Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ecclesiastical prison" in English language version.
By the fourteenth century, virtually all religious orders had facilities of one kind or another in which to incarcerate troublemakers [...] The Constitutions of Ignatius therefore were a notable exception to those of other religious orders in that they did not include such provisions.
His second incarceration took place in Salamanca. A Dominican confessor invited him to dinner, though he warned him that the prior would question him and Calixto, his companion, about their preaching. After the meal, the two were confined to the Dominican monastery for three days. Transferred then to the Salamanca jail, they were kept chained to a post in the middle of the building. Four ecclesiastical judges examined Ignatius's copy of the Spiritual Exercises and questioned him on a variety of theological issues. The only fault they found was his inadequate preparation, as they thought, to treat the difference between venial and mortal sin. Having warned him to speak of the matter no more until he had studied theology for four more years, they released him from jail after twenty-two days.
According to one anecdote, when Ignatius sought approval for the Formula of the Institute, the first sketch of what would eventually become the Constitutions of the Society, he was asked why it included no provisions for confinement. Ignatius, it is said, replied that none were necessary because there was always the door, that is, expulsion from the Society.
Perhaps the most famous ecclesiastical prison to be used by the Roman Catholic Church itself was the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. It was there that Clement XIV, under political pressure from the Bourbons and other enemies of the Society, ordered the incarceration of the general, Lorenzo Ricci, after the promulgation of Dominus ac Redemptor, the bull that dissolved the Jesuit order. Ricci was seventy years old. His advanced age, coupled with the harsh circumstances of his confinement, undoubtedly hastened his death in Castel Sant'Angelo two years later.
When clergy or those in Religious Orders are detained or arrested they will be treated with the consideration due to their state and position. Prison sentences will be served in a Church or religious house which, in the judgement of the local Ordinary and the relevant State authority, offers suitable guarantees. Sentences will not be served in facilities where there are lay people unless the relevant Church authorities have demoted the person concerned to the lay state. They will be allowed bail and any other benefits established in law.
The result was that on the evening of December 27, 1789, the couple was arrested by the Inquisition for attempting to found an Egyptian lodge. Cagliostro was accused of impiety and heresy. [...] The convicted heretic was kept first in the Castel Sant' Angelo, the Roman citadel, and then moved to the gloomy fortress of St. Leo in the territory of Urbino. There he remained until his death on August 28, 1795.
Built in 1732 for the detention of disobedient priests, the Aljube became a civil prison in 1808 when the Portuguese crown relocated to Brazil.
The most feared punishment meted out by the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts up to about the beginning of the last century was imprisonment in the ecclesiastical prison under the medieval cathedral of St. German's in Peel Island (now in ruins since the seventeenth century) near the Town of Peel. Craine tells us that: 'imprisonment in the ecclesiastical prison was a most unpleasant ordeal and that in 1812 William Faragher refused on some point of principle to pay his accustomed tithes and was committed to St. German's until he found sureties for his compliance.'
The concordat signed in 1953 between Spain and the Vatican established that priests could not go to jail. Instead, sanctions had to be served inside 'an ecclesiastical or religious home [...] or at least in a different location from secular prisoners.'
In the case of Jeanne, widow of B. de la Tour, a nun of Lespenasse, in 1246, who had committed acts of both Catharan and Waldensian heresy, and had prevaricated in her confession, the sentence was confinement in a separate cell in her own convent, where no one was to enter or see her, her food being pushed in through an opening left for the purpose—in fact, the living tomb known as the "in pace."
But if any one of them, either through former license, or through an evil custom of impunity, has been seduced, or should in future be led, into the gulph of adulterous lapse, we will that, after enduring the severity of adequate punishment, she be consigned for penance to some other stricter monastery of virgins.
The priests' protest against the 'ecclesiastical prison' set off a widespread campaign, particularly strong in the Basque country, in which bishops joined priests in urging the Government to shut the prison and move the seven to a monastery as provided for by the concordat between Spain and the Vatican.
1. Article XVI of the current Concordat is hereby abolished.
Built in 1732 for the detention of disobedient priests, the Aljube became a civil prison in 1808 when the Portuguese crown relocated to Brazil.
Built in 1732 for the detention of disobedient priests, the Aljube became a civil prison in 1808 when the Portuguese crown relocated to Brazil.
The most feared punishment meted out by the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts up to about the beginning of the last century was imprisonment in the ecclesiastical prison under the medieval cathedral of St. German's in Peel Island (now in ruins since the seventeenth century) near the Town of Peel. Craine tells us that: 'imprisonment in the ecclesiastical prison was a most unpleasant ordeal and that in 1812 William Faragher refused on some point of principle to pay his accustomed tithes and was committed to St. German's until he found sureties for his compliance.'
