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Cambilhom, Johann · 1610

And so that such things might be carried out all the more conveniently by them, they use for this nocturnal activity of theirs special places underground, much like those that may have existed in Rome in former times, in which the priests of Bacchus were consecrated and performed their sacrifices. At these festivals, such an inhuman, unchaste, and beastly life was led that eventually the Council, as Livy reports, out of concern for the wrath of the gods, utterly destroyed and rooted out such brothels.
Enough about the Jesuits’ gatekeeper, regarding whom it should also be noted that when one asks why they use such a heap of clothing of all kinds, they answer as if they used them all for their comedies, which they are not infrequent in performing.
If one then comes further into their temple and church, everyone may calculate that he has nothing above him but an iron sky and the force of war, and beneath him the open