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rents, he resolved to devote himself entirely to the duties imposedby his vocation. Accordingly he was the first to set an exampleof the reform prescribed by the council of Trent, dismissed agreat number of domestics of his household, and supplied theirplaces with ecclesiastics, whom he caused to be educated underhis own eye. He resigned his benefices, and against the wishes ofhis uncle who was desirous of keeping him at Rome, he repairedto his see, where he endeavoured to reform the morals of theclergy. He enforced in the convents the rigid rules which hadgradually sunk into neglect, and founded colleges and establish-ments for the poor, and for young persons exposed to the dangersof the world. The severity of the Cardinal drew upon him thehatred of a great number of ecclesiastics; and he occasioned thesuppression of the order of the Umiliali.

When the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa had sacked the cityof Milan, he carried off'as captives a great number of the inha-bitants of the duchy, who, not without much difficulty and aftermany humiliations, obtained permission to return to their nativecountry. In memory of this deliverance was instituted the orderof the Umiliati , under the rule of St. Benedict , with a white habitlike that of the Supplicants. This order had acquired greatwealth, which had gradually produced its usual result—greatcorruption of manners. The monks appropriated to themselvesthe revenues of the community, which they expended on theirpleasures. Pius V. therefore issued a bull condemning their ir-regularities and directing their patron, Cardinal Borromeo , toreform them. The evil was too deeply rooted ; the friars, impa-tient of the restraints imposed upon them, considered the Cardinalas their bitterest enemy. Lignana, the superior of a convent atVercelli , prevailed upon one of the monks named Farina, to attempthis life. The assassin fired at the prelate whilst engaged in even-ing prayer with his household in his chapel: the ball only grazedthe cardinal, who, unmoved by the danger to which he had just