 seq.
^ See BoNDONUs, 565-6 ; Mendgqa, 674 ; Paleavicini, 20,
7, 6-8; Zeitschr. fiir Kirchengesch. V., 615 seq.; §usta, III.,
263 seq., 277 ; Merkle, II., Ixxi seq., where there are details as
to the tomb and will of the Cardinal.
' See SusTA, III., 282 seq.
* Cf. Theiner, II., 256 ; BoNDONUs, 56, Mendoqa, 673 seq. ;
Sickel, Konzil, 468.
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