Pastoral Visitation
The bishop's duty of personally visiting parishes, monasteries, and institutions in his diocese to reform, correct, and strengthen them. Van der Burch exemplified this through frequent visitation of women's monasteries throughout the archdiocese of Mechlin and diocese of Ghent.
Preliminaries
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch returned home wearied from pastoral visitations abroad yet was always first in choir.
"even when you returned home wearied from a pastoral visitation abroad, indulging your body no rest"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch's frequent visitation and reform of women's monasteries throughout the archdiocese of Mechlin and diocese of Ghent.
"The monasteries of women throughout the whole archdiocese of Mechlin in former times, and now in the diocese of Ghent, have been so frequently visited, reformed, built up, and directed by you with holy ordinances"