OF Universal Church History. BY THE REV. DR. JOHN ALZOG, Professor of Theology at the University of Freiburg. TRANSLATED, WITH ADDITIONS, FROM THE NINTH AND LAST GERMAN EDITION, BY F. J. PABISCH, Doctor of Theology, of Canon and of Civil Law, President of the Provincial AND Rev. THOS. S. BYRNE, Professor at Mount St. Mary's Seminary. In Three Volumes. WITH THREE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES AND THREE ECCLESIASTICO-GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS. 67.606 Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, by ROBERT CLARKE & CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Stereotyped by OGDEN, CAMPBELL & Co., Cincinnati. 10.50.80 D ·A+7 PREFACE. THE second volume of the translation of Dr. Alzog's Universal Church History, like the first, enjoys the sanction of the proper ecclesiastical authorities. The translators take this occasion to thank many prelates of the country for their cordial approbation; and reviewers, Catholic and non-Catholic, at home and abroad, for their judicious notices and words of encouragement. Much will of course be said of the bulk of the present volume, but no one can be more alive to the fact than the translators themselves, or more sincerely wish the pages were fewer than they are. Under the circumstances it could not be otherwise. First of all, the work of editing has been far more extensive and laborious in this than the preceding volume. While conscientiously careful not to omit a single sentence of the original, the translators have introduced much that is wholly new, from reliable sources, relating chiefly to countries where the English language is spoken, and in some sections-as, for instance, in that treating of the British Isleshave used the text only as an outline for their guidance. The labor which such additions unavoidably entailed, will, in a measure, account for the delay in bringing out the book. Again, the author has himself made very important changes and considerable additions in the later German editions of his history, which are now reproduced for the first time in a translation. In preparing his eighth edition Dr. Alzog entirely recast his former text-book of one volume, added much new matter, partially improved the faults of brevity and obscurity in his sentences by the employment of a more copious diction, and issued the work as a Manual in |