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 ogg THE SLAVIC CATHARI. ever stronger and the Church sank lower and 1«-?- f ^^ ^;. Bosnian bishops dared no longer to remam m the see bu re sided in Djakovar. So little reverence was ^^^'^^' }"" '^^!' gions for the Holy See that so near as Trieste when, m 1264 two Dominicans commissioned to preach the crusade ^^^^ f ^u^J endeavored to perform their duty, the dean and canons hustled them v^lently out of the church, and would not even allow them oTdress th^ crowd in the puhUc sq-e, w^i the archdeac^ publicly declared that any one who hstened to them was excom "'Thtgs*grew worse with the accession, in 1272, of Bela's grand- «nn T adfslas IV known as the Cuman, from his mother Ehzabeth, Tmelet of it pagan tnbe. Ladislas l^ved with the Cumans and shared their religion until his contempt ^-^^"^^J^l^:^ manifested itself in the most offensive manner The p jl 1|^J^> FihuDO Bishop of Fermo, had called a council to meet at Buda wieT^ad;: J ordered the magistrates of the city -t J P-m. the entrance of any prelates, or the supplymg of any food to the legate who was thus forced to depart ignommiously. This called down upon him the anger of Kodolph of Hapsburg and o Charles of Iniou and he was fain, in 1280, to make reparation, not only by a htmbteCologv and a grant of one hundred marks per annum for th "foi^Lfof a hospital, but by adopting and pubhshmg as he aw of the ifnd all the Vl statutes against heresy, and swear^ Lg to enforce them vigorously, while his mother Ehzabeth dd th! same as Duchess of Bosnia. Somethmg was gamed by this and still more, when,in 1282,Ladislas appointf as ™ler of Bo^^^^^^^^ his brother-in-law, Stephen Dragutin, the exiled Kmg of S^rvia. The latter although a Greek, persecuted the Cathari; and when, Ibou 1290 he w!s converted to Cathohcism, his zeal increased. £lt toRome Marino, Bishop of Antivari to -P-t the pr. dominance of heresy and to ask for aid Nicholas V promptly responded by commissioning a legate to Andreas III., the new Zrof HuLry, to preach a crusade, and the Emperor Kodolph wlfordered to I sistf but the eifort was bootless. Equally vain Tas hS^command to the Franciscan Minister of Slavonia to select . Rainerii Summa (Marteue Thesaur.V. 1768).-Klaic, p. 153.-Theiner Menu- menta Slavor. Meridional. I. 90.