Amort Sentence Examples

Eusebius Amort, in 1735, admits the gravest differences of opinion; and the Bishop of Newport writes (p. 163) " to receive an Indulgence of a year, for example, is to have remitted to one so much temporal punishment as was represented by a year's canonical penance.

Amort, who had the reputation of being the most learned man of his age, was a voluminous writer on every conceivable subject, from poetry to astronomy, from dogmatic theology to mysticism.

See the works of Amort and Du Molinet, mentioned under CANON.

The greatest orthodox authority is Eusebius Amort, De Origine, &c., indulgentiarum (1735).