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The Bull of Pope Paul IV Against Heretics



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Translated from the Authentic Roman Edition of 1559

By

Robert Charles Jenkins, M.A.,

 

PAUL, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, for the perpetual remembrance hereof:





Since, by reason of the office of the Apostolate to us (though without our deserts) divinely entrusted, the general cure of the flock of the Lord devolves to us; and we are accordingly bound like a vigilant shepherd to watch assiduously and to provide attentively for its faithful protection, and salutary direction in order that those who in this age (our sins occasioning it) leaning on their own wisdom rebel against the teaching of the orthodox faith with greater licence and injury than is wont, and with their superstitions and fictitious inventions perverting the meaning of the holy Scriptures, endeavor to rend the unity of the Catholic Church and the seamless robe of the Lord, should be driven from the fold of Christ, and should not remain teachers of error while they refuse to become disciples of the truth.  



§1. We considering a matter of this kind to be of so grave and perilous a nature that even the Roman Pontiff, who is the viceregent of God and the Lord Jesus Christ upon earth, having a plenitude of power over nations and kingdoms, judging all and being judged of none in this present world, may nevertheless be reproved if he is found deviating from the faith-and (considering moreover) that where there is greater danger there should be also a fuller and more diligent consultation, lest false prophets or others having secular jurisdiction also, should entangle miserably the souls of the faithful, and should draw down with them into perdition and destruction the innumerable peoples committed to their charge and government in spiritual or temporal matters, and so it might happen that we should see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, in the holy place.  We therefore desiring as far as with God's help we can, in virtue of our pastoral office, to capture the foxes who seek to destroy the Lord's vineyard and to drive the wolves from the fold; lest we should seem like dumb dogs unwilling to bark and be compared to bad husbandmen and mercenaries;

§2. having had mature deliberation with our venerable brethren the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, by their advice and unanimous assent, approve and renew, by our Apostolic authority, all and singular sentences, censures and penalties of excommunication, suspension, and interdict, privation, and every other such sentence made by every one of the Roman Pontiffs our predecessors, and held and received as such by their Extravagants, or ordained by the sacred councils received by the Church of God, or by the decrees and statutes of the holy Fathers, and Apostolic Canons, constitutions and ordinances against heretics and Schismatics, and ordain that they shall be perpetually observed, and out to be, and shall be renewed in all their freshness if they have fallen into disuse.  



Also (we decree) that all persons whatsoever who shall be found or confess or be convicted as guilty of having deviated from the Catholic faith, or fallen into any heresy, or to have incurred, executed or committed any schism, or who (which God of his mercy forbid) shall in future wander from the faith, fall into heresy, or incur the guilt of schism, or shall be found or confess or be convicted to have don so, of whatever state, degree, order, condition and preeminence he may be, even if he shall be distinguished by Episcopal, Archepiscopal, Patriarchal, Primatial, or any other greater dignities of the Church, or the Cardinalitial or Legatine authority, or by any worldly dignity as those of Count, baron, Marquis, Duke, King, or Emperor, all and every of these we will and decree shall incur the aforesaid sentences, censures and pains.  









