Theological Theses · §1386

Received practice: salute, kiss, kneel, offer incense and lights; set images on altars; process, vow, gift, and pilgrimage to them

Beyond Council-approved kiss and kneel come altar-placement, rich adornment, street processions, vows, offerings, and pilgrimages to images.

Latin

XVII. Talis est non solum consuetudo imagines Christi & Sanctorum salutandi, osculandi, & genu coram eis flectendi, ac etiam suffitus & luminaria ipsis offerendi, quae, ut modo vidimus, expresse probant Ecclesiae Romanae Concilia; sed praeterea mos ille receptus, quo imagines super altaribus locantur, vestibus & monilibus pretiosis ornantur, solenni pompa per vias publicas circumferuntur, vota eis nuncupantur, donaria consecrantur, & religiosae peregrinationes ad eas suscipiuntur.

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

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