Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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then, has been lost,
Introductory Essay.
because no definite ne
gotiations have been made. A book has simply
been prohibited which contained matter both on
that most tender subject and on the personal
infallibility of the Pope, which were not likely
to be approved by a Roman Congregation.
They were Italian devotions, (although domes
ticated in England), to which I mainly excepted;
the exception, if noticed at all, was not likely to
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meet any favourable reception
in Italy.
the very fact, too, that I imagined that I was
writing upon what were not Articles of faith
I may have given pain and offence, where I
did not mean it.* The idea itself, that the
Council of Trent might be legitimately ex-
beron, the learned Benedictine of St. Maur. (Barbier Diet,
des Anonymes, No. 20,986.) The most remarkable ap
probation was that by the celebrated P. de Walemburg,
suffragan to the Archbishop of Cologne, a Divine of acknow
ledged authority. It was also approved by the Vicar
General of the Province, by two Doctors of Divinity at
Cologne, by the Arch-Priest and Censor of books at Gant.
It was, however, put into the "
Index, in whatever language it
was or should be printed, until it should be reformed."
Bourdaloue was directed to preach against it. M. de
Choiseul, Bp. of Tournay, "defended the which he had given to the
in which he set himself to
approbation
work, in a Pastoral letter,
show that the Monita salutaria
contain nothing
the B.V., and that the
tending to diminish devotion to
only object of the author was to
hinder that devotion from degenerating into idolatry."
Biog. Univ. v. Widenfeldt.
*
Since I wrote the above, one has informed me that a
member of the Congregation of the Index stated to himself
"
"
that the Eirenicon has not been put in the Index. The
Index for 1866 has not reached England.