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To: Mrs. Don-o

Turibius of Mongrovejo.... Guess you've got me there. I'm a little behind on my Curia history (or whatever type of history I should have studied more diligently at some point)!


44 posted on 11/11/2005 5:33:46 PM PST by springing interest
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To: springing interest
Here's a pretty good entry on my man Turibius.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14781a.htm

You'll notice he was a lawyer with the Inquisition. (Yes, there is even such a thing as a good Inquisitor!) He went to South America and convened Tribunals in which the local clergy were accused by laypeople of extorting money, living with concubines, public drunkenness, and various other forms of corruption.

Turibius dealt with them strictly, but not brutally. He was about meticulously careful investigation, exposure, and repentance. He went after the powerful and confronted them to their faces. He was often in danger of assassination. Yet he was fearless. He had a tremendous love of Jesus and of the Indians and the poor.

Why don't we know THIS history?! It is glorious. Heroic manhood always moves me, right down to the heart.

45 posted on 11/11/2005 5:50:03 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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