Population of Rome

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1864

Population of Rome

PopuLATION OF ROME.—By a recent statistical account, there are included 48,000 cardinals, prelates, priests, abbess, monks, and persons receiving greater or less income from the church; 10,000 women of religious orders; 1,000 beggars, who pay a first class patent, empowering them to exercise their professions upon the steps of St. Peter's; 6,000 beggars who pay for a second class patent, admitting them to practice at the doors of the other churches, before the theaters, in the streets, and other public places; 2,000 women who live by serving as models to painters and sculptors, or by begging when that resource fails; 4,000 soldiers of all nationalities; 30,000 servants; 20,000 Jewish "pariahs;" 50,000 Romans, called "citizens" but having no part in administering the government, and most of them in a condition bordering closely on misery