A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages volume 2
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PERSECUTION IN HUNGARY. 543 he could not have effected more. Earnestly tlie Bishops of Csa- nad and Transylvania appealed to him to visit their dioceses, which abounded in heretics ; and as the latter prelate speaks of the Huss- ites having penetrated to his bishopric from Moldavia, it shows how widely the heresy had been diffused through southeastern Europe. * Suddenly, in 1437, Fra Giacomo's career was interrupted. He had crushed the Fraticelh of Italy, the wild Cathari of Bosnia, and the fie...rcer Hussites of Hungary, but when he attacked the orthodox concubinary priests of Fiinfkirchen, and strove to force them to abandon the illicit partners who w^ere universally kept, they proved too strong for even his iron will and seasoned nerves, backed though he was by the power of pope and kaiser and the awful authority of the Inquisition. They raised such a storm at this attempted invasion of their accustomed privileges that he w^as obliged to abandon his work and fly for his Hfe. He appealed to Eugenius, and Eugenius to Sigismund.
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