[112] _Albert. Argentinens._ Chronic, p. 149, in _Chr. Urstisius._ Germaniae historicorum illustrium Tomus unus. Francof. 1585, fol.--_Guillelm de Nang._ Loc. cit.--See also the Saxon Chronicle, by _Mattheus Dresseren_, Physician and Professor at Leipsig, Wittenberg, 1596, fol. p. 340; the above-named Limburg Chronicle, and the Germaniae Chronicon, on the origin, name, commerce, &c., of all the Teutonic Nations of Germany: by _Seb. Francken_, of Wörd. Tubingen, 1534, fol. p. 201. [113] _Königshoven_, Elsassische und Strassburgische Chronicke. Loc cit. p. 297. [114] _Albert Argentin._ Loc. cit. They never remained longer than one night at any place. [115] Words of _Monachus Paduanus_, quoted in Förstemann’s Treatise, which is the best upon this subject.--See p. 60. The pilgrimages of the Flagellants extended throughout all the provinces of Southern Germany, as far as Saxony, Bohemia and Poland, and even further; but at length, the priests resisted this dangerous fanaticism, without being able to extirpate the illusion, which was advantageous to the hierarchy, as long as it submitted to its sway. Regnier, a hermit of Perugia, is recorded as a fanatic preacher of penitence, with whom the extravagance originated.[116] In the year 1296, there was a great procession of the Flagellants in Strasburg;[117] and in 1334, fourteen years before the great mortality, the sermon of Venturinus, a Dominican friar, of Bergamo, induced above 10,000 persons to undertake a new pilgrimage. They scourged themselves in the churches, and were entertained in the market-places, at the public expense. At Rome, Venturinus was derided, and banished by the Pope to the mountains of Ricondona. He patiently endured all--went to the Holy Land, and died at Smyrna, 1346.[118] Hence we see that this fanaticism was a mania of the middle ages, which, in the year 1349, on so fearful an occasion, and while still so fresh in remembrance, needed no new founder; of whom, indeed, all the records are silent. It probably arose in many places at the same time; for the terror of death, which pervaded all nations and suddenly set such powerful impulses in motion, might easily conjure up the fanaticism of exaggerated and overpowering repentance. [116] _Schnurrer_, Chronicle of the Plagues, T. I. p. 291. [117] Königshoven. Loc. cit.