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 LULLY'S WRITINGS. 589 which he was qualified as " Saint Raymond Lully, Martyr and Hermit." The Dominican ire was aroused : appeal was made to the Congregation of Rites, which reported that Lully was in- cluded in the Franciscan martyrology under March 29, but that he must not be qualified as a saint, and that a careful examina- tion should be made of his works, to prohibit them if necessary — a recommendation which was never carried out. Yet when, in 1688, Doctor Pedro Bennazar issued at Palma a book in praise of Lully, it was condemned by the Inquisition in 1690 ; and a com- pendium of his theology, by Sebastian Krenzer in 1755, was put on the Index, although this was not done with the numerous contro- versial writings which continued to appear, nor with the great edition of his works published from 1721 to 1742, in the title of which he was qualified as Beatas. Benedict XIV., in his work De Servorum Dei Deatificatione, after carefully weighing the au- thorities on both sides, says that his claims to sanctity are to be suspended until the decision of the Holy See. That decision was postponed for a century. In 1847 Pius IX. approved an office of tk the holy Raymond Lully " for Majorca, where he had been im- memorially worshipped ; the office reciting that so fully was he imbued with the divine wisdom that he who had previously been uncultured was enabled to discourse most excellently on divine things. In 1858, moreover, Pius permitted the whole Franciscan Order to celebrate his feast on November 27. Yet the Domini- cans had not forgotten their old rancor, for in 1857 there appeared in a Roman journal, published under the approbation of the Mas- ter of the Sacred Palace, an argument to prove that the alleged bull of Gregory XI % is still in force, and consequently that Lul- ly's books are forbidden, although they do not appear in the In- dex. This case and that of Savonarola serve to indicate how dangerously nebulous are the boundaries between heresy and sanctity.* Colon. 1608, p. 423.— D'Argentre I. I. 259, 261.— Reusch, Der Index der verbote- nen Biicher, 1. 27-33.— Benedict. PP. XIV. De Servorum Dei Beatif. Lib. I. c. xl. § 4.— Raynald. ann. 1372, No. 35. In 1533 Arnaldo Albertino, Inquisitor of Valencia, complained bitterly of the injustice which ranked as a heretic such a man as Lully. who was inspired by
 * Hist. Gen. de Mall. III. 65-6, 92, 94-5.— Gabrieli Prateoli Elenchus Haeret.