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THE POPE S ZEAL FOR THE COUNCIL. 2O9<br />

which had been put forward at Trent/ and for <strong>the</strong> future<br />

only <strong>the</strong> bodies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> saints were to find a resting place in <strong>the</strong><br />

churches. 2<br />

If Pius V. was careful to observe <strong>the</strong> instructions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Council in such secondary matters, much more did he prove<br />

himself its champion and defender <strong>the</strong> moment <strong>the</strong> more<br />

essential matters on which <strong>the</strong> assembly had built up its<br />

scheme <strong>of</strong> reform were called in question.<br />

In 1566 <strong>the</strong> Bishop <strong>of</strong> Cordova wrote to Pius V.^ that after<br />

<strong>the</strong> Council <strong>of</strong> Trent one hope alone remained to <strong>the</strong> adversaries<br />

<strong>of</strong> a radical reform <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Church, namely that more<br />

attention would be paid to its practical apphcation than to<br />

its wishes, and that Rome would be quick to dispense its<br />

stricter ordinances. But even this last hope met with bitter<br />

disappointment under a Pope <strong>of</strong> whom it had been foretold<br />

that he would be quite inexorable in all that concerned <strong>the</strong><br />

Council,* and who, at <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> second year <strong>of</strong><br />

his reign could write that he thought his zeal for <strong>the</strong> carrying<br />

out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council was known to all <strong>the</strong> world, and that<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> man who was entrusted with <strong>the</strong> care <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

whole Church called for as much zeal as responsibility, since<br />

<strong>the</strong> decrees <strong>of</strong> a Council were useless unless <strong>the</strong>y were carried<br />

into effect by <strong>the</strong> Pope and <strong>the</strong> bishops.^<br />

Pius V. had certainly taken care that nobody should be<br />

left in <strong>the</strong> dark as to his own zeal for <strong>the</strong> Council. He con-<br />

tinued with all his energies that ordinance <strong>of</strong> his predecessor<br />

1 Thoiner, Annales, IJ., 590. Cf. supra p. 86, n. 3, and Vol.<br />

XVL <strong>of</strong> this work, p. 441 n.<br />

"Bull <strong>of</strong> April I, 1566, §5, Bull. Rom., VIL, 436. *Bandi, V.,<br />

7, p. 2-3, Papal Secret Archives. Pecci, Storia di Siena, IL, 70.<br />

'In <strong>The</strong>iner, Bildungsanstalten, 112.<br />

* *" In le cose di concilio, religione a iustitia sara inesorabile "<br />

(Serristori, February 15, 1566, State Archives, Florence). On<br />

January 12, 1566 *Camiani wrote to <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Modena (State<br />

Archive?, Modena) that <strong>the</strong> Pope intended that <strong>the</strong> Council should<br />

be carried out in every respect.<br />

23-<br />

* To <strong>the</strong> Archbishop <strong>of</strong> Cambrai, January 26, 1567, in Goubau,<br />

VOL. XVII. 14

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