§3 And, furthermore, considering that it is meet that those who do not abstain from such evils from the love of virtue, should be deterred from them by the fear of punishment, and that Bishops, Arch-bishops, Cardinals, Legates, Counts, &c., Kings and Emperors, who ought to teach and be a good example to others that they may be retained in the Catholic faith, sin more grievously than others inasmuch as they not only lose themselves, but draw down with them innumerable peoples confided to their care and government into perdition and the pit of destruction, by the same advice and assent and by this constitution of perpetual validity, in hatred of so great a crime, than which none can be greater in the Church of God or more pernicious, in the plenitude of our power, we sanction, decree, declare, and define that while all the aforesaid sentences, censures, &c. shall remain in their force and efficacy, and be carried out in their result, all and singular Bishops, &c. … Dukes, Kings and Emperors who hitherto shall be found, confess or be convicted of deviating from the faith, of falling into heresy or of incurring, exciting or committing a schism… since in this they are the more inexcusable than others,-beyond the sentences, censures and penalties aforesaid, shall ipso facto without any process of law or proof of fact, be deprived of their orders, cathedrals, churches, cardinalitial and legatine honors… and of their dignities as Counts, Barons, Marquises, Dukes, Kings and Emperors, altogether and absolutely, and shall be in future held to be disqualified and incapable, and shall be deemed as relapsed and condemned in everything and by all means, even if they shall have previously publicly abjured their heresy-nor shall they be every restored to their previous state, or redintegrated or rehabilated in their bishoprics, &c. … Duchies, Kingdoms, and Empires.  Nay further they shall be left to the will of the secular power to be punished with due severity; unless, in the case of worthy proofs of a true repentance being found in them and the fruits thereof, through the benignity and clemency of this See, it may see fit to relegate them to some monastery or other place of regular monks, to carry on a perpetual penance in the bread of sorrow and water of affliction; and they shall be held, treated and reputed by all of every condition as relapsed persons, and as such shall be avoided and deprived of all human consolations.  

































































§4 And all who claim the rights of patronage and of nominating fit persons for cathedral, metropolitical and patriarchal churches or other ecclesiastical benefices vacant by reason of the privation aforesaid (in order that such churches may not be exposed to disadvantage from a prolonged vacancy but may be redeemed from the slavery of heretics, and granted to fit persons who may faithfully lead the people in the paths of righteousness) shall be bound to present to such churches,&c., other fit persons within the period assigned by law or by concordats or compacts entered into with our said See, either by ourselves or by the Roman Pontiff at the time existing, in respect of such presentation; otherwise, such time having elapsed, the full and free disposition of the said benefices shall devolve to us or to the said Roman Pontiff in full right.



§5 And further, those who shall in any way knowingly presume to receive, defend, favor, or give credit to persons thus taken, confessed, or convicted, or to propagate their doctrines, shall incur the sentence of excommunication ipso facto, and shall be accounted infamous, nor shall they be admitted by voice, or person, writings, representatives, or proctors to public or private offices or councils, synods, general or provincial Councils, nor to the Conclave of Cardinals, nor any congregation of the faithful, nor to the election of anyone, nor to give evidence; they shall be unable to make a will or to inherit under a will, nor shall any be compelled to respond to them in regard to any matter of business.  But if perchance they should happen to be judges, their sentences shall be null and void, nor shall any causes be brought to their hearing; if they should be advocates, their advocacy shall not be admitted; if writers, the docuмents drawn up by them shall be of none effect or authority.  



And furthermore, the clergy shall be deprived ipso facto of all and singular churches, dignities and offices ecclesiastical, however they may be qualified for them, if they are obtained in any form from such persons; and both they and the laity, however qualified and endowed with any of the said dignities whatever, shall be deprived ipso facto of the kingdoms, dukedoms, dominions, feuds; and temporal goods possessed by them; and their kingdoms, dukedoms, dominions, feuds, and all their goods whatsoever shall be confiscated, and shall become the right and property of those who shall first occupy them, provided they remain in the sincere faith and unity of the Holy Roman Church, and in the obedience of ourselves, and of our canonical appointed successors.  



§6 We add moreover that if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop even if he assert for himself the rank of Archbishop, Patriarch, Primate, or Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or legate, or even Roman Pontiff before his promotion or assumption into the Cardinalate or Pontificate, shall have deviated from the Catholic faith or have fallen into any heresy, or incurred, excited or committed any schism, his promotion or assumption even made in full concord and with the unanimous consent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, abrogated, and void, nor shall be called or become valid even by the reception of the grace of consecration nor the subsequent possession of government and administration, nor even by the enthronization or adoration of the elected person as Roman Pontiff or the universal obedience rendered to him for how long a period soever.  Nor shall he be held legitimate in any form, nor be deemed capable of giving or be held to have given any authority of administration in things spiritual or temporal to any person promoted to bishoprics, &c., or assumed to the Cardinalate or to the Roman Pontificate.  But all and everything said, done, acted and administered by persons thus chosen and all things resulting therefrom shall be without force, and no firmness or legal right shall be assigned to them; and those who are thus promoted and assumed shall without any authoritative declaration be deprived of every dignity, place, honor, title, office and power;









