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 588 INTELLECT AND FAITH. diligent search failed to find the desired document, though it was alleged that two volumes of the year 13S6 could not be found. Battle was now fairly joined between the partisans of Evmerich and those of Lully. In 1583 the Congregation of the Index deter- mined to include Lully among the prohibited writers, but ao-ain Spanish influence was strong enough to prevent it. Under Sixtus V. there was another attempt, but Juan Arce de Herrera, in the name of Philip II., presented an Apologia to the Congregation of the Index, and again the danger was conjured. "When the Index of Clement VIII. was in preparation the question was again taken up, June 3, 1594, and rejected out of respect for Spain ; at the re- quest of the Spanish ambassador the pope was asked to order a complete set of Lully's works to be sent to Rome for examination, that the matter might be definitely settled ; but this was not done, and in March, 1595, it was announced that his name was omitted from the Index. In 1611 Philip III. revived the controversy by applying to Paul Y. for the canonization of Lully and the expur- gation of Eymerich's Directorium / a request which was repeated by Philip IY. After a confused controversy, it was determined that certain articles admittedly extracted from his books were dan- gerous, audacious, and savoring of heresy, and some of them man- ifestly erroneous and heretical. At a sitting, under the presidency of the pope himself, held August 29, 1619, it was resolved to send this censure to the Spanish nuncio, with instructions to inform the king and the inquisitors that Lully's books were forbidden. Then came an appeal from the kingdom of Majorca begging that the books might be corrected, to which Paul replied, August 6, 1620, imposing silence ; and on August 30 Cardinal Bellarmine drew up for the Inquisition a final report that Lully's doctrine was for- bidden until corrected, adding his belief that correction was im- possible, but that the condemnation was thus phrased so as to mitigate its severity. Thus Lully was branded by the Holy See as a heretic, but, out of respect for the Spanish court, the sentence was never published : the matter was supposed by the public to be undecided, and the worship of him as a saint continued unin- terruptedly. Paynaldus, in fact, writing in 1658, states that the question is still sub judice. About the same time certain Jesuits took up his cause against the Dominicans, and in 1662 a transla- tion of his " Triumph of Love " appeared in Paris, on the title of