Temples ‘of’ Saints: many deny building them to Saints, yet name churches after them as thanks to God and plea to the Patron

Doctors deny temples built to Saints—yet churches everywhere bear Saints’ names.

Explanations diverge; one line: sacrifice still goes to God in thanks for the Saint’s glory, while the Patron is appealed as advocate.

Latin

XV. Etenim quamvis Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae negent templa Sanctis esse construenda, in ea tamen consuetudo est ut templa, sive Ecclesiae, ut vocant, hujus aut illius Sancti nomine appellentur, & dicantur, verbi causa, Ecclesia Beatae Virginis, Sancti Petri, Pauli, Francisci, &c. Qua de re mentem suam non omnes ejus Ecclesiae Doctores eodem modo exponunt. Proinde quum aliquod templum, aut aedes sacra dicitur, exempli causa, Sancti Petri, non ideo dicitur, quod sacrificium offeratur Petro, sed quod offeratur Deo in gratiarum actionem pro gloria Sancto Petro data, & simul interpellatur Petrus, tanquam Patronus, & Advocatus apud Deum. De cultu Sanctorum Libro III. cap. 4.

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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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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