§7 and it shall be lawful for all who are thus promoted and assumed, if they have not deviated from the faith, nor become heretics, nor incurred, excited, nor committed a schism, and to their dependents, both secular and regular, clergy and laity, and even to the Cardinals, who have been present at the election of such Pontiff who has previously deviated from the faith or become heretical or schismatical, or have otherwise consented to his election and given him obedience and adoration, and are bound to such promoted persons by homage or oath or caution… to recede with immunity from the obedience and devotion to those thus promoted or assumed, and to avoid them as ethnics, publicans and heresiarchs-those who are released from such obedience remaining nevertheless bound to give fidelity and obedience to the future Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates, and Cardinals, and to the Roman Pontiff canonically elected.



And for the greater confusion of those thus (unlawfully) promoted and assumed, should they wish to continue their government and administration, it shall be lawful to invoke the secular arm against them, and those who withdraw from their obedience by reason of the circuмstances already described, shall not be liable to any punishment by censure or otherwise, as rending the seamless robe of Christ.

§8 And this notwithstanding all constitutions and ordinances Apostolic, privileges, indults and letters Apostolic… even given motu proprio, ex certa scientia, and in the plenitude of Apostolic power; or granted consistorially or in any other form whatever; though they may have been approved and renewed many times over, and incorporated in the body of the law.  Notwithstanding also any capitulars of the conclave however ratified by oath or Apostolic confirmation, and sworn to by ourselves.  All the above constitutions by these presents, (assuming the contents to be here expressed and inserted word for word) we ratify in all points, except only in this instance, in which we expressly and specially derogate from them, and in all things whatever which are not contrary to this exception.  





§9 And that this letter may become known to all whom it concerns, we will that it, or a copy of it subscribed by the hand of a notary public, and sealed by some dignitary of the Church, (to which copy we will that full credit shall be given,) shall be published and affixed on the doors of the Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles in the City, and of the Apostolic Chancery, and at the entrance of the Campo di Fiora, by some of our Cursors, and that the affixing such copy and the proof of it being so affixed, shall suffice and be held as a solemn and legal publication, and that none other shall be required or expected.  



§10 Let it therefore be legal for no one to infringe or rashly to attempt to contravene this instrument of our approbation, innovation, sanction, statute, derogation, will and decree.  If however anyone shall presume to make such attempt, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God, and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.  



Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of our Lord's incarnation, 1558, on the 15th of the Kalends of March (February 14th), in the fourth year of our Pontificate.  



(Signed) BARENGUS





Pope Paul IV, February 15, 1559


 
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(15 febr. 1559) (*)

PAULUS PAPA IV















PAULUS EPISCOPUS,

Servus Servorum Dei. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.



cuм ex apostolatus officio Nobis, meritis licet imparibus, divinitus credito, cura Dominici gregis Nobis immineat generalis, et exinde teneamur pro fideli illius custodia, et salubri directione, more vigilis Pastoris, assidue vigilare, et attentius providere, ut qui hac aetate, peccatis exigentibus, propriae prudentiae innitentes scientius, et perniciosius solito contra orthodoxae fidei disciplinam insurgunt, et superstitiosis, ac fictitiis adinventionibus sacrarum Scripturarum intelligentiam pervertentes, Catholicae Ecclesiae unitatem et inconsutilem Domini tunicam scindere moliuntur, ab ovili Christi repellantur, nec magisterium erroris continuent, qui discipuli veritatis esse contemnunt.









