In conjunction with du Boys he procured another arrest, and induced the Comte d'Estampes to order the vicars to hasten their proceedings.
Willaume le Febvre surrendered himself to the Bishop of Paris; the Inquisitor of Paris came to Arras to get the evidence concerning him, and the vicars furnished the confessions of those who had implicated him.
Six more arrests were made among the latter, including several women of the town; the affair threatened to spread farther than had at first been expected; the vicars grew timid and concluded to discharge all the prisoners.
At length, at the expense of the prisoners, the inquisitor, with the vicarsand Gilles Flameng, was sent to the Duke of Burgundy at Brussels, to lay before him the evidence of the trials.
In money matters, usually an apple of discord betweenvicars and curates, I had allowed him to do as he pleased.
It is the duty of every ecclesiastic to pray through the breviary once each day; the vicars go through these prayers for the canons as a sort of feudal service.
Bishops are not the vicars of the sovereign pontiff, but the true ordinaries of their dioceses.
In 1475 the college was moved from Castle Street to its present site, so that the vicars should be able more comfortably to attend the night services.
He gave land from the garden of the bishop’s palace for building a dwelling-house for the vicars choral, which was completed in 1475.
He also made various gifts to the cathedral, the chapter, and the college of vicars choral.
The arrangement here may be compared with that of Chichester, as showing the most probable plan of the latter before the destruction of the south walk and its connection with the cloister of the Vicars Choral.
The space between the Wye and the cathedral is filled by the Bishop’s Palace and the college of the Vicars Choral.
Havergal says:—"The late William Cooke acquired an immense amount of information relating to the college and the vicars in olden time.
The entrance to the college of Vicars Choral is from the south side of the Lady Chapel.
These vicars were paid an adequate stipend, usually settled by episcopal authority.
The Regular Canons were allowed in individual cases to serve the parishes that were impropriated to their houses; the monks were always obliged to employ secular vicars in these cures.
She took tithes from churches impropriated to her house, presented the secularvicars to serve the parochial churches, and had all the privileges of a landlord over the temporal estates attached to her abbey.
The monastery became the patron of the benefice thus attached to it, and had to secure that the spiritual needs of the parish were properly attended to by the vicars whom they presented to the cure.
The Norman Conquest ultimately resulted in these men being deprived of their cures and being replaced by ill-paid vicars or parochial chaplains.
The number of possible ecclesiastical appointments does not end with vicars and parochial chaplains.
The church of Hemmingborough, in Yorkshire, was made collegiate in 1426, with a provost or warden, three prebendaries, six vicars choral and six clerks.
The Continuation Certificate stated that a school was to continue at Glasney because it had previously been kept by "one of the said vicars scolemaster .
One of the vicars of Appleby St. Lawrence, Thomas de Burnley, was cited to York for neglecting to serve the chantry in Appleby Castle--doubtless the action was taken at the instigation of the Hereditary High Sheriff.
But it could hardly fail that the Vicars as a body should gradually enter into some sort of relation with the Chapter as a body.
The Vicars would gradually change from deputies of absent Canons into assistants of Canons who at least professed to be present.
And it tends to confound the Priest Vicars of our Old Foundations with men holding a position very inferior to theirs, namely the Petty Canons or Minor Canons of the churches founded by Henry the Eighth.
We can thus understand how there might now be manyVicars unprovided with any place to dwell in.
Chew Magna, pension from the vicarage to the Vicars of Wells, 182.
The Canons lived at the cathedral or not just as they pleased; those who did not reside keeping (as we have incidentally heard) Vicars to discharge their share of the duties of the church.
Legal cavils were raised as to the right both of the Chapter and the Vicars to their possessions.
The Vicars at York are still a purely clerical body, the lay members of the choir being mere stipendiaries.
The Vicarsof Wells then, like the Vicars of most or all of the Old Foundation churches, became a distinct corporation.
This man is famous for the first foundation of our Vicars close in Wels.
They make a strangely impressive series, these crowned Vicars of Christ, who Himself is seen in the midst of them, immediately under the eastern window.
He made the Defenders his vicars in perpetuity, granted the Sienese all conceivable privileges, pardoned everybody everything, accepted a handsome sum of money, and went.
Several times already had he been menaced by Cesare Borgia, for he was one of the Vicars proscribed for the non-payment of tribute due to the Holy See, and at last his hour was come.
We promised in our last number to pay our respects to an infamous calumny about Rome, the capital of the Christian Church, and seat of the Sovereign Pontiffs, Vicars of our Lord Jesus Christ upon earth.
It deputes visitors apostolic to different provinces, appoints vicars in dioceses whose bishops become incapacitated, and sends forth religious to visit the houses of their several orders.
See the eternal Shepherd who does not cease to watch over his flock, and around him his blessed apostles, his vicars on earth, who now from the highest heavens continue to protect and govern the lambs and sheep of the divine fold.
There are now three bishops, vicars apostolic, at Cape Town, Graham’s Town, Natal.
In the countries referred to, there were bishops, vicars apostolic, of this society, and several missionary priests.
The week was scarcely ended, when letters came from nearly all the curates and vicars to the bishop, respectfully requesting him to withdraw his name from “The Society of the Three Masses.
In the beginning of September, 1834, the Bishop Synaie gave me the enviable position of one of the vicars of St. Roch, Quebec, where the Rev.
The next morning the young and jovial vicars gave the story to their friends, and the people of Quebec had a hearty laugh at the expense of our friend.
Playing cards and checkers is now the most usual way the majority of curates and vicars have recourse to spend their long and many idle hours, both of the week and Sabbath days.
I then left to go and tell the curates and vicars the happy issue of my interview with the bishop of Montreal.
After getting my promise that I would never reveal the fact before his death, he assured me that the last bishop had been poisoned by one of his grand vicars in the following way.
The three vicars saw the point, and without being able to answer him a word, they burst into such fits of laughter that the poor curate felt more than ever puzzled.
At twelve o'clock on the Sunday he had not thought of it: he then hastily dined and set off with his vicars general to M.
He then read a few prayers: gave out a neuvaine of prayers beginning on that day, and preceding the feast of the Assumption, to be directed for the tranquillity and well-being of France, by order of the vicars general.
Who would have said that a day would come in which those claiming to be his vicars should cause people to kiss their feet?
He also wished that all the country vicars might have a number of forty crowns, that they might live with decency.
Apparently when Becket's representative ventured on his dangerous errand, deed of excommunication in hand, the canons' vicars or vicars choral sang the services.
The vicars choral either now or later had dwindled down to six, and seem to have been only in minor orders.
The Vicars Choral of other foundations are now called Minor Canons.
When such was the fate of an Archbishop of Canterbury, the straits to which the ejected vicarsor disabled curates were brought can be imagined--but scarcely described.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
