Template:Did you know nominations/Ecclesiastical prison
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 13:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
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Ecclesiastical prison
- ... that medieval monks could be punished by being walled up alive in a special ecclesiastical prison called the Vade in Pace? Source: Mabillon, Jean (1724). Translated by Sellin, Thorsten. "Reflections on the prisons of the monastic orders". Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. 17 (4): 585. "In the course of time, a frightful kind of prison, where daylight never entered, was invented, and since it was designed for those who should finish their lives in it, it received the name Vade in pace. It appears that the first person to invent this horrible form of torture was Matthew, Prior of Saint Martin des Champs, according to the story of Peter the Venerable, who informs us that this superior, a good man otherwise, but extremely severe against those who committed some error, caused the construction of a subterranean cave in the form of a grave where he placed, for the rest of his days, a miserable wretch who seemed incorrigible to him. [...] other superiors, less charitable than zealous, did not fail to use it with respect to guilty monks, and this harshness, inhuman as it appears, went so far and became so common that it caused Etienne, Archbishop of Toulouse, to lodge a complaint, through his grand vicar, with King John. [...] The king was horrified by this inhumanity. Touched by compassion for these wretches, he ordered priors and superiors to visit them twice a month and to give, in addition, their permission to two monks of their choice to visit them twice a month [...] This we learn from the Registers of the Parliament of Languedoc in the year 1350."
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Improved to Good Article status by Moriwen (talk). Self-nominated at 15:12, 12 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ecclesiastical prison; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
GA status and date confirmed, hook is interesting and referenced, quote provided here too. QPQ does not appear to be needed based on the cursory glance at nominator's talk page, which sports no other DYK credit and a welcome message on top, with no signs of archiving. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:20, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
