Storia do Mogor 358.5.1

358.5.1

You can see this again, gentlemen, in an extract from the Register [227] of the Council of State, inscribed in the Rule of the Capuchin fathers, already referred to; and if you read you will find the following words: 'His Majesty ordained that their first place of establishment should be the city of Paris, in a spot adjoining his royal palace, the Louvre, in order that France, from the position of that site and the situation of that first foundation of the said Capuchin fathers in the realm, might hold in greater veneration the memory of the prince to whom the public were thus indebted. This desire was felicitously carried into effect by the said King Charles IX. selecting a site in the Rue St. Honoré, close to his palace of the Tuileries, adjoining his gardens.' The Pope Gregory XIII., having received a report of the above fact, sent some Capuchins as a mark of his joy to found this establishment in France, praising and holding up to admiration in a Brief the zeal and piety of the above-named king, who for furthering the glory of God possessed a zeal which passed on to Henry III., and equally to the Queen Catharine dei Medici, his mother, and to the princes of his house, as is apparent and results from the Letters Patent of the King Henry III., granted in the month of July, 1576. These prove with precision that the introduction of the Capuchin fathers and their convents into France was secured by the common desire of the royal family.