Cross-consecration in the Roman Pontifical asks Christ’s true Cross to sanctify a stone/metal cross so its ‘merit’ frees souls—against Trent’s ‘no virtue in images’
Trent denies inherent virtue in images; yet Pontifical cross-blessing asks Christ to load a new stone/metal cross with true-Cross holiness so its ‘merit’ cleanses souls—and the Veronica prayer already ascribed light-giving power to an image.
Latin
XXVI. Praeterea Concilium Tridentinum statuit non esse credendum, imaginibus inesse virtutem aliquam, propter quam sint colendae. Sed contrarium supponit Ecclesiae Romanae praxis, non tantum in illa modo descripta oratione, in qua imagini vultus Christi tribuitur vis per quam lumen fundat cordibus, sed in aliis etiam, quae in Ecclesia illa sunt magis solennes atque usitatae. Nam cum Episcopus benedicit crucem ex lapide, vel metallo, ad Christum Dominum nostrum orationem habet, quae Pontificali Romano inserta est, titulo de benedictione novae crucis. In qua oratione opponens veram crucem cui Christus affixus est, cruci isti ex metallo vel lapide, A Christo Domino petit, ut crucem illam consecrandam, verae suae crucis sanctitate sanctificet, ac praestet ut merito crucis istius lapideae, vel argenteae, animae famulorum Christi omni careant perpetrato peccato. Orationis verba sunt, Nullum tibi debitum amplius munus est, quam quod tibi tunc corporis dedicavit affixio, nec tibi est magis familiaris oblatio, quam quae familiari manuum tuarum extensione sacrata est. Illis ergo manibus hanc crucem accipe, quibus illam amplexus es; & de sanctitate illius hanc sanctifica; & sicuti per illam mundus expiatus est a reatu, ita offerentium famulorum tuorum animae devotissimae hujus crucis merito, omni careant perpetrato peccato.
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)
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