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<dl><dd>CONTENTS.</dd></dl><p>CHAPTER I. 
Introductory obterrationt — Birth of Michele Ghisiieri — Entrance into a Dominican Monastery — Inquisitor — executes the office with zeal and danger in various places — Commissary — made Cardinal Alessandrino — Supreme Inquisitor — Felice Peretti Sub-inquisitor — Accession of Pius IV. — promoted to Bishopric of Mondovi — Death of Pius IV 1
CHAPTER II. 
Election of Cardinal Alessandrino to the Papal throne under the name of Pius V. — Ceremonies of Election — Coronation — First Acts of the new Pontiff — Council of Trent — Inquisition — Index of Prohibited Books — Catechism — Sovereigns during the Pontificate of Pius V. — Corrupt morals of the Roman Clergy — Germany and the Emperor — The Turks 19
CHAPTER III. 
France — Publication of the Bull In Coma Domini — Clerical concubinage — Queen of Navarre — Geneva — Avignon — Renewed disturbances in France — Alleged outrages by Protestant army, and reflexion — Succours to France — Victory over Reformed at Jarnac — Pius's Letters in consequence — Italy — Victory over Reformed at Moncontour — History of France pursued to Pacification in 1570 — Alarm and opposition of Pius — Effect of the Pontiff's instructions — Insincerity of the Court in the Peace — Insults by the Romanists 62 
CHAPTER IV. 
Spain — Flanders — Duke of Alva — Naples — the Two Indies — Principal Constitutions of Pius — Breviary — Vices of the Clergy — Missal — Inquisition — Rosary — Baius — Reputed heretics, Bishop of Kiow, Dudith, two Hungarians, Carranza, Cellario, Carnesecchi, Paleario, many others — Germany 84 
CHAPTER V. 
England — Letter of Pius to Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland — Italy — Pius's letter to Catherine of France — Bull against Queen Elizabeth — Mary Queen of Scots — Poland — Prussia — Venice — Milan — Miscellaneous Notices — Aquinas — Bonaventure — Female Pope John VIII. — Canon Law revised — Douay — National Synods 122 
CHAPTER VI. 
League against the Turk — Victory over the Turkish fleet in the Ionian sea — Pius's addresses to the different Powers — France — Marriage with the King of Navarre — Camillo Capilupi's Stratagema — Alessandrino's legation — Satisfied of the French king's intention — Pius's letter to Charles concerning the marriage — Four royal letters indicative of the intention of the court — Progress of the system of treachery — Direction to the event of the St. Bartholomew massacre — Its accomplishment — Monument Inidits — Hisloire des Massacres, and Diverse Lettres — The intelligence how received at Rome — Medal of Gregory XIII. — French medals 178 
CHAPTER VII. 
Illness and death of the Pontiff - His body deposited in St. Peter's — Removed to S. Maria Maggiore — Inscription — Beatification — Canonization — Medal — Service in Breviary — Reflexions — Parallel of characters of Saul before conversion, and of Pius V. 218 
Appendix 247 
Episcopal Oath of Allegiance to the Pope 281 
Index 315 
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Mendham, Joseph, 1769-1856</div>
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