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eral new Indulgences were granted to the confra- ternity erected in the church of San Nicolo at Verona and by the Brief ''Universi Dominici gregis", 23 Sep- tember, 18G2, the Confraternity of the Cord of St. Joseph was raised to an archconfruternitj-. The members are obhged to wear a cord luixiug seven knots, and are exliorted to recite daily sewn Cilorias in honour of St. Joseph. Confraternities of the Cord of St. Joseph must be aggregated to the archconfra- ternity in the church of San Rocco at Rome in order to enjoy its spiritual favours and Indulgences.

(4) Confraternity oj the Cord of St. Thomas.— It is related in the life of St. Thomas Aquinas that, as a reward for his overcommg a temptation against purity, he was girded with a cord by angels, and that in consequence he was never again tempted against this virtue. This cord is still preserved in the church at Chieri near Turin. Soon after the saint's death many of the faithful began to wear a cord in honour of St. Thomas, to obtain the grace of purity through his intercession. In the seventeenth century socie- ties were formed at different uni\xTsities, the student members of which wore a cord in honour of St. Thomas, ho]jing through his intercession to be pro- tected from the dangers to which youth is generally exposed. The first Confraternity of the Cord of St. Thomas was erected at the University of Louvain by the Belgian Dominican Francis Deuwerders, and num- bered among its members all the professors and students of the faculty of theology and many of the faithful. Thence it spread to Maastricht, Vienna, and many other cities of Europe. Innocent X sanc- tioned this new confraternity by a Brief dated 22 March, 1652. The members are required to have their names em-oUed, to wear a cord with fifteen knots, and to recite daily fifteen Ave Marias in liouour of St. Thomas. For the erection of and recc|jtiun into this confraternity special faculties must be had from the superior general of the Dominicans. Its Indulgences and privileges are contained in the great Bull of Bene- dict XIII, "Pretiosus" (26 April, 1727, § 9) and in the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences (8 May, IS-l'l). (See Ahchconfrateknity.)

MOCCHEGIAXI, Collectio III,) .''I' n!.:.^' ,:n i jii il :icclli, 1897),

1018-24, 1026-35; Berini;i i ," i li n rd., Pader-

bom. 1895), 722-23. 712-1-i; - !i .itdhenlica

.S. Cong. Indutg. (Ratisbon, l^^i . 'i., .,^,^ i ;_-ori: Idem, Decrela Authentica S. Cong. Induto.ab a. Ibt.'t i ^^ ' l:.iti-lion, 1883): Idkm. Die Abliisse. ihr Wesen und (. ~ :. I'd.,

Paderborn, 1884), 479-481, 540, 579, 70r.. i i ir,

Vollstdndiger Inbegriff der Gnaden und Abln /. h: .^Ur-

schaft Maria vom Trosle (lOth ed., Ratisbon, IMiU'; I'rkxdeh- GAST, The Cord of St. Francis (12th ed., Dublin. 1885); Gac- DENTlus, Ablass~iind Brudevsch, I-. ', ~ ■ ;-, : / r,l.,

Rome. lS7Si: I,-- i-, /'■ ■ i ■. i • ■■■ i ■ i:;hl

in der ihm gewcihtcn Ourlrlbruit'r.'^chajt ( lUitisiinn, ls>>.>i; iint- stehung und Zweck der Erzbruderschaft vom Gurtel des id. Joseph (Innsbruck, 1S75); S. Josephs Giirtel (3d ed., Vienna, 1S81).

Ferdinand Heckmann.

Cordaia, Giuiao Ces.\re, historian and litterateur, h. at Ale.ssanilria in Piedmont, Italy, 14 Dec, 1704; died there March, 1785. The scion of an illustrious and ancient family that came originally from Nice, young Conlara studied at Rome imder the Jesuits, and became a Jesuit himself at the age of fourteen. Sub- sequently he taught in various colleges of the order, soon acquiring a great reputation not only for a knowledge of general literature, but especially for

f)roficicMicy in poetry, rhetoi-ic, and history. A bril- iant discounsc on Vopc Clregory XIII, the founder of the Roin.'in College, and a satire on the Cabalists of the day, won for him jidrnission into the .\caileniy of the Arcadians. Several poetic:d works of his ap- peared un<ler the pen name of I';uneno Cassio. He W!Vs in high favour with (he exiled Stuarts, then resid- ing in Rome, on account of an allegorical tlrama, "Ly,

