Not content with political organization, too impatient to await the growth of good manners from sound institutions, he set about a moral and religious reformation.

Pomps, vanities, and vices were to be abandoned.
Immediately the women and the young men threw aside their silks and fine attire.

The Carnival songs ceased.

Hymns and processions took the place of obscene choruses and pagan triumphs.

The laws were remodeled in the same severe and abrupt spirit.