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A69462	Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.; De pietate Romana. English	Ameyden, Dirk, 1586-1656.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. Pietas Parisiensis.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3033; Wing W3450; ESTC R10919	86,950	204

multiplied twelve to one hundred and sixty which are entertained at present And indeed God's Blessing hath already so visibly appeared upon this holy foundation that since the year 1637 till this present year 1666 the year wherein this relation was first published it is augmented by the Charities of Paris in point of buildings to the value of five hundred thousand french Livres and as much more in foundation of beds making in all a french Million besides sixty thousand Livres in annual Revenues That part which relates to the bodily care of the Incurables and the continual assistances which are necessary for those poor creatures which are incapable in the least to help themselves is performed by good young-men as to the poor men who out of Devotion subject themselves to that abject imployment taking a reasonable consideration for that holy and hard service And as to the women there are modest Secular Maids who comply with the like good offices with much religion sweetness and compassion The other duty which concerns their Souls is abundantly discharged by the continual sollicitudes of a company of most pious Priests who live in the place to be ready upon every call and who are so absolutely free from all self interest that they pour out their own substance in that Christian Service in lieu of gathering together any riches thereby Witness Mr. Despond the Vicar who hath the chief charge of the Spirituality of the place who out of his own Patrimony in a few years that he hath lived there hath given to the house above twelve thousand Livres with intention to leave his fair and well chosen Library which is worth ten thousand more for the use thereof In a word the beautiful contrivance of the whole building the excellency of the situation and the odour of the admirable Charity practiced therein delightfully allures persons of great worth and honour to reside there Abbots Counsellors c Who after they have given ample testimonies of their abilities in profitably serving the publick the best of their years know to make a holy retreat and to sacrifice up the honourable rest of what they sometimes were to God along in that devout Sanctuary where they build themselves noble quarters during their lives to be left to the Hospital as Monuments of their Piety after their deaths Most worthily may be added to these that most famous Bishop of Beslay that Lover of the poor and poverty which he truly practiced for tho he did not actually live with them yet did his affection and approbation always accompany them his ambition as he oft said never going higher than to be reputed a poor Chaplain of that holy family Hence he left them what he had and the relicks of what he had been to be interred in their Church Requiescat in pace CHAP. XIV Of divers other Charities which cannot so well be particularized THere are many other excellent works of Charity exercised in Paris As in that Hospital of the Racquet in the Suburbs of St. Anthony's which depends on another in the Town behind the Place Royal governed by a company of good Nuns of St. Augustine's Order who receive a many good Burgesses in their infirmities and incommodities and treat them with much charity and goodness affording them handsome beds good diet and all things necessary There are other two houses effects of the late Charities of Paris the one for men and the other for women newly converted The first in St. Victor's Suburbs the other near St. Eustache's They are taken in and maintained gratis for three months space at least to be thoroughly instructed and constantly setled in the truth God so blessed the pious endeavours of a good Lady called Madam D'Estang among the good people of Paris That she has procured subsistance for two hundred and fifty poor young Maids which her care hath gathered together who by her grave prudence are modestly and christianly bred and carefully kept out of harms way to which that Sex and those green years are but too incident Multitudes of Girls are taught for meer Charity to serve God to read to write to work divers kinds of work whereby they are enabled to become good Housewifes at home or to gain their liveli-hood among the Merchants Taught as well in Religious houses especially the Vrsulanes whose proper Profession it is as in divers particular Congregations which are common all over Paris where good Widdows and ancient Matrons devote themselves to that pious care To conclude poor distressed people of the general Hospital the otherwise deserted Gally-slaves and the desolate Prisoners often experience the comfortable visits of the noblest Ladies of Paris who solace the first with their affable and pious Discourse and oftentimes deliver the later by paying the summe for which they were imprisoned One of the most principal of pious Works being the building Churches for God's publick Service and houses of Religious by whom he may be more constantly and without all secular distractions adored The City of Paris for these is much renowned the Catholick Piety of which in thirty years space hath produced at least forty considerable Churches and Chappels with fair Monasteries to the most of them A particular Catalogue of which is here exhibited In St. James's Suburbs are these which follow 1. The Institution of the Oratory 2. Port Royal. 