§1. Nos considerantes rem huiusmodi adeo gravem, et periculosam esse, ut Romanus Pontifex, qui DEI, et Domini Nostri IESU CHRISTI vices gerit in terris, et super gentes, et regna plenitudinem obtinet potestatis, omnesque iudicat, a nemine in hoc saeculo iudicandus, possit, si deprehendatur a fide devius, redargui, et quod ubi maius intenditur periculum, ibi est plenius, et diligentius consulendum, ne pseudoprophetae, aut alii etiam saecularem iurisdictionem habentes, simplicium animas miserabiliter illaqueent, innumerabilesque populos eorum in spiritualibus, aut temporalibus curae, et regimini commissos, secuм in perditionem, et damnationis interitum trahant, nec aliquando contingat Nos abominationem desolationis, quae dicta est a Daniele Propheta, in loco sancto videre, cupientes, quantum cuм Deo possumus, pro nostro munere Pastorali vulpes vineam Domini demoliri satagentes capere, et lupos ab ovilibus arcere, ne canes muti videamur nequeuntes latrare, et perdamur cuм malis agricolis, ac mercenario comparemur.







§2. Habita super his cuм venerabilibus fratribus nostris S. R. E. Cardinalibus deliberatione matura, de eorum consilio, et unanimi assensu omnes, et singulas excommunicationis, suspensionis, et interdicti, ac privationis, et quasvis alias sententias, censuras, et poenas a quibusvis Romanis Pontificibus Praedecessoribus nostris, aut pro talibus habitis, etiam per eorum literas extravagantes, seu sacris Conciliis ab Ecclesia Dei receptis, vel Sanctorum Patrum decretis, et statutis, aut sacris Canonibus, ac Constitutionibus, et Ordinationibus Apostolicis contra haereticos, aut schismaticos quomodolibet latas, et promulgatas, Apostolica auctoritate approbamus, et innovamus, ac perpetuo observari, et in viridi observantia, si forsan in ea non sint, reponi, et esse debere, necnon quoscuмque, qui hactenus a fide Catholica deviasse, aut in aliquam haeresim incidisse, seu schisma incurrisse, aut excitasse, seu commisisse comprehensi, aut confessi, vel convicti fuerint, seu (quod Deus pro sua clementia, et in omnes bonitate avertere dignetur) in posterum deviabunt, seu in haeresim incident, aut schisma incurrent, vel excitabunt, seu committent, et deviasse, seu incidisse, aut incurrisse, vel excitasse, seu commisisse deprehendentur, aut confitebuntur, seu convincentur, cuiuscuмque status, gradus, ordinis, conditionis, et praeminentiae existant, etiamsi Episcopali, Archiepiscopali, Patriarchali, Primatiali, aut alia maiori dignitate Ecclesiastica, seu Cardinalatus honore, et Apostolicae Sedis ubivis locorum, tam perpetuae quam temporalis Legationis munere, vel mundana etiam Comitali, Baronali, Marchionali, Ducali, Regia, et Imperiali auctoritate, seu excellentia praefulgeant, et eorum quemlibet sententias, censuras, poenas praedictas incurrere volumus atque decernimus.



