A History of Catholicism and Tobacco

In 1873, the poor Confederate veterans Chiswell Langhorne (left) moved his family from Lynchburg to Danville, Virginia, and began to look for a job. Danville tobacco warehouse owner has recently developed a new system of tobacco auction: Instead of tobacco farmers barrels selected for interested buyers, owner of tobacco was all set out in long rows for auction. Langhorne, a lively character, with a taste for show, had the idea that he would make his mark once in the newly thriving tobacco trade Danville. He was an Episcopalian, but during a visit to a Catholic friend in Richmond at the time he attended Mass with him one Sunday morning, and to hear Gregorian chant priest. Langhorne "decided that maybe he could put the home entertainment needs of storekeepers, imitating stimulating singing priest, along with the fact that he later came up with," drum "and" devour Hook, "which will encourage customers and please collect the public." He added his rhythmic body language and thus created a fast-paced and entertaining auction chant, which allowed customers moving along several tobaccos rapid development track sales. He served in Langhorne good as it has generations of tobacco auctions, which came after him, each one adding their own style. After the success of the auction brought Langhorne some money, he began to invest in railways, transport tobacco from Danville, left the auction business, and eventually made a fortune, allowing his family to move to the estate near Charlottesville and work himself back in the Virginia aristocracy. His daughter Irene married illustrator Charles Dana Gibson and became a model for his drawings Gibson girl, and his daughter, Nancy married Waldorf Astor in England, was elected to Parliament, converted from the Episcopal Church of Christian Science, and was viciously anti-Catholic, despite the fact that, as we say, the success of her family wound back as the turn of tobacco, her father heard Gregorian chant on Sunday at high Mass. (right: Danville auction warehouse postcard, 1946) Former Fumo Dare Lucem At that time, just after the Spanish explorers introduced tobacco by Columbus Travel, smoking or snuff it-like natives of the New World, nothing was carrying something in the air hell, because the natives saw him as a connection to the unseen spirits. For some of the most important mission of the clergy, their wreaths of smoke and its effect on the spirit of those who imbibed it was a kind of parody of the sacramental mysteries of the Church, established in the New World before the devil in order to prevent his evangelization. (Left: Les femurs and other le-priseurs New York Public Library) By 1575, the provincial councils in the New World have had to consider the fact that the Indians convert to Catholicism, led the practice of smoking in the church during the liturgy, tobacco smoke, in their traditions, and summoned spirits. They offered to smoke as incense, or mixed with other spices. Mexican church authorities have banned smoking in the Church in America In 1583 the synod in Lima said that "it is forbidden under pain of eternal damnation for the priests of the administration of the sacraments, or to take the smoke sayri, or tobacco in his mouth, or the powder of tobacco on the nose, even under the guise of medicine before the service the masses. "In 1588, the College of Cardinals in Rome approved the ban, as applied in the Spanish colonies in America. But the problem is not confined to America. Tobacco use is prohibited, snuffs, and chewing, very quickly distributed throughout the Old World, too. And spread both among the laity and clergy. The point is misleading: There is no shortage of people who hated tobacco, as unhealthy, dirty, eat, and even sinful, but there were also many people who pointed to its advantages, its calming effect, large and small pleasures in its use, it ability to promote sociability (perhaps to welcome the world peoples, the international brotherhood of smoke), and even (in the case of nasal snuff) their medical effectiveness as a way to clear the sinuses, causing a head-blowing. However, the use of tobacco in the church quickly emerged in Europe as it was in New Spain, and it was linked to the question of sacrilege during Mass one Sunday in Naples, the priest during the celebration of Mass sniff nasal snuff only after Holy Communion. It seems that he was not experienced snuffer, because he fell into a fit of sneezing, which caused him to vomit the Blessed Sacrament on the altar in front of his horrified congregation. (Right: "Three Inseparables," 111 cigarettes ad, 1921) As tobacco is spread through Europe, the Catholic clergy, the church has focused on its invasion of the church. What was anathema was not using it as such, and its use before or during the liturgy. And especially the clergy, who were to maintain absolute cleanliness and purity of the altar, liturgical vestments, and arms, which were consecration Host. Tobacco smoke is not equal incense. Pope Urban VIII, on January 30, 1642 issued a bull semen Ecclesiae, in which he responded to the complaints of the Dean of the Cathedral of Seville, declaring that any taking of tobacco through the mouth or nose, or in large chunks, shredded, dried, or smoked in a pipe, Church in the Diocese of Seville, will receive a sentence of excommunication sentential tensor wide. The reason for the ban, he explained that for the protection of the Mass and the church of evil. In Seville, the bad habits of tobacco grown so much, he said, that men and women, clergy and laity, "or while they perform their services in the choir and the altar, and while they listened to the Mass and the Divine Office, [who] were not at the same time and with great disrespect, tobacco, and with offensive feces sullying the altar, holy sites and places of the churches of the Diocese of sidewalks that "Some priests, apparently, was not. going so far as to post-box on the altar while they were talking, Mass. This ban has caused a huge number of urban (Urban?) Legends for centuries, aggravated by bad rumor and attribution-some of it as a worldwide ban on the use of tobacco, some attributed it incorrectly or dad gave the wrong date, and some of them even say that the Pope forbade the use of tobacco, because he whimsically thought sneezing that tobacco caused resembled sexual ecstasy, which was out of place in the church. (Hey, Mr. Papa Keep your rosaries out of our nose Aries!) Recently, gray legend became so worn and flow erosion, poor Pope Urban VIII was even accused of trying to prevent the unlikely madness sneezing, full stop. In 1650, eight years after the bull Urban VIII, Innocent X founded the same penalty for the use of tobacco in the chapels, the sacristy and the porch arch basilica St. John Lateran and St. Peter's in Rome, on the grounds that He spent a lot of time, talent and money embellishing them, setting precious beads and jewelry on the floor of the chapel with bas-reliefs, and he did not want them stained with the juice of tobacco smoke. Innocent XI was later confirmed by a bull. By 1685, some theologians were debating whether Urban VIII and Innocent X bulls could be implicitly understood to refer to the Universal Church, and, if so, they wondered how it applies to all the property of the church (not just the sanctuary and the sacristy, some asked whether the priest was included). Although Benedict XIII (tobacco, originating itself) reinforced the need to keep tobacco out of the altar and the tabernacle, in 1725 he abolished the penalty of excommunication for smoking in St. Peter, because he recognized that parishioners often escapes from the Mass for a while to catch a smoke or snuff, and he decided that it was better for them to stay inside and not to destroy or disrupt the liturgy or miss part of it.