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198<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

<strong>The</strong> bringing to perfection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Roman Catechism, as well<br />

as <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two liturgical books was to a great extent due to <strong>the</strong><br />

zeal and energy <strong>of</strong> Cardinal Borromeo.^ To <strong>the</strong> services which<br />

he had already rendered to <strong>the</strong> Church at <strong>the</strong> Council <strong>of</strong> Trent,<br />

he thus added <strong>the</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r one <strong>of</strong> having given effect, and that<br />

without any great delay, to a desire which <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Council had expressed to <strong>the</strong> Holy See before <strong>the</strong>y separated.^<br />

It was more difficult to comply with ano<strong>the</strong>r wish <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Council, namely <strong>the</strong> printing <strong>of</strong> an edition, which should be<br />

as far as possible free <strong>from</strong> errors, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy Scriptures, and<br />

especially <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Latin version which had been in use in <strong>the</strong><br />

Church <strong>from</strong> ancient times. But Pius V, set to work with<br />

great zeal on this matter as well.^ For this purpose, in 1569,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Pope appointed a commission composed <strong>of</strong> Cardinals<br />

Colonna, Sirleto, Madruzzo, Souchier, Carafa, and Morone ;*<br />

<strong>the</strong> Protestant printers paid no attention to such privileges and<br />

excommunications as <strong>the</strong> Catholic publishers had to do. Canisii<br />

Epist., v., 281, 282 ; Braunsberger, Pius V., 67.<br />

^ " Prius vero quam discederet [Roma], Catechismum, quam<br />

avunculi auctoritate iusserat inchoari, perficiendum, et Breviarium<br />

item, Missalemque librum restituendum curavit " (Bascape,<br />

I., I, c. 9, p. 22). In a letter to Sirleto <strong>of</strong> September 4, 1566,<br />

Borromeo urges him to hasten as much as possible <strong>the</strong> work on <strong>the</strong><br />

breviary (Jos. Schmid in <strong>The</strong>ol. Qiiartalschr., 1884, 654 ; cf.<br />

Sala, Docum., II., 244). From Milan he also took steps to get<br />

Marini to compile a book <strong>of</strong> sermons (homiliarium) for <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong><br />

those having <strong>the</strong> care <strong>of</strong> souls. Sala, II., 244, n. 3, 246, 258,<br />

n. 117 and 120.<br />

- Sess. 25 contin.<br />

^ HoPFL, 77-101. C. Vercellone, Variae Lectiones, I., Rome,<br />

i860, XX seqq.<br />

*HoPFL, 78. Cf. *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> March 12, 1569, Urb.<br />

1041, p. 40, Vatican Library. On November 11, 1568, Lombardo<br />

wrote to Hosius (Cyprianum 484) : " Manutius incumbit Breviario<br />

novo, et missale edetur in lucem in paschate. Marianus<br />

Rheatinus, Hieronymi schoUastes incumbit Bibhis, ut editio<br />

vulgata emendatior prodeat." An *Avviso <strong>of</strong> April 16, 1569,<br />

sent to Vienna by Cusano, records <strong>the</strong> beginmng <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> labours<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Biblical commission. State Archives, Vienna.

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