§3. Et nihilominus considerantes dignum esse, ut qui virtutis amore a malis non abstinent, metu poenarum ab illis deterreantur, et quod Episcopi, Archiepiscopi, Patriarchae, Primates, Cardinales, Legati, Comites, Barones, Marchiones, Duces, Reges, et Imperatores, qui alios docere, et illis bono exemplo, ut in fide Catholica contineantur, esse debent, praevaricando gravius ceteris peccant, cuм non solum seipsos perdant, verum etiam alios innumerabiles populos eorum curae, et regimini creditos, seu alias eis subditos, secuм in perditionem, et puteum interitus trahant, de similibus consilio, et assensu, hac nostra in perpetuum valitura constitutione, in odium tanti criminis, quo nullum in Ecclesia Dei maius, aut perniciosius esse potest, de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine sancimus, statuimus, decernimus, et definimus, quod sententiis, censuris, et poenis praedictis in suo robore, et efficacia remanentibus, ac effectum suum sortientibus, omnes, et singuli Episcopi, Archiepiscopi, Patriarchae, Primates, Cardinales, Legati, Comites, Barones, Marchiones, Duces, Reges, et Imperatores, qui hactenus, ut praefertur, deviasse, aut in haeresim incidisse, seu schisma incurrisse, excitasse, vel commisisse deprehensi, aut confessi, vel convicti fuerint, et in posterum deviabunt, aut in haeresim incident, seu schisma incurrent, vel excitabunt, aut committent, et deviasse, seu in haeresim incidisse, vel schisma incurrisse, aut excitasse, seu commisisse deprehendentur, aut confitebuntur, seu convincentur, cuм in hoc inexcusabiliores ceteris reddantur, ultra sententias, censuras, et poenas praedictas, sint etiam eo ipso, absque aliquo iuris, aut facti ministerio, suis Ordinibus, et Cathedralibus etiam Metropolitan. Patriarchalibus, et Primatialibus Ecclesiis, ac Cardinalatus honore, et cuiusvis Legationis munere, necnon voce activa, et passiva, omnique auctoritate, ac Monasteriis, beneficiis, et officiis Ecclesiasticis, cuм cura, et sine cura, saecularibus, et quorumvis Ordinum regularibus, quae ex quibusvis concessionibus, et dispensationibus Apostolicis in titulum, commendam, et administrationem, aut alias quomodolibet obtinuerint, et in quibus, vel ad quae ius aliquod habuerint, necnon quibusvis fructibus, redditibus, et proventibus annuis super similibus fructibus, redditibus, et proventibus eis reservatis, et assignatis, Comitatibus quoque, Baroniis, Marchionatibus, Ducatibus, Regnis, et Imperio penitus, et in totum, perpetuo privati, et ad illa de cetero inhabiles, et incapaces, habeanturque pro relapsis, et subversis in omnibus, et per omnia, perinde ac si prius haeresim huiusmodi in iudicio publice abiurassent, nec ullo umquam tempore ad eorum pristinum statum, aut Cathedrales, Metropolitanas, Patriarchales, et Primatiales Ecclesias, seu Cardinalatus, vel alium honorem, aut quamvis aliam maiorem, vel minorem dignitatem, seu vocem activam, vel passivam, aut auctoritatem, seu Monasteria, et beneficia, vel Comitatus, Baronias, Marchionatus, Ducatus, Regna, et Imperium restitui, reponi, reintegrari, aut rehabilitari possint, quinimmo saecularis relinquantur arbitrio potestatis animadversione debita puniendi, nisi apparentibus in eis verae poenitentiae indiciis, et condignae poenitentiae fructibus, ex ipsius Sedis benignitate, et clementia in aliquo Monasterio, aut alio Regulari loco ad peragendum perpetuam in pane doloris, et aquae moestitiae poenitentiam retrudendi fuerint. Quodque pro talibus ab omnibus cuiuscuмque status, gradus, ordinis, conditionis, et praeeminentiae existentibus, ac quacuмque etiam Episcopali, Archiepiscopali, Patriarchali, et Primatiali, aut alia maiori Ecclesiastica dignitate, et etiam Cardinalatus honore, seu mundana, etiam Comitali, Baronali, Marchionali, Ducali, Regia, et Imperiali auctoritate, excellentia pollentibus haberi, tractari, et reputari, et ut tales evitari, omnique humanitatis solatio destitui debeant.

