A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations.

Date:
1786
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Credit: A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nasteries which they had without the cities, lived, of their own labour, by Agriculture and other works; and alfo of oblations, made to them by the faithful. But in cities they lived by their feveral occupations, and by fuch appointments as were allotted to them by the Churchy at the public expence. The former, or rural Monks, retained much longer the antient difcipline;—but of the the latter, thofe who became the clerical, by di- viding to their feparate emolument the goods of the Churchy loft, proportionably, of the eftimation of the People: whence it came that few gave or bequeathed any thing conliderable to them ; and thus would have ceafed the augmentation of the acquefts of the Church. But the Monks conti- nuing to live in common, and to perform ads of piety and benevolence, were the caufe that the public liberality, not becoming extind, and only changing its diredion, was exerted towards them; which was greatly inftrumental to the encreafe of eccleiiaftical wealth: and progreffively, their poffeffions exceedingly were enlarged by grants andbequefts, to the maintenance of a great num- ber