Parkman, Francis, on the Puritans and the Jesuits, 281;
  on the Roman Church, 386. 
Parliament of Religions, World’s Fair, views of asceticism at the,
  357, 358. 
Paris, University of, 249, 406. 
Paschal II., Pope, the gift of Cluny, 178. 
Patrick, St., 122;
  labors in Ireland, 123;
  was he a Romanist? 162. 
Paul, The Apostle, on asceticism, 27. 
Paul III., Pope, excommunicates Henry VIII., 306. 
Paul of Thebes, Jerome’s life of, 35;
  his early life, 36;
  visited by Anthony, 37;
  his death, 40;
  effect of his biography on the times, 42. 
Paula, St., Jerome on death of, 98, 101;
  her austerities and charities, 98, 100;
  separates from her children, 98;
  her monasteries at Bethlehem, 100;
  inscription on her tombstone, 102;
  faints at her daughter’s funeral, 125. 
Paulinus, embraces ascetic Christianity, 84. 
Peter, The Apostle, marriage of, 115. 
Peter the Venerable, 178. 
Petrarch, Mabie on, and the classics, 408. 
Peyto, Friar, denounces Henry VIII., 296: 
Philanthropy, spirit of, kept alive by monks, 412.
  See Charity. 
Philip IV., King, of France, his charges against the Knights, 202. 
Phillips, Wendell, on the reading of history, 386. 
Philo, on the Essenes, 23;
  on the Therapeutae, 27. 
Philosophy, ascetic influence of Greek, 21;
  Gnostic, 27;
  Pagan, and fall of Rome, 76. 
Pike, Luke Owen, on the character of Henry VIII., 290;
  on the lawlessness of monks, 336. 
Pilgrims of Grace, 326;
  their demands and overthrowal, 327. 
Pillar Saints, 51. 
Plague, Black, and the monks, 410. 
Plato, ascetic teachings of, 22. 
Pliny, on the Essenes, 25. 
Pole, Reginald, on Henry VIII. and Rome, 295. 
Politics, not to be despised, 420. 
Portus, inn at, 105. 
Potitianus, affected by Anthony’s biography, 83. 
Poverty, vow of, in Pachomian rule, 61;
  Franciscans quarrel over, 246;
  and the Scriptures, 376. 
Preaching Friars, see Dominicans, Franciscans and Mendicants. 
Pride, spiritual, of monks, 395. 
Probabilism, doctrine of, 274. 
Protestantism, effect of, upon monasticism, 286;
  guilty of persecution, 332;
  and the Church of England, 340;
  its real value to England, 346;
  its religious ideal, 356. 
Putnam, on the rule of St. Benedict, 139;
  on Cassiodorus, 153;
  on the first quarrel over copyright, 170. 
Pythagoras, asceticism of, 21, 426.

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Reade, Charles, on the monk’s flight from the world, 368. 
Reading, the monks of, their pious frauds, 318. 
Recluses, see Hermits. 
Reformed Orders, 173. 
Reform, monastic, 173, 205;
  fails to stop decline of monasteries, 196, 207, 286;
  demanded by popes, 286;
  failure of, 336.
  See Monasticism. 
Reformation, The Protestant, furthered by certain