Urban V’s verses with Agnus Dei gifts claim the wax lamb repels lightning, breaks sin, guards childbirth—so these imagelets escape Trent’s ‘no virtue’ class
Urban V’s gift-verses treat the wax Agnus as lightning-ward, sin-breaking, and childbirth-guarding.
On the Pope’s own mind, such imagelets sit outside Trent’s ‘images have no cult-virtue’ rule—or expose its hollow edge.
Latin
XXIX. Urbanus vero Papa V. plane confidebat orationem suam exauditam fuisse, cum ad Imperatorem Graecorum misit tres Agnus Dei, cum hisce versibus, qui sunt in fine capitis jam citati transcripti. Balsamus & munda cera, cum Chrismatis unda Conficiunt Agnum, quod munus do tibi magnum, Fonte velut natum per mystica sanctificatum. Fulgura de sursum depellit, omne malignum Peccatum frangit, ut Christi sanguis, & angit. Praegnans servatur, simul & partus liberatur, Dona defert dignis, virtutem destruit ignis. Portatus munde, de fluctibus eripit unde. Quae cum ita sint, juxta mentem Papae, qui Ecclesiae Romanae caput est, excipiendi sunt illi agni cerei de numero imaginum, quibus Concilium Tridentinum declarat, nullam inesse virtutem, propter quam colendae sint.
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.