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The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

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PIUS V. AND THE TRIDENTINE DECREES. 287<br />

<strong>the</strong> Church. It is with deep emotion that one may see to-day<br />

in <strong>the</strong> church <strong>of</strong> S. Maria Maggiore, among <strong>the</strong> rehcs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

great Pope, <strong>the</strong> printed copy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Tridentine decrees which<br />

he used.^ This little book became in his hands <strong>the</strong> lever by<br />

means <strong>of</strong> which he uprooted <strong>from</strong> its bed a whole world <strong>of</strong><br />

disorders.<br />

^ Venice, 1565.

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