3. Vall de Grace 4. The Fuliantines 5. The Vrsulines 6. The Visitation In St. German's Suburbs 7. Calvaire 8. The Carmes 9. The Jesuites Novitiate 10. The Misericordia 11. The Dixe Vertue 12. Chasse Midy 13. The Incurables 14. Belchace 15. The Jacobines 16. The Petits Austines In St. Mercel's Suburbs 17. The Misericordia 18. The Pitie In the Vniversity 19. St. Stephen's re-edified a New 20. The Sorbon 21. Clermont 22. St. Nicholas now making all a New 23. Bons Enfants In the Isle de Nostre Dame 24. St. Lewis In the Isle de Palais 25. The Barnabites In St. Honories Suburbs 26. Villevesque 27. Conception 28. The Assumption 29. The Feulliens 30. St. Roch. In the Town it self 31. The Oratorians 32. The little Augustines 33. The Nuns of St. Thomas 34. The Carmelites 35. St. Eustace re edified 36. The Carmelites rue Chapan 37. The Jesuites rue St. Anthony 38. The Visitation rue S. Anthony 39. The Minimes 40. The Carmes Mitigez Now if thus much be said for the Piety which appears in the Walls what might not justly be said for the religious lives of the heavenly Inhabitants Who endeavouring to follow the Evangelical Counsels which certainly were not given by Wisdome it self to fall fruitless to the ground to be neglected by all men to be imitated by none of a more perfect way of life than the meer keeping the Commandments as these oblige all men under penalty of sin went and sold or abandoned all that they had and all that they could hope for in this world to become thereby the poor of Christ and take up their Cross that is a penitential life gave it to the poor and followed him by imitating his divine chastity poverty and obedience as far forth as by his grace they are capable thereof Who have but one heart and one soul in our Lord one common habitation one purse one pantery and live at such a distance from any real propriety that these cold words Meum Tuum Mine and Thine the sourse of all dissentions are banished out of their Society Whose whole application as well by profession as practice is to God and godly Studies whose exercise is to pray and sing heavenly Psalms Hymns and Canticles before the throne of God day and night in a word whose Conversation is intirely in Heaven FINIS

great and capacious having within its precincts divers Palaces with their distinct Courts In one apartment are maintained forty Nurses that are imployed in giving suck and nursing up the Infants abandoned by their parents besides these others which for their exceeding great number amount sometimes to two thousand are put abroad to nurse at such a rate for here they refuse none Bastards or Legitimates if in a perishing condition In the second apartment are maintained about four hundred and fifty of the same children after they are a little grown and then they have their masters and servants to teach them the Christian Doctrine to read and write and some beginnings of those Trades they seem most inclined to That at twelve or thirteen years old they may be put forth and bound thereto in order to subsist of themselves In the third apartment are kept above five hundred of the girls and are there cloistered in the Monastery dedicated to St. Tecla standing within the precincts of the said Hospital where they are educated by fourteen Nuns of St. Augustine's Order in the discipline of that Rule and by many other Mistresses in all the arts and skills proper for women and every year forty of them are given in marriage according to the order of Pope Sixtus which is done still on the Wednesday in Whitsun-week For then all the Bridegrooms are invited to a sumptuous feast and the Virgins having their dowries and other provisions sutable to their new condition given to them are each of them sent away with their husbands And that the Bridegrooms may before hand sometimes see those whom they will make choice of for their Brides The Virgins are led forth thrice a year in procession First on the Sunday next to St. Anthony's day when they go to St. Peter's next on St. Mark 's day beginning from his Church the Procession of the Litanies and ending it at St. Peter's Whither also they go forth a third time on Whit-monday the Volto Santo being there shewn them at their first and last Procession The fourth apartment contains the sick in a lower gallery so long and so large that 't is capable of a thousand single beds which commonly in the summer are all filled with sick persons And on the outside thereof next the streets runs along a Portico or open Cloister the full length of the Gallery into which at several doors come forth those that tend and serve the sick after they have done with them and cleansed all within to take by turns a little air and refreshment tho the Gallery it self of the sick is always kept most sweet and neat Opposite to this Gallery on the other side of the Court stand the several chambers for such sick persons whose infirmities are of that quality that it is not fit to lodge them with others but each must have a chamber apart Cross the upper end of the Gallery below are several roomes as so many Apothecaries shops the best