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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The President General of the Benedictine order sent a eloquent letter to the Emperor of Germany protesting the suppression of religious societies, emphasizing the order's historical service to humanity with statistics on popes, cardinals, bishops, saints, and martyrs.
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April 8.
According to a foreign print, the President General of the order of Benedictines has written a letter to the Emperor of Germany respecting the suppression of religious societies, couched in terms the most nervous, expressive, dignified and elegant. This ancient and learned body pleaded the universal use they have been of to mankind; and of whose order, they say there have been twenty Popes, two hundred Cardinals, seven hundred Archbishops, forty-one thousand five hundred Bishops, four thousand Saints, and three thousand Martyrs!!
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plea against suppression of religious societies, highlighting order's contributions: 20 popes, 200 cardinals, 700 archbishops, 41,500 bishops, 4,000 saints, 3,000 martyrs
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The President General of the Benedictines wrote a letter to the Emperor of Germany on the suppression of religious societies, described as nervous, expressive, dignified, and elegant. The order pleaded its universal usefulness to mankind and listed its historical members.