bavarikon4UDescription
The electoral Bavarian monastery mandate ("Klostermandat") of 30 December 1769 among other things requested orders having more than three branches in Bavaria to establish Bavarian provinces of their own, and to reduce the ratio of foreigners among the conventuals to a maximum of 1/6. The mandate furthermore prohibited the appointment of foreigners to cloistral offices. The decree was directed predominantly against the Jesuit order with its extensive upper German province seated in Munich and the central novitiate in Landsberg am Lech. On 30 December 1769, the Upper German Provincial, Father Joseph Erhard SJ (1716-1784), submitted a protest paper against the mandate, which was severely criticized by Peter von Osterwald (1718-1778), the responsible leader of Bavarian church politics. Both letters - the decree and the response - were printed anonymously. The publisher had allegedly found the documents by chance. In Baader, Lexikon verstorbener Baierischer Schriftsteller, Johann Georg Lori (1723-1787) is mentioned as publisher. However, it is not certain whether this is true.