# Continuation Of The Preceding Inquisition In The Year 1252.

1252 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: CONTINUATION OF THE PRECEDING INQUISITION IN THE YEAR 1252.

Source heading; not independently verified

That the aforesaid inquisition or examination of
the faith did not end with the close of the previous
year, but continued also in the succeeding time, is
so manifest that proof is almost unnecessary; still,
it experienced a brief cessation, caused through the
sudden and unexpected death of Peter of Verona,
who administered at that time the office of inquisitor.

Concerning this, the abovementioned author relates
the following: “In the year 1252, Peter of
Verona, inquisitor in Lombardy, justly perished
near the city of Milan, on account of his tyranny
against the Waldenses, and, twenty-four days after,
was canonized, that is, placed on the register of
the saints of the Roman church, by the antichrist,
the Pope of Rome, Innocent IV.”

Note.—In the following year, namely, A. D. 1253,
Robert, bishop of Lincoln, was deposed from his
bishopric, by said Pope Innocent IV., because he
frequently in his preaching, though with discretion,
had openly reproved the avarice, ambition, arrogance,
and tyranny of the Pope, yea, had expressly
written him severe letters, in which he accused him
of exhausting almost all England, by unusual taxes,
in order to enrich his illegitimate children, nieces
and nephews. When the Pope cited him to Rome,
he appealed from the papal tyranny to the judgment
and tribunal of Jesus Christ, whereupon the Pope
soon died. Bal. Cent. 4, cap. 18, in Roberta Grossoreste
ex Annalis. Johan. Buriens. Ranulpho,
Mattheo and Fabiano, compared with A. Mell.,
Hist., p. 470, col. 1.

In the year 1258, the Jacobines and Dominicans,
in the bishopric of Cambray, caused a great number
of Christians, whom they had condemned as heretics,
to be burned alive. Balens Cent. 4, cap. 26,
ad Matt. Paris. Append., p. 315, ex Th. Cantiprat.,
lib. 2, cap. 56. Also, A. Mell., Hist., lib. 2,
p. 470, col. 2.

In the year 1260, Pope Alexander IV. wrote
letters to the inquisitors from the order of the
Dominicans, in Lombardy and the margravate of
Genoa, to persecute the heretics (as they were
called) there. Moreover, he decreed that the inquisitors
might compel, by excommunication, the
secular authorities, whoever they might be, to execute,
without delay, the sentence of the inquisitors
against those suspected of heresy. Compare the
last-mentioned author, in the place cited, with
Bzov., A. D. 1260, Art. 4, ex Decret. Epist.
Alexand. 4.





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