§4. Et qui iuspatronatus, aut nominandi personas idoneas ad Cathedrales, etiam Metropolitanas, et Patriarchales, ac Primatiales Ecclesias, seu Monasteria, vel alia beneficia Ecclesiastica per privationem huiusmodi vacantia habere praetenderint, ne illa diutinae vacationis exponantur incommodis, sed de servitute haereticorum erepta personis concedantur idoneis, quae illarum populos in semitas iustitiae fideliter dirigant, teneantur ad Ecclesias, Monasteria, et beneficia huiusmodi alias personas idoneas infra tempus a iure, vel ex eorum concordatis, seu compactatis cuм dicta Sede initis statutum, Nobis seu pro tempore existenti Romano Pontifici praesentare, alioquin tempore huiusmodi elapso plena, et libera Ecclesiarum, Monasteriorum, et beneficiorum praedictorum dispositio ad Nos, et Romanum Pontificem praedictum eo ipso pleno iure devolvatur.

§5. Et insuper qui ipsos sic deprehensos, aut confessos, vel convictos scienter quomodolibet receptare, vel defendere, aut eis favere, vel credere, seu eorum dogmata dogmatizare praesumpserint, sententiam excommunicationis eo ipso incurrant, efficianturque infames, nec voce, persona, scriptis, vel nuncio, aut procuratore aliquo ad publica, seu privata officia, aut consilia, seu Synodum, vel Concilium generale, vel provinciale, nec conclave Cardinalium, aut aliquam fidelium congregationem, seu electionem alicuius, aut testimonium perhibendum admittantur, nec admitti possint. Sint etiam intestabiles, nec ad haereditatis successionem accedant, nullus praeterea cogatur eis super aliquo negotio respondere. Quod si forsan Iudices extiterint, eorum sententiae nullam obtineant firmitatem, nec aliquae causae ad eorum audientiam deducantur, et si fuerint Advocati, eorum patrocinium nullatenus recipiatur, si vero Tabelliones extiterint, instrumenta confecta per eos nullius sint penitus roboris, vel momenti. Et insuper clerici omnibus, et singulis Ecclesiis, etiam Cathedralibus, Metropolitan. Patriarchalibus, et Primatialibus, ac dignitatibus, Monasteriis, beneficiis, et officiis Ecclesiasticis, etiam, ut praefertur, qualificatis per eos quomodolibet obtentis, et tam ipsi, quam laici, etiam, ut praemittitur qualificati, et dignitatibus praedictis praediti quibuscuмque Regnis, Ducatibus, Dominiis, Feudis, et bonis temporalibus per eos possessis privati existant eo ipso, Regnaque, Ducatus, Dominia, Feuda, et bona huiusmodi publicentur, et publica sint, efficianturque iuris, et proprietatis eorum, qui illa primo occupaverint, si in sinceritate fidei, et unitate S. R. E. ac sub nostra, et successorum nostrorum Romanorum Pontificuм canonice intrantium obedientia fuerint.



§6. Adiicientes quod si ullo umquam tempore apparuerit aliquem Episcopum, etiam pro Archiepiscopo, seu Patriarcha, vel Primate se gerentem, aut praedictae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem, etiam ut praefertur, Legatum, seu etiam Romanum Pontificem ante eius promotionem, vel in Cardinalem, seu Romanum Pontificem assumptionem a fide Catholica deviasse, aut in aliquam haeresim incidisse, promotio, seu assumptio de eo etiam in concordia, et de unanimi omnium Cardinalium assensu facta, nulla, irrita, et inanis existat, nec per susceptionem muneris, consecrationis, aut subsecutam regiminis, et administrationis possessionem, seu quasi, vel ipsius Romani Pontificis inthronizationem, aut adorationem, seu ei praestitam ab omnibus obedientiam, et cuiusvis temporis in praemissis cursum, convaluisse dici, aut convalescere possit, nec pro legitima in aliqua sui parte habeatur, nullamque talibus in Episcopos, seu Archiepiscopos, vel Patriarchas aut Primates promotis, seu in Cardinales, vel Romanum Pontificem assumptis, in spiritualibus, vel temporalibus administrandi facultatem tribuisse, aut tribuere censeatur, sed omnia, et singula per eos quomodolibet dicta, facta, gesta, et administrata, ac inde secuta quaecuмque viribus careant, et nullam prorsus firmitatem, nec ius alicui tribuant, sintque ipsi sic promoti, et assumpti, eo ipso absque aliqua desuper facienda declaratione, omni dignitate, loco, honore, titulo, auctoritate, officio, et potestate privati, liceatque omnibus, et singulis sic promotis, et assumptis, si a fide antea non deviassent, nec haeretici fuissent, neque schisma incurrissent, aut excitassent, vel commisissent.

