Capítulo 2: Dominicans in Hungary in Relation to the Sovereign and the State Authority in the 18th Century

Abstract

The Princeps in Compendio, published in 1632 as a “speculum prin- cipum” on behalf of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II (1619- 1637), states that the most important duty of the prince is the promotion of Catholic worship. This “protection and promotion of the Catho- lic religion was achieved by preventing the infiltration of heresies and by the effort to introduce the true faith publicly or secretly, or by any means, where it did not exist, in order to unite all the sheep which were entrusted to the prince into one sheepfold and under one Shepherd.”