furnished of any in Rome of all things necessary for diseased persons Over these are several Chambers well furnished and fitted for such persons of quality as falling sick have not the conveniency to be so well looked to and tended elsewhere For these Pope Sixtus the fourth hath built a Palace apart as this Memorial testifies Nobilium calamitate aegritudine motus seorsim ab aliis locum idoneum decenter que ornatum his tribuit Great care is here also taken of all those things which the sick bring hither with them whether cloaths goods or moneys All being inventoryed and deposited in the Treasurers hands to be punctually restored to them if they recover or to their heirs if they dye In this great building are also two other places of note The one is the Palace of the Commendator and his family which consists of some Ninety in number All which have their employments offices and charges about the sick He going himself often to visit them And besides many appointed Physitians and Surgeons who in their turns if need be watch whole nights with their patients for nothing is omitted that may conduce to the health of the body Besides the religious men of that order who are perpetually upon the place and other servants that are paid their wages for it There are many Monks and Fryars of all orders that dayly visit the sick not only exhorting them to patience and feeding their souls with the word of God but bringing them likewise early fruits and the first of all sorts that the season there affords and sometimes sweetmeats and other refreshing things coming from forreign parts Among these persons are chiefly the Priests of the Congregation of the Oratory founded not many years since by the authority of St. Philip Neri whose institute and approved vertues require to be spoken of more particularly in another place The other place is the Church touch'd upon before together with the chambers adjoining for the foremention'd Religious and for the other Priests who assist the sick For besides the Penitentiary who assoon as any sick persons are brought in the first place heareth their confessions others administer the Sacraments to them That of the Eucharist and when the case requires it that of Extreame Vnction others accompany the departing Souls with the Church's prayers and recommendations There be four Chaplains to say Mass And those sick who lye below have there in the middle of their Gallery a neat Chappel with an Organ often play'd on also for the recreation of the sick And those above have another but more adorned and with rich hangings and Church vestments The yearly Revenue of the whole is very great and amounts to near a hundred thousand Gold Crowns every Crown being worth 7. sh 6. d. that is About thirty seven thousand five hundred pounds Sterling per Annum To this so excellent a piece of Charity as we see here exercised there is adjoyned another no less munificent which is That there belongs to the place certain Coaches and Litters for sick people wherein they are carryed up and down in places ot more wholsome air of the City especially those persons that wast away in languishing Fevers that according to the prescript of their Doctors they may take some freer air II. The Hospital for the Sick near St. John Laterans Near the Lateran Church John the Cardinal Columna whom Pope Honorius the third about year 1216. admitted into the sacred Colledge built a very large Hospital for poor sick people dedicating it to our Saviour as this title in stone testifies Hospital Salvat Refugium Pauperum Infirmorum And endowed it with a great Revenue the government and care of which he hath committed to the congregation of the Gentlemen of Rome by whose means the wealth thereof is not a little increased This Hospital is a double one one part for men the other for women and a street or publick-way between both either of them are served by ministers and attendants of

amounted in all to five hundred thousand Franks making half a french Million to the eternal praise of the Charity of Paris be it remembered for ever CHAP. IV. The Establishment of an Hospital in St. Lazar's Suburbs for those Children found exposed in the Streets And of the Dames and Sisters of the Charity in Paris and elsewhere AS Mr. Vincent and the pious Parisian Ladies Charities had wrought and were still working wonders among the poor distressed people abroad so his and their pious care did not the while overlook Paris nor was wanting at home Here he considered the lamentable condition of so many poor abandon'd new-born Infants whose bodies and souls are exposed to utter perdition either by the unnatural cruelty of naughty women or by the extream poverty of necessitous parents who covertly leave them in the streets to all adventures of which kind of deserted Innocents it is observed in this vast world of Paris that scarce a year passes without three or four hundred in the town and suburbs and such a growing nursery every one will judge cannot be maintained with a little He therefore by their charity procured an Hospital to be built in St. Lazar's suburbs for the future reception of such children as were found so exposed the annual maintenance whereof amounts to no less than four thousand pistols which is still growing up to more and more for Charitas numquam excidit And these poor souls are till this day nourished and