Morte di Nice", which he composed in honour of the titular Iving James III, and a history in Latin of the expedition into Scotland of Charles Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, which some of his admirers look upon as his most finished production. His satires on "The Literary Spirit of the Times", published in 17.37, are of a high order of merit. In them he pillories a class of contemporary writers who arrogated to themselves the literary censorship of their day, condemned the classification of the sciences and the methods of in- struction in vogue, and even the accepted principles of taste. A seventh and revised edition was brought out at Augsburg in 1764. But the work by which he is perhaps best known is the " History of the Society of Jesus", Sixth Part, in two volumes, the first published in Rome in 1750, the second posthumously, by Father Raggazzini in 1859, over a century later. This work was a continuation of the history of the Society by Orlandini, Sacchini, and Juvency and embraced the period of Mutius Vitelleschi, 1616-1633. It is in Latin and remarkable for the elegance, purity, and dignity of its style. He is also the author of a history of the Cierman College in Rome, which contains a list of its distinguished alumni (Rome, 1770). When the Society of Jesus was suppressed, Cordara, who had been a member for more than half a century, with- drew from Rome to Turin and later to Alessandria, where the King of Sardinia had allowed some members of the Society to live unmolested. Notwithstanding his advanced age and his new mode of life, Cordara continued his literary labours and published much in prose and verse. Sommervogel enumerates more than sixty works, large and small, of which he is the author. The citizens of his native town erected a marble statue to his memory, in the church of the Barnabites where he w;is interred.

Sommervogel. Bibl. de la c. de J., II. 1411-1432; de Backer, 1,369-74; III. 2097-8; Michaud. Bios. rniV. (Paris, nouvelle (■d.. 8. d.), IX, 90; Hdrter, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1895), V, 376; Carayo.n', Bibliographic Historiqxie de la c. de J. (Paris, 1S64), 249.

Edward P. Spillane.

Cordeliers. See Recollects.

Cordell, Charles, English missionary priest, b. 5 October, 1720; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 January, 1791. He was the son of Charles Cordell and Hannah Darell, of the well-known family of Scotney Castle and Calehill, Kent, and was educated first at "Dame Alice's School", Ferny halgh, afterwards at Douai, where, in 1739, he began his course of philosophy. Having been ordained priest, he left the college 10 June, 1748, for England, where he ser\-ed the mission at Arundel (1748-.55), Rounday, in Yorkshire, the Isle of Man, and finally Newcastle-on-Tyne (1765-91). In 1778 the presidencj' of tlie Enghsh college at Saint- Omer was offered to him, but he would not accept it. He was a scholarly, book-loving man, of some note as a preacher. In politics he remained a stanch Jaco- bite. He publisiied many translations and one orig- inal pamphlet, "A Letter to the Author of a Book called 'A Candid and Impartial Sketch of the Life and Government of Pope Clement XIV '" (17S5). The translations include "The Divine Office for tlie Use of the Laity" (4 vols., Sheffield. 1763; 2d ed., 2 vols., Newcastle. 1780); Bergier's "Deism Self-re- futed" (1775); CaraccioU's "Life of Pope Clement XIV" (1776); Letters of Pope Clement XIV (2 vols., 1777); Fronsletin's "Travels of Reason" (1781); Fleury's "Manners of the Christians" (1786) and' "Manners of the Israehtes" (1786); "Larger Histor- ical Catechism " (1786); and " Short Historical Cate- chism" (178).

Kirk, Biographies (Earlu Ifincteinlh Cent.) (London. 1908); Catholic Mi.'allanii (1826), VI, 387; \oles andQu,rics,-Mi series, X, 330. 383; Gillow, Bibl. Did. Eng. Cath. l London. 1,885), I, 565; Cooper in />id. Nat. Biog. (London, 1887). \11, 213.

Edwin Bvhton. ,