§7. Subditis personis, tam clericis saecularibus, et regularibus, quam etiam laicis, necnon Cardinalibus, etiam qui electioni ipsius Pontificis antea a fide devii, aut haeretici, seu schismatici interfuerint, seu alias consenserint, et ei obedientiam praestiterint, eumque adoraverint, ac Castellanis, Praefectis, Capitaneis, et Officialibus etiam Almae Urbis nostrae, et totius Status Ecclesiastici, etiam eisdem sic promotis, vel assumptis homagio, seu iuramento, vel cautione obligatis, et obnoxiis, ab ipsorum sic promotorum, vel assumptorum obedientia, et devotione impune quandocuмque cedere, eosque ut magos, ethnicos, publicanos, et haeresiarchas evitare, eisdem subditis personis fidelitati, et obedientiae futurorum Episcoporum, Archiepiscoporum, Patriarcharum, Primatum, Cardinalium, et Romani Pontificis canonice intrantis nihilominus adstrictis remanentibus, et ad maiorem ipsorum sic promotorum, et assumptorum, si eorum regimen, et administrationem continuare voluerint, confusionem, contra eosdem sic promotos, et assumptos, auxilium brachii saecularis implorare, nec propterea ab ipsorum sic promotorum, et assumptorum fidelitate, et obedientia, praemissorum occasione recedentes, tamquam tunicae Domini scissores aliquarum censurarum, seu poenarum ultioni subiaceant.





§8. Non obstantibus constitutionibus, et ordinationibus Apostolicis, necnon privilegiis, indultis, et literis Apostolicis eisdem Episcopis, Archiepiscopis, Patriarchis, Primatibus, et Cardinalibus, ac quibusvis aliis sub quibuscuмque tenoribus, et formis, ac cuм quibusvis clausulis, et decretis, etiam Motu proprio, et ex certa scientia, ac de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, seu etiam consistorialiter, aut alias quomodolicet concessis, et etiam iteratis vicibus approbatis, et innovatis, ac etiam in corpore iuris clausis, necnon quibusvis capitulis conclavis, etiam iuramento, aut confirmatione Apostolica, vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis, et per nos ipsos iuratis. Quibus omnibus eorum tenores praesentibus pro expressis, ac de verbo ad verbum insertis habentes, illis alias in suo robore permansuris, hac vice dumtaxat specialiter, et expresse derogamus, ceterisque contrariis quibuscuмque.

§9. Ut autem praesentes literae ad omnium quorum interest notitiam deducantur, volumus eas, seu earum transumptum (cui manu notarii publici subscripto, et sigillo alicuius personae in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae munito, plenam fidem adhiberi debere decernimus) in Basilicae Principis Apostolorum de Urbe, et Cancellariae Apostolicae valuis, atque in acie Campi Florae per aliquos ex cursoribus nostris publicari, et affigi, earumque copiam inibi affixam dimitti, publicationemque affixionem, et copiae affixae dimissionem huiusmodi sufficere, et pro solemni, et legitima haberi, nec aliam publicationem requiri, aut expectari debere.

§10. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae approbationis, innovationis, sanctionis, statuti, derogationis, voluntatum, decretorum infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem Omnipotentis Dei, ac beatorum Petri, et Pauli Apostolorum eius se noverit incursurum.



Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum, Anno Incarnationis Dominicae 1559. 15. Kal. Martii, Pontificatus nostri anno 4.

† Ego Paulus Catholicae Ecclesiae Episcopus. SS.

 

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(*) Confirmatur haec constitutio a Pio V in eius bulla Inter multiplices.