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Christian humanism to give the west the full benefit of the
writings of the Greek Fathers were gloriously crowned with
success by the fact that the breviary lections were now drawn
from their works as well, and that now for the first time the
four great Greek Doctors, Althanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazi-
anzen and John Chrysostom were honoured by the Apostolic
See with public cultus as teachers of the universal Church,
and placed side by side with the four great Doctors of the
west.^
Just as the Breviary of Pius V. was not a completely new
work, but rather a restoration of the ancient usage of the
Roman Church, with such changes as were called for by the
times, 2 so the same thing may be said of his Missal, which
was given the force of law by a bull of July 14th, 1570.' The
introduction of this reform of Pius V. was made obligatory
for all the churches of the west which had not possessed a
liturgy of their own for at least 200 years.'* It was of great
benefit to the Church that any changes in these two liturgical
books were reserved to the Apostolic See, for this put an end
star. Lomb., 1893, 116). For some of the hymns included at that
time, see Delaporte in Rassegna Gregoriana, VI. (1907). 495 seq. ;
Rivista storica, 1910, 329.
^ This was shown for the first time by K. Kellner in Zeitschr.
fur kath. TheoL, XL. (1916), i seqq.
^ " I believe," wrote Sirleto on October 23, 1563, " that the
first thing to be done is to remove all novelties, but in such a way
that no further novelties are put in their place." Molitor, 4.
^ Bull. Rom., VIII., 839 seq. Cf. J. Weale in Analecta litur-
gica, I., (1888). A *bull " super breviario et missah novo " of
August 14, 1571 in the Archives of Briefs, Rome. On March 11,
1 57 1, all earlier versions of the of&ce of the Madonna were forbidden,
because they contained much that was superfluous and
had been filled with superstitions through the covetousness of
the printers. Only the new and corrected edition was allowed
and enjoined. Bull. Rom., VII., 896 seq.
* Thus the breviary of Quinofies was especially superseded ;
this,
moreover, had already been prohibited by Paul IV. on August 8,
1558. Bromato, II., 493.