brought up under the care and assistance of ten or twelve good Sisters of the Charity with the help of a number of Nurses who live in the said Hospital together with a many more in the Country who receive a monthly pay When they are once weaned they are delivered back to the Sisters of the Charity who in teaching them to speak teach them also to pray to know God to love and serve him As they grow up in years they are taught some little works to keep them out of idleness till providence sort them with some fit occasion for their future being The same Father also by his powerful exhortations and for the advancing them in the fear of God and of their poor neighbours as also for the more plentiful relief of the necessitous prevailed with the Princesses and Dutchesses and other Ladies of the prime Nobility of Paris to the number of two hundred and above to devest themselves of the rich and sumptuous robes suitable to their illustrious conditions and to present themselves in the Hospitals in the modest attire of simple gentlewomen with aprons before them to serve and comfort the most despicable creatures alive as common Beggars Porters and wounded Soldiers most nasty and gastly to behold And this they make their business and go seriously about it as if it were a thing belonging to them of duty without discovering any niceness of or disdainfulness thereat Nor do they go thither for fashion sake and by way of divertisement but as their hearts are full of compassion upon the beholding of such sad objects so are their mouths full of consolation and instruction and their hands no less replenished with charitable presents agreeable to the infirmities of those otherwise contemptible creatures if they did not eye our Saviour Christ in them which relief the poverty of the Hospitals could not ordinarily afford to so vast numbers Whereas those good Ladies made plentiful provision thereof in every kind in a Chamber near adjoining which they hired to that purpose And every day by turns four of them performed that pious ministery of going from bed to bed to make the distribution with an humble meekness well suited to so Christian a work By these familiar and pleasing corporal assistances the good Ladies gained the hearts of those poor people and in consequence their Souls for it was observed that in the space of one year they induced seven hundred and sixty of those infirm and maimed persons to abjure their Heresy and imbrace the Catholick Faith To say nothing of multitudes of others who were moved by their vertuous examples and wholsome advice to make general confessions and to resolve of a more Christian life than formerly they had led Nor did this superlative example of christianity keep within the compass of what these noble Ladies performed in their own persons but as the nature of good is to be communicative it spread it self not only all over Paris but even extended to many remote Villages and Diocesses to the extream solace and relief of poor honest families who were as little accustomed to beg their bread as otherwise little able to gain it by their daily labours The Institution of the Charity in the most of or even all the Parishes of Paris The blessed example of these good Ladies served as the primum mobile under God to incite other Ladies of an inferiour rank together with many honest and vertuous Burgesses of the best sort to emulate them in so blessed a practice and it had so powerful an influence upon them that the most or even all the parishes of Paris have meetings at least every month being all associated together in a holy confraternity to discover and confer upon the necessities of their respective parishes at the Curate's house and accordingly by collections among themselves to provide relief for them The distribution of their charitable collections was at first performed by the good Ladies own hands who took the pains to go and visit the poor and the sick of the parish and take a more particular assurance of each ones necessity but in a small time they were taught by experience that some other course was to be taken to carry on so pious a work effectually for they found that partly the care of their family could scarce dispense with their absence partly their husbands had no great satisfaction in their conversation with such infirm and nasty poor people but especially they saw that their small strength and skill in that kind came not home to the necessities of the sick wherefore they advised of some better way And Mr. Vincent who never was at a loss to invent means to promote charity found out and setled a constant and effectual way to continue the work and it was this M. Le Gras sometime wife to Mr. Le Gras Secretary to Queen Margaret now Widow whose maiden name was Marilac of the family of the most vertuous and famous Chancellor of that name who had the most eloquent and pious Camus Bishop of Bellay for her spiritual Director till he delivered her up into Mr. Vincent's hands where she was like to lose nothing in point of her propension to serve the poor this vertuous Lady I say was the person pitched upon by her present Director as the prime instrument for the designed settlement And certainly divine providence was as much in this choice as her undertakings were blessed with admirable success For she being wholly addicted to the service of the sick he trained