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vestments, and ornaments; but also that you have ensured they are frequented by their clerics and priests at the proper times for the Divine Office, and that you have reclaimed the wrongly alienated goods of those same churches; that the Seminary for youths of the best hope, future ministers of the Altar of almighty God, which had been so long and so much desired, is growing day by day; that the cloisters of the Nuns, maidens most pleasing to God, are kept most strictly; that the houses and orders of religious monks and friars, who had almost abandoned all the rule and discipline handed down by the holiest Fathers, are being restored to their original religion and governed holily and canonically; but also that the habit of the clerics (which had been attempted often in vain) is not only distinguished and separated from those who have not been initiated into sacred orders, but also brought back to a proper and modest form; and that, so that Justice may have its straight and unobstructed paths, the faith, morals, and skill of not only the Judges and advocates of causes, but also of those who promote the causes, are being reviewed. Furthermore, sparing not even your holy old age and health, in such a mass of affairs, you have the complaints of the poor and oppressed referred to your Holiness every month (with ears prepared for that purpose), publicly, while all the judges stand by; and no less are the collapsed customs and greed of all the tribunals and of the clerks and notaries being removed by censors most strictly chosen for that purpose, and being restrained within due limits.