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A Pilgrimage To Rome - Softcover

M. Hobart Seymour

 
9780461777871: A Pilgrimage To Rome

Synopsis

A Pilgrimage To Rome: Containing Some Account Of The High Ceremonies, The Monastic Institutions, The Religious Services, The Sacred Relics, The Miraculous Pictures, And The General State Of Religion In That City — M. Hobart Seymour. This 19th?century travelogue and critical religious ethnography follows a Protestant observer through Rome and northern Italian cities, offering on?site observations of nunneries, Jesuit institutions, papal ceremonies, relics, indulgences, and images. The narrator contrasts humility and devotion with confinement, spectacle, and political power, treating nunneries as prisons, the Jesuits as a potentially pervasive system of obedience, and high ceremonies as theatrical entertainments lacking scriptural grounding. Across chapters on the nunneries, the Jesuits, the High Ceremonies, and the Bambino, the work surveys how worship and power intertwine with wealth, prestige, and public ritual. The book aims to expose imposture, superstition, and doctrinal distortions in Rome while arguing for Scripture?centered worship.

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