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 586 INTELLECT AND FAITH. plain of Eymerich's enormous crimes, and to supplicate Lis re- moval. The envoy stopped at Barcelona to solicit the co-opera- tion of that powerful community, and the town council, after lis- tening to him, resolved that if the action of Valencia was general and not special, they would make " one arm and one heart " with their sister city ; and, moreover, they begged the pope to com- mand some prelate of the kingdom to examine and declare, under papal authority, whether the articles attributed to Lully had been justly or unjustly condemned by Eymerich.* The popular effervescence grew so strong that in 1393 Eyme- rich was again banished by Juan I. He ended his life in exile, maintaining to the end the enormity of Lully's heresy and the genuineness of Gregory's bull. Antonio Kiera, a Lullist who was active in the matter, he denounced as a heretic who foretold that before the end of the century all divine service would cease, that churches would be used as stables, and the laws of Christian, Jew, and Saracen would be converted into one ; but which of these three it would be he could not tell. Meanwhile, in 1395, the Holy See granted the prayer of the Lullists for an examination, and the Cardinal of San Sesto was sent as special commissioner for the purpose. Gregory's registers for 1376 were carefully examined, and the archivists testified that no record of the bull in question could be found. Still the question would not remain settled, for the honor of the Dominican Order and the Inquisition was at stake, and again, in 1119, another investigation was held. The papal legate, Cardinal Alamanni, deputed Bernardo, Bishop of Citta di Castello, to examine the matter definitely. His sentence pronounced the bull to be evidently false, and all action taken un- der it to be null and void, but expressed no opinion on the writ- ings of Lully, which he reserved for the decision of the Holy See. From that time forth the genuineness of the bull remained a mat- ter hotly contested. Father Bremond prints it as authentic, and declares that after a dispassionate examination he is convinced that it is so ; that the original autograph is preserved in the ar- chives at Gerona, and he quotes Bzovius to the effect that the Lullists themselves admit that it is in the archives of Barcelona, Tarragona, and Valencia, whose bishops would not have admitted
 * D'Argentre 1. 1. 258, 260.— Hist. Gen. de Mall. III. 82-4.— Pelayo, I. 784-5.