A. M. Clarke
Published: 2017-10-25
Total Pages: 480
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Excerpt from The Life of St. Francis Borgia of the Society of Jesus We hear of the de Borjas again in 1244, when Don Jaime the conqueror, having driven the hated Moslems step by step out of the beautiful province of Valencia, Ia hmta, the garden of Spain, as it was called, dis tributed its smiling and fertile lands among his principal followers in much the same way as. William of Nor mandy gave the estates of anglo-saxon England to his Norman barons. The fortified town of Kativa, with Gandia and some adjacent cities, fell to the share of the de Borjas, who fixed at Kativa their permanent abode. In the year 1376, also, mention is made of the military achievements of one Don Ramon de Borja, although it is not said that any territorial recompense was awarded to his services. But not on the battlefield alone did the scions of this noble line render themselves conspicuous. The house of Borja gave to Christendom two Pontifi's, and to the Society of Jesus one of its earliest and most eminent Saints. Pope Calixtus III., who saved Europe from the yoke of Islam, was a Borgia; so was Alexander VI., whose character has unhappily dimmed the glory of his line. The former of these two Popes was the first member of the family who made his name known beyond the limits of his native land; St. Francis Borgia, the third General of the Jesuits, is the last who has attained to any great celebrity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.