Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763 -- Sources; Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- History
The Apostolic indulgences being examined, it results that they were
reduced to six: administering the sacraments, asking permission of the
Bishop, and under the same condition the authority in all hidden cases
of granting dispensation to the poor, for contracting matrimony, to
erect churches and chapels--all these must be exercised without pay for
the term of three years, in the meantime with the approbation of the
Apostolic See. The Rev. Bishop of Minorca says: that he cannot furnish
the information asked of him until he obtains news of his Vicar-General
of Minorca, who has not been able to execute it by writing, but he
assures us that these Prelates and all the Minorcan families were
Catholics and passed to Florida carrying with them two Ecclesiastics who
might be the said Campos and Casanovas. The Judge, with reference to
all, considers that he has discovered sufficient truth to assuage the
just fears of the Rev. Bishop of Cuba, to the recourse to the Apostolic
See, by the Minorcan families or of the Prelates Campos and Casanovas
and the authority granted to these by his Holiness. The application for
help of Dr. Campos dispels all doubt which might arise from the distance
between Florida and the Island of Cuba. From all this result other
useful things, since all this authority granted Dr. Campos and Father
Casanovas is left at the disposal of the Bishop of Cuba and as this
Prelate and to all those of America so many pontifical authorities are
granted, he can very well make use of it for the spiritual government of
the little flock of Catholics residing in the English Colony and examine
the privileges granted to these Presbyters, adopting them according to
the nature and delegate of the authority of their Pastoral Office. It is
true that the secrecy asked by Dr. Campos caused some misgivings, but in
view of what it expounded by the Rev. Bishop of Minorca the mystery is
solved, as perhaps it has happened in Florida as in Minorca and Minorca
in regard to the disturbances of the Catholic religion, the English
having been wanting in their promises drawn up in their agreement. So
that, as the Vicar-General of Minorca had no expedient in his
jurisdiction, the same may have happened to Dr. Campos and Father
Casanovas who, in consequence of the determination of the Court of
London, cannot proceed in all concerning the education and spiritual
care of the Catholics.
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