ABSTRACT
Religious articles granted to the Holy Roman Empire also provided for Catholic clerics to repair their churches. While at the beginning of the seventeenth century the monks in Jerusalem did not have any religious label attached, in 1673 they were identified as 'Frankish', i.e. Catholic. The Holy Roman Empire, Venice, and Poland-Lithuania obtained provisions for clerics across the Well-Protected Domains, with the first two also obtaining concessions over church repairs and Jerusalem in particular. Considerably different than their Catholic counterparts, Russian capitulations contained better regulations for the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, addressed to seculars and clergymen alike. In fact, Russian capitulations did not provide any regulations for the Orthodox faith, as the Porte did not want a foreign power to exercise control over its largest non-Muslim population. The capitulations were still considered as privileges bestowed by the sultans to foreign leaders of lesser rank.
