Trent Session 25: keep images; honor them by kiss and bow—honor passes to prototypes; no divinity or trust in the image itself
Trent Session 25 keeps Christ’s and the saints’ images in churches and bids due honor—kiss, bare head, prostration.
No divinity or trust is to be pinned on the wood; honor is referred to the prototypes (Nicaea II).
Latin
XIV. Denique priorum istorum Conciliorum decretis subscribit & consentanea sancit Tridentina Synodus, docens quidem imaginibus non inesse divinitatem, vel virtutem aliquam, propter quam sint colendae; nec etiam in eis fiduciam esse figendam: sed tamen illis venerationem & honorem deberi, illasque osculandas, & coram eis caput aperiendum, & procumbendum esse; quoniam honor qui eis exhibetur, refertur ad prototypa, quae illae repraesentant: ut per imagines Christum ipsum adoremus, & sanctos quorum illae similitudinem gerunt. Synodi istius verba sunt Sessione vigesima quinta, Imagines porro Christi, Deiparae Virginis, & aliorum sanctorum, in templis praesertim habendas & retinendas, eisque debitum honorem & venerationem impertiendam, non quod credatur inesse aliqua in eis Divinitas, vel virtus, propter quam sint colendae: vel quod ab eis sit aliquid petendum, vel quod fiducia in imaginibus sit figenda: veluti olim fiebat a gentibus, quae in idolis spem suam collocabant: sed quoniam honor, qui eis exhibetur, refertur ad prototypa, quae illae repraesentant: ita ut per imagines, quas osculamur, & coram quibus caput aperimus & procumbimus, Christum adoremus; & sanctos quorum illae similitudinem gerunt, veneremur, id quod Conciliorum, praesertim secundae Nicenae, decretis contra imaginum oppugnatores est sancitum.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.